High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" is the second episode of the tenth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 20, 1998, and was viewed in approximately 7.95 million households that day. In the episode, Homer has a midlife crisis realizing his life is half over and he has not accomplished anything. He begins to admire Thomas Edison and decides to create inventions to follow in Edison`s footsteps and make his life worthwhile.