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"'''Papa Don't Leech'''" is the sixteenth episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [[Season 19]]. It aired on April 13, 2008.<ref name="FF">{{cite news | title = Primetime Listings (April 6 - April 13)| publisher = FoxFlash | date = 2008-03-21 | url = http://www.foxflash.com/div.php/main/page?aID=1z4&ID=91 | accessdate=2008-03-21}}</ref> It guest starred Beverly D'Angelo in her first appearance as Lurleen Lumpkin since season three's "[[Colonel Homer]]." The Dixie Chicks also made an appearance as themselves.
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"'''Papa Don't Leech'''" is the sixteenth episode of [[season 19]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the four-hundred and sixteenth episode overall. It originally aired on April 13, [[2008]]. The episode was written by [[Reid Harrison]] and directed by [[Chris Clements]]. It guest stars [[Beverly D'Angelo]] as [[Lurleen Lumpkin]] and [[The Chicks]] as {{Chs|Dixie Chicks|themselves}}.
This episode was rated TV 14 for DSLV.
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== Synopsis ==
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{{Desc|Country music star [[Lurleen Lumpkin]] reappears in [[Springfield]], destitute and a fugitive from justice due to owing a fortune in back taxes. [[Homer]] and [[Marge]] take Lurleen in, reunite her with her long-lost father [[Royce Lumpkin|Royce]], and help her re-launch her musical career.}}
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== Plot ==
 
== Plot ==
[[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] tries to sell Girl Scout Cookies to [[Mayor Quimby]], but finds the entire town treasury empty. Quimby explains the city spent their money on a new slogan, "Springfield: Good."He also tried to make her give the cookies by saying hell pay her back the next year and whenm she does not he threatens to let her have a gay scout leader but lisa says she would support that angier Quimby. A town meeting is held to inform the town they have to raise money. They try faking a natural disaster in order to get relief money from FEMA, but are tricked and end up in more debt than before. Lisa then reveals [[Springfield]] has millions in uncollected taxes, and Springfield soon starts hitting up its most notorious tax evaders. In a news report, [[Kent Brockman]] reveals that all tax evaders have been caught, and the only one remaining is Lurleen Lumpkin, a country music star who was once managed by [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] and fell in love with him. As the city searches for her, Homer finds Lurleen hiding in his car, and learns that after leaving her, her life had spun out of control.
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[[Grampa]] is driving [[Homer]] at night and they argue about whether Grampa is able to drive at night. As Grampa is messing around with the music, they swerve onto the other side of the road and are almost hit by [[Patty]] and [[Selma]]. Homer ans Grampa then tumble over the edge of the cliff and crash down. As Homer gets out of the car, Grampa tells Homer to call an ambulance, and tells Homer that he'd have to look after him. Homer then decides to suffocate Grampa instead. Homer then wakes up in the car as he's driving [[Lisa]], revealing that he was just dreaming. Homer then drops Lisa off at the [[Town Hall]] so that she can sell Girl Scout Cookies to [[Mayor Quimby]]. However, Mayor Quimby can't give Lisa the money for the cookies as the town is broke. After a scuffle, Lisa leaves with the cookies.
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Mayor Quimby holds an emergency town meeting and the town decides to scam the government out of emergency relief money. An official from the {{W|Federal Emergency Management Agency}} arrives and tells Springfield that they will get money to help with their faked hurricane destruction. However, the FEMA official turned out to be a scammer and scammed more money out of the town. During this time, Lisa found out that many people of Springfield owed millions in taxes. Everyone's unpaid taxes were collected, with only one person left to pay; [[Lurleen Lumpkin]].
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The people of Springfield start to search for Lurleen so they could get the satisfaction of ruining her life. As Homer is driving back home, Lurleen reveals herself to Homer, having managed to get into the back of his car. Homer takes Lurleen home, thinking that Marge would be fine with Lurleen staying with the Simpsons. However, Marge decides to take Lurleen back to her home. After finding out that Lurleen lived under a bridge with several homeless people, Marge decided to bring Lurleen to live with them temporarily. [[Chief Wiggum]] then found Lurleen and she ended up going to court over her unpaid taxes and is ordered to pay back $100 a week until country music comes back into popularity.
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Lurleen takes up a job at [[Moe's Tavern]], where [[Lenny]] and [[Carl]] both flirt with her, but Lurleen rejects them both. Back at the Simpson house, Homer and Marge discuss why Lurleen might hate men now. Lurleen then sings "[[Cryin' in My Cradle]]", which moves the whole family. Marge then decides to find Lurleen's father, [[Royce Lumpkin]]. After spending a while searching, Marge finally finds Royce and brings him home to see Lurleen. The two of them make up and spend time together, and Lurleen writes a song about Royce being back in her life, "[[Daddy's Back]]". However, after the song, Royce leaves the house and her daughter once more.
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After Royce leaves, Lurleen becomes depressed. She then sees the {{Chs|Dixie Chicks}} on television performing a song, "[[America's Back]]", which sounds very similar to "Daddy's Back". Lurleen then sees her father on television too, as the new manager of the Dixie Chicks. Lurleen becomes upset and angry over her father's betrayal so Homer and Marge dress up as "Colonel Homer" and "Major Marge" to cheer her up and tell her to take control of her own destiny. Lurleen then goes to confront Royce at [[White Trash Records]] about him stealing her song. After the Dixie Chicks find out that he stole the song, they attack Royce with their instruments.
  
