Homer's Phobia
The Simpsons, season 8, episode 15. First aired February 16, 1997. 130 moments of about ten seconds each: open one for its frame, what happens and what's said.
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About the episode
The Simpsons befriend John, a clerk at Cockamamie's, a nostalgia shop at the mall, but once Marge tells Homer that John is gay, Homer turns cold and fears John is influencing Bart. Homer tries to toughen up his son with a visit to a steel mill and a hunting trip with Moe and Barney. When reindeer at Santa's Village attack them, John comes to the rescue.
- Written by
- Ron Hauge
- Directed by
- Mike B. Anderson
- Guest stars
- John Waters as John
- Chalkboard gag
The boys' room is not a water park
- Couch gag
- Loading Screen
- Production code
- 4F11
The synopsis is our own. Credits and guest stars from Wikipedia and the Simpsons wiki.
Every moment
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The sequence opens on a black screen, then a blue sky with drifting clouds shows the orange title…
“The Simpsons”
0:00–0:12 -
A partly hidden figure in blue pants and a yellow arm peeks from a doorway into a purple-walled bedroom…
0:12–0:23 -
A television screen shows the credits "Created by Matt Groening"…
“All right, come on.”
0:23–0:35 -
Bart Simpson holds a fistful of cash beside a large yellow lottery drum with a round glass door and numbered…
“All right, everybody got their ticket?”
0:35–0:45 -
Bart and Milhouse, along with a curly red-haired kid in a pink shirt and a blond boy in a green shirt, crowd…
“Come on, kill him!”
0:45–0:55 -
Bart Simpson leans head-first into a large yellow front-loading dryer in a laundry room, then a blank white…
“No refunds. Force majeure.”
0:55–1:07 -
Homer Simpson first holds up a Springfield Gas Company repair bill showing a total of $900.00, then stands…
“Oh, $900.”
1:07–1:18 -
Homer hugs a large jar of brown cookies with a white label outside a house with a pink arched doorway…
“Oh, nuts.”
1:18–1:29 -
Marge, Homer, Bart, Lisa and baby Maggie are gathered in a pink living room
“Well, I never thought I would come to this.”
1:29–1:40 -
Marge stands holding a red-and-silver trophy-like award beside Homer, who sits in a green armchair in a white…
“I mean, what would your Grandma say?”
1:40–1:50 -
Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa walk through a mall past Cockamamie's, where Krusty stands on a scale…
“Hmm.”
1:50–1:59 -
Troy McClure leans over a shop counter and gestures toward a woman with reddish-brown hair, glasses, a grey…
“Don't you have any neutral ones? May the better man win, let's have a good,”
1:59–2:09 -
A tall, slender woman with long reddish-brown hair and a grey dress stands at the counter of a toy shop…
“They're kind of kooky and fun. Missy, you just talked yourself right out of a sale.”
2:09–2:12 -
Bart Simpson bounces on red pogo stilts in a novelty shop while Lisa Simpson watches from the aisle
“Hey, Lise, check it out.”
2:12–2:24 -
Bart and Lisa stand in a pink room beside a purple and grey robot that holds a cleaver and a knife raised…
“Wow, an actual robot from the movie Clank Clank, you're dead.”
2:24–2:38 -
Marge and Homer, bald in a white shirt and blue pants, browse a shop crowded with novelty shelves and a red…
“Oh, look!”
2:38–2:50 -
Homer and Marge stand at the counter of a shop with pink walls, a flamingo, and a winged eyeball on the wall…
“Give her a break. Her husband was killed.”
2:50–3:00 -
Marge Simpson stands at a shelf-lined counter in a cluttered room, holding a chocolate-dipped cupcake…
“No.”
3:00–3:12 -
A thin, unnamed man with black hair combed back and a green shirt with a black collar stands in a pink room…
“Hmm.”
