My favorites are not the ones that are funny but the ones that tug at your heart
Mr. Burns gives Homer a plaque that reads “Don’t forget: You’re here forever”. When Bart asks Homer where Maggie’s pictures are, Homer tells him that they’re where he needs them the most
Wanted by the FBI, Homer’s mother goes on the lam and abandons Homer again. Rather than a funny button, the episode ends with Homer sitting on his cars watching the night sky.
When Bart uses the 500 dollars he won from a Krusty-O’s lawsuit to purchase Bleeding Gums’s rare album so Lisa can broadcast it on the local jazz radio station.
In order to pay the rent for Princess's shelter, Homer takes a second job working for
Apu at the
Kwik-E-Mart. Homer becomes more and more
exhausted after trying to work both jobs. Finally, Marge admits to the children that their father has been working two jobs to pay for the pony.After watching a meek, sleep-deprived Homer being bullied by his own son at the Kwik-E-Mart, Lisa agrees to give up the pony, and she shares a heart-breaking goodbye with Princess. Lisa tells Homer that there is a "big dumb animal" she loves even more than her horse, that being Homer himself.