“Deep Space Homer” is the fifteenth episode of the fifth season of American animated sitcom The Simpsons. In the episode, NASA selects Homer Simpson to participate in a spaceflight to spark public interest in space exploration. Once in space, his incompetence destroys the navigation system on board the Space Shuttle. The episode was written by showrunner David Mirkin and directed by Carlos Baeza. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and musician James Taylor guest-starred as themselves.
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“Deep Space Homer” is the fifteenth episode of the fifth season of American animated sitcom The Simpsons. In the episode, NASA selects Homer Simpson to participate in a spaceflight to spark public interest in space exploration and boost low ratings of the launches. Once in space, his incompetence destroys the navigation system on board the Space Shuttle. The episode was written by showrunner David Mirkin and directed by Carlos Baeza. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and musician James Taylor guest-starred as themselves. It was well-received, and many critics and fans praised it as one of the best of the series. The episode parodies the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, with some of the gags toned down to make the episode more realistic, including an idea that everyone at NASA was as stupid as Homer. It appears as an extra on the DVD release of thefifth season of The Simpsons, which was released on February 24, 1994, and was first broadcast on Fox in the U.S. on February 23, 1994. Some of the staff, including creator Matt Groening, feared the concept was too unrealistic, resulting in some jokes being pared down and greater focus placed on relationships within the Simpson family.
The staff worried that sending Homer into space was too large an idea, and Simpsons’ creator MattGroening said it gave them \”nowhere to go\”. Instead, Mirkin focused more on the family’s attempts to gain his family’s respect. James Taylor recorded an altered version of his 1970 single “You’ve Got a Friend” for the episode. The potato chip sequence was partly animated on an Amiga computer to smooth out the smoothness of the chips. His personal recording of the song “Deep Space” was used for the animated sequence of the episode; it appears on an extra release of “The Simpsons” The episode also appeared on the Blu-Ray version of the 5th season DVD of the show, released on March 2, 1995, and is available on the iTunes Store. It was the first episode of “Simpsons” to feature a guest star from the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
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