Recap
Homer comes in with the mail. He uses the George Foreman mail sorter to find out what's good and what's bad. The bad pile is then grilled into a patty, which Homer eats on a bun. In the good pile is an invitation for the family to spend a free weekend at Stagnant Springs Spa...
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Episode Notes
Chalkboard: None
Couch: The family sits on the couch. Homer clicks on the remote control and sends the family to the Stone Age where they sit in front of a fire, clicks it again to send them to the Roman Empire where they watch a gladiator match, and clicks it a final time to return them to the present.
Episode Quotes
Sideshow Bob: (in cell) Hello, Bart.
Bart and Lisa: Ahhhhh! Sideshow Bob!
Sideshow Bob: Oh, come now. We've been through so much together. Just call me "Bob".
Bart and Lisa: Ahhhhh! Bob!
Sideshow Bob: Homer, of all the people you know, who would have the best reason to do you in?
Homer: Hmm. Well, there's Mr. Burns, Fat Tony, the Emperor of Japan, ex-President Bush...
Marge: ...the late Frank Grimes...
Homer: ...PBS, Stephen Hawking, the fat little Dixie Chick...
Marge: ...and the State of Florida.
Sideshow Bob: How could one man have so many enemies?
Homer: I'm a people person...who drinks.
(Sideshow Bob sets a trap with a dummy of Homer to catch the killer.)
Homer: Ooh, someone's coming!
(The family and Bob ducks down.)
Moe: (Beating the dummy with a baseball bat) Now who's the sociopath!? Huh!?
Homer: Moe! He's got a dark side I've never dreamed of.
Bob: Well, mystery solved. Wait a moment.
(Patty and Selma drive up and Patty throws a cinder block at the dummy's head, tearing it off)
Patty: He's hurt! Go, go, go!
Marge: These are Homer's friends and family. They don't want him dead. They just want him to suffer.
Groundskeeper Willie: (Driving a hoe into the dummy's back) Hi-ya!
Reverend Lovejoy: (Kicking the dummy's groin) Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Thank you, Lord. Ugh!
Homer: (Killing the dummy) Once I kill you, everyone will think I'm the real Homer! (Chuckles)
Sideshow Bob: None of this seems odd to you?
Marge: Meh.
Sideshow Bob: Homer, think carefully. Of all the people you have known, who might have reason to do you ill?
Homer: Hmm, well there's Mr. Burns, Fat Tony, the emperor of Japan, ex-president Bush--
Marge: The late Frank Grimes--
Homer: PBS, Stephen Hawking, the fat little Dixie Chick--
Marge: And the state of Florida.