Homer comforts the nerve-wracked Lurleen, who says she has no money. Homer agrees to take her home, but [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] remembers how Lurleen caused a huge rift in her marriage, and demands that she gets out. Angrily driving her away, she discovers that Lurleen lives with the homeless. Marge begins to pity her. Marge reluctantly allows her to stay with the family. As a thank-you, Lurleen cooks a barbecue for the family, and Marge apologizes about the argument earlier. Lurleen forgives her, and the two become friends. Soon, though, Lurleen is found, arrested, and taken to court. Judge Snyder decides to go easy on her, with one exception: Lurleen must find an immediate way to pay off her debt to society. When the trial finishes, she explains how she can't pay off her taxes because all her money went to her ex-husbands (who all resemble Homer).
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Back at the Simpson house, Lurleen shows off her new boyfriend, who looks similar to Homer, then leaves to go on tour with the Dixie Chicks. As Marge and Lurleen hug, Marge tells Lurleen that if she ever comes near Homer again she would strangle Lurleen with her hair extensions.
  
Lurleen becomes depressed, and the whole family soon hears Lurleen singing through the vent about her father. Marge realizes that as her father left Lurleen, Lurleen had given up faith in all men. Marge decides to get the two Lumpkins back on a proper parent-child relationship. Scouring Springfield, she finally finds him in the corner of Springfield. Royce Lumpkin left Lurleen because he realized he could never be a great father. He is now deadbeat. Lurleen forgives him for leaving her, however, and she writes a new song to celebrate their reunion. The two appear to have a newfound happiness, and spend a lot of time together. But Royce decides to leave Lurleen again. Soon a new song from The Dixie Chicks goes on the radio, Lurleen's father is there, and he claims he wrote the song, a clear plagiarism of the song Lurleen wrote for their reunion. She goes to the basement to sulk. Colonel Homer and Marge come to her, and tell her to take control of her destiny. Lurleen tells the Dixie Chicks that her father stole her song and they proceed to hit him with their instruments. Lurleen becomes the new opening act for the Dixie Chicks. She has a new husband (who has a resemblance to Homer) who also asks her for 100 dollars for beer. Marge and Lurleen embrace in a hug. Marge then tells Lurleen that if she ever comes near Homer, she will strangle her with her apert hair exstentions.
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== Production ==
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The opening scene is an almost shot-for-shot parody of ''[[The Sopranos]]''.<ref name="Jean">{{Com|Jean, Al|Papa Don't Leech|Nineteenth|(2019).|link=Al Jean}}</ref> The animators watched a lot of videos of people doing hamboning to get the scenes of Royce hamboning down properly.<ref name="Silverman">{{Com|Silverman, David|Papa Don't Leech|Nineteenth|(2019).|link=David Silverman}}</ref>
  
== Cultural references ==
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*The episode's title references Madonna's 1986 song, "[[wikipedia:Papa Don't Preach|Papa Don't Preach]]."
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*Lurleen is shown singing with [[wikipedia:Kermit the Frog|Kermit]]. Another Muppet, [[wikipedia:Miss Piggy|Miss Piggy]] is also shown.
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*The scene where Homer suffocates his father parodies the [[wikipedia:Sopranos|Sopranos]] episode Kennedy and Heidi, in which Tony suffocates Christopher in a similar manner.
 
