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The Parent Rap

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Season 13 Episode
270 "Treehouse of Horror XII"
271
"The Parent Rap"
"Homer the Moe" 272
"I'm gonna lock you up till frogs do fractions!"
Judge Constance Harm
"The Parent Rap"
TheParentRap promo.jpg
Episode Information
Episode number: 271
Season number: S13 E2
Production code: CABF22
Original airdate: November 11, 2001
Chalkboard gag: "Nobody reads these anymore"
Couch gag: The Simpsons are in Marge's painting of a boat.
Guest star(s): Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Constance Harm
Jess Harnell as Charlton Heston
Showrunner(s): Mike Scully
Written by: George Meyer
Mike Scully
Directed by: Mark Kirkland
DVD features


"The Parent Rap" is the second episode of season 13 of The Simpsons and the two-hundred and seventy-first episode overall. It originally aired on November 11, 2001. The episode was written by George Meyer and Mike Scully and directed by Mark Kirkland. It guest stars Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Constance Harm and Jess Harnell as Charlton Heston.

Synopsis[edit]

"Bart appears in court to pay for an embarrassing joy ride in the police chief's patrol car. But just before he is set free, a second, vindictive judge named Constance Harm assumes the case and sentences him to the worst kind of detention imaginable: being tethered to Homer around the clock."


Plot[edit]

After missing the school bus, Homer takes Milhouse and Bart to school. Homer hears on the radio an announcement for a KBBL's "Prize Possie" radio contest, and whoever gets spotted the radio station's van and has a "KBBL Party Penguin" hanging from the car antenna wins a prize of $40. Immediately after the announce, Milhouse spots the van crossing traffic. Homer then abandons Bart and Milhouse on the side of the road and sets out to chase the prize van. The boys start to walk to school by themselves, until they notice Chief Wiggum's squad car. They get inside and mess around in the front seat, but accidentally put the car into neutral after being threatened by the squad's canine in the back seat. After crashing the police car into a tree, Wiggum puts Bart and Milhouse in custody for assuming they used the car for a joyride.

In juvenile court, Milhouse gets his case dismissed for Judge Snyder believes that "boys will be boys". Bart, not worried about any punishment as he believes that Snyder is "the good judge", comes up to face his trial. Snyder is just about to let Bart free when abruptedly the judge's vacation starts. The replacement judge, Constance Harm, is a tough martinet and is just about to sentence him to juvenile detention. But after realizing that Homer was the one who abandoned Bart in the first place, she orders that Bart and Homer are to be tethered together for the time being.

At first, both of them are unhappy about the punishment, but after the pair attend school, work and Moe's together, the two begin to bond. The bond ends shortly, however, when Bart gets fed up of being tethered after almost having to sit through Homer and Marge having sex. Bart starts a fight with Homer, frustrating Marge, which causes her to cut the tether. Unfortunately, Judge Harm catches her through firewall cameras in the tether rope. Judge Harm decides that both Bart's parents are unfit, so she has Homer and Marge put into wooden stocks and punishes them by making them bend over by the road so people can drive by and spank them (Or in Nelson's case, whip them). Later, Homer and Marge use Ned Flanders' table saw and candle to break free. In retaliation, they go to Harm's houseboat to put up a "Big Meanie" banner across her front door. Just when they were about to leave, Harm's pet seal alerts the judge. Harm runs out, while Homer throws a cinder block at her head. He misses but hits her houseboat, therefore sinking it.

When brought before Judge Harm again, Homer and Marge were almost sentenced to gruesome punishment. However, Bart interrupts the trail and confesses that he should be the one punished, not his parents. Harm gets ready to punish Bart when Judge Snyder's vacation expires, putting him back on the case. Snyder moves for a motion that "boys will be boys" and dismisses the case. While going home, Marge makes the family promise that they will never break the law for a whole year. Homer immediately breaks the promise by accidentally running over Hans Moleman.

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