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"'''24 Minutes'''" is the twenty-first episode of [[Season 18]].  
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"'''24 Minutes'''" is the twenty-first episode of [[season 18]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the three-hundred and ninety-ninth episode overall. It originally aired on May 20, [[2007]]. The episode was written by [[Ian Maxtone-Graham]] and [[Billy Kimball]] and directed by [[Raymond S. Persi]]. It guest stars [[Kiefer Sutherland]] as [[Jack Bauer]] and [[Mary Lynn Rajskub]] as [[Chloe O'Brian]].
  
 
== Synopsis ==
 
== Synopsis ==
In a parody of "24," [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] join forces to sabotage the school bullies' plan to set off a stink bomb at the school bake sale.
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{{Desc|In a parody of ''[[24]]'', [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] join forces to sabotage the school bullies' plan to set off a stink bomb at the school bake sale.}}
  
 
== Plot ==
 
== Plot ==
[[Principal Skinner]] opens a CTU – [[Counter Truancy Unit]] – at [[Springfield Elementary School]] with [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] heading up the operation over [[Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]], [[Martin Prince|Martin]], and [[Database]]. When the bullies [[Jimbo Jones|Jimbo]], [[Dolph]] and [[Kearney]] play truant, Milhouse is assigned on a mission to spy on them.
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[[Principal Skinner]] opens a CTU – [[Counter Truancy Unit]] – at [[Springfield Elementary School]] with [[Lisa]] heading up the operation over [[Milhouse]], [[Martin]], and [[Database]]. When the bullies [[Jimbo]], [[Dolph]] and [[Kearney]] play truant, Milhouse is assigned to spy on them. An expired and highly pungent container of yogurt at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] is found to belong to [[Homer]], who is ordered to dispose of it by [[Mr. Burns]]. After failing to persuade [[Apu]] to take it, the yogurt falls into the hands of the bullies. Homer then unwittingly gives away Milhouse to the bullies, who throw both Homer and Milhouse into a dumpster.
  
An expired and highly pungent container of yogurt at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] is found to belong to [[Homer Simpson|Homer]], who is ordered to dispose of it by [[Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]. After failing to persuade [[Apu Nahasapeemapetilon|Apu]] to take it, the yogurt falls into the hands of the bullies. Homer then unwittingly uncovers Milhouse spying on the bullies, causing the bullies to throw them both in a dumpster.
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Meanwhile, [[Marge]] had forgotten about the bake sale, and only has a half hour to make her raisin sponge cake. She has to go to the market to buy raisins but there's only one box, which [[Helen Lovejoy]] refuses to give up. Marge is seen purchasing the raisins as an apparently semiconscious Helen is seen being taken to the hospital by EMTs. At home, to save time, Marge drastically increases the oven temperature to 1,200 degrees, burning the cake and making it rock-solid. She attempts to cover it up with pink and white frosting before leaving for the bake sale. She accidentally drops the cake when getting out of the car (which makes it fall onto the car hood, denting it, and eventually the ground). She cannot repair it, so she just pats a bit of the icing flatter. Unsurprisingly, no one shows any interest in her cake.  
  
Meanwhile, [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] forgets about the bake sale, and only has a half hour to make a raisin sponge cake. She finds out that she hasn't got any raisins, forcing her to drive to shop. But there's only one box of raisins and to get it, Marge has to fight with [[Helen Lovejoy]], ending up knocking her down (Helen is injured badly enough to have to go to hospital). Marge gets the raisins and buys it. Back at home, Marge starts making In order to save time, Marge drastically increases the oven temperature to 1,200 degrees, burning the cake and making it rock-solid. Marge attempts to cover it up with pink and white frosting before leaving for the bake sale. She accidentally drops the cake when getting out of the car (which makes it fall onto the car hood, denting it, and eventually the ground). She cannot repair it, so she just pats a bit of the icing flatter. Not surprisingly, no one tries to eat any of the cake at the bake sale.
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At Jimbo's house, the three bullies make a powerful stink bomb from the expired yogurt (referred as TCBY) (along with other ingredients such as roadkill, burnt hair, Jimbo's sister's retainer case, six weeks of bottled farts, possum placenta and sweat from a walk-around Goofy-suit), and plan on detonating it at the bake sale. After Milhouse's failed attempt to track the bullies, Lisa suggests that [[Bart]] help them, which he does after negotiating immunity from punishment for all his past and future pranks. Bart breaks in to Jimbo's house but can't find the roller coaster room. During his investigation, Bart's phone call is accidentally crossed with a call from [[Jack Bauer]] of ''[[24]]'' and turns it into a [[Bart's prank calls|prank call]] against him. After finding out about the stink bomb, Bart returns to the school to tell Lisa, but is knocked out and captured by Martin, who turned out to be the bullies' mole.
  
