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"'$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)'", also known as "'$pringfield'", is the tenth episode of ''The Simpsons''' fifth season.
The economy of Springfield is in decline, and Mayor Quimby tries to listen to the citizens' ways to improve the economy. They suggest that legalized gambling has helped rejuvenate run-down economies, and it can work for Springfield as well. Even Marge agrees to the idea. Mr. Burns and Mayor Quimby work together to build a casino, but Burns objects to several prototypes until he develops his own design: "Mr. Burns' Casino", with "sex appeal and a catchy name".
The casino opens, and Homer gets a job as a blackjack dealer. Also visiting the casino are Marge and Bart. Bart wins a jackpot, but is kicked out, as minors are not allowed in American casinos. He starts his own casino for his friends to play in his treehouse, featuring Milhouse and Jimbo as entertainers. While Marge waits for Homer's shift to end at Mr. Burns' casino, she finds a quarter on the floor and uses it to play a slot machine. She wins and almost immediately becomes addicted to gambling. Meanwhile, while Burns' casino is a success, he becomes even more reclusive and eccentric, developing a profound fear of microscopic germs. He has a long beard, long fingernails and toenails and wears pyjamas all the time.
Due to her addiction, Marge spends every waking moment at the casino and neglects the family. When Lisa wakes from a bad dream of the boogeyman, a gun-toting Homer hides himself and the children behind a mattress in terror. Meanwhile, Bart intercepts Robert Goulet to perform at his casino, when he was hired to perform at Mr. Burns' casino; Goulet is a hit (singing the childrens' favorite "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells"), despite accidentally smacking Milhouse with his microphone. Marge did not help Lisa make a costume for her geography pageant as promised, so Homer makes a primitive costume of "Floreda" for her (which isn't just misspelled, it's also shaped like California). Lisa, along with Ralph Wiggum, who dressed up as Idaho, using nothing but a sheet of looseleaf paper that says "Idaho" taped to his shirt, both receive special awards for being 'children who obviously had no help from their parents'. While receiving the award, Ralph Wiggum said "I'm Idaho!" and Principal Skinner said that he is.
Back at Burns' casino, Mr. Burns has mentally degenerated into Howard Hughes' later years, wearing Kleenex boxes on his feet and designing a plane called the "Spruce Moose" (a pun on Hughes' "Spruce Goose" aircraft). Smithers admires what appears to be a scale model of the plane, but Burns insists that it is the full-sized version. When Homer bursts into the casino and scatters patrons on his way to confronting Marge, Burns orders him fired and Smithers promises to send Homer back to the power plant. Realizing how much he misses the plant, Burns decides to return and orders Smithers to prepare a shave and get rid of the Kleenex boxes, although he decides to hang on to the jars of urine he's been preserving. Deciding to fly back to the plant, he orders Smithers to board the model plane...at gunpoint.
With abject begging and earnest attempts at support and understanding, Homer persuades Marge to admit that she has a gambling problem. She finally realizes the neglect the family has been suffering and returns home.
# Homer and Smithers compliment the casino.
# The two German men shoot the tiger. The tiger rolls on its back and appears to faint.
# James Bond and his enemy are playing poker. Homer forgets to take the jokers out of the deck. Bond gets carried out of the casino. Marge walks into the casino.
# Martin Prince says something about how a wheel spins while he's playing a game; Nelson throws him out of the casino.
★ Mr. Burns' paranoid obsession with germs and cleanliness, and his refusal to leave his bedroom once the casino opens, is a parody on the 20th century American magnate Howard Hughes. The latter had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and was involved in the casino business in his later years. The wooden plane he makes is a parody of Hughes' plane the Hughes Hercules (also known as the Spruce Goose - Burns replaces Goose with moose)
★ As a blackjack dealer Homer is impressed by the card-counting abilities of a man who resembles the mentally-challenged Raymond Babbitt from Rain Man and pressures him to do it again, but "Raymond" refuses. After Homer grabs him, he starts screaming and hitting his head, much like in the movie, which Homer also does.
