1 00:00:03,253 --> 00:00:06,214 CHOIR: ♪ The Simpsons ♪ 2 00:00:06,297 --> 00:00:07,298 (tires screech) 3 00:00:09,509 --> 00:00:10,343 D'oh! 4 00:00:10,969 --> 00:00:11,970 (screams) 5 00:00:30,071 --> 00:00:31,990 {\an8}♪ Sleigh bells ring ♪ 6 00:00:32,073 --> 00:00:33,783 {\an8}♪ Are you listening? ♪ 7 00:00:33,867 --> 00:00:35,535 {\an8}♪ In the lane... ♪ 8 00:00:35,618 --> 00:00:36,786 (grunts) 9 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:40,790 {\an8}Dad, I’m freezing. 10 00:00:40,874 --> 00:00:41,833 Don’t worry, kids. 11 00:00:41,916 --> 00:00:45,045 {\an8}These wool socks and down parkas will keep you warm. 12 00:00:47,130 --> 00:00:49,424 {\an8}(shivering) 13 00:00:49,507 --> 00:00:50,675 {\an8}We wouldn’t be in this trouble 14 00:00:50,759 --> 00:00:52,552 {\an8}if you’d just paid the heating bill! 15 00:00:52,635 --> 00:00:55,055 {\an8}I thought global warming would take care of it. 16 00:00:55,138 --> 00:00:57,223 {\an8}Al Gore can’t do anything right. 17 00:00:57,307 --> 00:00:59,184 I got some old magazines to burn. 18 00:00:59,267 --> 00:01:01,853 Popular Science. 19 00:01:01,936 --> 00:01:03,772 Redbook. (flames roaring) 20 00:01:03,855 --> 00:01:05,857 Big & Tall Halloween Costume catalogue. 21 00:01:07,317 --> 00:01:08,401 Next item. 22 00:01:08,485 --> 00:01:11,071 No! That’s my memory box! 23 00:01:14,908 --> 00:01:17,619 {\an8}Mom, I didn’t know you went to college! 24 00:01:17,702 --> 00:01:19,412 {\an8}Yeah, you always said that after high school, 25 00:01:19,496 --> 00:01:22,499 {\an8}Dad "blessed" you with the unplanned miracle of me. 26 00:01:22,582 --> 00:01:24,292 {\an8}Hey, parents are allowed 27 00:01:24,375 --> 00:01:26,211 {\an8}to keep some secrets. 28 00:01:26,294 --> 00:01:28,213 {\an8}Like which kid’s their favorite! 29 00:01:28,296 --> 00:01:30,632 It’s Lisa. 30 00:01:30,715 --> 00:01:33,259 {\an8}You know, Mom and Dad are almost 40, 31 00:01:33,343 --> 00:01:35,136 {\an8}and Bart is ten. 32 00:01:36,304 --> 00:01:39,182 {\an8}That means you didn’t have him until way after high school. 33 00:01:39,265 --> 00:01:41,976 {\an8}Yeah, what happened while I was chillin’ in Dad’s junk? 34 00:01:42,060 --> 00:01:43,103 There is a part 35 00:01:43,186 --> 00:01:46,064 {\an8}of our past that we haven’t told you kids about. 36 00:01:46,147 --> 00:01:48,024 A turbulent part. 37 00:01:48,108 --> 00:01:50,235 {\an8}Come on. More turbulent than now? 38 00:01:50,318 --> 00:01:52,278 {\an8}We’re in every kind of therapy. 39 00:01:52,362 --> 00:01:53,822 {\an8}Things happened between your mother and me 40 00:01:53,905 --> 00:01:55,031 {\an8}that we’re not proud of. 41 00:01:55,115 --> 00:01:57,033 {\an8}It was the middle of a wild decade 42 00:01:57,117 --> 00:01:58,660 {\an8}known as the 1990s. 43 00:01:58,743 --> 00:02:00,537 The ’90s? Never heard of it. 44 00:02:00,620 --> 00:02:02,622 {\an8}Oh, it was a wonderful time. 45 00:02:02,705 --> 00:02:05,166 {\an8}The Iraq war was over once and for all, 46 00:02:05,250 --> 00:02:08,211 {\an8}a struggling Matt Groening created Futurama, 47 00:02:08,294 --> 00:02:10,463 {\an8}and young people believed in their dreams, 48 00:02:10,547 --> 00:02:15,301 {\an8}thanks to a TV show called Melrose Place. 49 00:02:15,385 --> 00:02:16,803 {\an8}Your mother and I were dating, 50 00:02:16,886 --> 00:02:19,430 {\an8}and we had just moved into our first apartment together. 51 00:02:24,394 --> 00:02:26,104 {\an8}Luann, a picture of you cheating on me 52 00:02:26,187 --> 00:02:27,939 {\an8}is downloading onto my computer. 53 00:02:28,022 --> 00:02:30,817 {\an8}I’ll know who you were with in less than six hours! 54 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:32,485 {\an8}Unless someone picks up the phone. 55 00:02:32,569 --> 00:02:34,237 {\an8}No, no, no, no! Oh! 56 00:02:35,029 --> 00:02:40,076 {\an8}HOMER: We didn’t have a lot of money, but we were young and in love. 57 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,996 {\an8}Oh! I’m afraid it’s Top Ramen again. 58 00:02:43,079 --> 00:02:46,332 {\an8}With you, baby, Top Ramen tastes like Cup O’ Noodles. 