The D'oh-cial Network

"The D'oh-cial Network"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	497
Directed by	Chris Clements
Written by	J. Stewart Burns
Showrunner(s)	Al Jean
Production code	PABF04
Original air date	January 15, 2012
Chalkboard gag	"We do need no education".
Couch gag	The Simpson family arrives in New York City to be guests on Late Show with David Letterman.
Guest appearance(s)
Armie Hammer as the Winklevoss twins David Letterman as himself
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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Armie Hammer as the Winklevoss twins
David Letterman as himself

"The D'oh-cial Network" is the eleventh 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 15, 2012. In the episode, Lisa is sad that she has no real friends. She discovers that it is easier to make friends on the Internet and therefore creates a social networking website called SpringFace. It becomes incredibly popular in Springfield and Lisa gets many online friends. However, they still ignore her in real life, and the website starts to cause trouble in the town when people use it while driving and cause accidents. Lisa is put on trial and the court orders her to close down SpringFace.

The episode is a satire of the social networking website Facebook and parodies the film The Social Network, which tells the story of how Facebook was founded. The Winklevoss twins, who sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their idea, are featured in the episode. Actor Armie Hammer portrayed the twins in both The Social Network and "The D'oh-cial Network". This episode also features a guest appearance by talk show host David Letterman as himself, appearing in the Simpsons opening sequence. Since airing, "The D'oh-cial Network" has received generally mixed response from television reviewers, with criticism directed at its satire. Around 11.48 million Americans tuned in to watch the episode during its original broadcast.

The episode starts in a courtroom where Lisa is on trial. The Blue-Haired Lawyer is accusing her of bringing devastation upon Springfield because of her selfish desire to be accepted by others. Lisa starts telling everyone in the courtroom about her side of the story. A few months ago, she and her family went to the new mall in town. There, she encountered her schoolmates Sherri and Terri and asked them if she could spend some time with them at the mall. The two twins said no to Lisa, which made her realize that she has no real friends. Later, Lisa went on Homer's computer and discovered that it is easier to make friends online than in real life, and thus she started a social networking website called SpringFace to get friends. The site became instantly popular among all the citizens of Springfield and Lisa made over a thousand friends in a short period of time. However, Lisa soon noticed that these friends only talked to her on SpringFace and not in real life. She also discovered that the website grew too big to control, with people becoming so addicted to it that they even used it while driving their cars. This caused chaos in the town after numerous car crashes and deaths.

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