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This episode is considered non-canon and the events featured do not relate to the series and therefore may not have actually happened/existed. The reason behind this decision is: Malibu Stacy is real and mermaids are in Springfield. If you dispute this, please bring it up on the episode's talk page.

"Women in Shorts"

Episode Information Episode number: 774 Season number: S36 E6 Production code: 35ABF17 Original airdate: November 10, 2024 Billboard gag: Ladies Night. Moe's Tavern. Pleeeeeeeeease? Chalkboard gag: Lisa writes "I will not get detention just to practice cursive", then proceeds to get out of school with her bike instead of Bart on his skate. Couch gag: The title sequence is comprised of almost all women only and ends with the women going through the Simpson house door. Then on the Van Houten couch, Kirk is watching TV, but runs away once the women (Marge, Lindsey Naegle, Miss Hoover, Sarah Wiggum, Helen Lovejoy, Kumiko and Bernice Hibbert) enter and sit down on it and on some chairs Guest star(s): Ruth Reichl as herself Kerry Washington as Rayshelle Peyton Showrunner: Matt Selman Co-showrunner: Brian Kelley Written by: Christine Nangle Directed by: Eric Koenig

Women in Shorts is the sixth episode of season 36 of The Simpsons and the seven-hundred and seventy-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on November 10, 2024. The episode was written by Christine Nangle and directed by Eric Koenig. It guest stars Kerry Washington as Rayshelle Peyton and Ruth Reichl as herself.

Synopsis

"Girls just want to have funny."

Plot

The women are sitting at the Van Houten house to start a book read, but Luann brings out the wine, but they're worried, not for the drinking, but for the addiction she has to wine merch, including getting into a fight at work over an apron. They propose changing it to coffee or chocolate but she declines, till they set for "proud slut".

Elsewhere, Malibu Stacy is leaving Malibu Stacy Land in search of a little girl that loves her the most, and arrives at Springfield Elementary, ignores Lisa and presents herself to Shauna, who gets mocked for still playing with dolls and then she starts a fight, where Shauna pretends to fight her before proposing to meet at her house, but when Stacy says she's fighting her fear of growing up, she kicks her head away, which lands at Smithers' feet, who ends up screaming.

At the Muntz house, Mrs. Muntz is thucking Nelson to bed, and he asks her to tell him a story of the Kingdom of the Classy ladies. She tells him the story of Muntzeena, who loved to dance with her friends, but the evil princess Rylee stepped on the stage, and stole her play, so Muntzeena stopped her with her heels, and the keeper of the door banished her to the morning shift when everyone is sleeping off the drinks and then Nelson adds how he hooked up with her and took her to Krusty Burger.

At the grocery store, Marge forgot the tampons, and sends Homer to grab them but he grabs an happy graduation card instead because he's embarassed, and tells Marge to get it, when the clerk tells him he has to realize the embarassing stuff Marge has to buy for him, starting a song with the other clerks, completely embarassing him until they throw him at the pile of tampons.

When Sea Captain gets his boat with the shipment of Laramie Cigarettes stuck in the Panama canal, Patty and Selma are shocked and tell each other they don't have any cigarettes left, but start attacking each other over hidden ones all over the house until they start couughing and have a cardio alert.

Julius and Bernice Hibbert are having a date, role-playing as strangers meeting for the first time, but Hibbert fails to do so, introducing himself with his real name, after some pushing he starts role-playing, but soon a person starts choking, and Bernice refuses to let him do his job, so Kirk intervenes, though he's just role-playing as a doctor and starts hitting the man with a menu.

At the Police Station, Wiggum has arrested Luigi, for smuggling diamonds in gnocchi, and they suggest he find a lawyer but he wants his mom, which comes in announcing she's both, the Mamma-at-Law. At court, her final statement, was hitting the jury to not take his son away to not kill her over the grief, and offer them some ziti, and they find him not guilty. Then Lunchlady Dora presents her story of how she buys, prepare and presents her food at the school's cafeteria.

At the Simpsons' House, Lisa goes to sleep after reading The Chronicles of Narnia and in her sleep she finds herself in Narnia as the queen and the citizens require her wisdom, but when she says to improve the roads of the kingdom but when they ask for who pays for them, she imposes a tax for every spell cast of one gold piece, but the witches protests, while other demand the improvements, and no matter what she chooses, the citizens get angry and start shooting magic at her and she wakes up disappointed for not having fun in her dream. Meanwhile, after 50 years of war with Janice, Agnes searched for a new person to stay with on Scowlbook and gets a lots of likes.

Helen Lovejoy is preparing some bottles of wine from the communion vine box when her radio starts broadcasting a warning of a massive tsunami heading for the town. With 10 minutes left to live, she chugs down the rest of the wine, throws away her bra, gets out of church, punches Ned in the face, just to go kissing Moe at his Tavern and then slap him, and then goes home, where she starts destroying her husband's toy train track, just before the announcer makes it clear it was a commercial for a sale.

At school, the teachers are betting on injuries of the children at the playground when Mrs. Peyton intervenes about how wrong it is. The betting continues until Lisa flips the bird and Peyton takes the money for it, giving half of it to Lisa, which goes on her bike to see the end of all stories. Meanwhile, one year and nine months prior, Marge tells Homer how Jake from State Farm does it for her, and they go upstairs for some fun.

Production

During production, the episode was called "Ladies Night". The title is referenced in the episode as part of the Billboard gag.^[1][2]

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