THE SIMPSONS: "DEEP SPACE HOMER".

AuthorCamp, Emma
PositionTV

In episode 15 of The Simpsons' fifth season, "Deep Space Homer," NASA decides to send an average Joe to space in order to boost its rocket launch ratings. The agency picks goofy family patriarch Homer Simpson.

Predictably, Homer's indomitable appetite and dumb willfulness cause chaos on the spacecraft, nearly destroying it after his contraband bag of potato chips and a run-in with an ant farm scuttle the shuttle's electronics.

There isn't much comedy potential in killing off Homer Simpson, so Homer ultimately manages to save his fellow astronauts as cluelessly as he doomed them. After narrowly avoiding disaster-and getting a charming James Taylor cameo--Buzz Aldrin declares Homer a "hero."

The episode aired only eight years after the...

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