The Musk Who Fell to Earth
Homer becomes muse to Elon Musk. ...
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Lisa Simpson: Whoa! Looks like our bird house is benefitting from positive word of beak. (SMALL CHUCKLE)
Marge Simpson: (WALKS UP, UNCOMFORTABLE) Maybe he's giving those little baby birds some food.
Homer Simpson: Marge, an eagle is our country's mascot. Fighting him is like kicking George Washington in his wooden nuts!
Homer Simpson: Ha-ha! Stupid eagle! It wasn't the mouse we were after, it was you! Marge! Preheat the oven!
Homer Simpson: (TO EAGLE) Seems almost a shame I'm gonna have to bang you against a wall till you die.
Lisa Simpson: No! Let's take the eagle to Shelbyville Animal Rescue. Where you took that injured hummingbird you found on the front lawn.
Lisa Simpson: Or, maybe we can nurse him back to health and set him free in the wild.
Homer Simpson: Okay. Bart, think of a name. Make it great. (VERY ENTHUSED) Insanely, unbelievably great!
Bart Simpson: Squawky, until I met you, I never thought I could love something bald.
Homer Simpson: Oh my God! Brace yourselves, family. We're about to meet a being with intelligence far beyond ours. Boy, get me my baseball bat.
Lisa Simpson: His company perfected electric cars and then gave away the patents! He changed the way Hollywood drives!
Homer Simpson: (PROUD) And now he's landed in our yard, on my son's bike and on our mailman's leg.
Mailman: (THRILLED) Honey! Guess who crushed me? I'll give you a hint... his first name is Elon. (NODS HAPPILY) That's right!
ELON MUSK: What did bring me to Springfield? Well, to start with, I'm an idea man. It's my raison d'être.
ELON MUSK: In my personal drought, I'm traveling the country, quietly by spaceship, looking for... inspiration.
Lisa Simpson: That's so sad. Maybe we're the same, two lost ships in the intellectual sea, each of whom could inspire the other to...
Homer Simpson: (INTERRUPTING) Hey Elon, if you're interested, you could come to the nuclear plant where I work tomorrow.
Homer Simpson: Fine. We'll both go. And if anybody asks you something you don't understand, just say, "protons."
ELON MUSK: Homer, if we're gonna carpool together, there's one thing you have to know.
Homer Simpson: "Ass, gas or grass, no one rides for free." It's as old as the Bible.
ELON MUSK: No, it's that I don't talk to anyone unless they provide the mental stimulation I seek.
Lisa Simpson: (SMALL LAUGH) Hi, I didn't want to miss one more chance to spend time with Mr. Musk. (TURNS TO MUSK) It is such an honor.
ELON MUSK: Oh wow! That's an idea! White meatballs. Synthetic meat that you can print from your printer. Say something else. Please, now!
ELON MUSK: Tase... bro... chocolate rain. Use electroplating to remove metal ions from rainwater, making it suitable for drinking!
Lisa Simpson: He's taking your Homer-isms and turning them into his own great ideas! This is the most inspirational moment of my life, but, unfortunately, this is my stop.
C. Montgomery Burns: "Installing an M.H.D. Generator would allow the plant to operate at a higher temperature without the tyranny of moving parts. Using conducting plasma as the moving conductor..."
C. Montgomery Burns: Excellent! Clearly the work of Lenny. That's the white one, right?
Lenny Leonard: No, no. Mine was rubber mats in the decontamination showers. Also, water in the decontamination showers!
Waylon Smithers: Good Lord! Sir, you know who that is. The man who's revolutionized the car industry.
C. Montgomery Burns: (TO MUSK) Henry Ford! Good to see you. As healthy and vibrant as Detroit itself.
Waylon Smithers: No, sir. (GESTURES) This is Elon Musk. For some reason he's sharing a console with Homer Simpson.
ELON MUSK: His mind is as rich as an Italian wedding soup. Homer! What are you thinking now?
ELON MUSK: Pittsburgh Steel... Dallas cowboys... robotic cattle herding! Thank you, Homer.
ELON MUSK: Sorry, that's something I'm working on so that I don't have to display facial expressions.
ELON MUSK: I don't care about the money. The whole monetary system is just a series of interconnected heterogeneous data bases.
ELON MUSK: (BURNS PUTS HIS FINGERS ON HIS LIPS) I-don't-care-about-the-money. And-I-want-you-to-get-your-fingers-out-of-my-mouth.
ELON MUSK: Well, you'll need to increase the capacity of your plant. You cover the costs, you get a hundred percent of the profits.
ELON MUSK: Now, Burns, what if everything in town not powered by electricity were powered by electricity. The electricity you sell them. Imagine that.
C. Montgomery Burns: (VERY EXCITED, BREATHES HEAVILY, THEN:) My doctor says I'm not allowed to imagine. So I hired someone to do it for me.
(Springfield Nuclear Power Plant: Ext. Nuclear plant - cooling towers - day - lunchtime)
Homer Simpson: Wow. Elon, you're like Willie Wonka without the underpaid munchkins.
Homer Simpson: Uh, I'd like to offer you something... but all I've got is coffee... with cream!
Homer Simpson: Come on, I want cream! Give it up! (STRUGGLES, THEN ANNOYED GRUNT) cream and sugar are one thing too many!
ELON MUSK: (INSPIRED) Exactly! Exactly! What if we make the cream cup out of sugar so it dissolves in the coffee?
Homer Simpson: Wow. Wow. Between your genius and my nothing, we make a great team. Come on, give me a hug.
ELON MUSK: ...have exciting news. Springfield Nuclear has electric solutions to all of your energy needs. The Springfield Hyperloop...electrifying the school to replace the old power source -- Willie pushing a wheel...
