Season 22 and beyond - basically where I want to take the series.

[D'ohmer]

No problem Bella of the Ball

[Goon]

S22E07: Dead and Gutter: A- i liked it, could have been a bit more sentimental (yeah, i'm like that), but still good

[Bella Drape 'er]

S22E07: Dead and Gutter: A- i liked it, could have been a bit more sentimental (yeah, i'm like that), but still good

Well as Barney is a quite comical character, I didn't want to create too much sentiment for his character. Besides having already made two sentimental episodes previously (Twas Bad As It Gets & Me-Star Liza) I figured my series could do with a few more laughs...

[Bella Drape 'er]

Here's the next one, guys. It might not be that good, because I’m not very good at writing Bart, but I still hope you enjoy it!

S22E08: End of Ways

Bart’s attempts to be rebellious continue with him convincing Milhouse, Richard, Nelson and Lewis to crash a “hip” party, where there is lots of drinking, bright lights and machines that sell rubbery balloons - according to Milhouse.

The kids try out some real kid-like energetic dancing, and their energy is not matched by any of the slow dancers or those just dancing on the spot. Suddenly, they are kicked out for ruining the solemn mood of the place.

Bart is quite annoyed at this, saying that us kids don’t have to do anything to get banned from something, society is so stuck up and afraid of what we can do, but not what we are doing, that they just try and avoid us at all costs. Nelson says “woah, that’s really profound and deep, Bart” Bart is about to thank him, when suddenly Nelson hits him out cold with one punch “can’t have that going round Bart, got to think of the stupid people” he says.

Bart is keen to enjoy himself, whilst getting back at society, so he thinks of a plan and discusses it with the others. The plan is that at the next town meeting, he will barricade the doors and seal the windows, so the grownups can’t get out and he and the other kids are free to do whatever they want in the town.

Later in the week, a town meeting is called on the grounds on Religion vs. Science, the debate gets quite ugly, with everyone sharing unusually strong opinions of the matter. Mayor Quimby moans at Lisa for bringing the issue up, Lisa assures him not to worry in the event of this happening, she asks all the chefs in Springfield to arrive at the hall with buffets, to distract the sparring crowds from the argument.

Lisa tells the crowd about the buffets - the crowds die down, anticipating the possibility of free food. Quimby says nervously “yes free food, but at all used from the “Build the Children’s Hospital” fund, that you all voluntarily donate to every month.

However, the buffet is late, Lisa wonders in her head nervously “where are the chefs? The crowds are getting a-bit agitated.” This is an understatement, the crowds are looking ravenous and monstrous, breathing heavily and drooling.

Meanwhile, outside the town hall the chefs can’t open the door, because of some wooden planks stuck to it. They conclude that they are not wanted here, and decide to eat the buffets for themselves.

Also, Bart and his friends are creating havoc at the empty “hip” party, swinging from the glitter ball on the ceiling, Nelson lets some dogs loose into the Kitchen.

Luanne Van Houten comes over to Marge and asks her if she’s seen Milhouse, she couldn’t find him this afternoon to take to the City Hall. Marge says she hasn’t - “Well Bart said he was helping the homeless, so maybe Bart joined him?”

“Oh yeah the homeless, Marge, right” Luanne snorts, “no wonder that brainless hooligan is out of control, you just believe his lies over and - ”

Suddenly, Marge punches Luanne in the face, and Marge says “don’t you ever talk about my son like that again…”

Marge sits upright, then looks at the lying down Luanne and kneels down asking if she’s ok. She is then grabbed by Luanne and they start a fight. Quimby says in the microphone: “please ladies the crab fish and the exotic fruits will be here in a moment, please do not get panicky!”

Suddenly the crowd is all interested in the fight, and everyone surrounds the two fighters in a ring and are shouting support, yelling and cheering. The kids finish up in the hip party, after it kind of turned dull - the disco ball suddenly falls with a shatter. The kids leave to free the adults from the Town Hall meeting, Milhouse is left for now - after none of them could figure out how to get his hand out of the condom machine.

