"The Fabulous Faker Boy" | |
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The Simpsons episode | |
Episode no. | 528 |
Directed by | Bob Anderson |
Written by |
Brian McConnachie Tom Root (couch gag) |
Showrunner(s) | Al Jean |
Production code | RABF13 |
Original air date | May 12, 2013 |
Chalkboard gag | The school is not falling apart (the blackboard crumbles) |
Couch gag | In a stop-motion gag animated by the Robot Chicken crew, Homer wakes up and realizes he is an action figure and can do multiple things, such as firing his fists as projectiles and transforming into a donut. He then decides to get into a race with Otto and they both drive extremely fast. Homer ends up catapulting the family into the Simpson living room, where the chicken from Robot Chicken awaits. |
Guest appearance(s) | |
Justin Bieber as Himself |
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Season 24 episodes
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Seasons | |
Justin Bieber as Himself
Bill Hader as Slava
Jane Krakowski as Zhenya
Patrick Stewart as Nuclear Power Plant Worker
"Fabulous Faker Boy" is the twentieth episode of the 24th season of The Simpsons and the 528th episode overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 12, 2013.Justin Bieber (as himself), Bill Hader, Jane Krakowski, and Patrick Stewart (as Vigorous Older Man) are credited as guest stars. The name is a pun on The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Marge attends a parent-principal conference with Principal Skinner, who tells her that Bart might be able to improve his academic performance by taking up a musical instrument. Marge takes Bart to several potential instructors - Sideshow Mel, Comic Book Guy, and Professor Frink - but he ridicules all of them. He becomes infatuated with a young Russian woman named Zhenya, who agrees to give him piano lessons in exchange for Marge teaching her father how to drive so that he can get a driver's license. While Marge makes little progress with Zhenya's father's dangerous habits, word of Bart's rapid progress and emerging musical ability quickly spreads, leading to Zhenya gaining many more students. However, it later emerges that he has only been miming in time with a CD that he has secretly slipped into a player mounted beneath the piano. Feeling neglected because Zhenya has very little time for him due to her other students, Bart publicly confesses to his deception during a talent show. Marge is enraged and disappointed in him until Zhenya's father tells her that he has obtained his license - not by passing the test, but by bribing Patty and Selma with counterfeit jeans. He also convinces Marge to go easy on Bart as he only cheated for love and for his mother. Marge forgives Bart, saying she is proud of him for having told the truth and assuring him that he is unique and it will work out for him in the future.