The Cartridge Family
The Simpsons, season 9, episode 5. First aired November 2, 1997. 132 moments of about ten seconds each: open one for its frame, what happens and what's said.
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About the episode
After a soccer riot throws Springfield into chaos, Homer buys a revolver, joins the NRA, and starts using it for everyday tasks. When Bart and Milhouse find the gun he swore he'd gotten rid of, Marge takes the kids to a motel. Homer's recklessness gets him expelled from the NRA, and when Snake holds up the motel, Homer pulls out the gun he claimed to have ditched.
- Written by
- John Swartzwelder
- Directed by
- Pete Michels
- Chalkboard gag
Everyone is tired of that Richard Gere story
- Couch gag
- Burning Family
- Production code
- 5F01
The synopsis is our own. Credits and guest stars from Wikipedia and the Simpsons wiki.
Every moment
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Bart Simpson stands at a classroom chalkboard writing lines that read 'Everyone is tired of that Richard Gere…
“The Simpsons”
0:00–0:12 -
Homer works a control booth beneath a CAUTION sign and a glowing green rod while Mr. Burns and Smithers watch…
0:12–0:25 -
A school music room full of children playing brass and woodwind instruments under the conducting of Mr. Burns…
0:25–0:38 -
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are in the Simpsons' living room, which has a brown couch, a purple lamp…
0:38–0:51 -
A man in a cowboy hat, sunglasses, and a brown fringed jacket stands on a set with a green curtain and white…
“Open wide for some soccer!”
0:51–1:00 -
A dark-skinned player in a green and white kit sprawls face-down on a stadium track, then a soccer ball…
“The Canonet of Soccer Association is coming to Springfield.”
1:00–1:12 -
Inside a wooden-decked hot tub, a Black man in a green shirt and white shorts sits among several women…
“Hey, Dad, how come you never taken us to see a soccer game?”
1:12–1:20 -
A television screen shows a night sky full of green, pink and orange fireworks as a series of cartoon faces…
“You'll see all your favorite soccer stars like Arriaga, Arriaga 2,”
1:20–1:29 -
Homer sits on a brown couch beneath a sailboat painting and beside a red lamp, first smirking with his eyes…
“Oh, I never heard it out, people. And they'll all be signing autographs.”
1:29–1:42 -
Bart and Lisa kneel on a rug in the living room, begging while clutching at Homer, who sits on the couch…
“Can we go, Dad? Please, Dad, please, Dad, can we go?”
1:42–1:55 -
Homer, Marge and baby Maggie sit in a crowded tiered audience while a dark-haired woman in a black top stands…
“Oh, I'll kill myself if Portugal doesn't win.”
1:55–2:07 -
A dark-haired man with a moustache, red bow tie and red suspenders serves paella from a black pot on a green…
“Yo, Paella man, wing one up here.”
2:07–2:15 -
A Black man in a white shirt with a black question-mark emblem stands in a stadium holding a microphone…
“Pele is king of the soccer field. To be king of your kitchen,”
2:15–2:25 -
A heavy, moustached referee in a black shirt blows a silver whistle beside a green-shirted player…
2:25–2:39 -
A crowd of cheering spectators in a stadium stand, including a police chief in a blue cap with raised arms…
2:39–2:49 -
Chief Wiggum in his blue police cap and Marge with her tall blue beehive stand near the front of a packed…
“Boring.”
2:49–3:00 -
Krusty the Clown stands in front of a crowd of cheering spectators in a stadium with lights overhead
“Come on, you schnorrers. Do something.”
3:00–3:02 -
Kent Brockman sits at a desk behind a microphone in a wood-paneled studio with a round red-rimmed clock…
“Halfback passes to the center.”
3:02–3:12 -
Kent Brockman sits at a news desk in the studio, holding a microphone and resting his chin on his fist…
“Halfback passes to center. Back to wing, back to center.”
3:12–3:21 -
Moe sits glaring among a packed row of bus seats beside a teal-haired woman in a blue sweater vest…
“Holds it! I can't bear this any longer. I'm leaving.”
3:21–3:35 -
In a crowded stadium stand, a heavy man in a salmon shirt and blue jeans stumbles down the wooden steps…
“I call this a soccer riot.”
3:35–3:46 -
Four bearded men sit in theater seats: a bald, red-bearded man in green overalls, a red-bearded man…
“Come on, boys, let's take him to school.”
3:46–3:56 -
Homer, Marge with baby Maggie, Lisa, and Bart watch from the stadium stands while Carl clutches a dark-haired…
“Homer, we've got to get out of here. Oh, but I want to do some rioting.”
