Crook and Ladder

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The Simpsons episode

"Crook and Ladder"

The new Fire Department of Springfield save Luigi.

Episode no.

397

Prod. code

JABF13

Orig. airdate

Show runner(s)

"I will not look up what teacher makes."

Couch gag

The TV moves aside as The Simpsons are put through a car wash, where they get sprayed with water, blasted with hot wax, and scrubbed with prickly brushes. In the end, Marge’s hair is puffy, the family looks miserable, and Maggie’s pacificer is gone. Three guys come in, wipe the family down with rags, and give Maggie a new pacifier.

Season 18
September 10, 2006 – May 20, 2007

"The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
"Jazzy and the Pussycats"
"Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em"
"Treehouse of Horror XVII"
"G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"
"Moe'N'a Lisa"
"Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)"
"The Haw-Hawed Couple"
"Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2"
"The Wife Aquatic"
"Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
"Little Big Girl"
"Springfield Up"
"Yokel Chords"
"Rome-old and Juli-eh"
"Homerazzi"
"Marge Gamer"
"The Boys of Bummer"
"Crook and Ladder"
"Stop or My Dog Will Shoot"
"24 Minutes"
"You Kent Always Say What You Want"

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"Crook and Ladder" is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons' eighteenth season, which originally aired May 6, 2007. It was written by Bill Odenkirk and directed by Lance Kramer.

[edit] Plot

Marge, following the advice of a parenting magazine, takes away Maggie's pacifier, leading Maggie to destroy the inside of the Simpson home. Marge decides to get Maggie a new pacifier, but can not find the right brand. Luckily, Santa's Little Helper gives Maggie his squeaky toy that not only calms Maggie down, but also leads to Homer being unable to sleep. He takes sleeping pills and becomes, in Bart's words, "a fat, suggestible zombie dad". One night, Bart and Milhouse take advantage of him by having him take them places. Homer then wakes up while driving, causing him to crash into the Fire Department, injuring all the firemen and landing them in the hospital. While they recuperate, Homer, Apu, Moe, and Principal Skinner become volunteer firefighters (although Springfield already had such a service in "Homer the Heretic"). After the first few fires, they are rewarded for saving the buildings. They then save Mr. Burns' house, but he gives them no reward. Feeling cheated, they decide to steal some of his treasures, covering their tracks by claiming they were destroyed by the fire. From then on, they start taking items from the places they save for their payment. After Marge and the kids see Homer stealing, Marge gets them to make a very sad face. Everywhere he goes, the kids come out of nowhere to show him how sad they are. After the sad faces begin to get annoying, he decides to stop, and convinces the others to stop, after saving Moe's and Apu's life. They then give all of their loot to the homeless.

[edit] Cultural references

Homer shows Maggie a pacifier that is called Bink 182, Reference to the pop punk band Blink 182
The song that plays when Bart and Milhouse abuse "Zombie Homer" is Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein."
When Mr. Burns jumps out of the window, he floats like the feather at the beginning of Forrest Gump, with similar music.
The song that plays during the montage of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie looking sadly at Homer is "Sad Eyes" by Robert John
The scene where Homer wakes up in bed next to John Lennon is in reference to Lennon & Ono's "Bed-In for Peace", a non-violent anti-war message in the 1960s. In the same scene, when Homer is asked by Rod & Tod "Why he hurt the dollies", his reply is in reference to strict US rules on "illegal" drugs, and lax rules on prescription drugs.