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The Simpsons S 15 E 11 Margical History Tour » Recap

Original air date: 2/8/2004 (produced in 2003)

Production code: FABF-06

The Springfield Library is dilapidated, filled with bums, and hardly contains any books. Bart, Lisa and Milhouse expect to find material to work on their history class, and Marge fills in with three historical pieces from her own memory.

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• But You Were There, and You, and You : Stories of three famous historical figures are retold with a Simpsons twist, with the historical figures portrayed by various residents of Springfield.
• Logo Joke : The Gracie Films jingle is redone in a medieval style, similar to the one in "Lisa's Wedding" .
• Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title : The title of this episode is a reference to the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour".
• Shout-Out : Among the things the library is reduced to stocking are Everyone Poops : The Video and Yu-Gi-Oh! trading guides.
• Three Shorts : The episode is split into three segments interspersed with wraparounds of Marge telling each story.
• Trip Trap : After Marge finishes telling the story of Henry VIII, Nelson, who's hiding behind a bookshelf, sticks out his leg to trip Milhouse. Nelson: (stealing Milhouse's history report) Wow, the library really is a great resource! And I just came in here to trip nerds for nothin'.
• Henry VIII still holds the world turkey-leg-eating record.
• Sacagawea went on to great riches posing for butter boxes.
• Mozart's burial site is now the most popular gas station in Vienna.
• That night, Homer watched Animal House again. He went to work the next day in a toga.
• Adipose Rex : Henry VIII is portrayed as a grossly fat and gluttonous figure, and gets a quick song number about just how much he loves to eat. Homer / Henry VIII : I'm Henry the Eighth I am Henry the Eighth I am, I am I've been eating since 6 AM For dessert I'll have dinner again My name's synonymous with gluttony I'll always eat a turkey or a ham.
• Henry was a huge eater, but he didn't become obese until several years into his marriage to Anne Boleyn, when a jousting accident caused him a shin fracture that never healed and made him an invalid. Before this, he was the epitome of the chivalrous knight.
• The segment completely ignores the fact that Henry VIII did father a few sons (although the only legitimate one who lived long enough to see his first birthday was from his third wife).
• Only two of Henry's wives were beheaded. However, he did execute a huge number of other people, so the "running out of pikes" joke isn't entirely inaccurate.
• Catherine of Aragon (Marge) wasn't at Henry's death bed because she died 11 years before him.
• Catherine of Aragon mentions that she could have married the king of France, whom she implies is gay. This would never have happened as the Houses of Aragon and Valois were ancient enemies. Moreover, while Francis I was known for his many affairs, all were with women.
• Henry never confined Catherine of Aragon to a dungeon, although he did banish her from court.
• While Henry is often depicted eating vast quantities of turkey legs, this is inaccurate because turkeys were not introduced to England until three years after his death.
• Thomas More (Ned Flanders) was beheaded, rather than being shot out of a cannon.
• While More certainly did oppose Henry's religious reforms from the outset, Henry did not execute him right away, owing to their personal friendship. More eventually was executed for refusing to sign the Oath of Succession recognizing Henry's supremacy over the Pope, which happened after Henry had married Anne Boleyn (Lindsay Naegle).
• Anne Boleyn, who was quite thin, was not known for her child-bearing hips.
• Anne Boleyn was beheaded with a sword, not an axe.
• Anne Boleyn's wedding to Henry took place in front of only a few select witnesses, not the large crowd seen in the segment.
• Jane Seymour (Miss Springfield) was Henry's favorite wife and died of childbed fever after giving birth to Edward VI.
• Anne of Cleves ( Otto ) was never beheaded; she and Henry annulled their marriage amicably and remained on friendly terms.
• Catherine Parr (Agnes Skinner) was also never beheaded; she was still living and married to Henry upon his death.
• While Catherine Parr was certainly the oldest of Henry's wives, she did not bear any children before their marriage and only bore one daughter before her death.
• Elizabeth I did not become queen directly after Henry's death. Edward VI and Mary I, reigned in between them.
• Big Eater : Henry VIII. During his song he claims to have been eating since dawn and for dessert will have another dinner. Henry VIII : I eat, and eat, and eat, and I never get any thinner.
• Comically Missing the Point : Henry VIII eats a lot and don't understand why he can't lose weight. He actually thinks he should lose weight as a consequence of eating lots of food.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus : This episode depicts the newly made Church of England as basically a cult of Henry worship. Archbishop of Canterbury : By the power vested in me by... you, just now, I pronounce you King and trophy Queen. In the name of the Henry, the Hank, and the Holy Harry, amen... Henry.
• Cute, but Cacophonic : Jane Seymour, much to Henry's frustration. Immediately after their wedding, he has her beheaded.
• Distinction Without a Difference : Catherine of Aragon (Marge) trying to explain to Mary why she and Henry are getting divorced: Catherine of Aragon: It's not your fault. It's just that you came out the wrong sex and ruined everything.
• Ear Ache : When Margerine catches Henry talking to Anne Boleyn, she grabs him by the ear and drags him off to marriage counseling.
• When Sir Thomas More (Flanders) disputes Henry's intentions in starting his own church, Henry says "Because you stuck to your guns, I'm going to canonize you." Cut to Moore being shot out of a cannon.