59 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:49,335 {\an8}(slurping) 60 00:02:49,419 --> 00:02:53,965 {\an8}You know, these IKEA foam futons do Velcro together. 61 00:02:54,048 --> 00:02:56,134 {\an8}Uh, I-I’m sorry. 62 00:02:56,217 --> 00:02:57,969 {\an8}I’m not ready to do that yet. 63 00:02:58,052 --> 00:02:59,762 I want to wait until I’m married, 64 00:02:59,846 --> 00:03:01,055 or at least really drunk. 65 00:03:01,139 --> 00:03:02,098 I understand. 66 00:03:02,182 --> 00:03:03,141 We should follow the lead 67 00:03:03,224 --> 00:03:05,018 of today’s celebrity role models. 68 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:09,147 HOMER: Like all young people, I had a musical dream, 69 00:03:09,230 --> 00:03:11,357 a dream called inoffensive urban light 70 00:03:11,441 --> 00:03:13,151 hip-hop smooth grooves. 71 00:03:13,234 --> 00:03:15,195 Okay, everyone, let’s warm up our harmonies. 72 00:03:15,278 --> 00:03:16,988 ♪ Homer ♪ 73 00:03:17,071 --> 00:03:17,947 ♪ Lenny ♪ 74 00:03:18,031 --> 00:03:19,240 ♪ Carl ♪ 75 00:03:19,324 --> 00:03:20,575 ♪ Lou the Cop ♪ 76 00:03:20,658 --> 00:03:22,785 (soft rock instrumental intro plays) 77 00:03:22,869 --> 00:03:24,913 (in harmony): ♪ I’ll make rub to you ♪ 78 00:03:24,996 --> 00:03:27,582 ♪ Show respect for you ♪ 79 00:03:27,665 --> 00:03:30,210 ♪ Hug so safe and strong ♪ 80 00:03:30,293 --> 00:03:32,962 ♪ Backrub all night long! ♪ 81 00:03:33,046 --> 00:03:35,590 ♪ I’ll make rub to you! ♪ 82 00:03:35,673 --> 00:03:38,509 MARGE: But our happiness was about to unravel 83 00:03:38,593 --> 00:03:43,514 just like Kevin Costner’s career because of The Postman. 84 00:03:43,598 --> 00:03:44,724 You applied to college? 85 00:03:44,807 --> 00:03:45,934 Why didn’t you tell me? 86 00:03:46,017 --> 00:03:47,435 I did tell you. 87 00:03:47,518 --> 00:03:48,895 I thought you were telling me 88 00:03:48,978 --> 00:03:51,814 you wanted to apply yourself to making a collage. 89 00:03:51,898 --> 00:03:53,358 And as I recall, I was against it. 90 00:03:53,441 --> 00:03:55,568 I can’t believe I got in. 91 00:03:55,652 --> 00:03:57,111 It’s like a dream come true. 92 00:03:57,195 --> 00:03:59,781 An expensive dream. 93 00:03:59,864 --> 00:04:02,283 (sighs) 94 00:04:04,452 --> 00:04:05,203 Oh, baby, 95 00:04:05,286 --> 00:04:06,996 you deserve every last bit of it! 96 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,164 I can get the money, 97 00:04:08,248 --> 00:04:10,708 but it’ll mean swallowing my pride and working for... 98 00:04:10,792 --> 00:04:12,168 my dad! 99 00:04:12,627 --> 00:04:14,128 (kids shouting, electrical buzzing) 100 00:04:14,212 --> 00:04:16,506 Well, well, well, look who’s come crawling back 101 00:04:16,589 --> 00:04:18,675 to work for your old man. 102 00:04:18,758 --> 00:04:20,551 What do you need the money for? 103 00:04:20,635 --> 00:04:22,011 Medicine? 104 00:04:22,095 --> 00:04:23,263 None of your business. 105 00:04:23,346 --> 00:04:24,973 Now give me a job at your business. 106 00:04:25,056 --> 00:04:26,933 -You’re dead! -Die! Die! Die! 107 00:04:27,016 --> 00:04:28,017 Suck my beam! 108 00:04:28,101 --> 00:04:29,644 (yelling) 109 00:04:29,727 --> 00:04:31,437 Okay, all right! Time’s up! 110 00:04:31,521 --> 00:04:33,398 (whirring) 111 00:04:33,481 --> 00:04:35,441 (sighing) 112 00:04:35,525 --> 00:04:38,027 (grunting) 113 00:04:38,111 --> 00:04:39,696 This counts as your break. 114 00:04:39,779 --> 00:04:41,739 HOMER: But Marge’s education was worth 115 00:04:41,823 --> 00:04:44,909 all the pistol-whipping in the world. 116 00:04:44,993 --> 00:04:47,370 This place is just like the brochure: 117 00:04:47,453 --> 00:04:49,163 Autumn leaves. 118 00:04:49,247 --> 00:04:50,665 Bull sessions. 119 00:04:50,748 --> 00:04:52,375 And that is why 120 00:04:52,458 --> 00:04:54,836 The Lord of the Rings can never be filmed. 121 00:04:54,919 --> 00:04:57,672 MARGE: Fraternity pledges in their beanies. 122 00:04:57,755 --> 00:05:00,133 I think I’m gonna like it here. 123 00:05:03,594 --> 00:05:05,638 So, have you all bought the required textbooks 124 00:05:05,722 --> 00:05:06,723 for this class? 