3:12–3:20 -
Marge Simpson stands behind a shop counter in a green dress, while a black-haired man in a green shirt…
“one of the J&R Whiskey Liquor Lads. Two books of green stamps, if I'm not mistaken.”
3:20–3:29 -
A thin, moustached man in a green shirt with a black collar and suspenders, and Marge Simpson with her tall…
“No, it's a liquor bottle.”
3:29–3:41 -
Homer Simpson and Marge Simpson stand at a shop counter across from a thin man with slicked-back black hair…
“Well, I guess it'll always be a monument to Grandma's secret drinking problem.”
3:41–3:50 -
Homer stands at a toy shelf beside a thin shopkeeper with slicked black hair and a green shirt with a black…
“Fifty bucks for a toy? No kid is worth that.”
3:50–4:00 -
Homer stands in a toy shop chewing on a green rubber worm, with his expression shifting from blank…
“How can you love a box or a toy or graphics?”
4:00–4:11 -
Homer stands in a toy shop chewing a green rubber toy while a thin, black-haired man in a green bowling shirt…
“Oh, yeah, like when a clown dies. Well, sort of.”
4:11–4:21 -
Homer and a thin black-haired man in a green shirt with a HOMER name tag, stand in a shop lined with shelves…
“Can you believe somebody gave this to Goodwill?”
4:21–4:33 -
Homer and a thin man with slicked black hair and a green shirt with a black collar stand talking in front…
“Well, if you're inviting me over... I practically insist.”
4:33–4:45 -
Marge Simpson stands at the kitchen counter spraying a tray of cookies with an orange spray bottle while Bart…
“Mommy's patented Happy Cracker snack platter.”
4:45–4:55 -
Marge stands at the front door while a thin stranger with slicked-back black hair, a teal shirt and a boxy…
“Ding dong!”
4:55–5:06 -
A thin, dark-haired one-off man in a light green shirt, with a boxy black device on a strap around his neck…
“Oh, the color scheme and the rabbit ears And the 2.3 children, I mean, where's the high C?”
5:06–5:19 -
Lisa sits at the table eating a sandwich in the first part, then the Simpson family stands…
“Oh, I've got the exact same curtains, only in my bathroom.”
5:19–5:32 -
Marge Simpson stands in a kitchen facing a thin dark-haired man in a teal shirt with a boxy black gadget…
“Oh.”
5:32–5:35 -
Homer, Bart, Marge, and a dark-haired man in a teal shirt stand in the Simpson kitchen with purple cabinets…
“Why, you little...”
5:35–5:48 -
Homer stands beside a shelf of records in a pink living room while a dark-haired man in a green shirt kneels…
“So do those records have camp value?”
5:48–5:56 -
Homer Simpson stands beside a thin man with slicked black hair in a teal button-up shirt in a pink room…
“So do those records have camp value?”
5:56–6:07 -
Carl and Homer stand in the Simpsons' living room beside a pink wall with two oval portraits, a television…
“Come on, Homer. Join the party.”
6:07–6:18 -
Marge Simpson grins from an archway at the start, while Homer stands beside a slim, black-haired man…
“He is quite a charmer.”
6:18–6:29 -
Marge sits at the blue-covered kitchen table with a plate and cup while Lisa eats from a bowl…
“That, John, is the greatest guy in the world.”
6:29–6:37 -
Homer Simpson stands in the kitchen by the coffee maker, gesturing and talking, then pauses with his hand…
“Oh, a swinging bachelor, eh?”
6:37–6:50 -
Homer and Marge are in their kitchen
“He prefers the company of men.”
6:50–7:03 -
Homer Simpson first appears in close-up with his hands pressed to his cheeks and wide, alarmed eyes…
“Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, I danced with a gay.”
7:03–7:14 -
Marge Simpson is in close-up against a pink and purple wall with a green and orange shelf above her
“You're being ridiculous.”
