"Mother Simpson" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons' seventh season and first aired on November 19, 1995. After faking his own death to get a day off of work, Homer reunites with his mother Mona, who he thought had died 27 years ago. It was directed by David Silverman and was the first episode to be written by Richard Appel. Glenn Close makes her first of three guest spots as Homer's mother. All broadcast versions include a dedication to Jacki...
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"Mother Simpson" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons' seventh season and first aired on November 19, 1995. After faking his own death to get a day off of work, Homer reunites with his mother Mona, who he thought had died 27 years ago. It was directed by David Silverman and was the first episode to be written by Richard Appel. Glenn Close makes her first of three guest spots as Homer's mother. All broadcast versions include a dedication to Jackie Banks, a former animation director for the show who died sometime previous to the airing of this episode. However, this dedication is not on the Season 7 DVD boxset.
On a beautiful Saturday morning, Mr. Burns has all of his employees clean up a highway maintained by his company and Homer fakes his death so that he does not have to work. The next day, news of Homer's "death" spreads, and soon Marge orders Homer to go to the Springfield Hall of Records to get the whole "misunderstanding" sorted out. While sorting out the problem, Homer gets...
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