• Heir Club for Men : Henry VIII wants a son. Mary asks why women can't be rulers — or better yet, why leaders aren't elected by the people — but Henry threatens to execute her instead of answering her question .
• Historical Villain Upgrade : Henry VIII is normally characterized as fat and beheading prone. Here he is displayed as a totally gluttonous pig who never stops eating, and will not hesitate to have someone killed for even slightly annoying him or not immediately giving him what he wants.
• Hoist by His Own Petard : Henry invented the divorce but had to give his ex-wife a part of his Kingdom as a result because he didn't invent the pre-nuptial agreement.
• Human Cannonball : Henry decides to perform "canonization" to Thomas More. Rather, shoving him into a cannon and having him shot out of it. He ponders doing this to Princess Mary before she takes the hint and bails.
• Insane Troll Logic : King Henry expects his constant eating to make him lose weight.
• I Will Show You X! : Subverted; Henry tries to use the stock quote to refute a messenger's warning, but then takes a look. Messenger : Sire, I know what you usually do to the bearer of bad news, but, um...well, we’re running out of pikes to stick’ your wives’ heads on. King Henry : I'll show you we're running out of pikes! [Henry checks the pike storage, which is completely empty.] King Henry : Hey, what do you know? You were right! [holds up the messenger's now-severed head] Messenger's Head : That means a lot.
• My Card : "Anne Boleyn — 'A son will come out — tomorrow!'"
• Pragmatic Villainy : Henry won't behead his first wife because her father is the King of Spain.
• See You in Hell : Margerine says this as she suffocates Henry with his pillow.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here! : When Princess Mary protests Henry's decision of wanting a male heir and not giving it to the females, he ponders if he can canonize her. She quickly gets the hint and bails.
• Shoot the Messenger : Lampshaded by the messenger (Moe) who told Henry they were out of pikes, saying he knew what Henry did to the bearer of bad news. He was right .
• Start My Own : This is how the Protestant Church was born.
• Therapy Backfire : Margerine takes Henry to marriage counseling in the hopes of stopping the king from marrying someone else. However, the therapist (Hibbert) is all for Henry kicking his wife to the curb. Having four men push axes against his neck threatening to kill him the second he tried to talk about saving the marriage might have something to do with it.
• Henry is introduced singing the song "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am."
• He later strangles Dream!Bart while yelling "Get out of my dreams and into my wife!!"
• Anne Boleyn's card says that " A son will come out -- tomorrow! "
• Would Hurt a Child : Henry threatens little Princess Mary (Lisa) with canonization when she starts to suggest that a princess could inherit.
• Also, Charbonneau was French Canadian, not French.
• Black Widow : Sacagawea (Lisa) hates her husband , Charbonneau the French fur trader (Milhouse) so much (it was an Arranged Marriage ), she allows her brother to kill him when he and his tribe ambush the expedition.
• Gesundheit : This exchange between Clark and Sacagawea after Lewis and Clark save her from a mountain lion: Clark: We'll never forget you, Pocahontas. Sacagawea: Sacagawea. Clark: Gesundheit.
• Know Your Vines : When Sacagawea is giving Lewis and Clark's expedition party quick advice, she tells one soldier that he's holding poison oak.
• Shout-Out : Moe has a bar in Kansas until a twister takes it away .
• A dying Tweedleburger (Otto) tries to find comfort in the fact he'll be remembered alongside Lewis and Clark.
• Right after Moe comments on how people said a bar couldn't be built in Kansas, a twister rips it off the ground. He tries to build another one, commenting that it takes more than that to crush a frontier's spirit. The bar crashes on him and he says "that'll do".
• Too Dumb to Live : Tweedleburger eats poisonous berries after Sacagawea warns him about them being poison.
• Adaptational Villainy : Although loosely based on Amadeus , which subjected Salieri to a Historical Villain Upgrade , the short's version of its league is worse — she doesn't just try to sabotage Mozart's career; she actually murders him.
• Always Someone Better : Salieri suffered from this constantly. Her brother Mozart had greater talent even though she was more dedicated to her craft. And after Mozart was dead, she believed she was finally the greatest composer alive...only for Beethoven to appear, causing her to finally snap.
• Mozart died at the age of 35 in reality. This version has him die before becoming a teenager. In addition, he was married with two children.
• Both of Mozart's parents predeceased him. Leopold Mozart died in 1787, four years before his son. And in reality, they had a poor relationship, and Leopold was most certainly not greedy .
• Mozart's relationship with his (older) sister, Maria Anna, was far better than that depicted in this version; as mentioned below, it was she who inspired him to get into music. Also, her own prodigious skills were acknowledged by her father. However, due to the social mores of the time, she was unable to continue her career as she grew older.
• Blatant Lies : When Mozart becomes ill, Salieri tells him that he has hired "the finest doctor in Austria," which is Dr. Nick, who is anything but.
• Cain and Abel : Salieri and Mozart are siblings in this version of events , and Salieri kills Mozart by hiring an incompetent doctor out of jealousy.