7:14–7:15 -
Homer Simpson stands at the kitchen table beside Marge, whose tall blue beehive is in the left foreground…
“Am I, Marge? Am I?”
7:15–7:23 -
Marge Simpson and Homer Simpson stand together in the Simpsons' kitchen beside a blue table, with Lisa…
“I'm very sorry you feel that way.”
7:23–7:30 -
Homer Simpson stands in a pink arched hallway and gestures with his hand toward a framed still-life painting…
“Oh, not me. And not because John's gay, but because he's a sneak.”
7:30–7:40 -
Homer Simpson stands in a pink hallway beside a framed still-life painting and a dark cabinet, gesturing…
“What on earth are you talking about? You know me, Marge.”
7:40–7:51 -
Homer pulls back the yellow curtains to look out at a dark-haired man in a light blue shirt behind the wheel…
“Zzzzap!”
7:51–8:04 -
Homer, Marge and Bart stand in a pink hallway by a wooden door, with Homer scowling and pointing at it…
“No, I'm not setting foot outside this house until that man is gone.”
8:04–8:16 -
Bart sits on a zebra-striped couch beside a robot Santa in a red suit and white beard, while a thin…
“Hey, where'd that cool creepy Santa come from?”
8:16–8:27 -
Homer drives a yellow convertible carrying Marge with her tall blue beehive, Lisa in her red dress, Bart…
“And that's where Kent Brockman was caught cheating in the Springfield Marathon.”
8:27–8:38 -
Marge, Lisa, Bart, and a dark-haired man in a green shirt arrive in a yellow convertible outside the Sha-Boom…
“That was a killer tour, man.”
8:38–8:48 -
Marge Simpson with her tall blue beehive, Bart and Lisa Simpson sit in a diner booth beside a black-haired…
“This is a sordid little burg, isn't it? Makes me sick in a wonderful, wonderful way.”
8:48–8:57 -
An unnamed man with brown hair, glasses, and a blue vest with green trim leans toward a second unnamed man…
“I know the Simpsons.”
8:57–9:06 -
Marge Simpson stands at the open front door of the Simpsons' pink house, holding a brown purse, while Homer…
“How'd it go? Tell me everything that happened.”
9:06–9:20 -
Homer and Marge Simpson stand in a pink hallway beside a yellow wall, Homer glaring and gesturing…
“Oh, and I'm not.”
9:20–9:31 -
Homer Simpson sits on the red couch in the living room holding a red soda can, while Bart Simpson stands…
“Bart, where'd you get that shirt?”
9:31–9:42 -
Homer, Bart and Lisa sit at the kitchen table with plates of food while Marge enters from the hallway…
“I hope you all saved room, because I made your favorite dessert.”
9:42–9:50 -
Homer Simpson stands at a counter behind a green tray of pink frosted cookies and chocolate brownies…
“Hmm.”
9:50–10:01 -
Homer and Marge are in a bed with an orange and pink blanket beside a lamp and framed pictures on a pink wall
“Homie, I can hear you chewing on the pillow.”
10:01–10:10 -
Homer Simpson sits up in bed in a pink bedroom with a lamp and purple headboard, looking anxious…
“There's only two kinds of guys who wear those shirts.”
10:10–10:22 -
Homer Simpson and Marge Simpson sit side by side in a bed with a purple headboard and orange blanket…
“Right.”
10:22–10:29 -
Homer and Marge Simpson sit side by side in bed under a purple headboard, with framed pictures of Lisa…
“Homer, I don't think there's a problem with Bart.”
10:29–10:37 -
Homer lies awake in bed beside Marge's tall blue beehive, wide-eyed and worried, then climbs out and walks…
“All right, boy. Come on.”
10:37–10:49 -
Bart dances in front of the brick fireplace while wearing a tall black bouffant wig with a pink bow, and baby…
“Go to what, Homer?”
10:49–11:02 -
Marge sits at the kitchen table across from a thin man with neat black hair, a light blue shirt…
“I don't, but I loved hearing it.”