125 00:05:08,433 --> 00:05:10,518 Good. Now throw them all away! 126 00:05:10,601 --> 00:05:11,769 (class murmuring) 127 00:05:15,106 --> 00:05:17,608 Everything you think you know about history is a lie. 128 00:05:17,692 --> 00:05:19,986 For example: the Founding Fathers. 129 00:05:20,069 --> 00:05:21,446 What did they have in common? 130 00:05:21,529 --> 00:05:23,031 They defied a king? 131 00:05:23,114 --> 00:05:24,741 They created a system of checks and balances? 132 00:05:24,824 --> 00:05:26,743 Wrong! They were all white, 133 00:05:26,826 --> 00:05:29,120 Protestant, property-owning males. 134 00:05:33,583 --> 00:05:35,335 (all gasping) 135 00:05:35,418 --> 00:05:36,794 MARGE: Are you saying 136 00:05:36,878 --> 00:05:41,132 that America was founded on misconceptions? 137 00:05:41,215 --> 00:05:42,717 Who said that? 138 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,677 (class murmuring) 139 00:05:46,679 --> 00:05:48,056 Hmm. 140 00:05:48,139 --> 00:05:50,600 That is exactly what I’m saying. 141 00:05:52,602 --> 00:05:55,646 PROFESSOR: Fall semester, you just got interesting. 142 00:05:58,149 --> 00:05:59,609 (sobbing) 143 00:05:59,692 --> 00:06:01,736 This book sucks so much. 144 00:06:01,819 --> 00:06:04,822 Homie, my mind has been opened in so many ways! 145 00:06:04,906 --> 00:06:06,407 Did you know that 146 00:06:06,491 --> 00:06:09,202 every US president has been a straight white man? 147 00:06:09,285 --> 00:06:10,411 Even Walt Disney? 148 00:06:10,495 --> 00:06:11,913 And did you also know 149 00:06:11,996 --> 00:06:13,915 that history is written by the winners? 150 00:06:13,998 --> 00:06:16,334 Really? I thought it was written by losers. 151 00:06:16,417 --> 00:06:18,169 (laughs) 152 00:06:18,252 --> 00:06:19,837 (sighs) 153 00:06:19,921 --> 00:06:22,382 If you think that, you should meet my new professor. 154 00:06:22,465 --> 00:06:24,926 Professor August has shown me a side of the world 155 00:06:25,009 --> 00:06:26,260 I never knew. 156 00:06:26,344 --> 00:06:27,970 Professor August, eh? 157 00:06:28,054 --> 00:06:29,847 Who is he, some gray-haired old bookworm? 158 00:06:29,931 --> 00:06:32,350 Uh, not exactly. 159 00:06:32,433 --> 00:06:35,603 Marge, I hope I’ll be seeing you tomorrow during office hours. 160 00:06:35,686 --> 00:06:37,355 (giggles) 161 00:06:37,438 --> 00:06:39,690 Uh, 3:00 to 5:00, right? 162 00:06:39,774 --> 00:06:41,776 If my beads are parted, come right in. 163 00:06:41,859 --> 00:06:42,985 I will! 164 00:06:46,155 --> 00:06:48,074 To the faculty club! 165 00:06:48,157 --> 00:06:50,076 (bell dinging) 166 00:06:50,159 --> 00:06:51,619 Oh! 167 00:06:51,702 --> 00:06:53,413 I never heard that noise before. 168 00:06:53,496 --> 00:06:54,747 Are you sick? 169 00:06:54,831 --> 00:06:55,998 (groans) 170 00:06:56,082 --> 00:06:57,792 Hmm. I wonder what’s on your mind. 171 00:06:57,875 --> 00:06:59,001 (bicycle bell dinging) 172 00:06:59,085 --> 00:07:01,170 (tires squealing) 173 00:07:01,254 --> 00:07:02,088 Hmm. 174 00:07:07,009 --> 00:07:08,469 Okay, I relit your pilot light. 175 00:07:08,553 --> 00:07:11,055 Now I just need to do a little work on the thermostat. 176 00:07:11,139 --> 00:07:13,641 Would you like me to tell you a story while I work? 177 00:07:13,724 --> 00:07:15,685 One about a woman I loved and lost? 178 00:07:15,768 --> 00:07:17,770 We’re in the middle of our own story, thank you. 179 00:07:17,854 --> 00:07:18,980 Right. No one wants to hear 180 00:07:19,063 --> 00:07:20,398 about the gas man’s girl. 181 00:07:20,481 --> 00:07:23,234 "Just shut up, monkey man, and make the gas flow." 182 00:07:23,317 --> 00:07:24,902 Anyway, 183 00:07:24,986 --> 00:07:28,656 I was growing to admire my professor more and more. 184 00:07:28,990 --> 00:07:31,200 ...so that’s why instead of "X-X", 185 00:07:31,284 --> 00:07:33,953 I think of the female genes in a more positive light... 186 00:07:35,705 --> 00:07:37,457 ..."Plus-plus." 187 00:07:37,540 --> 00:07:38,791 (applause) 188 00:07:38,875 --> 00:07:42,211 Professor, do you think white male scientists 189 00:07:42,295 --> 00:07:44,380 have marginalized the contributions 190 00:07:44,464 --> 00:07:45,840 of the Third World? 