59-413: " You Only Move Twice " is the second episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons . It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 3, 1996. The episode, based on a story idea by Greg Daniels , has three major concepts: the family moves to a new town; Homer starts to work for a friendly, sympathetic boss; and that boss, unbeknownst to Homer,
118-418: A conspiracy theorist ). Daniels also took the writers to Texas to do some research with reporter notebooks, a process he would use for The Office and Parks and Recreation . Judge was ultimately so pleased with Daniels' contributions that he chose to credit him as a co-creator, rather than give him the "developer" credit usually reserved for individuals brought on to a pilot written by someone else. During
177-413: A spin-off for the series. After considering several ideas, Daniels and co-creator Michael Schur eventually decided that the series would not get a spin-off because Daniels and Schur "couldn't find the right fit". After Amy Poehler agreed to play the lead, they decided their new series would revolve around an optimistic female bureaucrat in small-town government. The premise of Parks and Recreation
236-477: A Kill . Homer tackles and inadvertently helps get a character modeled after Sean Connery 's Bond killed, following a parody of the laser scene from Goldfinger . Miss Goodthighs from the 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale makes an appearance in the episode. She can be seen attacking a character modeled after U.S. Army General Norman Schwarzkopf . At the beginning of the episode, Waylon Smithers hums " I work for Monty Burns, M-M-M-M-M-M-Monty Burns " to
295-612: A Maggie-shaped head to match the Homer and Marge shaped heads of the previous two sets and also a standard rectangular shaped box. Like the seventh season box set, both versions are available for sale separately. Season eight received critical acclaim and won multiple awards, including two Emmy Awards : " Homer's Phobia " won for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) in 1997, and Alf Clausen and Ken Keeler won for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics" with
354-617: A TV Production, and the WAC Winner Best Director for Primetime Series at the 1998 World Animation Celebration. Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation awarded the episode the GLAAD Media Award for "Outstanding TV – Individual Episode". On Rotten Tomatoes, the eighth season of The Simpsons has a 100% approval rating based on 7 critical reviews. Homer walks home one night from Moe's Tavern . On his way he sees an eerie glowing creature. The next day Homer's story
413-525: A child, as well as reading books by humorist S.J. Perelman at age 11. His first joke was a Carnac the Magnificent joke for his father which was later used for The Office episode, " The Dundies ". Daniels attended Phillips Exeter Academy and then Harvard University where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon with Conan O'Brien . After graduating in 1985, the two accepted jobs at Not Necessarily
472-523: A deal to executive produce a new pilot written by The Office writer Owen Ellickson and starring The Office cast member Craig Robinson . He served as director and executive producer on the TBS series People of Earth . In January 2019, Netflix announced that he would write and produce a new series called Space Force starring Steve Carell , who was the lead in Daniels' previous sitcom The Office . He created
531-532: A deal with NBC to produce several series for Universal Television . He also developed the British series Friday Night Dinner for American audiences. The remake was picked up for a pilot, which was written by Daniels and directed by Ken Kwapis , and featured Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub as the mother and father. The pilot was not picked up for series. He also teamed with Mindy Kaling and Alan Yang to work on two different animated series for NBC and made
590-496: A favorite. In The A.V. Club , Erik Adams called it one of the best episodes of the season. He praises the climactic scene: "It's as good an approximation of this type of James Bond sequence as you'll see outside of the first Austin Powers movie, with the added twist that Homer's resignation holds our attention better than any cauldron of scalding-hot green liquids. Character and relationship holds sway—even when one of those characters
649-460: A lot."—seals Brooks's place in The Simpsons ' history. The Simpson family's new street address, 15201 Maple Systems Road, is writer Ken Keeler 's favorite street name in the show. IGN also picked the episode as the best of the eighth season, saying it "is a wonderful example of slowly building up the comedy [...] it's impossible to fathom this one not being very high up on any list of
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#1732854548097708-476: A mainly positive reception. Out of the six TV series that Daniels has worked on, four of them— Saturday Night Live , The Simpsons , King of the Hill and The Office —were named among Time reviewer James Poniewozik 's All Time 100 TV Shows. His work on The Simpsons has received acclaim from critics and fans. Two of his episodes, "Bart Sells His Soul" and "22 Short Films About Springfield", were listed among
