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"Homer's Triple Bypass" is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons' fourth season, which originally aired on December 17, 1992. It sees Homer start having heart attacks, and the family having to resort to a discount surgeon for his bypass operation. Simpsons redirects here. ...
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Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ...
December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 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. ...
Gary Apple (born Gary Applebaum August 8, 1960 in Troy, New York) is an American sportscaster. ...
Michael Carrington is an American comic writer and voice actor best known for his work on the animated series The Simpsons. ...
The three people are caricatures of (left to right) Rich Moore, Wes Archer and David Silverman[1] The following is a list of directors who have worked on the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ...
David Silverman (born on 15 March 1957 in New York City, New York) is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series The Simpsons, where he would go on to be the supervising director of animation for several years, as well as animating on all...
Bart writes The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan The chalkboard gag is a running visual joke that occurs during the opening credits of many episodes of The Simpsons. ...
The couch gag is a running visual joke in the opening credits of the animated television series The Simpsons. ...
(left to right) Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Keith Richards, Homer, Mick Jagger, Lenny Kravitz and Brian Setzer guest starred in the heavily promoted season 14 episode How I Spent My Strummer Vacation. This is a list of guest stars who appeared on The Simpsons. ...
The Simpsons DVD season boxsets have been released since 2001 in different regions all over the world. ...
Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954[2] in Portland, Oregon;[1] his family name is pronounced ) is an Emmy Award-winning American cartoonist and the creator of The Simpsons, Futurama and the weekly comic strip Life in Hell. ...
Al Jean is a TV comedy writer most known for his work on The Simpsons. ...
Mike Reiss is an American TV comedy writer. ...
Michael Carrington is an American comic writer and voice actor best known for his work on the animated series The Simpsons. ...
David Silverman (born on 15 March 1957 in New York City, New York) is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series The Simpsons, where he would go on to be the supervising director of animation for several years, as well as animating on all...
The Simpsons fourth season originally aired between September 1992 and May 1993, beginning on September 24, 1992. ...
is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...
is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...
Kamp Krusty is the first episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ...
A Streetcar Named Marge is the second episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ...
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New Kid on the Block is the 8th episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ...
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Marge vs. ...
Selmas Choice is the 13th episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ...
Brother from the Same Planet is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons from the fourth season. ...
I Love Lisa is the fifteenth episode from the fourth season of The Simpsons, in which the dim-witted and socially-awkward Ralph Wiggum plays a prominent role. ...
Duffless is the 16th episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ...
Last Exit to Springfield is the 17th episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ...
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Krusty Gets Kancelled is the final episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ...
The following is an episode list for the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ...
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The Simpsons fourth season originally aired between September 1992 and May 1993, beginning on September 24, 1992. ...
December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), more commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ...
Early in a coronary artery bypass surgery during vein harvesting from the legs (left of image) and the establishment of bypass (placement of the aortic cannula) (bottom of image). ...
Plot
 Homer having a heart attack. One night, while watching TV, Homer — shortly after Marge warns him against his unhealthy dietary habits — begins feeling chest pains, which return the next morning at breakfast. After refusing Marge's "special surprise" (oatmeal), he eats a cholesterol-laden breakfast of eggs and bacon. While driving to work, Homer's chest pains worsen, but he chalks the irregular thumping to a problem with his car's transmission. The mechanic tells him it is probably his heart, and a relieved Homer drives away. Image File history File linksMetadata Homer's_Triple_Bypass. ...
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In the United States and Canada, oatmeal means any crushed oats, rolled oats, or cut oats used in recipes such as oatmeal cookies. ...
Cholesterol is a sterol (a combination steroid and alcohol), a lipid found in the cell membranes of all body tissues, and is transported in the blood plasma of all animals. ...
Cardiac arrhythmia is any of a group of conditions in which the electrical activity of the heart is irregular or is faster or slower than normal. ...
At work, Mr. Burns calls Homer in to reprimand him for his poor work performance, taunting him with dismissal all the while. Homer's chest pains get worse. Eventually, Burns' taunting causes Homer's heart to stop. When Smithers tells Burns that he thinks Homer is dead, Burns asks him to send a ham to his widow; at that moment, Homer regains consciousness and the ham is cancelled (much to Homer's dismay). A widow is a woman whose spouse has died. ...
Back at home, Marge gets a phone call from the hospital, telling her Homer has suffered a mild heart attack. When she quickly leaves, a visiting Patty and Selma continue cutting coupons, as though nothing is wrong.