191 00:07:45,923 --> 00:07:46,924 Great question. 192 00:07:47,008 --> 00:07:48,759 And the answer is "of course." 193 00:07:48,843 --> 00:07:50,928 Could a tribe of bushmen have invented penicillin? 194 00:07:51,012 --> 00:07:52,472 Maybe they already have. 195 00:07:52,555 --> 00:07:54,056 But no one asked them. 196 00:07:54,140 --> 00:07:55,766 No one asked them. 197 00:07:55,850 --> 00:07:57,643 (sighs) 198 00:07:57,727 --> 00:08:00,062 (Seinfeld theme song playing) 199 00:08:00,146 --> 00:08:01,647 (laughing) 200 00:08:01,731 --> 00:08:03,691 Oh, Elaine, 201 00:08:03,774 --> 00:08:06,652 will you ever find someone who’s sponge-worthy? 202 00:08:06,736 --> 00:08:08,821 Professor August says the situation comedy 203 00:08:08,905 --> 00:08:10,531 is a doomed genre. 204 00:08:10,615 --> 00:08:12,658 Here’s what I say to that: no soup for you! 205 00:08:12,742 --> 00:08:15,661 Because I am "master of my domain." 206 00:08:15,745 --> 00:08:17,246 (sneering): Newman. 207 00:08:17,330 --> 00:08:19,790 I wish you would support my comments. 208 00:08:19,874 --> 00:08:22,168 Hey, I worked hard all day to pay for your education. 209 00:08:22,251 --> 00:08:24,003 Can’t I get all Zima’d up 210 00:08:24,086 --> 00:08:26,464 and have my best girl put salve on my laser burns? 211 00:08:26,547 --> 00:08:27,381 Aww. 212 00:08:27,465 --> 00:08:29,383 Are the lasers supposed to burn you? 213 00:08:29,467 --> 00:08:31,385 Apparently if all the kids fire 214 00:08:31,469 --> 00:08:33,137 at your stomach at once, it adds up. 215 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:39,393 (gasps) 216 00:08:42,563 --> 00:08:44,190 (gasps) 217 00:08:44,273 --> 00:08:46,150 ♪ ♪ 218 00:08:49,362 --> 00:08:52,114 ♪ Closing time ♪ 219 00:08:52,198 --> 00:08:57,870 ♪ Open all the doors and let you out into the world... ♪ 220 00:09:01,374 --> 00:09:03,292 Marge, your art project for "protest studies" 221 00:09:03,376 --> 00:09:04,502 is very impressive. 222 00:09:07,004 --> 00:09:09,674 (giggles) Thank you, Professor August. 223 00:09:09,757 --> 00:09:11,175 Oh, please, I’m your advisor. 224 00:09:11,259 --> 00:09:12,343 Call me Steffan. 225 00:09:14,512 --> 00:09:16,389 Oh, thanks. 226 00:09:16,472 --> 00:09:18,641 It-It’s just a note from my boyfriend. 227 00:09:18,724 --> 00:09:20,685 Let me guess: he’s a high school flame 228 00:09:20,768 --> 00:09:22,311 who’s preventing you from flowering. 229 00:09:22,395 --> 00:09:23,563 Homer’s perfect for me! 230 00:09:23,646 --> 00:09:25,147 Just look at this note: 231 00:09:25,231 --> 00:09:27,191 {\an8}"I miss you." Aww. 232 00:09:27,275 --> 00:09:29,944 Actually, Marge, if I may deconstruct that letter. 233 00:09:30,027 --> 00:09:31,988 When he writes "I miss you," 234 00:09:32,071 --> 00:09:34,490 "I" is the subject and "you" is the object. 235 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:36,951 You are his object. 236 00:09:37,034 --> 00:09:38,744 But Homer’s so supportive. 237 00:09:38,828 --> 00:09:40,746 He’s paying for me to go to college. 238 00:09:40,830 --> 00:09:42,123 He’s paying for you? 239 00:09:42,206 --> 00:09:43,541 Like he owns you? 240 00:09:43,624 --> 00:09:45,543 I’m sorry, but that is oppression. 241 00:09:45,626 --> 00:09:47,128 Well, I know you’d never say anything 242 00:09:47,211 --> 00:09:48,546 that isn’t objective... 243 00:09:48,629 --> 00:09:50,381 Marge, your assignment is to think 244 00:09:50,464 --> 00:09:52,216 about what I’ve said about your relationship. 245 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:53,551 When is it due? 246 00:09:53,634 --> 00:09:55,511 Before it’s too late. 247 00:09:55,595 --> 00:09:57,805 Steffan! 248 00:09:57,888 --> 00:09:59,390 HOMER: Marge! Marge! 249 00:09:59,473 --> 00:10:00,308 Where are you?! 250 00:10:01,809 --> 00:10:02,893 {\an8}Are you by that 251 00:10:02,977 --> 00:10:04,937 (mispronouncing) Joan Myro statue? 252 00:10:05,021 --> 00:10:06,939 It’s "Juan" Miro! 253 00:10:07,023 --> 00:10:08,149 Stupid townie! 