Guess Who's Coming to Skinner
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"Guess Who's Coming to Skinner"
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Episode Information
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"Guess Who's Coming to Skinner" is the tenth episode of season 37 of The Simpsons and the eight-hundredth episode overall. It originally aired on December 7, 2025. The episode was written by John Frink and directed by Rob Oliver. It guest stars Kieran Culkin as Alexander Hubley and Farmer McGregor, Karen Gillan as Maisie MacWeldon, Kurtwood Smith as Mr. Hubley, Barry Sonnenfeld as Phillip Ho-Hum, and Kerry Washington as Rayshelle Peyton.
Synopsis[edit]
- When Principal Skinner discovers that one of his students is a runaway who has been living in the school library, he has to take the snarky, difficult kid into his home and is forced into a role he never expected or wanted - being a parent.
Plot[edit]
The school kids are on a field trip to the Waterpark Museum of Late Victorian Textiles. When everything appears to be boring, Bart wanders off and finds the collectorium, then invites all the kids to the room, and soon a snow globe fight starts, while Skinner and the owner flirt. When Skinner hears the commotion, they go in and try to stop the fight, but Bart launches a globe at Skinner, which shatters on his face.
At the Eye Trauma Center Lenny Leonard Wing, his left eye gets treated, and when he comes back to school, he scolds Homer and Marge for bad parenting, and ends up shouting in the school's intercom that he hates children. At his house, Skinner finds his mother's letter saying she didn't want to visit him at the hospital and that she went to Atlantic City with Jasper.
For spring break, he decides to go to the school at night for work, and finds out someone or something is in the school too. He heads to Willie's shack to call for help, finding him busy with his wife, but due to the emergency, Willie accepts to help. They go to the cafeteria and then the library to find Hub, living in the school and pretending to be a student.
Later, Chalmers intervenes, stopping him from calling Child Services to avoid closing the school, so he tells Skinner to take care of him until he finds his parents. At home, Hub tells him they're dead just to pull a prank and tries to escape, but he manages to stop him and ask for help at the Simpson house since he never had to deal with a child besides school. Homer and Marge start laughing at the situation after what he told them earlier, and he begs them for help as he's desperate, to the point of having left him with Nelson to sit, literally.
Homer and Marge share some advice, but when he gets back home, he finds them sliding down the stairs on a homemade waterslide. Skinner takes him to The Spending Place at Springfield Knolls, where he goes to Mr. Ho-Hum's Clothiers to buy him some clothes, but he escapes to Luigi's Pizza Playland to eat pizza, then runs off into the ball pit. When his greasy fingers cause him to go down, Skinner dives in to save him from getting stuck on a grate, and Hub hugs him as thanks.
Later, they start eating together, going to the amusement park and the arcade, before going back to school, for him just to go back to being a background kid. Remembering Marge's words, he auditions him for the Peter Rabbit spring musical, against his will, but he ends up being Farmer McGregor, excited to play the role.
When they try the play, Skinner notices how he only has three lines, two of them being just "Here comes Peter Rabbit." (played by Martin), and he tells Mr. Largo he'll direct it, making Hub the protagonist. Martin protests, but nonetheless, he asks Lisa to rewrite the script.
When Ms. Peyton points out how Hub has become a show-off, Skinner starts defending him and applies for adoption. The musical becomes "McGregor Gardener of Destiny", but he gets stage fright, and when Skinner calls him son in the backstage, the adoption paper slips off and Hub sees it.
When the musical starts, he runs off, and in the schoolyard his real parents arrive, calling him Alexander Hubley. Hub explains that they abandoned him at a boarding school with other rich kids, then he bailed and came to Springfield. But instead of going home with them, he goes to do the play, telling his and Skinner's story instead. In the end, we see Lisa in the writer's room with Milhouse and the others not really helping her rewrite the script.
Production[edit]
The snow globe fight was inspired by a gift exchange between Matt Selman and Michael Price.[1] Barry Sonnenfeld was asked to voice Mr. Ho-Hum because of his two memoirs.[2]
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Promo video[edit]
Bart May Have Finally Cracked Principal Skinner at YouTube
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