Eating Dinner

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Short Information Airdate: July 12 1987 Production code: MG07 Writer: Matt Groening

Eating Dinner (which initially aired in the United States of America on July 12, 1987) is the seventh Simpsons short.

Plot

When attempting to call the family for dinner, Marge gets ticked off, as the family do not arrive. However, upon the threat that anyone who does not arrive goes without dessert, the family quickly scoot to the table. She then points out the family forgot to say grace before eating. Homer conducts grace while Maggie innocuously looks around the room, and Marge comments that the family could do with learning manners. She concedes that dinner should not be eaten in silence and the family recommence communication. The episode ends when Bart turns the television on and they find out, rather morbidly, that a bus crash has killed 43 people.

Trivia

• In some places, this episode is erroneously titled "Dinnertime".