3x03 When Flanders Failed - The Simpsons Episode Guide

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- Episode 03x03

Episode: 03x03
Title: When Flanders Failed
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 7F23
First Aired: Oct. 03, 1991

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The Simpsons - 03x03 When Flanders Failed

Summary: Ned Flanders decides to open his own business called the Leftorium, a store that sells tools and products aimed at left-handed consumers. Homer, filled with resentment towards Flanders, hopes that the Leftorium fails. Needless to say, the business is not a smashing success and Flanders goes broke, forcing his family to sell their furniture and possessions in a tag sale. Wracked with guilt, Homer enlists all of the left-handed people he knows to buy Flander's wares and save his neighbor from financial ruin.

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Who appeared in this episode?

Others	voiced by Dan Castellaneta
Hans Moleman	voiced by Dan Castellaneta
Patty Bouvier	voiced by Julie Kavner
Selma Bouvier	voiced by Julie Kavner
Others	voiced by Julie Kavner
Others	voiced by Nancy Cartwright
Akira	voiced by Hank Azaria
Additional Voices	voiced by Pamela Hayden
Others	voiced by Maggie Roswell

	Season 3 / Episode 3: - When Flanders Failed Homer: I don't care if Ned Flanders IS the nicest guy in the world. He's a jerk. End of story.
	Season 3 / Episode 3: - When Flanders Failed Bart: You lie like a fly with a booger in its eye. Homer: [laughing] The fly was funny, but the booger was the icing on the cake.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

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TRIVIA

A surprising number of Springfield residents are left-handed. Including, but not limited to: Nelson, Mr. Burns, Moe, the loan officer, Principal Skinner, Barney, Apu, Mrs. Krabappel, Akira, Chief Wiggum, and the car salesman.
Homer's last-minute rally to bail out Flanders is an homage to the rescue of George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).