My Fair Laddy
"My Fair Laddy"
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Episode Information
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"My Fair Laddy" is the twelfth episode of the seventeenth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on February 26, 2006.
Springfield Elementary School has a new gym teacher, Coach Krupt. When a mishap in gym class leaves Groundskeeper Willie homeless, the Simpsons take him in and Lisa decides to make him over into a proper gentleman as a project for the school science fair.
Synopsis
When the old gym teacher announces that she will be gone until fall because of her sex change operation, a substitute takes her place. Every gym class, he has them play a game called "Bombardment," which basically just includes him throwing dodgeballs at the students. When Bart gets sick of the constant bullying, he fills a ball full of water (Nelson calls it an Ice-ball) and sticks it in the freezer overnight. The next day, he throws it at the gym teacher, who ducks, and the ball crashes through the window and hits Willie's shack and destroys it. When Marge picks up Bart from school and sees Willie homeless, she offers to let him stay at their house, and he accepts. When there, Lisa has Willie realize that his life could be much better, and she decides to turn him into a proper gentleman. Bart, however, doesn't believe that she can do it, but Lisa bets that she can do it in time for the school science fair.
Meanwhile, Homer comes home with his last pair of blue pants ripped and torn after his seat breaks at the go-cart track. As he searches through town for a new pair, he finds no store that sells his favorite type of pants. When he goes to the factory that sells them, the manager tells him that they don't make blue pants anymore due to poor sales, but Homer tells him that he'll get more customers. Not surprisingly for him, he does this by writing "Buy blue pants" on the back of his head. However, it works, and soon everyone is wearing blue pants.
While this is happening, Lisa is struggling to get Willie to act sophisticated. Soon, it is the day before the science fair, and he is still his same old self. When he sees how disappointed Lisa is, he suddenly surprises both Bart and Lisa by correctly (and with a 'proper' accent/dialect) saying a sentence she gave him. At the science fair the next day, he impresses everyone with his politeness. However, no one actually knows that it is the old groundskeeper until Lisa announces it to everyone. Once again, she wins the science fair, and the bet along with it.
Even though he is respected by everybody, Willie misses his old life, but his job and his shack were both taken by the music teacher. He explains to Lisa that he wishes to go back to the way things were, and she understands. Soon, he's back to cleaning and living in his shack.
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Broadcasting information
USA/Canada
- 1st Airdate: Sunday, February 26, 2006
- 2nd Airdate: Sunday, May 14, 2006
- 3rd Airdate: Sunday, August 13, 2006
UK
- 1st Airdate: Sunday, March 26, 2006
- 2nd Airdate: Friday, March 31, 2006 (Encore Screening)
- 3rd Airdate: Sunday, April 23, 2006
- 4th Airdate: Monday, June 5, 2006
- 5th Airdate: Saturday, August 5, 2006
- 6th Airdate: Friday, August 25, 2006
Australia
- 1st Airdate: Tuesday, June 27, 2006
