When You Dish Upon a Star

"**When You Dish Upon a Star**"
"When You Dish Upon a Star"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	Season 10; Episode 5
Directed by	Pete Michels
Written by	Richard Appel
Production code	5F19
Original air date	November 8, 1998
Guest appearances
	Alec Baldwin as himself; Kim Basinger as herself; Ron Howard as himself; Brian Grazer as himself
Episode features
Chalkboard gag	"butt.butt is not my e-mail address"
Couch gag	Marge carries a laundry basket and hangs wet sheet versions of Homer, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie on a clothesline in the living room.
Commentary	Mike Scully; Ron Hauge; Matt Selman; Richard Appel; Pete Michels
Episode chronology
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	The Simpsons season 10
	List of episodes

"When You Dish Upon a Star" is the fifth episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 8, 1998. When the family spend the day at Lake Springfield, Homer meets Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger (voicing themselves), who are hiding from the media in their secluded summer home. Homer starts to work for them, developing a good friendship, but he soon reveals their secrets to the public, damaging his new friendship with them. It was the last Simpsons episode written by Richard Appel, and was directed by Pete Michels.^[2]

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