Moe Goes from Rags to Riches

"Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
The Simpsons episode
The rag tells its story.
Episode no.	498
Directed by	Bob Anderson
Written by	Tim Long
Showrunner(s)	Al Jean
Production code	PABF05
Original air date	January 29, 2012
Chalkboard gag	"There's no proven link between raisins and boogers".
Couch gag	The Simpsons travel through four iconic settings in past sitcoms (The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch, and Cheers) before finally reaching their own show.
Guest appearance(s)
Jeremy Irons as the bar rag
Season 23 episodes September 25, 2011 – May 20, 2012 "The Falcon and the D'ohman" "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" "Treehouse of Horror XXII" "Replaceable You" "The Food Wife" "The Book Job" "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" "Holidays of Future Passed" "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" "The D'oh-cial Network" "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" "The Daughter Also Rises" "At Long Last Leave" "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" "How I Wet Your Mother" "Them, Robot" "Beware My Cheating Bart" "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" "The Spy Who Learned Me" "Ned 'n Edna's Blend" "Lisa Goes Gaga"
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Jeremy Irons as the bar rag

"Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" is the twelfth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 29, 2012. In the episode, Moe Szyslak's old bar rag tells its history, from being a medieval French tapestry to ending up at Moe's bar. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse have an argument which prompts Milhouse to leave Bart. Jeremy Irons guest starred in the episode as the voice of Moe's bar rag.

At a town meeting at Moe's Tavern, people say that Moe's best friend is his old bar rag. Bart continues with the joke by comparing the rag with Milhouse. Insulted, Milhouse spurns Bart's friendship. The rag tells its life story, from being a medieval French tapestry, woven by Marge after Mr. Burns, Duke of Springfield, killed all their sheep which released demon spirits that forced Marge to weave the encounters the tapestry would have, the Duke was later accidentally hanged by the tapestry when he fell off a mountain; going to a cathedral before Vikings attacked it and Homer tore it; and then to the king of Persia (Nelson), who is then told 1001 stories by Scheherazade (Lisa), finally she releases his other wives who were thrown in a pit for being boring and decapitate him; being used as a blindfold for the executed and cloth on the chopping block in France; being used as a paint rag by Michelangelo in his creation of the Sistine Chapel; being used for a Confederate flag during the Civil War; made into soup during the Great Depression; and going close to the top of Mount Everest as a flag though the Explorer died from lack of oxygen, where a Yeti finds it and gives it to his son, an infant Moe.