Yokel Chords
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"Yokel Chords"
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Episode Information
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"Yokel Chords" is the fourteenth episode of season 18 of The Simpsons. It originally aired on March 4, 2007. It was written by Michael Price and directed by Susie Dietter. The episode guest stars Meg Ryan, Peter Bogdanovich, Andy Dick, James Patterson and Stephen Sondheim.
Synopsis
- "Lisa teaches the Spuckler children about culture, and soon Krusty hires them to act on his The Krusty the Clown Show. They become famous and earn a lot of money, but Cletus spends it on himself."
Plot
Marge oversleeps, and not having made the children's lunch for the day, Homer makes the lunches instead. However, he gave them inedible food and Bart decides that he needs to scare the other students to get access to their lunches instead. He tells Milhouse and Martin a story about a cannibal cafeteria worker named Dark Stanley, who killed all the students in the cafeteria and put them in his stew when their teasing of his inability to graduate from college had taken its toll on him. At lunchtime, Bart pretends to be killed by Dark Stanley, putting spaghetti on his head, causing all of the students to run screaming out of the school, thinking Dark Stanley was actually there, leaving Bart to take the leftover lunches.
Groundskeeper Willie is sent to fetch all the students back, but he brings seven extra kids who are Cletus's children. Their names are Whitney, Jitney, Dubya, Incest, Crystal Meth, International Harvester, and Birthday. Principal Skinner tells Superintendent Chalmers that the kids have been refused education, because their admittance to the school will bring the average down, losing them federal funding. Lisa overhears this conversation and confronts them about refusing children education. To get Lisa off their packs, Skinner and Chalmers assign Lisa to be their tutor. Lisa starts to tutor the kids but realizes it'll be a bigger task than she first thought.
Meanwhile, Skinner punishes Bart by having him spend five sessions with a qualified psychologist, Dr. Stacey Swanson, as the school psychologist ran out screaming about Dark Stanley. Homer takes Bart to his psychology sessions then goes to The Lonely Dragon next door to get drunk. At first, Bart was opposed to the sessions but Dr. Swanson won him over by letting him play video games and having fun whilst slowly getting Bart to open up about his problems. Meanwhile, Lisa realizes that teaching the Spucklers was a bigger task than she first thought and decides to help the children experience the world.
The Spuckler children experience Downtown Springfield and sing "Cultural Things Experience" whilst out. Krusty the Clown overhears the song and signs them up for The Krusty the Clown Show, which annoys Lisa. Krusty gets the kids on stage to perform an act which upsets Lisa as it makes the children look awful. Krusty then brings in Stephen Sondheim to write new songs for the children. Meanwhile, Bart has his last session with Dr. Swanson and doesn't know what to do with himself. He follows Dr. Swanson around, watching her in her office and house, feeling upset that his sessions were over. Eventually, Marge catches him talking to an empty chair and pays for one last session with Dr. Swanson. During this last session, Bart gets over his problems, realizing that he misbehaves so that his parents are angry at him rather than each other, then leaves the office early. Dr. Swanson feels lost without Bart and ends up going to see a psychologist herself.
Krusty signs the Spuckler children up to the Krusty's No-Collar Comedy Tour. Lisa then comes in with Brandine Del Roy to stop them, with Brandine telling Krusty that Cletus was only the father of the kid who can't sing and the kid who can't ad lib. Therefore, he can't use the other children. The Spuckler children thank Lisa for saving them from the world whilst Brandine and Cletus kiss.
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