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The Simpsons episode
"Two Bad Neighbors"
Homer fights with George H. W. Bush
Episode no.	141
Prod. code	3F09
Orig. airdate	January 14, 1996
Show runner(s)	Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Homer Simpson is also a character in the book and film The Day of the Locust. ... George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. ... is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Bill Oakley (born in 1966) is an American televison writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. ... This article is about The Simpsons writer Josh Weinstein. ...
Written by	Ken Keeler
Directed by	Wesley Archer
Couch gag	Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are moose heads on the wall and Homer is a bearskin rug on the floor. A game hunter comes in, sits on the couch, and smokes a pipe.
DVD commentary	Matt Groening Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein Ken Keeler Wes Archer
Season 7 September 17, 1995 – May 19, 1996
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This episode also sees the first appearance of Disco Stu. Disco Stu is a fictional character from The Simpsons. ...

Plot

Barbara Bush portrayed on The Simpsons.

Evergreen Terrace holds a garage sale. As Homer dances on the tables selling his junk, there is a diversion: the empty house across from Homer's is being moved into. It is occupied by Former President George Bush with his wife Barbara. Bart decides to visit, and Barbara takes a liking to him. However Bart's habit of calling adults by their first names and his overall annoying attitude does not do much for George. Eventually, after Bart accidentally shreds George's newly typed memoirs, the former President takes Bart across his knee and spanks him. Homer, who was already annoyed at George Bush for stealing his thunder at the garage sale, is outraged and confronts George. Both men vow to make trouble for each other. Simpsons redirects here. ... Order: 41st President Vice President: Dan Quayle Term of office: January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 Preceded by: Ronald Reagan Succeeded by: Bill Clinton Date of birth: June 12, 1924 Place of birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Political party: Republican George Herbert Walker Bush, KBE (born June... [1] This article is about the use of spanking as discipline. ...

Homer sends bottle-rockets at George's window. George puts up a banner saying "Two Bad Neighbors", which he meant to be in reference to Bart and Homer, but Ned Flanders and Dr. Hibbert believe it was in reference to George and Barbara (Hibbert) or the Flanders family (Ned), so it is taken down. Homer then glues a rainbow wig on his opponent's head just before he is to give an important speech to a local club. George retaliates by chewing up the Simpsons' lawn with his car. Despite Barbara urging her husband to apologize, the confrontation continues. Homer and Bart are just making their way through the sewers to release locusts in George’s house, but he spots them and climbs down to fight, during which Homer learns about the destroyed memoirs, but refuses to make his son apologize. They fight in the sewers and when George is about to finish Homer Bart releases the locusts on George. Finally, after pressure from his wife and from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was there to visit George, George apologizes, but sells the house as the neighbourhood clearly brought out the worst in him. The vacated house is immediately bought by Gerald Ford, who invites Homer to watch a football game with him, and to enjoy some beer and nachos at his house. The two quickly get off to a good start, due to sharing common ground. Nedward Ned Flanders is a fictional character on The Simpsons, voiced by Harry Shearer. ... This article contains a list of recurring characters from The Simpsons with descriptions. ... For other meanings of the word Locust, see Locust (disambiguation). ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev[1] (Russian: , IPA: ; born 2 March 1931) is a Russian politician. ... For other persons named Gerald Ford, see Gerald Ford (disambiguation). ...

Debut appearances

Characters making a first appearance in this episode are:

• Disco Stu

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Cultural References

• Stayin' Alive by The Bee Gees is parodied when Homer sings about "Table 5." Also, Homer parodies the song Big Spender from the musical play Sweet Charity when singing about "Table 3."
• Grampa saying he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, is making a reference to Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms.
• Bush says that he will ruin Homer "like a Japanese banquet", a reference to an incident that happened on January 6, 1992. During a state dinner, then-president Bush vomited on the lap of the Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa.
• While in the sewers fighting, Homer demands that Bush apologizes for the tax hike. A reference to Bush Promising No New Taxes.
• Bart's interactions with Mr. and Mrs. Bush and his saying "Hello Mister Bush" is like Dennis the Menace and his elderly neighbors the Wilsons.
• Homer's reference to George W. Bush as "George Bush, Jr." was deliberate as the producers were vaguely aware that George and Barbara Bush actually had a son named George and the George Bush Jr. line was meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plans.

Stayin Alive is a song by The Bee Gees, released as a single in 1977. ... The Bee Gees: Maurice, Barry and Robin The Bee Gees were a British and Australian band, originally a pop singer-songwriter combination, reborn as funk and disco. ... Big Spender is a song written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields for the musical play Sweet Charity. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Sweet Charity, based on Federico Fellinis screenplay for Nights of Cabiria, is a musical directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and book by Neil Simon. ... Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837–June 24, 1908), was the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States. ... is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Emblem of the Office of Prime Minister of Japan Kantei, Official residence of PM The Prime Minister of Japan ) is the usual English-language term used for the head of government of Japan, although the literal translation of the Japanese name for the office is Prime Minister of the Cabinet. ... Kiichi Miyazawa , October 8, 1919–June 28, 2007) was a Japanese politician and the 78th Prime Minister from November 5, 1991 to August 9, 1993. ... Bush delivering the famous line at the 1988 convention Read my lips: No new taxes was a famous pledge made by Republican Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush at the 1988 Republican convention in his acceptance speech on August 18. ... Dennis the Menace was a television series based on the popular comic strip, which aired from 1959 to 1963 on CBS. It starred Jay North as Dennis Mitchell; Herbert Anderson as his father, Henry; Gloria Henry as his mother, Alice; Joseph Kearns as George Wilson and Sylvia Field as Martha... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

Reception

"Two Bad Neighbors" was named by Vanity Fair as the show's fifth best episode in 2007. John Orvted said, "Conservatives ended up loving The Simpsons, because the show extolled the importance of family, church attendance, and distrust of institutions. But George H. W. Bush and his family-values cronies were originally against the show. Barbara Bush once called it 'the dumbest thing I've ever seen.' While the Simpsons people have always claimed evenhandedness in their satire, the show is, after all, hardly right-leaning, and it is hard to miss how gleefully the former president is mocked here."^[1] Title-page to Vanity Fair, drawn by Thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his earlier editions Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. ...

Notes

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