Editing Girls Just Want to Have Sums

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'''"Girls Just Want To Have Sums"''' is an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''.

==Synopsis==
[[Simpson family|The Simpsons]] and many other prominent [[Springfield (The Simpsons)|Springfieldians]] go to see a performance of ''[[Itchy & Scratchy]]: The Musical'' (while passing the theater where ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lion_king_musical The Lion King Musical]'' is playing). The show pretty much comprises the homicidal cat and mouse do what they do best, but all in song. The audience is enthralled by the performance and give it a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_ovation standing ovation]. Julianna, the director comes out on stage, accompanied by [[Principal Skinner]], to acknowledge the cheers. Skinner reveals that she used to be a student of [[Springfield Elementary]] and, while acknowledging all her accomplishments, says that she wasn't very good in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics math], because she is a girl. Expectedly, everyone in the audience - women, in particular - is shocked.

The next day, the teachers of Springfield Elementary and other ladies stage a protest outside the school against Skinner's remark, much to the displeasure of [[Superintendent Chalmers]]. Skinner assures him that he will take care of it and holds a conference in the school's auditorium, inviting all the protesting ladies to attend. There, he tries to pacify them - by wearing a skirt (revealing his hairy legs), much to the amusement of his students, but not the ladies. He tries saying that men and women are equals, but unique. Nothing he says has a good effect on the ladies, so finally he starts hyperventilating and collapses on stage. Chalmers comes out and introduces them to their new principal - lady principal, that is. As her first act as principal, she separates the boys and girls into separate schools. The move is met with mixed reactions.

The next day, [[Otto Mann|Otto]] drops off the girls at their school, and then drives a few feet ahead and releases the boys from their cage in the bus, so they can attend their school. [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] seems to feel right at home in the girl-friendly school, with the fountains, paintings, pink paint and all. She attends math class, which will be taught by the new principal herself. However, instead of usual number-crunching or the like, she starts speaking about the philosophy and magic in math. While the other girls go for it, Lisa asks whether they will get down to doing problems, to which the principal replies that is how boys look at math. Disillusioned by this pro-female bias toward one of her favorite subjects, Lisa walks off and goes into the boys' school compound, which looks like a battleground. She peeps into one of the classrooms and sees a math class in session, where actual, accurate math is being taught - exactly how she likes it. She is caught by Skinner, now an assistant to [[Groundskeeper Willie]] and told to leave.

After a chat with [[Marge Simpson|Marge]], she decides to disguise herself as a boy, named "Jake Boyman" and attend the boys' school. During the math class, she gets a problem wrong, but she feels happy to have learned something. Unfortunately, being with the boys means having to act like one. She gets into a fight with [[Nelson Muntz|Nelson]] and, as much as she tries to use her intelligence to escape her situation, she gets beaten up.

When [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] returns home that day, happy to have seen a fight, he is shocked to see Lisa, still dressed as Jake, sitting on her bed, crying quietly. He feels sorry for her and he tells her that he will teach her to act like a boy. 

Thanks to Bart's help, she starts acting more like a boy, including beating up poor [[Ralph Wiggum]]. However, she does well in math class. Finally, at an award ceremony, she is given an award for her outstanding performance in math. She then reveals herself to the whole school. She explains why she had to disguise herself. Bart gets up and tells everyone that she did well only because she was acting like a boy. Angry at hearing this, she throws her shoe at Bart, but ends up hitting Ralph. Shocked at how "boy-like" she has become, she apologises to Ralph. In the end, it is assumed that Skinner is reinstated as principal.
In this episode Bart catches [[Bart Junior (frog)]].

==Trivia==
* [[Hank Azaria]], voice of [[Moe Szyslak]], stars in the Broadway musical ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamalot Spamalot]'', which was parodied in this episode.
* During "Stab-A-lot" Marge and Lisa wear different formal clothes than they do in all preceding episodes.
*When Lisa started to dress like a boy, her waist was round just like Homer's and Bart's. Usually, her waist is like Marge's.
*In the promos for this episode, the gag where Bart says he can walk around with Bart Jr. hanging out and pulls out his frog, the frog's subtitled line "I thought he meant his penis" was removed yet isn't on Global.

