The Simpsons episode
"Brother from the Same Planet"
Homer in an awkward and presumably painful position, after the fight
Episode no.	73
Prod. code	9F12
Orig. airdate	February 11, 1993
Show runner(s)	Al Jean & Mike Reiss
Written by	Jon Vitti
Directed by	Jeffrey Lynch
Chalkboard	"The Principal's toupee is not a frisbee"
Couch gag	The rear wall rotates taking the family to another room and leaving an empty couch behind.
Guest star(s)	Phil Hartman as Tom
DVD commentary	Matt Groening Al Jean Mike Reiss Jon Vitti Jeffrey Lynch
Season 4 September 24, 1992 – May 13, 1993
Kamp Krusty A Streetcar Named Marge Homer the Heretic Lisa the Beauty Queen Treehouse of Horror III Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie Marge Gets a Job New Kid on the Block Mr. Plow Lisa's First Word Homer's Triple Bypass Marge vs. the Monorail Selma's Choice Brother from the Same Planet I Love Lisa Duffless Last Exit to Springfield So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show The Front Whacking Day Marge in Chains Krusty Gets Kancelled
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"Brother from the Same Planet" is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons from the fourth season. The episode's title is a play on John Sayles' movie The Brother from Another Planet. The Simpsons has also spoofed this title with the episode title "Brother from Another Series". Simpsons redirects here. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Brother_from_the_Same_Planet. ... Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Al Jean is a TV comedy writer most known for his work on The Simpsons. ... Mike Reiss is an American TV comedy writer. ... Al Jean (left) and David Mirkin (right), have both been writers for The Simpsons for more than ten years. ... Vitti as portrayed in the episode of The Simpsons The Front. 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The plot of this episode is similar to a Ren and Stimpy cartoon produced around the same time and vice versa. Dan Castellaneta provided the voices of Ren and Stimpy in this sequence instead of Billy West. Incidentally, Rough Trade Studios does the animation for both that show and The Simpsons. For the silent film-era actor, see Billy West (silent film actor). ... Simpsons redirects here. ...

According to the DVD commentary for this episode, the role of Tom was written with Tom Cruise in mind. However, after being repeatedly turned down by Cruise, the producers went with Phil Hartman. Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ... Phil Hartman (born as Philip Edward Hartmann) (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-American Emmy Award-winning actor, voice artist, comedian, graphic artist and writer. ...

Plot

After playing soccer, Bart waits for Homer to pick him up. However, Homer forgets, and Bart is left alone as a storm approaches. Many occurrences at home remind Homer that he was meant to do something, but he cannot recall what. When Homer finally remembers after a dream about seeing Bart's skeleton on a soccer field, he rushes out to pick up Bart (who is very angry) and tries to put the issue behind them, but Bart isn't buying. A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... For the comic book series of the same name, see Bart Simpson comics. ... Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

When they return home, Bart watches TV when a commercial for a mentor program called Bigger Brothers comes up. This gives him an idea and he goes to the Bigger Brothers Agency disguising himself with accent as a brave young boy whose father left him six years ago. Afterwards, Bart is assigned a big brother called Tom whom Bart first meets when he comes to school to pick Bart up by letting him ride on the back of his motorcycle. Later on, Bart and Tom meet up for Tomato Day at the Springfield Stadium. Afterwards, they go to lift weights and watch Ren and Stimpy. Eventually, Homer finds out about Bart's Big Brother, angrily confronts him about the issue, and goes to the Big Brothers Agency where he is assigned the child Pepi (whom he calls Pepsi for a brief period) for revenge. Homer shows Pepi the garage door, "a wonder of modern technology" and then the two look at the stars together. “TV” redirects here. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... For other uses, see Motorcycle (disambiguation). ... Ren and Stimpy are the title characters of two cartoon TV series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi. ... Pepsi Cola is a cola soft drink produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. ...

Meanwhile back at the Simpsons household, Marge finds a $378.53 phone bill for calls made to the Corey hotline. Because of this, Marge headed up to talk to Lisa who was hiding in her room, as the entrance was decorated with a Corey poster. Marge tells Lisa that she understands what she was going through and that when she was a girl she had a crush on Bobby Sherman, which causes Lisa to laugh uproariously. Even so, in the end Lisa agrees to never make any more calls. However, Lisa continues to make the calls until eventually she stops after taking Marge's advice in that if she could make it until 12 o'clock without calling, she would have conquered her addiction. Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ... Haim and Feldman in Dream a Little Dream The two Coreys--or, simply, The Coreys--is a reference to two popular teen actors from the 1980s, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, who appeared in many films together - most notably, a number of successful teen-oriented films in the late 1980s. ... Lisa Marie Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Yeardley Smith; Lisa is the only character Smith voices on a regular basis. ... Bobby Sherman (born Robert Cabot Sherman, Jr. ...

Elsewhere, Homer takes Pepi and Tom takes Bart to Marine World to attend Big Brothers Day. There, Homer meets up with Tom and the two fight because Tom was angry after hearing Bart's stories about his father being a gambling drunk. In the end, Homer ends up in a stretcher leaving Tom without a child to take care of and Pepi without a Big Brother. Seeing this, Bart makes an obvious conclusion, telling them that Tom should become Pepi's big brother. Tom and Pepi agree and start hanging out with each other. Afterwards, Bart and Homer reconcile and the episode ends with them sitting on the couch, Homer teaching Bart how to fight dirty (like he did with Tom).

According to the Simpson's dvd comertrray Tom after the events of this episode became Pepi's father and raised him to be a success

Goof

Bart's telephone only has buttons from 1 to 9 with no zeroes or punctuation marks.