• The Cameo : Tito, Randy and Jermaine Jackson make a brief appearance when Homer describes them as Mozart's other "untalented" siblings.
• Salieri is composed with Mozart's older, loving sister Maria for this story, as well as being reimagined as a villain who hates her brother.
• Mozart's father is composed with Joseph Jackson during a scene that portrays him as the father of Randy, Tito and Jermaine.
• Confidence Sabotage : When Salieri sabotaged his concert, Mozart believed that nobody liked his music anymore, and as such, went into a depression that eventually led to his death.
• Despair Event Horizon : After Salieri sabotaged his concert, Mozart went into a drunken despair and got caught in a storm, resulting in him becoming ill and dying young.
• Dramatic Irony : "People bored by opera? That's impossible!"
• Driven by Envy : Salieri was jealous of Mozart's popularity and being treated poorly by her parents, so she sabotages the opera in revenge.
• Driven to Madness : After the Emperor decrees that all other music besides Beethoven's is obsolete, Salieri snaps and climbs into an asylum wagon while laughing insanely.
• Gender Flip : Lisa portrays Salieri, who in reality was a man.
• Handy Feet : Salieri calls Mozart out on pranking her when he should be composing music, to which he reveals that he's writing down a symphony with his feet while they are talking.
• Hard Work Hardly Works : One of the reasons Salieri is jealous of Mozart is because he can write amazing music so easily while she practices diligently to perfect her own. Combined with his showboating and childish behavior, she feels he is unworthy of his talents.
• Historical Villain Upgrade : This version does this to Mozart's father and sister. Leopold only cares about the money his son brings, and even exploits said son's death . Maria Anna is composed with Salieri, and becomes so jealous of her brother's success, she sabotages his opera and brings an incompetent doctor to kill him.
• Hoist by His Own Petard : When Salieri decides to drink to Mozart's failure, she mistakenly drinks her own doctored wine.
• Karmic Twist Ending : After killing Mozart, Salieri tries to present herself to the Emperor to steal her hated brother's place as the greatest composer ever. However, the Emperor chooses yet another composer, Beethoven, causing Salieri's Villainous Breakdown , and dooming her to remain in the shadows forever, not to mention the madhouse.
• "Kick Me" Prank : At the awards show, Mozart puts an "I am a Dummkopf" sign on the back of the guy sitting in front of him.
• My God, What Have I Done? : Subverted. Salieri only wanted to ruin Mozart's reputation, but she kills him instead. She does appear to feel very guilty about it and even cries at his deathbed...but then the very next scene shows her trying to show the Emperor her requiem while bragging that she's the last composer alive, making you wonder if her remorse was really genuine.
• Outliving One's Offspring : Mozart's parents outlive him in this adaptation. In reality, both predeceased him.
• Parental Favouritism : Played with. Mozart's father gives all his attention to his son. However, he only cares about the money his son brings. He was more concerned about losing the income his son provided while the boy was on his deathbed, and immediately starts hawking merchandise commemorating his death minutes after Mozart has passed on, much to the disgust of the people.
• Related in the Adaptation : Salieri is depicted as Mozart's sister, making them further correspond to Bart and Lisa.
• The Rock Star : Parodied with Mozart. Bart: Mom, everyone who ever lived is boring. Marge: Boring? Is there anything boring about a badass rocker who lived fast and died young? Bart: I know there's a catch, but tell me more.
• Sibling Murder : In this version, Salieri indirectly murders Mozart out of jealousy.
• Slipping a Mickey : Salieri gives the Emperor a glass of wine with a sleeping potion so that all the Fops will think he's bored by Mozart's concert and follow suit. It works, and when she toasts the success of her scheme, she ends up drinking from the same glass.
• Stage Mom : Mozart’s Dad.
• The Un-Favourite : Their father ignores Salieri, calling her untalented and focuses all his attention on Mozart. Their mother is not as bad and knows her daughter is a skilled composer, but as a lady of the times trusts her son more to keep them in luxury. Their father is shown to be just as dismissive of Randy, Tito and Jermaine.
• Truth in Television : Mozart's sister, whose real name was Maria Anna Mozart, was in fact a musical prodigy just like him. She was the one who got him into music.
• Villainous Breakdown : Having Mozart's reputation destroyed and indirectly murdering him, Salieri looks as though she will finally gain the respect she desires. But seeing the Emperor with Beethoven destroyed all her remaining sanity.
• Villain Protagonist : Salieri is the focus character, and her jealousy towards Mozart leads to her sabotaging an opera and causing Mozart to die .
• Whole-Plot Reference : The plot is largely based on Amadeus . Lisa points out how Marge clearly based her story on the movie, despite its historical inaccuracy—though Lisa's specified criticisms (that in real life Mozart worked hard on his music and Salieri was a respected composer) were only applicable to Marge's story, not Amadeus itself.
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On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister

