On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister

"On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	Season 16 Episode 11
Directed by	Bob Anderson
Written by	Jeff Westbrook
Production code	GABF05
Original air date	March 6, 2005 (2005-03-06)
Guest appearances
Gary Busey as himself Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Harm
Episode features
Chalkboard gag	"Beer in a milk carton is not milk"
Couch gag	Repeat of the Powers of Ten parody couch gag from "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner", only in this version, Kang and Kodos can be heard laughing and Homer says, "Cool!" instead of "Wow!"
Commentary	Matt Groening Al Jean Ian Maxtone-Graham Matt Selman Tim Long Michael Price Michael Marcantel Tom Gammill Max Pross Jeff Westbrook David Silverman

"On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" is the eleventh episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 6, 2005. A repeat of this episode also replaced the episode "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star", which was supposed to air on April 10, 2005, due to the death of Pope John Paul II 8 days earlier.

Plot

The students of Springfield Elementary go on a field trip to the almost completely melted Springfield Glacier. Bart repeatedly bullies Lisa because she is enjoying the trip, and as revenge, Lisa obtains a restraining order against Bart that prevents him from coming within 20 feet (6 m) of her. Lisa uses the restraining order - and a 20-foot (6 m) pole made by Homer to enforce it - to continually torment Bart, making him ride behind the school bus in a shopping cart and eat his school lunch outside in the rain, and later forcing him into the "Gay Interest" section of the library in order to humiliate him.

Marge decides to get an appeal for lifting the restraining order, but Bart accidentally insults Judge Harm during the hearing by stating she became a judge instead of having a husband and when Harm points out she is married, Bart asks if her husband is blind and deaf, leading Harm to expand the order to 200 feet (61 m), forcing Bart to live in the Simpsons' backyard. He soon realizes that he can live the natural way, taking off his clothes, urinating anywhere he wants and playing with wild dogs. Seeing Bart's feral behavior, Marge suggests to Lisa that she may have gone too far. Lisa responds that Bart has not done any nice things for her recently, but when Marge points out two examples to the contrary, she promises to destroy the order when she thinks of a third thing. She later sees Bart building a statue of her, and is impressed, but when she finds out that it was going to be burned, and Bart lies about why, Lisa says how she misses Bart's lies. She burns the restraining order and the pole, while the family reunites and plays Tijuana Taxi.

In the subplot, Homer is hired as a greeter for Sprawl-Mart, replacing his father Grampa following an accident when retrieving a shopping cart. Homer likes the job because there is no pressure to advance. The manager creates a fake Mexican ID card for him, in order to force him to work overtime without a pay bonus under threat of being deported, and Homer and his co-workers are later locked in the superstore late at night, with a chip implanted in the back of Homer's neck. He removes it and his co-workers reveal that they too removed their chips years ago and prefer to steal items each night rather than work. Homer joins in by using a forklift to take away several plasma televisions.

Censorship

Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the associated nuclear emergency, the episode was pulled from ProSieben due to jokes about nuclear meltdowns. It was also pulled from Network 10 in Australia for a similar reason.

External links

• "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" at IMDb