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"Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother"
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"Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother" is the first episode of broadcast season 37 of The Simpsons and the seven hundred ninety-first episode overall. It originally aired on September 28, 2025. The episode was written by Jessica Conrad and directed by Gabriel DeFrancesco. It guest stars Paul Brittain as Garrett Evanson, Cole Escola as Devin, David Herman as Clincher, and Stephanie Hsu as Vidalia.
"Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother" was dedicated in memory of composer Alf Clausen, who died on May 29.
Synopsis
- "When Lisa starts wearing Marge's "vintage" clothes from the 90's, she's welcomed into the school's super-elite fashion club. But as they run out of retro looks, the funky fashionistas become obsessed with getting more...by hook or by crook."
Plot
The Simpson family is driving toward Aztec Theater when Bart points out the movie they were going to watch was going to be free on streaming in three days, so they head back. But when they switch on the tv to watch the movie, weird ads keep playing, showing skin care products with words not suitable for tv in them. While the others laugh it off, Marge disconnects the TV and bring out DVDs.
While Marge and Lisa watch Keagan's Pond, a teenager series, Homer and Bart start watching Clincher, a more manly show. When season 1 of the show was over, Marge and Lisa go to the attic to retrieve season 2, when Marge spots the dress she had at Lisa's age and suggest she tried weaering it at school the next day, saying noone would look, which is the opposite of what happens.
Production
Episode writer Jessica Conrad got the idea from her own experiences as a teenager. In an interview with Cartoon Brew, Conrad said that she "used to wear my mom's clothes all the time, and it felt so cool when they came back in style" and that the "episode gave me the chance to bring that to Lisa in a way that also comments on how the show constantly fudges its timeline of what counts as 'retro.'" Conrad worked with the animators to design the retro outfits that Lisa and the school's fashion club wore, using references from old Delia's catalogs and teen dramas like Dawson's Creek to make outfits that "[captured] that late '90s, early 2000s feel while also making it resonate with what kids are wearing now."[6]
Director Gabriel DeFrancesco said that the "sheer number of wardrobe swaps was the big challenge" of the episode. DeFrancesco also joked that he was living through the episode's storyline himself when his mother-in-law "kept sending boxes of her old clothes to my kids."[6]
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