" On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister " is the eleventh episode of Season 16 .

• 2 Full Story
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• 4 Citations

Synopsis [ ]

Lisa becomes fed up with Bart 's teasing and takes out a restraining order against him, while Homer takes a job as a Sprawl-Mart employee.

Full Story [ ]

The students of Springfield Elementary School take a field trip to the Springfield Glacier at 3:00am. Unfortunately, the glacier has melted almost completely away, and Lisa blames the melt on global warming. She tries to raise the other students' consciousness about global warming, but they ignore her and a ranger tries to shut her up. Bart , for his part, plays a practical joke on her as she desperately asks the students to save the glacier. Lisa's pleas go unheard, however, as the students are instead laughing hysterically at Bart's prank (which involves sending farting noises over a walkie-talkie while Lisa tries to talk).

Meanwhile, Homer and Marge go shopping at the Sprawl-Mart and find Grampa working there as a greeter. Grampa gets hurt, loses his people-greeting abilities and asks Homer to take over for him as the people greeter. Homer proves to be a success as a people greeter, prompting the manager to offer Homer a full-time position without any chance of advancement. Homer is pleased with the offer, due to the low expectations, and takes the job.

The next day, Lisa is still upset with Bart and, as revenge, gets a restraining order filed against him. Under the order, according to Chief Wiggum , Bart must remain 20 feet away from Lisa at all times. At first Bart doesn't listen, but after a test run of him getting thrown in jail for violation, he does. He is to follow the order or he will face more legal consequences. Chief Wiggum shows the family a videotape hosted by Gary Busey , " Get Out of My Dreams and Also Out of My Car: A Guide to Your Restraining Order" , which teaches Bart how to live with a restraining order. The film tells the story of a man who was in love with a women he did things to get her to like him, even though she was not interested in him, he thought "no means yes". He made the situation worse to the point where he showed up at a funeral for a relative (in the coffin) but the final straw was when he broke into the house and wrote a lipstick message on the bathroom mirror. So she got a restraining order against him. To make the restraining order more fun, Homer makes a 20-foot pole that can be used to warn Bart when he's less than 20 feet from Lisa and needs to move away (stupidly using and old screwdriver as the tip). Lisa, however, starts abusing the power of the restraining order and follows him wherever he goes (which in real life would result in the order being removed) and smiling while she repeatedly jabs him with the screwdriver. It gets so bad that Bart actually ends up with severe tissue damage in his arm from where she jabbed him. In their usual commute to school, Bart has to ride in a shopping cart that has been crudely tied to the back of the bus. At school, the order means that Bart can't even enter the school and he is forced to sit outside in the rain. Groundskeeper Willie becomes Bart's mentor later on, which proves difficult due to the shack Willie living in being unsanitary and the Scotsman threatening anyone who would try to correct him (All of this occurring with Lisa looking at him from a distance with a smirk on her face).

Two weeks into the order, Bart finally starts to get fed up with the near-constant abuse from his sister as she never allows him to fully relax and he finally begins to snap while sitting in the kitchen with Marge having a conversation. In the midst of talk, Lisa once again goes out of her way to make him miserable by roughly jabbing him in the arm. For the first time, Bart shows clear signs of irritation and asks her if she could just let him finish his glass of milk. She neglects his reasonable request by deliberately knocking the glass over. Bart, knowing that he'll never win because of the threat of law involvement, leaves the kitchen. This act of abuse is the final straw for Marge, as Lisa has completely ruined a bonding moment between her and Bart and was practically tearing apart the entire family overall. Marge appeals in Family Court (with Judge Constance Harm hearing the case) to get the restraining order removed. Instead of pointing out that his behavior was never severe enough to warrant an order and how Lisa's constant abuse of the system had proven to be threatening and harmful, Bart testifies that Lisa has no sense of humor and in the process manages to unintentionally insult the judge. Infuriated, Judge Harm increases the restraining order to 200 feet (61 meters as she explains to the Europeans in the back of the courthouse). Bart can now only live at the edge of the Simpson family property.

Lisa talks to Homer about how glad she is that Bart is now living in a tent at the edge of the property and gloats about how miserable he must be. However, she was completely wrong about the misery part, as instead Bart takes a look at nature and embraces it. He begins living outdoors permanently whether Lisa is home or not and runs with a pack of wild dogs happy that Lisa now can't harm him either. A few days pass and a worried Marge asks Lisa if Bart has suffered too much. Lisa explains that she has a hard time forgiving Bart, and that she will only lift the restraining order if she can think of three nice deeds Bart has done for her (two of which she and Marge come up with).

That night, at Sprawl-Mart, Homer finds out he's not so much a worker as he is a slave. He is forced to work all night and day without being paid, isn't even allowed to go to the bathroom, and he cannot leave the store because the management has a v-chip implanted in his head that will shock him painfully if he tries. After tearing out the chip (along with a portion of his skull and brain leaving him with minor brain damage), he lobbies his fellow associates at Sprawl-Mart to shut the store down, but they insist that they have learned to accept the things they cannot change and steal whatever is not nailed down, Homer eventually leaves the store on his own, driving through the front door in a fork lift loaded with several plasma TVs.

