The Ziff Who Came to Dinner
| "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" | |
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| Episode no. | 327 |
| Directed by | Nancy Kruse |
| Written by | Deb Lacusta & Dan Castellaneta |
| Showrunner(s) | Al Jean |
| Production code | FABF08 |
| Original air date | March 14, 2004 |
| Chalkboard gag | I will not speculate on how hot teacher used to be |
| Couch gag | View zooms out to an overhead shot of the house, the neighborhood, the US, the earth, the solar system and finally galaxies, which become atoms, them zooming out to molecular structures, DNA helices and then Homer's head, then back to the couch scene. Finally, Homer exclaims "Wow!" |
| Commentary | Al Jean Deb Lacusta Dan Castellaneta Ian Maxtone-Graham Matt Selman Michael Price Marc Wilmore Tom Gammill Max Pross Matt Warburton Maurice LaMarche |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Jon Lovitz as Artie Ziff, Jay Sherman, Llewelyn Sinclair, Aristotle Amadopoulos, and Professor Lombardo |
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Season 15 episodes
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Jon Lovitz as Artie Ziff, Jay Sherman, Llewelyn Sinclair, Aristotle Amadopoulos, and Professor Lombardo
"The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season, the third of five episodes written by Simpsons voice actor Dan Castellaneta and his wife, Deb Lacusta and was rated PG in the United States & Ireland, and 12 in the United Kingdom. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 14, 2004.
Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a movie and he has to bring Ned Flanders' children with him, because Ned has taken the senior citizens for ice cream to celebrate Jasper's birthday. However, at the Googolplex Theatre, every kid-friendly movie is sold out, and Rod and Todd will not let Homer see a raunchy comedy called Teenage Sex Wager since it is one of many movies condemned by a Christian publication called "What Would Jesus View?". After listening to Lenny mention he had a small part in the horror movie The Redeadening as a gardener, Homer takes the kids to see the movie. The movie is very scary, causing it to scare Bart and Lisa at home, who think they hear noises from the attic. But when they look in the attic, their fears scare them away. When Bart and Lisa arrange to have Homer and Marge look in the attic, they discover Artie Ziff living there.
Artie Ziff explains that he was living in the attic because he ran an unsuccessful Internet business, Ziffcorp, and lost all his money after spending it on many extravagant items which then got repossessed (including the repo vans). He chose to live with the Simpsons because he claims that Marge was the closest thing he ever had to true love---although Marge quickly points out that she and Artie only had one date and reminds Artie of how he almost raped her on their high school prom night as seen in "The Way We Was." Artie promises that he won't hit on Marge if he stays with them, which Marge objects to, but Homer, Bart, and Lisa do not. While living with the family, Artie connects with Lisa by reading her The Corrections. He then tries to buy ice cream for Bart and Milhouse, but, when Artie's credit card gets cut up, he attempts to hang himself (which does not work as the noose is not on his neck tight enough to kill him nor is Artie high up off the ground for a hanging to be physically possible). Homer gets Artie down and takes him to Moe's.
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