767-469: A majority of its run, according to the Nielsen ratings . The series has also been put on several top series lists by many publications including Time , BuddyTV , Metacritic , The Washington Post , and Paste . His writing credits for the series are often considered the best of the series. Despite its early acclaim, later seasons have received criticism for a dip in quality, notably after Daniels
826-416: A new town, Cypress Creek, required the animators to create entirely new layouts and background designs. Albert Brooks , in his fourth appearance on The Simpsons , guest stars as the voice of Hank Scorpio, one of the most popular one-time characters in the entire series. The episode has received critical acclaim. IGN named "You Only Move Twice" the best episode of the eighth season and Albert Brooks as one of
885-470: A reboot of King of the Hill for Hulu, Zach Woods and Brandon Gardner's In the Know , and Caitie Delaney and Caleb Hearon's Best Buds for Peacock , Chelm: The Smartest Place on Earth with Sacha Baron Cohen for Cartoon Network and Max , and Common Side Effects for Adult Swim . They were also producing Nicole Silverberg's Bad Crimes , starring Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus for Netflix, but it
944-610: A standard rectangular cardboard box featuring Maggie looking through a photo album while the rest of the Simpsons family are taking a picture. The menus continue the same format from the previous three seasons, and the overall theme is various characters posing for photographs. Greg Daniels Gregory Martin Daniels (born June 13, 1963) is an American screenwriter, television producer, and director. He has worked on several television series, including writing for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons , adapting The Office for
1003-591: A then-record five Super Bowls and were the defending Super Bowl champions while the Broncos had yet to win a league title; moreover, the American Football Conference of which the Broncos were part had not won the Super Bowl since the 1983 season. Ironically, in real life the Broncos have been the far more successful team since the episode was aired, appearing in four Super Bowls and winning three. In contrast,
1062-432: A week", he was to reprise the role of Scorpio for The Simpsons Movie , but the staff felt that a new character was a better idea and created the character of Russ Cargill for Brooks to voice. The animators needed to design completely new sets for the episode. Christian Roman , John Reiss and Mike Anderson storyboarded the episode. In the original animatic , Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II were not present, so
1121-521: Is a supervillain . Bart , Lisa and Marge each have individual secondary storylines. John Swartzwelder wrote the episode, which was directed by Mike B. Anderson . The episode's title is a reference to the James Bond film You Only Live Twice . Many elements of the episode parody the James Bond films , with a character modeled after Bond making a brief appearance. Setting the second and third acts in
1180-511: Is inspired. Scorpio is a good character, especially his Christopher Walken -esque killing spree." They named the owl grabbing the chipmunk during Lisa's trip to the forest one of the greatest sight gags in the show's history. Chris Turner also felt that the remedial boy Gordy's line may be "the broadest parody of a Canadian accent in the history of American pop culture". Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star included "You Only Move Twice" on his list of
1239-438: Is much nicer than Springfield , agree to move there. Abandoning their house, the Simpsons pack up and leave town. In Cypress Creek, Homer's new boss, Hank Scorpio, stops by the family's new house to introduce himself. Scorpio takes a shine to Homer and makes him the chief motivator in the nuclear division. Meanwhile, Bart starts school, but he soon finds that his new class is far above the standards of Springfield Elementary and
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#17328545480971298-435: Is printed in the local newspaper. FBI agents Mulder and Scully read the story and go to Springfield to investigate this X-file . After talking with Homer they find his credibility shaky and quickly leave again. Bart and Homer then set up a camp to videotape the creature. When the creature appears, Lisa reveals that the creature is actually Mr. Burns after a medical treatment by Dr. Riviera . The DVD box set for season eight
1357-444: Is sent to a remedial education class. Lisa goes for a nature walk and discovers she is allergic to all the wildlife around Cypress Creek. Marge tries to go about her daily chores, but discovers that the house has an automated system to do chores for her. Marge loses her sense of purpose and begins drinking wine. On Homer's first day at work, Scorpio gives him a tour of the company and listens with interest to his secret dream of owning
1416-681: Is strapping on a flamethrower." Bibliography The Simpsons season 8 The eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons originally aired on the Fox network between October 27, 1996, and May 18, 1997, beginning with " Treehouse of Horror VII ". The showrunners for the eighth production season were Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein , while the season was produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television . The broadcast season contained two episodes with 3F-series production codes, indicating that were hold-over episodes from
