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Better Fighting Through Science
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Tapped Out Quest Information
Level: 15
Update: Treehouse of Horror XXXII
Required characters: Lisa, Homer
Optional characters: Professor Frink, Hank Scorpio, Sentient Lard Lad Statue, Grampasaurus, Marge, Bart, Maggie, Bionaut Marge, See Currency-earning jobs
Internal name(s): BetterFightingThroughScience
ID(s): 249016 - 249020
Previous quest(s): Everyone Old Is Old Again
Next quest(s): American Holiday


Better Fighting Through Science is an event-exclusive questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the Treehouse of Horror XXXII content update.

Dialogue[edit]

Pt. 1[edit]

Between November 2, 2021 and November 10, 2021
Lisa - Annoyed Mad science has failed and dinosaurs are still terrorizing our town. Can we please try some real science for a change?
Professor Frink Lisa is correct. Real science is cool...well, not cool but it's worth a try!
Quimby - Stern What sort of real science are we talking about?
Lisa - Thoughtful We can engineer a retrovirus that would—
Professor Frink - Happy Oo, lasers! Lime green lasers!
Homer - Woo Hoo *chants* LASERS! LASERS! LASERS!
Quimby - Happy Lasers it is!
Task: "Collect Syringes" (x155).
Task: "Capture Dinosaurs" (x15).
Task: "Make Lisa Make a Plea for Compassionate Science". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 2 hours.
If Professor Frink is owned: Task: "Make Frink Suggest Lasers". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 2 hours.
Task: "Make Homer Chant "LASERS! LASERS!"". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 2 hours.
Lenny - Sad Where do we get a laser big enough to barbecue dinosaurs?
Professor Frink - Happy You know the peace beacon atop City Hall — the symbol of hope for all mankind? It also transforms into a giant, deadly laser.
Lisa - Angry So we're just going to blast dinosaurs with a peace laser?
Professor Frink - Surprised Great glayvin, no! That would be inhumane.
Professor Frink - Happy I've retrofit it with experimental technology that we can aim at the city's advertising mascots to make them sentient so THEY can do the dinosaur killing.
Lisa - Annoyed *sigh* And we're back to mad science.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10
Peace Marker Ray Gun

Pt. 2[edit]

After completing Pt. 1
Quimby - Annoyed When do we get to see fighting from these robot... signs... whatever they are?
Professor Frink - Embarrassed I'm having a problem adjusting the anti-photonic—
Quimby - Stern Blah-blibbity-blah! Just make it work!
Hank Scorpio Maybe I could be of some assistance. I dabble in experimental technologies.
Lisa - Shouting Hank Scorpio? But you're an actual supervillain!
Hank Scorpio - Pleased You think I'm super? You flatter me.
Geriatric Park Burns Scorpio was part of the team that made the dinosaur hybrids in the first place. I'm sure his insights will prove useful.
Lisa - Eye Roll Great, let's trust the people who got us into this mess to get us out of this mess.
Geriatric Park Burns - Happy You heard the eight-year old! Continue with the sciencing, gentlemen. We're all counting on you!
Homer - Sad *moans* I really wanted to see dinosaurs get zapped with lasers.
Task: "Collect Syringes" (x115).
Task: "Capture Dinosaurs" (x15).
If Professor Frink is owned: Task: "Make Frink Bring Advertising Signs to Life". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
If Hank Scorpio is owned: Task: "Make Hank Scorpio Help Bring Advertising Signs to Life". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
If Sentient Lard Lad Statue is owned: Task: "Make Sentient Lard Lad Statue Agree to Fight Dinos". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
Task: "Make Homer Be Disappointed the Dinos Won't Be Zapped". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
Sentient Lard Lad Statue *groans* Finally I can stretch. This donut weighs a ton. And who holds a donut over their head like this anyway?
Quimby - Embarrassed Wow! You're very large and complain-y.
Quimby Has anyone explained the situation to you and your fellow advertising signs?
Sentient Lard Lad Statue - Confused Something about fighting rampaging dinosaurs?
Quimby - Happy Exactly. Are you up for it?
Sentient Lard Lad Statue Eh, why not. Beats just standing around smiling.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10
Sentient Red Devil Realty Sign

Pt. 3[edit]

After completing Pt. 2
Sentient Lard Lad Statue - Annoyed Attention dinosaurs! Prepare for total destruction!
Sentient Lard Lad Statue Your bones will be ground into donut flour that we take back to Geriatric Park.
Grampasaurus Eh, you guys are too powerful for us to fight, so we're not gonna.
Raptor Rwaaark?
Sentient Lard Lad Statue - Confused You're not?
Grampasaurus No. When this is all over, you'll just freeze up as thirty-foot tall advertising mascots again anyway.
Sentient Lard Lad Statue - Annoyed I don't want to go back! I was hoping to become a dentist.
Sentient Red Devil Realty Sign And I've always dreamed of dairy farming.
Grampasaurus Don't kid yourselves. Once they don't need you to fight us anymore, you'll return to standing in front of their stupid buildings.
Professor Frink - Surprised That's not true! We've a plan to repurpose you as mascots for local sports teams. How's the Fighting Lady Lardlads sound?
Sentient Lard Lad Statue - Annoyed That sounds horrible!
Sentient Red Devil Realty Sign Weird old dinosaur guy is right. Humans suck brimstone and blow fire!
Task: "Collect Syringes" (x115).
Task: "Capture Dinosaurs" (x15).
If Grampasaurus is owned: Task: "Make Grampasaurus Recruit Giant Signs". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 2 hours.
If Sentient Lard Lad Statue is owned: Task: "Make Sentient Lard Lad Statue Switch Sides and Rampage". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 2 hours.
If Professor Frink is owned: Task: "Make Frink Be Surprised". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 2 hours.
Task: "Make Lisa Be Surprised Anyone Is Surprised". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 2 hours.
Task: "Make Homer Be Scared Giant Signs Have Joined Dinos". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 2 hours.
Quimby - Annoyed That didn't turn out well.
Professor Frink - Surprised It's just so unexpected.
Homer - Sad I wish somebody had said something to stop us.
Lisa - Nagging *sigh* They never listen.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10
New Invention Expo

