by Antonio Martinez

Created on: February 09, 2009   Last Updated: June 29, 2011

It is an episode that I truly love because the morals are valuable. It is an episode that helped me reflect upon my life. It is an episode that even became an inspiration for a music piece.

It is an episode from the inaugural season of "The Simpsons." In fact, it was the tenth episode, titled "Homer's Night Out."

here is not as much laughter in this episode as in other episodes. But the last two minutes of the episode reminds us how important people, especially women, need to be respected and not necessarily objects of our desire.

The episode begins with Bart Simpson browsing through a magazine until he find a spy camera that catches his eye. Once he receives the spy camera, he begins to use the camera extensively. The camera become the weapon of choice as Homer and the rest of the family attend the Rusty Barnacle, but for different reasons. Homer is attending a co-workers bachelor's party, while Marge and the children go out for dinner. When Bart excuses himself to go to the bathroom, he find Homer getting his groove on with a belly dancer. Bart take a picture of the action, which become a hit throughout Springfield. In school, classmates make copies for themselves, while in offices, men become enticed by the seductive pose of the belly dancer. In a local gym, women begin poking fun, until Marge see the pictures.

Once Homer arrives home, Marge demands an explanation, despite Bart's admission that it was his picture. With Homer unable to provide a valid response, Marge kicks Homer out of the house. Before Homer can get an apology from Marge, Marge points out the key lesson about Homer's behavior: it was not just his actions that angered Marge, but that his action could cost Bart in the long run, because if Bart find out that his father is a person who enjoys portraying women as sex objects, Bart would think that is a suitable lifestyle. So Marge has one plan to save the marriage and even save Bart: tour the burlesque shops and strip clubs to find the belly dancer.

After several unsuccessful attempts, Homer manages to find the belly dancer backstage at the Sapphire Lounge in the Ye Olde Off Ramp Inn. While Homer talks to the belly dancer, he get himself caught in the action returning to the same way that got him in trouble. When he see Bart, he begin to quiet down, and so doest the rest of the room, and begin his soliloquy.

The soliloquy is by far, the most important part of the episode, as

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