1475-530: The 59th Street Bridge as a show of truth. Homer remains oblivious to Scorpio's supervillainous tendencies, which include work on the aforementioned doomsday device and attempting to kill his arch-nemesis, Mr. Bont , with a laser. Bont escapes, Homer tackles him, and Scorpio praises Homer. Scorpio's guards fatally shoot Bont. At dinner, Homer proudly tells the family how well he is doing at work, but he discovers they hate Cypress Creek and want to return to Springfield. Dejected, Homer visits Scorpio for advice while
1534-573: The Amazon science fiction comedy series Upload . Gregory Martin Daniels was born on June 13, 1963, in New York City , the son of Judy, who worked at the New York Public Library , and Aaron Daniels, who was president of ABC Radio Network . Daniels' father is of Russian-Jewish descent. Daniels stated that he became interested in comedy by watching Monty Python's Flying Circus as
1593-533: The Dallas Cowboys football team. He tells Homer that his dream may come true someday. Homer does an excellent job of motivating his team. During a meeting with Homer, Scorpio excuses himself, turns to a screen, and threatens the United Nations Security Council by saying they have 72 hours to deliver an unspecified amount of gold or face the consequences via a doomsday device. He promptly blows up
1652-629: The Goldfinger theme, but the final version was shorter and the lyrics were sped up. The writers wanted the song to be sung by Shirley Bassey , who sang several Bond themes, but they could not get her to record the part. Homer's disappointment at being given the Denver Broncos in lieu of the Dallas Cowboys was a reference to the Cowboys' success at the time. When the episode was aired, the Cowboys had won
1711-522: The Nielsen ratings for the week of October 28 – November 3, 1996, with a rating of 8.5, equivalent to approximately 8.2 million viewing households. It was the second highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, following The X-Files . Since airing, the episode has received universal acclaim from fans and television critics. In 2006, IGN named Brooks The Simpsons ' best guest star citing Scorpio as his best role. The Phoenix.com also placed Brooks at
1770-588: The United States Army Special Forces assault Globex HQ. Scorpio advises Homer to do what's best for his family. Scorpio straps on a flamethrower and holds his ground while Homer sadly walks away, kicking a grenade in the process. The next day, the family returns to Springfield, and Homer receives the Denver Broncos as a present from Scorpio, who has successfully managed to seize the East Coast of
1829-403: The fifth and sixth seasons , Judge and Daniels became less involved with the show. They eventually focused on the show again, although Daniels steadily became more involved with other projects. In 2005, Daniels adapted the popular BBC mockumentary series The Office for American audiences. The series premiered to mixed reviews, So the writers worked to make it more "optimistic" and make
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1888-455: The seventh production season , and two episodes with 3G-series production codes, which have never been explicitly confirmed to be part of any specific production season (but are speculated to be relabeled 3F-series episodes) The DVD box set was released in Region 1 on August 15, 2006, Region 2 on October 2, 2006, and Region 4 on September 27, 2006. The set was released in two different forms:
1947-456: The "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics" category for the song "Who Needs The Kwik-E-Mart?" from "Homer and Apu". For season six , he wrote " Homer Badman ", " Lisa's Wedding ", and the "Time and Punishment" segment from " Treehouse of Horror V ". The latter episode became the third of the series to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program . In the seventh season , Daniels wrote " Bart Sells His Soul ", which
2006-888: The Amazon original sci-fi series Upload which started streaming in May 2020. In 2021, it was announced that Daniels and King of the Hill co-creator Mike Judge had reunited to form an animation company called Bandera Entertainment , to "expand the format to include as many subgenres as live-action fare." Their first produced series was Anna Drezen 's Praise Petey starring Annie Murphy , John Cho , and frequent Judge collaborator Stephen Root among others. The series premiered on July 21, 2023, on Freeform and Hulu , and received mostly positive reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes ratings of 80% Fresh from critics, and 90% Fresh from audiences. Other series in development from Daniels and Judge include an adaptation of Exploding Kittens for Netflix ,
2065-416: The Cowboys have not appeared in the Super Bowl since 1996. Since Homer Simpson took "ownership" of the Broncos in this episode, as of January 2023, the team has not lost to the Dallas Cowboys. In the seven games that the two teams have played since this episode aired, the Broncos are 7-0, outscoring the Cowboys by a combined score of 232-159. After its original broadcast, "You Only Move Twice" finished 50th in
2124-487: The Hill , with Mike Judge . The show ran thirteen years before its cancellation in 2009. During the run of King of the Hill, he worked on several other series, including the American version of The Office and Parks and Recreation . In 2016, he was an executive producer on the TBS series People of Earth . With The Office star Steve Carell , Daniels co-created the Netflix comedy series Space Force . He also created
