Homer eating pie

Floor Pie – The Joy of Cooking Milhouse

“Boy–Scoutz N the Hood,” season 5 episode 8

The Simpsons features a glut of pie and cake, so I try to space them out when testing recipes to keep me from looking like work-from-home Homer. But it’s high time we had some real dessert around here. Mmm… floor pie.

This season 5 classic begins with Bart and Milhouse running out of money at the arcade and getting kicked to the curb. Meanwhile, Homer is eating honey-roasted peanuts at home and insisting Marge buy him steeeeak. Somehow his newly found 20 dollar bill flies over to Bart and Milhouse and they use it to buy a super Squishie, 100% syrup (“experimental”).

It gives them an intense sugar high and they “go crazy, Broadway-style!” They use the rest of the money to go to a VIP arcade, shop for fancy skateboards, see Cats, buy candy (“Mmm, free goo”), and get tattoos. Bart wakes up with a terrible hangover to find that during his bender he joined the Junior Campers (Boy Scouts).

Bart decides to quit the nerdy club as soon as possible, but when he finds out he can get out of a pop quiz, he attends his first meeting. Bored to death, even the promise of a Swiss army knife can’t keep him engaged. On his way home, he sees tons of cool knives and even sees a man’s removed appendix explode like a grenade.

Convinced by the power of knives, Bart stays in the Campers and learns a few things like how to trap wild animals (i.e. Homer, using floor pie). He ends up loving it, but is embarrassed to bring Homer to the father-son rafting trip. Homer and Bart end up paired with Ned and Todd and quickly get lost. Stranded in the ocean, Homer is predictably terrible at survival. He uses up the water and eats all the rations and shoots a flare gun straight into a rescue plane.

Even though Homer ruined everything, he manages to navigate them to a Krusty Burger built on an oil rig. Seven hundred Krusty burgers later, they’re saved and Homer and Bart make up. Meanwhile, the other campers and Ernest Borgnine are maybe murdered??

It’s cherry pie time. And not just any cherry pie, but a floor pie. It’s used to trap Homer, who swipes at it from a hanging trap as Santa’s Little Helper gobbles up the slice. This pie is so good, you can use it to trap anyone you like. As long as you know how to tie a taut line hitch.

Floor (Cherry) Pie

For the crust:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon Kosher salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, cubed and very cold
Up to 3/4 cup ice water
1 egg, beaten with 1 tablespoon milk or water (for egg wash)
For the filling:
3 (15-ounce) cans pitted sour cherries in water (or 5 cups frozen sour cherries, still frozen)
3/4 cup granulated sugar (plus more for topping)
1/4 cup quick-cooking tapioca
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pinch nutmeg
Red food coloring (optional)

1. To make the crust, combine the flour, sugar, and salt in a mixing bowl. Add the cold, cubed butter and use a pastry blender or two butter knives to cut the butter into the flour mixture until the largest pieces of butter are pea-sized. Add 1/2 cup of ice-cold water and mix. Add up to 1/4 cup more water, a little at a time, while stirring. Add just enough water for the dough to come together without becoming sticky.
2. Form into a ball and cut in half. Wrap each half in plastic wrap and flatten slightly into a disk, smoothing the edges. Chill in the fridge for 1 hour or longer.
3. Once the dough has chilled, make the filling. If using canned cherries, drain 2 of the cans and leave 1 undrained (use frozen cherries as-is). Combine the cherries and liquid, sugar, tapioca, vanilla, salt, nutmeg, and red food coloring (if using) in a mixing bowl and mix. Set aside.
4. Preheat the oven to 425 F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment or aluminum foil.
5. Remove one ball of dough from the fridge and roll out on a lightly floured surface, turning to keep from sticking. Roll into a circle a little over 12 inches across and transfer to a pie pan, lifting and pressing into the sides of the pan. Trim so that the crust has a 1-inch overhang. Set the pan with crust in the fridge.
6. Remove the other dough ball from the fridge. Roll out using the same techniques into a 12-inch circle. Remove the pie crust from the fridge and add the cherry filling, smoothing the top. Cover with the top crust.
7. Paint the egg wash in between the two crusts where they meet at the edge and press down to seal well. Trim, leaving just under an inch of sealed crust hanging off the edge. Fold in at the edge of the pan all the way around the pan, then use your fingers to crimp.
8. Paint the top of the crust with the egg wash and sprinkle with sugar. Cut a few steam vents into the top of the pie.
9. Place the pie plate on the prepared baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes, or until the filling is bubbly and the crust is browned.
10. Let cool completely (for several hours) on a wire rack before cutting and serving. Cut a slice and use it to trap wild animals or your dad.

