High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Team Homer" is the twelfth episode of The Simpsons` seventh season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 7, 1996. In the episode, Homer starts a bowling team with Moe, Apu, and Otto. When Mr. Burns discovers the team was funded with his money, he insists on joining. Meanwhile, Bart`s "Down with homework" T-shirt incites a student riot that leads to the implementation of a uniform dress code.