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"Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition"

Episode Information Episode number: 806 807 Season number: D+ E4 Production code: 36ABF20 36ABF21 Original airdate: June 17, 2026 Billboard gag: Identity expansion? Sherman Stokes Existential Counsel Chalkboard gag: I will not hit the "skip intro" button Couch gag: Otto Wolf Guest star(s): Betty Gilpin as Amy Jon Hamm as himself Laufey as herself Tegan and Sara as the "A Time for Hopeful Hope" singers Showrunner: Matt Selman Co-showrunner: Michael Price Written by: Michael Price (Part 1) Nick Dahan (Part 2) Directed by: Matthew Nastuk (Part 1) Timothy Bailey (Part 2)

"Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition" is the fifth Disney+ exclusive episode of The Simpsons and the eight hundred sixth and eight hundred seventh episode overall. It originally released on Disney+ on June 17, 2026. The episode was written by Michael Price and Nick Dahan and directed by Matthew Nastuk and Timothy Bailey. It guest stars Betty Gilpin as Amy, Jon Hamm as himself, Laufey as herself, and Tegan and Sara as the "A Time for Hopeful Hope" singers.

Synopsis

Homer and Marge's fun couples' date night goes off the rails when Marge learns Homer left the kids unsupervised with only the doorbell camera as a babysitter. Frustrated with her imperfect husband, a tipsy Marge stirs up a trilogy of fantasies of a different Homer.

Plot

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Marge is getting ready for a couples' date night at Clangerz by 'Zerz with her and Homer, Carl and Naima, and Lenny and his new girlfriend, Amy. However, the babysitter hasn't shown up, and they only have a few minutes before they need to leave. Homer tells Marge to go ahead and he'll wait for the babysitter to arrive. Marge is worried because she would have to carry a conversation with his work friends, and she doesn't think she can do it. Marge shows up at the restaurant, and after she greets everyone, she and Amy introduce themselves to each other. Marge then makes a joke that everyone finds funny, alleviating some of her worries.

Back at home, Homer is still waiting for the babysitter to arrive when the doorbell rings. Homer answers the door to find Shauna and Jimbo there, with Shauna's leg broken and her high on painkillers. Homer refuses to let Shauna babysit the kids in that condition. Meanwhile, at Clangerz, Marge finds that she is doing well at keeping the conversation interesting as she starts giving hot takes that everyone agrees with. A waiter, Aperol Fritz, comes to their table and offers them free Aperol spritz cocktails. At home, Homer is trying to find a replacement babysitter to no avail. Homer then comes up with an idea and sets the kids up in chairs outside in front of the Ding doorbell camera and tells them not to move from in front of the camera. He then leaves to join everyone on the date.

Homer arrives at Clangerz and immediately tries to take control of the conversation, which annoys Marge. As Marge tries to steer the conversation back to something everyone can talk about, Homer starts yelling while looking at his phone, where the camera shows Bart and Lisa running around because a sprinkler is going off. Marge realizes that Homer left the kids unsupervised, becomes angry, and snaps at Homer, telling him to go home and look after the kids. After Homer leaves, Lenny, Carl, and Naima go over to the Jet Ace! arcade game to play it, leaving just Marge and Amy at the table. Marge tells Amy that she sometimes wishes Homer were different, like a fighter pilot in the Jet Ace! game. She looks into her drink and imagines this scenario.

Jet Ace!

Homer is an ace pilot under the callsign "Bold Eagle". On a test flight, he breaks the sound barrier and is determined to break the smell barrier too. During the flight, one of his engines breaks off and hits Moe's plane, causing it to crash into Mount Springfield, killing him. When he arrives back at Fighting 799th, Seymour Skinner and Gary Chalmers criticize him for destroying a $70 million aircraft and getting his wingman killed. Homer is ordered to have a psychological evaluation to determine the source of his reckless behavior. Marge is assigned as his psychiatrist, but Homer demands to do the therapy his way, which involves doing it while taking part in dangerous activities.

While flying with a wingsuit, Homer and Marge finally make a breakthrough and realize that Homer is afraid of fear and has caused all of his wingmen to die. This realization causes Homer to pull his parachute and become more emotionally vulnerable. However, Marge likes the vulnerability, and she and Homer make out and have sex under the parachute. Afterward, a siren goes off and Homer and Marge rush back to base. Skinner and Chalmers reveal that America's greatest enemy is getting ready to launch an attack and they have to stop them. Skinner and Chalmers tell the pilots that the country of Nonexististan has a weapons-grade nuclear reactor in a heavily fortified slot canyon and they need to destroy it, with one pilot needing to do the coffin roll maneuver. Homer is the only pilot who can do this, but due to his therapy, he's now too scared to do so. He tries to flee, but Marge stops him and tells him that she will be there every step of the way.

The pilots fly off to the canyon to begin the attack, and Homer is surprised to find Marge is his wingman on the mission. Homer and Marge have another therapy session to make Homer fearless again so he can perform the coffin roll maneuver. During the flight, Homer's plane gets damaged. However, he pushes on and pulls off the maneuver, destroying the nuclear reactor. As they celebrate, Homer tells Marge that she is the best wingman he ever had. Homer and Marge remember what happened to all his previous wingmen as a piece of the reactor falls on Marge, killing her.

