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second episode of the 8th flavor of The Simpsons

"Y'all Only Motion Twice"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	Season 8 Episode ii
Directed by	Mike B. Anderson
Written by	John Swartzwelder
Product code	3F23
Original air appointment	November 3, 1996 (1996-11-03)
Guest appearance
Albert Brooks as Hank Scorpio
Episode features
Chalkboard gag	"I did not learn everything I need to know in kindergarten"[1]
Couch gag	Everyone parachutes into the living room, except Homer, who falls flat on the floor.[2]
Commentary	Matt Groening Josh Weinstein Ken Keeler Dan Castellaneta Mike B. Anderson
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"You Only Movement Twice" is the second episode of the eighth season of the American blithe television receiver series The Simpsons. It start aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 3, 1996. The episode, based on a story idea by Greg Daniels, has three major concepts: the family moves to a new boondocks; Homer starts to work for a friendly, sympathetic boss; and that boss, unbeknownst to Homer, is a supervillain. Bart, Lisa, and Marge each have individual secondary storylines. John Swartzwelder wrote the episode, which was directed by Mike B. Anderson.

The episode's title is a reference to the James Bond film Yous Only Alive Twice. Many elements of the episode parody the Bond films, with a character modeled afterwards Bond making a brief appearance. Setting the second and 3rd acts in a new town, Cypress Creek, required the animators to create entirely new layouts and background designs. Albert Brooks, in his fourth appearance on The Simpsons, guest stars as the voice of Hank Scorpio, 1 of the most pop one-time characters in the unabridged series. The episode was very well received by critics. IGN named "You lot Only Move Twice" the best episode of the 8th season and Albert Brooks as ane of the all-time guest stars in the history of the show.

Plot [edit]

On his way to work one forenoon, Smithers is offered a job at the Globex Corporation, merely refuses. Subsequently, because of his time with the found, Homer ends up getting the chore. He informs his family that the new task pays better but involves them moving to Cypress Creek. The family unit originally opposes the movement, merely they lookout a video about the planned community and, seeing that it is much nicer than Springfield, concur to move there. Abandoning their house, the Simpsons pack up and leave town. After arriving at their new business firm at 15201 Maple Systems Road, Homer'south new boss, Hank Scorpio, introduces himself. Scorpio, who seems like the perfect dominate, takes a shine to Homer and makes him chief motivator in the Nuclear partitioning. Meanwhile, Bart starts school, just he soon finds that his new course is far in a higher place the standards of Springfield Simple, and is sent to a remedial form. Lisa goes for a nature walk and discovers that she is allergic to all the wildlife around Cypress Creek. Marge tries to go nigh her daily chores, simply as their new house does everything automatically, she has nothing to exercise during the day just drink wine and mope.

On Homer'south first 24-hour interval at piece of work, Scorpio gives him a tour of the company and listens with interest to his secret dream of owning the Dallas Cowboys football team. He tells Homer that his dream may come true someday. Homer does an excellent job of motivating his team. During a meeting with Homer, Scorpio excuses himself, turns to a screen, threatens the United Nations Security Council by saying they accept 72 hours to deliver an unspecified corporeality of gold and promptly blows up the 59th Street Span. Homer remains oblivious to Scorpio's evil genius tendencies, which includes work on a doomsday device and his attempts to kill a spy named "Mr. Bont" with a laser.

At dinner, Homer proudly tells the family how well he is doing at work, but he discovers that they hate Cypress Creek and want to return to Springfield. Dejected, Homer goes to visit Scorpio for advice at the same fourth dimension that United States Army Special Forces assault Globex HQ. He asks Scorpio what to exercise and is advised that he should practice what's best for his family. Scorpio straps on a flamethrower and makes his escape while Homer sadly walks abroad. The adjacent day the family returns to Springfield and Homer receives the Denver Broncos as a nowadays from Scorpio, who has successfully managed to seize the U.S. Eastward Coast.

Production [edit]

For the town of Cypress Creek, the animators had to design entirely new background paintings such equally this i.

The episode's original concept came from a story idea by Greg Daniels. The writing staff came up with three major concepts. The first involves the Simpson family moving away from Springfield. The writers initially hoped the audience would exist fooled into thinking the move was permanent. As a result, they tried to work in as many characters during the episode's first act to get in seem that the family was really leaving. The second involved Homer getting a new chore with an employee-friendly boss—in stark dissimilarity to the tyrannical Mr. Burns. The 3rd was that Homer's new boss would be a supervillain resembling Ernst Stavro Blofeld. This chemical element was meant to be in the background unbeknownst to Homer.^[3]

The writers sought to give every family unit member their own story. They spent some time arguing over whether to include the depressing thought of Marge becoming an alcoholic in the episode.^[3] There was originally another idea involving Grampa Simpson. He is left behind in Springfield and receives recorded greeting telephone calls from the family. The plot went on for four sequences, all of which were cut from the episode because of fourth dimension constraints just were after included in the DVD release.^[4] Cypress Creek was called "Emerald Caverns" during near of the production.^[5] The proper name was changed because the writers felt that "Cypress Creek" had more of a "Silicon Valley" experience.^[3]

