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The Simpsons S14 E8. When Homer gives Lisa an inappropriate birthday gift, he realizes how little he knows about his daughter. He hires a private detective to get information on her, but...
The Simpsons - season 14, episode 08 - The Dad Who Knew Too Little.In this episode, Homer ask to Lisa "what's your favourite Traveling Wilburys, is it Jeff L...
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―Homer Simpson
"The Dad Who Knew Too Little" is the eighth episode of Season 14.
Lisa is miserable when she realizes how little Homer understands about her. This becomes even more apparent when Homer gets her an insensitive birthday gift. In an effort to get to realize Lisa, more Homer hires private investigator Dexter Colt.
Bart and Lisa are watching a TV show, "Padz" (a parody of MTV Cribs). They see a commercial for a new kind of personal diary, which does not allow anyone else to read it and shocks them if they try. Lisa, tired of Bart reading her diary (which he is doing at that moment and agrees with her), asks Homer and Marge to get her the diary for her birthday, to which they agree. The next day, Homer and Bart go to the Springfield Mall to get the diary for Lisa. Homer gets sidetracked when he sees that the food court is handing out free samples. Bart tells him that they have to get Lisa's gift, but Homer ignores him and pigs out on all the free food (and when that runs out, he starts chewing up some pants in the men's department). Afterwards, they finally go to the toy store to get the diary for Lisa. However, all copies of the diary are sold out (the last one was bought by Mr. Burns minutes earlier to make a list of his adversaries). Clueless about what to get for Lisa, Homer roams about the mall, until he encounters Ned Flanders, who informs him that he can make a personalized movie about Lisa, just like the one Flanders made for Rod. Homer, short of ideas, chooses to go for Ned's idea (with the humorous quote "Stupid Flanders, you're a genius!").
On Lisa's birthday, Bart gives her a laser pointer and demonstrates its power by flashing it at Principal Skinner's crotch, prompting him to examine closely what that "red dot" is (eventually forcing Skinner to expose his crotch in public after it wouldn't go away via removing either his pants or his underwear just as Chief Wiggum drives by and tells him to get it checked out, citing his uncle died of "crotch dot"). Homer gives Lisa her present — the personalized movie he made for her. Lisa becomes disappointed that she didn't get the diary. Nevertheless, she watches the movie and it is a story about Lisa as a sheriff in a Western movie. The dialogue in the movie helps Lisa realize that Homer understands absolutely nothing about her. She runs upstairs crying, making Homer feel miserable as well.
The next day, Homer tries to reconcile with her by asking her about herself, but she blows him off, saying that he had eight years to get to realize her and now it is too late. Later that day, feeling dejected, he goes to Moe's. When he tells the barflies there his problem, Moe tells him to have Lisa followed by a private detective and gives him a card for one, Dexter Colt. That night, Homer goes to a rather seedy part of town to meet Dexter. He wants him to follow Lisa and find out as much as he can, so that he can at least act as the perfect father. The shady detective takes the case.
Dexter starts following Lisa and going through her locker. He even muscles Skinner into showing him Lisa's permanent record. He blackmails Nelson to get him a book report of "The Secret Garden," written by Lisa. Finally, one day, as Homer leaves the power plant, he observes a large envelope on the hood of his car. It is the report by the detective about Lisa.
With the use of the report, he starts to bond with Lisa by playing the songs that she likes and going to a protest against animal testing at a research lab, where monkeys are made to smoke cigarettes and pigs are smothered with makeup. Later that night, Homer tucks her into bed, happy that he's getting to know her, although he almost lets slip about the report.
Homer goes to see Dexter Colt to thank him for all his work. When Colt gives him a bill for $1000 (which includes many unrelated costs, such as a $40 steak that would have been free if he had eaten the whole steak and silver bullets to kill Lisa if she was a werewolf). Homer refuses to pay the incredible amount. Colt pulls out his handgun and grabs Homer by his shirt, but Homer wriggles out of his shirt and jumps out of the window. Colt swears revenge as Homer runs off into the night.
"The Dad Who Knew Too Little" is the eighth of the fourteenth of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the ...
Jan 12, 2003 · The Dad Who Knew Too Little: Directed by Jim Reardon, Mark Kirkland. With Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith. Homer hires a private detective to learn more about Lisa.
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"The Dad Who Knew Too Little" is the eighth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 12, 2003. In the episode, Homer disappoints Lisa on her birthday when he gives her a thoughtless present. He realizes that he knows little ...
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Mar 28, 2024 · "Lisa becomes angry after watching a horribly inaccurate video that Homer gave to her as a birthday gift. The video showcases Homer's complete lack of knowledge regarding his daughter, so he decides to hire a private detective to learn more about Lisa.