Tips:

• Feel free to use store-bought pie crusts for a quick and easy version.
• If your crust gets too soft or melty at any point, stick it back in the fridge or even the freezer for a few minutes.

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Homer Simpson

About the character Homer Jay Simpson Sr. husband (especially in early seasons)

Homer works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Sector 7G, although he is completely incompetent and mostly sleeps on duty and eats donuts, he spends a lot of time at Moe's Tavern with his friends Barney, Carl, Lenny, and Mo the bartender, and suffers from a fairly noticeable addiction to Duff beer, at home he mostly watches TV while sitting or lying on his favorite couch, eating or drinking.0003

Homer is the son of Abraham Jay Simpson (a senile and reclusive who doesn't love him) and Mona Simpson (a noble activist who, however, was outlawed, on the run for many years, and even presumed dead). Homer has a half-brother and half-sister (by father, from two different women) - Herbert Powell and Abby Simpson.

Story

Homer Jay Simpson was born in Springfield to Abraham Simpson and Mona Simpson. In 1960, Homer experimented to see if fifteen crayons could be stuck up his nose, resulting in one of them getting into his brain, which had an extremely negative effect on his level of intelligence.
He was raised on the Simpsons farm by his parents until they were forced to move in 1963 due to Homer scaring the cows. Homer jumped out of the hay bales and scared them, which made them give sour milk, and because of this, the bank demanded a recovery. At one point in his childhood, Abe gave Homer beer, quit beer, for a while.

Mona took Homer and her husband to the Woodstock Music Festival, where Homer temporarily adopted the hippie lifestyle. Abe was against it and threatened to send Homer to the Vietnam War as punishment for wanting to be a hippie, but apparently failed given Homer's childhood age at the time.

In the late 1960s, when Homer was nine to twelve years old, Mona fled the country after destroying Burns' bacteriological weapon with other hippies and being declared a criminal. Abe lied to Homer that she was dead, a lie that came to light almost three decades later.

In 1966, Homer, along with Lenny, Carl and Mo Sizlak, approached a deep gorge, Homer fell from a great height, but miraculously survived. He decided to check the drain. While trying to figure out why the lake had dried up and turned into a muddy pit, he stumbled upon a decaying corpse inside a pipe, which greatly traumatized him and led him to overeat.

Homer attended Springfield Elementary School where he fell in love with Marge Bouvier in 1964. After graduating from high school, Homer and Marge buy an apartment in Springfield Place. During this time, Marge receives a letter saying that she was accepted to college. To pay for her tuition, Abe gives him a job at the Simpson laser tag, and along with Lou, Lenny and Carl, Homer is a member of the Barber Quartet. When Marge begins to get involved in her profession, Homer changes the band's name to be more witty and invents a new style of grunge music. Then Marge realizes that she truly loves Homer and returns to him. At 1981, Marge was pregnant with Bart (Homer tore out half of his hair when he found out). During this time, Homer took a job at Sir Patt E Loth's Old Leisure Centre, where he had to turn the crank that turns a windmill. After that, they got married at Arrow Pete's 24-hour cafe, which was also a small wedding chapel. They spend their wedding night in a truck stop near Bouvier's house, where they lived at the time. After his unsuccessful attempt at a job at the newly built Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Homer leaves Marge to find a job that he can support his family with. He gets a job at a taco joint called Sip and Punch, where Marge finds him and convinces him to come home with her. As a result, Homer runs into Mr. Burns and gets a job at a power plant. Two years after Bart was born, at 1984 Marge became pregnant again, this time with Lisa (after this news, Homer pulls out the rest of his hair, leaving him with three small strands), shortly before buying their first house. Homer takes his second leap to fame when he becomes a songwriter for his band the Barbers Quartet now known as The Rascals, winning a Grammy (he later says that a Grammy isn't worth winning). During his time with the band, Homer was frequently away from home, which could have affected their marriage. After their group breaks up due to creative differences, Homer returns to Springfield to continue his old life.