11:02–11:16 -
A man with short black hair, a teal shirt and a vest holds a pink box of green-and-white candies at a kitchen…
“Well, now you don't get any candy.”
11:16–11:29 -
Marge sits at a kitchen table with her arms folded, facing Homer, who is bald and wears a white shirt…
“Oh, Homer, please. You're embarrassing yourself.”
11:29–11:39 -
Homer Simpson stands in a kitchen beside a pink arched cabinet and a cabinet with blue knobs…
“They ruined all our best names like Bruce and Lance and Julian.”
11:39–11:48 -
Homer Simpson stands behind a blue counter in a cluttered purple-walled shop, facing a dark-haired man…
“Yeah, and that's another thing. I resent you people using that word.”
11:48–12:01 -
Homer and Bart ride in a purple car with orange seats, with trees and a house passing outside the windows
“Don't worry, boy.”
12:01–12:14 -
Homer Simpson sits behind the steering wheel of the family car while Bart sits beside him on the brown seat
“You're leaving the arm there too long. You want to make it worse?”
12:14–12:27 -
Homer and Bart are first seated in a purple car, Homer gripping the steering wheel while Bart sits beside him
“As, as, as a father, a father, regular father.”
12:27–12:37 -
Bart Simpson sits wide-eyed in a white lawn chair on a grassy field as Homer appears beside a billboard…
“What am I supposed to do here? Nothing, just sit.”
12:37–12:50 -
Bart sits on a green-and-white slatted bench in front of a pink billboard reading "Pure Enjoyment
“Well, it's been two hours. How do you feel?”
12:50–12:58 -
Homer and Bart sit on a green slatted bench on grass, with Homer gesturing as he talks while Bart looks up…
“What's your brand? Anything slim.”
12:58–13:11 -
Homer and Bart stand with a mustached man in a gray hard hat, blue overalls and black gloves…
“Roscoe.”
13:11–13:23 -
Homer and Bart lean over a blue railing in white hard hats, looking down at a crowd of hard-hatted workers…
“Hey, listen up.”
13:23–13:34 -
Homer Simpson stands in a blue-walled factory with white hard hat-wearing workers, and at first he clutches…
“Has the whole world gone insane?”
13:34–13:44 -
Homer Simpson stands in a steel mill beside Bart Simpson in an orange shirt, while a shirtless muscular…
“Hot stuff coming through.”
13:44–13:54 -
Homer Simpson stands on a blue metal catwalk in a factory beside Bart, who wears an orange shirt…
“You're all sick.”
13:54–14:06 -
A crowd of mustached factory workers in white hard hats gathers at a venue called The Anvil, where a sign…
“Oh, my God, what's happening now? We work hard, we play hard.”
14:06–14:17 -
Homer and Bart stand on a steel mill catwalk under purple spotlight beams, with Homer hugging Bart…
“And the entire steel mill was gay.”
14:17–14:25 -
Homer and Barney sit leaning on the bar of a tavern, each with a mug of beer, while Moe polishes a mug…
“And the entire steel mill was gay.”
14:25–14:36 -
Homer Simpson sits at a bar with a beer mug, beside Barney, the heavy drunk with messy brown hair…
“I always saw Bart grow up to be just like us.”
14:36–14:43 -
Moe stands behind the bar with his mouth open, first looking worried and then raising a finger and pointing
“The whole modern world's got a swishifying effect on kids today.”
14:43–14:56 -
Homer Simpson, Barney, and Moe Szyslak are at the bar in Moe's Tavern, with Homer and Barney seated at a red…
“You have to think for me.”
14:56–15:07 -
At the bar of Moe's tavern, Barney leans toward Homer, the bald man in a white shirt seen from behind, first…
“Hey, better yet, Bart could shoot a deer.”
15:07–15:21 -
Homer rests his chin in his hand in a dim room lined with framed pictures
“Hunting, eh?”
