Dirty Laundry
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Comic Information
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Dirty Laundry is a comic story featured in The Simpsons Summer Shindig 4.
Plot
Lisa tell Marge that they would save 6% of their electricity consumption if they did not use the dryer, it gets Marge to start hanging clothes outdoors. But everyone in the neighborhood are not happy to people hang clothes outdoors for it violates the rules the neighborhood association has and a the chairman. Mr. Norman sends a letter to Marge where he ask her to take down the clothes for it's an eyesore.
Lisa thinks it's nonsense and asking Marge when the next meeting of the association because she can maybe find an idea that can prove that there isn't an eyesore. Bart asks her to not dry Homer's underwear outdoor anymore. Lisa begins to reading art books. She finds that Christo's Gates in New York were beutiful but it were not laundry. Bart comes and tell that he dosen't understands that Lisa read something unrelated to school, she then tells Bart that she is looking for a work of art consisting of hanging clothes and asks Bart take a look in the book, he might like it. Bart takes a look and he likes what he sees and tell to her at it can't be art. Lisa tell that he sees is one of Rene Magritte, a surrealist, just that the picture looks smiling to hanging laundry but it's too much of a stretch. Bart then points to a picture of a pipe that has the text "This is not a pipe" though it is, Lisa tell him that it is paradox, an image of pipe but it is a painting, not a pipe. Lisa asks Bart to continue looking in the book if he finds something that makes laundry look pretty.
At the next homeowner association meeting complaining the neighbors over at Marge hanging clothes outdoors for it's an eyesore. Ned tell that Lisa has something to tell that can get them to continue to hanging gclothes. Lisa tell that many people associate clothes drying in the breeze with low-income families who can not afford machines, but people have dry their clothes in nature for millennia and is reminiscent of Christo's famous gate which gives a similar effect. Mr. Norman points out, at you can't call Marge's bras for an art. Bart gets an idea when he draws a picture of Marge's bra that Norman has taken with the text This is not a bra and he tell to Norman he made a visual paradox a la Magritte. Norman tell to him that this is not art, it's a weak attempt by a child to turn a sow's ear into silk purse and this is nothing more than a dirty disgusting eyesore of a bra. Marge points out then at it is clean and the women from Springfield is angry when the comes to the meeting, they ask Norman what is wrong with the bras and remember that Norman was mad When they burned them and now he did not want them to air dry them. Ned asks the association if they can vote to let the Simpsons dry clothes outdoors, so long they didn't dry Homer's underwear and all beside Norman accepts it. Lisa thanks Bart whic tell to her that there was nothing in French.