==Cultural References==
*The title is a play on the song "[[Girls Just Want to Have Fun]]", by  [[Cyndi Lauper]].
*The Broadway Version of ''[[The Lion King (musical)|The Lion King]]'' is completely parodied by the Itchy and Scratchy Musical, ''Stab-A-Lot''.  Its title is a parody of ''[[Spamalot]]''. The song "It's Symbiotic" is a parody of the song "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]''.
*The [[Book (musical theater)|book]] for the Itchy & Scratchy musical is said to have been written by acclaimed playwright [[Tom Stoppard]].
* The song that Otto plays after he lets the girls off is "Breaking the Law" by [[Judas Priest]].
* The song that Martin, "Best Flautist" plays and continues playing at the end credits is [[Thick as a Brick|"Thick As a Brick"]] by [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]].
* [[The Waitresses]]' ''I Know What Boys Like'' is used in this episode.
*Seymour Skinner's remark that men are better than women at [[Mathematics|math]] and [[science]] is a reference to [[Lawrence Summers]], the president of [[Harvard University]].
*The episode's basic storyline is similar to [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. The line "We've been ''[[Yentl]]''d!" is a reference to a film with a similar storyline.
*The music that plays in scenes featuring the boys' playground are very reminiscent of the score from [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s film version of ''[[A Clockwork Orange]]''. Both ''A Clockwork Orange'' and the episode feature somewhat [[apocalyptic]], violent settings.
*In the girls' section of the elementary school, paintings by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo Frida Kahlo] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O%27Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe] hang on the walls, joined in humorous juxtaposition by a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_(comic_strip) Cathy] cartoon, implying an equivalent position in the female-artist pantheon for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Guisewite Cathy Guisewite].
*Julianna, the director of "Stab-A-Lot," is based on Julie Taymor who won two Tonys for Direction and Costume Design of the original Broadway adaptation of "Disney's The Lion King."
*One Guy Named Moe: Parody of a Broadway comedy from the late 80s called ''Five Guys Named Moe''.

==Quotes==
*'''Chalmers:''' Skinner, you've got to deal with these kooks.<br/> '''Skinner:''' Don't worry, I have a plan: pretend I agree with them.<br/> '''Chalmers:''' Well, you'd better hurry. ''(pointing to his car)'' Look what they've done to your car.<br/> '''Skinner:''' No, that's how its always looks.<br/> '''Chalmers:''' Oh, how sad.  

*'''Skinner:''' Today, we celebrate the first of many, many, many, many diversity forums. Why is it that women "appear" to be worse at math than men? What is the source of this "illusion" or as I call it, the biggest lie ever told.<br/> '''Lindsey Naegle:''' You're a worse version of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler Hitler]!<br/> '''Skinner:''' Please believe me. I-I understand the problem of women. ''(he moves from behind the podium revealing he's wearing a purple dress and purple heels)'' See. ''(the audience gasps)''<br/> '''Nelson:''' Ha, ha! ''(sing-songy)'' The principal's a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvestism tranny].<br/> '''Skinner:''' Am I wearing women's clothes? I didn't notice. When I look in my closet, I don't see male clothes or female clothes. They're all the same.<br/> '''Edna Krabappel:''' Are you saying that men and women are identical?<br/> '''Skinner:''' Oh, no, of course not! Women are unique in every way.<br/> '''Lindsey Naegle:''' Now he's saying men and women ''aren't'' equal! <br/> '''Skinner:''' No, no, no! It's the differences of which there are none that makes the sameness exceptional. Just tell me what to say! ''(he starts to breathe heavily then pass out)''<br/> '''Chalmers:''' Oh dear. Um, attention students. Due to nervous exhaustion and [[verbal diarrhea|diarrhea of the mouth]]... ''(the students start laughing)'' Yes, yes, yes. I said [[diarrhea]].

