The Way We Weren't
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| "The Way We Weren't" | |
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| Episode no. | 333 |
| Prod. code | FABF13 |
| Orig. Airdate | May 9, 2004 |
| Show Runner(s) | Al Jean |
| Writer(s) | J. Stewart Burns |
| Director(s) | Mike B. Anderson |
| Couch gag | Knives land above each member of the family's position, but when Homer reaches for the remote, a knife nearly hits him. |
| SNPP capsule | |
| Season 15 November 2, 2003 – May 23, 2004 |
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"The Way We Weren't" is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season. The episode aired on May 9, 2004.
[edit] Synopsis
When Homer and Bart fight over the use of a beer bottle Milhouse wants to use to kiss girls, it lands them in the Simpson family court, with Lisa presiding as judge. Marge, giving a testimony, tells the kids that when she was in high school, she had her first kiss with Homer, but Homer confesses that it was not his first kiss. Homer recalls that when he was 10, he went to a camp for underprivileged boys, Camp See-A-Tree, where Homer meets Lenny, Carl, and as a counselor, Moe. It turns out the summer camp is more like a prison and they go to work in the kitchen at a rich girls' camp across the lake that the camp is on. Homer finds a retainer and returns it to the girl who lost it, though he cannot see her (they are separated by the kitchen wall). She wants Homer to see her later that night. He does so, even though due to an accident with a switchblade he is wearing an eye patch. He tells Bart and Lisa that she was the prettiest girl he had ever met until he later met their mother, but Marge admits that she was that girl Homer met.
Marge gives her side of the story, saying that she was with Patty and Selma, Helen Lovejoy, Luann Van Houten and Cookie Kwan at their camp, "Camp Land-A-Man". She meets Homer (who gives her a false name, Elvis Jagger Abdul-Jabbar) and they kiss. They agree that the following night they will meet again, but Homer does not come. Marge mentions that she could not trust another boy for years. Homer says he did not return for another date because he fell off a cliff into a lake and drifted to a fat camp, "Camp Flab-Away", which counted Mayor Quimby, Chief Wiggum and Comic Book Guy as its participants. Although Homer escapes the camp to see Marge's camp, Marge leaves the camp only seconds before he arrives, leaving Homer to be sexually harassed by Patty and Selma. Marge now knows the truth and forgives him, but she thinks that Homer won't be able to preserve their love for long. Homer disproves it by showing half of the heart he kept. Marge also kept hers, and the two snuggle happily in their bed.
[edit] Trivia
- The three girls Bart has kissed are one of Lisa's friends, Emily, who kissed Bart on a dare (his first kiss, in Flaming Moe's), Jessica Lovejoy (Bart's Girlfriend), and Gina Vendetti (The Wandering Juvie), but in the 2007 episode Little Big Girl, he also kissed Darcy.
- The song played during young Marge's and Homer's kissing fantasies is Happy Together, by The Turtles.
- The name of this episode is a play on the title of the 1973 movie, The Way We Were.
- The scene where Young Homer tumbles down the cliff and into the lake is strikingly similar to the grown-up Homer's legendary fall down Springfield Gorge in Bart the Daredevil.
- Homer's imaginary perfect world includes Screaming Yellow Zonkers, Quisp flying by in his spaceship, and the Kool-Aid Man, whom Homer kills by drinking him.
- This episode's title is a lot like season two's The Way We Was, which was also a flashback episode of Homer and Marge.