254 00:10:08,232 --> 00:10:09,692 (students laugh) 255 00:10:09,775 --> 00:10:11,152 Hey, it’s townies like me 256 00:10:11,235 --> 00:10:13,070 that cook your food and clean your bathrooms! 257 00:10:13,154 --> 00:10:15,072 If you did the former better 258 00:10:15,156 --> 00:10:16,782 we’d use the latter less. 259 00:10:16,866 --> 00:10:18,409 (sobbing) 260 00:10:18,492 --> 00:10:20,244 That’s it, townie! Run! 261 00:10:20,328 --> 00:10:22,121 Run back to your town! 262 00:10:22,204 --> 00:10:23,831 Marge, this dreamcatcher 263 00:10:23,914 --> 00:10:25,124 was given to me by a warrior 264 00:10:25,207 --> 00:10:26,584 of the Lakopane tribe, 265 00:10:26,667 --> 00:10:28,461 a tribe ruled by women. 266 00:10:28,544 --> 00:10:30,421 I think it has already caught my dream. 267 00:10:30,504 --> 00:10:32,840 (chanting) 268 00:10:34,175 --> 00:10:36,344 What the hell is going on here? 269 00:10:36,427 --> 00:10:37,803 Chanting?! 270 00:10:37,887 --> 00:10:39,889 Homer! You’re embarrassing me! 271 00:10:39,972 --> 00:10:42,141 Marge, what are you doing in this crazy college? 272 00:10:42,224 --> 00:10:44,560 This place is nothing like Animal House! 273 00:10:44,644 --> 00:10:47,938 I smashed a beatnik’s guitar and he sued me for damages! 274 00:10:48,022 --> 00:10:49,940 Successfully! 275 00:10:50,024 --> 00:10:51,734 Homie, go home. 276 00:10:51,817 --> 00:10:53,027 We’ll talk about this later. 277 00:10:53,110 --> 00:10:54,028 Fine! 278 00:10:56,405 --> 00:10:57,406 Slam! 279 00:11:00,326 --> 00:11:04,205 (Carl, Lenny, Lou humming) 280 00:11:04,288 --> 00:11:05,665 I can’t do it! 281 00:11:05,748 --> 00:11:07,416 Our harmony-laden R&B doesn’t make sense 282 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:09,085 in this cruel world. 283 00:11:09,168 --> 00:11:10,670 I’m taking our music to the next level: 284 00:11:10,753 --> 00:11:14,840 Guitar Rock Utilizing Nihilist Grunge Energies. 285 00:11:14,924 --> 00:11:17,510 Or, as I call it: Grunge! 286 00:11:17,593 --> 00:11:21,681 We are Sadgasm, and this song is called... 287 00:11:21,764 --> 00:11:23,641 "Politically Incorrect." 288 00:11:23,724 --> 00:11:24,684 (audience gasps) Oh! 289 00:11:24,767 --> 00:11:27,061 (softly strumming) 290 00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:36,320 ♪ Pain is brown ♪ 291 00:11:36,404 --> 00:11:40,199 ♪ Hate is white ♪ 292 00:11:40,282 --> 00:11:44,286 (cheering) ♪ Love is black ♪ 293 00:11:44,370 --> 00:11:47,832 ♪ Stab the night ♪ 294 00:11:47,915 --> 00:11:49,834 (alternative rock playing) 295 00:11:49,917 --> 00:11:53,713 ♪ Kingdom of numb ♪ 296 00:11:53,796 --> 00:11:56,549 ♪ Closet of hurt ♪ 297 00:11:56,632 --> 00:11:58,592 (siren blaring) 298 00:11:58,676 --> 00:12:02,388 ♪ Feelings are dumb ♪ 299 00:12:02,471 --> 00:12:04,682 ♪ Kisses are dirt... ♪ 300 00:12:04,765 --> 00:12:05,766 Kurt? Kurt? 301 00:12:05,850 --> 00:12:06,934 It’s Marvin! 302 00:12:07,017 --> 00:12:09,228 Your cousin, Marvin Cobain! 303 00:12:09,311 --> 00:12:10,771 You know that new sound you’re looking for? 304 00:12:10,855 --> 00:12:12,815 Well, listen to this! 305 00:12:12,898 --> 00:12:15,151 (alternative rock playing) 306 00:12:15,234 --> 00:12:17,445 Marge! Marge! 307 00:12:17,528 --> 00:12:20,448 (crowd cheering) 308 00:12:20,531 --> 00:12:22,491 Hey, Marge. 309 00:12:22,575 --> 00:12:25,077 Homer, your music is so angry and bitter. 310 00:12:25,161 --> 00:12:26,996 Now why would I be angry and bitter? 311 00:12:27,079 --> 00:12:28,998 Because I’m paying for you to make goo-goo eyes 312 00:12:29,081 --> 00:12:31,083 at some smooth-talking professor? 313 00:12:31,167 --> 00:12:32,376 Well, here’s a question for you: 314 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:34,211 why should I stay with a man 315 00:12:34,295 --> 00:12:35,588 who resents how I’ve flowered? 316 00:12:35,671 --> 00:12:38,048 Well, if you feel that way, maybe you can find someone 317 00:12:38,132 --> 00:12:39,800 who wants to nurture the new you, 318 00:12:39,884 --> 00:12:42,595 maybe someone a little older and more sophisticated, 319 00:12:42,678 --> 00:12:45,723 who can take you to Europe during the summer. 