Homerpalooza

"**Homerpalooza**"
"Homerpalooza"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	Season 7; Episode 24
Directed by	Wes Archer
Written by	Brent Forrester
Featured music	"Insane In The Brain" and "Throw Your Set in the Air" by Cypress Hill
Production code	3F21
Original air date	May 19, 1996
Guest appearances
	Peter Frampton as himself; Cypress Hill as themselves; The Smashing Pumpkins as themselves; Sonic Youth as themselves
Episode features
Couch gag	The family enters in a black-light haze, lighting returns to normal when Homer turns on the lights.
Commentary	Matt Groening; Bill Oakley; Josh Weinstein; Brent Forrester; Wes Archer; Ken Keeler
Episode chronology
← Previous; "Much Apu About Nothing"	Next →; "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
	The Simpsons season 7
	List of episodes

"Homerpalooza" is the twenty-fourth and penultimate episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 19, 1996. In the episode, Homer is shocked to find classic rock is no longer considered cool. Hoping to earn "street cred", he joins the Hullabalooza music festival as a carnival freak. The episode's title is a play on the Lollapalooza music festival. It was the last Simpsons episode written by Brent Forrester and the last one directed by Wes Archer (both Forrester and Archer left to work on King of the Hill).^[1] Peter Frampton and musical groups Sonic Youth, Cypress Hill, and The Smashing Pumpkins guest star as themselves.

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