Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass the week of January 31 - February 6, 2005. James Greene of Nerve.com put the reveal of Comic Book Guy's name second on his list "Ten Times The Simpsons Jumped the Shark", stating that it was "far from the hilarious names this show has given us in the past (i.e. Max Power, Rembrandt Q. Einstein, Leslie Hapablap)" and calling it "Worst. Reveal. Ever.". Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" is the eighth episode of season 16 of "The Simpsons". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 6, 2005.
Hail to the Thief "A Wolf at the Door" and "We Suck Young Blood", the reference to the dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in "2 + 2 = 5", and the allusion to the giant of "Gulliver's Travels" in "Go to Sleep". The liner notes give the album's full title as "Hail to the Thief (Or, The Gloaming)." Each track also has an alternative title, an idea Radiohead took from Victorian playbills showcasing moralistic songs played in music halls. Radiohead struggled to name the album; they considered titling it "The Gloaming" (), but this was rejected for being too "poetic" and "doomy" and so became