Homer the Tintin is a two-part and seventeenth Episode of the ninth season of the Animated Television Series The Simpsons, which originally aired on March 8, 1998. In this Episode, Homer buys an Antique Model Ship of the S.S. Depression owned by Barney Gumble's Ancestor, Sir Archibald Gumble, in which has caused much attention of The Scrammer Brothers, Carney, Robert and the Bird Brothers who wanted the three Maps hidden in the three Model Ship Masts. Meanwhile, Chief Wiggum, Eddie, Lou and Thompson and Thomson try to stop the Pick-Pockets in Springfield.