Home Away from Homer

Jason Bateman as himself

"Home Away from Homer" is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 15, 2005.

Lisa calls in to an unpopular public radio station and wins tickets for four to an Albanian movie called Kosovo Autumn. Since Lisa only has four tickets, Homer leaves Maggie with Ned Flanders, who agrees to babysit free of charge. When the Simpson family returns, Marge picks up Maggie and hastily offers to pay Ned for his troubles, feeling it would be wrong not to pay him. He politely refuses, but admits that a little extra cash in his life would not hurt, seeing as the giant retail store Left-Mart is threatening his business. Marge suggests that he rent out one of his rooms to someone. He agrees, giving the room to Katja and Vicky, a pair of female students from the community college.

Taking advantage of his trusting nature, the two use their room as a staging area for a softcore pornographic website, sexyslumberparty.com. Bart and Milhouse come across a banner ad for the site while searching Ask Jeeves and share their discovery with a very amused Homer, who proceeds to spread the news around town. Marge soon discovers Homer and Bart viewing the website, and forces Homer to tell Ned everything. Upon being told, Ned angrily forces the girls to leave, but realizes that everyone has arrived to cheer for them as they leave. Horrified at both the town's mockery and Homer's betrayal, Ned promptly leaves town, moving to "Humbleton, Pennsylvania", home of the porcelain "Humble figurines", which he collects. Angered by Homer's actions, Marge and Lisa tell him to be on his best behavior for their new neighbor, Clay "Coach Clay" Roberts, who reveals himself to be a cynical bully towards Homer and litters the Simpsons' yard with Ned's fallen trees, as well as cutting their cable and siphoning gas from Homer's car.