Later, Dr. Hibbert advises Marge that Homer needs triple bypass, but Homer suffers another heart attack when he is told the price — $30,000 (which is upped to $40,000 after his heart stops again) because the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant doesn't offer health insurance (because they traded it for a pinball machine in the employee lounge), and the family has less than $100 in their savings account. Homer suffers a third heart attack at the health insurance office and is denied because of his poor health. This article contains a list of recurring characters from The Simpsons with descriptions. ...
Early in a coronary artery bypass surgery during vein harvesting from the legs (left of image) and the establishment of bypass (placement of the aortic cannula) (bottom of image). ...
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Left without options, and confident he will die before he gets the much-needed surgery, Homer and Marge acquire a modicum of hope when they see a TV commercial for Dr. Nick Riviera, who performs bargain-basement surgery for $129.95. Despite Dr. Nick's obvious gross incompetence — thanks to not-too-subtle hints such as being called to the morgue (Dr. Nick sarcastically reacts, "The coroner?! I'm so sick of that guy!" before being ambushed by the media) — Homer sees the good doctor as his only chance to have the surgery done an affordable price. Nick Riviera, M.D. (voiced by Hank Azaria) is a character in the long-running animated TV show The Simpsons. ...
A coroner is either the presiding officer of a special court, a medical officer, or an officer of law responsible for investigating deaths, particularly those happening under unusual circumstances. ...
Just before the surgery, a nervous Dr. Nick tries to review the basic procedures of the surgery he is about to perform by renting an instructional video, but the most important part of the procedure is taped over with 'People Who Look like Things'. On the day of the surgery, Dr. Nick proceeds with the surgery, but quickly realizes he does not know what to do. Fortunately, Lisa — who has studied cardiology — is in the operating room amphitheater and guides Dr. Nick through the procedure. Amazingly, the surgery is a success, and Homer makes a full recovery. His heart, with some help, thumps out the Simpsons theme tune in the end. A diagram of a heart with an ECG indicator; diagrams like this are used in Cardiology. ...
Episode Features In this episode, Homer talks to various religious people regarding the money for surgery. The rabbi that Homer talks to about the money for surgery is Krusty's father Rabbi Krustofski from "Like Father, Like Clown". The Hindu guru Homer talks to about the money for surgery is Surdrudinma Baradad, the host of the yoga show Homer and Marge work out to on "Kamp Krusty". This article is a list of recurring fictional characters in the animated American television situation comedy The Simpsons. ...
Like Father, Like Clown is the sixth episode of The Simpsons third season. ...
Kamp Krusty is the first episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ...
A number of recurring and one-time Simpsons characters appear in the queue at the hospital. They include; Groundskeeper Willie, with his arms in casts; Jacques (the French bowler from Life on the Fast Lane), with his finger caught in a bowling ball; Jasper, with a bike caught in his beard; Akira, with his hand stuck in a plank of wood; Apu, with a gunshot wound; Sideshow Mel, stuck in a cannon; and Chief Wiggum, with a locked jaw after he was about to bite a sub-sandwich. Lou taunts him by putting his hand inside with Wiggum trying to say "Cut it out!" Life on the Fast Lane, also known as Jacques To Be Wild,[1] is the ninth episode of The Simpsons first season, which originally aired on March 18, 1990. ...
Homer suggests he own a defibrillator instead of spending $40,000 on the surgery. In the hospital, Homer asks Dr. Hibbert to remember his Hippopotamus oath, referring to the Hippocratic oath. This episode shows another example of Hibbert's unprofessional behavior in certain circumstances. In this episode, Krusty the Klown reveals his face is now permanently altered as a pale clownface. In Dr. Nick Riviera's flashback to college paddles bearing Sigma Chi letters can be seen in the background. A twelfth-century Byzantine manuscript of the Oath in the form of a cross. ...
Sigma Chi (ΣΧ) is one of the largest and oldest all-male, college, Greek-letter social fraternities. ...
Trivia - Krusty says that he is not wearing makeup, rather his face is pale due to a side-effect of heart surgery; apparently he contracted this condition following Krusty Gets Busted, where he is seen without makeup in court. This condition endures at least until Bart the Fink, where Krusty wears makeup to simulate normal skin tone (at least for the Simpsons universe).
- At the beginning of the episode, Chief Wiggum tries to bust Snake from what is supposed to be 742 Evergreen Terrace, but in fact, 742 Evergreen Terrace is the Simpsons address, not Snake's.
- You aren't allowed to pray in Springfield hospital.
- Homer was told not to pray but Ned wasn't told not to pray.
- Freeze-framing Homer having the largest heart attack (in Mr. Burns office) in the heart box you will see all four suits of cards - diamonds, hearts, spades and clubs.
Krusty Gets Busted is the 12th episode of the first season of The Simpsons. ...
Bart the Fink is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ...
Professor Snake Jailbird, voiced by Hank Azaria, is a fictional character from The Simpsons. ...
