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{{Tapped Out Quest
|name = Age Against the Machine
|image =
|level = 5
|update = {{TOCU|Simpsons Babies}}
|requirements =
|characters =
|optional =
|previous = [[Simpsons Babies Intro]]
|next = [[Simpsons Babies Outro]]
|event = yes
}}

'''Age Against the Machine''' is an event-exclusive questline in ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''. It was introduced in the {{TOCU|Simpsons Babies}} content update.

== Dialogue ==
=== Pt. 1 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|Between August 28, [[2019]] and September 4, 2019 and after completing [[Simpsons Babies Intro]]|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Bart Icon}}
{{TB|Time to make Mr. Burns reverse the Youthenizer – by force! Sound off, Simpson family assault squad!}}
{{Tapped Out Simpsons Babies Chat Decoration}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Marge Icon}}
{{TB|Goo goo!}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|Boo boo!}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Woo hoo!}}
{{Tapped Out Maggie Icon}}
{{TB|{{*}}suck{{*}} {{*}}suck{{*}}}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|I guess it's all up to you, Bart. Everyone else is a baby now.}}
{{THT||colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Startled}}
{{TB|I'm not a baby! And my diapey needs changing! Waaah!}}
{{Tapped Out Bart Icon}}
{{TB|Grampa, take care of the kids. And if I'm not back in one hour, call the police.}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Startled}}
{{TB|You're dumb as a pineapple! You can call the police now!}}
{{Tapped Out Bart Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|I tried that!}}
{{Tapped Out Wiggum Icon}}
{{TB|Hello, you've reached the Springfield Police Department. We're out getting a new answering machine, so please leave your name and crime after the tone.}}
{{Tapped Out Lou Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|The tone doesn't work, Chief. That's why we're getting a new answering machine.}}
{{Tapped Out Wiggum Icon|Serious}}
{{TB|I'm not following. Let's roll!}}
{{THT|{{Task|Collect Safety Gear|50}} {{Task/JobMulti|Make Babies Befuddle Grampa|4 hours|the [[Simpson House]]|3}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}} [[Museum of Modern Bart]]|colspan=2}}
}}

Characters that can do the "Befuddle Grampa" job include:

{{Table|
{{TBT|[[Homer]], [[Marge]], [[Ling Bouvier]], [[Artie Ziff]], [[Lisa]]
}}}}

=== Pt. 2 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After completing Pt. 1|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Bart Icon}}
{{TB|Sneaking into the nuclear plant is a cinch. Skateboard up the cooling tower… through the atomic blast vent…}}
{{Tapped Out Bart Icon}}
{{TB|Past the guard crow…}}
{{Tapped Out Icon|Crow||60}}
{{TB|{{*}}CAW!{{*}}}}
{{Tapped Out Bart Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|And I'm in! Smack in the middle of Old Man Burns' office!}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|"Old Man"? Pshaw! Thanks to the Youthenizer, I'm a scrapping young ball-whacker like you!}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon}}
{{TB|…Although infinitely richer, and with a pack of hounds at my disposal.}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Release the hounds!}}
{{Tapped Out Bart Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|Heeeeeeelp!}}
{{Tapped Out Bart Icon}}
{{TB|Wait, they're just puppies. Aww.}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|The Youthenizer must have hit them by mistake. Damn thing shoots every which way. Hold on a minute and I'll threaten you with my musket instead.}}
{{THT|{{Task|Reach Level 12 and Place [[Bart's Treehouse]]}} {{Task|Collect Safety Gear|100}} {{Task/Job|Make Mr. Burns Release the Puppies|4 hours|the [[Control Building]]}} {{Task/Job|Make Bart Wait Patiently in Terror|4 hours|the [[Control Building]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}} {{ap|Kamp Krusty|location}} w/ [[Kamp Bart]] or {{Donut|12}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 3 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After completing Pt. 2|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Simpsons Babies Chat Decoration}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Homer Icon|Sad}}
{{TB|Waaaah-BURP! Waaaah-BURP!}}
{{THT||colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Startled}}
{{TB|Shut up, ya midgit idjit! I didn't put up with this from my own son, and I won't put up with it from you!}}
{{Tapped Out Simpsons Babies Chat Decoration}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Homer Icon|Sad}}
{{TB|I am your son.}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|You are? Then who am I? I'm very confused!}}
{{THT||colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Simpsons Babies Chat Decoration}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Lisa Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Ugh, I can't sit idly by and play with this plastic ring stacker much longer. Five minutes at most. It's really fun.}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|After that, we've got to help Bart!}}
{{THT|{{Task|Collect Safety Gear|100}} {{Task/Job|Make Lisa Stack Donut-Like Rings|4 hours|the [[Simpson House]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}} [[Simpson and Grandson Bike Customizing]]|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 4 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After completing Pt. 3|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon}}
{{TB|All right, youthful Bartholomew. Come out from behind those adorable puppies so I can shoot you.}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Startled}}
{{TB|Not so fast! These infants and I are here to, uh… for some reason. That's why!}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|Gadzooks, it's four babies and a funeral!}}
{{Tapped Out Simpsons Babies Chat Decoration}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|Your Youthenizer is wreaking havoc, Mr. Burns! We demand you reverse it and restore us to our proper ages!}}
{{THT||colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Impossible! The Youthenizer can't make anyone older. It only works one way, being as it's powered by a reservoir of adolescent blood.}}
{{Tapped Out Simpsons Babies Chat Decoration}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Marge Icon|Sad}}
{{TB|Oh, crudpoop.}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Logical, though. Eminently logical.}}
{{THT||colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon}}
{{TB|It was specially invented for me by my boyhood frenemy, Thomas Alva Edison, that I might one day live life anew.}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon}}
{{TB|…So I saved it until I was at death's very door. Then I forgot about it for seventy more years. Then, I put it to use!}}
{{Tapped Out Simpsons Babies Chat Decoration}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Lisa Icon|Sad}}
{{TB|How come it turned us into babies, but you into an older kid?}}
{{THT||colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|It's a Youthenizer, not a Youth-A-Sizer! It only has so much youthening power!}}
{{THT|{{Task|Collect Safety Gear|100}} {{Task/Job|Make Mr. Burns Aim Musket|4 hours|the [[Control Building]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon}}
{{TB|Of course, now that you know my secret, I must kill you all.}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon}}
{{TB|I only have one musket ball, so stand in front of one another with your aortas perfectly aligned.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}} [[KidZone Elite]]|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 5 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After completing Pt. 4|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Sad}}
{{TB|It's not fair! How come everybody but me gets to be young?}}
{{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Shush! I need absolute silence while I'm kerblamming you.}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Homer Icon|Sad}}
{{TB|Yoiks! I'm so scared I pooped my pants earlier!}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Serious}}
{{TB|To hell with all of you! If I'm going to die, I'm going to die young and leave a beautiful corpse.}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Marge Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|{{*}}gasp{{*}} Grampa grabbed the Youthenizer!}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Lisa Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|Be careful, Grampa! If you fire it at us babies, you might youthenize us right out of existence!}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Startled}}
{{TB|Babies can bite my wrinkly patoot! I'm pulling the trigg– OW! I sliced open my papery skin on the gizmodulator!}}
{{Tapped Out Youthenizer Icon}}
{{TB|BEGIN YOUTHENIZATION}}
{{THT|{{Task|Collect Safety Gear|100}} {{Task/JobMulti|Make Babies Get Blasted by the Youthenizer|4 hours|the [[Control Building]]|5}} {{Task/Job|Make Bart Get Blasted by a Musket|4 hours|the [[Control Building]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Curses! Abe Simpson's decrepit old blood leaked into the Youthenizing reservoir, transmuting it into an Oldening Ray!}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Of course, an Oldening Ray! And it blasted us all back to our normal ages!}}
{{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Teary}}
{{TB|Except me. I'm much, much more ancient now.}}
{{Tapped Out Homer and Marge Icon}}
{{TB|Hooray!}}
{{Tapped Out Maggie Icon}}
{{TB|{{*}}suck{{*}} {{*}}suck{{*}}}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Bart Icon}}
{{TB|What matters is, everything is back to normal.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|Oh no, Bart! You've been baby-ized!}}
{{Tapped Out Baby Bart Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|Teethe my shorts!}}
{{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Huh. I thought I was murdering him with my musket, but it turned out to be the spare Youthenizer. I really ought to pay more attention to whom I shoot with what.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|200}} and {{XP|20}} [[Baby Bart]]|colspan=2}}
}}