15:21–15:32 -
Homer scowls and grits his teeth in a toy shop lined with shelves of knickknacks, including a toy cow…
“Stand aside, Marge. I'm taking the boy deer hunting.”
15:32–15:43 -
Homer stands in the Kwik-E-Mart beside shelves stocked with Buzz Cola cans, a purple clamshell, a Duff sign…
“Oh, yeah? How long since you've had a baby?”
15:43–15:54 -
Homer stands at the right of a cluttered novelty shop facing a slim man with black hair, a light blue shirt…
“Butt out, Badinsky. What would you know about hunting?”
15:54–16:07 -
Homer stands beside Bart, who wears an orange shirt and blue shorts and sits inside an Astro Blaster arcade…
“Today, you're gonna be a man, Bart. You guys gonna teach me to drive?”
16:07–16:18 -
Bart sits in the back of a vehicle beside Homer, who wears a plaid hunting cap with earflaps…
“No, boy.”
16:18–16:27 -
Bart sits in the back of a car beside Homer, who wears a plaid cap and red-and-black plaid jacket…
“Nope.”
16:27–16:39 -
Homer and Bart stand in a forest clearing with a heavy man in an orange hunting suit and cap and a man…
“Remember, guys, the truck only holds six carcasses,”
16:39–16:47 -
Four men and a spiky-haired boy sit on logs at a forest campsite, with the heavy man in an orange hunting…
16:47–16:55 -
Homer sits on a log beside a heavy man in an orange hunting suit and camo cap, holding a beer can…
“Oh, we should have just stayed at the bar and shot some rats.”
16:55–17:08 -
Bart lies sleeping by a campfire in a red scarf while a thin, unnamed man in a green cap and tan jacket sits…
“Part's not fixed yet. He hasn't even... Homer.”
17:08–17:21 -
An older man with white curly hair under a red plaid cap, in a red plaid jacket, sits beside a driver…
“Let's take her out hunting tomorrow. Make her into a man.”
17:21–17:35 -
Homer sits beside a man in a green cap and brown coat who grips a steering wheel inside a vehicle at night
“No.”
17:35–17:48 -
Grampa and a driver in a green cap and brown coat sit in a blue pickup truck that pulls up to the fenced red…
“Did he say where they were going? No,”
17:48–17:59 -
Lisa in her orange dress and pearl necklace stands in a purple kitchen with a checkered floor while Marge…
“Did he say where they were going? No,”
17:59–18:09 -
Lisa and Marge stand at a kitchen counter beside a thin, black-haired man in a green shirt and vest…
“But if there's no deer out there, then what are they hunting?”
18:09–18:19 -
Homer carries a limp Bart in a red jacket and orange shirt while an orange-overalled hunter in a camouflage…
“Hey, boy, wake up. Your old man found some deer.”
18:19–18:29 -
Homer and Bart stand at night in a fenced pen under a purple sky with pine trees
“Wait, man, those are reindeer.”
18:29–18:40 -
Homer stands with Bart, a boy in a red shirt and blue pants holding a rifle, on a dark snowy lot at night…
“Come on, Bart. Be a sport and kill Blitzen, okay?”
18:40–18:52 -
Homer stands beside Bart, who wears a red shirt and blue pants and holds a rifle, while a heavy man…
“I wanna see a whole pile of dead reindeer.”
18:52–19:03 -
Bart Simpson stands in a fenced pen at night, holding a scoped rifle while a large herd of antlered reindeer…
“It made your old man proud. I didn't do anything.”
19:03–19:14 -
Bart and Homer stand wide-eyed and cowering among a crowd of reindeer while a brown-haired man in a red…
“Dad, I'm scared.”
19:14–19:24 -
Bart is held up by a heavy man in a red plaid coat and plaid cap with grey tufts, who is probably Homer…
“No, don't. You have to protect yourself.”
