S15 E21
Status
Continuing
Next episode
2 years ago
Airs
Sundays 8:00 PM on Disney+

Season 15  "Bart-Mangled Banner"  15x21

Aired 19 years ago - May 16, 2004

It's shot day and Bart tries to evade the needle. Dr. Hibbert manages to get the job done but Bart suffers a side effect of temporary hearing loss from the shot and he takes advantage of it for all it's worth. At Springfield Elementary the annual Donkey basketball tournament is being held. During the playing of The Star Spangled Banner Bart has his shorts eaten by a donkey, leaving his bare ass exposed towards the flag. Martin snaps a picture and everyone present is outraged at this behavior. As a result the Simpson family becomes very unpopular. They go on a cable news channel and only manage to dig themselves into a deeper hole when the host manages to twist Marge's words into saying that Springfield hates America. The negative publicity causes Mayor Quimby to change the name of the town to Liberty-Ville and they make everything patriotic. The family is arrested under violation of the "government knows best act" and they are brought to a reeducation center. The last registered Democrat tells them how they can escape. During their musical number they escape through a tunnel but find they were on Alcatraz. They are rescued by a passing French freighter and taken to France. After being there a while they decide they miss their life in America and go back as illegal immigrants.

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For now, he can express himself with this complimentary pen.
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What'd you say about me mother?!
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Dad, he's deaf.
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Now I've heard everything.
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welcome, everyone, to the annual donkey basketball classic.
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Why'd you dis the flag?
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it makes the new york post look like the new york times.
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And the family that applauds his every moonery.
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I'm gonna go listen to the president's weekly radio address.
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I won't have to hear, "suck my such and such"
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Just buy some ice cream and walk around the pier.
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I'm nash castor, and it's time to butt heads.
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all right, so if I hear you correctly,
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then yes, I do hate americans!
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Now, coming up after this commercial,
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Overseas the reaction tonight is decidedly different.
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Look what happened to Hitler City, North Carolina.
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to liberty-ville!
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It is a heartfelt expression of my true desire to protect my mahogany noggin.
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Lord, give us the courage to worship the american flag,
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"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
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I don't...
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it was left, right, left, then a three-hour plane ride.
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in with the joke ones.
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bill o' rights.
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but this is what I believe in now.
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you can do it during the prison talent show tomorrow night.
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97... 98... 99...
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Now, people have accused this family
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for amber waves of grain...
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give us your oil
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