Santa's Big Score

Santa's Big Score is an Annie Award-winning film based on the animated series The Simpsons Guy. It was released in the United States on November 27, 2008. Santa's Big Score, along with the three follow-up films, comprise season twenty-six of the Simpsons Guy, with each film being separated into four episodes of the broadcast season. Homer's Big Score made its broadcast premiere on FOX on March 23, 2008. The movie was written by Ken Keeler, based on a story by Keeler and David X. Cohen, and directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill.

Special appearances include Coolio as Kwanzaa-bot, Al Gore as himself, Mark Hamill as the Chanukah Zombie, Danny DeVito as Homer's older brother Herbert, and Sarah Silverman as Homer's ex-girlfriend Michelle.

Plot
Two years ago, Fox Network executives canceled The Simpsons Guy's contract. Those executives have been fired, so the show is back "on the air". Spooner Street and Homer's friends throw a party to celebrate, during which Joe is decapitated and his body runs away headless, but gets crushed by Maggie's Space Ship, prompting Bonnie to leave him. His head is placed in a jar while his body is repaired. The man who performs the procedure, Max Powers, takes a liking to Marge. Marge reciprocates, much to Homer's annoyance as their marriage isn't going well.

During a trip to Springfield Beach, Santa's discovers a tattoo of himself on Homer's buttocks. A trio of scammer aliens dupe the crew into signing petitions and providing their e-mail addresses. When the family, the scammers begin spamming them. After they respond, Santa's is infected with an obedience virus and all of Spooner street inhabitants are tricked into signing over his house. By a process known as "sprunging," the scammers detect Homer's tattoo, which contains the code for paradox-correcting time travel, as they can hack into Maggie's time machine. Maggie reveals herself and explains that using the code could destroy the universe, but the scammers ignore him.

Since Maggie's time machine only allows travel into the past, the scammers have Santa's steal valuable objects from Earth's past and pass the time in a cave beneath the Simpsons house. Joe has Santa obtain an earlier version of his body in order to save his marriage. Professor Frink and Lisa discovers that duplicates created via time-travel paradoxes, including Joe' new body, are doomed. Meanwhile, Marge and Max dates, depressing Homer.

After Santa's steals all of history's treasures, the scammers decide to destroy the time code by erasing it from Santa's memory and killing Homer. Homer uses the code to escape to January 1983, one day before he met Marge. Santa is sent to kill him, arrives in an cryogenics lab and creates a duplicate of himself when he needs to use the bathroom. Another duplicate appears and claims he is from "way at the end". He opens the tube that an frozen Homer is in and puts a rub-on tattoo with the time-travel code on his butt. The duplicate, not wanting to kill Homer, fights his mind-control, initiating a self-destruct sequence. Homer shoves the Bender duplicate in a cryo-tube and sets it for 1,000,000 years. The original Santa's Little Helper spends the next twelve years hunting Hoomer, then destroys Homer's apartment when Homer walks inside.

Santa's reports his success, and the scammers erase the time code and the obedience virus. During a memorial in his honor, Homer shows up. He explains that he created a duplicate of himself; his duplicate confronted the Santa's duplicate and remained in the past while he accidentally fell into his own cryo-tube. When Homer (plus the Homer that has already been frozen) awoke in the tube 1,000 years later, the present Homer froze himself until the current year. Flashbacks show the duplicate Homer staying in the 20st century, spending the twelve years before Homer's attack working at Panucci's Pizzeria and after three years an aquarium. He is also seen hanging out with his family, caring for an orphaned narwhal named Margi and of course his beloved dog Seymour Asses.

Maggie destroys the time code tattoo to keep the scammers from further abusing it. Everyone lives in poverty thanks to the scammers, while Marge and Max decide to marry. A chain reaction at the wedding leads to Joe being decapitated again and his body being crushed by a chandelier, as Bonnie leaves him once again, now leaving with his paraplegic rival Francois. When Lisa explains that Joe's duplicate body was doomed, Max becomes agitated and cancels the wedding.

The scammers trick United States President Arnold Scwarzenneger into selling Earth to them, and everyone leaves the planet. To reclaim Earth, the population assembles a fleet on Neptune with the aid of Santa Claus, Gishgemfloofnerzmon, and the Chanukah Zombie. With his cop brain wired into the battle computer, Joe leads Earth to victory over the scammers' fleet after both Marge and Francois fail, and wins back his wife. The scammers threaten the crew with a doomsday device Santa's Little Helper stole for them earlier, but do not realize that Santa's had previously stolen the device back for himself. Marge fires the device at the scammers' ship, destroying it. Everyone returns to Earth to celebrate the New Year. Santa's is commended for his deeds and Joe is returned to his original body.

After failing to entice a heartbroken Marge, Homer decides to do what he feels is best for her and arranges a reunion with Max at the cryogenic lab. Having survived the doomsday blast, Roger, the lead scammer, ambushes them. Roger claims that the time-travel code still exists on Max. Max tricks Nudar into approaching the cryo-tube with the Santa's duplicate on auto-destruct and holds Nudar against the Santa's time–duplicate, who explodes, killing the three of them. The explosion singes off some of Max' clothing, revealing the time code tattoo. A flashback reveals that Max was actually Homer's time-travel duplicate; after releasing Margi into the Arctic wild, he returned to his apartment and survived Santa's attack in 2012; the fire and smoke changed his appearance and voice. Realizing he was Max, the duplicate Homer froze himself to return to the future and be with Marge. Learning that time travel duplicates were doomed, he canceled the wedding to spare Marge the pain of his inevitable death. Marge forgives “Max” and returns to Homer, kissing him.

Santa's removes Max's tattoo and travels into the past to place it on Homer while he was originally frozen in order for the events which have transpired to make "any sense at all." Santa's then meets many of his duplicates from his stealing sprees,  Bart also travels to the past and mets the two Santa's and invites them to emerge with him all at once instead of when they were supposed to give their artifacts to the scammers. Terrified of the paradoxical consequences, Maggie urges everyone to evacuate the universe before swallowing himself. The Santa's duplicates explode and cause a tear in the fabric of space.

Voice Cast

 * Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson, Max Power, Grandpa Abe, Krusty the Clown, Super Coward, Sideshow Mel
 * Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson
 * Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson, Neil Goldman, Nelson Muntz
 * Yeardley Smith as Lisa Simpson
 * Cate Blanchett as Maggie Simpson
 * Seth MacFarlane as Santa's Little Helper, Roger, Glenn Quagmire, Tom Tucker, Dr. Hartman
 * Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson
 * Hank Azaria as Carl Carlson, Moe Szyslak, Professor Frink, Comic Book Guy, Cletus Spuckler, Lou
 * Harry Shaerer as Ned Flanders, Clancy Wiggum, President Arnold Schwarzenneger, Principal Skinner, Dr. Hibbert
 * Jennifer Tilly as Bonnie Swanson
 * John Viener as François
 * David Hermann as Scruffy
 * John C. Brennan as Mort Goldman
 * Tress MacNeille as Brandine del Roy, Agnes Skinner
 * Christine Lakin as Joyce Kinney

Critical Reception
Santa's Big Score was met with critical acclaim universally, with rewiens being always good. The film scores an 100% (Fresh) on Rotten Tomatoes, as the site consensus reads: Santa's Big Score contains the hearty laughs, biting satire, american family problems, and even space-opera adventure, that with all of this mix, makes the show so popular. And it boasts slicker animation and polished writing that hearkens back to the show's glory days.