Diggs (The Simpsons)

"Diggs"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	542
Directed by	Michael Polcino
Written by	Dan Greaney Allen Glazier
Showrunner(s)	Al Jean
Production code	SABF08
Original air date	March 9, 2014 (2014-03-09)
Chalkboard gag	A NCAA-style playoff bracket featuring Simpsons characters
Couch gag	As the Simpsons rush to the couch, the lights go off. Marge leaves to fix the fuse, and when the lights go up, the characters are drawn Triplets of Belleville-style and everything has a French aesthetic to it. Bart plays with a do-it-yourself foie gras kit, Lisa plays an accordion, Marge cries out, "Maggie? Où est Maggie?" and Homer gets up and eats a snail off the TV, oblivious that Maggie is stuck between his butt cheeks. Directed by Sylvain Chomet.
Guest appearance(s)
Daniel Radcliffe as Diggs
Season 25 episodes September 29, 2013 – May 18, 2014 "Homerland" "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" "YOLO" "Labor Pains" "The Kid Is All Right" "Yellow Subterfuge" "White Christmas Blues" "Steal This Episode" "Married to the Blob" "Specs and the City" "Diggs" "The Man Who Grew Too Much" "The Winter of His Content" "The War of Art" "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" "Luca$" "Days of Future Future" "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" "Brick Like Me" "Pay Pal" "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge"
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Daniel Radcliffe as Diggs

"Diggs" is the twelfth episode of the 25th season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, and the 542nd episode of the series. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on March 9, 2014. The episode was written by Dan Greaney and Allen Glazier and directed by Michael Polcino. In the episode, Bart makes friends with a transfer student named Diggs, an expert in falconry who saves Bart from the wrath of the Springfield Elementary bullies – and who intends to take to the sky himself, which makes Bart worry about Diggs' sanity.

When a visiting reverend from another country pleads Springfield churchgoers for a donation to help the sick children, Bart sympathizes with a boy his own age. Bart has a difficult time asking his parents for a donation, but Homer eventually relents, lending Bart $20. However, Homer almost instantly starts to pester Bart for repayment. Feeling the pressure of Homer's badgering, Bart confides in Milhouse at the playground before a costumed devil makes Bart an offer: if he eats anything for the money, he will be able to get the $20. Bart asks his classmates to help him out of his bind, offering to eat anything except money.

Soon enough, Bart receives offers to eat used chewing gum, orthodontic wax, cinnamon, St. John's wort, and a preserved frog prepared for dissection, even though Lisa warns her brother to not consume the animal. After eating the frog Bart ends up in the hospital. Bart pays his father back the $20 (which Homer had forgotten about), but the hospital bill is $4000. The next day the schoolchildren, including Milhouse, shun Bart for eating the frog. Just when the school bullies are about to attack Bart, a new transfer student named Diggs saves the day with his falcon, Freedom. He reveals to Bart the hidden Falconry Club headquarters behind the school. As Bart spends more and more time with Diggs, he learns about falconry and conducts some mischief around town by teaching Freedom to snatch Springfielders' belongings.

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