Black-Eyed, Please

"Black Eyed, Please"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	523
Directed by	Matthew Schofield
Written by	John Frink
Showrunner(s)	Al Jean
Production code	RABF09
Original air date	March 10, 2013 (2013-03-10)
Chalkboard gag	I'm sorry I broke the blackboard (written on a whiteboard in marker)"
Couch gag	In another Bill Plympton-animated opening, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa are in a 1930s gangster story, armed with weapons and ready to attack. When Maggie turns on the lights, everyone is in the present day, holding common objects. Maggie then fires off a Tommy gun as they sit on the couch to watch TV.
Guest appearance(s)
Richard Dawkins as Himself Tina Fey as Ms. Cantwell Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel
Season 24 episodes September 30, 2012 – May 19, 2013 "Moonshine River" "Treehouse of Horror XXIII"" "Adventures in Baby-Getting" "Gone Abie Gone" "Penny-Wiseguys" "A Tree Grows in Springfield" "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" "To Cur with Love" "Homer Goes to Prep School" "A Test Before Trying" "The Changing of the Guardian" "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" "Hardly Kirk-ing" "Gorgeous Grampa" "Black Eyed, Please" "Dark Knight Court" "What Animated Women Want" "Pulpit Friction" "Whiskey Business" "The Fabulous Faker Boy" "The Saga of Carl" "Dangers on a Train"
Seasons
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Richard Dawkins as Himself
Tina Fey as Ms. Cantwell
Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel

"Black Eyed, Please" is the fifteenth episode of the 24th season of The Simpsons, and the 523rd episode overall. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 10, 2013. The name is a pun on black-eyed peas and the band, The Black Eyed Peas.

The couch segment of this episode's intro was animated by Bill Plympton in a film noir style. He also animated one for 2012 and one for 2014.

Homer invites himself to Ned Flanders's house for breakfast and finds Ned's beatnik parents there. Flanders begins to feel uneasy when his parents begin to take a liking to Homer rather than him. After a morning jog, Ned comes home to find Homer and his parents smoking "medicinal" marijuana and watching TV. Flanders becomes so enraged he punches Homer in the face, giving him a black eye. Homer is furious at Ned, who does not know what he has to do in order to be excused. Ned eventually finds a solution in the Bible ("an eye for an eye"), and encourages Homer to punch him in order to make them even. However, Homer refuses to punch him, citing that he is the bigger man by not punching Ned and brags about it, causing Ned to punch Homer's other uninjured eye.

Meanwhile, Lisa learns that Ms. Hoover has taken leave due to a bout of severe depression, and the class gets another teacher, Mrs. Cantwell. Cantwell takes a liking to everyone in the class except for Lisa, whom she bullies by giving her below-average grades and taking the paper cutout joeys off the kangaroo-themed "good behavior" board. Homer and Marge try to get Principal Skinner to do something, but the bullying worsens and Lisa is sent to detention, where the bullies are shocked to learn that Cantwell as a teacher is such a bully to a student like Lisa.

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