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Deleted scenes During production, a number of scenes were cut. They can be viewed as a bonus feature, on the DVD:
Before Marge warns Homer about eating, there was one scene where Chief Wiggum and his friends appear at a diner. The waitress bills them for the "coffee and donuts" they ate. Instead, Wiggum rips the bills and places it in her front pocket. A brief scene of the driver telling Homer he needs to stop at the Kwik-E-Mart to get cat food. Homer responds by telling him to get beef jerky for himself. In the hospital, Krusty has a line after they try to blast Sideshow Mel out of the cannon, "You know who I feel sorry for? Sideshow Phil. Mel is standing on his shoulders."
Originally, the episode was going to end with Homer eating a pizza in his hospital bed after the operation, before Marge asks a nurse where he got the pizza from. This would reflect the earlier scene where Grampa watches him as an infant chewing on a slice of pizza in the hospital. The scene was deleted and replaced with the scene where Homer's family cheer him on while he's in intensive care. Abraham Abe Grampa J. Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated cartoon television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ...
Intensive care medicine or critical care medicine is concerned with providing greater than ordinary medical care and observation to people in a critical or unstable condition. ...
Cultural references The puppets Homer uses to describe his upcoming heart surgery to Bart and Lisa are Akbar and Jeff (minus their fezes), from Matt Groening's comic strip Life in Hell. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Life in Hell. ...
A Fez The Fez (also known as the Checheya or Tarboosh) is a red felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone; a black tassel hangs from the crown. ...
Life in Hell is a weekly comic strip by Matt Groening. ...
Homer's fantasy of eating a roast pig, which speaks and recommends the rump, is inspired by a similar moment in Douglas Adams' novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, with a cow that's been raised to want to be eaten. In the hospital, Flanders thanks God for the Ziggy comic strip, and "volumes one, two and four" of the Richard Simmons exercise video Sweatin' to the Oldies. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ...
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, ISBN 0345391810) is the second book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. ...
Disambiguation: There are minor characters named Ziggy from LazyTown, Xenosaga, and Quantum Leap. ...
For other persons named Richard Simmons, see Richard Simmons (disambiguation). ...
COPS! in Springfield The opening gag, "COPS: In Springfield" spoofs FOX's police-reality series. Instead of highlighting police officers' work, this parody showcases the incompetence of the Springfield police force. Also spoofed is the COPS theme song "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle (played here as "Bad Cops"). The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ...
Bad Boys can refer to a: Film Bad Boys (1995 film) and Bad Boys II (2003), two films starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Michael Bay. ...
Opening montage The "COPS: In Springfield" title card is shown. The rest of the montage is set to a parody of the tune "Bad Boys" entitled "Bad Cops." Wiggum fails to prevent a suicidal man from jumping; after the man plummets to his death, Wiggum makes a cuckoo sign with his finger. A scene where a cop pursues a crook by jumping across buildings is shown. It then zooms back to reveal Wiggum, Lou and Eddie watching TV. The officers then attempt — without success — to shoot a mummy; Wiggum throws his gun at the creature. Eddie and Lou pull various weapons (a knife, a hand grenade, a pair of brass knuckles, and a gun) from Jasper's beard. Wiggum and his officers watch the Itchy & Scratchy cartoon "Field of Screams." The officers then use a helicopter to sneak into a local drive-in, which is playing "Space Mutants." Itchy and Scratchy The Itchy & Scratchy Show is a fictional television cartoon show within the television cartoon show The Simpsons (see show-within-a-show). ...
This is a list of the Itchy and Scratchy cartoons shown on The Simpsons. ...
Story Chief Wiggum calls himself "Papa Bear," an allusion to Huggy Bear on the 1970s police drama Starsky and Hutch. Chief Wiggum investigates a cattle rustler and uses a tank to knock down the suspect's door, only to find he has the wrong house. The occupant, Rev. Lovejoy, is very angry, especially since the cattle are clearly in his neighbor's yard, not his own. Snake, the suspect that Wiggum is after, is able to make a clean getaway. Wiggum is unable to give a coherent description of the car; he describes the vehicle as "a car of some sort" and "heading in the direction of that place that sells chili." However, he does point out that the "Suspect is hatless! Repeat, hatless!". Snake's getaway car is a 1969 Dodge Charger. For the film, see Starsky & Hutch (film). ...
The Reverend Timothy Tim Lovejoy (more commonly known as Reverend Lovejoy) is a fictional character and the local Reverend in the long-running animated TV show The Simpsons and is voiced by Harry Shearer. ...
Professor Snake Jailbird, voiced by Hank Azaria, is a fictional character from The Simpsons. ...
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