G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)

"G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	Season 18
Directed by	Unknown
Written by	Unknown
Original air date	2006-11-12
Episode features
Couch gag	Car Wash

G.I. D'oh is an episode from the eighteenth season of The Simpsons.

Synopsis

Template:Spoiler After Bart gets out of a commitment to join the Army at 18, Homer falls prey to a couple of Army recruiters and lands himself in basic training. Homer, of course, treats it like summer camp and infuriates his hard-nosed colonel (Kiefer Sutherland) when he is unfazed by the constant hazing and humiliation. Homer is assigned as the enemy of the Army's war games, but when the war games get out of hand and Springfield becomes the battlefield, Homer and the Springfield community must join forces before the city goes up in smoke (synopsis is from Official Fox Press Release).

Trivia

• Kiefer Sutherland will make two appearances during the 18th season. This episode and 24 Minutes, the 400th episode of the show, that will air on May 20, 2007. His father and fellow Canadian actor Donald Sutherland appeared in the episode Lisa the Iconoclast.
• This is the third time Homer has joined the armed forces. The first was the Marines, referenced when Marge stated in Two Dozen and One Greyhounds that some of the people coming for her dinner party included Homer's old drill instructor. The second was the Naval Reserve in Simpson Tide.
• A new trailer for The Simpsons Movie will be shown along side this episode.
• Martika's Toy Soldiers is used in this episode.
• The advertisement on the back of PARADE is for Laramie cigarettes.

Cultural References

• The title is a reference to G.I. Joe.
• The scene where Homer locks the toy helicopter in a closet full of dynamite,everything explodes and the army colonel is watching what the camera in the toy helicopter sees shows "That's all folks!" is a parody of Looney Tunes.
• The Recruitment officers stating that even the dumbest people don't want to join can be taken as a reference to John Kerry's "botched joke" stating that those who don't study wind-up in Iraq.

Quotes

• Homer: Take that!
  (a sewer lid falls on Homer's fingers as a tank runs over it)
  Homer: Fingers! Fingers! Fingers!