Back in the Simpson backyard the next afternoon, Bart builds a giant statue of Lisa using wicker to burn as a way to finally express the anger and sought after retribution he's been forced to withhold under threat of legal consequences. Lisa walks into the kitchen mocking Bart for his terrible phrasing in court, when she sees the statue and (unaware of Bart's actual reasoning for his actions) actually likes it so much, she forgives him and runs outside with the 20-foot "poking pole". Fearing she has come to attack him because of his true intentions, Bart begs Lisa to just leave him alone because he can't take anymore abuse. Lisa then tells him that she's not coming to attack him, but to forgive him because of the statue. At first, Bart is confused, but he soon sees a window to get rid of the order and have his normal life back (along with possibly obtaining a more satisfying payback) and plays along with Lisa's misconception. Unfortunately for him, just then, Dolph , Jimbo and Kearney show up carrying lit torches and announcing that they're ready to torch the "Wicker Witch of the West." Lisa is at first angry that Bart built the statue just to burn it (essentially, to burn Lisa in effigy ), but she chooses to forgive him anyway (though only after Bart claims that "The fire represents your musical ability"). Lisa sets the statue on fire, and breaks the 20-foot pole in half. As it burns, Lisa throws both the restraining order and the broken poking pole into the fire. As the closing credits start to roll, the statue keeps burning while the Simpsons play (and dance to) the Herb Alpert tune "Tijuana Taxi".

Reception [ ]

This episode was panned by fans and critics due to the episode's cruelty towards Bart.

Citations [ ]

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3. “Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington” in  The Simpsons: Season 3 (1991) 100%

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“Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington” adroitly typecasts Lisa as its pure-hearted Mr. Smith surrogate in a savagely satirical evisceration of political corruption, patriotic hokum, and the terminally mild song stylings of Mark Russell. As the show’s unyielding paragon of integrity, Lisa is a natural choice to earnestly inhabit the well-worn archetype of the idealistic innocent who uncovers the seedy underbelly of American politics. Lisa is an inherently political little muckraker and “Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington” ranks amongst her finest half hours.

4. “Homer at the Bat” in  The Simpsons: Season 3 (1991) 100%

If you were a sports fan at the time, “Homer at the Bat” was no mere television episode: It was a seismic cultural event that brought together the best in entertainment and sports in a riotous riff on The Natural. In “Homer at the Bat,” a magic bat transforms Homer into a dinger-smacking dynamo before Mr. Burns hires a team of major league ringers to help him win a million-dollar bet on a company softball game with a fellow mogul. You don’t need to be a baseball fan to find “Homer at the Bat” hilarious, but it does help.

5. “A Streetcar Named Marge” in  The Simpsons: Season 4 (1992) 100%

The perpetually long-suffering Marge gets an opportunity to not only express but sing her pain when she’s cast as Blanche Du Bois opposite a disconcertingly shredded Ned Flanders in a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire that replaces the tragic melodrama of the original with something peppier and more upbeat. Marge’s onstage drama mirrors her offstage frustrations, which lends the episode surprising emotional weight.

6. “Marge vs. The Monorail” in  The Simpsons: Season 4 (1992) 100%

Before he rose to talk show fame, Conan O’Brien wrote his way into The Simpsons history with “Marge Vs. The Monorail.” It’s an instant classic parody of The Music Man with Phil Hartman perfectly cast as its Harold Hill figure, a charismatic flim-flam man with a song on his lips and a scam in his heart who bamboozles the gullible people of Springfield into buying a monorail that causes the problems he promises it will solve.

7. “I Love Lisa” in  The Simpsons: Season 4 (1992) 100%

It’s impossible not to feel poor Ralph Wiggum’s precocious romantic heartbreak when Lisa Simpson humiliates him after he publicly professes his love for her in this painfully hilarious and just plain painful exploration of puppy love gone awry. Watch closely and you can pinpoint the exact moment “I Love Lisa” rips the audience’s heart in half. Who knew Lisa could be such a heartbreaker and Ralph such a convincing tragic romantic hero?

8. “Last Exit to Springfield” in  The Simpsons: Season 4 (1992) 100%

To fans of classic The Simpsons , the words “Lisa needs braces” must always be answered with “Dental plan?” and vice versa thanks to “Last Exit to Springfield.” The episode pitted a deeply overmatched Homer against Mr. Burns in a labor-versus-owner skirmish that develops unexpectedly high, personal stakes that sees Homer’s dim-wittedness facing off against his family and co-workers’ needs.

9. “Krusty Gets Kancelled” in  The Simpsons: Season 4 (1992) 100%

The stars REALLY come for poor Krusty after his place in children’s hearts is taken by sadistic dummy Gabbo. “Krusty Gets Kancelled” would make it into the pantheon of all-time great episodes on the basis of a guest voice roster that includes Johnny Carson, Elizabeth Taylor, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers alone, but it offers an embarrassment of riches even without a ridiculously stacked guest lineup.

