'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky

Template:Infobox The Simpsons episodes "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" is an episode from the fourteenth season of The Simpsons that aired March 30, 2003. The title is a punning reference to the line "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" from the song "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix.

Episode details

Production Number: EABF11
Original Air Date: March 30, 2003
Writers: Dan Greaney and Allen Grazier
Director: Steven Dean Moore
Couch Gag: The family (literally) jumps a shark
Guest Voice: Eric Idle as Declan Desmond and Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony

Synopsis

Template:Spoiler In the episode, Lisa gets interested in astronomy and concerned about light pollution. She successfully lobbies to have the city street lights turned off at night to improve observation conditions at the local observatory. However, this causes crime to increase and the lights are subsequently turned back on, even brighter than ever.

Also in the episode, Springfield Elementary School is visited by Declan Desmond, a no-nonsense British filmmaker (voiced by Eric Idle) who is not above distorting the facts to sell his documentaries. He's in town making his latest documentary, American Boneheads: A Day in the Life of Springfield Elementary. He also made the documentary Do You Want Lies With That? which is a film about what's really in the meat of Krusty burgers (It included footage of Krusty the Clown stapling two half-eaten burgers together)

Quotes

• Fat Tony: That boid (bird) just touched my car. You know what to do.
• Lisa Simpson: Forget it Bart. It's so bright out that the only thing in the sky you can see is the Fox satellite
• Bart Simpson: You can say it. I add nothing.
• Bart Simpson: Gandhi also said, less talk, more rock.

In American Boneheads:

• Ralph Wiggum says, "I'm going to live with my underground grandma."
• Jimbo Jones: "I'm going to a two-year technical school, then work in a garage." (Jimbo's friends then beat him up).
• Milhouse van Houten: "I'm going to hit .352 in the Major League." (He misses all the pitches; he hits the catcher; he uses t-ball; manages to knock the ball, then trips.)
• Desmond: "Did you get that Simon?"

In Do You Want Lies With That?:

• Krusty the Clown: "Good as new."