A Father's Watch

Vanessa Bayer as Dr. Clarity Hoffman-Roth
Brian Posehn as Dumlee
Rob Riggle as Dr. Fenton Pooltoy
Adam Silver as himself

"A Father's Watch" is the eighteenth episode of the twenty-eighth season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 614th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on March 19, 2017.

After an opening sequence where a recently deceased frog arrives in Heaven and goes from being happy about being used for a noble purpose as a science lab specimen to being horrified and angry when Bart laughingly mutilates the body he left behind, Marge despairs over Bart's terrible report card (she says they can't even hang it on the fridge in the garage) and goes to parenting expert Dr. Clarity Hoffman-Roth for advice when she thinks that Bart is on the road to failure. Following her advice of giving kids trophies for achieving either laughable simple tasks or doing absolutely nothing, Homer opens a trophy store and business is booming. However, Bart volunteers to be the store's assistant and after his shoddy work is revealed, Homer loses his temper and rants at length about what a "pathetic loser" Bart is and always will be, unaware (and not caring at all) that Bart heard what he said and was devastated.

Meanwhile, Lisa furiously lashes out against the Trophy Culture – not least because her genuine achievements earn smaller trophies than the non-achievements of classmates like Ralph Wiggum. Bart visits Abe and finds out that Abe's father (who isn't shown but was mentioned in "The Winter of His Content" as being alive and estranged from Abe) was a widely respected expert on child abuse in his day, and passed down a rare watch to Abe, which Abe then gives to Bart. Soon, Lisa causes a different movement by getting another parenting expert, Dr. Fenton Pooltoy, to speak to Springfield's parents, who says that too much praise creates millennials - in his words, "a generation of soft, entitled narcissists who drop out of college to become DJs", and his NO trophies or false praise approach is embraced by the parents of Springfield, but Lisa's plan backfires because this leads to Marge throwing out of all of Lisa's genuinely-earned awards, causing Lisa to be defeated. Meanwhile, Homer's trophy business success comes to a crashing, permanent halt, and Bart is happy about it.