The kids then see loads of drunk chefs lying about the Town Hall steps, Luigi says “how did I get Fruit Punch mixed up with whisky, I’ll never know…”

The kids then unlock the doors, and then let out a riot of people, followed by a fighting Marge and Luanne. Bart shouts out in shock: “mom!” Marge briefly looks at Bart with some conflicted emotion, but Luanne takes a swing at her and Marge continues fighting.

Later, a partially traumatised Bart is in bed, about to go to bed, and Homer is attempting to cheer him up, but it’s not working. Marge then comes in and tries to apologise, but Bart isn’t having it, and tells her that hr cheery attitude is ruining the solemn mood of the place.

Marge leaves saddened and disappointed in herself, Bart is facing away from the wall, and the camera zooms into his face, whilst Bart begins a narration in his mind: “I think I’ve learnt something today, and that is that I as a kid should respect what places I can’t go in now, for they should be feared and I should remember that I am being shooed away for my own good and - ”

“Hey Bart!” calls Milhouse from the front garden “fancy sneaking out to that new Casino that opened up?”

“Hell yeah!” Bart says, and climbs from his bedroom window a nearby tree, to sneak out.

Marge and Homer are talking, and Marge is still worried about Bart’s innocence and faith in his mother. Homer tells her to relax and reassures her that Bart will be fine, because of all the bad stuff he’s done in order to get past such trauma. He gives an example: “don’t you remember when I grounded him, I later was taking a shower and he stole my towel and clothes?” Marge remembers: “oh yeah…that was one sexy day, Homie.”

They then start to share “a snuggle”

And the episode ends on that.

[D'ohmer]

This is also great! It wasn't as funny as your last one (IMO), but I like the plot more.

[Bella Drape 'er]

Thanks Trab. Glad to see you're enjoying them.

Yeah, I'm having a problem blending the humour with a good plot of an episode.

But here's hoping that I can somehow master that before the end of the "season".

[D'ohmer]

No problem

It's okay, humor is hard. This did have pretty decent humor.

[Goon]

S22E08: End of Ways A- solid laughs all the way, good plot.

[Bella Drape 'er]

Thanks for the feedback Goon. Glad you're enjoying it.

And thanks for your grades, which are keeping me focused on the quality. ;p

[Goon]

Thanks for the feedback Goon. Glad you're enjoying it.

And thanks for your grades, which are keeping me focused on the quality. ;p

you welcome

[Bella Drape 'er]

Hi guys, a-bit of a more drama solemn kind of episode now - inspired by my treachorous banning.

Hope you enjoy.

S22E09: Day of Beckoning

Marge wakes up, a little sad today (“probably have the morning blues” she says “oh well won’t let that ruin my day” she ends positively.)

Marge drops the kids off at the school, and wants to give them lots of kisses of affection, but all they want to do is run away from here, to avoid embarrassment of receiving such affection in front of the other kids.

{Nelson jealous of the affection}

Marge is driving from the supermarket, and is astonished to see Homer directing the traffic in the road.

“Homer what are you doing?!”

“My new job” Homer replies slyly and smoothly.

“Why - are you telling like that?”

“Commanding the road, has a sense of - ah sophistication for me.”

“No it doesn’t. It’s humiliating, low-paid and - ”

“Marge please! You’re distracting me from my customers” Homer moans, then goes to Ruth Powers’ car. “Now were we Ms. Powers? If you take the left…by my direction of course, I assure you that you will be able to get on that train for your new life in Sprung-field. Oh yeah and have a nice day now.”

“Get out my way jerk” Powers growls, and speeds past him.

Homer is totally oblivious to this, and waves to her from the distance: “Have a nice day now?”

Marge gets home and is in utter disarray, she sits at the kitchen table with some coffee, clutching it furiously: “my husband’s doesn’t listen to me, my kids don’t want to be near me” She then holds the coffee cup even tighter, it breaks into pieces and the liquid goes all over the table and floor. Marge makes increased distressed breathing, her hands start shaking, the walls start moving, merging and changing colours, the furniture starts to tilt and shift across a slanting floor, chasing a scared Snowball V, the floor suddenly splits open, dragging the kitchen table and chairs down with force. Marge jumps to the fridge and clings onto it.

