She and the children explain how Homer became obsessed with the painting at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts while chaperoning a field trip.
Megan hired the identical twins of the security guards to rob their brothers so she could collect the insurance policy for her girlfriend.
Unbeknownst to Burns, the painting was already switched with a tote bag by Lisa, who stole it to prevent it from being taken to a mansion and hidden away from people who love it.
[3] Curran pitched an idea for an episode based on municipalities that were selling public assets to settle debts.
Hader previously guest starred as another character in the twenty-fourth season episode "The Fabulous Faker Boy."
[6] He appeared several times on the show starting with the tenth season episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain".
[7] "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" scored a 0.8 rating with a 3 share and was watched by 2.10 million people, making it Fox's second-highest-rated show of the night.
Club gave this episode a B, stating, "At this point in its record-setting run, The Simpsons is entitled—encouraged, even—to muck about with its format all it wants.
Starting out with Homer, fancy duds and ping pong paddle at the ready, bidding millions of dollars for Joan Miró's abstract painting The Poetess, being outbid by first Mr. Burns and then 'billionaire tech mogul' Megan Matheson (Cecily Strong), and, enraged, being dragged out by security bellowing, 'Don't take that painting, I love it'—clearly, there's a mystery here.
[6] Retired Akron Beacon Journal writer Rich Heldenfels called the episode "a dead-on parody of Banacek.