320 00:12:45,806 --> 00:12:47,475 -Fine by me. -D’oh! 321 00:12:48,809 --> 00:12:49,894 (bell ringing) 322 00:12:51,270 --> 00:12:53,731 Hey. Will you sign my boobs? 323 00:12:53,814 --> 00:12:55,191 Yeah. 324 00:13:02,907 --> 00:13:05,743 Mom, why did you stop talking for two and a half minutes? 325 00:13:05,826 --> 00:13:07,536 It seemed like 20. 326 00:13:07,620 --> 00:13:10,414 Whatever. Homer and I had the wrenching task 327 00:13:10,498 --> 00:13:13,918 of dividing up a shared life. 328 00:13:14,001 --> 00:13:16,962 {\an8}Okay, I’ll keep the LPs, and you take the CDs. 329 00:13:17,046 --> 00:13:19,340 I’ll take the typewriter; you take the computer. 330 00:13:19,423 --> 00:13:21,801 I’ll take the Enron stock; you take the Microsoft stock. 331 00:13:21,884 --> 00:13:22,802 And, um... 332 00:13:22,885 --> 00:13:25,888 Who gets... Cutie-puss? 333 00:13:25,971 --> 00:13:27,848 I just want a tentacle. 334 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:36,607 ("Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve plays) 335 00:13:41,695 --> 00:13:45,866 HOMER: I was so depressed, I spent all my time in a bar. 336 00:13:45,950 --> 00:13:47,076 Gimme a beer, Moe. 337 00:13:47,159 --> 00:13:48,619 I don’t sell booze no more. 338 00:13:48,702 --> 00:13:51,747 This is a cigar bar now. 339 00:13:51,831 --> 00:13:53,707 Fine. Cohiba me. 340 00:13:55,626 --> 00:13:57,670 Leave the humidor. 341 00:14:01,674 --> 00:14:03,551 I don’t feel so good. 342 00:14:03,634 --> 00:14:06,053 (belches) 343 00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:11,016 I wasn’t trying to steal your watch. 344 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:12,852 I-I was just comin’ on to ya. 345 00:14:12,935 --> 00:14:15,896 Okay, let’s go back to my place. 346 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:17,690 Oh, boy. 347 00:14:17,773 --> 00:14:20,109 Ready to take my personal tour of Springfield’s 348 00:14:20,192 --> 00:14:22,695 most wheelchair-unfriendly restaurants? 349 00:14:22,778 --> 00:14:24,405 MARGE: I sure am! 350 00:14:24,488 --> 00:14:26,907 I want your knowledge inside me. 351 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,291 (sighs) Seeing Marge always reminds me of Marge. 352 00:14:38,002 --> 00:14:39,128 (sizzling) 353 00:14:39,211 --> 00:14:41,714 Now where will I get my oxygen? 354 00:14:41,797 --> 00:14:43,757 (sobbing) 355 00:14:43,841 --> 00:14:45,551 {\an8}(grunge rock plays loudly) 356 00:14:48,929 --> 00:14:52,933 ♪ Razorblade of apathy ♪ 357 00:14:53,017 --> 00:14:56,687 ♪ Shave me with your irony ♪ 358 00:14:56,770 --> 00:15:00,774 ♪ Shave me! ♪ 359 00:15:00,858 --> 00:15:03,152 (cheering and whistling) 360 00:15:03,235 --> 00:15:05,362 (birds singing) 361 00:15:05,446 --> 00:15:07,865 Have you really read all of these books? 362 00:15:07,948 --> 00:15:10,784 Morally, I couldn’t display them on shelves if I hadn’t. 363 00:15:10,868 --> 00:15:13,579 But I watch sports as well, just like a regular man. 364 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:16,373 Good Goddess! 365 00:15:16,457 --> 00:15:19,460 The Patriots are deep in Redskin territory. 366 00:15:19,543 --> 00:15:22,421 This isn’t entertainment; it’s genocide! 367 00:15:22,504 --> 00:15:24,423 (sobbing) 368 00:15:25,591 --> 00:15:28,677 (grunts uneasily) Why don’t we put on some music? 369 00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:30,512 ♪ Shave me! ♪ 370 00:15:30,596 --> 00:15:31,764 No! No! 371 00:15:31,847 --> 00:15:33,182 I need whale songs! 372 00:15:35,184 --> 00:15:38,979 (whales vocalizing underwater) 373 00:15:40,773 --> 00:15:43,233 Marge, may I compliment your appearance? 374 00:15:43,317 --> 00:15:44,318 Yeah, sure. 375 00:15:44,401 --> 00:15:46,070 You look lovely. 376 00:15:46,153 --> 00:15:47,738 If I were to approach you for a kiss, 377 00:15:47,821 --> 00:15:50,157 would you construe that as harassment 378 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:51,700 or give your willing consent? 