HOMR

"HOMR" (written as "HOMЯ") is the ninth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on January 7, 2001, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. This is also the last episode in the BABF (season 11) production line. At one word, two syllables (four if one spells out the title instead of pronounces it as a word), and four letters, this episode has the shortest title in the show's history (as of 2009). When the family vis... more

"HOMR" (written as "HOMЯ") is the ninth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on January 7, 2001, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. This is also the last episode in the BABF (season 11) production line. At one word, two syllables (four if one spells out the title instead of pronounces it as a word), and four letters, this episode has the shortest title in the show's history (as of 2009). When the family visits the Sick, Twisted, F***ed-Up Animation Festival, Homer discovers Animotion, a motion capture technology that enables a cartoon character to mimic a human's movements. After volunteering to demonstrate this technology, Homer decides that he likes it so much that he invests his life savings in the Animotion stock, despite being warned several times about the risks of stock ownership. The next day at the Nuclear Plant, Homer checks the progress of his stock, satisfied that the Animotion stock went up (and really satisfied that the FOX Network... less