*'''Bart:''' I think it's great! Now I can walk down the hall with Bart Jr. hanging out! Isn't that right, Bart Jr.? ''(pulls out his pet [[frog]])''<br>'''Frog:''' ''(subtitled)'' I thought he meant his [[penis]].

*'''Lisa:''' You'd do that for me? That's so sweet! ''(hugs him)''<br>'''Bart:''' ''(pushes her away)'' You're a boy. Nothing is sweet. ''(steps on her foot)''<br>'''Lisa:''' Ow! That hurt!<br>'''Bart:''' Sweet.

*'''Lisa:''' Principal Skinner? <br/> '''Skinner:''' That's ''Groundskeeper'' Skinner now. <br/> '''Willie:''' ''Assistant'' Groundskeeper, ya moron!

*'''Ralph:''' I got hit by Boy Lisa ''and'' Girl Lisa!

*'''Ralph:''' ''(covered in ants)'' These dots are itchy!

*'''Cat:''' ''(singing to the [[Lion King]]'s Circle of Life)'' In the circle, the circle of-<br/>'''Itchy:''' (''Spoken'') Knife! ''(cuts puppets arms and legs and red [[streamer]]s fly out)''

*''(Lisa thinks of math, as they speak to her)''<br/>'''[[Inequality|Greater-than-or-equal-to]] sign (≥):''' Do it Lisa! You'll be greater than or equal to boys.<br/>'''[[8 (number)|Number eight]]:''' Even though you're only eight ''(flips over to side to become [[infinity]] sign)'', your possibilities are infinite.<br/>'''[[27 (number)|Number Twenty-Seven]]:''' Twenty-seven!

*'''Lisa:''' What are you drawing?<br/>'''Nelson:''' A robot with guns for arms shooting a plane made of guns that fires guns.

==Songs==
==="Two Days, Two Circles"=== 
*''Itchy, Scratchy, Itchy, Itchy, Scratchy<br/> Itchy, Scratchy, Itchy, Itchy, Scratchy<br/> From the day you are born in the alley<br/> To the day you are hit by a car<br/> There's cream to drink<br/> And mice to eat<br/> And great big balls of yarn<br/> It's the circle...<br/> The circle of...knife.''

==="It's Symbiotic"=== 
*''sung by Itchy and Scratchy''<br/> '''Scratchy:'''<br/> ''I don't know why I trust him''<br/> ''I guess some cats just never learn''<br/> '''Itchy:'''<br/> ''I feel so good when I have crushed him''<br/> ''Or left him mangled, maimed, and burned''<br/> '''Both:'''<br/> ''I supposed it's [[symbiosis|symbiotic]]''<br/> ''And perhaps a bit [[eroticism|erotic]]''<br/> '''Scratchy:'''<br/> '' 'Cause pain is my [[narcotic]]''<br/> '''Itchy:'''<br/> ''You really liked it?''<br/> '''Scratchy:'''<br/> ''Yes, I loved'' it<br/> '''Both:'''<br/> ''And that's why we're always...<br/> '''Itchy:'''<br/> Fighting''<br/> '''Scratchy:'''<br/> ''and Biting''<br/> '''Itchy:'''<br/> ''And dynamite igniting''     

==="Knives Finale":=== 
*''It's the circle<br/> The circle of knife<br/> Yes, the circle<br/> The circle of knife''

==Broadcasting Information==
'''US/Canada'''
*'''1st Airdate:''' Sunday, April 30, 2006
*'''2nd Airdate:''' Sunday, July 9, 2006
'''UK'''
*'''1st Airdate:''' Sunday, September 17, 2006
'''Australia'''
*'''1st airdate:''' Tuesday, 15th August, 2006


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