Papa Don't Leech

"Papa Don't Leech"
The Simpsons episode
Promotional image featuring Homer (in his "Colonel Homer" attire) and The Dixie Chicks.
Episode no.	416
Directed by	Chris Clements
Written by	Reid Harrison
Showrunner(s)	Al Jean
Production code	KABF09
Original air date	April 13, 2008
Couch gag	A paintbrush dabs paint blobs on the couch, which form into The Simpsons
Guest appearance(s)
Beverly D'Angelo as Lurleen Lumpkin The Dixie Chicks as themselves
Season 19 episodes September 23, 2007 – May 18, 2008 "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" "The Homer of Seville" "Midnight Towboy" "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" "Little Orphan Millie" "Husbands and Knives" "Funeral for a Fiend" "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" "E Pluribus Wiggum" "That '90s Show" "Love, Springfieldian Style" "The Debarted" "Dial "N" for Nerder" "Smoke on the Daughter" "Papa Don't Leech" "Apocalypse Cow" "Any Given Sundance" "Mona Leaves-a" "All About Lisa"
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Beverly D'Angelo as Lurleen Lumpkin
The Dixie Chicks as themselves

"Papa Don't Leech" is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons' nineteenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 13, 2008. It features the return of Lurleen Lumpkin (voiced by special guest star Beverly D'Angelo) from the third season episode "Colonel Homer", after an absence of sixteen years (though she appeared in a few quick cameos on such episodes as "Marge vs. the Monorail" and "Team Homer"). The Dixie Chicks also appear as themselves. It was written by Reid Harrison and directed by Chris Clements.

Lisa tries to sell Girl Scout cookies to Mayor Quimby, but finds the entire town treasury empty. Quimby explains the city spent their money on a new slogan, "Springfield: Good." A town meeting is held to inform the town they have to raise money. They try faking a natural disaster in order to get relief money from FEMA, but the officials turn out to be fakes. They are tricked and end up in more debt than before. Lisa then reveals Springfield has millions in uncollected taxes, and Springfield soon starts hitting up its most notorious tax evaders (save Mr. Burns and Mayor Quimby). In a news report, Kent Brockman reveals that all tax evaders have been caught, and the only one remaining is Lurleen Lumpkin, a country music star who was once managed by Homer and fell in love with him. As the city searches for her, Homer finds Lurleen hiding in his car, and learns that after leaving her, her career had gone into a downward spiral, even though he had advised her not to go into one of those.