The Perfect Crime

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The Perfect Crime "Fresh chocolate chip cookies..."

Short Information Airdate: December 13, 1987 Writer: Matt Groening

The Perfect Crime is the tenth short of the second shorts season, it was originally aired on December 13, 1987.

Plot

Marge bakes a batch of delicious cookies. Bart attempts to steal them, but burns his fingers trying to pick them up. Everyone except Bart and Maggie leave the kitchen to let them cool down, and Bart takes this opportunity to swipe them, muttering to himself "Aha! The perfect crime!"

Homer and Marge come back to find the tray empty. Homer suspects Maggie of eating the cookies, but as a witness she knows exactly who took them and guides them along a trail of cookies running across the floor. His family catch him lying on his back in his bedroom amidst a pile of cookie crumbs. Looking up at them with his stomach full, he groans, "There is no perfect crime." His head bangs back down on the ground and Maggie, secretively, snacks on an uneaten cookie.

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Making Faces • The Funeral • Maggie's Brain • Football • House of Cards • Bart and Homer's Dinner • Space Patrol • Bart's Haircut • World War III • The Perfect Crime • Scary Stories • Grampa & the Kids • Gone Fishin' • Skateboarding • The Pagans • The Closet • The Aquarium • Family Portrait • Bart's Hiccups • The Money Jar • The Art Museum • Zoo Story