High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes” is the sixth episode of The Simpsons` twelfth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 3, 2000. In the episode, Homer buys a computer and creates his own website to spread gossip. However, when Homer starts writing conspiracy theories about flu shots, he gets sent to an island where people who know too much are imprisoned.