Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass

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The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 8 - Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass

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The Simpsons - Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass is the 8th episode of season 16 and number 343 overall in the series.

The Simpsons go to Springfield Park and find it has become a trash-strewn dump, but they see a nearby charity carnival which is raising money to help the park. Bart wins the grand prize in a carnival game, and then Homer beats him, going into an extended victory dance. Ned Flanders captures the dance on video and Comic Book Guy places it on his website. Soon, the entire world has seen Homer's embarrassing dance, humiliating him. Mario makes a cameo appearance and Homer fights him in Donkey Kong style. However, several major sports stars ask Homer to teach them elaborate victory dances. Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man also appear in the episode (actors in costumes) at their wedding on TV when Homer is watching the Super Bowl.

Meanwhile, Ned uses his camera to make a movie about Cain (Rod) and Abel (Todd). Everyone loves the film, except Marge, who finds it bloody and disgusting. Mr. Burns decides to finance Ned's next film, "Tales of the Old Testament" (which has a running time of 800 minutes - more than 13 hours). The bloodiness of the film angers Marge and she announces at the screening that she will protest anything that Burns owns. Burns retorts, noting that he owns the town's nuclear power plant and there is no alternate power source to it. When the crowd blurt out alternate forms of power they can use Burns admits defeat and says the film will never be seen again, much to Ned's dismay.

Homer's victory dances annoy some purist fans but become so popular that he is recruited by professional football to choreograph the Super Bowl halftime show. When he can not think of any ideas and the game looms the following night, Homer finds Ned at church. Together they decide to stage one of Ned's Bible stories at the show. At the Super Bowl, Ned and Homer stage the story of Noah's Ark, where at the end Ned appears and reads a scripture from the Bible. The audience jeers and boos, much to both Homer and Ned's disappointment. The media and the general public later accuses the Super Bowl of forcing Christianity onto the country via their "blatant display of decency".