3:56–4:08 -
Lisa runs past Homer, the bald man in a white shirt, outside the Springfield Stadium as a crowd flees…
“What began as a traditional soccer riot has escalated into a citywide orgy of destruction.”
4:08–4:16 -
Kent Brockman speaks into a microphone on a snowy suburban street at night as the scene shifts around him
“What began as a traditional soccer riot has escalated into a citywide orgy of destruction.”
4:16–4:29 -
Ned Flanders stands in his open front doorway wearing a green sweater, moustache and glasses, while a scruffy…
“Excuse me, sir. I think you've got my TV.”
4:29–4:42 -
Homer gestures beside a corner rigged with a fishing rod holding a red flashlight, a dangling pan and a tin…
“Relax, Marge. If someone tries to get in here, my burglar alarm will let us know.”
4:42–4:53 -
Marge and Homer sit on the couch in their pink living room, Marge in her green dress and red beads, Homer…
“Looks like you called me just in time.”
4:53–5:05 -
Homer sits at the left edge of a pink living room with Marge beside him, her tall blue beehive and red bead…
“Intruders could come in down the chimney,”
5:05–5:12 -
Homer and Marge Simpson sit on a brown couch in their pink living room while a slicked-black-haired man…
“Did you change the locks when you moved in?”
5:12–5:26 -
Homer and Marge sit on a brown sofa in their living room beneath a sailboat painting while a slick-haired man…
“Oh, let's get that. But if you really want to sleep easy at night,”
5:26–5:37 -
A slick-haired salesman in a grey suit and red tie gestures and then clasps his hands in a pink room…
“And you can have it all for just $500.”
5:37–5:50 -
Homer and Marge Simpson are in the pink hallway of their home, first standing by a brown door with a round…
“Homer, we need something to protect this family.”
5:50–6:01 -
Homer Simpson stands at a gun shop counter facing a balding, mustached shopkeeper in a light blue shirt…
“Would you like to buy your deadliest gun, please?”
6:01–6:09 -
Homer stands at a gun shop counter before a wall of firearms, first aiming a pistol at a balding, mustached…
“Whoa, careful there, Annie Oakley. I don't have to be careful.”
6:09–6:17 -
Homer stands in a gun shop beside a balding man with a thin moustache, green shirt and red tie who works…
“Well, you'll probably want the accessory kit, holster,”
6:17–6:28 -
Homer Simpson stands at a gun shop counter, first with a wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression as he looks ahead…
“Oh, I don't need anything like that.”
6:28–6:39 -
Homer stands at the counter of a gun shop with a Confederate flag and an "Assorted Buck Decoys" sign…
“We've got to run a background check. Five days?”
6:39–6:50 -
Homer Simpson grips the steering wheel of the purple family car with a key dangling from the ignition…
“He didn't have it guns. I show him a thing or two”
6:50–6:55 -
Lisa sits up in a blue bed in her bedroom, first sleeping with glasses on and a pacifier, then waking…
“It's 3 a.m.”
6:55–7:06 -
Lisa Simpson sits up in bed in her blue bedroom, rubbing her eyes and then raising a pillow to swing it…
“March kicked me out Uh, all right.”
7:06–7:17 -
Homer sits in a folding lawn chair on a grassy front yard beside a driveway, a mailbox and a two-story house…
“Uh-oh.”
7:17–7:25 -
Homer sits in a green-and-white plaid lawn chair on a grassy yard with his hand raised to his brow…
7:25–7:34 -
Homer sits in a white-framed lawn chair on a grassy lawn with his hand raised to his head while the sun…
“You take it to the heart The waiting is the hardest part”
7:34–7:42 -
Homer sits in a green-and-white woven lawn chair on the grass with his back to us, while Patty and Selma…
“You're the waiting is the hardest”
7:42–7:51 -
Homer Simpson pounds on the barred glass door of the Bloodbath & Beyond Gun Shop, whose red-lettered sign…
“part Come on,”
7:51–8:02 -
Homer Simpson stands at the counter of a gun shop facing a balding clerk with a thin moustache, mint-green…
“Now, I believe you have some sort of firearm for me.”
8:02–8:13 -
Homer and a bald man with a moustache in a mint-green shirt and red tie are in a store with aisle signs…
“Yeah.”
8:13–8:21 -
Homer leans on a gun shop counter across from a balding clerk with a moustache, a mint-green shirt and a red…
“Potentially dangerous?”
8:21–8:35 -
Homer Simpson and Marge Simpson are in the family living room, with Bart and Lisa lying on a colorful rug…
“Okay, open your eyes.”
