The Simpsons Se13 Ep05 The Blunder Years

“The Blunder Years” is the fifth episode of Season 13. It originally aired on December 9th, 2001. The episode was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and directed by Steven Dean Moore. Paul Newman, Joe Mantegna and Judith Owen guest starred. The episode title is a play on the television show, The Wonder Years, while Homer’s flashbacks are parodies of the movie, Stand By Me.

A restaurant hypnotist causes Homer to relive a traumatic childhood experience where, upon swimming in a quarry, he found a dead body. That dead body turned out to be Waylon Smithers’ father, Waylon Smithers Sr., who had disappeared twenty-five years earlier under suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile, Marge fancies Chad Sexington, the man who appears on the packaging of Burly paper towels.