19:24–19:37 -
Bart and Homer are in a pen surrounded by brown reindeer with large antlers, at a snowy outdoor enclosure…
“Dad, are you hurt?”
19:37–19:48 -
Bart is lifted up and held aloft above a herd of brown reindeer at night, then Homer is seen on the ground…
“What the... Oh, oh, oh!”
19:48–20:02 -
Homer Simpson in a red plaid shirt and Bart Simpson in a red jacket stand and kneel on a blue-lit lot…
“It's ten o'clock!”
20:02–20:12 -
Homer kneels and presses a hand to his chest while Bart stands beside him in a fenced lot at night
“It's a miracle!”
20:12–20:19 -
Homer and Marge stand outdoors at night beside a chain-link fence lined with pine trees, a wooden post…
“Oh, man, I'm so glad you're safe.”
20:19–20:30 -
Bart stands with a worried look and gestures in a snowy yard at night while a thin, dark-haired man…
“I've been tenderized. How'd you know that thing would work?”
20:30–20:40 -
Bart crouches under a grey dome-shaped metal cover with wide eyes, and a second man in a brown coat and brown…
“Is it okay to come out now, Mr. Gay Man, sir?”
20:40–20:49 -
Barney and Moe stand before a red wall with snowy trim and a candy cane, then the scene opens to a snowy pine…
“Aw, Moe. We were saved by a sissy. Yeah, yeah, we'll never live it down.”
20:49–21:00 -
Homer Simpson stands beside a thin dark-haired man in a green shirt and vest, with his arm draped…
“Hey, we owe this guy, and I don't want you calling him a sissy.”
21:00–21:11 -
Lisa stands beside an unnamed thin, dark-haired man in a light green shirt with green suspenders…
“Well, that or John.”
21:11–21:19 -
Homer Simpson stands outdoors beside a thin, dark-haired man in a light green vest over a pale shirt…
“Well, Homer, I won your respect, and all I had to do was save your life.”
21:19–21:27 -
Homer Simpson in a red plaid jacket, Bart Simpson in a red shirt, and a dark-haired man in a light green…
“You know, Bart, maybe it's just a concussion talking,”
21:27–21:39 -
Bart and Lisa sit side by side on a zebra-striped couch outdoors, with dark pine trees and a purple night sky…
“Huh?”
21:39–21:46 -
Marge rides in a cream convertible with spiky-haired yellow-headed children in the back as it drives…
21:46–21:55 -
No Simpsons characters appear in this moment; it is a title card over a night scene of a purple sky…
“Here is the dome, back with the bass, pajamas live in effect and I don't waste time,”
21:55–22:04 -
No animated characters appear; the scene is a night landscape with a yellow moon, dark pine trees, and a blue…
“Here is the dome, back with the bass, pajamas live in effect and I don't waste time,”
22:04–22:14 -
No regular characters appear in this moment; it is a static title card over a night scene of a purple sky…
“and I'm here to combine, beats and lyrics to make you shake your pants,”
22:14–22:23 -
No Simpsons characters appear in this moment, which is a static credits sequence over a night scene…
“make a twirl It's your world and I'm just a squirrel Trying to get a nut to move your butt”
22:23–22:32 -
Silhouetted audience members, including one with a large puffy hairdo at left, sit in rows of seats in a dark…
“everybody over there The crowd is live and I will do this Party people in the house, move”
22:32–22:45 -
No Simpsons characters appear in this moment; it is the 20th Century Fox Television logo
22:45–22:51
Who's in it
Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson, Maggie Simpson, Moe Szyslak, Milhouse Van Houten, Principal Skinner, Barney Gumble, Waylon Smithers, Ralph Wiggum, Lewis Clark, Richard, Todd Flanders, Adrian Belew, Santa Claus, Roscoe, Godzilla, John, Steel Mill Workers, Steel Mover
Everyone who appears in it, from the Simpsons wiki. Every character