May 31 2014 July 27 201414 Ayad Akhtar, who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Disgraced," likes to take familiar scenarios (a fraught marriage, a contentious family) and interweave them with philosophical questions.
Yet violence against girls and women in schools and colleges is a national disgrace, like the repeated recent rape of a young woman allegedly by several members of a high school football team in Steubenville, Ohio, or the alleged rape of two students by football players of the vaunted Notre Dame team, resulting in at least one suicide.
The first appearance of a yellow Smithers was "There's No Disgrace Like Home", the fourth episode of the first season.
Mona Simpson is first mentioned in season one's "There's No Disgrace Like Home", where Homer recalls his mother telling him that he's a "big disappointment".
The episode is used during a scene in the film Die Hard 2. In its original broadcast, "There's No Disgrace Like Home" finished forty-fifth in ratings for the week of January 22 28 , 1990 with a Nielsen rating of 11.2, equivalent to approximately 10.3 million viewing households.
Or else risk public disgrace, like errant schoolboys, and threats of economic sanctions.And the price?This is no way to treat neighbours.
In "There's No Disgrace Like Home," for example, Homer is so ashamed of his family's behavior at Mr. Burns's company picnic that he drags them to family therapy, which he pawns the television set to pay for.
"There's No Disgrace Like Home" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons' first season.
Their first appearance in The Simpsons was "There's No Disgrace Like Home".
The cartoon's first appearance in The Simpsons was in the 1990 episode "There's No Disgrace Like Home".