Sometime in late 1980, Homer's budget was a decent amount, enough to get him his dream job at Uncle Barney's bowling alley. The budget included a regular purchase of toilet paper, as well as the possibility of one of the children attending college. Unfortunately for Homer, in 1988, Marge was pregnant for the third time, this time by Maggie some time after Homer got a new job, and since he could not support his family on such a small budget, he returns to his old job at the power plant. Since then, Homer has gone through many jobs, including being a NASA astronaut, but he always ends up back where he started at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Twice he caused the near-total destruction of Springfield, the first time he provoked a nuclear fission at a nuclear power plant, and the second time he polluted Lake Springfield with pig (as well as his own) waste.

Job
He works at a nuclear power plant as a safety inspector, while understanding absolutely nothing about his work. He received the appropriate education, having already held this position for a long time, but still he did not endure anything. At work, Homer sleeps, eats, causes accidents, chats with friends, trades practical jokes. In one of the episodes, he took Lisa to work to fool around together. He reacts to an emergency alarm sometimes with panic, sometimes with contempt, pouring water on the control panel. A couple of times he really prevented major accidents, but this happened as a complete curiosity and luck.

Several times Homer was replaced at his workplace with a chicken or a mindless machine.

Many times the boss - Mr. Burns - fired him. Sometimes this happened for absurd reasons, such as Homer showing up in a pink shirt when everyone is supposed to be in white. Sometimes dismissals were justified, for complete incompetence, conflicts, accidents. In the early seasons, the show paid attention to justifying exactly how Homer was reinstated after all this, later the question was ignored - in the next series, Homer simply finds himself back in his place.

Many times Homer found another job or part-time job, but it never lasted longer than one episode. So he was a bowling alley worker, a singer, a baseball team mascot, a popular snow blower in the city, a singer's manager, a stuntman, a submarine officer, a truck driver. Interestingly, Homer, despite his mental limitations, is able to do a good job if he really loves her and finds in her the realization of his instincts.

Several times he took on a personal business, but he always failed in it, because he does not know how to manage money at all.

In the series "Homer Scissorhands" he worked as a hairdresser. And he was so good that even with a hack he could do a great hairstyle. But he was fired, and he returned to his former job at the nuclear power plant.

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Updated: January 11, 2020 1:06 PM

Cherry Pie and Hot Coffee: How Twin Peaks Influenced Pop Culture | Animation on 2x2

A pinch of mysterious atmosphere, a teaspoon of mysticism, "a couple of cloves" of peculiar humor and we get a bewitching composition of a small fictitious town Twin Peaks on the Canadian border, which became the beginning for folk television creativity. It's hard to name a show that has grown as powerful a cult following as Twin Peaks has. From the legendary cherry pie that FBI agent Dale Cooper talked about when tasting it at a local cafe: “This must be where the pies go when they die,” to quotes from famous animated series (The Simpsons, Family Guy, and others). ) and followers (Gravity Falls, Fortitude, Pines, Riverdale). Let's take a look at the impact David Lynch's series has made on pop culture.

This story is distinguished not only by a special originality of humor, but also by a mysterious, supernatural and at the same time detective background. Twin Peaks director David Lynch was not afraid of reality, willingly showed the course of life in the frame and urged "to have a good time." With such creative insights and ideas, Norma Jennings' favorite cherry pie from Café Norma Jennings has become a pop culture phenomenon.

As a general rule, filming with food is always either avoided or kept to a minimum (for technical reasons that can ruin the sound recorded from the set). And in Twin Peaks, talking about the investigation (who killed Laura Palmer?) over a cup of coffee completely conveys the atmosphere of the mysterious town and adds a special charm. While watching the series, we not only investigate the inexplicable murder of a girl together with the FBI agent Dale Cooper, but also learn to enjoy life, inspired by the charm of the hero. The fight against evil can wait, and small joys deserve a break. The FBI agent adhered to this rule and always found time in this mystical universe for a "ritual" to enjoy a delicious pie. "Diane, if you're in Twin Peaks, be sure to try the cherry pie, it's just wonderful there!" said Dale Cooper, making another note to the secretary.

Another notable story is how Kyle MacLachlan (Cooper, who charmed the audience) shared a pie recipe with God's Love We Deliver.

