Burns: "Oh Very well. It's time for your bribe. Now, you can either have the washer and dryer where the lovely Smithers is standing... or you can trade it all in for what's in this box."
Agent 1: "The box. The box!"
Agent 2:"Burns, this is a big problem. You just can't throw money at it and make it go away."
Mayor Quimby (wearing expensive jacket with the price tag): "Gentlemen, I've decided there will be no investigation. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go away."
Professor: "I'm going to hold a comprehensive review session after every class."
Homer: "Do we have to?"
Professor: "No."
Homer: "Then kiss my curvy butt good-bye."
Homer then spends his time giggling and chasing squirrels around a tree
[8.8/10] Such a hilarious episode! Leave it to Conan O’Brien to bring the big time yuks as the writer for this one. The premise of this episode is inspired (and presages the first 21 Jump Street movie) with Homer having an image of college from cheesy T.V. shows and movies, and trying to apply it to the real world in a way that does not at all track with his cool, laid back dean or his nerdlinger friends.
There’s just so many laughs to be wrung from Homer’s complete misunderstanding of contemporary college life. His absurd efforts to strike back at the unfailingly understanding dean get more and more ridiculous. His efforts to “ar-tee down” with his geeky tutors (and Bart and Lisa) go predictable awry and/or end up very mild and lame. And getting to see him be an incredibly poor and out of place student in his nuclelar physics 101 class brings the laugh every time. (Seriously, just him guffawing over the professor dropping his notes, or running out to chase after a pair of squirrels were big laughs.)
Really, this is just a great Homer episode. There’s not really a big character arc or lesson here beyond Homer kinda sorta realizing that his preconceptions about college were false (and even that’s thin at best). Instead, it’s just a steady dose of Homer buffoonery, with the character at his dim-witted, extraverted best. And his lines are so good! This is the episode of “I am so smart. S-M-R-T,” of “I’m just going to hide under some coats and hope that everything works out somehow,” and of “The bee bit my bottom, now my bottom’s bid!”
Speaking of which, the episode is a laugh riot even before we get to the college material. The first act is a great outing for Mr. Burns. His faltering efforts to stave off a surprise inspection of the nuclear plant, his efforts to bribe his way out of the problem, and his failing attempts to be utterly evil are all knee-slappers. Between his painter-foiled efforts to get the inspectors to “drop” the charges, to his amusingly weak attempt to whack and admissions officer with a baseball bat, the distance between Burns’s intentions to be malevolent and his actual results bring the chuckles throughout.
Overall, this one is essentially just a gag-fest, with just enough story to pass muster, but what gags! It’s hard to complain about anything else when you’re laughing the entire time.
If you had to sum up Simpsons humor to someone who has never watched the show, this may be one of the episodes you show them!
Shout by Mista LukaBlockedParent2022-01-28T04:53:30Z
“Homer Goes to College" is yet another high-quality episode for this fifth season, with Homer forced to go to college after a surprise inspection reveals he isn't qualified to do his job. While this is another one that feels like the story is secondary to the gags, this is still a highly comedic and entertaining episode, with some highly memorable bits.
Overall, another great episode.