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"On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"
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- "This is every effigist's worst nightmare!"
- ―Jimbo Jones
On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister is the eleventh episode of the sixteenth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on March 6, 2005. Lisa becomes fed up with Bart's teasing and takes out a restraining order against him, while Homer takes a job as a Sprawl-Mart greeter. Guest star Gary Busey appears as himself and Jane Kaczmarek returns as Judge Constance Harm.
Plot
The students of Springfield Elementary School head for a field trip to the Springfield Glacier at 3:00am. Unfortunately, the glacier has melted heavily, and Lisa blames the melt on global warming, as a ranger tries to shut her up. Bart torments her as Lisa desperately asks the students to save the glacier, to no success. Meanwhile, while Homer and Marge go shopping at the Sprawl-Mart, Grampa loses his people greeting abilities and wants Homer to succeed him as the people greeter. Homer does a successful job of being the new people greeter that the manager says Homer can get a full time position without any form of advancement.
The next day, Lisa gets a restraining order filed against Bart. Under the order, according to Chief Wiggum, Bart is forced to be twenty feet away from Lisa at all times, or he will face more legal consequences. Wiggum shows the family a Gary Busey-hosted videotape, "Get Out of My Dreams and Also Out of My Car: A Guide to Your Restraining Order", which teaches Bart how to live with a restraining order. To make the restraining order more fun, Homer makes a 20 foot pole that can be used to keep them apart easier, but Lisa start's abusing the power of the restraining order and follow's him wherever he goes (which normally is grounds for having it removed), he can't even enter the school and is forced to sit outside in the rain. Marge appeals in court to get the restraining order removed. Bart testifies that Lisa is bad and the judge has no sense of humor, but Judge Constance Harm only increases the restraining order to 200 feet (61 metres to the Europeans in the back of the courthouse). Bart can now only live at the edge of the Simpson family property.
When he lives at the edge of the property, Bart takes a look at nature and embraces it. At Sprawl-Mart, Homer finds out he's not so much a worker as he is a slave. He is forced to work all night and day without being paid, and he cannot leave the store since he had a v-chip inplanted that will shock him painfully if he leaves, he lobbys the associates at Sprawl-Mart to shut the store down, but they insist that they have learned to accept the things they cannot change and steal whatever is not nailed down, and Homer leaves the store on his own, along with several plasma TVs. Bart, still in the backyard, does a statue of Lisa using wicker. She actually likes it so much, she forgives him, and as it is being burnt, she throws the restraining order and the pole Homer made into the fire.
