Basketball's a Drag
Basketball's a Drag
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Basketball's a Drag is a Bart Simpson story first printed in Bart Simpson #78.
Synopsis[edit]
- "The Springfield Elementary girl's basketball team is headed for the city championship until it's star player, Lisa Simpson, gets injured. How far will Principal Skinner go to beat the team from Shelbyville?"
Plot[edit]
Budget cuts force Groundskeeper Willie to cut one player from the boy's basketball team. Even though he is one of the better players, Bart gets cut. Milhouse feels sorry for Bart and says that's a shame he's not a girl, since their team needs more players. Lisa is one of the players in the school's girls 'teams and when she sprain her metacarpal and forced to give up playing for four to six weeks, Bart gets an idea how he can come up with the girls' team. Lisa looking for a replacement but can not find one and Springfield is only one game from the final against Shelbyville. Bart tells Lisa and Principal Skinner that he can replace Lisa. After Bart takes on a wig representing Lisa's hair understanding Skinner that it can works but Lisa thinks it is cheating. Lisa tell Bart these situations never work out well, but after Bart buts on Lisa's basketball uniform, she think she make a convincing girl.
The next day at school Bart is with the girls team as Lisa and Ms. Pommelhorst celebrates her after the training but his teammates tell Bart that they know it's him but and he is only with thim so they can win, he maybe is a good player but it's not fun for them. Bart tell them that sport is about winning. The final game of the season then comes around, and Pommelhorst puts "Lisa" in offense to the girls disappointment for they can hardly do anything when he is on the court. Much to their surprise, Bart gets sweaty and he loses the wig when he tries to wipe away the sweat and becomes exposed. In a landslide turn of events, Shelbyville wins after Springfield forfeits in a bad way, leading Superintendent Chalmers to punish both Skinner and Bart by both joining the boys' basketball team as towel boys.
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