Continuity

This episode marks the third time Homer falls down Springfield Gorge, though this time he is not injured. The name I.P. Freely that Kent Brockman was given was one of the prank names Bart gave in one of his calls to Moe's bar.

The R-rated movie Bart's friends are so excited about seeing is Barton Fink, a drama about a struggling screenwriter in the 1940s, which presumably is far from what they would hope to see. A later episode, "Bart the Fink", would take its title from that film, which, like The Simpsons, is produced by 20th Century Fox. The MPAA film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a movies suitability for certain audiences. ... Barton Fink is a 1991 film by Joel and Ethan Coen. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Bart the Fink is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...

Cultural references

When Tom and Bart are watching TV, they are watching Ren and Stimpy. The producers had to get permission from Nickelodeon to let them use it, and the scene follows like this: Ren and Stimpy are the eponymous characters of two cartoon television series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi. ... This article is about the TV channel. ...

Ren: (eating a dinner made by Stimpy) This meatball soup is delicious Stimpy!!

Stimpy: That's not meatball soup, that's just my collection of furballs and stomach acid!

Ren: YOU IDIOT!!! YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME MAN!!!

(Ren's eyes then wrap around each other and burst into blood.)

(Tom and Bart laugh.)

Milhouse writes "Trab pu kcip" on the wall, which is "Pick up Bart" backwards, a reference to Danny Torrance writing "redrum" which is "murder" backwards, in The Shining. The woman that Bart mistakes for Homer in an ironic touch sings "I Am Woman". While Bart is stuck in the storm waiting for Homer, a nun is lifted up by the wind, a reference to the TV series The Flying Nun. The Shining is a 1980 British horror film by Stanley Kubrick based on Stephen Kings novel of the same name. ... I Am Woman was a song performed by Australian singer Helen Reddy. ... A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting. ... The Flying Nun was a sitcom produced by the ABC from 1967 until 1970. ...

The grapefruit scene is a reference of the James Cagney movie, The Public Enemy. When Bart tells himself "Eye of the Tiger, Bart" he is making a reference to what Rocky says to himself in Rocky III. When Homer tells Bart "You've been flouncing around with that floosy of a bigger brother of yours, haven't you? Haven't you!" he is making a reference to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? when Richard Burton accuses his wife of adultery. James Francis Cagney, Jr. ... The Public Enemy is a 1933 Pre-Code American crime drama film. ... Eye of the Tiger is also the title of a 1986 film, and should not be confused with the 1977 film Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. ... Rocky Balboa can refer to: Rocky Balboa (character), a fictional boxer and title character of the Rocky film series Rocky Balboa (film), the sixth installment in the aforementioned film series Category: ... Rocky III (1982) is the third installment in the Rocky movie series. ... For the 1966 film adaptation, see Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film) Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. ... Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor. ... Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse. ...

Skinner makes a reference to the movie Psycho when he says "Oh... there's mother now." This is the first time Skinner has been portrayed as a Norman Bates like character. At one point, Bart tells Homer that he would fake the excitement he would have when Homer pushed him on the swing and demonstrates it, to Homer's horror. This is a reference to the infamous fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally. A section of the fight between Homer and Tom parodies the introduction to Street Fighter II. Psycho is a 1960 suspense/horror film directed by auteur Alfred Hitchcock from the screenplay by Joseph Stefano about a psychotic killer. ... Norman Bates is a fictional character created by writer Robert Bloch as the central character in his novel Psycho. ... The gate under which Harry meets Sally in the film; located on the campus of the University of Chicago When Harry Met Sally. ... Street Fighter II ) is a 1991 competitive fighting game by Capcom. ...

The episode makes various references to Saturday Night Live. During the part where Bart watches "Tuesday Night Live" (a parody of NBC's Saturday Night Live), Bart comments that he misses Joe Piscopo (who was a castmember of SNL from 1980 [during Jean Doumanian's low-rated sixth season] to 1984). It parodies how the loss of a castmember or members from one season leaves the next season to be weak in the eyes of SNL fans because of the loss of said castmember (or castmembers). Krusty's line during Tuesday Night Live, "We've got a great show, except the last half hour is a real garbage dump" is a jab at SNL putting on weaker, less funny sketches and performances in the last half hour of the show. Another criticism of SNL comes when Krusty is in a sketch called "The Big Ear Family", which could be a reference to either the Coneheads (a family of space aliens played by Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman) or the Widettes (a family with really big rear ends, played by Jane Curtin, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, and Dan Aykroyd). Krusty's line, "This sketch goes on for 12 minutes", is a reference to/jab at SNL writers in the 1990s trying to milk humor from one-joke sketch ideas (which, to this day, is a complaint from former SNL fans who believe the show has gone downhill). This article is about the American television series. ... This article is about the American television series. ... ... The Coneheads was originally a sketch on Saturday Night Live which starred Dan Aykroyd as father Beldar, Jane Curtin as mother Prymaat and Kristen Kilpatrick as daughter (Connie). The Coneheads were an alien family, natives of the planet Remulak, who found themselves stranded on Earth. ... Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. ... Jane Curtin - Promo Picture from 3rd Rock from the Sun Jane Therese Curtin (born September 6, 1947) is an American actress and comedian, from Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Laraine Newman (born March 2, 1952) is an American comedian and actress, from Los Angeles, California. ... John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian and musician, notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoons Animal House and The Blues Brothers. ... Gilda Susan Radner (28 June 1946 – 20 May 1989) was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live. ...

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