Jazzy and the Pussycats

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"Jazzy and the Pussycats"
Episode no.	380
Prod. code	HABF18
Orig. Airdate	September 17, 2006
Writer(s)	Daniel Chun
Director	Steven Dean Moore
Chalkboard	None
Couch gag	Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie sit on the couch. The camera pulls back and we see a window with a King Kong-esque Homer who grabs Marge and climbs the building while fending off airplanes.
Guest star(s)	The White Stripes (Jack White, Meg White)
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"Jazzy and the Pussycats" is the second episode of The Simpsons' eighteenth season.

1 Synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Music in this episode
4 Goofs
5 Broadcasting information

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After a game of paddleball at a funeral (for Homer's dead Vegas Wife) goes awry, Bart is forced to see a psychiatrist who suggests Bart get a drum kit. Bart gets a kit and instantly becomes a natural at it. He practices 24/7, and bumps into the White Stripes who are playing a music video. Eventually, his drumming drives Homer and Marge mad and Lisa suggests to her parents that she can take Bart to a jazz brunch.

Lisa asks Bart to jam along with her quintet, which he does. Bart easily overshadows everyone, including Lisa, and a legendary jazz group asks him to play with them, which makes Lisa jealous.

Bart's drumming is such a success that he's a town icon and made the front cover of two magazines, thus making Lisa very, very jealous. Marge decides to let Lisa adopt a puppy in order to make her happy. At the animal shelter, Lisa picks the cutest puppy over a very sick dog that would otherwise die. At night, the sick dog comes in a ghost-like form to tell her that his fate is doomed because she chose the other dog over him. Lisa decides to go back and adopt the sick puppy, but after seeing how sick many of them are, she decides to adopt them all in order to save their lives. On her way home, many other animals joined her, including a horde of circus animals. Having nowhere to put them, Lisa puts them in the Simpsons' attic.

After dinner that night, Lisa goes into the attic and finds Bart and his jazz friends with the animals she rescued. A tiger bites Bart's "drumming arm" causing extensive nerve damage and meaning that he can no longer drum.

In order to raise money for the operation he needs, Bart organizes a benefit concert with his jazz friends. Meanwhile, Lisa is informed that her animals will be taken to a pound and killed if she cannot find a suitable home for them. In the end, Bart feels empathy for Lisa and decides to use the money to build a home for the animals.

[edit] Trivia

The episode's title is a play on the fictitious rock band Josie and the Pussycats
Simpsons writer George Meyer can briefly be seen in this episode in animated form in the scene where Bart walks down the street.
Long time Simpsons producer Richard Sakai is mentioned as one of the Jazz performers at the concert.
This is the first time since Treehouse of Horror III that King Homer has appeared.

[edit] Music in this episode

Songs in this episode:
- "Killer Joe" (played by the kids at the Jazzy Goodtime's)
- "Take Five", originally by The Dave Brubeck Quartet (played at the Jazzy Goodtime's, featuring Lisa on the saxophone)
- "The Hardest Button to Button" by The White Stripes (The song is played by Bart and the video is parodied)
- "Big Noise From Winnetka" (played shortly after, featuring Bart on the drums) - This song is also played in an earlier episode when Lisa is listening to the radio.
- "Little Green Bag" by the George Baker Selection (played while Lisa gathers the animals)
- "Caravan" (played on the benefit concert)

[edit] Goofs

When Dr. Brentano shows the drumkit, at first there is no snaredrum and only one cymbal (in addition to the Hi-hat), but a snaredrum and a second cymbal appear later after Marge looks closer at the drumkit.
When Üter is seen playing a trumpet, it sounds like he has a Harmon mute in, but the animation shows he does not.