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WEE #14: Violence Here! (S17E01 - Bonfire of the Manatees)

Published: Jan. 14, 2015, 8 a.m.

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It\'s the cold, dark, depressing month of January, a perfect time for Season 17\'s "Bonfire of the Manatees." Didn\'t this episode open with a St. Patrick\'s Day parade? No? It actually opens with Homer shooting a porno? And it gets worse from there...? Well. This should be a fun one. Join us, with Alec Baldwin as a manatee enthusiast,\\xa0as we dig deep into the excessive violence in this episode, debate what makes a good couch gag, and question why an episode so clearly focused on Marge is really all about Homer. Why is this episode\'s plot a Voltron-like combination of lesser plots? Why is Homer so over-the-top unlikeable here? And what other episodes did this episode\'s writer pen? (The answer MAY shock you, much like a car cigarette lighter). All that, plus, hard-hitting philosophical questions about manatees, more loose analogies to Spider-Man, and our new show sponsor: Vlassic pickles (not really).\\xa0

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