Sleeping with the Enemy (''The Simpsons'')

"Sleeping With The Enemy"
The Simpsons episode
Ralph runs around the Simpson family's living room playing duck, duck, goose on his own after Bart's party. The scene has become a minor Internet meme.
Episode no. 338
Directed by Lauren MacMullan
Written by Jon Vitti
Showrunner(s) Al Jean
Production code FABF19
Original air date November 21, 2004
Couch gag The Simpsons run in and find that the couch is missing. A few seconds later, the couch falls from the sky and crushes everyone.
Commentary Al Jean
Jon Vitti
Matt Selman
Tom Gammill
Max Pross
Mike Reiss
Lauren MacMullan
Mike B. Anderson
Season 16 episodes
Seasons

"Sleeping With the Enemy" is the third episode from the sixteenth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 21, 2004. To date, this is Jon Vitti's last episode as writer and Lauren MacMullan's last episode as director.

Plot

Lisa's friends at school tease her about her big butt (for seemingly no reason other than to embarrass Lisa), causing her to become self-conscious about her weight. Homer only makes matters worse when he tells her about the "Simpson butt", something that all Simpsons have. He goes on to draw himself the way an animator would, starting with circles, then filling in the rest of the details. Bart brings home a geography test with a grade of 100, eagerly expecting a party that was promised to him if he ever got a 100. However, Homer thinks Bart either forged the test or cheated, but discovers that the watermark of the test is real and that all the answers are correct. But he is not easily willing to give up, so Homer and Marge speak to Bart's teacher Mrs. Krabappel, who confesses that she forgot to fold up the map during the test, so therefore, everyone in the class (including Bart) received a 100. Marge throws Bart a "party", which is attended by Aunts Patty and Selma, Grampa (sleeping in an armchair), Grandma Bouvier, Ralph, and Martin. Milhouse can only attend via speakerphone because he has the measles. Bart does not enjoy the party and to make matters worse, Lisa runs up to her room crying when Marge offers her a big slice of cake.

Marge thinks her children don't appreciate her anymore, so when she finds Nelson eating tadpoles from a fountain at the zoo she decides to become a mother figure in his life and spend some quality time with him. They bond as Nelson tells Marge about his poor life and how his father abandoned him, claiming to get cigarettes, and never came back. She brings Nelson home and pays him to do some chores. Nelson's mother finds this out and does not want Marge giving them any "charity". Later that night, Nelson's mom leaves town, and Nelson, having no place else to go, decides to stay with the Simpsons. Marge lets him sleep in Bart's room, forcing Bart to sleep on the floor, underneath his bed.

Late one night, Bart sees Nelson sing about his long lost father, and decides to do something about it. He also sees Lisa, unable to take any more starvation, eat an entire Labor Day cake that was baked especially for Lenny, but leaves just before Nelson walks in on her. After talking about the situation, Nelson offers to help Lisa get back at Sherri and Terri for teasing her. The next day, Nelson unleashes a skunk, which sprays both of them, while Lisa and the rest of the children point and sing a modified version of Jingle Bells. Both twins are horrified and run off screaming. When Lisa and Nelson return home, they find Nelson's father, who Bart found working at a freak show in a circus. It turns out that Nelson's dad had really gone to the Kwik-E-Mart, where he had gotten a severe allergic reaction from eating a chocolate bar full of peanuts. Coincidentally, the circus had made a stop in the Kwik-E-Mart parking lot, and the unscrupulous ringmaster noted the peanut matter and kept him as a forced freak for his traveling show. Nelson's mother finally returns, after going to Hollywood and getting the lead role in Macbeth, playing Lady Macbeth. At the conclusion of this episode, Nelson thanks Marge for making him feel good about himself and appreciates what Bart did but says kindly that this isn't enough to stop him from beating Bart up in the future.

As the family talk about the morals of the episode, Lisa admits that she still has body image issues. Homer tries to get Lisa to talk about it positively, but Lisa says that it's a "very open-ended problem" and (like many women and girls in real life) she may never be content with her body image. Homer tries to goad Lisa into changing her mind and giving him comfort in resolution, but she refuses to do so.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "16x03 - Sleeping With the Enemy - The Simpsons Transcripts - Forever Dreaming". Retrieved 2016-11-28.
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