Season

8

Production Code

3F24

Episode Number

0

Airdate

04 January 1997

Writer

Ken Keeler

Director

Jim Reardon

Executive Producer

Bill Oakley
Josh Weinstein

DVD Commentary

Matt Groening
Josh Weinstein
Molly Weinstein
Simon Weinstein
Jim Reardon
George Meyer

Editor

Gary M. Gadsdon

Plot At the Springfield Chilli Cook Off, Chief Wiggum gets Homer to eat some chili thats too hot even for him by adding Guatemalan Insanity Peppers. Homer gets one up on Wiggum and managed to eat several of them whole. He gets sick and starts to hallucinate. In the wilderness of a desert, Homer meets his Spirit Guide in the shape of a Coyote (voiced by Johnny Cash). The Coyote tells Homer to look for his Soul Mate, which he believes not to be Marge, after searching he runs for a Lighthouse which turns out to be run by a computer. Marge finds Homer in the Lighthouse and Homer realizes that he and Marge actually are Soul Mates.