22 Short Films About Springfield
"22 Short Films About Springfield" is the twenty-first episode of The Simpsons' seventh season, airing on April 22, 1996. The title is a spin on the film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Many fans have also noted that the episode also pays homage to Pulp Fiction by Quentin Terentino, mimicking the style of disjointed stories all coming together to form one plot, and more obviously, the discussion of McDonald's Restaurants and the scene in Melvin's Pawn Shop ("When Zed gets here..."). The episode also sparked the idea amongst the staff of a spin-off TV series Tales from Springfield, focusing on the town rather than the Simpsons family.
Main Skits
Apu's skit
Sanjay asks Apu to go to a party. so Apu leaves the store for the next 5 minutes in those 5 minutes he, eats a uncooked hot dog dances to the song trapzoid and has sex with a unmaried woman in a tool shed (Note this was before the episode the two Mrs Nahasapeenmapetilons so Apu was not married at the time this episode took place)
Lisa's skit
Lisa accidently gets gum in her hair and has to go though a series of the towns peoples painful homemade remedys to only in the end just get a haircut
Mr Burns' skit
Mr. Burns and Smithers on are on a bike ride and smithers gets stung by a bee but also has a alergic reaction. but becuase of Mr.Burns carless nature he makes Smithers peddle even faster to the hospital but in the end the paramedic pick up the uncouncouis Mr.Burns instead of the critical condition Simthers .
Dr Nick's skit
Dr.Nick walks in the medical boards office to have meeting about his gross incomptence then all of a sudden a docter walks in and tells them that some lunitic with a scapel is demanding to see a quack they all look at Dr.Nick. Dr.nick walks though the door giving grandpa Simpson a fake diagnoses of some fake deasise.and thus saving the hospitals reputaition.
Quotes
- Apu: For the next 5 minutes, I'm going to party like it's on sale for nineteen ninety-nine!
- Hans Moleman: You just wasted 4 minutes of my life and I want them back… oh I'd probably just waste them anyway.
- Cletus theme song
- Some folk'll never eat a skunk
- and then again some folk'll,
- like Cletus, the Slack-Jawed Yokel!
- Second verse:
- Most folk'll never lose a toe
- but then again some folk'll,
- like Cletus, the Slack-Jawed Yokel!
- Seymour Skinner: Oh, no, I said, "steamed hams." That's what I call hamburgers.
- Waylon Smithers: I, I'm allergic to bee stings. They cause me to, uh, die.
- Lou: You know, I went to the McDonald's in Shelbyville on Friday night... Police Chief Wiggum: interrupting The McWhat? Lou: Uh, the McDonald's restaurant. I, I never heard of it either, but they have over 2,000 locations in this state alone.
Eddie: Must've sprung up overnight. Lou: You know, the funniest thing though; it's the little differences. Wiggum: Example. Lou: Well, at McDonald's you can buy a Krusty Burger with cheese, right? But they don't call it a Krusty Burger with cheese. Wiggum: Get out! Well, what do they call it? Lou: A Quarter Pounder with cheese. Wiggum: Quarter Pounder with cheese? Well, I can picture the cheese, but, uh, do they have Krusty partially gelatinated non-dairy gum-based beverages? Lou: Mm-hm. They call 'em, "shakes." Eddie: Huh, shakes. You don't know what you're gettin'. Wiggum: Well I know what I'm getting. Some donuts.
- Comic Book Guy: That, is a rare photo of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore. It costs one hundred and fifty dollars.
- Very Tall Man: Do you find something comical about my appearance whilst I am driving my automobile?
- Professor Frink: [singing] Professor Frink Professor Frink, He'll Make ya laugh, he'll make ya think he likes run and the thing with the person…(grumbles) That monkey is going to pay.
