S02E12 · SCENE 2/24 · 01:30
The Way We Was · Simpson living room
Family mourns lost TV

The family struggles without TV, missing it desperately.

01:30→02:27
in the episode · 0m 57s · S02E12

What happens

01:30–02:27

Homer tries to fix the TV but fails. The family stares at a dot on the screen. Homer prays for one channel.

WhereSimpson living room
DriverHomer
Positioncold_open · escalation
ThreadHomer and Marge's romance

Key lines

from this scene
02:02

All right, all right. Time for Dr. TV to perform a little surgery!

02:21

Oh, no. Okay. Just everybody remain calm.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1
sad0.7
obsession0.6
escalation0.5
absurd0.5
monologue

Beats

02:28Family stares at dot

Scene in the episode

01:30–02:27
A · Homer and Marge's romance
B · Bart's TV addiction
C · Artie Ziff's prom date

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