The show's writers did non worry too much most perfecting Scorpio's lines considering they knew Albert Brooks, who was voice acting the character, would rewrite or ad lib new ones.^[3] Entire sections of Scorpio's dialogue, such as his hammock spoken communication, are Brooks's lines, not the writers'. Dan Castellaneta described how, after he prepared something for Homer to say in response to Brooks'south new Scorpio lines, Brooks would deliver totally different lines on the next accept.^[6] Josh Weinstein said Homer's reactions are exactly like those of someone talking to Albert Brooks.^[iii] In all, his recordings were over 2 hours long.^[5] Brooks voiced the grapheme Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie. For "about a week", he was to reprise the function of Scorpio, just the staff felt that creating a new character was a amend idea.^[vii]

The animators needed to pattern completely new sets for the episode. Christian Roman, John Reiss and Mike Anderson storyboarded the episode. In the original animatic, Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II were non nowadays, so the animators went back and added them, even though they are not a function of the story.^[viii] It is a common misconception that Scorpio's design was modeled subsequently Richard Branson.^[3] The final design, which underwent an overhaul, was hailed by the writers as "the perfect madman".^[8] All the students in Bart's remedial class were initially given hair modeled on Ralph Wiggum's, but the staff felt that the children looked "kinda troubled", so their designs were altered.^[eight]

Mr. Bont, the man Homer tackles, was initially supposed to exist James Bond, but Fox would not permit the writers utilize the name because of concerns over possible lawsuits. They finally decided on "Bont" because it was the most like proper noun they could legally use.^{[3] [9]}

Cultural references [edit]

The final scene at Globex contains several references to action and James Bond films. The episode's title and many references are from the Bond moving picture You Simply Alive Twice, as well as an innuendo to A View to a Kill.^[2] Homer tackles and inadvertently helps become a graphic symbol modeled later Sean Connery'due south Bond killed, following a parody of the laser scene from Goldfinger.^[3] Miss Goodthighs from the 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale makes an appearance in the episode.^[6] She can exist seen attacking a character modeled afterwards U.S. Ground forces General Norman Schwarzkopf.^[3]

At the beginning of the episode, Waylon Smithers hums "I piece of work for Monty Burns, M-M-Yard-M-M-M-Monty Burns" to the tune of Hooray for Hollywood.

The sign at the unproblematic schoolhouse displays "http://www.studynet.edu". Weinstein called it "one of the evidence'south most obviously dated jokes" considering the thought of a schoolhouse having its own website was almost a novelty in 1996.^[iii]

The song at the end of the evidence, written past Ken Keeler, is a parody of various Bond themes. Keeler originally wrote information technology to exist three seconds longer and sound more like the Goldfinger theme, only the concluding version was shorter and the lyrics were sped up.^[5] The writers wanted the song to be sung by Shirley Bassey, who sang several Bond themes, only they could non get her to tape the part.^[3]

Reception [edit]

After its original broadcast, "Y'all Only Move Twice" finished 50th in the Nielsen ratings for the week of October 28 – November iii, 1996, with a rating of viii.five, equivalent to approximately 8.two million viewing households. It was the second highest-rated bear witness on the Play tricks network that week following The X-Files.^[10]

In 2006, IGN named Brooks The Simpsons ' best invitee star citing Scorpio equally his best office.^[11] The Phoenix.com also placed Brooks at the height of their all-time guest voices list of Simpsons characters.^[12] In his book Planet Simpson, author Chris Turner says Brooks is second only to Phil Hartman among the show's guest stars writing that he "brings hilarious satirical seamlessness to Scorpio's paradoxical nature". He believes the delivery of Scorpio's concluding line—"But Homer, on your way out if you wanna kill somebody, it would help me a lot."—seals Brooks'due south identify in The Simpsons ' history.^[13] The Simpson family's new street address, 15201 Maple Systems Road, is writer Ken Keeler'south favorite street name in the show.^[5]

