"Million Dollar Abie" is the sixteenth episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
The commissioner of pro football, Bud Armstrong, wants to expand the league, and Homer leads the charge to get the new franchise in Springfield.
To make it a more peaceful experience, they project in front of him, at his request, hippies being beaten by police while music from the Glenn Miller Orchestra plays.
Grampa nearly dies, but Chief Wiggum ends the procedure, telling the doctor that voters have overturned Springfield's assisted-suicide law.
[1] In the "Springfield Blows" music video, Freddy Krueger from the A Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise is seen.
[2] The euthanasia machine, the "diePod", is named after the iPod media player and bears a physical resemblance to it.
[1] Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide thought it was not funny to discuss the ethics of bullfighting.
[4] On Four Finger Discount, Guy Davis and Brendan Dando did not like the episode, calling it "sad and depressing" to feature Grampa attempting suicide and killing a bull.