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Specs and the City

Episode aired Jan 26, 2014
TV-14TV-14
30m

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7.1/10

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Mr. Burns' Christmas present to his employees, a pair of augmented reality glasses, places a strain on Homer and Marge's relationship. Meanwhile, Bart wrestles with giving a Valentine's Day ... Read allMr. Burns' Christmas present to his employees, a pair of augmented reality glasses, places a strain on Homer and Marge's relationship. Meanwhile, Bart wrestles with giving a Valentine's Day card to Nelson.Mr. Burns' Christmas present to his employees, a pair of augmented reality glasses, places a strain on Homer and Marge's relationship. Meanwhile, Bart wrestles with giving a Valentine's Day card to Nelson.

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7.1/10

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Directors
- Mike B. Anderson(supervising director)
- Lance Kramer
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Stars
- Dan Castellaneta(voice)
- Julie Kavner(voice)
- Nancy Cartwright(voice)

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Dan Castellaneta

Homer Simpson
(voice)

Julie Kavner

Marge Simpson
(voice)

Nancy Cartwright

Bart Simpson
(voice)
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Yeardley Smith

Lisa Simpson
(voice)

Hank Azaria

Moe Szyslak
(voice)
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Harry Shearer

Lenny Leonard
(voice)
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Maurice LaMarche

Will Lyman

Narrator
(voice)

Pamela Hayden

Milhouse Van Houten
(voice)

Tress MacNeille

Dolph
(voice)
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Chris Edgerly

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- Mike B. Anderson(supervising director)
- Lance Kramer
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Trivia
In the opening couch gag, while Homer is being electrocuted, the camera shows Springfield from a birds eye view. In the layout of Springfield a large number 4 is clearly visible. This is due to the gag having been created originally as a TV Ident for the UK TV channel 'Channel 4'. The channel 4 ident also predates the Simpsons episode by 7 years, The ident having aired in 2007, and the couch gag airing in 2014.

Goofs
The Firstline narrator claims that kids are born with the ability to count valentines. This is well-known to be factually inaccurate.

Quotes
Nelson Muntz: You have one week to give me a valentine.
Bart Simpson: And if I don't?
Nelson Muntz: I will have a heart in my hand. Paper or yours!

Connections
Features Solitaire (1981)

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Music by [Sam Spence

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8/10

Great Episode that Dealt with a Serious Subject in a Funny Way,

Specs and the City is a brilliant Simpsons episode with a very well written storyline.The episode starts off really funny,as we see Homer getting use to his new Google Glass-like technology,which was a lot if fun,and then we the episode got a lit more serious after Homer finds out that Marge has been going to marriage counseling on her own.While they were dealing with a serious subject,the show still managed to be funny with being offensive towards this subject,and I love that about the Simpsons,they can still be hilarious without being offensive,if it was Family Guy or South Park it would have gone way overboard with offense.Specs and the City is a very enjoyable Simpsons episode.

Mr Burns buys his employees high tech specs so he can spy on them,while Bart refuses to give Nelson his annual Valentines cards that every kid in school gives him.

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