Professor Jonathan Frink: (STUNNED) You -- you have a Glayvinator too?! Is it... um... uh... patent pending?
Professor Jonathan Frink: (SADLY) All the years of glayvinning in my basement for naught! I'm a failure.
C. Montgomery Burns: This is wonderful, Smithers. For once in my life something's going my way.
Waylon Smithers: I don't trust Musk. Anyone with that much money has a darkness in his soul.
Waylon Smithers: Sir, Musk's ideas sound great. Too great. We're meant for wretched lives. We should pass on this. And before you reply, remember: I've never let you down.
Kent Brockman: (UPBEAT) Attention fans of "The Little Rascals": (GRIM) the last of them died today in Palm Springs. Now it's time for traffic with Arnie Pye.
Arnie Pye: Nothing to report, Kent. Since Elon Musk gave everyone self-driving cars, there hasn't been a single accident.
Arnie Pye: Where's Arnie? Now I can get as loaded as I want. Which is pretty damn loaded!
C. Montgomery Burns: Welcome, friends. I've invited you here to share in our first quarterly profit report. I'm sure you're all eager to hear how much richer I am. Now, to end the suspense: Elon?
C. Montgomery Burns: (FRIENDLY) Oh, the planet. I adore the planet. And do you know my favorite part of the planet? (FURIOUS) Gravity!
ELON MUSK: There are no trap doors on this podium, Burns. You just started the PowerPoint presentation.
ELON MUSK: Not a trick. We sacrifice now to take care of the future. In a way totally determined by me.
C. Montgomery Burns: (BITTER) Oh, all I wanted was to make obscene profits in the last year of my life and leave it to no one. Why does God hate dreamers?
C. Montgomery Burns: Due to recent fluctuations in my judgment, and the once-in-a-lifetime mistake of trusting another human being, I am saddened to announce massive layoffs.
C. Montgomery Burns: Your so-called "savior" isn't interested in saving anything but the world. Bah!
Kent Brockman: Burns' layoffs have thrown the city into a new depression. Marked by the singing of songs from the old depression! If you're old enough to have suffered then and now, why don't you sing along!
Homer Simpson: (IMPRESSED WHISTLE) You really came back from that Tommy John surgery.
C. Montgomery Burns: Smithers, the hounds feel terrible for what they did. And good news, one pooped out your ear! We'll dip it in iodine and it's just like new.
C. Montgomery Burns: Also, I'm sorry I couldn't find the records of the shots the hounds had, which in turn led to all those painful injections in your abdomen.
C. Montgomery Burns: I've made the calls. I'm going to have Elon Musk killed. (GENTLY) And I'll give you a little extra morphine, friend.
Marge Simpson: What's wrong Homer? Is it that all your friends are out of work and it's kind of your fault?
Homer Simpson: (DISMISSIVE) No. It's Elon. I don't care how much he likes me, I don't wanna be friends with him anymore. None of his pie in the sky ideas ever work out. Sky pies are lie pies! (SAD) Of all the planets in the universe, why did he have to come to this one?
Marge Simpson: Here's what you do. You just take his hand, look in his eyes and say (FIRMLY) "I don't want to be with you anymore."
Waylon Smithers: Sir, I have my concerns about the team of hit men you've assembled. They seem a little... long in the tooth.
C. Montgomery Burns: Nonsense! Just because a man can't see or hold his hand steady doesn't make him any less of a marksman.
ELON MUSK: ...a yoga mat that rolls itself up... silent Velcro... baseball tickets that guide you to your seat...
Homer Simpson: Oh my God! Oh my God! You saved my life. Which is gonna make what I'm about to say even more awkward...
Homer Simpson: Elon, Elon, Elon! I want to say something to you and I don't want you to be inspired by it. I want you to listen.
Homer Simpson: I could say it's the being shot at or the flat, emotionless way you talk or the fact that PayPal was my idea and I was just about to do it when you came out with it... but really it's that this town isn't ready for you, and neither am I.
Homer Simpson: Well, I've saved you one last prize from the Cracker Jack box that is my brain. Use it as you will.
Homer Simpson: On a Miami Dolphins helmet the little dolphin is also wearing a helmet.
ELON MUSK: (NODS) Why are they always the most beautiful just when they're breaking up with you?
Lisa Simpson: (EMBARRASSED GIGGLE) I just wanted to see if there was a better life. Even for a little bit.
Homer Simpson: (STERNLY) When you're sixteen I'll drive you to Cincinnati. And you'll see what there is to see.
Lisa Simpson: Mr. Musk, before you go, is there anything you could do to give a little girl hope that the world of the future won't be as grim as all our current movies forecast?
Lisa Simpson: Hm. For a man who likes electric cars, he sure burns a lot of rocket fuel.
ELON MUSK: Elon's log. Earthdate 25 January 2015. I have left Springfield forever. But there are some things I will definitely miss.
Homer Simpson: The little dolphin is also wearing a helmet... (RECORD SKIPPING) Wearing a helmet... Wearing a helmet..
Homer becomes muse to Elon Musk. ...
(5 Clips)
Clip From S26/E12
Burns Meets Elon Musk
Elon Musk is sharing a console with Homer.
Clip From S26/E12
Simpson and Musk
Homer and Elon Musk make a good team.
Clip From S26/E12
Future Car
The Simpsons get a futuristic car with auto drive.
Clip From S26/E12
The Great ePression
Burns' layoffs send Springfield into another depression.
Clip From S26/E12
Homer and Elon Break Up
Homer tells Elon Musk that he doesn't want to be with him anymore.