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| | "'''Chief of Hearts'''" is the eighteenth episode of [[Season 21]] and aired on April 18, 2010.<ref>[http://www.foxflash.com/div.php/main/page?aID=1z4&mo=4&d=14]</ref> | | "'''Chief of Hearts'''" is the eighteenth episode of [[Season 21]] and aired on April 18, 2010.<ref>[http://www.foxflash.com/div.php/main/page?aID=1z4&mo=4&d=14]</ref> |
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| − | When [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson Homer] attempts to smuggle a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_apple candy apple] into a bank, he is mistaken for a bank robber and sentenced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_in_The_Simpsons#Judge_Constance_Harm Judge Constance Harm] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_service community service]. While completing his community service, Homer offers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy_Wiggum Chief Clancy Wiggum] a sandwich. Wiggum is touched by the offer, and the two become instant friends. The two spend more and more time together, and Clancy confesses to Homer that he has very few friends. Their "moment" is interrupted when the chief must rush to a robbery, where Clancy is shot by a thug in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Tony Fat Tony]'s mob. Homer keeps a bedside vigil in the hospital until Clancy awakes, but grows tired of Clancy's neediness and goes to Moe's for a break. When Clancy finds him there, he declares Homer to be a bad friend and storms away. Neither police officers Lou nor Eddie can find the chief, but Homer finds him on the same hillside where they first hung out together. When they spot Fat Tony and his mob counterfeiting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacoste Lacoste] shirts, Homer and Clancy are captured and thrown in the trunk of Tony's car. The situation seems hopeless, but Homer reveals that he has faith in Clancy to find a way out. Clancy rearranges the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD CDs] and when "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Seventeen At Seventeen]" by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Ian Janis Ian] plays instead of a dramatic song it angers Tony. When he goes to confront Homer and Clancy, the two make their escape. They reconcile and proceed to hassle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Flanders Ned Flanders] with the police helicopter. (They shine the spotlight into Ned's bedroom window and Flanders believes it is God. He still believes it when Homer, using a megaphone, tells him to do things like take off his clothes, shave his mustache and drink the shavings in cold cocoa to prepare for the impending Rapture)
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| − | Meanwhile, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Simpson Bart] is introduced to a Japanese card game called "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakugan_Battle_Brawlers Battle Ball]" at Dylan's birthday party. While it is never resolved whether Dylan is male or female, Bart becomes hooked on this game. His jargon and secretive behavior lead [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_Skinner Principal Skinner] to suspect Bart of dealing drugs. Marge cannot believe that Bart would become involved with drugs, but she becomes suspicious and searches his room. When he catches her rifling through his things, he shows her his Battle Ball gear and she is satisfied that his interests are legal. Bart is horrified, though, that Marge thinks the game is cute and decides to flush it down the toilet, causing it to overflow.
| + | [[Homer]] is completing his court-ordered community service when he befriends his supervisor, [[Chief Wiggum]], by offering him one of his sandwiches. Touched by the act of kindness, Wiggum assigns the other convicts unpleasant tasks, but allows Homer to join him at the picnic table. They continue to grow close, but when the Chief gets injured during a botched bank robbery, Homer doesn’t come through when Wiggum needs him the most. Meanwhile, [[Bart]] becomes addicted to Battle Ball, a Japanese game made up of plastic balls and magnetic cards, and his family and teachers try to help him kick the habit. Which they have mistaken for drugs, upon learning its a simple game Marge thinks its cool. Thus Bart gives it up as if parents like it, it can't be cool. |
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"Chief of Hearts" is the eighteenth episode of Season 21 and aired on April 18, 2010.[1]
Plot
Homer is completing his court-ordered community service when he befriends his supervisor, Chief Wiggum, by offering him one of his sandwiches. Touched by the act of kindness, Wiggum assigns the other convicts unpleasant tasks, but allows Homer to join him at the picnic table. They continue to grow close, but when the Chief gets injured during a botched bank robbery, Homer doesn’t come through when Wiggum needs him the most. Meanwhile, Bart becomes addicted to Battle Ball, a Japanese game made up of plastic balls and magnetic cards, and his family and teachers try to help him kick the habit. Which they have mistaken for drugs, upon learning its a simple game Marge thinks its cool. Thus Bart gives it up as if parents like it, it can't be cool.
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