379 00:15:51,784 --> 00:15:53,577 Consent, of course. 380 00:15:53,661 --> 00:15:56,330 Ah. Continuing in that line of thought, 381 00:15:56,413 --> 00:15:58,874 may I kiss your mouth with my mouth? 382 00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:00,334 Just do it already! 383 00:16:00,417 --> 00:16:02,294 (whale songs playing) 384 00:16:02,378 --> 00:16:06,340 HOMER: I had finally realized every rock star’s dream: 385 00:16:06,423 --> 00:16:10,135 hating being famous. (strums guitar) 386 00:16:14,098 --> 00:16:16,016 Why aren’t I happy? 387 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:18,769 I’m the hottest grunge artist on Mucous Records. 388 00:16:18,852 --> 00:16:21,105 Weird Al is doing a parody of my song. 389 00:16:21,188 --> 00:16:25,192 ♪ Raisin bread with applesauce ♪ 390 00:16:25,275 --> 00:16:29,405 ♪ Tony Danza, he’s the boss ♪ 391 00:16:29,488 --> 00:16:38,580 ♪ Brain freeze! ♪ 392 00:16:38,664 --> 00:16:43,085 (turns off TV) He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life. 393 00:16:45,087 --> 00:16:46,964 Look at that lighthouse. 394 00:16:47,047 --> 00:16:50,259 That’s the ultimate expression of phallocentric technocracy, 395 00:16:50,342 --> 00:16:52,636 violating Mother Sky. 396 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,097 I thought they were just tall so boats could see them. 397 00:16:55,180 --> 00:16:58,183 No, Marge. Everything penis-shaped is bad. 398 00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:01,687 Look, a wedding! 399 00:17:01,770 --> 00:17:04,523 Slavery is alive and well in Springfield. 400 00:17:04,606 --> 00:17:07,192 You oppose marriage? 401 00:17:07,276 --> 00:17:09,820 Marge, marriage has oppressed women for centuries. 402 00:17:09,903 --> 00:17:13,532 But, Steffan, I would like to get married someday. 403 00:17:13,615 --> 00:17:15,909 (sighing) Oh, Marge, it’s statements like that 404 00:17:15,993 --> 00:17:17,911 that make people say women are stupid. 405 00:17:17,995 --> 00:17:19,580 It’s statements like that that... 406 00:17:19,663 --> 00:17:20,789 are mean! 407 00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:23,834 Well, it may sound mean, but I’m just trying to help you evolve. 408 00:17:23,917 --> 00:17:27,046 Oh, evolve yourself, Professor Jerk! 409 00:17:27,129 --> 00:17:29,339 Or should I say, Associate Professor Jerk! 410 00:17:29,423 --> 00:17:31,759 (gasps) 411 00:17:33,802 --> 00:17:37,347 I only got denied tenure because my department head is an idiot! 412 00:17:37,431 --> 00:17:40,768 Der, duh, what did you say about me? 413 00:17:40,851 --> 00:17:42,269 I’m sorry, Professor Moose. 414 00:17:42,352 --> 00:17:46,857 You’re about to get your PhD-- Pound Head Down. 415 00:17:46,940 --> 00:17:49,276 (grunts) 416 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:51,904 (grunge guitar playing) 417 00:17:57,701 --> 00:18:01,580 ♪ Spread yellow gunk on my pancake heart ♪ 418 00:18:01,663 --> 00:18:04,958 {\an8}♪ Country-churned girl in my grocery cart... ♪ 419 00:18:05,042 --> 00:18:07,294 Could he be singing about me? 420 00:18:09,379 --> 00:18:11,173 (gasps) He is! 421 00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:13,175 ♪ I paid for her dreams ♪ 422 00:18:13,258 --> 00:18:14,885 ♪ She taught me to cry ♪ 423 00:18:14,968 --> 00:18:16,762 ♪ Like watery knives ♪ 424 00:18:16,845 --> 00:18:18,680 ♪ Like rain from my eyes ♪ 425 00:18:20,557 --> 00:18:24,353 ♪ I can’t believe you’re not mine ♪ 426 00:18:28,232 --> 00:18:31,985 ♪ I can’t believe you’re not mine ♪ 427 00:18:32,069 --> 00:18:33,737 ♪ Mar-ge-rine ♪ 428 00:18:35,906 --> 00:18:37,741 ♪ Mar-ge-rine ♪ 429 00:18:39,868 --> 00:18:41,286 ♪ Mar-ge-rine ♪ 430 00:18:43,455 --> 00:18:44,665 ♪ Mar-ge-rine! ♪ 431 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,002 ♪ Mar-ge-rine! ♪ 432 00:18:49,086 --> 00:18:52,256 He loves me so much after what I did to him. 433 00:18:52,339 --> 00:18:53,507 (song continues) 434 00:18:53,590 --> 00:18:55,425 {\an8}("Special Report" theme plays) 435 00:18:55,509 --> 00:18:58,262 We interrupt this "Bleak Block" to bring you a breaking story. 