The Scorpion's Tale

"The Scorpion's Tale"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	479
Directed by	Matthew Schofield
Written by	Billy Kimball Ian Maxtone-Graham
Showrunner(s)	Al Jean
Production code	NABF08
Original air date	March 6, 2011
Chalkboard gag	"I'm not here on a spitball scholarship"
Couch gag	A person playing The Simpsons Couch gag game, chooses the Simpsons family in the style of an RPG character creator, and they go running to the couch. After, it says game over.
Guest appearance(s)
Werner Herzog as Walter Hotenhoffer Kevin Michael Richardson as Springfield Retirement Castle orderly.
Season 22 episodes September 26, 2010 – May 22, 2011 "Elementary School Musical" "Loan-a Lisa" "MoneyBart" "Treehouse of Horror XXI" "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" "The Fool Monty" "How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?" "The Fight Before Christmas" "Donnie Fatso" "Moms I'd Like to Forget" "Flaming Moe" "Homer the Father" "The Blue and the Gray" "Angry Dad: The Movie" "The Scorpion's Tale" "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" "Love Is a Many Strangled Thing" "The Great Simpsina" "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony" "Homer Scissorhands" "500 Keys" "The Ned-Liest Catch"
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Werner Herzog as Walter Hotenhoffer
Kevin Michael Richardson as Springfield Retirement Castle orderly.

"The Scorpion's Tale" is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons' twenty-second season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 6, 2011.

During a trip to "Satan's Anvil", the students from Springfield Elementary stumble into bizarre people and situations: Otto runs over "realistic" versions of Coyote and Road Runner; Martin meets an eccentric and grumpy hermit artist that the government tried to hire for years but never succeeded; Bart, Nelson and Milhouse find old French postcards; and Lisa is almost attacked by scorpions, but they quickly become passive after Lisa passes through a field of silvertongue flowers in Springfield's desert, prompting her to take the scorpions and some flowers for further experiments. When they return home, the Simpsons family is forced to let Grampa live at their house, after he was kicked out of the old folks home for being too grumpy. After Lisa confirms that the flower has a powerful chemical agent that nullifies all the negative feelings of any living being, Homer sneaks some into his father's coffee, curing his usual crankiness. Grampa decides to do this daily, acknowledging that a drug that stimulates happiness is the best thing that ever happened in his bitter life.

Unfortunately, despite the positive effects, Lisa refuses to give more of this drug, or to tell them the composition. While they complain about it at Moe's Tavern, a drug industry employee from Hottenhoffer Pharmaceuticals named Walter Hotenhoffer (formerly known as Augustus Gloop) manages to duplicate the liquid's effects using a sample of Grampa's perspiration. Hottenhoffer produces "MusBeNys" pills, but since the product has not been properly tested, only Grampa is allowed to use them. Unfortunately, Bart decides to sell some of the pills to everyone who has a problem with grumpy old people, making all the elderly people in Springfield becoming happy and carefree.

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