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"'''Jazzy and the Pussycats'''" is an episode of [[The Simpsons]] that aired in the show's 18th season on April 27, 2007 or April 29, 2007.
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'''"Jazzy and the Pussycats"''' is the second episode of The Simpsons' eighteenth season.
  
==Plot==
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== Plot ==
[[Bart]] becomes so hyperactive that [[Homer]] and [[Marge]] buy him a drum kit. He becomes so good at jazz drumming that [[Lisa]] becomes jealous. Meanwhile, Lisa decides to rescue a bunch of animals and store them in her attic where no one can find them. However, Bart goes up there and gets bitten by one of the animals. While in the hospital, a benefit concert is planned to raise money to pay for Bart's arm.
 
  
[[The White Stripes]] have a cameo role when they spoof the video for their hit, "The Hardest Button to Button".
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While attending the funeral for Amber, Homer's now dead Vegas wife, Bart gets bored and plays a game of paddle ball, which goes awry by everybody getting choked by the paddle ball. As a result, he is forced to see a psychiatrist who suggests Bart get a drum kit. Bart gets a kit and instantly becomes a natural at it. He practices non-stop, and bumps into The White Stripes who are playing "The Hardest Button to Button" in a parody of its Michel Gondry-directed video. Eventually, his drumming drives Homer and Marge mad and Lisa suggests to her parents that she can take Bart to a jazz brunch.
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Lisa asks Bart to jazz along with her quintet, which he does. Bart easily overshadows everyone, including Lisa, and a legendary jazz group asks him to play with them, much to Lisa's chagrin.
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Bart's drumming is such a success that he's a town icon and made the front cover of two magazines, thus making Lisa very annoyed as she knows Bart is not worthy of his newfound popularity. Marge, who doesn't want Lisa to compete against Bart, decides to let her adopt a puppy in order to make her happy. At the animal shelter, Lisa picks the cutest puppy over a very sick dog that would otherwise die. At night, the sick dog comes in a ghost-like form to tell her that his fate is doomed because she chose the other dog over him. Lisa decides to go back and adopt the sick puppy, but after seeing how sick many of them are, she decides to adopt them all in order to save their lives. On her way home, many other animals join her, including a horde of circus animals. Having nowhere to put them, Lisa puts them in the attic.
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After dinner that night, Lisa goes into the attic and finds Bart jazzing with the animals she rescued. A tiger bites Bart's "drumming arm" causing extensive nerve damage and meaning that he can no longer play.
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In order to raise money for the operation he needs, Bart organizes a benefit concert with his Jazz friends. Meanwhile, Lisa is informed that her animals will be taken to a pound and killed if she cannot find a suitable home for them. In the end, after the benefit concert was a good success, Bart feels empathy for Lisa and decides to use the money to build a home for the animals.
  
==Guests==
 
The White Stripes appear in a scene when Bart is playing his drums. Bart plays his drums, jumping to a new spot on each beat, but leaving a drum set in the former spot. This footage resembles the [[White Stripes]]'s music video for "The Hardest Button to Button". Bart moves a long disatnce in this manner, eventually colliding with the White Stripes around a corner. Then all three individuals travel throughout Springfield in the same manner, until finally Bart goes over an open bridge. The White Stripes are not so lucky, and they fall through opening in the bridge.
 
  
 
{{Season 18}}
 
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[[category: Season 18]]

Revision as of 14:43, August 14, 2007

"Jazzy and the Pussycats"
Episode Information
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"Jazzy and the Pussycats" is the second episode of The Simpsons' eighteenth season.

Plot

While attending the funeral for Amber, Homer's now dead Vegas wife, Bart gets bored and plays a game of paddle ball, which goes awry by everybody getting choked by the paddle ball. As a result, he is forced to see a psychiatrist who suggests Bart get a drum kit. Bart gets a kit and instantly becomes a natural at it. He practices non-stop, and bumps into The White Stripes who are playing "The Hardest Button to Button" in a parody of its Michel Gondry-directed video. Eventually, his drumming drives Homer and Marge mad and Lisa suggests to her parents that she can take Bart to a jazz brunch.

Lisa asks Bart to jazz along with her quintet, which he does. Bart easily overshadows everyone, including Lisa, and a legendary jazz group asks him to play with them, much to Lisa's chagrin.

Bart's drumming is such a success that he's a town icon and made the front cover of two magazines, thus making Lisa very annoyed as she knows Bart is not worthy of his newfound popularity. Marge, who doesn't want Lisa to compete against Bart, decides to let her adopt a puppy in order to make her happy. At the animal shelter, Lisa picks the cutest puppy over a very sick dog that would otherwise die. At night, the sick dog comes in a ghost-like form to tell her that his fate is doomed because she chose the other dog over him. Lisa decides to go back and adopt the sick puppy, but after seeing how sick many of them are, she decides to adopt them all in order to save their lives. On her way home, many other animals join her, including a horde of circus animals. Having nowhere to put them, Lisa puts them in the attic.

After dinner that night, Lisa goes into the attic and finds Bart jazzing with the animals she rescued. A tiger bites Bart's "drumming arm" causing extensive nerve damage and meaning that he can no longer play.

In order to raise money for the operation he needs, Bart organizes a benefit concert with his Jazz friends. Meanwhile, Lisa is informed that her animals will be taken to a pound and killed if she cannot find a suitable home for them. In the end, after the benefit concert was a good success, Bart feels empathy for Lisa and decides to use the money to build a home for the animals.


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