• Wikisimpsons needs more Featured Article, Picture, Quote, Episode and Comprehensive article nominations!
  • Wikisimpsons has a Discord server! Click here for your invite! Join to talk about the wiki, Simpsons and Tapped Out news, or just to talk to other users.
  • Make an account! It's easy, free, and your work on the wiki can be attributed to you.
TwitterFacebookDiscord

A Tree Grows in Springfield

Wikisimpsons - The Simpsons Wiki
Revision as of 09:14, June 7, 2020 by SolarBot (talk | contribs) (top: replaced: |Episode Number → |number, |productionCode → |prodcode, |originalAirdate → |airdate, |blackboardText → |blackboard, |specialGuestVoices → |guests, |Show Runner → |showrunner, |Written By → |writer, |Directed By → |dir...)
Season 24 Episode
513 "Penny-Wiseguys"
514
"A Tree Grows in Springfield"
"The Day the Earth Stood Cool" 515
Not to be confused with the film, A Tree Grew in Springfield.
"A Tree Grows in Springfield"
A Tree Grows in Springfield promo 5.jpg
Episode Information
Episode number: 514
Production code: PABF22[1]
Original airdate: November 25, 2012[2]
Title screen: Sideshow Bob airplane ("Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming")
Billboard gag: This is not Santa - Do not let him in (Snake)
Chalkboard gag: 20 more shoplifting days till Christmas
Guest star(s): Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob
Written by: Stephanie Gillis[1]
Directed by: Timothy Bailey


"A Tree Grows in Springfield" is the sixth episode of season 24. It first aired on November 25, 2012. Stephanie Gillis was nominated for an Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production with this episode. The episode ends with the short Logomania.

Synopsis

"Homer wins a MyPad at the school auction and Steve Mobbs, who is now in heaven, talks to Homer through it. Homer goes into a funk when he breaks his myPad, until Ned Flanders discovers a miracle tree in the Simpsons' back garden.[2]"


Plot

Homer dreams in his hammock, but is woken by the rain. He goes in the house, only to find that it is also raining inside. Homer leaves Marge and his family in the rain-damaged house to visit Moe's. Moe discovers that Homer is upset, so he calls the Duff Beer Party Bus. Duffman tries to cheer up Homer, but also becomes depressed. When leaving Moe's, it is revealed that Homer received a parking ticket; he tries to avoid it but fails. Homer comes home just in time for the school fundraiser, where Lisa buys a raffle ticket for him. Despite Homer's doubtfulness, he wins a MyPad. Homer loves his new tablet, and Marge realizes that it has improved his mood. Homer uses it to get a kiss from Marge, have a Skype call with Lenny, entertains himself while he visits the IRS, and talks with Mr. Burns. Lisa and Bart thinks it's dicey when Homer cares more about the MyPad than them when they visit the zoo, and when Homer want use the MyPad when he play with Maggie starts also Marge annoyed on it. Homer plays a game on it while walking and falls down an open storm drain on the street.

Homer ends up in hospital and his MyPad breaks. Homer is sorry, but at the breakfast table the next day, Ned tells him of a tree in his garden that says "Hope", which Ned believes to be a miracle. Homer doubts this, but soon begins to believe in hope. Homer begins to spread the word about hope, and the tree in his garden. Kent Brockman decides to prove that there is not a miracle, and his team manages to film the tree overnight (from their helicopter) revealing someone painting "Hope" on the tree with syrup. The residents of Springfield feel cheated and Homer loses his joy of life again, but Marge explains to Homer that the important thing was that the hope he felt was genuine. Homer understands this, and they begin to discuss who wrote it, coming to the conclusion that it was someone who knows Homer needs hope most of all. During the night, Homer is shown sleepwalkingm painting Hope on the tree while God watches him on his (God's) MyPad. God is then visited by Steve Mobs, who wants him to update the tablet.

Logomania

Logomania.png

Malibu Stacy and Bubbles drive their cars and stop next to each other at a traffic light. Bubbles and Stacy try to have contact with each other but Burly running at Bubble's Car and taking his place. Burly is on a date with Stacy and Bubbles feels alone when Funzo come and start destroying the city. Burly is hiding and Funzo kidnaps Stacy. Bubbles saves Stacy by taking out Funzos batteries. Bubbles and Stacy becomes in love and Burly leaving Stacy for another girl. Next scene is Bubbles and Stacy sitting in the same car and eating a Squishee.

International airdates

Country Date Channel Note
Hispanic America.gif Latin America April 28, 2013 Fox Latin America
800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png United Kingdom April 21, 2013; 6pm Sky1 Gathered 707,000 viewers
Spain flag.png Spain December 27, 2014 Antena 3

Gallery

Production

References


The Simpsons TV.png This article about a Simpsons episode is a stub. You can help Wikisimpsons by embiggening it.
Season 24 Episodes
Moonshine River Treehouse of Horror XXIII Adventures in Baby-Getting Gone Abie Gone Penny-Wiseguys A Tree Grows in Springfield The Day the Earth Stood Cool To Cur, with Love Homer Goes to Prep School A Test Before Trying The Changing of the Guardian Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing Hardly Kirk-ing Gorgeous Grampa Black-Eyed, Please Dark Knight Court What Animated Women Want Pulpit Friction Whiskey Business The Fabulous Faker Boy The Saga of Carl Dangers on a Train