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The Simpsons Winter Wingding 8 is the eighth issue of the Simpsons Winter Wingding comic book series. It was released on November 20th, 2013.
Stories[]
Bear Patrol II: Polar Excess[]
During a Christmas parade, there are three live polar bears on one of the floats (a float advertising Buzz Cola), which then run rampant. This forces the parade to end early, and Kent Brockman reports that they are now living in a Christmas village. Homer Simpson, Lenny Leonard, and Carl Carlson decide to reinstate the Bear Patrol, but Barney Gumble is not available due to being a Santa in the Christmas village.
This poses trouble since the Bear Patrol requires a fourth member, but luckily Clancy Wiggum is able to put aside his hatred for the patrol and sub for Barney because Ralph Wiggum is being an elf at the Christmas village. They change into their winter uniforms, but when Homer starts planning, they argue over who, if anyone, is in charge. The phone rings, which turns out to be someone making bear noises. They believe this to be one of the bears, which Wiggum threatens.
The four men enter the village, then disguise themselves (Lenny and Carl as an igloo, Wiggum as a penguin, and Homer as a snowman), and Homer and Wiggum squeeze down a chimney. Homer wants to cheer the bears up by offering them Buzz Cola, but Wiggum thinks that would never work and thinks Homer should sacrifice himself instead. The two argue over the soda can, which then spills on two polar bears that corner them.
Meanwhile, Lenny and Carl are trying to melt the snow with "global warming" (i.e. a magnifying glass and a lighter) so the bears won't feel at home, but it's taking too long. Then, Ralph walks up and declares that the polar bears are the Three Bears from the fairytale (naming the smallest one Ralphie Bear) and are thus not dangerous. Homer asks who phoned, and Barney explained that he did (and was making bear noises due to drunkenness).
Homer asks the bears to leave the humans alone in exchange for ceasing to use them in commercials. Ralph then talks to them in bear language and reveals that they agreed to it. As such, the polar bears are put back in the zoo, the Wiggum men are reunited, and Homer, Barney, Lenny, and Carl go to Moe's Tavern to celebrate. Carl wonders who Buzz Cola's new mascot will be, which turns out to be bees, that also go feral, necessitating the "Bee Team" (Waylon Smithers, Jr., Stu Discothèque, Jasper Beardsley, and Milhouse Van Houten).
Pete Za Party[]
Kent Brockman is making a show called "Undercover Employer" about bosses in disguise, but Mr. Burns is refusing to wear the disguise. He eventually settles on a fake moustache and nothing else, seeking out an employee stupid enough to fall for it. Upon seeing that Homer is trying to push open a door that's clearly labelled "pull", he decides on him.
Brockman asks Homer to share his opinion on the Nuclear Power Plant, and he complains about many things, including the working hours and the lack of amenities like massage stations. This enrages Mr. Burns, who takes off his fake moustache and declares to Homer and many other employees that if they think the conditions are bad now, he can make them even worse.
The next day, Burns makes Homer, Lenny, Carl, and a fourth guy share a workplace, serves mud instead of coffee, makes his employees pay to use bathrooms, and sics the Hounds on loiterers. Upon finding that Homer is still relatively happy, Burns decides to be even meaner and stops providing him with donuts the next morning.
There is a trail of sprinkles, which he follows to the donuts, but they are being kept behind a wall. The employees decide that Burns has gone too far and Homer tells them to protest by doing nothing, which they do. Burns orders Smithers to fire them, but Smithers points out that would be too expensive, so suggests a holiday party to butter them up instead, perhaps with pizza. Mr. Burns agrees, but thinks Smithers said, "Pete Za" and won't let him correct him.
On the day of the party, Smithers brings the Squeaky-Voiced Teen and tells him to pretend his name is Pete and put on a show. The teen can't think of anything, but luckily, he was coincidentally delivering pizzas, which the employees rush him for. Upon seeing how excited the employees are about the pizza, Mr. Burns bribes them to work again with more pizza.
Everybody Loves a Parade[]
Homer wakes Marge Simpson up at two in the morning, wanting to attend the Christmas parade early due to the donut machine there. He also wakes up the children, enticing Lisa Simpson by lying that Santa's reindeer are being abused. Once in the car, she realises that Homer was lying and is mad at him, but he does not care.
He takes his family to a street corner, where they fall asleep. He wants them to be awake to get Lard Lad's attention, so he tells Lisa various lies, eventually getting her to stay awake by pretending a man's T-shirt is sexually harassing him and objectifying librarians. Once Lisa is awake, he wakes up Marge by singing a parody of "The 12 Days of Christmas" and throwing things into her hair. Then, he wakes up Bart by throwing snowballs at him, and finally Maggie Simpson by stealing her pacifier.
He then hypocritically takes a nap, and when the donut gun starts shooting donuts out, Marge tries to wake him up but he says it is too early.
D.I.Y. Homer[]
Homer is putting up the Christmas lights and playing a video game involving saving Santa from evil elves. Ned Flanders warns him that a blizzard is coming, and then Homer realises that he spent all the money he was meant to spend on presents on his video game. He realises that Bart and Lisa don't have money, so he decides to do what they do and make everyone a gift each.
The next morning, which is Christmas, Homer presents the presents: a badly-constructed robot Krusty the Clown for Bart, all of Lisa's books stuck together with wheels on for her, a makeshift mobile for Maggie, and a "saucy new outfit" made of gardening tools for Marge. The family hates the presents, so Homer decides to go for a walk to cheer himself up, but cannot because the blizzard snowed everyone in. To make matters worse, a bird breaks the powerline, cutting off the power.
When the Simpsons' only log is running out, Bart suggests burning the gifts. This gives Homer the idea to fashion the gifts into a machine that digs them out and then chases Ned.
Trivia[]
- It is revealed that Ralph can understand bears.
- The name "Polar Excess" is a pun on the book/movie The Polar Express.
- It is revealed that Mr. Burns doesn't know what pizza is called, thinking it is called Italian flapjacks.
- Homer wakes Bart Simpson up by singing "Silver Bells", and then later he references "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" by saying, "Lard Lad is coming to town, you guys! He sees you when you're sleeping! He knows when you're awake! He needs to see how badly you want donuts... so wake up for goodness sake!".
- Goof: When Homer pretends a man's T-shirt is sexually harassing him, Lisa yells, "Alert the feminist blogsphere!". However, since Homer is a man, him being sexually harassed would not be a feminist issue.
- This is the first Winter Wingding comic in which Apu and Milhouse not appear.