*Grandpa plays a medley of songs by the Tommy Dorsey band.
 
  
 
== Reception ==
 
== Reception ==
Richard Keller of TV Squad expressed dislike for the episode stating that he hopes, "The Simpsons will reconsider the next time they decide to give a solo opportunity to a supporting character many people don't remember."<ref name="TVsquad"/> He found most of the plot, especially the sudden and seemingly unnecessary inclusion of her father and the Dixie Chicks, and the return of Lurleen Lumpkin after such a long time derogative.<ref name="TVsquad">{{cite web| last = Keller| first = Richard
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Robert Canning of {{W|IGN}} said "there were too few laugh-out-loud moments in this lackluster episode. Overall, it was nice to see Lurleen again, but she'd probably get more laughs in future cameos than in carrying an entire episode." He gave the episode a 6/10. Canning also said that the opening sequence where Homer murders Grampa in a dream was "the least funny thing I've ever seen on the show".<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/04/14/the-simpsons-papa-dont-leech-review IGN - "The Simpsons: "Papa Don't Leech" Review"]</ref>
| title = Papa Don't Leech| url = http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/13/the-simpsons-papa-dont-leach/| publisher = TV Squad| accessdate = 2008-04-14 }}</ref> Robert Canning of [[IGN]] said "there were too few laugh-out-loud moments in this lackluster episode. Overall, it was nice to see Lurleen again, but she'd probably get more laughs in future cameos than in carrying an entire episode." He gave the episode a 6/10.<ref name="ign">{{cite news|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/866/866216p1.html|title=The Simpsons: "Papa Don't Leech" Review|accessdate=2008-04-15|date=[[2008-04-14]]|publisher=IGN|author=Robert Canning}}</ref> The opening sequence where Homer murders Grampa in a dream was criticized, being called "the least funny thing I've ever seen on the show" by Robert Canning<ref name="ign"/> and "very un-Homer-like" by Richard Keller.<ref name="TVsquad"/>
 
  
The episode was the highest-watched program on Fox the evening it was shown, with an estimated 6.9 million viewers. It had a 3.2 Nielsen rating and a 9% audience share in its time slot.<ref>{{cite news|author=James Hibberd|title=Disappointing return for 'Housewives' |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i745f0e46da86e5a05748658e4c28ac5e|publisher=[[Hollywood Reporter]]|date=2008-04-14|accessdate=2008-04-15}}</ref>
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Richard Keller of {{W|TV Squad}} questioned why a character like Lurleen was given an episode focused on her, especially after nearly two decades since her initial appearance.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090606085903/http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/13/the-simpsons-papa-dont-leach/ TV Squad - "The Simpsons: Papa Don't Leech - VIDEO"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>
  
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As of May [[2023]], the episode has a 6.1 rating on {{W|IMDb}}.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1211739/ IMDb - "Papa Don't Leech]"</ref>
  
 
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Latest revision as of 12:12, May 1, 2023

Season 19 Episode
415 "Smoke on the Daughter"
416
"Papa Don't Leech"
"Apocalypse Cow" 417
"Wait a minute -- he's a deadbeat dad, and yet he's getting as much love as me, a Dad too lazy to run away! [moans] And he has hair! Bart, get me my suicide axe."
Homer Simpson
"Papa Don't Leech"
Papa Don't Leech.jpg
Episode Information
Episode number: 416
Season number: S19 E16
Production code: KABF09
Original airdate: April 13, 2008
Couch gag: The Simpson family is painted on the couch.
Guest star(s): Beverly D'Angelo as Lurleen Lumpkin
The Chicks as themselves
Showrunner(s): Al Jean
Written by: Reid Harrison
Directed by: Chris Clements


"Papa Don't Leech" is the sixteenth episode of season 19 of The Simpsons and the four-hundred and sixteenth episode overall. It originally aired on April 13, 2008. The episode was written by Reid Harrison and directed by Chris Clements. It guest stars Beverly D'Angelo as Lurleen Lumpkin and The Chicks as themselves.