“I am not going to end up in hell before Nick Nolte, I promised that on my thirtieth birthday” Marge calls out, she looks thoughtful “hmm, I’ve got to make better uses of my birthday speeches, what a drag that last one was.”
And like the spiralling of Dorothy’s house in wizard of Oz, Marge and her kitchen spiral down from ‘hell’s’ point of view.

Marge lands in a hell with a face plant of mud, “oh I’m fed up of this fantastical do-hickey, take me back to America FOX, I want to deal with my rising gas prices!”

“I’m afraid you can’t go back, Marge” says a mysterious voice.

Marge gasps: “Sandra Bullock, why are you here and why am I here - (shouts to supreme being of the placed) that dog isn’t going to groom itself you know!”

“Marge,” Sandra says, “this is the pit of your mental incapability - you’ve had a nervous breakdown.”

Marge gasps again: “me crazy?”

“And can you believe that they put me here as well.

Marge is quite silent and sheepish.

“Hey! I know you watched Miss Congeniality 2 Marge, don’t admit you’re not a fan of work, you should be like “oh Sandra Bullock how could they do this to you, maybe I can cruise control your way out of here.”

Marge is irked: “I’m not a fan of movie references Sandra, can’t anyone realise that it is a waste of years of your life remembering them, recalling them and reciting them? Now if you don’t mind I want to get out of here.” Marge climbs up a rocky wall, and pokes her head through the hole of her kitchen, Snowball V comes across meows and licks her face. Marge again falls in the spinney motion down to the ground, face down in the mud.

“You can’t get out Marge, it’s the rules of your mind. Your mind was clever enough to give border up your insecurity and mental state in a confined part of your mind.”

Marge looks all around at the pink fleshy room: “I’m in my own mind?!”

“Yeah and up there’s border control” Sandra points to the hole where Snowball’s peering down through, Snowball quietly makes a meow.

“Why wasn’t the dog given the border control job,” Marge says curiously.

“Marge, do you have a secret dislike for Santa’s Little Helper?” asks Sandra slyly.

“Of course not. I just find he takes the Everybody Poops phrase a-bit too literally,” Marge says honestly.

Some time passes by and Marge asks: “Sandra, how long do I have to be here for.”

“The amount of time your mind needs to calm down from your breakdown” Sandra says. “Why somewhere you need to be, Marge?”

“Well the kids need picking up from school and I seriously doubt Homer’s going to last a day as traffic warden without causing conflict.”

“Marge, you need to forget about them - are they here, are they here in this room with you and me, no they are - ”

Marge replies flutteringly: “technically this is a part of my imagination, Bullock and secondly there’s a picture of my family right there.

The camera pans across the room, to a picture frame of OFF.

“Now why the hell did you put that up!” Sandra cries out, “you’re having a mental breakdown you need to distance yourself from them. Sandra strides over to the wall and unpins the picture. “Now magic me up a bin, for me to throw this in!”

Marge closes her eyes and a bin suddenly appears for Sandra.

“Now magic us up some deck chairs, my back’s killing me!” Sandra demands.

A while later, Marge and Sandra are lounging on the deck chairs, with Hawaiian clothes, iced tropical drinks, a sandy beach surrounding (although the outline of the pasty rock wall is still visible), palm trees, crabs and hermit crabs scuttling around, children making sandcastles and rushing around looking at creatures in rock pools, Luigi selling Italian ice cream at a stand, shouting out insulting call-outs as usual to potential customers. And a terrific quiet ocean overlooking a beautiful sunset.

Marge tells Sandra she is apparently at bliss, Sandra is pleased but tells Marge that this mental state is coming to an end, and that Marge must let go.

Marge protests: “but I like it here, I mean I love it here, it’s much better than my regular life of doing chores or keep looking out for my husband’s or kids’ new shenanigans to sort out…”

“But Marge you only think of the things you hate - the things you worry about, don’t you ever recall the happier considerate times of your family?” Sandra asks.

Marge thinks back of a boating trip - where Bart behaved and even after swimming managed to find a sail for the wooden boat, which although turned out to be Homer’s seaweed infested swimming shorts later, Marge still found it to be considerate.

Marge thinks back to when Lisa randomly hugged her mum once, whilst she was vacuuming the living room.