10. “Cape Feare” in  The Simpsons: Season 5 (1993) 100%

Kelsey Grammer’s sonorously duplicitous sidekick-turned-serial attempted murderer, Sideshow Bob, proved himself a worthy antagonist to Bart Simpson by slipping into the role of a vengeance-crazed ex-con in a  Cape Fear  spoof that contains the legendary sequence where the frustrated clown steps on a rake nine times – a gag that’s funny, then unfunny, then brutal, then hilarious all over again.

11. “Rosebud” in  The Simpsons: Season 5 (1993) 100%

The Simpsons’ famous love for Citizen Kane, and pop culture pastiche in general. reaches a glorious crescendo with “Rosebud,” which re-imagines Charles Foster Kane’s iconic nostalgia for the sled of his youth as miserly Mr. Burns similarly pining for a clumsily symbolic totem of childhood innocence, a ratty teddy bear that Maggie comes to own. “Rosebud” humanized a monster by exposing the child within.

12. “Itchy and Scratchy Land” in  The Simpsons: Season 6 (1994) 100%

When FOX tried to appease censors by eliminating Itchy & Scratchy, a duo that exists for the sake of gratuitous violence, The Simpsons impishly protested with the most uncompromisingly brutal Itchy & Scratchy episode of all time. “Itchy and Scratchy Land” ratcheted the bloodshed up to hyperbolic and hilarious levels in a gut-buster that riffs merrily on Disney Land, Westworld , and Jurassic Park.

13. “Treehouse of Horror V” in  The Simpsons: Season 6 (1994) 100%

The Treehouse of Horror,  The Simpsons ’ beloved annual Halloween ramble through treasured terror tales past, was never darker or more hilarious than in this fifth entry that focused on adults murderously terrorizing children. First Homer convincingly inhabits the murderous mind of Jack Torrance in a non legally-actionable parody of  The Shining  called “The Shinning.” Then Homer ruins things for civilization by futzing around with the timeline before a final segment finds teachers and lunch ladies enjoying a new “miracle meat” made of students that gives a deliciously literal meaning to “Eat my shorts.”

14. “Who Shot Mr Burns?” Parts 1 and 2 in  The Simpsons: Season 6 (1994) 100% and   The Simpsons: Season 7 (1995) 100%

The Simpsons delved into the pulse-pounding world of cliffhangers with “Who Shot Mr. Burns?”, a high-profile, much buzzed-about two-part parody of Dallas’  1980 ratings bonanza “Who Shot J.R?”. Like the earlier pop-culture phenomenon, “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” focused on the shooting of a mogul so cartoonishly evil that just about anyone with a pulse who has interacted with them has reason to wish them dead.

15. “Lisa the Vegetarian” in  The Simpsons: Season 7 (1995) 100%

Not eating meat seems so central to Lisa’s identity that it’s hard to believe she didn’t start out as a non-meat–eater. But introducing Lisa as a carnivore allowed  The Simpsons  to very publicly convert Lisa to the meat-free lifestyle when she’s unable to reconcile her love for animals with her family’s cartoonishly over-the-top love for devouring formerly living creatures, particularly after discovering that Apu and special guest stars Paul and Linda McCartney share her beliefs.

16. “22 Short Films About Springfield” in  The Simpsons: Season 7 (1995) 100%

The dazzlingly conceptual, wildly audacious “22 Short Films About Springfield” took inspiration from  Pulp Fiction  as well as the more obscure  32 Short Films About Glenn Gould  in focusing on not one story but a series of overlapping narratives that collectively capture the soul of Springfield. The episode has proven an enduring gift to memes, most famously Principal Skinner nervously serving up “steamed hams” to a skeptical Superintendent Chalmers.

17. “You Only Move Twice” in  The Simpsons: Season 8 (1996) 100%

It’s always a momentous occasion when Albert Brooks, maybe the funniest man alive, guests on The Simpsons. Brooks makes every guest appearance an event, and he’s never voiced a more brilliantly conceived or executed character than Hank Scorpio: outside-the-box thinker, unconventional boss, and, unfortunately for Homer, his newest employee, something of a James Bond-style super-villain. The episode subversively foregrounds changes in Homer’s work life, audaciously limiting the international espionage aspect to the background. “You Only Move Twice” takes the action out of Springfield when Hank Scorpio lures Homer away from Mr. Burns and introduces a Homer that’s productive, competent, and respected by his boss. Don’t worry! It would not last.

18. “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show” in  The Simpsons: Season 8 (1996) 100%

“The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show” introduced a sturdy new pop-culture archetype in Poochie, who the writers of  Itchy & Scratchy  come up with in a desperate attempt to breathe new life into the long-running show. A self-proclaimed “kung-fu hippie from gangsta city”, Poochie represents every half-assed attempt to create a crowd-pleasing new breakout character out of moldy cliches and empty “attitude.”