Synopsis[edit]

"Country music star Lurleen Lumpkin reappears in Springfield, destitute and a fugitive from justice due to owing a fortune in back taxes. Homer and Marge take Lurleen in, reunite her with her long-lost father Royce, and help her re-launch her musical career."


Plot[edit]

Grampa is driving Homer at night and they argue about whether Grampa is able to drive at night. As Grampa is messing around with the music, they swerve onto the other side of the road and are almost hit by Patty and Selma. Homer ans Grampa then tumble over the edge of the cliff and crash down. As Homer gets out of the car, Grampa tells Homer to call an ambulance, and tells Homer that he'd have to look after him. Homer then decides to suffocate Grampa instead. Homer then wakes up in the car as he's driving Lisa, revealing that he was just dreaming. Homer then drops Lisa off at the Town Hall so that she can sell Girl Scout Cookies to Mayor Quimby. However, Mayor Quimby can't give Lisa the money for the cookies as the town is broke. After a scuffle, Lisa leaves with the cookies.

Mayor Quimby holds an emergency town meeting and the town decides to scam the government out of emergency relief money. An official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency arrives and tells Springfield that they will get money to help with their faked hurricane destruction. However, the FEMA official turned out to be a scammer and scammed more money out of the town. During this time, Lisa found out that many people of Springfield owed millions in taxes. Everyone's unpaid taxes were collected, with only one person left to pay; Lurleen Lumpkin.

The people of Springfield start to search for Lurleen so they could get the satisfaction of ruining her life. As Homer is driving back home, Lurleen reveals herself to Homer, having managed to get into the back of his car. Homer takes Lurleen home, thinking that Marge would be fine with Lurleen staying with the Simpsons. However, Marge decides to take Lurleen back to her home. After finding out that Lurleen lived under a bridge with several homeless people, Marge decided to bring Lurleen to live with them temporarily. Chief Wiggum then found Lurleen and she ended up going to court over her unpaid taxes and is ordered to pay back $100 a week until country music comes back into popularity.

Lurleen takes up a job at Moe's Tavern, where Lenny and Carl both flirt with her, but Lurleen rejects them both. Back at the Simpson house, Homer and Marge discuss why Lurleen might hate men now. Lurleen then sings "Cryin' in My Cradle", which moves the whole family. Marge then decides to find Lurleen's father, Royce Lumpkin. After spending a while searching, Marge finally finds Royce and brings him home to see Lurleen. The two of them make up and spend time together, and Lurleen writes a song about Royce being back in her life, "Daddy's Back". However, after the song, Royce leaves the house and her daughter once more.

After Royce leaves, Lurleen becomes depressed. She then sees the Dixie Chicks on television performing a song, "America's Back", which sounds very similar to "Daddy's Back". Lurleen then sees her father on television too, as the new manager of the Dixie Chicks. Lurleen becomes upset and angry over her father's betrayal so Homer and Marge dress up as "Colonel Homer" and "Major Marge" to cheer her up and tell her to take control of her own destiny. Lurleen then goes to confront Royce at White Trash Records about him stealing her song. After the Dixie Chicks find out that he stole the song, they attack Royce with their instruments.

Back at the Simpson house, Lurleen shows off her new boyfriend, who looks similar to Homer, then leaves to go on tour with the Dixie Chicks. As Marge and Lurleen hug, Marge tells Lurleen that if she ever comes near Homer again she would strangle Lurleen with her hair extensions.

Production[edit]

The opening scene is an almost shot-for-shot parody of The Sopranos.[1] The animators watched a lot of videos of people doing hamboning to get the scenes of Royce hamboning down properly.[2]

Reception[edit]

Robert Canning of IGN said "there were too few laugh-out-loud moments in this lackluster episode. Overall, it was nice to see Lurleen again, but she'd probably get more laughs in future cameos than in carrying an entire episode." He gave the episode a 6/10. Canning also said that the opening sequence where Homer murders Grampa in a dream was "the least funny thing I've ever seen on the show".[3]

Richard Keller of TV Squad questioned why a character like Lurleen was given an episode focused on her, especially after nearly two decades since her initial appearance.[4]

As of May 2023, the episode has a 6.1 rating on IMDb.[5]

References[edit]


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