By Doug Boilesen, 2024

This gallery features phonograph connections with Homer Simpson and his family.

"The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"

In Episode 2, Season 10, September 20, 1998, Homer learns everything he can about Thomas Edison. He ceaselessly talks about Edison, bores his friends to death with Edison talk, keeps Marge awake at night with Edison talk, and finally realizes he wants to be just like Edison and be an inventor.

Homer relentlessly talks about Edison, boring his friends and family. (Simpson's Season 10, Episode 2)

Here is the episode's summary from Wikipedia:

Homer discovers that he has not done anything in life that will be remembered after he dies, so he decides to become an inventor like Thomas Edison. However, his initial inventions such as an electric hammer are considered unpractical and are not well received. After a period of depression, Homer comes up with his first good invention—a chair that cannot tip over—only to discover that Edison also invented the same design. However, Edison's invention has remained unnoticed in Edison's preserved office at the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange New Jersey, so Homer sets out to destroy it. There, he has a change of heart and returns home, only to leave his electric hammer behind. When the museum staff members find it, they believe it is an undiscovered invention by Edison. The hammer becomes a success and Edison's heirs earn a lot of money, making Homer angry.(Wikipedia 2-17-2026)

 

Phonograph for sale in the Edison Museum Gift Shop (Simpson's Season 10, Episode 2)

 

Edison portrait with his Phonograph in the Edison Museum Gift Shop (Ibid.)

 

 

Homer and Bart in Edison's Library with Edison and Phonograph portrait on the wall (Ibid.)

Note: This portrait of Edison with his Phonograph was first observed in "The Talking Machine Forum," Oct 27, 2023 by oceanlinerfanatic.

 

"Lisa in Record Store"

Lisa Simpson listening to records in record store."Round Springfield" (Season 6, Episode 22).

"All Sales Vinyl" (part of Simpson's Wiki)

 

"Marge Listening to KISS Record

Marge Listening to KISS record "The Destroyer" in episode "Four Regrettings and A Funeral,"The Simpson's, November 3, 2013.

Simpson's Stereo System

Bart listening to music with headphones in chaos of noise, Oct. 2008 (PM-1806).

Homer Simpson Nuclear Power Plant Talking Environment, Playmates, 2001. (FP0452)

 

Homer Simpson Talking Alarm Clock, Wesco, 1998.