19. “Homer’s Phobia” in  The Simpsons: Season 8 (1996) 100%

The eternally game John Waters   taught Homer and middle America overlapping lessons about kitsch and tolerance in  “Homer’s Phobia” playing John, a delightfully droll bon vivant and lover of all things camp who utterly charms the Simpsons before Homer discovers he’s gay. It’s  an episode that, like the later  “Mypods and Broomsticks, ”  walks a fine line between being the proverbial “very special episode” and a knowing parody of television that preaches as well as entertains.  

20. “Homer’s Enemy” in  The Simpsons: Season 8 (1996) 100%

What would Homer’s life look like to a total outsider? That’s the the question at the heart of “Homer’s Enemy.” The famously dark episode introduced and killed off Frank Grimes, a new hire at the power plant and a man of perpetual sorrow whose Dickensian existence makes Homer’s impossibly charmed life seem preposterously perfect by comparison.  This uncompromisingly dark episode looks at one of America’s most reassuringly familiar families through a revelatory and bracingly harsh new lens.

21. “The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase” in  The Simpsons: Season 8 (1996) 100%

Despite its extraordinary success, The Simpsons has not spawned a single spin-off. Yet fans got a glimpse at what might have been in “The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase,” a knowing deconstruction of television cliches that spit-roasts the spin-off in general and the “colorful” detective show, variety show, and supernatural romance in particular when Troy McClure smarmily takes us through the pilots for “Chief Wiggum P.I.,” “The Lovematic Grandpa,” and “The Simpsons Smile Time Variety Hour,” a pitch-perfect lampoon of the ill-fated Brady Bunch Variety Hour and Laugh-In.

22. “ Alone Again, Natura-Diddily ” in  The Simpsons: Season 11 (1999) --

Poor, saintly Ned Flanders lost a soul-diddly-ol-mate but gained new depth when Homer caused a tee-shirt-cannon–related demise for Marge Flanders and then felt obligated to help Ned find someone to help ease his loneliness. “Alone Again, Natura-Diddly” is alternately bracingly cruel in the glib way it dispatches with a major character’s spouse but ultimately surprisingly sensitive in its depiction of Ned’s grief.

23. “Behind the Laughter” in  The Simpsons: Season 11 (1999) --

The perpetually meta Simpsons has always made a point of shattering the fourth wall. But it’s seldom peeled back the curtain as far as it did on “Behind the Laughter,” which impishly offered an alternate creation story for the Simpsons as a literal mom and pop music and comedy act whose highs and lows mirror those of seemingly every act chronicled on Behind the Music.

24. “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind” in  The Simpsons: Season 19 (2007) --

Science-fiction has a way of shaking late-period  The Simpsons  out of its doldrums. “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind” is no exception. Borrowing a few pages out of the Charlie Kaufman playbook, the trippy mind-bender follows Homer’s attempts to figure out what happened to Marge after taking a “Forget-Me-Shot” at Moe’s that does a number on his memory. Intermittently haunting and beautiful, as well as funny, “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind” showed that FOX’s trusty animated warhorse had some life in it yet.

25. “Mypods and Broomsticks” in  The Simpsons: Season 20 (2008) 80%

The Simpsons got a little preachy with “Mypods and Boomsticks,” an all too timely 2008 exploration of our fear and hatred of others and worshipful, sycophantic love of technology. The episode took on Apple and Islamophobia through the story of Homer suspecting a new Muslim neighbor is a terrorist and Lisa falling under the sway of Steve Jobs’ cult of personality.

26. “Once Upon A Time In Springfield” in  The Simpsons: Season 21 (2009) --

In “Once Upon a Time in Springfield,” we get yet another glimpse behind the clown paint at Krusty as a man with needs when professional rivalry gives way to true love and he ends up falling in love with Princess Penelope after she’s shoe-horned into his show to boost ratings. Penelope is sugar and spice onscreen yet talks like a Long Island longshoreman and sings like an angel off it, thanks to Anne Hathaway’s Emmy-winning virtuoso guest turn.

27. “The Ned-liest Catch” in  The Simpsons: Season 22 (2010) --

“The Ned-Liest Catch” forever changed the destiny of two of the show’s most important supporting characters when Bart played Cupid and made an unlikely love match between Ned Flanders and Edna Krabapple. Ned is surprisingly hot to trot before Edna’s extensive sexual history gives him second thoughts. FOX had audiences vote on whether Ned and Edna should remain together, a move that highlights the mild desperation that comes with being on the air for decades.

28. “The Book Job” in  The Simpsons: Season 23 (2011) 60%

As it lumbered towards its third decade on the air,  The Simpsons  increasingly chased after trends rather than setting them. 2011’s “The Book Job” peppily took satirical aim at the extraordinary success of J.K Rowling in an episode structured like Steven Soderbergh’s  Oceans  movies. For the last decade,  The Simpsons  has distinguished itself largely through the caliber and novelty of its guest stars; this has a pair of doozies in  Oceans  alum Andy Garcia and a gleefully self-deprecating Neil Gaiman.

