Three gays of the condo

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• The episode's title is a pun on the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor.
• While searching for the missing puzzle piece, Homer says "Puzzle piece, come out and play-ay!", a parody of a line from The Warriors.
• "Weird Al" Yankovic's song Homer & Marge is a parody of John Mellencamp's song Jack & Diane.
• Jay and Silent Bob: Homer calls Maggie "Silent Bob".
• I Love Lucy: On Homer's first morning in Grady's and Julio's apartment, Grady prepares breakfast for the three of them and Julio sharply criticizes it: "Where'd you buy this? From the guy on the exit ramp? Disgusting." Homer instantly comes
  

  PUZZLED PAGAN PRESENTS

  Lifetime of Simpsons

  ByPatrick D Gaertneron

   

  Hey, you know what happens way too much lately? Homer and Marge’s marriage being on the rocks. That used to mean something, not it happens about five or six times a season. Here’s one!

  The episodes starts off with the family gathering for some sort of weekly “Family Wednesday” evening together for some good old fashioned bonding. Marge has decided that this week the family is going to do some massive jigsaw puzzle and everyone seems pretty down for it. They open up with box and pour out the approximately three billion pieces and get to work trying to make sense out of the chaos. Which apparently takes all night, because they linger up until the wee hours of the morning doing the puzzle.

  But that wasn’t enough, and the monstrosity isn’t anywhere proximate being done, so the family just make it their fresh life goal. The kids are sent to school with puzzle pieces instead of lunches so they can work on it, and Homer is just staying at home and ignoring serve . Although that does lead to Lenny and Carl stopping by, assuming Homer has some wacky new job. But they’re displeased to see that
  
  

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  (originally aired April 13, 2003)
  This is an astounding episode, in that it got the closest to physically injuring me, as my brain was violently throbbing trying to process what was going on and what the intention of the episode was. My best guess is it was all meant to be a big gimmick, where they’ll have openly gay characters and own an animated gay touch so they can show progressive, but meanwhile rely on lazy stereotypes and gay jokes that include been told a thousand times over. But the fumbling of the controversial content isn’t even the worst part of this episode. Here we apparently see the worst falling out Homer and Marge have ever had, to the point where it seems they’ll never earn back together. Except it’s over the most asinine reason: Homer discovers a note Marge wrote way back in their younger days of how she didn’t think the two could stay together. Why is this? Well she wrote it after a romantic date wherein Homer got blasted and played Asteroids all night, forced Marge to force-feed him nachos, and ends up getting carted to the hospital. Then a scant days later she create out she was pregnant with Bart, leaving Homer to be

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• As Himself: "Weird Al" Yankovic.
• Bait-and-Switch Silhouette: After his terse stay at Bachelor Arms, Homer walks through the neighborhood and sees what appears to be Marge through a second-story window. He contemplates going to meet whoever it is up there until the figure is revealed to be Ned Flanders with a towel wrapped around his head.

  Ned: Uh, Homer, I think you want your home, next door.
  Homer: Idiotic Flanders with his misleading silhouette.

• Big Attractive Man: One of the residents of the gay neighborhood refers to Homer as a bear and growls flirtatiously at him.
• Blatant Lies:
  • Homer runs into Smithers in the gay neighborhood while walking through the streets. Smithers immediately tries to disallow his presence, saying he got confused on his way to the "big monster truck show". His claim isn't helped when a trolley of Smithers' gay associates passes by, prompting them to ask if Homer is the "Mr. Burns he's always talking about".
  • When Chief Wiggum catches Moe dumping Homer at t