S12.E9

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Episode aired Jan 7, 2001
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30m

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Animation Comedy

An X-ray reveals a crayon lodged in Homer's brain. After the crayon is removed, Homer experiences a sudden surge in intelligence, making him closer to Lisa and isolated from his friends.An X-ray reveals a crayon lodged in Homer's brain. After the crayon is removed, Homer experiences a sudden surge in intelligence, making him closer to Lisa and isolated from his friends.An X-ray reveals a crayon lodged in Homer's brain. After the crayon is removed, Homer experiences a sudden surge in intelligence, making him closer to Lisa and isolated from his friends.

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Dan Castellaneta

Homer Simpson
(voice)
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Julie Kavner

Marge Simpson
(voice)
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Nancy Cartwright

Bart Simpson
(voice)
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Yeardley Smith

Lisa Simpson
(voice)

Hank Azaria

Meganaut
(voice)
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Harry Shearer

Mr. Burns
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Pamela Hayden

Rod Flanders
(voice)
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Tress MacNeille

Princess Tempura
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Trivia
This story is based on the short story (and later a novel) "Flowers for Algernon", in which an experiment temporarily turns a mentally retarded man into a genius. The most direct reference to the book is the white mouse that repeatedly beats Homer in a game, just like Algernon (a white mouse as well) beats Charly in the original story.

Goofs
Homer has not been affected by the Simpsons gene from Lisa the Simpson (1998)(#9.17)

Quotes
Homer: Lisa, why didn't you warn me? Being a brain has alienated me from all my friends.
Lisa: Dad, as intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down. In fact I made a graph...
[wistfully]
Lisa: I make a lot of graphs...

Connections
Featured in Ansassa (2002)

Soundtracks
I'm a Little Teapot
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Traditional
Performed by Dan Castellaneta

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2/10

Another not great episode

We see in this episode that Homer's stupidity may be due to an unexpected cause in this episode from a poor S12.

And for me again there's a dark sense of humour that's crept into a lot of the episodes in this series present again here, and it spoils things.

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