Pt. 4[edit]

After completing Pt. 3
Professor Frink - Happy Relax, everyone. I have a Plan B.
Professor Frink I'll reverse the bigifyer laser and shrinkinate some brave nanonauts to microscopic size.
Professor Frink And then inject them into their leader — Grampasaurus.
Homer - Sly Even shrunk, I might be too big.
Bart - Happy Your fat butt has saved us from helping, Homer! They'll have to use some other family of suckers.
Quimby - Angry Simpsons, you're up!
Marge - Surprised What?!
Lisa - Shocked Dad, this all sounds very strange...and probably dangerous.
Homer - Angry Forget it, Frink! No way am I going to allow my family to—
Professor Frink - Happy You'll get to pilot this cool microscopic submarine around the inside of a dinosaur.
Homer - Happy We're in!
Task: "Collect Syringes" (x155).
Task: "Capture Dinosaurs" (x15).
If Professor Frink is owned: Task: "Make Frink Activate Shrinking Ray". The job takes place at New Invention Expo, the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
Task: "Make Simpsons Get Shrunk" (x4). The jobs take place at New Invention Expo, the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and take 4 hours.
Professor Frink Now we take this dart gun with the bionaut ship inside and shoot Grampasaurus.
Bionaut Marge - Sad *inside dart gun* Please don't miss!
Quimby - Stern No pressure. But if you fail, the dinosaurs will continue to rampage!
Lisa - Bionaut Annoyed *inside dart gun* Also...we may die!
Professor Frink Yes, that too. So, who's got good aim?
Wiggum - Guilty Uh, well...Ralphie is better than I am.
Lou - Worried I'm pretty good, but I got a wrist injury from repeatedly taking off my police badge and throwing it down in disgust.
Bionaut Marge - Annoyed *inside dart gun* Will someone just stick us into the dinosaur!
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10
Bionaut Marge

Pt. 5[edit]

After completing Pt. 4
Professor Frink Frink to Simpsons! Frink to Simpsons! Do you copy?
Homer - Bionaut Happy Breaker breaker one-nine, good buddy! This is the Radioactive Porkchop, comin' at ya. We are wall-to-wall and treetop tall!
Lisa - Bionaut Annoyed Dad, we're in a microscopic submarine, not a semi-truck in the 1970s.
Professor Frink Homer, what do you see in front of you?
Homer - Bionaut Just miles and miles of yuck.
Professor Frink - Surprised You're supposed to be in the target's brain.
Bart - Bionaut Happy I think we're in his giant dino-butt!
Lisa - Bionaut Annoyed Dad, you were supposed to take a left turn back there.
Homer - Bionaut Annoyed There's always a backseat nanobot driver.
Task: "Collect Syringes" (x195).
Task: "Capture Dinosaurs" (x15).
Task: "Make Homer Get Lost Inside Grampasaurus". The job takes place at New Invention Expo, the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
If Bionaut Marge is owned: Task: "Make Marge Navigate to the Brain". The job takes place at New Invention Expo, the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
Task: "Make Lisa Inject Serum Into Grampasaurus' Brain". The job takes place at New Invention Expo, the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
If Grampasaurus is owned: Task: "Make Grampasaurus Become Compliant". The job takes place at New Invention Expo, the Town Hall, Geriatric Park Dome, Geriatric Park Front Gate, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
Professor Frink Alright, Grampasaurus. You should be feeling compliant about now. Lead the dinosaurs back to Geriatric Park.
Grampasaurus - Confused Yes, master. Lead...dinosaurs...back.
Professor Frink - Happy I did it! The serum is working! Now we need to get the Simpsons out of the dinosaur.
Quimby How exactly do we do that?
Professor Frink - Embarrassed Well, Homer does know where the butt is...
Quest reward: Cash200 and XP20
Bionaut Ship

Currency-earning jobs[edit]

Task Character(s) Time Location(s) Reward
Find Syringes on the Beach Mr. Burns, Smithers, Homer, Bart, Lisa, Grampa, Professor Frink, Skinner 4h Beach Towel & Umbrella, Beach Chair, Beach House, Beach Front Escalier, Beach Hideaway, Tiki Bar, Squidport Entrance, Visitable Homes Syringe5, XP45
Steal Syringes From the Hospital Grampasaurus, Mecha-Chalmers, Panther Marge, Sentient Lard Lad Statue Springfield General Hospital, Hibbert Family Practice, Calmwood Mental Hospital, Visitable Homes Syringe8, XP70