Kill the Alligator and Run

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Simpsons episode
"Kill the Alligator and Run"

Episode no.	245
Prod. code	BABF16
Orig. Airdate	April 30, 2000
Show Runner(s)	Mike Scully
Written by	John Swartzwelder
Directed by	Jen Kamerman
Chalkboard	"I am not here on a fartball scholarship."
Couch gag	The family has to cross hot coals to reach the couch.
Guest star	Diedrich Bader as the sheriff Robert Evans Charlie Rose Joe C. and Kid Rock as themselves
SNPP capsule
Season 11 September 26, 1999 – May 21, 2000
Beyond Blunderdome Brother's Little Helper Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner? Treehouse of Horror X E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder Eight Misbehavin' Take My Wife, Sleaze Grift of the Magi Little Big Mom Faith Off The Mansion Family Saddlesore Galactica Alone Again, Natura-Diddily Missionary: Impossible Pygmoelian Bart to the Future Days of Wine and D'oh'ses Kill the Alligator and Run Last Tap Dance in Springfield It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge Behind the Laughter
List of all Simpsons episodes...

"Kill The Alligator and Run" is the nineteenth episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. It aired on April 30, 2000.

1 Synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Cultural references
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Homer gets a magazine loaded with personality tests and quizzes his friends and family with them. Later on, he takes his own test and reveals that he will have only three years left to live. He develops insomnia and goes insane. Visiting the power plant's psychiatrist, he suggests Homer go on a long vacation, heading on a trip to a town in Florida. Yet, while the family arrives in Florida, it is Spring Break. Marge wants Homer to stay in his hotel room, but he escapes to party and attend a Kid Rock concert to brighten the last three years of his life. Homer becomes the life of the Spring Break party.

The party is not yet over after the Spring Break crowd leaves: Homer rents an airboat and they go through the swamp, killing the town's most famous resident, an alligator named Captain Jack. The family is arrested for killing the alligator, but they flee from the sheriff and are hit by an Amtrak train, and escape to a restaurant and nearby trailer, where they work in until the sheriff finds them. For what they have done, the family is put in jail and have to go through excessive work. One night they are working, the family encounters the alligator, who is not dead. The family is acquitted, but not allowed to return to Florida again. For their next trip, the family plans to go to North Dakota, the only state other than Arizona (which Homer complains "smells funny") in which they are allowed to vacation.

[edit] Trivia

In 2006, the fansite nohomers.net named this the worst episode in the history of the show. [1]

[edit] Cultural references

The episode title references the 1969 film Take the Money and Run, not to mention the Steve Miller Band song of the same name.
Homer's line of "Bring on the Rappin' Granny!" is reference to the 1998 film The Wedding Singer.
The VJ's blinking crystal embedded in her hand (and her getting carted off by security after revealing that she's turning 25) is a reference to the 1976 film Logan's Run.
Multiple times in the episode, Homer sings We Built This City by Starship.