"Maximum Homerdrive" is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons' tenth season. The episode aired on March 28, 1999, immediately before the premiere of Matt Groening's second animated TV series, Futurama. The episode's title parodies Stephen King's 1986 movie, Maximum Overdrive, which featured an appearance from Yeardley Smith before she voiced Lisa; the movie's plot involves machines that have become "possessed" and try to kill people.
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"Maximum Homerdrive" is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons' tenth season. The episode aired on March 28, 1999, immediately before the premiere of Matt Groening's second animated TV series, Futurama. The episode's title parodies Stephen King's 1986 movie, Maximum Overdrive, which featured an appearance from Yeardley Smith before she voiced Lisa; the movie's plot involves machines that have become "possessed" and try to kill people.
Lisa announces that she is going to protest a new steakhouse which allows its customers to kill their own steak, which is called "The Slaughter House". The rest of her family eats there, and Homer enters a challenge with a friendly truck driver named Red Barclay. The challenge Homer and Red enter revolves around who will finish off a "Sirloin A Lot" first, a massive 16lbs (256 ounce or 7.26kg) steak about the size of a boogieboard, that only two people in the history of The Slaughter House have finished (Red being one and Tony Randall being the other)....
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