"The Simpsons"
Please Homer Don't Hammer 'em (2006)

Directors:

Mike B. Anderson
Ralph Sosa

Writers:

Matt Groening (creator)
James L. Brooks (developer) ...

TV Series:

"The Simpsons" (1989)

Original Air Date:

24 September 2006 (Season 18, Episode 3)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy

Plot:

Marge begins her own carpentry business, but Homer becomes the face of the business because nobody will take a female carpenter seriously. And Bart uses Principal Skinner's peanut allergy to his advantage. |

Plot Keywords:

Allergy | Multiple Actors For One Character | Ganesh Statue | Retirement Home | Beer

Cast

Dan Castellaneta	...	Homer Simpson / Grampa / Barney Gumble / Krusty the Klown / Groundskeeper Willie / Mayor Quimby / Hans Moleman / Sideshow Mel / Others (voice)
Julie Kavner	...	Marge Simpson / Patty Bouvier / Selma Bouvier / Others (voice)
Nancy Cartwright	...	Bart Simpson / Nelson Muntz / Todd Flanders / Ralph Wiggum / Kearney / Others (voice)
Yeardley Smith	...	Lisa Simpson (voice)
Hank Azaria	...	Moe Szyslak / Chief Wiggum / Apu / Comic Book Guy / Cletus / Prof. Frink / Others (voice)
Harry Shearer	...	Montgomery Burns / Waylon Smithers / Ned Flanders / Kent Brockman / Rev. Lovejoy / Principal Skinner / Dr. Hibbert / Rainer Wolfcastle / Others (voice)
Pamela Hayden	...	Milhouse Van Houten / Rod Flanders / Others (voice)
Tress MacNeille	...	Jimbo Jones / Agnes Skinner / Others (voice)
Maggie Roswell	...	Helen Lovejoy (voice)
Karl Wiedergott	...	Additional Voices (voice)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Homer is in the defective roller coaster car, the writing on the side of the coaster car is backwards in one frame, revealing the use of a mirror image.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

Soundtrack:

Duel of the Fates

Marge Gets Mad At Homer For HER OWN IDEA!

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Marge gets into carpentry, but no one wants to hire a woman to do carpentry, so she gets Homer to be her frontman, as he is the cliché of what a carpenter is supposed to look like.

But when the frontman starts getting a bit too proud, Marge gets jealous, inexcusably jealous, as this had all been her idea! The show depicts a couple of persons who react to the notion of a woman doing carpentry.

"I thought I heard a woman measuring out here," one customer declares when he suddenly checks on Homer.

Homer asks Kent Brockman what would Kent do if he thought a woman built the gazebo. "I'd tear it to pieces and make it into a coffin for your manhood," Kent replies to Homer.

The show does depict two women picking at Marge in the hardware store. What it fails to show is that a female client could react just as clichéd toward a woman doing carpentry as male customers did.

Now it is common knowledge that a more energetic frontperson can and will sell an item better, nine times out of ten, than the one who works on the product behind the scenes.

But the funny thing was Marge was MARRIED to her frontman. All the income he received was going into her household as well! I believe it was an episode of LOVE BOAT that had an author on the show once and it was revealed his wife was really the successful writer, he was merely her frontman, as people would question a woman writing the material she was dishing out.

This is done for real, by the way, with a mystery author I don't particularly care for, P.D. James, as well as Harry Potter's authoress, J.K. Rowling, probably did her name the same way for the same reason.

As well as it was done on Murder She Wrote. Angela Lansbury's character called herself J.B. Fletcher, so it wouldn't be so obvious that it was a woman writing murder mystery novels.

But then Murder She Wrote shows that this sexual discrimination can go both ways, with an episode that starred Sally Struthers, Julie Adams, Jason Beghe, James Olsen and Ruta Lee, among others, when there is a murder involving an exercise spa.

The young man running the spa must maintain he is single and keep his marriage secret, as women won't flock to his sessions if they knew he was married (which is what happened in the episode anyway).

So Marge gets mad because Homer is a better front man for carpentry than she is. Homer gets a job rebuilding a roller coaster, the Zoominator, and what does Marge do? She pulls out.

Once again, as the show has done since the start, Marge (and LIsa) are sold way short in characterization, to maintain their intelligence over the much more popular cartoon characters of Homer and Bart.

Now had this been Homer, what would he have done if he was jealous of Marge working on the roller coaster? SABOTAGE, BABY! SABOTAGE! Because Homer is a better, fleshed-out, flawed character.

Thankfully, television has offered better structured, imperfect women (since feminism, that is) such as Peggy Hill on "King of the Hill", Lois on "Malcolm In The Middle" and Debra on "Everybody Loves Raymond" who don't have to disapprove and blame their husbands, unless if they do, then that blaming someone else is shown as her own imperfection and not because she does know better.

Shame the Simpsons never managed to do this successfully.