"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" is the first episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It was originally broadcast on Fox in the United States on Se
One of the promotional cards for the episode, featuring the Simpsons atop the Empire State Building à la King Kong.
The World Trade Center, seen here in March 2001, was prominently featured in the episode.
David Silverman was sent to Manhattan to take photographs of the area in order to make the episode more accurate.
The "9" and the Twin Towers to the right of it have been described by some conspiracy theorists as foreshadowing the 9/11 attacks.
The original World Trade Center was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built primarily between 1966 and 1975, it was dedicated on April 4, 1973
The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
…The episode features the Simpson family traveling to Manhattan to recover the family car, which was taken by Barney Gumble and abandoned outside the World Trade Center, where it had been repeatedly issued with parking tickets and restrained with a wheel clamp. Writer Ian Maxtone-Graham was interested in making an…
Radio Row and Cortlandt Street station (background) in 1936
The World Trade Center under construction in May 1970
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in May 1973