IGN as well picked the episode as the best of the eighth season, maxim it "is a wonderful example of slowly building upward the one-act [...] it's impossible to fathom this ane non being very high upward on whatsoever list of the best Simpsons episodes of all time."^[14] Reviewer Robert Canning gave the episode a "Masterful" score of ten out of 10, saying the episode "may well be the greatest Simpsons episode of all time".^[15] Warren Martyn and Adrian Forest, authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Meliorate Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, call it "a tremendous episode" saying it has "some really good moments, most of them involving Bart, Lisa, and Marge's loathing for Cypress Creek. The remedial kids are fab (especially Warren), and Lisa's second chipmunk run across is inspired. Scorpio is a good grapheme, specially his Christopher Walken-esque killing spree." They feel that the owl grabbing the chipmunk during Lisa'due south trip to the wood is one of the greatest best sight gags in the show's history.^[2] Chris Turner also feels that the remedial boy Gordy's line may be "the broadest parody of a Canadian emphasis in the history of American pop culture". Simpsons podcast Put it in H praised the episode highly, ranking it ane of their highest ever, and praised Albert Brooks performance as "phenomenal". ^[16] Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star included "You Only Move Twice" on his listing of the best episodes of The Simpsons.^[17] In his review of The Complete 8th Season DVD set, Raul Burriel described information technology as one of the "nigh clever episodes the series has e'er given us".^[18] Entertainment.ie named it among the x greatest Simpsons episodes of all time.^[nineteen] In 2019, Consequence of Sound ranked it number seven on its list of peak 30 Simpsons episodes.^[20] In 2020, Al Jean acknowledged "You Merely Move Twice" as an episode many consider to exist a favorite.^[21]

References [edit]

1. ^ Richmond & Coffman 1997, p. 212.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "You Only Motion Twice". BBC. Archived from the original on September 4, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2007.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f thou h i j k} Weinstein, Josh (2006). The Simpsons season 8 DVD commentary for the episode "You Only Move Twice" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
4. ^ Weinstein, Josh (2006). The Simpsons flavour 8 DVD commentary for the Deleted Scenes (DVD). 20th Century Pull a fast one on.
5. ^ ^{a b c d} Keeler, Ken (2006). The Simpsons flavor eight DVD commentary for the episode "You Just Move Twice" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
6. ^ ^{a b} Castellaneta, Dan (2006). The Simpsons season 8 DVD commentary for the episode "Y'all Merely Motion Twice" (DVD). 20th Century Trick.
7. ^ Anderson, Mike B.; Dean Moore, Steven; Moore, Rich; Silverman, David (2007). Sound Manager's commentary (DVD). 20th Century Play a joke on.
8. ^ ^{a b c} Anderson, Mike B. (2006). The Simpsons season 8 DVD commentary for the episode "You Only Move Twice" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
9. ^ Reiss, Mike; Klickstein, Mathew (2018). Springfield confidential: jokes, secrets, and outright lies from a lifetime writing for the Simpsons. New York Metropolis: Dey Street Books. p. 77. ISBN978-0062748034.
10. ^ Bauder, David (November eight, 1996). "ABC roars into 1st behind 'Lion King, Drew Carey Show'". The Florida Times-Marriage. p. D-2.
11. ^ Goldman, Eric; Iverson, Dan; Zoromski, Brian. "Height 25 Simpsons Guest Appearances". IGN. Archived from the original on September two, 2007. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
12. ^ "The Simpsons 20 best guest voices of all fourth dimension". The Phoenix. March 29, 2006. Archived from the original on Nov 16, 2006. Retrieved March 10, 2007.
13. ^ Turner 2004, p. 388.
14. ^ Goldman, Eric; Dan Iverson, Brian Zoromski (January viii, 2010). "The Simpsons: 20 Seasons, xx Episodes". IGN. Archived from the original on May 27, 2007. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
15. ^ Canning, Robert (Baronial 4, 2009). "The Simpsons Flashback: "You lot Only Motion Twice" Review". IGN. Archived from the original on December xiv, 2010. Retrieved Jan 21, 2022.
16. ^ Turner 2004, p. fifty.
17. ^ Rayner, Ben (May 20, 2007). "Eye on Springfield". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on June 15, 2007. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
18. ^ Burriel, Raul (August 28, 2006). "DVD Review: The Simpsons – The Consummate 8th Season". The Trades. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013. Retrieved Nov 19, 2008.
19. ^ Molumby, Deidre (September 6, 2019). "The 10 greatest 'The Simpsons' episodes of all time". Entertainment.ie. Retrieved September seven, 2019.
20. ^ "The Simpsons' Summit 30 Episodes". Event. 2019-12-17. Retrieved 2022-01-21 .
21. ^ Chavez, Danette (April 15, 2020). "Interview: Al Jean knows which Simpsons episodes you think are the all-time—and worst". The A.V. Social club . Retrieved January 21, 2022.

Bibliography

• Groening, Matt (1997). Richmond, Ray; Coffman, Antonia (eds.). The Simpsons: A Consummate Guide to Our Favorite Family (1st ed.). New York: HarperPerennial. ISBN978-0-06-095252-5. LCCN 98141857. OCLC 37796735. OL 433519M.
• Siegel, Alan (October eleven, 2016). "The Rise of Hank Scorpio". The Ringer. Medium. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
• Turner, Chris (2004). Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation. Foreword by Douglas Coupland. (1st ed.). Toronto: Random Firm Canada. ISBN978-0-679-31318-two. OCLC 55682258.

External links [edit]

This audio file was created from a revision of this article dated xiii August 2019 (2019-08-13), and does not reflect subsequent edits.

• "You Only Move Twice episode sheathing". The Simpsons Archive.
• "Yous Only Move Twice" at IMDb

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