Homer Loves Flanders

Rating: 4.2 (166 votes)

Memorable quotes

Homer: I did it! Second in line, and all I had to do was miss eight days of work.

Homer: Why am I such a loser? Why?
Bart: Well, your father was a loser, and his father, and his father... it's genetic, man. (realizing) D'oh!

Lisa: What's so special about this game anyway? It's just another chapter in the pointless rivalry between Springfield and Shelbyville. They built a mini-mall, so we built a bigger mini-mall. They made the world's largest pizza, so we burnt down their city hall.

Flanders: Oh, I guess it's time for me to duck again.
Homer: No! I want everyone to know that-- (yelling out window) this is Ned Flanders, my friend!
Lenny: What'd he say?
Carl: I dunno. Something about being gay.

Homer: They don't call me "Springfield Fats" just because I'm morbidly obese!

Lisa: Don't worry, Bart. It seems like every week something odd happens to the Simpsons. My advice is to ride it out, make the occasional smart-alec quip, and by next week we'll be back to where we started from, ready for another wacky adventure.
Bart: Aye caramba!
Lisa: That's the spirit.

Flanders: Bless the grocer for this wonderful meat, the middleman who jacked up the price, and let's not forget the humane but determined boys at the slaughterhouse.

Homer: I'd like to propose a toast to the coming together of the Simpsons and Flanders. If this were a more perfect world, we'd all be known as the Flimpsons.

Helen Lovejoy: Well. Ned Flanders is just jealous.
Moe: Aw, the guy's hepped up on goofballs.
Grampa: Let's sacrifice him to our god! Come on, we did it all the time in the thirties.

Notes

• Underneath the main headline in the Springfield Shopper, ''Big Fat Man Has Big Fat Heart'' is a smaller headline, ''Little Thin Man Accused In Robbery''.
• Flanders Boat is named ''Thanks For The Boat, Lord II''.
• The sign at Springfield Lake reads: ''No Mercury Dumping Without A Permit'' and features Blinky, the three-eyed fish.
• Flanders' license plate reads: JHN 143, referring to a passage in the Bible.
• A ''Last Supper'' painting hangs in Flanders' games room.
• Otto drives the church bus.
• The marquee outside church reads, ''Loosest Bongo Cards In Town''.

References

• Homer emerging from the hedge, and when he chases the Flanders' with golf clubs parodies Terminator 2.
• Wiggum says ''Where's you messiah now?'' to Flanders a la The Ten Commandments.