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"'$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)'", also known as "'$pringfield'", is the tenth episode of ''The Simpsons''
| Contents |
| Plot |
| Deleted scenes |
| Cultural References |
| External links |
Plot
The economy of Springfield is in decline, and Mayor Quimby tries to listen to the citizens' ways to improve the economy. They suggest that legalized gambling has helped rejuvenate run-down economies, and it can work for Springfield as well. Even Marge agrees to the idea. Mr. Burns and Mayor Quimby work together to build a casino, but Burns objects to several prototypes until he develops his own design: "Mr. Burns' Casino", with "sex appeal and a catchy name".
The casino opens, and Homer gets a job as a blackjack dealer. Also visiting the casino are Marge and Bart. Bart wins a jackpot, but is kicked out, as minors are not allowed in American casinos. He starts his own casino for his friends to play in his treehouse, featuring Milhouse and Jimbo as entertainers. While Marge waits for Homer's shift to end at Mr. Burns' casino, she finds a quarter on the floor and uses it to play a slot machine. She wins and almost immediately becomes addicted to gambling. Meanwhile, while Burns' casino is a success, he becomes even more reclusive and eccentric, developing a profound fear of microscopic germs. He has a long beard, long fingernails and toenails and wears pyjamas all the time.
Due to her addiction, Marge spends every waking moment at the casino and neglects the family. When Lisa wakes from a bad dream of the boogeyman, a gun-toting Homer hides himself and the children behind a mattress in terror. Meanwhile, Bart intercepts Robert Goulet to perform at his casino, when he was hired to perform at Mr. Burns' casino; Goulet is a hit (singing the childrens' favorite "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells"), despite accidentally smacking Milhouse with his microphone. Marge did not help Lisa make a costume for her geography pageant as promised, so Homer makes a primitive costume of "Floreda" for her (which isn't just misspelled, it's also shaped like California). Lisa, along with Ralph Wiggum, who dressed up as Idaho, using nothing but a sheet of looseleaf paper that says "Idaho" taped to his shirt, both receive special awards for being 'children who obviously had no help from their parents'. While receiving the award, Ralph Wiggum said "I'm Idaho!" and Principal Skinner said that he is.
Back at Burns' casino, Mr. Burns has mentally degenerated into Howard Hughes' later years, wearing Kleenex boxes on his feet and designing a plane called the "Spruce Moose" (a pun on Hughes' "Spruce Goose" aircraft). Smithers admires what appears to be a scale model of the plane, but Burns insists that it is the full-sized version. When Homer bursts into the casino and scatters patrons on his way to confronting Marge, Burns orders him fired and Smithers promises to send Homer back to the power plant. Realizing how much he misses the plant, Burns decides to return and orders Smithers to prepare a shave and get rid of the Kleenex boxes, although he decides to hang on to the jars of urine he's been preserving. Deciding to fly back to the plant, he orders Smithers to board the model plane...at gunpoint.
With abject begging and earnest attempts at support and understanding, Homer persuades Marge to admit that she has a gambling problem. She finally realizes the neglect the family has been suffering and returns home.
Deleted scenes
# Homer and Smithers compliment the casino.
# The two German men shoot the tiger. The tiger rolls on its back and appears to faint.
# James Bond and his enemy are playing poker. Homer forgets to take the jokers out of the deck. Bond gets carried out of the casino. Marge walks into the casino.
# Martin Prince says something about how a wheel spins while he's playing a game; Nelson throws him out of the casino.
Cultural References
★ Mr. Burns' paranoid obsession with germs and cleanliness, and his refusal to leave his bedroom once the casino opens, is a parody on the 20th century American magnate Howard Hughes. The latter had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and was involved in the casino business in his later years. The wooden plane he makes is a parody of Hughes' plane the Hughes Hercules (also known as the Spruce Goose - Burns replaces Goose with moose)
★ As a blackjack dealer Homer is impressed by the card-counting abilities of a man who resembles the mentally-challenged Raymond Babbitt from Rain Man and pressures him to do it again, but "Raymond" refuses. After Homer grabs him, he starts screaming and hitting his head, much like in the movie, which Homer also does.
External links
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