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"Bart's Friend Falls in Love" is the 23rd episode of The Simpsons' third season.

Synopsis

A new girl from Phoenix called Samantha Stanky starts at Springfield Elementary School and Milhouse falls in love with her. To Bart's dismay and anger, Milhouse and Samantha now spend all of their free time kissing in Bart's treehouse. They ignore Bart, leaving nothing for him to do but leave. In order to restore the previous status quo, Bart calls Samantha's father and lets him know what's happening, and Mr. Stanky rushes to Bart's treehouse and takes her away before she can even explain. She is sent to Saint Sebastian's School for Wicked Girls, an all-girls convent school. Bart lets Milhouse know that he told on him and Samantha and they fight over Bart's actions. Milhouse visits Samantha at the convent school and Bart apologizes to her, but she say it's ok - she loves Saint Sebastian's.

Meanwhile, on Lisa's suggestion, Marge orders a subliminal weight-loss tape for Homer, fearing that his obesity will lead to an early death. Humorously enough, the company is out of the tapes and sends Homer a "Vocabulary Builder" tape. Homer ends up eating more than ever, but his vocabulary is through the roof. However when he realises that the tape dosn't work he gets rid of it and his vocabulary quickly returns to normal.

Trivia

• Madonna was the first choice to play Samantha.
• This is the first episode in which Milhouse's father, Kirk Van Houten, is seen.
• It is unclear whether Stanky or Stankey is the correct spelling of Samantha's last name as both have been used in official and unofficial media.
• While the "Good Morning Burger" was intended as a grotesque exaggeration of the unhealthy nature of fast food, Burger King later introduced the "Meat'normous", which bears a remarkable resemblance to the description given in the episode (it only lacks the "rich, creamery butter")
• Otto says that he plans to meet his girlfriend at 4:20.
• Late in the episode, "haruspicy" is mentioned on Homer's vocabulary builder as "predicting the future through the study of animal entrails." This definition is actually incorrect. The correct term is "extispicy."
• Bart comes to talk to Lisa about his guilt since Marge isn't home and he can't understand what Homer is saying. After this episode, he often comes to Lisa first, so he may have decided that she was a good person to talk to.
• The song played by one of the French-Canadian nuns is Dominique by Soeur Sourire a.k.a. the Singing Nun, a popular song in French and worldwide hit in 1963.

Cultural References

• The first scene of the episode is a parody of the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Quotes

• A television advertisement:"We take eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, and soak it in rich, creamery butter, then we top it off with bacon, ham, and a fried egg. We call it the Good Morning Burger."
• Lisa:"According to Eternity Magazine, you can lose weight through subliminal learning. That's where an idea is suddenly implanted in your head without you even knowing it."
  Homer:"Oh Lisa, that's a load of rich creamery butter."
• Milhouse: How could this happen? We started out like Romeo and Juliet, but it ended up in tragedy.
• Bart: All they do is kiss.
  Marge: How cute! (a beat) They don't open their mouths, do they?
  Bart: No.
  Marge: How cute!
• Skinner: I'm sure you have some kind of hidden demons.
  Samantha: I'm a good student, Principal Skinner.
  Skinner (going into lapse): Yes, and they said they'd give me a parade when I got back from Nam. Instead they spat at me! I can still feel it searing...(normal) So, let's just see what the permanent record has to say shall we? (reading) Hmm, no detention, fairly good attendance record. Oh, I see you beat that bed-wetting problem in second grade!
  Samantha: That's in there?!
  Skinner: Don't worry, They'll forget, (going into lapse) just like they forgot about me in that tiger cage for eighteen agonizing months! Every night I wake up screaming!
• Bart: Samantha and Milhouse sitting in a tree . . . (walks down an alleyway and we only see his shadow) ABOUT TO LOSE THEIR PRIVACY! (laughs evily)
• Marge: Homer, has the weight loss tape reduced your appetite?
  Homer: Ah, lamentably no. My gastronomic rapacity knows no satiety.
• Marge: I'm not sure that tape is helping. You ate three desserts tonight.
  Homer: Forbearance is the watchword. That triumvirate of Twinkies simply overwhelmed my resolve.
  Marge: Uh, there's something else I've been meaning to talk to you about.
  Homer: Tut, tut, gentle Marge. For here in the boudoir, the gourmand metamorphosizes into the voluptuary! (pulls off Marge's nightcap with his teeth)
  Marge: What in God's name are you talking about? (Homer kisses Marge and she understands)
• Homer: Now there's a Machiavellian countenance. Ooo, a sextet of ale.
• Lisa: Dad, do you know what today is?
  Homer: The vernal equinox?
  Lisa: No! It's been two weeks since you got that tape. Let's get you on the scale! (later) You've gained thirteen pounds.
  Homer: Disingenuous mountebanks with their subliminal chicanery! A pox on them! (discards tape)
• Homer: (forgetting everything he learned from the tape) Marge, where's that...metal deely...you use to...dig...food?
  Marge: You mean, a spoon?
  Homer: Yeah, yeah, yeah!
• Troy McClure: (after a sex ed video) Now that you know how it's done... don't do it!
• Milhouse: Bart, I don't want you to see me cry.
  Bart: Aw comeon, I've seen you cry a million times. You cry when you scrape your knee, you cry when they're out of chocolate milk, you cry when you're doing long division and you have a remainder left over.
  Milhouse: Well, I didn't want you to see me cry THIS time.

External links

• "Bart's Friend Falls in Love episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.

• The Simpsons episodes, season 3