Milhouse of Sand and Fog

"Milhouse of Sand and Fog" is the third episode of the seventeenth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 25, 2005.

"Milhouse of Sand and Fog"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.Season 17
Episode 3
Directed bySteven Dean Moore
Written byPatric M. Verrone
Production codeGABF19
Original air dateSeptember 25, 2005
Guest appearance(s)
Episode features
Couch gagThe Simpsons sit down on the couch as normal. A TiVo menu pops up, asking the viewer if they would like to save the recording or delete it. “Delete This Recording” is chosen and the screen goes black.
Commentary

Plot

During Reverend Lovejoy's sermon, Maggie is scratching. The family takes Maggie to see Dr. Hibbert, who diagnoses Maggie with chicken pox. Inspired by Ned Flanders' suggestion of purposely exposing his sons to the chicken pox, Homer invites all the neighborhood kids over to the Simpson house for a "pox party". He ends up catching it himself, by drinking from Maggie's milk bottle, having no childhood immunity. Milhouse's parents Luann and Kirk attend the party, and after getting drunk on Marge's custom Margaritas, they resume their relationship.

Milhouse feels neglected because his parents are not fawning over him as they did while they were separated. He schemes to break them up again, and Bart helps him with a plot borrowed from The O.C.. The boys place a bra, belonging to Marge, on Kirk's bed. Luann finds the bra, assumes Marge is having an affair with Kirk, and informs Homer. When Homer confronts Marge, she angrily denies the allegation and kicks him out of the house.

Prodded by Lisa, Bart confesses to Marge that he left the bra in Kirk's bed. However, Marge refuses to reunite with Homer as he still does not trust her. In order to bring Homer and Marge back together, Lisa inadvertently influences Bart and Milhouse to plan to throw a dummy that looks like Bart off a cliff into the river below, while Homer and Marge, after receiving false messages from each other to meet, watch. However, after breaking his glasses, Milhouse accidentally pushes the real Bart off the cliff. Homer leaps into the rapids to rescue him, but they end up clinging on to a rock near a waterfall. There Bart confesses to Homer what he did, causing Homer to strangle him. Marge tells them to trust her, and let go of the rock. They let go and she catches them, swinging from a rope attached to a tree. Once safely on the river bank, Marge and Homer reconcile. They see Milhouse, thinking Bart died, jump off the cliff. The episode ends with Milhouse's fate unresolved.[1] Marge wonders if Milhouse can swim, to which Bart asks "What do YOU think?"

References
  1. "17x03 - Milhouse of Sand and Fog - The Simpsons Transcripts - Forever Dreaming". Retrieved November 9, 2016.


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