436 00:18:58,345 --> 00:19:01,098 Grunge trailblazers Sadgasm have broken up. 437 00:19:01,181 --> 00:19:03,725 (sobbing, gasping) 438 00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:06,353 Reclusive front man Homer Simpson has holed himself up 439 00:19:06,436 --> 00:19:07,980 in his mansion, as rumors swirl 440 00:19:08,063 --> 00:19:10,399 about an out-of-control narcotics addiction. 441 00:19:10,482 --> 00:19:12,818 This is Kurt Loder reporting from... the ’90s. 442 00:19:12,901 --> 00:19:15,696 (gasps) Oh, no, narcotics! 443 00:19:15,779 --> 00:19:21,201 ♪♪ 444 00:19:21,285 --> 00:19:22,202 (gasps) 445 00:19:22,286 --> 00:19:23,579 Oh, my God, you’re a junkie! 446 00:19:23,662 --> 00:19:25,038 I need it... 447 00:19:25,122 --> 00:19:26,665 I’m getting you off this stuff. 448 00:19:26,748 --> 00:19:28,125 But I need it! 449 00:19:28,208 --> 00:19:29,960 No, you don’t! 450 00:19:30,043 --> 00:19:34,673 (moody instrumental plays) 451 00:19:34,756 --> 00:19:37,384 MARGE: Unfortunately, as I later learned, that wasn’t heroin. 452 00:19:37,467 --> 00:19:39,052 It was insulin. 453 00:19:39,136 --> 00:19:41,430 Homer really did need those injections. 454 00:19:41,513 --> 00:19:44,892 I had become diabetic from drinking too many Frappuccinos. 455 00:19:46,268 --> 00:19:48,937 Homie, I got so caught up in the world of college 456 00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:52,107 that I forgot how important your love was. 457 00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:54,359 Can you find it in your heart to take me back? 458 00:19:54,443 --> 00:19:55,652 Of course. 459 00:19:55,736 --> 00:19:56,945 The thing that stood between us 460 00:19:57,029 --> 00:19:58,947 --the ’90s-- is almost over. 461 00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:00,490 You’re right. 462 00:20:00,574 --> 00:20:02,326 But I’m worried about what’s on the horizon: 463 00:20:02,409 --> 00:20:04,661 reality shows, Britney Spears, 464 00:20:04,745 --> 00:20:07,289 the suspicious number of home runs being hit... 465 00:20:07,372 --> 00:20:08,707 At least we know there’ll never be 466 00:20:08,790 --> 00:20:10,500 a president worse than Bill Clinton. 467 00:20:10,584 --> 00:20:13,879 Imagine, lying in a deposition in a civil lawsuit. 468 00:20:13,962 --> 00:20:16,423 That’s the worst sin a president could commit. 469 00:20:16,506 --> 00:20:18,550 There’ll never be a worse president. Never. 470 00:20:18,634 --> 00:20:20,427 Never. 471 00:20:20,510 --> 00:20:22,304 HOMER: With the ’90s drawing to a close, 472 00:20:22,387 --> 00:20:24,514 and the Sydney Olympics to look forward to, 473 00:20:24,598 --> 00:20:26,141 our love rekindled. 474 00:20:26,225 --> 00:20:27,935 And one moonlit night, 475 00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:30,771 I finally had fun at a mini-golf course. 476 00:20:30,854 --> 00:20:32,022 (Homer chuckling) 477 00:20:32,105 --> 00:20:34,816 (moaning) 478 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:36,276 MARGE: Homer, stop! 479 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:39,738 You don’t have to tell the kids everything! 480 00:20:39,821 --> 00:20:41,114 What did I miss? How did it end? 481 00:20:41,198 --> 00:20:42,407 Did you two ever get back together? 482 00:20:42,491 --> 00:20:45,035 Yep, that professor couldn’t keep me and Marge apart. 483 00:20:45,118 --> 00:20:47,621 I mean, unless he had been a little nicer at the beach. 484 00:20:47,704 --> 00:20:49,289 (both laugh) 485 00:20:49,373 --> 00:20:52,459 Well, that professor did teach me one good lesson: 486 00:20:52,542 --> 00:20:54,795 Homie is where my heart is. 487 00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:58,131 And once we were back together, 488 00:20:58,215 --> 00:21:01,093 I was too happy ever to grunge again. 489 00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:04,096 (scoffs) Townies. 490 00:21:09,601 --> 00:21:13,188 {\an8}Captioned by VISUAL DATA 491 00:21:50,183 --> 00:21:51,101 Shh! 492 00:21:54,354 --> 00:21:56,356 {\an8}Enhanced by Fotokem