"Chief of Hearts" | |
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The Simpsons episode | |
Episode no. | 459 |
Directed by | Chris Clements |
Written by | Carolyn Omine & William Wright |
Showrunner(s) | Al Jean |
Production code | MABF09 |
Original air date | April 18, 2010 |
Chalkboard gag | "This counts as gym and art class". |
Couch gag | The same four-course dinner gag as in "Wedding for Disaster", but Comic Book Guy calls the meal "terrible" after tossing down his napkin. |
Guest appearance(s) | |
Season 21 episodes
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Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Constance Harm
Maurice LaMarche
Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony
"Chief of Hearts" is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons' twenty-first season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 18, 2010. In this episode, Homer and Chief Wiggum become friends after Homer shares a sandwich with Wiggum during his community service sentence. Meanwhile, Bart becomes addicted to a Japanese kids' game called Battle Ball, but Marge and Principal Skinner believe that Bart is dealing drugs. It is also the first episode in which Lisa Simpson does not deliver any dialogue.
The episode was written by Carolyn Omine and William Wright and directed by Chris Clements, features guest star Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Constance Harm, Maurice LaMarche and Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony and has references to the television shows Starsky and Hutch, Three's Company, and Bakugan Battle Brawlers. "Chief of Hearts" received mixed to positive reviews from critics and came first in its timeslot.