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"Guess Who's Coming to Skinner"

Episode Information Episode number: 800 Season number: S37 E10 Production code: 37ABF04 Original airdate: December 7, 2025 Guest star(s): Kieran Culkin as Hub Karen Gillan as Maisie MacWeldon-MacDougal Kurtwood Smith as Hub's father Barry Sonnenfeld as Mr. Ho-Hum Kerry Washington as Rayshelle Peyton Co-showrunner: Michael Price Written by: John Frink Directed by: Rob Oliver

"Guess Who's Coming to Skinner" is the tenth episode of season 37 of The Simpsons and the eight-hundredth episode overall. It originally aired on December 7, 2025. The episode was written by John Frink and directed by Rob Oliver. It guest stars Kieran Culkin as Hub, Karen Gillan as Maisie MacWeldon-MacDougal, Kurtwood Smith as Hub's father, Barry Sonnenfeld as Mr. Ho-Hum, and Kerry Washington as Rayshelle Peyton.

Synopsis

When Principal Skinner discovers that one of his students is a runaway who has been living in the school library, he has to take the snarky, difficult kid into his home and is forced into a role he never expected or wanted - being a parent.

Plot

The school kids are on a field trip to the Waterpark Museum of Late Victorian Textiles. When everything is apparent to be boredom, Bart wonders off and finds teh collectorium and invites all kids to the room and soon a snow globe fight starts, while Skinner and the owner flirt. When Skinner hears the commotion, they go in and try to stop the fight, but Bart launches a globe to Skinner, which shatters on his face.

At the Eye Trauma Center Lenny Leonard Wing, his left eye gets treated, and when he comes back to school he scolds Homer and Marge for bad parenting, and ends up shouting in the school's intercom that he hates children. At his house, Skinner finds his mother's letter saying he didn't want to visit him at the hospital and that she went to Atlantic City with Jasper.

For spring break, he decides then to go to the school at night for work, and finds out someone or something is in the school too, and heads to Willie's shack to call for help, finding him busy with his wife, but due to the emergency, Willie accepts to help. They go to the cateferia and then the library to find Hub, living off in the school, pretending to be a student.

Later, Chalmers intervenes, stopping him from calling Child Services to avoid closing the school, so he tells Skinner to take care of him until he finds his parents, but at home Hub tells him they're dead just to pull a prank and tries to excape but he manages to stop him and ask for help at the Simpsons house since he never had to deal with a child besides school. Homer and Marge start laughing at the situation after what he told them early, and he begs them for help as he's desperate, to the point of having left him with Nelson to sit, literally.

Homer and Marge share some advices, but when he gets back home, he finds them sliding down the stairs on a home made waterslide. Skinner takes him to The Spending Place at Springfield Knolls, where he goes to Mr. Ho-hum's Clothiers to buy him some clothes, but he excapes to Luigi's Pizza Playland to eat pizza just then to run off in the balls pit, but when his greasy fingers causes him to go down, Skinner dives in to save him from getting stuck on a grate and Hub hugs him as thanks.

Later, they start eating together, going to the amusement park and at the arcade, before going back to school, for him just to go back to be a background kid, but remembering Marge's words, he auditions him for the Peter Rabbit spring musical, against his will, but ends up being Farmer McGregor, excited to play the role.

When they try the play, Skinner notices how he only has three lines, two of them being just "Here comes Peter Rabbit." (played by Martin) and he tells Mr. Largo he'll direct it, and makes Hub the protagonist, but Martin protests, but nonetheless, he asks Lisa to rewrite the script.

When Ms. Peyton points out how Hub has become a show off, Skinner starts defending him and applies for adoption. The musical become "McGregor Gardener of Destiny", but he gets stage fright, and when Skinner calls him son in the backstage, the adoption paper slips off and Hub sees it.

When the musical starts, he runs off, and in the school yard his real parents arrive, calling him Alexander Hubley. Hub explains that they abandoned him at a boarding school with other rich kids, then he bailed and came to Springfield. But instead of going home with them, he went to do the play, telling his and Skinner's story instead. In the end, we see Lisa at the writer's room with Milhouse and the others not really helping her rewrite the script.

Production

The snow globe fight was inspired by a gift exchange between Matt Selman and Michael Price.^[1] Barry Sonnenfeld was asked to voice Mr. Ho-Hum based on his two memoirs.^[2]

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