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9th episode of the 4th flavor of The Simpsons

"Mr. Turn"
The Simpsons episode
Promotional artwork for the episode, featuring Barney Gumble, Homer Simpson, Linda Ronstadt and Adam West
Episode no.	Flavour 4 Episode 9
Directed by	Jim Reardon
Written by	Jon Vitti
Product code	9F07
Original air date	November nineteen, 1992 (1992-11-xix)
Guest appearances
Adam West equally himself[one] Linda Ronstadt as herself[ane] Phil Hartman as Troy McClure[1]
Episode features
Chalkboard gag	"A burp is not an answer"[2]
Couch gag	The family runs in and sits on a small wooden chair.[ane]
Commentary	Matt Groening Al Jean Jon Vitti Jim Reardon
Episode chronology
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"Mr. Plough" is the ninth episode of the fourth flavour of the American animated tv series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox Network in the U.s.a. on November 19, 1992. In the episode, Homer buys a snowplow and starts a business plowing driveway. It is a huge success, and inspired by this, Barney Gumble starts a rival company and apace puts Homer out of business.^[iii]

The episode was written by Jon Vitti and directed past Jim Reardon. The episode was well received, with some critics calling information technology 1 of the best in the show's history.

Dan Castellaneta won his second sequent Emmy Honor for "Outstanding Vocalization-Over Performance" for this episode (Castellaneta performs the voice of both Homer and Barney in the serial). The episode was also submitted in the "Outstanding Comedy Series" category although ultimately it was not nominated.

Plot [edit]

Springfield is hit by a blizzard, and then Marge calls Homer at Moe's Tavern and tells him to come home. On the mode dwelling, Homer's view is obscured by the snow and he crashes into the family'southward station wagon. As both cars are completely totaled, Homer begins searching for a new car, and after several unsuccessful attempts, the family go to a machine bear witness.

Subsequently an unsettling encounter with Adam West, a salesman talks Homer into getting a snowplow. Homer agrees on the basis that he tin can make the payments past plowing people's driveways. Homer starts his snowplowing business organisation, titled "Mr. Plow", only he has trouble finding any customers. His advertising campaigns are unsuccessful until Lisa suggests an advertisement on tardily night local goggle box. The resulting commercial and jingle attracts many customers and the business organisation is a booming success. Homer is given the fundamental to the city in recognition of his service to the customs.

Barney, later on being humiliated while working as a mascot for a infant supply store, asks how he can exist a success as well. Homer advises him go out and exist the best Barney he can be. The adjacent day, it is revealed that Barney has purchased an even bigger plow and has started a rival company under the championship of "Plow King". Barney creates his own commercial, with Linda Ronstadt singing the jingle, which badmouths Homer. Homer pays an bureau to make him a new commercial, simply it turns out to be completely baffling. As a result, Homer loses his success to Barney, and Mayor Quimby revokes his key to the city and hands information technology over to Barney.

To get revenge and regain his customers, Homer tricks Barney into plowing a non-existent driveway on Widow's Peak, a big treacherous mountain outside of town. Homer begins to plow driveways again, just sees a news report showing that Barney has been trapped in an avalanche. Homer immediately drives to the mountain and rescues him. The friends resolve their differences and concur to work together in the plough business, claiming that not even God Himself tin stop them. Angered, God promptly retaliates by causing a heatwave, melting all the snowfall and effectively putting them both out of business. Equally Homer can no longer brand the snowplow payments, his plough is repossessed. Simply Marge is turned on when he wears the Mr. Plough jacket and asks him to put information technology on before joining her in bed.^[1]

Product [edit]

On the telephone, Homer pretends to exist histrion Tony Dow, and calls people gay. This joke was originally going to be censored for legal reasons.

When the episode was being written, many writers' contracts had just expired, so at that place was a pocket-size number of writers at the annual story retreat. Al Jean was very nervous about how they could write a whole new season with such a small coiffure. In addition, there were several scenes added afterward the animatic, making the schedule even tighter.^[iv] However, Jon Vitti was very committed to this episode and pitched almost the entire plot by himself.^[v]

Vitti's idea was to accept Adam W be at the car show, so then they could hire him for the vocalism acting and Vitti could finally run into him.^[6] The other writers agreed because they were all big fans of Batman when they were children and also wanted to run into Adam W. Matt Groening said that West was one of the about popular people to e'er come to the studio.^[7] Linda Ronstadt was recorded in San Francisco. Jon Vitti was tasked with recording Ronstadt and he enjoyed it immensely. He remarked the nearly beautiful thing he has ever heard is Ronstadt singing the Spanish Plow King jingle.^{[half dozen] [viii]}

