Gump Roast

"Gump Roast" is the seventeenth episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

Homer Simpson sits on a park bench holding a box of chocolates, when Chief Wiggum appears to arrest him for impersonating a movie character.

The Simpson family then arrives to take Homer to the Friars' Club, where he is roasted by Krusty the Clown and other prominent citizens of Springfield.

A starstruck Kang and Kodos make a deal with the citizens of Springfield: they will spare the Earth if the townspeople give them tickets to the People's Choice Awards and the Daytime Emmys.

"Gump Roast" was co-written by Dan Castellaneta and his wife Deb Lacusta, while Mark Kirkland served as director.

When the cast members settled the salary issue and returned to work, Castellaneta and Lacusta presented their script to show runner Al Jean, who put the episode into production.

A parody of Billy Joel's “We Didn't Start the Fire”, it was originally the same length as that song, but was edited when the episode ended up running long.

[6] The opening scene, which shows Homer sitting on a bench holding a box of chocolates, is a reference to the movie Forrest Gump.

[9] Following the home video release of the thirteenth season of The Simpsons, "Gump Roast" received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics.

"[13] Nate Boss of Project-Blu held a similar view, stated that the plot "made no sense" and that the episode as a whole was "complete lameness.