| Family Therapy
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Short Information
| Airdate:
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April 23, 1989
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| Short season:
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3
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| Short number:
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45
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| Production code:
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MG47
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| Writer:
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Matt Groening
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"Family Therapy" is the forty-fifth Simpsons short. It originally aired on The Tracey Ullman Show on April 23, 1989.
Plot
Homer tricks the family into going to a family therapist B.F. Sherwood PhD by pretending to take them out for frosty chocolate milkshakes. He seeks an answer to the family's problems, saying that they don't laugh any more. Sherwood allows Bart to "go ahead and take" at least one mint and encourages the family to take a "deep cleansing breath" after observing the family's "deep-seeded hostility," but Bart eats too many mints and says "I ain't leaving until this bowl's empty" when Sherwood tells him "don't you think you've had enough mints son?" Homer angrily tells Bart to put the mints back. After Bart ruins the bowl of mints by spitting them out, Lisa kicks Dr. Sherwood in the leg after scolding Bart for ruining the bowl of mints for everyone. Homer scolds Sherwood for calling Lisa a borderline psychotic, Bart shoots him with his dart gun because he dislikes him, and Lisa cuts his tie with scissors much to Marge's horror. Sherwood angrily asks them to leave his office. The family breaks into a collective chuckle after Dr. Sherwood kicks them out of his office.
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