High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "So It`s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons` fourth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April Fools` Day, 1993. In the episode, Homer plays a series of practical jokes on Bart, and to get even, Bart shakes up a can of Homer`s beer with a paint shaker. Homer opens the can, resulting in a huge explosion that lands him in the hospital with a coma. At Homer`s bedside, the Simpson family reminisce mainly about moments relevant to Homer`s life.