Two more script changes that put extra pressure on the episode were a post-animatic rewrite and a complete character change. In the original script for the episode, Lenny was going to be Homer'due south rival as the Plow Male monarch. The thought was quickly dropped considering information technology did not seem to fit in.^{[ citation needed ]} The post-animatic rewrite was to include the joke in which Homer uses the radio dial to tip the precariously balanced plow back onto the road. This joke was created by Conan O'Brien, and the writers liked information technology so much that they included it in the episode.^[9]

The Simpsons squad encountered trouble with the network censors in the scene where Homer answers the telephone and pretends to be Tony Dow from Leave information technology to Beaver. After a brief pause Homer replies to an inquiry by the person on the telephone with "Yeah, they were gay." The censors refused to permit the line to exist aired fearing legal recourse for libel. The Simpsons coiffure protested, arguing that no one in particular was being implied, and that the "they" could be anybody. Subsequently numerous telephone calls and arguments, the censors allowed the joke to air.^[10]

Cultural references [edit]

The episode parodies Walter Cronkite'due south reporting of the bump-off of John F. Kennedy.

This episode contains several references that Al Jean referred to as "very obscure". Examples of this include the scene where Homer drives through the treacherous mountain roads, a parody of a scene in Sorcerer,^[5] and the scene in which Kent Brockman reports Barney's accident, in which his attire (including glasses), camera angles and facial expressions are in reference to the manner of Walter Cronkite'south reporting of the Kennedy shooting.^[5]

The revamped "Mr. Plow commercial" is a parody of a similar perfume commercial that aired at the time of the episode'southward product. The fast-moving clouds were taken from Koyaanisqatsi, a documentary film.^[five] The music that was used in the commercial was from "Casta Diva" from Vincenzo Bellini'southward Norma because the Simpsons crew would not accept to pay for information technology. At the time the episode was made, Russia did non abide by American copyright laws. In return, America did not respect Russian federation's copyright laws.^[6] Homer'due south original jingle, "Phone call Mr. Plow, that's my proper noun, that proper name again is Mr. Plough!", is based on a radio jingle for the Roto-Rooter, which had a similar tune, "Call Roto-Rooter, that's the name, and away go troubles downward the bleed."^[six]

Other references include the Carnival of the Stars tv show seen at the start of the episode. This is a parody of Circus of the Stars, an almanac special that aired on CBS from 1976 to 1994, featuring celebrities performing circus acts.^[five] The scene where Barney gradually degrades into a drunkard is a parody of the transformation sequence in the 1941 pic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.^[five] The scene where Bart is pelted with snowballs is a reference to the Sonny Corleone tollbooth shooting scene in the film The Godfather.^[4] The snowmen melting during the heatwave is a reference to the melting Nazi soldiers in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark.^[4]

Linda Ronstadt's desire to tape a Spanish version of the Plough King jingle, along with her mariachi costume in Barney'south commercial, both refer to her notoriety at the time for recording several popular Castilian-linguistic communication albums celebrating the music of Mexico, beginning with Canciones de Mi Padre.

Reception [edit]

Critical reception [edit]

In 2003, the episode was placed sixth on Entertainment Weekly's top 25 The Simpsons episode listing.^[eleven] In June 2009, Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode a score of 9.eight out of 10 and said information technology was "a fantastic episode that told an engaging story and was laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish. [...] In that location was a fun, engaging story, great guest stars poking fun at themselves, flashbacks, songs, cutaways and opportunities to highlight characters outside the series' namesake family."^[12]

In Jan 2010, Michael Moran of The Times ranked the episode as the second best in the show's history.^[13] Warren Martyn and Adrian Forest, the authors of the book I Can't Believe Information technology's a Bigger and Improve Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, enjoyed the episode. They said that it is: "A skilful one. The highlights; the Tv set testify Carnival of Stars, featuring Angela Lansbury walking on hot coals ('Excitement, she wrote!'), Homer'south flashback to all he'south done for Barney, and all-time of all, the McMahon & Tate ad agency'southward arty commercial for Mr. Plough."^[1] In June 2012, Nathan Rabin of The A.Five. Social club stated that the episode "isn't just spectacularly funny and filled with classic bits: it likewise foretells the futurity. Corking for an animated cartoon from the 1990s."^[14]

When asked to pick his favourite season out of The Simpsons seasons one through twenty, Paul Lane of the Niagara Gazette picked season iv and highlighted "Brother from the Same Planet" and "Mr. Plow" which he called "excellent", along with "the sweetly funny" "Lisa's First Discussion", and "Homer the Heretic".^[15] The episode's reference to The Godfather was named the 37th greatest motion picture reference in the history of the show past Total Motion-picture show's Nathan Ditum.^[16] Ditum too ranked W's operation as the 7th best guest advent in the evidence's history.^[17]

When The Simpsons began streaming on Disney+ in 2019, former Simpsons writer and executive producer Bill Oakley named this i of the best archetype Simpsons episodes to watch on the service.^[18]

Awards [edit]

