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Midnight Rx"Midnight Rx" is an episode of The Simpsons from its sixteenth season. It was the first new episode of 2005. Episode details Production Number: FABF16
Original Air Date: January 16, 2005
Writer: Marc Wilmore
Director: Nancy Kruse
Couch Gag: The family rushes in and sits on the couch normally, when Lisa says "What? Can't we sit on the couch without anything happening?". Homer is then impaled with a large spear.
Synopsis Mr. Burns reserves the Springfield Air and Space Museum for a plant company party. While there, Burns acts strangely kind to all of his employees. At the end of the party, Burns announces that he will terminate the prescription drug plan. The workers chase after him, but Burns is able to escape in a wacky flying machine. At home, the Simpsons try to figure out how they can afford new prescription drugs. Homer decides to get another job, but he can't have his choice of starring on Friends as Rachel’s Irish cousin. However, he is unable to get a new job. Soon, other companies follow Burns' lead and all prescription drug plans are canceled. At the retirement home, all prescription drugs are unaffordable and the staff decided to let the old folks go cold turkey. Grandpa Simpson comes up with a plan to get more drugs for Springfield. He and Homer go to Canada and, with help from Grandpa's friend, they are able to get unlimited access to the drugs they need and get massive amounts of the drugs. They take them back into the United States and are praised in Springfield. Later, Apu and Ned ask Homer if they can come along on one of his smuggling trips. He accepts, even though Ned tries to convert Apu on the way (a spoof of how children act on long car rides). On the way back, Ned offers his home-brewed coffee to the others and gives a cup to Apu. However, the incredibly hot coffee causes Apu to scream uncontrollably and Ned gives him a wet towel to calm him down; this makes Apu look like Osama Bin Laden. When the border guard sees them, he thinks Apu is a terrorist and when Homer tries to calm the guards down, the drugs are revealed and they are thrown in jail. They are later allowed to leave Canada, but never return. Meanwhile, Smithers' thyroid swells up dangerously as he could no longer afford the medicine he needs that was provided under the drug plan. With his assistant dying and not wanting to teach a new one his filing system, Burns vows to move Heaven and Earth to save him. He takes Homer and Grandpa along in his plane, the Plywood Pelican, a parody of the Spruce Goose, which he built for Nazi Germany. After getting the drugs, while flying back to Springfield, the plane loses altitude and Burns jumps with Homer and Grandpa's parachutes. They land in Springfield Town Square, right on Chief Wiggum's squad car. Wiggum arrests Grandpa, but the people of Springfield protest, as his smuggling has gotten them the medicine they need. Wiggum lets Grandpa leave. Meanwhile, Burns arrives at his mansion with Smithers' medicine and kissing him makes Smithers conscious again. Burns then decides to bring back the drug plan to his full time employees. Homer gets a job as a free lance consultant, but wonders what a lump on his neck is. Quotes - Canadian Ned: Well, diddly cut my bacon. Look at all these Yankee-doodily-Dandies. Is there another Vietnam going on?
Ned: Well, hi neighbor-reino to the North. I like the cut of your gibberish.
(As Homer and Apu look, both Neds go into a converstion of "diddly-doodily-daddily" nonsense)
Canadian Ned: You want a huff of a joint-er-reino? It's legal here."
Ned: (shocked) They warned me Satan would be attractive! Let's go! - Homer: (looking at the Plywood Pelican a parody of the Spruce Goose) A wooden plane? 'Bout time trees were good for something other than standing around!
Lisa: (reading pamphlet) "The Plywood Pelican is larger than a football field and weighs more than the state of New Hampshire. It was flown only once by its builder, C. Montgomery Burns."
Burns: I flew it at an altitude of six feet for a distance of four and a half feet. We later learned that rain makes it catch fire. Then the Fhrer fired me. - Burns: We're losing altitude! We'll have to jettison all unnecessary weight!
(Burns and Grandpa look at Homer)
Homer: Don't dump me! I can lose weight, just give me a chance! (Homer begins doing Jumping-Jacks) One, two... (giving up) Eh, forget it; I'd rather die. - Grandpa: (bursting into the Simpsons' house) I have the answer!
Homer: Dad?
Grandpa: (relieved) Oh, thank God this is the right place. I burst into four homes before this one.
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