Weekend at Burnsie's

Template:Infobox The Simpsons season thirteen "Weekend at Burnsie's" is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons' thirteenth season. The episode aired on April 7, 2002. Some elements of the episode, as well as its title, parody Weekend at Bernie's.

Episode details

Production Number: DABF11
Original Air Date: April 7, 2002
Writer: Jon M. Vitti
Director: Michael Marcantel
Couch Gag: The couch is covered by bushes, and a man with clippers trims the couch into a topiary of the family.
Guest Voice: Phish

Synopsis

The family does not like having genetically modified foods for dinner, so Marge decides to plant her own garden. Unfortunately, the crows have arrived, and a scarecrow that Marge made scares Homer. Homer destroys the scarecrow, and the crows eventually see Homer as their leader, following him everywhere, until Homer asks them to shoo, but the crows attack Homer's eyes in response. He goes to the hospital, and when he is there, Dr. Hibbert prescribes him medical marijuana.

Predictably, Homer goes overboard with his "medication" and he goes crazy, even asking Flanders to read him the whole Holy Bible. Ironically, when Flanders offers a petition to have a vote on the ban of medical marijuana in Springfield, Homer signs his signature. Nonetheless, Homer also shines at work when he laughs at Mr. Burns' jokes. Burns makes Homer the Executive Vice-President. He goes to a rally for the legalization of medical marijuana with Phish playing, but the rally was actually held a day after the ban was approved by voters. Homer is cured of his medical condition and promises he won't smoke pot again, but things change.

Mr. Burns asks Homer to help him with a speech for a shareholders meeting, in which he wants to see $60 million being made to appease his investors. Unfortunately, Homer no longer finds Mr. Burns' humor funny, until Burns appears to drown in his bathtub. For the meeting, Smithers and Homer make Burns into a marionette, a la Weekend at Bernie's, and when the marionette dances, Mr. Burns' heart is working again, and the plan is a success. The power plant's financial crisis is over.

Quotes

• Marge: All right, family. Who can guess what's different about dinner tonight?
  Homer: Eh, same old garbage.
  (Homer, Bart, and Lisa laugh.)
  Bart: This guy's always on.
• Moe: All right, that's it! Get him out of here! This ain't no crowbar. [He reaches under the counter and comes up with...a picture of crows sitting at a bar] This is a crowbar. See? They got the little stools and everything.
• (Lisa plays her saxophone)
  Bart: Dad, I thought you didn't like her saxophone.
  Homer: I didn't, but now Daddy's special medicine—which you must NEVER use, because it will ruin your life—lets Daddy see and hear magical things you will NEVER experience. EVER.
• Homer: Wow. Wow. God does so much for me, and He doesn't ask anything in return.
  Ned Flanders: Well, I know He's wishing you'd sign this petition—to re-criminalize medicinal marijuana.
  Homer (signing): Done and done. Now, do Wiggum!
  Ned Flanders: Well, okay, I...I guess it would go something like this. (in Wiggum's voice) "All right, Simpson. You're under arrest, see?"
  Homer: I said Wiggum!
• Homer: Whoops! I thought this was the can, man. (laughs)
  Mr. Burns: Well, you're a happy Homer. What's your name, young man?
  Homer: You just said it! (laughs)
  Mr. Burns: (laughs) Well, if you like that, listen to this. Working hard or hardly working?
  (Homer laughs)
• Otto (as he and Homer watch The Three Stooges): Hey, "Shemp" is "hemp" spelled backwards!
  Homer: And "Otto" is "Otto" backwards! (laughs)
  Otto: Now I'm scared.
• Lisa: I want my old dad back, the one that was yelling all the time, and...(pause)...you know, I'm not sure what I want.
• Lenny: Actually Homer, I'm glad you're off the wacky-tobaccy. You were getting all spacy. We were going to have to call an intervention.
  Carl: Yeah, but at the planning party, I got alcohol poisoning. Hee, I almost died!
  (everyone laughs)
  Moe: I was already making excuses not to go to your funeral!
• Homer: Oh, God! We killed Mr. Burns! Mr. Burns is going to be so mad!
• Lisa (playing her saxophone): Dad, it's one A.M. and I'm out of saliva.
• Homer (after describing the time he tried pot): For me, the 60's ended that day in 1978.
• Otto (after Marge leaves the attic where Homer & Otto are): Dude, Your mom is hot!