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As Marge snaps back to reality, Amy tells her that she has been staring into her drink for eight minutes. Homer arrives back home and tells the kids that he'll have to babysit them after all. However, he realizes he has left his keys at the restaurant, meaning they are locked out. Lisa tells Homer that Marge keeps a spare key inside a fake rock, which Homer instead throws through the window of the house. Marge watches this unfold on her phone and keeps drinking. She tries to buy everyone another round, but her card gets declined because Homer bought the Centipede arcade machine for $3,000 before he left the restaurant. Marge asks why she can't have a normal, responsible husband, like the ones they used to have in movies from the 1950s, such as The Company Man. As Marge looks into her drink, she imagines this scenario.

The Company Man

At Amalgamated Components, Homer Simpson is giving a presentation to the board about why he thinks making ashtrays bigger will result in more productivity and better profits for the company. After the presentation, the company's owner, Clancy Wiggum, congratulates him on the presentation, but then sends him back to his normal desk job. After work, Homer gets into the elevator with Barney, who tells Homer that there's a job opening in optimization that he could get, which would be a promotion that also gets him access to the executive washroom. He tells Homer that he can get the promotion by talking to Wiggum at his country club party the next day. On the train home, Homer talks with Kirk Van Houten until they arrive at Cheeverton Station. Kirk takes his clothes off, revealing his muscular body, then swims from pool to pool to get back home. Homer goes to his wife's car, where Helen is waiting for him with their kids, Dirk and Birk, who resemble Kirk. That evening, Helen tells Homer that they will be going to the party to get him the promotion.

At the party, Homer gets cold feet and goes to the bar. There, he meets Marge, who is an artist who works as a bartender to pay the bills. After hearing Homer's story, she tells him that being a cog in the corporate machine doesn't suit him and that they should leave the party and spend time together. After seeing his wife making out with Kirk, Homer agrees, and the two of them spend the rest of the day together. That night, they agree to run away to California together.

Homer arrives home and packs his case, throwing clothes he doesn't need in the trash. Helen then interrupts him and tells him that she managed to get the promotion for him, with access to the executive washroom. This causes a conflict for Homer, but he accepts the promotion. At Cheeverton Station, Marge is waiting for Homer. When she sees him, she becomes excited until she realizes he's wearing a business suit. Instead of getting on the bus to California, he gets the train to work. Dejected, Marge gets on the bus alone. At work, Homer cries on the toilet while the Squeaky-Voiced Teen shines his shoes.

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Marge once again snaps back to reality and checks the camera feed to see Homer trying to break into the house. Marge asks why Homer is so broken, and Amy suggests there may be a trauma of his that she is ignoring. Marge snaps back, telling Amy that Lenny fakes eye injuries to avoid intimacy. When Amy asks if that's true, Lenny pours pepper into his eye and runs off. Amy storms off after him, and Marge tells Carl and Naima that she won't ruin the rest of their night and leaves. When Marge arrives back home in a taxi, she can't face seeing her family and tells the driver to take her someplace where people can wallow in their lowest moments. The driver takes her to Moe's Tavern where she talks to Moe about Homer. Marge wonders what life would be like if she were married to a Homer who wasn't so full of rage and always had a smile on his face. She once again imagines this scenario.

D'ohker

In his rundown home in Darkham City, Homer Simpson is watching The Late Evening Program with Krusty the Clown and laughing at it. Grampa, who is sitting in a dirty bathroom, makes Homer wash him. Homer tells Grampa that social services got him a job where his uncontrollable laughter wouldn't get him bullied, which is at Clown 4 U as a bootleg Krusty impersonator. Homer is excited for the job since Krusty is his hero, and he enjoys it at first. While walking home from a shift, Nelson, Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney laugh at him. When Homer laughs back, they take him to an alley and beat him up before kicking him down a long flight of stairs.

Homer wakes up in the hospital where Krusty is on television talking about the attack. Homer thinks Krusty is being supportive at first, until the clown says that the attack was hilarious and gets the bullies on the show. Homer becomes angry and when he thinks Krusty is in his hospital room, he attacks the clown, only to find out that it was actually The Rich Texan. After killing him, Homer tries to leave the hospital but is hit over the head by Chief Wiggum and taken to Darkham Asylum.

In Darkham Asylum, Homer, who now goes by "D'ohker", meets Margely Quinn, who reveals that D'ohker is a hero to many people. D'ohker and Margely Quinn break out of the prison, free the other prisoners, and plan to go to Krustylu Studios to kill Krusty. D'ohker, Margely Quinn, and Homer's fans take a bus and drive it through the wall of the studio. D'ohker's fans then beat Krusty to death as D'ohker and Margely make out. Seeing D'ohker happy, his fans turn on him and Margely and beat them to death too.

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Marge wakes up in Moe's and Moe tells her to go home. When she gets home, she can't find Homer and the kids anywhere. She sees a light in Bart's treehouse and goes there, finding Homer, the kids, and Santa's Little Helper all asleep together. Marge cuddles up to them, which wakes Homer up. Homer apologizes to Marge, but Marge says that it's okay as he is perfect the way he is. Marge then imagines the Company Man Homer and Margely Quinn in a jet together.

Production

The couch gag was made by arts and entertainment company Meow Wolf and includes references to their art installation Omega Mart. Showrunner Matt Selman has been a fan of Meow Wolf since he visited Omega Mart and "dreamed of trying to steal some of their artist-driven conceptual genius for The Simpsons." Selman referred to the couch gag as a "dream collaboration."^[1]

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