Marge thinks of Homer, who tried to build a conversion for the garage but after all the mad yelling and destruction, ended up creating a bird house - out of pure freak of nature, but Marge was still happy her Homie had done this for her.

Marge smiles and then says to Sandra she can. Marge then realises Sandra’s gone, in fact the whole room has gone, Marge is deserted in a patch of darkness, suddenly the darkness is ripped open, and Marge finds it was her eyes and finds her new surroundings to be none other than her Kitchen.

Marge then realises it’s 3 o clock - time to pick up the kids from school. Marge drives there with a smile on her face, and despite the kids bickering and moaning, her smile can’t evade her. When Homer gets home, moaning to Marge about the effort of his day, trying to run from some angry motorists and avoiding pick-axes and such, whilst Marge is struggling over a faulty stove.

The scenes speed up like a blur - Marge and Homer going to bed. Waking up. Getting dressed. Homer driving to work. Marge dropping the kids up. Marge doing housework to herself humming. Picking moaning kids up. Homer coming home complaining. Marge and Homer going to bed - it repeats until black screen and Marge as at her calendar, she crosses off a day, the next one she sees is circled red, she’s pleased.

She then spends the day not doing housework, she gets a cup fills it up with coffee and smashes it to the floor and then goes back to the position she found herself in last time and begins re-imagining wonderful memories and recalling ever so briefly her time with Sandra Bullock which changed her life into a better person. (This last bit is in narration from Marge, with obviously it being in her first person view so ‘she’ would be ‘I’)

[D'ohmer]

Interesting plot and some funny moments

[Disgruntled Goat]

Why were you even banned in the first place?

[Bella Drape 'er]

Why were you even banned in the first place?

I made an insulting comment about Family Guy.

[Bella Drape 'er]

A new episode, which although I think it isn’t my best, it begins to set up a possible plot arc for the season – wonder if you can find it.

Anyway, hope you enjoy and thanks for reading so far guys.

S22E10: Until the Day I Dry

Bart has kind of a mid-life crisis, after walking down the school corridor with John Travolta’s Staying Alive music, nodding to some kids and giving high-fives to some others, he suddenly realises in his head that his popularity as such won’t sustain forever.
At recess, in the playground, after convincing Milhouse to push Uter down a hillside of mud, Bart begins to talking to Milhouse on the natural order of the playground. The superior kids (Bart nods to Nelson and Kearney passing) hold power over everyone, ordering everyone to do what they want as commands rather than requests. Bart then says “kids like us, meanwhile have certain authority over kids, but we still have to speak up to our superiors, so we can stay in the game and get ahead in playground Politics. Do you get it now Milhouse?” Milhouse nods meekly, he is about to go, but then Bart grabs his arm – dramatic music starts to overlay the scene – “but you must always know this Milhouse - ” “Bart you’re hurting me!” – “that this balance can now stay forever, it is never impenetrable and every day its fragility can be set off, with whatever comes from there.” Bart points shakily to the road, where after a silence, a car pulls up. Bart and Milhouse gasp.

The whole school are in the main hall, receiving notices in a droning tone from Principal Skinner, the boredom for the kids has got to a peak and they are throwing paper aeroplanes, laughing, chatting and in Bart and Milhouse’s case making fart noises with their arms when Skinner struggles in his speech (which is a lot).

Suddenly, Skinner says “now we have a new member of our school community coming to us all the way from China.”

The kids suddenly all go silent, and go to the edge of the seats, Bart ushers to Milhouse: “this is it Milhouse – D-Day.”

“Doughnut Day?” Milhouse beams.

Nelson then punches Milhouse square in the face, “that’s for insulting the reference to WWII, jerk.”

“aww my face, Bart help me” Milhouse groans.

Bart however, is too busy watching Skinner intently. Skinner: “and the new student is…”

Lunch lady Doris suddenly drops some saucepans in the kitchen, that clatter and swirl making a drum roll-type noise.

Milhouse is applying make-up to his face: “my mother will never know as usual”

The drum roll continues, as Nelson eyes Bart’s underwear sticking out of his shorts slightly and holds intending a wedgie.

However, Bart still doesn’t notice