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"'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"
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"Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" is the sixteenth episode of the Simpsons' fourteenth season.
Plot
Declan Desmond visits Springfield Elementary School and interviews the kids for a documentary. However when interviewing Lisa, he says that she has no future. To prove him wrong, Lisa visits the science museum to find a topic that interests her. She decides to take up astronomy but soon realizes that the town's light pollution is making it difficult to observe the stars and planets. At a town meeting, Lisa proposes that during the night, all lights are to be turned off so that everyone can enjoy the night sky. The town agrees and lights are turned off, resulting in increased crime and another town meeting in which Mayor Quimby turns on all city lights so that they are as bright as the sun. Meanwhile when Bart is being interviewed by Declan, he gets hit in the face with mud and cries, making him the laughing stock of the school. Bart then decides that the only way to redeem himself is to steal a hood ornament like Nelson Muntz. He has trouble finding one since many were already taken during the time the street lights were turned off, but focuses on trying to steal the ornament from Fat Tony's car, which proves to be a challenge now that all street lights are turned on during the night. But Bart isn't the only one suffering from the lights, they're so bright during the night that the entire town can't get to sleep. Seeing that they are both looking for the same thing, Bart and Lisa work together to get a very drowsy Homer to give them access into the Nuclear Plant to override the main circuit, leading to a mass blackout. The town gathers into a mob which immediately turns peaceful after they look at the stars and see their desires. Bart steals the long-awaited hood ornament as the entire town stares up at the sky to watch the Deadly Meteor Shower. During the credits, a section of Declan's documentary plays in which Milhouse tries to hit a tee-ball.
