Warning: This article accommodates SPOILERS for The Simpsons season 36, episode 4, “Shoddy Heat”

While The Simpsons season 36 did lastly present a transparent reply to one of many present’s oldest mysteries, it wasn’t one which viewers might have anticipated. The Simpsons‘ season 37 renewal has not but been introduced and, to date, season 36’s episodes have accomplished all they will to upend the same old established order of the long-running present. The Simpsons season 36’s premiere “Bart’s Birthday” was a trippy meta episode that offered itself as an in-universe “Series finale,” poking enjoyable on the present within the course of. The episode addressed the thriller of the Simpson household by no means ageing.

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Since then, The Simpsons season 36’s Lisa-centric episode 3, “Desperately Seeking Lisa,” sidelined the remainder of the household for nearly its whole runtime. The season’s second episode, a parody of HBO’s satirical homicide thriller The White Lotus, killed off a forgotten visitor star from many years earlier. Each of those episodes proved the present refuses to relaxation on its laurels, and season 36, episode 4, “Shoddy Heat,” was no completely different. A detective story set within the ‘80s, “Shoddy Heat” revealed that Grampa was a non-public investigator in the course of the decade. Its twisty story revealed the answer to an enormous Simpsons thriller.

The Simpsons Season 36 Episode 4 Explained Why Homer Hasn’t Been Fired

Burns Estimated That He Has Screwed Up No Less Than 742 Times

Thanks to “Shoddy Heat,” The Simpsons lastly defined why Homer Simpson has by no means been fired from the facility plant. It turned out that Grampa’s personal investigator accomplice vanished within the ‘80s and Grampa came close to finding out the truth about his disappearance, but Mr. Burns offered him an irresistible bribe to forget about the entire incident. Burns told Grampa he would hire Homer and never fire him, regardless of his screw-ups, if Grampa agreed to ignore the disappearance of his former detective partner in exchange for this guarantee. Hilariously, Burns hadn’t even killed Grampa’s accomplice earlier than making this deal.

While The Simpsons season 36 killed off one character already with Nick the Realtor’s dying in episode 2, it turned out that Burns had merely bribed Grampa’s accomplice earlier than bribing Grampa in flip. He paid for him to maneuver to a faraway island paradise, the place he has been having fun with the great life to at the present time. A bitter Grampa was aggravated to find this however relived to seek out out that he hadn’t ignored a homicide all these years in the past. However, whereas this twist was a enjoyable subversion of the movie noir tropes the episode parodied, it didn’t clarify one discrepancy with the plot.

The Simpsons Season 36’s Homer Twist Doesn’t Explain Everything

Homer Has Been Fired Numerous Times In The Simpsons

Despite what he claims within the episode, Mr. Burns has fired Homer quite a few occasions all through the primary 35 seasons of The Simpsons. Burns himself famously fired Homer in season 9, episode 19, “Simpson Tide,” however Homer additionally misplaced his job in season 3, episode 11, “Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk,” season 15, episode 10, “Diatribe of a Mad Housewife,” and season 20, episode 21, “Coming to Homerica,” As confirmed by a NoHomers discussion board submit, there are lots of different examples of this plot twist. As such, it isn’t clear how Mr. Burns stopped Grampa from reviving his investigations earlier in The Simpsons.

Source: NoHomers

Release Date

December 17, 1989

Seasons

35

Network

FOX

Franchise(s)

The Simpsons