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The Simpsons episode
"Old Yeller Belly"
Episode no. 310
Prod. code EABF14
Orig. airdate May 4, 2003
Written by John Frink & Don Payne
Directed by Bob Anderson
Chalkboard “My pen is not a booger launcher.”
Couch gag Shown in black and white, the family sits on a girder at a construction site, watching TV.
Guest star(s) Stacy Keach as Howard K. Duff VII and John Kassir
Season 14
November 3, 2002 – May 18, 2003
  1. Treehouse of Horror XIII
  2. How I Spent My Strummer Vacation
  3. Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade
  4. Large Marge
  5. Helter Shelter
  6. The Great Louse Detective
  7. Special Edna
  8. The Dad Who Knew Too Little
  9. Strong Arms of the Ma
  10. Pray Anything
  11. Barting Over
  12. I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can
  13. A Star Is Born-Again
  14. Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington
  15. C.E. D'oh
  16. 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky
  17. Three Gays of the Condo
  18. Dude, Where's My Ranch?
  19. Old Yeller Belly
  20. Brake My Wife, Please
  21. Bart of War
  22. Moe Baby Blues
List of all The Simpsons episodes

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Plot

Bart and his friends in his treehouse try to eavesdrop on Lisa and her friends having a tea party, and the treehouse gets destroyed. Marge gets the Amish to build a new treehouse for Bart. However, because the Amish know little about electricity, Bart’s treehouse catches fire, and Homer is trapped inside, unconscious. Homer calls for Santa’s Little Helper to save him, but Santa’s Little Helper doesn’t. Snowball II does, by clawing at Homer’s chest until he wakes up. Bart and his sister Lisa as news anchors. ... To eavesdrop is to surreptitiously overhear a private conversation. ... 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. ... Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ... The Amish (Amisch or Amische) (IPA: ) are an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the United States and Canada (Ontario and Manitoba) known for their plain dress and avoidance of modern conveniences such as cars and electricity. ... Santas Little Helper or once known as Santos L. Halper (voiced by Frank Welker or Dan Castellaneta) is the Simpson familys pet dog. ... The following is a list of animals appearing in the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ...


Snowball II is worshipped as a hero by Springfield. The dog park is even renamed the “Snowball II Municipal Cat Park.” Homer declares in an interview that “I have no dog!” and kicks Santa’s Little Helper out of the house. Springfield is a fictionalized version of Springfield, Vermont, in which the animated American sitcom The Simpsons is set. ...


Tied up in the yard and thirsty, Santa’s Little Helper drinks from a can of beer by balancing it on his nose. Springfield Shopper reporter Dave Shutton takes a photo of it that appears on the front page of the newspaper. This gets the attention of Duff Beer, who announce that Duffman will be replaced with Santa’s Little Helper, as their new mascot, Suds McDuff. Homer Simpson reaching for a can of Duff Duff Beer is a fictional brand of beer in the animated series The Simpsons. ... This article contains a list of recurring characters from The Simpsons with descriptions. ...


Suds McDuff boosts sales of Duff Beer, and the family’s fortunes explode. However, this prompts Santa’s Little Helper’s original owner (from “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”) to visit the Simpsons and prove that he owns the dog by showing the interview footage of Homer disowning Santa’s Little Helper. He becomes Suds’ new owner. Season 2episode list header}} {{Template:Infobox Simpsons season 1 Season 2episode list}} Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, also known as The Simpsons Christmas Special,[2] is the first episode of The Simpsons to air. ...


Figuring that if they can get Duffman to replace Suds as the Duff mascot, they can get their dog back, the Simpsons seek Duffman, who has become an ordinary man named Barry Duffman who helps the less fortunate. The Simpsons ask him to help the family get Santa’s Little Helper back at a Duff Beer-sponsored beach volleyball event. Beach volleyball is not popular sport in which two teams, positioned on either side of a net, hit a ball back and forth over the net, usually using the hands or arms. ...


At the event, Homer pretends to be drowning, while he is actually floating on a keg of beer. Santa’s Little Helper and Duffman are both too cowardly to save Homer, and a shark attempts to bite him, until it gets drunk by biting the beer keg. The crowd at the beach likes the shark, and Duff Beer announces that the shark—named Duff McShark—will be their new mascot. Santa’s Little Helper returns to the Simpson family. Orders Carcharhiniformes Heterodontiformes Hexanchiformes Lamniformes Orectolobiformes Pristiophoriformes Squaliformes Squatiniformes Symmoriida(extinct) Sharks (superorder Selachimorpha) are fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton[1] and a streamlined body. ...


Cultural references

  • The title refers to the book and dog Old Yeller.
  • An ice sculpture of Homer at the grand opening celebration may be a parody of The Thinker sculpture by Auguste Rodin.
  • Suds McDuff is a reference to Spuds MacKenzie.
  • When asked if he’s always been a “cat person,” Homer replies “Yusuf Islam will always be Cat Stevens to me.”
  • Luigi offers Snowball II lasagna, a reference to Garfield (“Have some lasagna, like the cat in the funny papers, who's notsa so funny”).
  • Suds McDuff appears on Pyramid.
  • The headline “Ale of the Pup” alludes to the Tail o’ the Pup, a famous restaurant shaped like a hot dog.
  • While Homer is on the Duff corporate airplane, he orders the pilot to "swing by Heidelberg and drop in on the Oktoberfest. Which is actually held in Munich.
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