Wanna truly feel venerable? One among the absolute best gags in Simpsons history perfect grew to change into older than numerous members of the Kotaku workers. That’s very best, the 2d-traditional Season 8 episode “Homer’s Phobia” debuted on on the present time in 1997. In it, Bart befriends John, the proprietor of an antiques retailer (played by the enduring filmmaker, author, and itsy-bitsy mustache proprietor John Waters). Homer becomes concerned that John’s affect will “make” Bart homosexual, so he obsessively seeks out hypermasculine activities for the two of them to raise out collectively in direct to retain his son’s heterosexuality.
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The most memorable of these manly activities sees father and son visit the Ajax Steel Mill, to survey “all-American Joes doin’ what they bring out handiest.” Homer assures Bart, “you’ll thank me in your marriage ceremony night time.” Nonetheless oopsie! Turns out the males of the mill weren’t reasonably what Homer used to be hoping for.
After a shirtless beefcake in booty shorts shimmies past Homer with a vat of molten steel, foreman Roscoe publicizes: “We work onerous, we play onerous.” As C+C Song Factory’s “Gonna Invent You Sweat” blasts from each and every route, Homer shields Barts eyes from the boogie-oogie hardbodies.
You’ll be shocked to learn that whereas I’m reasonably of a Simpsons superfan, I didn’t even salvage this auspicious day circled on my Troy McClure calendar. The anniversary used to be dropped at my attention by a tweet from Josh Weinstein, author, producer, and showrunner on the sharp traditional from 1992 to 1998.
Per the DVD commentary for season 8, recorded support in 2006, Waters permitted his invitation to be a visitor megastar abruptly, pointing out that if it used to be “merely enough for Elizabeth Taylor” (who had appeared in two season 4 episodes) it used to be merely enough for him. In early drafts, the rotund steel staff salvage been at the birth presupposed to be longshoremen, nonetheless animating the shipyard used to be too costly, so they modified the effect to the mill. And really, imagining Moe telling Homer “your entire transport substitute is homosexual” perfect doesn’t salvage the same ring to it.
If all this talk of homosexual steel mills has you hankering for some traditional Simpsons antics, Disney+ has a whopping 34 seasons of the brand readily accessible to movement at a 2d’s survey. (“Homer’s Phobia” is season 8, episode 15.) That’s your lengthy weekend sorted.