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 {{Tapped Out Quest
 |name = Age Against the Machine
-|image =
+|image = [[File:Tapped Out Age Against the Machine Sidebar.png]]
 |level = 5
 |update = {{TOCU|Simpsons Babies}}
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 |characters = [[Mr. Burns]], [[Bart]], [[Lisa]]
 |optional = [[Marge]], [[Ling Bouvier]], [[Artie Ziff]], See [[#Currency-earning tasks|Currency-earning tasks]]
 |previous = [[Simpsons Babies Intro]]
 |next = [[Simpsons Babies Outro]]

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 {{THT|After completing Pt. 1|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Bart Icon}}
-{{TB|Sneaking into the nuclear plant is a cinch. Skateboard up the cooling tower… through the atomic blast vent…}}
+{{TB|Sneaking into the nuclear plant is a cinch. Skateboard up the cooling tower... through the atomic blast vent...}}
 {{Tapped Out Bart Icon}}
-{{TB|Past the guard crow…}}
+{{TB|Past the guard crow...}}
 {{Tapped Out Icon|Crow||60}}
 {{TB|{{*}}CAW!{{*}}}}
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 {{TB|"Old Man"? Pshaw! Thanks to the Youthenizer, I'm a scrapping young ball-whacker like you!}}
 {{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon}}
-{{TB|…Although infinitely richer, and with a pack of hounds at my disposal.}}
+{{TB|...Although infinitely richer, and with a pack of hounds at my disposal.}}
 {{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon|Happy}}
 {{TB|Release the hounds!}}
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 {{TB|All right, youthful Bartholomew. Come out from behind those adorable puppies so I can shoot you.}}
 {{Tapped Out Grampa Icon|Startled}}
-{{TB|Not so fast! These infants and I are here to, uh… for some reason. That's why!}}
+{{TB|Not so fast! These infants and I are here to, uh... for some reason. That's why!}}
 {{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon|Surprised}}
 {{TB|Gadzooks, it's four babies and a funeral!}}
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 {{TB|It was specially invented for me by my boyhood frenemy, Thomas Alva Edison, that I might one day live life anew.}}
 {{Tapped Out Young Burns Icon}}
-{{TB|…So I saved it until I was at death's very door. Then I forgot about it for seventy more years. Then, I put it to use!}}
+{{TB|...So I saved it until I was at death's very door. Then I forgot about it for seventy more years. Then, I put it to use!}}
 {{Tapped Out Simpsons Babies Chat Decoration}}
 {{Tapped Out Baby Lisa Icon|Sad}}