The Simpsons Season 21 Episode 11: Million Dollar Maybe
Homer and Marge practice their duet of “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off” for their cousin’s wedding. At work Homer opens a fortune cookie, the fortune tells Homer this is his lucky day. Lucky things keep happening to Homer so he heads for the Kwik-E-Mart to buy a lottery ticket. The lottery ticket line is very long and Homer has to wait forever. Homer is supposed to meet Marge at their cousin’s wedding but instead he stays in the line for the lottery ticket. Marge ends up singing the duet by herself, creating an awkward situation. Marge brings Bart on stage with her trying to tell knock-knock jokes and gets booed off the stage. Homer finally buys his lottery ticket and races to the wedding, only to end up driving off the road and tumbling down the hill.
In the hospital Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are grateful Homer wakes up from his coma. Homer wakes up just in time to find out his lottery ticket has the winning numbers, making him a millionaire.
The Simpsons visit Wet and Wacky World. Grandpa complains about being tired. The family goes to the Splash Zone but Grandpa doesn’t want to go so he sits on the bench shaped like a shark. The family watches the giant Slimu octopus who does a big show for the guests. A young newspaper columnist named Marshall sits with Grandpa on the shark bench. Grandpa tells the reporter all about his experiences in the Navy and how when his ship went down he and his shipmates rode on the back of sharks until help arrived. The reporter wants to hear more stories. The reporter tells Grandpa he will feature Grandpa’s stories in the newspaper.
Ricky Gervais will star in a new animated series for HBO entitled “The Ricky Gervais Show”. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, along with their friend Karl Pilkington, will serve as producers of the new animated TV comedy. Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington will also star as the voice talent for the new animated series. HBO stated that The Ricky Gervais Show is based on Gervais’ popular podcasts with Pilkington’s musings, similar to the podcasts, inspiring storylines for the series episodes. “Ricky Gervais is one of the most original comic voices working today,” noted Carolyn Strauss, president, HBO Entertainment.
To celebrate The Simpsons 20th anniversary, FOX is going yellow. Beginning January 3rd FOX graphical elements on their website will turn yellow to honor Matt Groening’s show. The Simpsons has become an icon in television history as the longest running television show. The Simpsons holds the record as the longest-running American animated program, the longest-running American sitcom and surpassed Gunsmoke in 2009 as the the longest running American primetime entertainment series. The celebration will cover all FOX web sites, on-air graphics, social-networking pages and on-air promotions including FOX news anchors wearing yellow ties.
Peter discovers his father-in-law never had a bachelor party and decides to throw him one. Mr. Pewterschmidt is hesitant to agree but finally gives in. Peter, Joe and Quagmire take Mr. Pewterschmidt to the local strip bar for a lap dance. Mr. Pewterschmidt is so shocked by the lap dance that he has a heart attack and falls into a coma. Lois, her mother and Peter sit by while Mr. Pewterschmidt is in the hospital and not responding to treatment. Even Dr. House (guest voice Hugh Laurie) cannot find a way to help bring Mr. Pewterschmidt out of his coma. Lois is given control over her father’s corporation and wonders how her father’s company will run without him. Peter talks Lois into letting him run the corporation while Mr. Pewterschmidt is in a coma. Peter begins to like the feeling of power and the many benefits he receives while running the company.
Bart is hoping school is closed during the big snowstorm. Bart is excited to find that he has a snow day. After trying to go outside and being blown back into the house due to the snowstorm, Bart settles for a day of video games and TV. The storm downs electrical lines foiling Bart’s plan for electronic play. Bart finds Lisa and Maggie playing fashion show dress up. Bart is desperate and begs them to let him play along. Lisa and Maggie dress Bart up in girls clothes and giggle. Lisa tells Bart he will never have the close relationship she and Maggie have because they are sisters and Bart has no brother. 
The Simpsons are leaving from their ski weekend early Sunday morning to beat the weekend traffic. Bart and Lisa protest leaving so early and Marge looks half asleep. Homer gets on the freeway and finds that everyone else away for the weekend is leaving at the same time, bogging them down for a long trip home. As hours go by, Bart, Lisa and Maggie play an annoying game that makes noise and repeats its instructions over and over. After hours of noise from the toy Homer has had enough and grabs the toy, smashing it at his feet in the car. When Homer looks up he sees a semi-truck coming straight at them and realizes the toy is wedged under his gas peddle, all he can do is turn the wheel. They careen off the highway and the family ends up on an icy lake from the accident. Cleatus, a local hillbilly, drags the unconscious Simpsons out of their car and takes them to his cabin in the snowy hills.
Quagmire is having a garage sale. Peter and the family buy some items from the sale. Peter buys an old Ham radio and spends weeks trying to get sound out of the radio, irritating Lois to no end. Stewie asks Brian if he will take him to Baby Gap because he wants to dress as a “baby douche”. Brian says he’ll do it another time. Stewie’s double appears and asks him a question. Brian asks who this is and Stewie tells him he cloned himself so he would have a helper. Stewie calls his cloned double “Bitch Stewie”. Stewie dumbed down Bitch Stewie so he would follow his orders. Brian is duly impressed.
The supervisor of the nuclear plant is retiring and Mr. Burns thinks one of the morons (Homer, Carl and Lenny) should be the new supervisor. Deciding Carl is the least moronic of the bunch, he promotes Carl to the position. Carl starts ordering Homer around and Homer doesn’t like the change in Carl.
In the 20th anniversary of “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween special from The Simpsons starts with a salute to Alfred Hitchcock with a black and white tale of horror. Lisa has a run in with her teacher and seeks revenge. Bart and Lisa make a deal to “ding-dong ditch” each other’s teacher with a prank so they won’t be found out. Lisa pranks Bart’s teacher by ringing her doorbell and running away. Bart beheads Lisa’s teacher and shows her the gory results. Bart insists “ding-dong ditch” means doing the teacher in and Lisa must hold up her end of the bargain. After a number of failed attempts by Lisa to kill off Bart’s teacher, Bart pressures handing her a knife to do the deed. Lisa decides to take revenge on Bart instead. Chasing Bart with the knife Lisa accidently hits Bart in the head with the knife, killing him, with Lisa lamenting she really didn’t mean to do it. Bart’s teacher meets Lisa at the crime scene and the two of them walk away and sneek a knowing look at each other. 
