Fraudcast News
| "Fraudcast News" | |
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| The Simpsons episode | |
Mr. Burns is outraged by the headline of Lisa's newspaper in a promotional image for the episode.
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| Episode no. | 335 |
| Directed by | Bob Anderson |
| Written by | Don Payne |
| Showrunner(s) | Al Jean |
| Production code | FABF18 |
| Original air date | May 23, 2004 |
| Couch gag | The family members fly in dressed as popular anime characters (Bart as Astro Boy, Homer as Ultraman, Lisa as Sailor Moon, Marge as Princess from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman and Maggie as Pikachu from Pokémon) and land on a bench with "シンプソンズ" on it, Japanese for "Simpsons". |
| Commentary | Al Jean Don Payne Ian Maxtone-Graham Matt Selman Michael Price Tom Gammill Max Pross |
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Season 15 episodes
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"Fraudcast News" is the 22nd and last episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 23, 2004. The Writers Guild of America gave this episode a 2005 WGA Award, the Paul Selvin Award, which honors works that focus on First Amendment issues. It also marked the first reference towards being grounded since Season 7's "Marge Be Not Proud", marking the end of an eight-year period without such references.
Springfield holds a ceremony dedicating their newest national park, Geezer Rock, a rock formation which resembles the face of an old man in profile. As Lisa prepares to read a poem there at the behest of Mayor Quimby, she notices that there is a small tree growing in the eye of the rock. Fearing that it will destroy Geezer Rock over time, Homer, who claims that “It's time to do something I have never done—help an old man!”, rushes over and pulls it out, believing he is doing the right thing. Unfortunately, this causes Geezer Rock to fall apart, and everyone runs for their lives — except for Mr. Burns, who winds up in a landslide. Smithers fears he has lost Mr. Burns.
Lisa is saddened that no one ever heard her poem, and she publishes it on Marge's suggestion. Meanwhile, it turns out that Burns survived the horrible landslide through slithering his way out and subsisting on centipedes, insects and mole milk (he claimed the mole had nursed him as her own though he in fact picked one of her offspring and tossed it aside while he took his place and suckled on her, as shown in his flashback). However, Springfield's local news instead reports on the destruction of Geezer Rock and then labels Mr. Burns as being a hateful man nobody liked and signs off by thanking Geezer Rock for doing what everyone else was too scared to do and kill Mr. Burns. To improve his image, Mr. Burns decides to purchase every media outlet in Springfield, instead of being a kinder person reformed by a near-fatal rockslide.
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