In 1993, Dan Castellaneta won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Voice-Over Performance" for his performance as Homer in this episode. It was his second consecutive Emmy, as he had also won in the same category the previous twelvemonth.^[xix] In 1993, "Mr. Plow" and "A Streetcar Named Marge" were submitted for the Primetime Emmy Laurels for "Outstanding One-act Series". The Simpsons' staff had previously submitted episodes for "Outstanding Blithe Program", winning twice, but that flavour they took a chance with the main comedy category. However, the Emmy voters were hesitant to pit cartoons against live activeness programs, and The Simpsons did not receive a nomination. The Simpsons' coiffure submitted episodes for Outstanding Comedy Serial the next season, only again these were not nominated.^[5] Since then, the show has submitted episodes in the animation category and has won eight times.^[19]

Ratings [edit]

In its original broadcast, "Mr. Plough" finished 23rd in ratings for the calendar week of November 16–22, 1992, with a Nielsen rating of 14.six, equivalent to approximately xiii.vi one thousand thousand viewing households. It was the highest-rated prove on the Fox network that week, beating Married... with Children.^[20]

Legacy [edit]

On December 17, 2015, Google and YouTube modernized the episode and its "Mr. Plow" jingle for use in a commercial in which Lisa uses the website on her figurer to identify Homer's ad onto its YouTube campaign.^{[21] [22]}

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "Mr. Plow". BBC. Retrieved 2007-x-19 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
2. ^ Groening, Matt (1997). Richmond, Ray; Coffman, Antonia (eds.). The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (1st ed.). New York: HarperPerennial. p. 101. ISBN978-0-06-095252-five. LCCN 98141857. OCLC 37796735. OL 433519M. .
3. ^ Groening, Matt; Vitti, Jon; Reardon, Jim (2004). The Simpsons Flavor 4 DVD commentary for the episode "Mr. Plow" (DVD). 20th Century Fob.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Reardon, Jim (2004). The Simpsons Flavour 4 DVD commentary for the episode "Mr. Plow" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f chiliad} Jean, Al (2004). The Simpsons Season 4 DVD commentary for the episode "Mr. Plow" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Vitti, Jon (2004). The Simpsons Season 4 DVD commentary for the episode "Mr. Turn" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
7. ^ Groening, Matt (2004). The Simpsons Season 4 DVD commentary for the episode "Mr. Plow" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
8. ^ Subsequently the commercial sequence mentioned above, there is a later scene in which Ronstadt says she wants to record a Castilian version of the jingle, after which she sings a few translated lines.
9. ^ Jean, Al; Reardon, Jim; Vitti, Jon (2004). The Simpsons Season 4 DVD commentary for the episode "Mr. Plow" (DVD). 20th Century Fob.
10. ^ Jean, Al; Vitti, Jon (2004). The Simpsons Season iv DVD commentary for the episode "Mr. Plough" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
11. ^ "The Family Dynamic (The best "Simpsons" episodes, Nos. six-10)". Entertainment Weekly. February 2, 2003. Archived from the original on February four, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
12. ^ Canning, Robert (June 2, 2009). "The Simpsons Flashback: 'Mr. Plow' Review". IGN . Retrieved December xix, 2015.
13. ^ Moran, Michael (January 14, 2010). "The 10 all-time Simpsons episodes ever". The Times. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved Jan xv, 2022.
14. ^ Rabin, Nathan (June iii, 2012). "The Simpsons (Classic): 'Mr. Plough'". The A.Five. Guild . Retrieved Jan 15, 2022.
15. ^ Dzikiy, Phil; Paul Lane (September 25, 2008). "TELEVISION: 20 years — A 'Simpsons' extravaganza". Niagara Gazette.
16. ^ Ditum, Nathan (June 6, 2009). "The l Greatest Simpsons Movie References". Total Motion picture. GamesRadar. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
17. ^ Ditum, Nathan (March 29, 2009). "The 20 Best Simpsons Movie-Star Guest Spots". Total Film. GamesRadar. Retrieved Jan 15, 2022.
18. ^ Katz, Mathew (2019-11-11). "The all-time classic Simpsons episodes on Disney+". Digital Trends . Retrieved January 15, 2022.
19. ^ ^{a b} "Primetime Emmy Awards Advanced Search". Emmys.org. Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2007-10-24 .
20. ^ Moore, Frazier (Nov 28, 1992). "ABC is start in November sweeps race". Lord's day-Sentinel. p. 3D.
21. ^ Hendrickson, John (December 19, 2015). "If Mr. Plow Was an Annoying YouTube Advertizing". Esquire . Retrieved December nineteen, 2015.
22. ^ YouTube for Business (Dec 17, 2015). "Homer Simpson saves the day with YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2015-12-17. Retrieved December 19, 2015.

External links [edit]

• "Mr. Plow episode sheathing". The Simpsons Archive.
• "Mr. Plough" at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Plow

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