At Jimbo's house, the three bullies make a powerful stink bomb from the expired yogurt (referred as TCBY) (along with other ingredients such as roadkill, burnt hair, Jimbo's sister's retainer case, six weeks of bottled farts, possum placenta and sweat from a walk-around Goofy-suit), and plan on detonating it at the bake sale. After Milhouse's failed attempt to track the bullies, Lisa suggests that [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] help them, which he does after negotiating immunity from punishment for all his past and future pranks. Bart breaks in to Jimbo's house but can't find the roller coaster room. During his investigation, Bart's phone call is accidentally crossed with a call from [[Jack Bauer]] of ''[[Wikipedia:24 (TV series)|24]]'' and turns it into a [[Bart's prank calls|prank call]] against him. After finding out about the stink bomb, Bart returns to the school to tell Lisa, but is knocked out and captured by Martin, who turned out to be the bullies' mole.
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At the bake sale, the bullies start the three-minute timer for the bomb. Bart, locked in the ventilation room, contacts Lisa by his cell phone and shows her a picture of the stink bomb, telling her to have Principal Skinner dump the hot dog water and short circuit the ventilation fan. Skinner fills up the room with the water. Running out of air, Bart attempts to swim out, but cannot break through the room's only window. Chief Wiggum tries to shoot through the glass (accidentally aiming at Bart's face each time), but the glass is bulletproof.  
  
At the bake sale, the bullies start the three-minute timer for the bomb. Bart, locked in the ventilation room, contacts Lisa by his cell phone and shows her a picture of the stink bomb, telling her to have Principal Skinner dump the hot dog water and short circuit the ventilation fan. Skinner fills up the room with the water. Running out of air, Bart attempts to swim out, but cannot break through the room's only window. Chief Wiggum tries to shoot through the glass (accidentally aiming at Bart's face each time), but the glass is bulletproof. Marge helps him, breaking the glass by throwing her burnt and incredibly solid cake through the window. Lisa then defuses the bomb (which turns out to have a rather simplistic off switch), saving the bake sale from the stench. However after that, Jack Bauer & several Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) field agents break inside the bake sale, destroying it, and start to arrest Bart for his "annoying prank call". A nuclear bomb then goes off in the distance, but everyone sighs with relief after Bauer reassures them that the nuclear bomb went off in [[Shelbyville]].
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Marge helps him, breaking the glass by throwing her burnt and incredibly solid cake through the window. Lisa then defuses the bomb (which turns out to have a rather simplistic off switch), saving the bake sale from the stench. However after that, Jack Bauer & several Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) field agents break inside the bake sale, destroying it, and start to arrest Bart for his "annoying prank call". A nuclear bomb then goes off in the distance, but everyone sighs with relief after Bauer reassures them that the nuclear bomb went off in [[Shelbyville]].
  
 
== Production ==
 
== Production ==
 
The episode aired as part of the one hour season finale, alongside the episode "[[You Kent Always Say What You Want]]". It was originally promoted as being the 400th episode, but aired as the 399th. It is an obvious parody of the TV series, 24, and even contains [[Jack Bauer]] and [[Chloe O'Brian]] from the TV as guest stars on this episode.
 
The episode aired as part of the one hour season finale, alongside the episode "[[You Kent Always Say What You Want]]". It was originally promoted as being the 400th episode, but aired as the 399th. It is an obvious parody of the TV series, 24, and even contains [[Jack Bauer]] and [[Chloe O'Brian]] from the TV as guest stars on this episode.
  
An original idea saw Edgar Stiles from ''24'' appearing in the episode and being killed, but the concept was dropped.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=2083|title=Exclusive: 'THE SIMPSONS' AL JEAN CELEBRATES 400 EPISODES (AND A '24' PARODY) AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T RUN OUT OF IDEAS|accessdate=2007-06-14|date[[2007-05-08]]|author=Anthony C. Ferrante|publisher=iF Magazine}}</ref>
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An original idea saw {{W|Edgar Stiles}} from ''24'' appearing in the episode and being killed, but the concept was dropped.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=2083|title=Exclusive: 'THE SIMPSONS' AL JEAN CELEBRATES 400 EPISODES (AND A '24' PARODY) AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T RUN OUT OF IDEAS|accessdate=2007-06-14|date[[2007-05-08]]|author=Anthony C. Ferrante|publisher=iF Magazine}}</ref>
  
 
== Reception ==
 
== Reception ==
 
Robert Canning on IGN named "24 Minutes" the best episode of the season, citing "this smart, funny, spot-on parody of ''24'' was so good that it came very close to redeeming the entire season."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/796/796072p1.html|title=The Simpsons: Season 18 Review|accessdate=2007-06-15|date=2007-06-14|author=Robert Canning|publisher=IGN.com}}</ref>
 
Robert Canning on IGN named "24 Minutes" the best episode of the season, citing "this smart, funny, spot-on parody of ''24'' was so good that it came very close to redeeming the entire season."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/796/796072p1.html|title=The Simpsons: Season 18 Review|accessdate=2007-06-15|date=2007-06-14|author=Robert Canning|publisher=IGN.com}}</ref>
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"24 Minutes" won the [[2007]] {{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production|Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Television Production}}.<ref name="Annie2007">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120208102916/http://annieawards.org/35thwinners.html The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 35th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2007)"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>
  
 
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Latest revision as of 13:49, March 28, 2024

Season 18 Episode
398 "Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!"
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"24 Minutes"
"You Kent Always Say What You Want" 400
Donut Homer.png This episode is considered non-canon and the events featured do not relate to the series and therefore may not have actually happened/existed.

