Chalkboard: Network TV is not dead

Couch: The Simpsons are placed on the couch by the transport tubes used on Futurama. A yellow-skinned Philip J. Fry (the protagonist from Futurama) is in on the couch for a split second before he’s sucked up and replaced by Bart.

At one word, four letters, and two syllables, this episode has the shortest title in the show's history.

Homer: Family meeting! Family meeting! (the rest of the family runs into the dining room and quickly takes their seats) Okay, people, let's keep this short. We all want to get home to our families. (all laugh) All right, first item: I lost our life savings in the stock market. Now let's move on to the real issue: Lisa's hogging of the maple syrup.
Lisa: Well, maybe if Mom didn't make such dry waffles. There, I said it.
Marge: Well, maybe if you'd eat some meat you'd have a natural lubricant. (gasps, and turns to Homer) You lost all our money?
Homer: Point of order -- I didn't lose all the money. There was enough left for this cowbell. (rings it softly, and the bell breaks apart in his hands) Damn you, eBay!

Moe: Alright, tell me when I hit the sweet spot.
Homer: Deeper, you pusillanimous pilsner pusher!
Moe: Alright, alright.
(With a small hammer and chisel, he taps the crayon further up Homer's nose.)
Homer: De-fense! Woof-woof! De-fense! Woof-woof!
Moe: Eh, that's pretty dumb. But, uh...
(He taps once more)
Homer: Extended warranty? How can I lose?
Moe: Perfect.

(Homer sitting next to a "Diet Drug Z-3" jar, with food going past him on a conveyor belt, but he only sits there without touching the food.)
Male Scientist: That appetite-suppressant is amazing.
Female Scientist: Homer, you really have no desire to eat that food?
Homer: Food? I'm blind!
(He starts running in the room while screaming.)
Male scientist: Who's gonna buy a pill that makes you blind?
Female scientist: We'll let marketing worry about that.

Operator: For automated stock prices, please state the company name.
Homer: Animotion.
Operator: Animotion, up 1 1/2.
Homer: Yahoo!
Operator: Yahoo, up 6 1/4.
Homer: Huh? What is this crap?
Operator: Fox Broadcasting, down 8.

In this episode, it's established that Homer's stupidity is caused by a crayon that was lodged in his head since he was six years old, retconning other reasons behind Homer's stupidity (i.e., the Simpson gene according to season nine's "Lisa the Simpson," the coma that destroyed his brain cells according to "So It's Come to This: A Simpson's Clip Show," and, of course, the many years of drinking beer).