Season

20

Production Code

LABF08

Broadcast Index

S20E18

Episode Number

438

Airdate

26 April 2009

Writer

Rob LaZebnik

Director

Matthew Nastuk

Executive Producer

Al Jean

Editor

Gary M. Gadsdon

Plot While Homer, Bart and Lisa are at the Squidport, Homer swallows a Flaming Stick which is worsened in a prank by Bart who makes him drink Lighter Fluid. Homer's Tongue is placed in a cast and as a result, he becomes a Supertaster, and is required to eat food that has no flavour. Lisa brings home some food from the school, which happens to be the blandest food in the world. <br /><br />Homer starts to eat his meals in the school, where he embarrasses Bart. Bart shuns Homer and sends him away. Homer sits with a kid and his mother who pressures him to succeed. Homer meets up with other Helicopter Parents who pressure their kids into success, and he starts to interfere with Bart and Lisa's lives. <br /><br />He tries to assist Bart in creating a Balsa wood model of Westminster Abby and he attempts to make Lisa more popular, which while Successful, Lisa doesnt enjoy it and at the same time, Homer practically destroys Bart's model which he himself was building in a dream, which in the presentation, is declared the winner as it seems that there was no input from parents, though Bart publicly announces that Homer was involved.