# Simpsons, Season 9 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 20, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880 "2006-12-20T03:57:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/1 "2006-12-20T03:57:32Z")
Yes, the unexpurgated “The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson” is included, and the commentary addresses the World Trade Center issues. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/2 "2006-12-20T04:54:45Z")
Had that episode ever been _pur_gated? I see it in reruns every now and then, untouched but for a few minor and annoying syndication cuts. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/3 "2006-12-20T05:01:17Z")
I think they just took it out of the syndication rotation for a while after 9/11. I’ve seen it plenty of times in recent years, unedited. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/4 "2006-12-20T05:01:43Z")
Yes; I can’t find the thread (and it might have been something I read on another board), but it was pulled from syndication for at least a few year, some stations apparently still won’t show it, and others cut every scene with the WTC in it, which doesn’t leave a lot of material. Sorry, no cite–this was posters’ reports (though the commentary states that the episode was pulled from syndication). ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/5 "2006-12-20T05:09:43Z")
I’ve only got a chance to look at the packaging- nice, with a blues/200th episode party theme. (This is the standard version, not the Lisa-head). Postcards with album-cover parodies are an interesting touch, and the first DVD has a animatic with a scene from the upcoming movie (with a typically Homerish intro from…who else?) Please stay on the line for more from Office Steve…GRABOWSKI. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/6 "2006-12-20T05:10:06Z")
Just what does the episode with all the WTC scenes cut out look like 😕 ? Does Homer just disappear once they got to NYC? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/7 "2006-12-20T05:16:00Z")
That’s a good question. I presume you could cut out “Your car is illegally parked outside 1 World Trade Plaza,” the talking to the men in the tower, and the exterior WTC scene…and edit it so that Homer discovers the boot on his own, goes to the bathroom and waits outside a nondescript building. The episode would still probably make sense. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/8 "2006-12-20T05:46:36Z")
What, and lose the joke when he finds the Tower 1 bathroom out of order and must ride the elevator all the way down to street level, run across to Tower 2, ride up to the observation level and gratefully relieve himself in that bathroom? Sacrilege. Incidentally, didn’t the Towers have bathrooms in or around their ground floors? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/9 "2006-12-20T06:18:00Z")
I haven’t seen this episode in post-September 11th syndication - what do they cut? I thought it was just the “they stick all the jerks in tower one” line. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/10 "2006-12-20T06:46:31Z")
Oh, yes- I also like the fact that the episodes on each disc are listed on the discs themselves (the DVDs are made up to look like records, each with a phoney Springfieldian record company and “track listing” to go with the music theme). Helpful in wanting to find a certain episode. The elusive John Swartzwelder is credited as being on at least one commentary- I listened to the start of one, but he didn’t appear. Where’s at least one section of a commentary where I can hear him? Does he actually have something to say, or do they just do the gag they’ve always planned on doing? (“Would you like to participate in this commentary?” “No.”) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/11 "2006-12-20T16:18:05Z")
The choices of running syndicated episodes is left to the individual stations. Ours definitely was running it soon after 9/11. It also aired (quite a bit) the L.T. Smash one where the Mad Magazine building is destroyed. It also didn’t alter the “Maybe it was the anthrax in air.” episode when the anthrax scare hit. (Some stations silenced that bit.) ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/12 "2006-12-21T03:00:28Z")
Homer: What do you have to drink?" Swarthy push-cart vendor: Mountain Dew and crab juice." Homer: “Ewwwww! Give me the crab juice.” Gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/13 "2006-12-21T03:53:29Z")
From another message board, I can answer my own question about Swartzwelder: they call him up and ask him a few questions. Season Nine was, perhaps, one of the last fully-good seasons of _The Simpsons_. I can’t think of an episode that was bad- even the oft-ridiculed “The Principal and the Pauper” is an enjoyable episode, despite its bizarre (but believable) plot. “Up yours, children!” ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/14 "2006-12-21T06:00:23Z")
( **ftg** , condolences on your location.) ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/15 "2006-12-21T06:16:07Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Yes; I can’t find the thread (and it might have been something I read on another board), but it was pulled from syndication for at least a few year, some stations apparently still won’t show it, and others cut every scene with the WTC in it, which doesn’t leave a lot of material. Sorry, no cite–this was posters’ reports (though the commentary states that the episode was pulled from syndication). [/QUOTE] Perhaps it was pulled from the line up or edited by some stations, but not across the board. When this was [discussed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=118244) on the forum several months after the 9/11 attack, a number of posters had already seen the episode re-run. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/16 "2006-12-22T02:58:39Z")
[QUOTE=Santos L Halper] Perhaps it was pulled from the line up or edited by some stations, but not across the board. When this was [discussed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=118244) on the forum several months after the 9/11 attack, a number of posters had already seen the episode re-run. [/QUOTE] Hey Santos, I once received a credit card in your name! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/17 "2006-12-22T04:14:36Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] Hey Santos, I once received a credit card in your name! [/QUOTE] Small world. I once saw _you_ in the freezer of the Kwik-E-Mart. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/18 "2006-12-22T04:40:48Z")
“Moon Pie … what a time to be alive.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/19 "2006-12-22T14:51:13Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] Homer: “What do you have to drink?” Swarthy push-cart vendor: “Mountain Dew and crab juice.” Homer: “Ewwwww! Give me the crab juice.” Gets me every time. [/QUOTE] Me too. And then, after chugging it and expressing his disgust, he ASKS FOR ANOTHER! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880/20 "2006-12-23T01:14:42Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Small world. I once saw _you_ in the freezer of the Kwik-E-Mart. [/QUOTE] Zing! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-season-9/384880.md?page=2)