Bye Bye Nerdie

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The Simpsons episode
"Bye Bye Nerdie"

Episode no.	263
Prod. code	CABF11
Orig. Airdate	March 11, 2001
Show Runner(s)	Mike Scully
Written by	John Frink Don Payne
Directed by	Lauren MacMullan
Chalkboard	"I will not scare the vice president"
Couch gag	The family enters the living room in bumper cars. Marge and Maggie bump Homer, and Bart and Lisa later hit Homer, who says, "D'oh!"
Guest star	Kathy Griffin as Francine
Season 12 November 1, 2000 – May 20, 2001
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"Bye Bye Nerdie" is the sixteenth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on March 11, 2001.

1 Synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Cultural references
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

On an ordinary day in school, Lisa attempts to make friends with a new girl, Francine, but Francine beats up Lisa severely. Even attempting to share an interest in Malibu Stacy does not work. It's up to Lisa to investigate the reason why Francine is beating her. She does scientific research on nerds, and finds out that the odour of nerd sweat attracts bullies like her. Lisa invents an antidote using salad dressing, which she believes is a smell bullies cannot stand, tests it on Drederick Tatum when he visits Springfield Elementary, and uses it on Francine at Professor Frink's science contest, the "12th Annual Big Science Thing", which she wins. But at the end, Francine goes on a rampage beating up all the scientists in the room.

Meanwhile, Homer, fearing Maggie could die from touching things unsafe to her when he hears this from a baby-proofing saleswoman, starts his own baby-proofing crusade, selling cheap and safe products and making Springfield safe for children, but it causes the baby-proofing industry in Springfield to be in decline.

[edit] Trivia

Dr. C. Everett Koop, a former surgeon general of the United States, is among the scientific minds present at the convention.
Bart has only two lines in this episode.
The Malibu Stacy "Grad-School Glamour Pack" comes with miniature surfboard, coffee cup and binder that says "Pepperdine", which is a university in Malibu, California.

[edit] Cultural references

The name of the episode is a parody of Bye Bye Birdie.
Marge and Otto race through a dry aqueduct, an action-sequence used in many films, most notably Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Grease.
A high school-aged Homer beats up young Waylon Smithers while singing "Kung-Fu Fighting". Barney accompanies him on the kazoo, although the animation shows a recorder.
Francine is, most likely, a reference to the character on the PBS show "Arthur" of the same name. Lisa even at one point refers to Francine as an ape.
The undercarriage of the school bus looks like the bottom of a skateboard, and it says "World Industries Flameboy". The Flameboy character is also pictured. World Industries is a skateboard, snowboard, and clothing manufacturer in El Segundo, California.
The nerd on the school bus with the orthodontic headgear is wearing a T-shirt that reads "Frankie Says: Relax." This is a term made popular by music group Frankie Goes to Hollywood, whose biggest hit was the song "Relax."