El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)

“El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer” is the ninth episode of the eighth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 5, 1997. Johnny Cash guest stars as the ‘Space Coyote’ in the episode.

About El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer) in brief

“El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer” is the ninth episode of the eighth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 5, 1997. In the episode, Homer eats several hot chili peppers and hallucinates. Following this, he questions his relationship with Marge and goes on a journey to find his soulmate. The episode was written by Ken Keeler and directed by Jim Reardon. It explores themes of marriage, community, and alcohol use. Johnny Cash guest stars as the ‘Space Coyote’ in the episode. The hallucination sequence features surreal animation to depict the elaborate hallucination. During Homer’s voyage, the clouds in one shot are live-action footage, and 3D computer animation was used for the giant butterfly. During the same hallucination, Nedlanders’ line on a Mac was treated on a computer so that it increased and decreased pitch.

The Fox censors sent a note to the writers, questioning Homer coating his mouth with hot wax. To discourage imitation by young and foolish viewers, when Homer begins to pour hot wax into his mouth, please have him scream in pain so that kids will understand that doing this would actually burn their mouths. The scream was not added; they did add dialog from Ralph Wiggum, questioning Homer on his action. The producers also created a reference to something that actually happened: a friend of Homer’s woke up on a golf course with a black-waxed out friend of the producers and said, ‘Homer, that’s what happened!’ The episode is a reference for Homer’s waking up on the golf course when Homer’s mouth is coated with candle-Wax, which actually happened to him.