The series of the last century has influenced pop culture, thanks to the extraordinary approach of David Lynch. He invented a unique formula for the plot matrix, which the creators of other tapes have been using in their work for more than twenty years. So the director gave rise to new creativity, where filmmakers were not afraid to go beyond (this even affected what and how you can eat in the frame), so that the series or picture received as many audience sympathies as possible. Of course, not everyone followed in Lynch's footsteps, but those who did couldn't turn down the opportunity to add Twin Peaks references to their stories.

The Simpsons

Pop culture talks about cherry pie and coffee. The Simpsons (known on the internet as a fun predictor of the future) have added a pinch of Twin Peaks to their episodes. In the ninth season (third episode), Homer Simpson sits on the couch in the room we're all used to, watching a TV show. The box tells him: "In Twin Peaks you will be served excellent coffee, delicious cherry pie ...". To which he laughs and says that he still cannot understand what is happening in the series (we are all a little Homer, aren't we?).

A fragment from the seventh season (the first episode) takes viewers to the Black Lodge from a fictional town for a couple of minutes. Chief Clancy Wiggum wants coffee, but mistakenly drinks warm cream and falls asleep. In a dream, Lisa Simpson comes to him (a fragment-reference to a conversation between Laura Palmer and an FBI agent). Parquet like a chessboard, scarlet curtains and soft enchanting jazz, to which Lisa dances comically and says to Clancy: “Chief Wiggum, do not lose the guiding thread. This thing burns better, it burns” (while holding a burning playing card in his hand and trying to hint what this “sign” is). The chief did not understand the hint, and then the girl screamed that he needed to inspect Burns's suit. Just like Dale Cooper, Clancy wakes up abruptly and goes to do what he saw in a dream, which he called "prophetic".

"Black Cloak"

What about "Black Cloak"? In one of the episodes (called, by the way, Twin Beaks), the action takes place in Trudy's Diner. Atmosphere, music, burning coffee and that very tender pie, a picture of twin mountains and a waitress with a bandage over one eye, like Nadine Hurley, the prototype of the crazy heroine of the Twin Peaks series (we will find our fandom everywhere). It is noteworthy that this diner is located in a town filled with mysticism.

It is impossible not to pay attention to the analogy in this series. “Cows are not what they seem” - does it remind you of anything? That's right, just replace the first word with "owls", and here we are again in Twin Peaks. According to the mythology of the fictional town of Lynch, owls are werewolves, messengers of the other world, guides and harbingers of death, and in the "Black Cloak" the same thing happens with cows. Well, if these references are not enough for you, keep the brightest one: Zigzag McQuack hugs a log and listens to it exactly like a lady with a log.

Scooby-Doo

The film adaptation of our four-legged friend also made references to the mysterious town. In Scooby-Doo. mystical corporation "we again receive" hello "from the universe of David Lynch. The action takes place when Scooby-Doo falls asleep and he has a dream in which he enters the Black Lodge, where he meets a dancing dwarf (we have not yet found such a direct reference).

Frightened, not understanding what is happening, Scooby wakes up abruptly, but this "stay in Twin Peaks" does not end there. The same formula is repeated: the hero falls asleep, moves into Lynch's cinematic universe, and now the four-legged friend is sitting on a velvet chair. Then everything that we saw before: the heroine of Scooby-Doo (as charming as Laura Palmer) enters the Black Lodge. This "Laura" tells Scooby-Doo about how best to complete tasks for the heroes and gives hints (all according to the Twin Peaks canon).

"Gravity Falls"

After "Twin Peaks" I want to watch something like that, because it leaves a pleasant aftertaste. As the saying goes, "I'd erase my memory so I could watch it again." Many consider the animated series "Gravity Falls" - Twin Peaks for children. Some things are really similar: mysterious incidents, cafes with a design like the Black Lodge, and much more (the same cherry pie).

But there is a more unexpected connection: in the Gravity Falls ending, Dipper and Mabel are taken away by a driver who has a voice suspiciously familiar to viewers. It's not hard to guess that this is our Dale Cooper. The bus driver was voiced by Kyle MacLachlan, who captivated many viewers in the cult series with his performance.

Riverdale

But the direct spiritual heir to Twin Peaks, after all, is Riverdale. Millennials and teenagers were captivated by yet another similar story of a lonely American town. Only the Twin Peaks fandom noticed the setting of the pop-cultural phenomenon from the Archie comics placed in Riverdale. The beginning of the two series is similar: a corpse on the river bank and countless mysteries floating in the air. As planned by Lynch, it is not so important who killed Laura Palmer after all.

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