8:35–8:45 -
Marge Simpson sits on the brown couch in the living room, gesturing with both hands, one holding a small…
“Homer, I don't want guns in my house.”
8:45–8:58 -
Homer Simpson and Marge Simpson stand in the living room in front of a sofa and a framed sailboat picture
“Only if you clean your room.”
8:58–9:08 -
Homer Simpson stands in a pink room with a yellow curtain and a red armchair, first gesturing with a raised…
“TV said that?”
9:08–9:19 -
Homer Simpson and Lisa Simpson face each other in the pink living room beside purple speakers and a bookshelf
“You couldn't be more wrong, Lisa.”
9:19–9:32 -
Homer Simpson and Marge Simpson stand in the living room with Lisa Simpson, the spiky-haired girl in a red…
“No. All right, then.”
9:32–9:36 -
Homer Simpson stands in front of a yellow vertical-striped wall beside a pink wall and a blue box…
“A gun is not a weapon, Marge. It's a tool,”
9:36–9:46 -
Homer and Marge stand in a pink-walled room beside a round-windowed door, with Marge in a green dress and red…
“You just need more education on this subject.”
9:46–9:56 -
Homer and Marge Simpson walk up a paved path toward the double glass doors of a tan building, passing…
9:56–9:59 -
Homer and Marge walk down a hall decorated with blue-and-white rosettes, with Homer in a white shirt and blue…
9:59–10:11 -
Marge and Lisa are seated in a crowd of folding-chair attendees inside a hall with red, white and blue…
“Assault weapons have gotten a lot of bad press lately,”
10:11–10:23 -
Moe stands angrily at a podium draped in red, white and blue bunting, gripping its sides as he shouts…
“Learning something, Marge?”
10:23–10:36 -
Moe stands behind a podium draped with a red, white and blue bunting in front of a National Rifle Association…
“Whatever did you do, Moe? Well, it could have been a real ugly situation,”
10:36–10:47 -
Moe stands behind a wooden podium draped with red, white and blue bunting in front of a National Rifle…
“Yeah, I guess the next place he robs better have a ramp.”
10:47–10:59 -
Homer stands before a seated crowd in a hall decorated with red, white and blue bunting and a National Rifle…
“It seems to me if a gun can protect something as important as a bar,”
10:59–11:06 -
Homer stands up among rows of folding-chair attendees at a National Rifle Association meeting, with Marge's…
“So if you'll have me,”
11:06–11:15 -
Homer and Marge sit in a row of folding chairs in a room decorated with red, white and blue bunting…
“Homer, you can't join up with these gun nuts.”
11:15–11:26 -
Krusty the Clown fires a pistol at a human-silhouette target in a shooting range, and later Homer fires…
11:26–11:38 -
Homer Simpson fires a pistol at a shooting range while Ned Flanders stands beside him, and the target is…
“Sorry.”
11:38–11:48 -
Homer and Apu are in the Kwik-E-Mart
“Don't shoot.”
11:48–11:55 -
Homer Simpson first appears in close-up, wide-eyed and grimacing with a pained, uneasy look, then stares…
“Or would I?”
11:55–12:07 -
Marge stands on a porch step in front of wooden double doors, raising one fist while Homer sits in a rocking…
“I'll do it. I'll rob the Quickie Mart.”
12:07–12:21 -
Lisa Simpson stands on a sidewalk beside a pink car while Homer Simpson walks in from the right and stops…
“Can you help me get my ball down from the roof, Dad?”
12:21–12:27 -
Homer Simpson and Lisa Simpson in her red dress with pearl necklace stand on a suburban driveway in front…
“Sure thing, honey.”
12:27–12:37 -
Bart stands in a backyard holding a stack of plates, then Homer raises a shotgun over a wooden fence…
“Pull!”
12:37–12:49 -
Maggie sits at the kitchen table eating noodles from a pot, then Lisa in her red dress and pearl necklace…
“Mmm.”
12:49–12:57 -
Homer and Bart stand in a pink-walled room, with Homer holding a fork and Bart holding a small metal object
“Um...”
12:57–13:11 -
Marge Simpson stands in the kitchen with a stern look while Homer Simpson sits at the blue-covered breakfast…
“You said the breakfast table. It's the same table.”
13:11–13:22 -
Homer sits at the blue kitchen table holding a revolver, then sets it down and gestures with his hands…
“Yeah, I better just put it down”
13:22–13:35 -
Homer and Marge stand at a kitchen counter beside a purple toaster while Marge glances at him, opens…
“but that was pretty cool homer I think you'd agree that I've put up with a lot”
13:35–13:46 -
Marge stands in the kitchen facing Homer, who is seen from behind in his white shirt and bald head…
“But this is the first time since we've been married that I've actually feared for our”
13:46–13:52 -
Homer and Marge stand at the blue kitchen table in front of a window and sink, with a revolver lying…
“So I'm asking you,”
13:52–14:04 -
Marge stands in the kitchen in the first frames, looking worried, while Homer sits behind a blue counter…
“All right, Marge.”
