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#74 Duffless
Season 4, Episode 16 (Guide from the Simpsons Archive)
Homer sneaks out from work to visit the Duff brewery with Barney. After both imbibing large amounts of alcohol, Homer decides that Barney is too drunk to drive, so he takes his keys and starts to drive. Wiggum was secretly monitoring the parking lot and calls for some more cops to bust him. Homer’s license is revoked and he has to attend traffic school and two months of Alc-Anon meetings (a pretty light punishment). Marge uses the ordeal to get Homer to give up beer for a month. Meanwhile, in the secondary plot, Bart ruins Lisa’s science fair project by throwing her steroid enhanced tomato at Principal Skinner, so Lisa tries to exact revenge in her new project by comparing her brother’s intelligence unfavorably with that of a hamster. Bart discovers her plan, and while he does not directly adversely affect her project, he uses his showmanship to pull off a first place performance in the science fair. Memorable moments include Homer mixing up his thoughts and speech, Homer escaping the power plant, the Duff brewery tour, Homer trying to knock out Barney, Wiggum rolling, Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure, Wiggum’s home movies, the science fair, the Alc-Anon meetings (especially Homer being kicked out), and Homer answering Marge’s questions when she’s figuring out that he has a drinking problem. As a side note, Lisa decries the lack of scientific merit of Bart’s project, but what was the scientific merit with her project, or, for that matter, most elementary school science fair projects?