29. “The Saga of Carl” in  The Simpsons: Season 24 (2012) 33%

Three decades on the air has afforded  The Simpsons  plenty of time to explore its supporting cast. It accordingly took a mere 24 years for  The Simpsons  to do a deep-dive into the angst of consummate background fixture Carl Carlson in “The Saga of Carl.” This late-period gem uses Carl bailing on his friends after they win the lottery together to look at Homer, Moe, Lenny, and Carl’s friendship in particular and male friendships in general.

30. “Brick Like Me” in  The Simpsons: Season 25 (2013) 71%

The Simpsons has never been shy about toying with the audience’s sense of reality. The 25th season standout episode “Brick Like Me” blew minds with a gimmicky yet emotionally satisfying story that alternated between two realities, one a Lego world that exists only in Homer’s imagination and reflects his hopes and fears about his relationship with Lisa. Like The Lego Movie, which it unsurprisingly resembles, “Brick Like Me” is a funny but ultimately poignant story about growing up and letting go.

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Lisa Gets the Blues

• Episode aired Apr 22, 2018

The Simpsons' flight to Gainesville gets re-routed to New Orleans, where Lisa must regain her confidence as a jazz musician. The Simpsons' flight to Gainesville gets re-routed to New Orleans, where Lisa must regain her confidence as a jazz musician. The Simpsons' flight to Gainesville gets re-routed to New Orleans, where Lisa must regain her confidence as a jazz musician.

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• Matt Groening
• James L. Brooks
• Dan Castellaneta
• Julie Kavner
• Nancy Cartwright
• 5 User reviews

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• Homer Simpson

• Marge Simpson

• Bart Simpson

• Lisa Simpson

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• Milhouse Van Houten

• Lindsey Naegle

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• Louis Armstrong
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• Trivia This episode ties the show with 'Gunsmoke' for the longest running prime time TV show.
• Crazy credits At the end of the credits the screen says "IN LOVING MEMORY OF R. LEE ERMEY" with an image of the character he voiced in two episodes, Colonel Leslie Hapablap.
• Connections Features The Tracey Ullman Show: Episode #2.17 (1988)
• Soundtracks Gainesville (uncredited) Written by Randy Newman Performed by Linda Ronstadt

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• Aug 25, 2018
• April 22, 2018 (United States)
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14. L’épidémie du virus Ebola (1997)

Dans un épisode de 1997, Marge essaie de convaincre son fils de sortir de son lit. Elle lui suggère de lire un livre qui a pour titre « Curious George and the Ebola Virus » . Pour certains, la série a réussi à prédire l’épidémie de cette maladie puisque depuis 2014 ce virus fait rage, notamment en Afrique et a fait de nombreuses victimes. Un peu à l’image du dessin de Bart à vrai dire…

13. Les attentats du 11 Septembre 2001 (1997)

Selon une théorie (un peu tirée par les cheveux), les Simpson auraient prédit les attentats du 11 septembre 2001. En effet, dans le premier épisode de la saison 9, diffusé en 1997, Lisa tend un magazine à 9 dollars à son frère. Sur la couverture, on découvre les tours jumelles du World Trade Center: fait troublant, elles forment le chiffre 11. En associant toutes les informations cela donne 9/11, soit la date des attentats.

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12. Manger dans un restaurant avion (1998)

En 1998, Marge et Homer s’offrent un dîner romantique à bord d’un avion-restaurant. Ce n’est pourtant qu’en 2002 qu’un bâtiment de ce genre fut mis en place au Colorado pour attirer la clientèle et pour le plus grand plaisir des touristes fans des Simpson.

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11. Un cache-oreilles hamburger (1998)

Dans « La dernière intention d’Homer » (épisode 2, saison 10) diffusée en 1998, le professeur Fink fabrique un cache-oreille en forme de hamburgers. En 2013, on pouvait retrouver cette étonnante invention avec de la nourriture sur le marché.

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10. Le jeu Farmville (1998)

Vous connaissez certainement le jeu « Farmville » mis en place sur le réseau social Facebook. Sachez que ce n’est pas quelque chose de nouveau: en 1998, les enfants de Springfield jouaient déjà à ce simulateur de ferme en temps réel en exécutant des travaux agricoles. Et comme vous pouvez le voir, ces enfants portent des casques de réalité virtuelle…

9. Le vol de graisse alimentaire (1998)

Dans la saison 10, l’épisode « La graisse antique » met en scène Homer qui vole de la graisse de cuisson dans des bâtiments de stockage pour la transformer en argent facile. En 2013, un américain a réellement utilisé cette méthode pour se remplir les poches. Est-ce l’envie d’imiter le fameux personnage des Simpson qui a poussé cet homme à le faire ou bien une réelle prédiction du futur de la part des auteurs ? Telle est la question.

8. Les tomates mutantes (1999)

Dans l’épisode « Une récolte d’enfer  » (saison 11) diffusé en 1999, Homer décide de s’installer dans une ferme et de produire une culture particulière grâce à du « plutonioum ». Cela crée une nouvelle variété de tomates appelée « Tomacco » puisque elles sont chargées de tabac. En réalité, il est déjà arrivé que des fruits ou des légumes mutants poussent dans le monde notamment après la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima au Japon en mars 2011.

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