14:04–14:16 -
Homer hugs Marge from behind in a kitchen, holding a green bundle, then in a fast-motion blur with a basket…
“And I'm a wonderful man.”
14:16–14:27 -
Bart Simpson stands in the kitchen in front of an open refrigerator, reaching for a Duff beer carton…
“First, it's fudge-sickle, and I know they're up here.”
14:27–14:36 -
Bart Simpson aims a black revolver across a checkered-floor dining room while Milhouse stands by a wooden…
“And the next marksman is... William Tell, Jr.”
14:36–14:45 -
Marge and Bart stand in a purple hallway while Marge holds a revolver
“Oh, I see Bart gets to have a gun. You lied to me.”
14:45–14:59 -
Marge Simpson stands in a lilac room beside a pink wall with a framed colorful pennant, her eyes narrowed…
“How could you?”
14:59–15:08 -
Homer and Marge stand in a pink-and-lavender hallway with a checkered floor, a wall calendar and a china…
“the most despicable. But Marge, I swear to you, I never thought you'd find out.”
15:08–15:21 -
Marge with her tall blue beehive, Maggie with a pacifier and blue bow in her arms, Lisa in her red dress…
“So this is the thanks I get for protecting my family?”
15:21–15:32 -
Homer stands in the kitchen with his hands on his hips while Milhouse kneels at the open cabinet…
“Do you know how to cook dinner? Do I?”
15:32–15:43 -
Marge stands with Bart and Lisa beside a purple suitcase, a blue bag and a wooden suitcase in a motel hallway
“I've left Homer. Thank God.”
15:43–15:56 -
Marge holds baby Maggie in her blue outfit with a pacifier and blue bow while she stands by a fire…
“Seemed nice. Why can't we stay here?”
15:56–16:08 -
Homer Simpson dusts a shelf with an orange feather duster in a pink living room, with a framed still-life…
“Ooh, the gun club's gonna be here any minute.”
16:08–16:18 -
Homer stands in a pink room while Moe looks at a glass cabinet of trophies
“I don't see what's wrong with this one.”
16:18–16:28 -
A yellow hand, its owner not otherwise shown, holds a matchbook printed with the Sleep-Eazy Motel…
16:28–16:32 -
At night, Marge Simpson leads Lisa and Bart out of a red station wagon and across a lot to a row of women…
“Looking for a good time, sailor? I certainly am.”
16:32–16:43 -
Moe presents a rack of mounted pistols and a rifle clamped to a board in a pink room with a potted plant…
“And that's how, with a few minor adjustments, you can turn a regular gun into five guns.”
16:43–16:56 -
Homer stands in a pink living room holding a Duff beer can in one hand and a handgun in the other…
“Anyone else want a beer?”
16:56–17:08 -
Homer stands in the living room holding a pistol while Marge sits at left and Krusty, Moe and Carl gather…
“I've never seen such recklessness.”
17:08–17:21 -
Krusty the Clown stands in a pink room beside Homer, who wears a white shirt with a dark belt and straps
“Are you some kind of moron? Yeah, but...”
17:21–17:30 -
Moe stands by a television in a pink room and gestures while Homer in a white shirt and blue pants watches…
“Your membership card, please, Homer.”
17:30–17:39 -
Homer in a white shirt and blue pants and Moe stand in a pink living room before a purple-framed television…
“I didn't get one yet.”
17:39–17:51 -
Marge with a tall blue beehive, baby Maggie with a pacifier and blue bow, Bart in his orange shirt, and Lisa…
“Hey, we got a pool.”
17:51–18:02 -
Lisa stands beside a lavender bed holding an open book, while Bart stands by a wooden dresser topped…
“Wow, the TV's going to operate it. And so is the Bible.”
18:02–18:06 -
Bart Simpson stands in the living room holding a pink telephone receiver to his ear while a lamp…
“I'd like to order a wake-up call, please.”
18:06–18:17 -
Bart and Lisa Simpson sit on a pink motel bed beneath a clown painting and wall lamp, with Lisa…
“No way are you going to beat me this time, Lise.”
