Season

10

Production Code

5F21

Episode Number

0

Airdate

19 September 1998

Writer

John Swartzwelder

Director

Mark Kirkland

Executive Producer

Mike Scully

DVD Commentary

Matt Groening
Mike Scully
George Meyer
Dan Greaney
Ron Hauge
Julie Thacker-Scully
Mark Kirkland

Editor

Gary M. Gadsdon

Plot When Homer discovers that he's already lived half his life with no accomplishments, he falls into depression, while watching a movie, Homer decides that he should become an inventor. All his first inventions fail with his family, but at dinner when he leans back, he is caught by some extra legs he attached to stop himself from falling over, Homer then realizes that Edison also made one, but never told anyone, so Homer goes to the museum go destroy it. In the end he realizes that he and Edison were more alike than he thought and decides to not destroy it.