#homer at the bat

New Simpsons cel from an early scene in Homer At The Bat. 

After chastising the guys for not wanting to sign up for the company softball team, Homer tells them he has a secret weapon this year. 

“A secret weapon? I wonder what it could be…?” 

When we get to Carl’s sequence, he imagines Homer with springs on his cleats, jumping from base to base. And that’s where this frame comes from. Not a matching photocopy background, but fairly close. His missing fingertips really weren’t drawn, and were cut off to fit within the thought bubble. 

Scanned from: My Production Art Stash