Days of Wine and D'oh'ses

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"Days of Wine and D'oh'ses"

Episode no.	244
Prod. code	BABF14
Orig. Airdate	April 9, 2000
Show Runner(s)	Mike Scully
Written by	Deb Lacusta and Dan Castellaneta
Directed by	Neil Affleck
Chalkboard	"I was not touched 'there' by an angel."
Couch gag	The Ullman era Simpsons sit on the couch, joined by the modern era Simpsons. Each side screams and runs away.
SNPP capsule
Season 11 September 26, 1999 – May 21, 2000
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"Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" is the eighteenth episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. It aired on April 9, 2000.

1 Synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Cultural references
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After watching a video of his birthday party, Barney sees he is a hideous drunk, and he promises to get sober. At first, he finds sustaining sobriety tough, but he finds his way to an AA meeting with Homer's help. Meanwhile, to get their picture on the cover of the new phone book, Bart and Lisa decide to enter an amateur photo contest. In the closet, they find an old camera and start to take snapshots.

Barney makes plans to change his life now that he is clean and sober. The Springfield Flight School is his first stop, where he takes helicopter-flying lessons. Barney gives Homer a ride in the helicopter a few lessons later. While in the air, they get into a big disagreement which troubles their relationship.

Bart and Lisa are taking pictures atop Mt. Springfield when Bart starts a forest fire by carelessly discarding a hot flashbulb. The children are in imminent danger, and Barney and Homer must band together to save them. They hop into the helicopter, but Barney is so nervous, he doesn't think he can do it sober. When a Duff beer truck comes to a sudden stop, spilling its contents in front of a weakening Barney, Homer refuses to let him give up on sobriety and drinks an entire six-pack in his place. Together, Barney and a drunken Homer save the kids. The next day, at the Simpson house, Marge tells the kids that the new phone books are here, and they have Bart and Lisa's picture each. Bart and Lisa come down, only to realise that the picture on one of the phone books isn't the one of the fire on Mt. Springfield; it is actually a photo of a naked baby Bart and Lisa on the toilet. Marge says that the shot was actually in the film on the camera, and that since she had taken it, she won the prize for them. Bart and Lisa, after knowing that they will be the laughingstock of the entire town, happily hugs their mom. Meanwhile, Barney's confidence and his relationship with Homer are restored, and he looks forward to an alcohol-free future, although he is now addicted to double-tall mocha lattés. And meanwhile, outside his tavern, Moe says that no-one escapes him.

[edit] Trivia

Moe's home address, according to mail coming through the slot, is 57 Walnut Street, Springfield, USA.
Things seen in the Simpson' closet include:
- the Mr. Plow jacket from "Mr. Plow"
- Grampa's Emmy award from "The Front"
- Homer's First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
- Homer's space helmet from "Deep Space Homer"
- the town crier hat and bell from "Lisa the Iconoclast"
- Homer's boxing glove from "The Homer They Fall"
- the Civil War figurine from "Homer's Phobia"
- the Mr. Sparkle box from "In Marge We Trust"
- a Nero's Palace coffee mug from "Viva Ned Flanders"
When Lenny says that the police car door has been on Barney a while, it can't have been more than a week, as he clearly doesn't have it at the birthday party.
Homer says "Look what the Hawaiian restaurant threw out." but captions say " The Hawaiian restaurant closed.".
When Rainier Wolfcastle says, "I'm playing a fat secret agent," the closed captioning reads, "Go away or I'll eat your camera!"
People at the AA meeting include Lindsay Nagle, Gil, Kirk Vanhouten and Mrs. Hibbert (besides Homer and Barney).

[edit] Cultural references

The episode title references Days of Wine and Roses.
The She-Hulk shown in the episode is blond, while the real She-Hulk has black hair.
The chalkboard ("I was not touched 'there' by an angel"), is a reference to CBS' TV series Touched by an Angel, and quite possibly the legal suit against the film Dogma - which happened a year before this aired, during production.
At one point, Homer says, "Get out of my dreams and into my car." This is the exact title of the 1988 hit song by Billy Ocean.