'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky

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"'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"
Allen Glazier
Carolyn Omine
Kevin Curran
J. Stewart Burns
Joe Mantegna
Steven Dean Moore
David Silverman
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"'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" is the sixteenth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 30, 2003.[1]

Plot

Declan Desmond, an opinionated British documentary film producer, films a documentary at

Mayor Quimby
agrees to turn off the streetlights, leading to a clear view of the stars, at which many people from Springfield marvel.

Meanwhile, Bart is looking for a way to regain his popularity after being humiliated. After seeing

sleep-deprived Homer to the power plant and overload the generators causing a power outage, which ends the light pollution, but before the angry citizens can attack, Lisa points out a meteor shower and the town looks on in wonderment while Bart sneaks off and steals Fat Tony's hood ornament, with Don McLean's song "Vincent
" playing in the background.

The show ends with a montage of clips from Declan's documentary.

Production

By this time in the show's history, there had been an "ever-present fear that as the show ages it risks '

Happy Days in which Fonzie jumps over a shark on water skis) in the episode, which has a couch gag where the Simpson family jump over a tank full of sharks in a similar fashion (the gag had previously been used in the episode "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"). Executive producer Al Jean said, "We figured that if we said it first, then they couldn't say it".[2]

The writers included a line where Carl Carlson mentions his Icelandic heritage, as well as the fact that Homer, Moe and Lenny show absolutely no interest in what he's saying. This would later become both the basis and an explicit reference point in the episode "The Saga of Carl", where Carl steals the winnings from a lottery ticket he jointly purchased with the gang before returning to Iceland; them when they track him down, he says that he is not sorry for what he did because they are not friends, as "friends care that their friends are from Iceland!"

Cultural references

The episode's title references the lyric "scuse me while I kiss the sky" from Jimi Hendrix's song "Purple Haze".

Critical reception

Director

Annie Award in the category of Best Directing in an Animated Television Production for this episode.[3] The episode was also nominated for an Environmental Media Award for Best Television Episodic Comedy.[4]

English musician Jake Bugg credits hearing Don McLean's "Vincent" in this episode as his formative musical moment.[5]

References

  1. ^ "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky". tv.com. Archived from the original on March 31, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
  2. ^ "Life imitating bart". The Sydney Morning Herald. August 17, 2004. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
  3. ^ "31ST ANNUAL ANNIE AWARD NOMINEES AND WINNERS (2003)". AnnieAwards.org. 2003. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  4. ^ Jean, Al (November 20, 2011). "THE SIMPSONS: GUNNING FOR 60 SEASONS". IGN. Archived from the original on March 22, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  5. ^ della Cava, Marco (September 10, 2013). "On the Verge: Jake Bugg is straight outta Nottingham". USA Today. Retrieved December 4, 2013.

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