18:17–18:28 -
Marge Simpson stands in the foreground of the first four frames, her eyes shifting sideways and glancing…
18:28–18:35 -
Homer Simpson enters a pink living room through an arched doorway from the stairs, then stands center-left…
“Oh, this gun cost me everything. My wife, my kids.”
18:35–18:49 -
Bart lies in bed under a pink blanket with a pink pillow, first with a calm, neutral face, then with his eyes…
“This stinks.”
18:49–19:00 -
In a bedroom with clown paintings and an orange door, Marge stands by the door clutching a long wooden plank…
“This bed is making me nauseous. Why won't it stop?”
19:00–19:11 -
Herb in a purple suit and a red-haired woman in a red dress stand in a doorway as Marge turns to face them…
“Oh, I'm sorry.”
19:11–19:22 -
Homer is at night on the upper walkway of a green motel with lit windows and a pool with a neon sign beside it
“Marge? Sorry.”
19:22–19:36 -
Marge stands at a door in the first two frames, glancing sideways with a sour, pursed expression
“Come down here!”
19:36–19:48 -
Marge stands in a living room beside a lamp and a wooden cabinet clock, first looking sideways…
“What about the gun?”
19:48–19:58 -
Homer and Marge Simpson sit side by side on the edge of a pink bed in a bedroom with a green wall, a wardrobe…
“Oh, homie.”
19:58–20:07 -
A yellow-skinned man in a white bathrobe carries a bucket into a bright doorway and then scoops ice…
“Okey-dokey. Here's your bill and your continental breakfast.”
20:07–20:18 -
A reddish-haired, scowling robber in a denim jacket holds a knife to the throat of a dark-haired man…
“All right, everybody, hands up. You give me the cash drawer.”
20:18–20:28 -
Homer Simpson stands at a shop counter beneath a green 'Under New Management Nightly' sign and a 'Vote…
“Freeze, bad guy!”
20:28–20:33 -
Homer aims a pistol at a man in a blue denim vest with reddish-brown hair, who stands with both hands raised…
“Okay, man, don't shoot.”
20:33–20:44 -
Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart stand with their hands raised in a wood-paneled store while a stranger…
“The joke's on you, buddy. There's no bullets in that thing.”
20:44–20:57 -
Homer and Marge stand in a brown-walled store with a Kwik-E-Mart-style freezer on the left
“Boy!”
20:57–21:09 -
Moe stands in a doorway holding a shotgun, first looking off with a flat expression, then grimacing…
“No, I don't think so.”
21:09–21:12 -
Homer and Marge stand before a wooden wall with a small sapling at the bottom
“I'm sorry I lied to you, Marge, but this gun had a hold on me.”
21:12–21:21 -
Homer and Marge stand in front of a brown wooden wall with a small branch sticking out
“I felt this incredible surge of power, like God must feel when he's holding a gun.”
21:21–21:30 -
Marge stands in a backyard with a wooden fence, a screen door, a potted bare sapling and a white trash can…
21:30–21:36 -
Marge Simpson appears first inside a round porthole-like mirror set in a wooden wall, where she grips…
21:36–21:45 -
Marge Simpson walks up to a glass door with horizontal blinds on a low building with a grass lawn, pushes…
21:45–21:56 -
No Simpsons characters appear in this sequence; it is a black title-card sequence with no people on screen
21:56–22:07 -
The scene is a plain black background with centered yellow-orange credit cards that replace one another…
22:07–22:17 -
No Simpsons characters appear in this sequence, which is a black closing credits roll with gold cartoon-style…
22:17–22:28 -
No Simpsons characters appear in this moment; it is a sequence of black end-credit title cards with gold…
“Shh.”
22:28–22:39 -
A row of silhouetted audience members sits in theater seats in front of a blank screen, with one large…
“Shh.”
22:39–22:50
Who's in it
Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson, Maggie Simpson, Moe Szyslak, Milhouse Van Houten, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders, Barney Gumble, Chief Wiggum, Krusty the Clown, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Dr. Hibbert, Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Nelson Muntz, Kent Brockman, Otto Mann, Patty Bouvier, Reverend Lovejoy, Selma Bouvier, Groundskeeper Willie, Lou, Jimbo Jones, Eddie, Kearney Zzyzwicz, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, Kirk Van Houten, Larry Dalrymple, Helen Lovejoy, Sam, Agnes Skinner, Dolph Starbeam, Snake, Ruth Powers, Dr. Nick, Superintendent Chalmers, Squeaky-Voiced Teen, Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon, Cletus Spuckler, Bumblebee Man, Charlie, Rainier Wolfcastle, Raphael, Princess Kashmir, Brandine Spuckler, Louie, Ex-Convict, Scottish Rioter, Sleep-Eazy Clerk
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