The Simpsons 'Homer vs Lisa and the 8th Commandment' CBS San Francisco
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Homer sits the match out and when it is over, he hesitantly cuts his cable hookup, despite Bart's objection. He accidentally cuts the electricity to all of Springfield in his random wire-cutting, before finally cutting the cable wire, abruptly ending the episode with static showing onscreen. The first scene is Homer dreaming on the hammock that he is a Hebrew in the time of Moses, breaking one of the Ten Commandments by stealing.
He tells her that watching television will cost her nothing but "her soul". She fears that because Homer violated the Eighth Commandment (thus "Thou Shalt Not Steal" according to the division by the Anglican and Reformed Churches), he will go to Hell when he passes on. She additionally opposes other examples of common and harmless thievery, including her mother's tasting of grapes in a grocery store which she has not paid for. After seeing other examples of common thievery everywhere, Lisa visits Reverend Lovejoy. He dissuades Lisa from reporting her father's illegal cable hookup to the police since the Fifth Commandment states one must "honor thy father and thy mother", but instead advises her to lead by example and refuse to watch programs via the cable hookup. Marge pleads with Homer to either cut the cable or pay for it, but he refuses.
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Seasons are the mainstream episodes, the seasons that were the best and the most comfortingly familiar and the funniest. This is a morality tale with Homer being comically guilt-tripped by Lisa over breaking the law in what feels like a trivial way most people in Springfield. In The Gospel According to The Simpsons, Mark I. Pinsky writes that the episode has "the structure of an exquisitely crafted twenty-two minute sermon". The episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program . Another is the Boxing promo where one of the boxers dramatically dedicates a fight to his late Manager. And then there is this Mike Tyson like character that does the same and of course it results in the cliched prefight roundness.
The films that are watched by the family on the new cable are Jaws, Die Hard, and Wall Street. One of the X-rated films Bart and his friends watch on cable is called Broadcast Nudes. The title parodies Broadcast News, which was written by Simpsons executive producer James L. Brooks. Towards the end of the episode, Bart mentions Atlanta Braves Baseball in reference to their frequent appearances on TBS in the 1980s. In its original broadcast, "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" finished 25th in ratings for the week of February 4–10, 1991 with a Nielsen rating of 15.2, and was viewed in approximately 14 million homes. It did better than the show's season average rank of 32nd, and was the highest rated program on Fox that week.
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Seeing as how she's scared of the idea of Hell and what will take you there. What makes this episode dated is the stuff involving the cable stealing. Stealing is wrong, we get it, but they hammer it in really hard to the point that it becomes obnoxious. But the preachiness comes in the form of the "Christan agenda" I see going on. But part of the appeal of why the Simpsons has been such an enduring show, was that it didn't feel like it was specifically made to please people of a certain ethnicity or majority.
It was originally going to be named "Homer vs. the 8th Commandment", but the writers decided to include Lisa in the title because they wanted the cast to feel as if all their characters were equally represented on the show. The episode is based on the Eighth Commandment ("thou shall not steal"), which is one of the Ten Commandments. The episode marks the debut of Troy McClure who was voiced by Phil Hartman and based on the typical "washed up" Hollywood actor. What I also like about the Simpsons is their values about needing faith and believing in God and attending church sometimes. Homer may've had some moments where he didn't want to get all into church (such as episode "Homer the heretic"), but he wasn't trying to completely go athiest. Even in "Homer the heretic", he doesn't stop believing in God, he just doesn't want to go to church.
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When he wakes up he sees Ned Flanders angrily reject an offer from a dim-witted man to get an illegal cable hook-up for $50, Homer chases after the cable man, who agrees to hook up the Simpsons' television for free. Homer likes the new channels and spends a lot of time watching the television along with his family. Following a Sunday School lesson regarding the existence and nature of Hell, Lisa becomes terrified of violations of the Ten Commandments, the adherence to which she is assured will keep one's soul safe from Hell. She fears that because Homer violated the Eighth Commandment, he will go to Hell when he dies.
Following his conscious, Homer snips the ill-gotten cable, but not before he cuts the wrong wires, plunging his neighborhood into total darkness. A really funny episode from the 2nd series, with some nice deeper messages too, as Lisa/Homer centred episodes tend to. This is an honorable mention for favorite episodes of Season 2. It's true there not much to it, this episode is what you would call one of the shows Christian/Preachy episodes but the execution of it is good as it has subtlety, let alone it's always good seeing Simpsons showing and exercising a moralistic side to them. Free cable proves “even more wonderful” than Homer had dared to hope, but it comes with a heavy moral penalty.
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Homer invites his friends from the power plant, as well as Apu, Moe and Barney to watch "The Bout to Knock the Other Guy Out!", on the pay-per-view movie channel The Blockbuster Channel. (Mr. Burns and Waylon Smithers come as well.) Meanwhile, Bart has set up posters on the back door for his showing of the adult-only channel "Top Hat Entertainment" for 50 cents , but is caught a few seconds later by Homer. Homer's conscience eventually bothers him, more so in the form of his daughter's distress than a moral objection to stealing cable, and he gives in to Lisa's protests, begrudgingly choosing not to watch the bout. Bart, on the other hand, plans to go back to watch the fight, but Homer forces him to stay in his room.
Despite the family's enjoyment of the new channels, Lisa becomes suspicious that they are stealing cable. Meanwhile, Bart manages to tune into a sexually explicit adult movie channel, and Homer invites his friends over to watch a boxing match, but Lisa's protest gets to him. After observing Ned Flanders reject an offer to get an illegal cable hookup, Homer chases after the cable man and wants to be hooked up for free. He likes the new channels he gets, which the family watches with him. At home, Lisa imagines her house melting, and the devil sits at their couch with them.
The family begins to disintegrate, and our hero can't avoid overstepping his bounds. The best part of the show is a scene from Mt. Sanai as Moses brings down the Ten Commandments. The plotline is simple as the Simpsons inadvertently have Cable illegally. It's understandable as to how each of the Simpsons get seduced by Cable TV. You must realize way before the Streaming, in the 80's and 90's cable was a really big thing. The concept of just having more channels than the usual standard meant more decisions and access to programing you can't always get on your standard channels. Like this little montage we see as to how addictive cable truly is as we see the big dent Homer has made on the couch.
Homer sees a commercial for "The Bout to Knock the Other Guy Out!", a much-anticipated boxing match in which Drederick Tatum will fight for the World Heavyweight Championship. Homer decides to have a party and invites all of his friends to come over and watch the fight. Lisa tries to boycott the party, and this results in Homer making her stay outside on the lawn. Homer’s conscience eventually bothers him, more in the form of his daughter's distress than a moral objection to stealing cable due to a hallucination that he is in prison for stealing cable.
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