Summary: Principal Skinner dates Patty while Selma looks for love.
Episode Timeline:
Sometime in the recent past:
- Stanley meets Selma at lunchtime at the DMV
Friday:
- 8am, Barney calls Homer to tell him about a barbecue joint
- Marge does morning exercises, and Homer plans for a Saturday night dinner
- Marge calls Patty and Selma at work to ask if they can babysit
- Patty cancels Hans Moleman's license
Saturday:
- 2:00, Patty and Selma attend Stanley and Martha's wedding
- Selma sings Lisa to sleep
- Homer and Marge come home from dinner
- Selma asks Marge to help her find a man
- Homer has to help Selma find a husband
Sunday is skipped
Monday:
- Bart learns about a herbicide in chemistry class
- Homer searches for a man at work
- Bart vandalizes the school grounds at recess
- On his lunch break, Homer continues to search for a man at the Kwik-E-Mart
- Skinner notices Bart's vandalism
- After school, Bart has to call Homer to deal with his punishment
- Homer invites Skinner to dinner that night
- Skinner arrives at the Simpson residence
- Skinner falls for Patty
- Skinner asks Patty out to see Space Mutants tomorrow night
- Patty and Selma drive home and stop at the Kwik-E-Mart
Tuesday:
- Bart resods the field, but Skinner lets him off the hook
- Patty removes her lip hair
- Skinner picks up Patty
- They eat at the revolving restaurant
- Selma clips coupons with Marge
- Skinner and Selma watch Space Mutants
- Skinner tries to arrange another date. Patty says he can join her Thursday.
Wednesday is skipped
Thursday:
- Bart throws eggs at Skinner at school
- Skinner doesn't get a kiss from Patty
- Selma looks at pictures of her and Patty
Friday:
- Skinner takes Patty to the school playground
- Skinner gets to kiss Patty
Saturday and Sunday are skipped
Monday:
- The kids run amuck at school, and Skinner reveals his plans to marry Patty
- 5pm, Barney agrees to date Selma
- Skinner and Bart ring shop
- Selma learns of Skinner's intentions and decides to date Barney
- Barney picks up Selma
- Skinner proposes and is denied
- Skinner rues to get the school back from Bart's control
- Patty rescues Selma from Barney
Tuesday:
- Bart resods the entire schoolyard
References to Time:
- Homer promised to limit pork intake to 6 servings a week
- Homer once made the family take a trip to see a car shaped like a bowling pin
- Patty and Selma went to Egypt recently
- Space Mutants 5 is being released
- Patty hasn't dated for 25 years
- Skinner recognizes the waiter as being from the class of '71. Since Springfield Elementary goes up to 6th grade, we can assume the waiter was in 6th grade from 1970-1971 and Skinner was principal then. The waiter is nearly 30.
- Selma wears a Springfield University sweatshirt, implying she went there
- It is dark at 5pm, implying it is late fall or winter
- Barney was in "the service" followed by a few years of something
References to Other Episodes:
- Bart's graffiti reads "I am still a wiener," referencing his graffiti from "Bart the Genius"
SLH Presence:
- SLH is not present
- A woman named Ms. Finch works at the Power Plant (Mindy Simmons was supposedly the first female to work at the power plant in quite a long time)
- Bart prank calls Moe
- Skinner is single (not dating Krabappel)
Minimum Time Spanned: 12 days
Canon: Yes
Favorite Moment:
- In the Australian themed Space Mutant movie, the Space Mutant has a baby in its pouch
Review: This episode is okay. The story is decent and realistic, but nothing really blows me away. It's a pretty average episode. Bart and Skinner's relationship is better explored in the 100th episode. Here, it's just blah. B-
Monday, August 10, 2009
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