The reason behind this decision is: Parody of 24, a secret organization within Springfield Elementary, and Shelbyville explodes.

If you dispute this, please bring it up on the episode's talk page.

"Previously on 24... I mean The Simpsons."
Jack Bauer
"24 Minutes"
24 Minutes.png
Episode Information
Episode number: 399
Season number: S18 E21
Production code: JABF14
Original airdate: May 20, 2007
Guest star(s): Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer
Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O'Brian
Showrunner: Al Jean
Written by: Ian Maxtone-Graham
Billy Kimball
Directed by: Raymond S. Persi


"24 Minutes" is the twenty-first episode of season 18 of The Simpsons and the three-hundred and ninety-ninth episode overall. It originally aired on May 20, 2007. The episode was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and Billy Kimball and directed by Raymond S. Persi. It guest stars Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer and Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O'Brian.

Synopsis[edit]

"In a parody of 24, Bart and Lisa join forces to sabotage the school bullies' plan to set off a stink bomb at the school bake sale."


Plot[edit]

Principal Skinner opens a CTU – Counter Truancy Unit – at Springfield Elementary School with Lisa heading up the operation over Milhouse, Martin, and Database. When the bullies Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney play truant, Milhouse is assigned to spy on them. An expired and highly pungent container of yogurt at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is found to belong to Homer, who is ordered to dispose of it by Mr. Burns. After failing to persuade Apu to take it, the yogurt falls into the hands of the bullies. Homer then unwittingly gives away Milhouse to the bullies, who throw both Homer and Milhouse into a dumpster.

Meanwhile, Marge had forgotten about the bake sale, and only has a half hour to make her raisin sponge cake. She has to go to the market to buy raisins but there's only one box, which Helen Lovejoy refuses to give up. Marge is seen purchasing the raisins as an apparently semiconscious Helen is seen being taken to the hospital by EMTs. At home, to save time, Marge drastically increases the oven temperature to 1,200 degrees, burning the cake and making it rock-solid. She attempts to cover it up with pink and white frosting before leaving for the bake sale. She accidentally drops the cake when getting out of the car (which makes it fall onto the car hood, denting it, and eventually the ground). She cannot repair it, so she just pats a bit of the icing flatter. Unsurprisingly, no one shows any interest in her cake.

At Jimbo's house, the three bullies make a powerful stink bomb from the expired yogurt (referred as TCBY) (along with other ingredients such as roadkill, burnt hair, Jimbo's sister's retainer case, six weeks of bottled farts, possum placenta and sweat from a walk-around Goofy-suit), and plan on detonating it at the bake sale. After Milhouse's failed attempt to track the bullies, Lisa suggests that Bart help them, which he does after negotiating immunity from punishment for all his past and future pranks. Bart breaks in to Jimbo's house but can't find the roller coaster room. During his investigation, Bart's phone call is accidentally crossed with a call from Jack Bauer of 24 and turns it into a prank call against him. After finding out about the stink bomb, Bart returns to the school to tell Lisa, but is knocked out and captured by Martin, who turned out to be the bullies' mole.

At the bake sale, the bullies start the three-minute timer for the bomb. Bart, locked in the ventilation room, contacts Lisa by his cell phone and shows her a picture of the stink bomb, telling her to have Principal Skinner dump the hot dog water and short circuit the ventilation fan. Skinner fills up the room with the water. Running out of air, Bart attempts to swim out, but cannot break through the room's only window. Chief Wiggum tries to shoot through the glass (accidentally aiming at Bart's face each time), but the glass is bulletproof.

Marge helps him, breaking the glass by throwing her burnt and incredibly solid cake through the window. Lisa then defuses the bomb (which turns out to have a rather simplistic off switch), saving the bake sale from the stench. However after that, Jack Bauer & several Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) field agents break inside the bake sale, destroying it, and start to arrest Bart for his "annoying prank call". A nuclear bomb then goes off in the distance, but everyone sighs with relief after Bauer reassures them that the nuclear bomb went off in Shelbyville.

Production[edit]

The episode aired as part of the one hour season finale, alongside the episode "You Kent Always Say What You Want". It was originally promoted as being the 400th episode, but aired as the 399th. It is an obvious parody of the TV series, 24, and even contains Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian from the TV as guest stars on this episode.

An original idea saw Edgar Stiles from 24 appearing in the episode and being killed, but the concept was dropped.[1]

Reception[edit]

Robert Canning on IGN named "24 Minutes" the best episode of the season, citing "this smart, funny, spot-on parody of 24 was so good that it came very close to redeeming the entire season."[2]

"24 Minutes" won the 2007 Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Television Production.[3]

Gallery[edit]

References[edit]


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