Watching “The Simpsons” on Channel TEN. The Episode is called “Simpsons Tall Tales“!

Coach Gag: The living room is a subway station. The family (seated on a bench) get on the next train that arrives on the track and leave.

Chalkboard: “I should not be twenty-one by now”.

Bart as Tom Sawyer and Nelson as Huckleberry Finn

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Watching “The Simpsons” on Channel TEN. The Episode is called “A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love“.

PLOT:
The Simpsons visit a Chinese restaurant, where Homer is hired to write Chinese fortune cookies after complaining that the current fortunes are unimaginative. One of his fortunes says “You will find true love on Flag Day“. This cookie makes its way to Mr. Burns on, coincidentally, Flag Day. Eager for true love at last, Burns and a reluctant Smithers spend the evening womanising at a wealthy social gathering (where Mr. Monopoly steals Burns’ date) and a strip club. (which Burns refers to as a “nude female firehouse”). With mere minutes left in the day, Burns finds a cop ticketing his car, which he had parked in the middle of the road. After discovering the cop is a beautiful woman named Gloria (voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Burns asks her out on a date. Gloria warily accepts, much to Burns’ delight and Smithers’ chagrin.
After a pleasant first date at the carnival, Burns asks about another date but Gloria is about to turn him down when Homer runs by. Burns asks Homer to vouch for him to Gloria, so Homer regales her by listing Burns’ many exploits. After Gloria agrees to a second date, Burns enlists Homer to be his “youthful advisor”, accompanying the couple on their next date at the disco hall, and even carrying Burns and Gloria up the stairs when they go to have sex. In these cases, Burns overcomes his weakness and extreme age by means of a powerful aphrodisiac (made from an extract of the “pocket fox”, a species which only existed for three weeks in the 1500s). Homer decides to try the aphrodisiac himself, leading to a wild night with Marge that leaves Bart, Lisa, and even Flanders next-door visibly disturbed.
Eventually, during a date at the bowling alley, Burns decides to ask Gloria to marry him. She says yes. As Burns goes off to get some champagne to celebrate, Snake comes to rob the bowling alley, and is surprised to see Gloria, who turns out to be his ex-girlfriend. Despite Gloria’s protests, Snake kidnaps her and Homer. When Burns finds Gloria’s ring, dropped in the commotion, he assumes she ran off with Homer.
Snake takes Gloria and Homer to his hideout. Though Gloria says she loves Burns, Snake vows he can change. The police arrive and confront Snake (because Lisa found out Homer was not the kidnapper). Homer tries to escape but instead sets Snake’s house on fire. Snake and Homer get out and Burns runs in to save Gloria (Gloria then saves Burns). Although initially grateful, Gloria begins to reminisce about Snake, causing her to break up with Burns and become Snake’s girl again.

Couch Gag: The couch is outside a prison wall. A siren wails and a searchlight moves as The Simpsons (dressed in striped prison jumpsuits) tunnel their way to the couch.

Chalkboard: “Fun does not have a size.”

Burns enters Snake Jailbird‘s flaming shack to save his girlfriend Gloria.

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Watching “The Simpsons” on Channel TEN! The Episode is called “Skinner’s sense of snow“!

PLOT:
While the Simpsons attend a French Canadian circus called “Cirque de Purée”, a freak blizzard (specifically, a “classic nor’easter meeting a classic sou’wester“) hits Springfield, turning it into a winter wonderland overnight. However, Springfield Elementary School stays open regardless on the day before Christmas break. Only some students, including Bart and Lisa‘s classes show up while Skinner and Willie are the only faculty members to show up for work. To pass the time, Skinner plays the ultra-boring movie “The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was”. While they are watching the movie, the snow piles up and traps everyone in the school.
Skinner, whose incompetence in not closing the school due to the blizzard caused everyone inside the school to be trapped, quickly determines that they will be unable to get out and will have to remain there for the duration of the storm. The kids complain about things they have to go home for, but Skinner firmly declares that no one can escape. The kids are forced to eat relish and mayonnaise. After Nelson fails in an escape attempt, the kids begin to go beyond Skinner’s control. Reminded of when he could maintain order in his army days, he dons his old uniform. Meanwhile, Homer and Ned set off to rescue the kids. When Homer decides to use Ned’s car with Ned’s (sawed off) roof in front as a wedge to clear the snow, Ned protests by asking what happened to Mr. Plow, Homer’s old snow removal service; Homer says he doesn’t know what Ned’s talking about, despite wearing the jacket, and humming the jingle. While driving, they hit a fire hydrant, encasing their car in ice. This allows carbon monoxide to enter the car, causing them to black out from the fumes and Homer to hallucinate that he’s being pampered by exotic belly dancers.
In the middle of the night, Bart tries to dig a tunnel to get everyone out. He gets caught by Skinner, who orders Willie to destroy the tunnel. Willie refuses, and when Skinner makes an anti-Scottish comment, he quits. Skinner decides to destroy it himself, but he again messes up and gets trapped in the cavern. The kids take advantage of this and take over the school, wreaking havoc and burning books in the school library (Bart, ironically, burns a copy of Johnny Tremain, which he fondly read in the episode Whacking Day). Skinner uses the school hamster, Nibbles, to roll in his ball to get a message to the outside world. Nibbles makes it to Ned and Homer crashing through the car window, and they break the ice and get free them. Homer releases the wheel after turning on the car’s cruise control, causing the car to lose control and crash into a salt silo. However, Homer’s blunder fortunately releases a massive amount of salt that melts the snow around the school, freeing the kids, but rusting the car’s body completely. Superintendent Chalmers shows up, terrifying Skinner, but accepts Skinner’s explanation that…well, just that there is an explanation which he doesn’t explain in detail. Skinner and Bart then agree to forget the entire incident ever happened. During the drive home, the carbon monoxide makes Homer hallucinate again; this time, Lisa is seen as a braying camel and Bart is a belly dancer that Homer tries to kiss. Before the credits roll, Lisa (still as a camel) wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.

Coach Gag: A football is tossed in the center of the living room. The family (dressed as football players) pile on top of it. Maggie squirms out with the ball in hand and does a victory dance.

Chalkboard: “Science class should not end in tragedy”

Skinner, Willie, and the students snowed in.

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Watching “The Simpsons” on Channel TEN. The Episode is called “The Old Man and the Key“!

PLOT:
When a beautiful new woman moves into his retirement home, Grampa Simpson is determined to win her love over the youthful owner of a minivan. After renewing his driver’s license (which Patty quickly gave to him in return that he wouldn’t wink at her again), Grampa convinces Homer to let him borrow the car to romance her. Although he impresses the new old gal, he crashes Homer’s car in a drag race, and thus loses his love to the competition.
When a younger man takes Grampa’s new girl on a road trip, Grampa steals Marge’s car and “kidnaps” Bart, taking him on the road to Branson, Missouri to win back the woman from the arms of the younger man. Ray Jay Johnson, Mr. T, Charo, Yakov Smirnoff, Charlie Callas, Bonnie Franklin and Adrian Zmed are the stars of the show in Branson they go to see. (Tennessee Ernie Ford is backstage, but crumbles to dust when Grampa proves he’s dead by showing the deceased actor his obituary.) Grampa calls out to his lady from on-stage, but then denounces her in front of everyone, who then call her (in a chant) a hoochie, sending her fleeing off the stage in tears. Abe then reconciles with Homer.

Couch Gag: The Simpsons run to the couch, only to find Blue Man Group performing. Homer mutters, “What the…”




Grandpa Simpson with Zelda.

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