"The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" is the second episode of the tenth season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 20, 1998, and was watched in around 7.95 million households during the broadcast. In the episode, Homer, realizing his life is half over and has not accomplished anything, begins to admire Thomas Edison and decides to create inventions to follow in Edison's footsteps and make his life worthwhile.