2183-544: The News , but they were soon fired due to budget cuts. Daniels and Conan O'Brien met Lorne Michaels in late 1987 and were given a three-week try-out in the Saturday Night Live writing staff. While on the staff, Daniels won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program . Daniels left the writing staff in 1990. Daniels joined the writing staff of the Fox show The Simpsons in 1993. He
2242-522: The United States . The episode's original concept came from a story idea by Greg Daniels . The writing staff came up with three major concepts. The first involves the Simpson family moving away from Springfield. The writers initially hoped the audience would be fooled into thinking the move was permanent. As a result, they tried to work in as many characters during the episode's first act to make it seem that
2301-588: The United States, and co-creating Parks and Recreation and King of the Hill . Daniels attended Harvard University , where he befriended and began collaborating with Conan O'Brien . His first writing credit was for Not Necessarily the News , before he was laid off because of budget cuts. He joined the writing staff of The Simpsons during its fifth season. He wrote several classic episodes, including " Lisa's Wedding ", " Bart Sells His Soul ", and " 22 Short Films About Springfield ". He left The Simpsons to co-create another long-running animated series, King of
2360-520: The animators went back and added them, even though they are not a part of the story. It is a common misconception that Scorpio's design was modeled after Richard Branson . The final design, which underwent an overhaul, was hailed by the writers as "the perfect madman". All the students in Bart's remedial class were initially given hair modeled on Ralph Wiggum 's, but the staff felt that the children looked "kinda troubled", so their designs were altered. Mr. Bont,
2419-562: The best Simpsons episodes of all time." Reviewer Robert Canning gave the episode a "Masterful" score of ten out of ten, saying the episode "may well be the greatest Simpsons episode of all time". Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide , called it "a tremendous episode" saying it has "some really good moments, most of them involving Bart, Lisa, and Marge's loathing for Cypress Creek. The remedial kids are fab (especially Warren), and Lisa's second chipmunk encounter
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2478-455: The best episodes of The Simpsons . In his review of The Complete Eighth Season DVD set, Raul Burriel described it as one of the "most clever episodes the series has ever given us". Entertainment.ie named it among the 10 greatest Simpsons episodes of all time. In 2019, Consequence of Sound ranked it number seven on its list of top 30 Simpsons episodes. In 2020, Al Jean acknowledged "You Only Move Twice" as an episode many consider to be
2537-466: The best guest stars in the history of the show. Smithers is offered a job at the Globex Corporation but turns it down. Being the next-longest tenured employee of the plant, Homer gets the job. He informs his family that the new job pays better but involves them moving to Cypress Creek. The family initially opposes the move, but they watch a video about the planned community and, seeing that it
2596-583: The depressing idea of Marge becoming an alcoholic in the episode. There was originally another idea involving Grampa Simpson . He is left behind in Springfield and receives recorded greeting phone calls from the family. The plot went on for four sequences, all of which were cut from the episode because of time constraints but were later included in the DVD release. The show's writers did not worry too much about perfecting Scorpio's lines because they knew Albert Brooks, who
2655-438: The family was really leaving. The second involved Homer getting a new job with an employee-friendly boss—in stark contrast to the tyrannical Mr. Burns . The third was that Homer's new boss would be a supervillain resembling Ernst Stavro Blofeld . This element was meant to be in the background, unbeknownst to Homer. The writers sought to give every family member their own story. They spent some time arguing over whether to include
2714-404: The lead character, Michael Scott , more likable. The second season was significantly better received and it was named the second best TV series of 2006 by James Poniewozik , writing that "Producer Greg Daniels created not a copy but an interpretation that sends up distinctly American work conventions ... with a tone that's more satiric and less mordant. ... The new boss is different from
2773-515: The man Homer tackles, was initially supposed to be James Bond , but Fox would not let the writers use the name because of concerns over possible lawsuits. They finally decided on "Bont" because it was the most similar name they could legally use. The final scene at Globex contains several references to action and James Bond films. The episode's title and many references are from the Bond film You Only Live Twice , as well as an allusion to A View to
2832-400: The old boss, and that's fine by me." He gave the acceptance speech at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards when the American version of The Office won the award for Outstanding Comedy Series , and he received an award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series at the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards . Following the success of The Office , Ben Silverman asked Daniels to create
