The Scorpion's Tale

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	Season Episode
← 478 "Angry Dad: The Movie"	"The Scorpion's Tale"	"A Midsummer's Nice Dreams" 480 →

"The Scorpion's Tale"

Episode Information Episode Number: 479 Production Code: NABF08 Original Airdate: March 6, 2011 Couch Gag: The "Couch Gag Video Game" starts. The Simpson family members are selected as the players. When they take their seats on the couch, "GAME OVER" appears on the screen. Blackboard Text: I'm not here on a spitball scholarship. Billboard: Springfield Mall: Free Retail Space With Every Purchase Title Screen: Santa's Little Helper flies by on a doghouse, in the same style as Snoopy. Special Guest Voices: Werner Herzog as Walter Hotenhoffer. Written By: Billy Kimball Ian Maxtone-Graham Directed By: Raymond Persi

"The Scorpion's Tale" is the fifteenth episode of the twenty-second season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on March 6, 2011.

Synopsis

After a field trip to the desert, Lisa discovers that a desert flower mysteriously makes typically combative creatures get along, so she brings some of the flowers home as a souvenir. When Grampa moves in with the family after getting kicked out of the retirement home, Homer secretly tests the flower on Grampa, who is instantly cured of his crankiness. Walter Hotenhoffer gets word of Homer’s discovery and quickly tries to replicate the flower into a drug, using Grampa as the primary guinea pig. But when the pills get in the wrong hands and are sold on the black market, unexpected side effects of the new drug take an eye-popping toll on the elderly citizens of Springfield, and the Simpsons learn that their new medical cure comes with major consequences.

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Reception

The episode received 6.20 million viewers, and was edged out by the new episode of "Family Guy". Rowan Kaiser of the A.V. Club found Lisa's varied options annoying, but praised Herzog's performance. He gave the episode a "B-", the second highest rating of the night (next to Bob's Burgers).

Production

In the original Fox press release for the episode, Jackie Mason was listed as voicing Rabbi Krustofsky as a guest star, but his lines were cut. Rabbi was instead seen jumping rope in the park scene.

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References

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Elementary School Musical • Loan-a Lisa • MoneyBART • Treehouse of Horror XXI • Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life • The Fool Monty • How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window? • The Fight Before Christmas • Donnie Fatso • Moms I'd Like to Forget • Flaming Moe • Homer the Father • The Blue and the Gray • Angry Dad: The Movie • The Scorpion's Tale • A Midsummer's Nice Dreams • Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing • The Great Simpsina • The Real Housewives of Fat Tony • Homer Scissorhands • 500 Keys • The Ned-liest Catch