Bye Bye Nerdie
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"Bye Bye Nerdie" is the sixteenth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on March 11, 2001. The name of the episode is a sheer parody of Bye Bye Birdie.
Synopsis
On an ordinary day in school, Lisa attempts to make friends with a new girl, Francine, but she clobbers her severely. Even attempting to share an interest in Malibu Stacy does not work. It's up to Lisa to investigate the reason why Francine is beating her. She does scientific research on nerds, and finds out that the nerd smell attracts bullies like her. Lisa invents an antidote using salad dressing, which she believes is a smell bullies cannot stand, tests it on Drederick Tatum when he visits Springfield Elementary, and uses it on Francine at Professor Frink's science contest, the "12th Annual Big Science Thing", which she wins. But at the end, Francine goes on a rampage beating up all the scientists in the room.
Meanwhile, Homer, fearing Maggie could die from touching things unsafe to her when he hears this from a baby-proofing saleswoman, starts his own baby-proofing crusade, selling cheap and safe products and making Springfield safe for children, but it causes the baby-proofing industry in Springfield to be in decline.
Quotes
- Milhouse: Whoa! It's like , only with a bus instead of a boat!
- Baby-proofing saleswoman: Your baby...is dead!
Homer and Marge: Oh no!
Baby-proofing saleswoman: That's what you'd hear if your baby fell victim to the thousands of deathtraps lurking in the average American home.
Marge: Ohhh! "Springfield Baby-Proofing?"
Homer: You really scared us.
Baby-proofing saleswoman: Sorry about that, but the truth is, your baby, Maggie Simpson, is dead!
(Homer and Marge scream)
Baby-proofing saleswoman: Dead tired of baby-proofers who don't provide a free estimate! - Frink: Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please! Please listen to me! Please shut up! PI IS EXACTLY THREE!
(Scientists gasp) - Francine: Suck fist, Dr. Dork!
- Lisa: Willie, can you show me the school's security tapes?
Willie: Security tapes? There's no security tapes!
Lisa: (pointing at a camera behind them) It's hard to miss the cameras.
Willie: Aye. Willie's a stinkin' liar. - Lisa: Why does the school need to video tape us?
Willie: School?
Trivia
- Marge and Otto race through a dry aqueduct, an action-sequence used in many films, most notably and Grease.
- A high school-aged Homer beats up young Waylon Smithers while singing "Kung-Fu Fighting". Barney accompanies him on the kazoo, although the animation shows a flute.
- Dr. C. Everett Koop, a former surgeon general of the United States, is among the scientific minds present at the convention.
- The undercarrige of the school bus looks like the botton of a skateboard, and it says "World Inustries Flameboy". The Flameboy character is also pictured. World Industries is a skateboard, snowboard, and clothing manufacturer in El Segundo, California.
- The nerd on the school bus with the orthodontic headgear is wearing a T-shirt that reads "Frankie Says: Relax." This is a term made popular by music group Frankie Goes to Hollywood, whose biggest hit was the song "Relax."
- The Malibu Stacy "Grad-School Glamour Pack" comes with miniature surfboard, coffee cup and binder that says "Pepperdine", which is an university in Malibu, California.
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