2891-438: The show's creative team's top five favorite episodes in 2003. Series creator Matt Groening and executive producer James L. Brooks have named his episodes among their favorites. Other staff members and several critics have praised his work. His other animated series and his first credit as a creator, King of the Hill , has received positive reviews as well. IGN named it the 27th best-animated television series and
2950-472: The site mainly complimented the series for its subtle character humor. No one seems to nail these characters like Daniels does. It was a daunting challenge to write off Michael in a way that was emotionally satisfying, true to the spirit of the show, but also funny. Daniels expertly walked that tightrope and threw in some treats for longtime fans as well. Cindy White, IGN His next television series, The Office , ranked as NBC's highest rated show for
3009-584: The song "We Put the Spring in Springfield" from the episode " Bart After Dark ". Clausen also received an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Music Direction" for " Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious ". " Brother from Another Series " was nominated for the Emmy for "Sound Mixing For a Comedy Series or a Special". For "Homer's Phobia", Mike Anderson won the Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in
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#17328545480973068-406: The top of their best guest voices list of Simpsons characters. In his book Planet Simpson , author Chris Turner says Brooks is second only to Phil Hartman among the show's guest stars writing that he "brings hilarious satirical seamlessness to Scorpio's paradoxical nature". He believes the delivery of Scorpio's final line—"But Homer, on your way out if you wanna kill somebody, it would help me
3127-430: The tune of " Hooray for Hollywood ". The sign at the elementary school displays http://www.studynet.edu . Weinstein called it "one of the show's most obviously dated jokes" because the idea of a school having its own website was almost a novelty in 1996. The song at the end of the show, written by Ken Keeler , is a parody of various Bond themes. Keeler originally wrote it to be three seconds longer and sound more like
3186-532: Was voice acting the character, would rewrite or ad lib most of them. Entire sections of Scorpio's dialogue such as his hammock speech are Brooks's lines, not the writers'. Dan Castellaneta described how, after he prepared something for Homer to say in response to Brooks' new Scorpio lines, Brooks would deliver totally different lines on the next take. Show runner Josh Weinstein said Homer's reactions are exactly like those of someone talking to Albert Brooks. In all, his recordings were over two hours long. For "about
3245-633: Was based on a childhood experience. His final credit for the series was for " 22 Short Films About Springfield ", which he served as supervising writer alongside showrunner Josh Weinstein . They were given the responsibility of linking all the stories together. Daniels left The Simpsons to work on King of the Hill (another Fox show) alongside Mike Judge . Daniels rewrote the pilot script and created several important characters that did not appear in Judge's first draft (including Luanne and Cotton), as well as some characterization ideas (e.g., making Dale Gribble
3304-481: Was canceled mid-production. Daniels met Susanne Dari Lieberstein while she was Lorne Michaels' assistant at Saturday Night Live and they eventually married. She is the sister of Paul Lieberstein , writer for King of the Hill and the replacement showrunner of The Office for Daniels. Daniels was also the brother-in-law to The Office cast member Angela Kinsey until her divorce from The Office writer Warren Lieberstein in 2010. Daniels's work has received
3363-502: Was hired in the fifth season following the departures of many of the original team of writers. His first day also coincided with O'Brien's last day on the series. When he initially joined the series, he believed the series had gone past the "glory years" and that he had "missed the boat". In the fifth season, Daniels penned " Homer and Apu ", " Secrets of a Successful Marriage ", and "The Devil and Homer Simpson" segment of " Treehouse of Horror IV ". Daniels received an Emmy nomination in
3422-662: Was partly inspired by the portrayal of local politics on the HBO drama series The Wire , as well as the renewed interest in and optimism about politics stemming from the 2008 United States presidential election . The series initially received mixed reviews, much like The Office in the first season, but after a re-approach to its format and tone, the later seasons received critical acclaim. For four years, he split his time between The Office and Parks and Recreation , before eventually returning as full-time showrunner for The Office for its ninth and final season. In 2011, Daniels made
3481-464: Was released by 20th Century Fox in the United States and Canada on August 15, 2006, nine years after it had completed broadcast on television. As well as every episode from the season, the DVD release features bonus material including deleted scenes , Animatics , and commentaries for every episode. As with the previous season, the set was released in two different packagings: a "Collector's Edition" plastic packaging molded to look like Maggie's head, and
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