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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|[[Homer]] and [[Marge]] follow [[Moe]] after the bar closes early and discover him and his [[Morty Szyslak|father]] fighting. The [[Simpson family|Simpsons]], after finding out that Moe has been excommunicated from his family for years, attempt to bring them back together.}}
+{{Synopsis|[[Homer]] and [[Marge]] follow [[Moe]] after the bar closes early and discover him and his [[Morty Szyslak|father]] fighting. The [[Simpson family|Simpsons]], after finding out that Moe has been excommunicated from his family for years, attempt to bring them back together.}}
 == Plot ==

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-'''"King Leer"''' is the sixteenth episode of [[season 29]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the six hundred thirty-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on April 15, [[2018]]. The episode was written by [[Daniel Furlong]] and [[Zach Posner]] and directed by [[Chris Clements]]. It guest stars [[Ray Liotta]] as [[Morty Szyslak]], [[Debi Mazar]] as [[Minnie Szyslak]], and [[Jonathan Schmock]] as the [[Johnny Bermuda salesman]].
+'''"King Leer"''' is the sixteenth episode of [[Season 29|broadcast season 29]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the six hundred thirty-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on April 15, [[2018]]. The episode was written by [[Daniel Furlong]] and [[Zach Posner]] and directed by [[Chris Clements]]. It guest stars [[Ray Liotta]] as [[Morty Szyslak]], [[Debi Mazar]] as [[Minnie Szyslak]], and [[Jonathan Schmock]] as the [[Johnny Bermuda salesman]].
 == Synopsis ==

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 |airdate= April 15, [[2018]]
 |guests=[[Ray Liotta]] as [[Morty Szyslak]]<br>[[Debi Mazar]] as [[Minnie Szyslak]]<br>[[Jonathan Schmock]] as [[Johnny Bermuda salesman]]
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-'''"King Leer"''' is the sixteenth episode of [[season 29]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the six hundred thirty-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on April 15, [[2018]]. The episode was written by [[Daniel Furlong]] and [[Zach Posner]] and directed by [[Chris Clements]]. It guest stars [[Ray Liotta]] as [[Morty Szyslak]], [[Debi Mazar]] as [[Minnie Szyslak]] and [[Jonathan Schmock]] as [[Johnny Bermuda salesman]].
+'''"King Leer"''' is the sixteenth episode of [[season 29]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the six hundred thirty-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on April 15, [[2018]]. The episode was written by [[Daniel Furlong]] and [[Zach Posner]] and directed by [[Chris Clements]]. It guest stars [[Ray Liotta]] as [[Morty Szyslak]], [[Debi Mazar]] as [[Minnie Szyslak]], and [[Jonathan Schmock]] as the [[Johnny Bermuda salesman]].
 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|[[Homer]] and [[Marge]] follow [[Moe]] after the bar closes early and discover him and his [[Morty Szyslak|father]] fighting. [[Simpson family|The Simpsons]], after finding out that Moe has been excommunicated from his family for years, attempt to bring them back together.}}
+{{Desc|[[Homer]] and [[Marge]] follow [[Moe]] after the bar closes early and discover him and his [[Morty Szyslak|father]] fighting. The [[Simpson family|Simpsons]], after finding out that Moe has been excommunicated from his family for years, attempt to bring them back together.}}
 == Plot ==
-In [[Springfield Elementary School|Springfield Elementary]], there's school band sign ups and [[Marge]] is forcing [[Bart]] to join. Bart tries them but Marge imagines the pranks he could pull and refuses to let him play them, but settles on the violin.
+At [[Springfield Elementary School|Springfield Elementary]], students sign up for the school band, and [[Marge]] forces [[Bart]] to join. Bart tries out several instruments, but Marge imagines the pranks he could pull with them and refuses to let him play any—eventually settling on the violin.
-[[Homer]] is however afraid that he might break it and he'd have to pay $430 to the school, so he goes on and stops him for putting it into danger, but after Bart keeps teasing him, he smashes it in the ground.
+[[Homer]], however, worries Bart might break it and that he'd have to pay $430 to the school, so he stops Bart from putting it at risk. After Bart keeps teasing him, Homer smashes the violin on the ground.
-At [[Moe's Tavern]], [[Moe]] gets angry after receiving a call from an unrevealed caller, destroying beer glasses that were delivered on a little train.
+At [[Moe's Tavern]], [[Moe]] gets angry after receiving a call from an unknown caller, destroying beer glasses that were delivered on a miniature train. When Marge comes to drive Homer home, they follow the furious Moe to a warehouse, where they find him fighting with the caller—his father, [[Morty Szyslak]].
-When Marge comes to drive Homer home, they follow the angry Moe to a warehouse, where they find him fighting with the caller, his dad, [[Morty Szyslak]].
+Moe closes the bar, and Marge serves beer to him and Homer while Moe tells them the story of how his family business is mattress sales, owning [[Mattress King]].
-Moe closes the bar and Marge is serving him and Homer beer, while he tells them the story of how his family business is being mattress salesman, owning [[Mattress King]].
+Moe reveals that their business model involved using bed bugs to ruin mattresses and drive customers to buy new ones. Moe refused to sabotage rival stores, but the owners of Sleep 'N Snooze planted bed bugs in Mattress King's inventory, ruining the business. Moe kicked his father out of the house afterward.
-Moe reveals them their business involves using bed bugs to ruin mattresses and force people to buy from them, but he couldn't do it to the other shops, however the owners of Sleep 'N Snooze put bed bugs in theirs and Mattress King's empire was ruined, and Moe kicked him out of his house.
+Marge convinces Moe to make peace with his father, brother ([[Marv Szyslak|Marv]]), and sister ([[Minnie Szyslak|Minnie]]), and invites them to a family dinner at [[742 Evergreen Terrace|the Simpson house]]. The dinner gets heated, so Homer attempts to reconcile them by showing an old [[Christmas]] commercial, which brings them together.
-Marge convinces Moe to make peace with his father, brother ([[Marv Szyslak|Marv]]) and sister ([[Minnie Szyslak|Minnie]]) and invites them to a family dinner at the [[742 Evergreen Terrace|Simpson House]]. The dinner however gets animated and so to bring peace, Homer tries by showing them their [[Christmas]] commercial and that reconciles them.
+After dinner, Morty announces his retirement and gives each of his children a store. Moe hosts a grand reopening, but when the commercial for his store airs, his siblings edit the footage to betray him—retaliating for Moe betraying the family years earlier by refusing to sabotage the competition. As a result, all his customers leave.
-After dinner, Morty announces he's retiring. He gives his children a store each. Moe does a grand reopening, but when the commercial for the store aired, his brother and sister edited the footage to betray him, like he betrayed the family when he didn't put the bed bugs in the other store's mattresses, and all clients left.
+Moe decides he has to "go to the mattresses" with his siblings—Szyslak-style—attacking their stores by removing mattress tags and puncturing waterbeds to flood them. [[Homer]] helps by spray-painting [[Patty]] and [[Selma]] too.
-Moe then realizes he has to "go to the matresses" with his siblings, Szyslak's way, fighting against their stores, including removing the tags from their mattresses, and flooding the store by making holes in their water mattresses (while Homer also sprayed paint on [[Patty]] and [[Selma]] too.)
+Marge realizes that only Morty can stop the conflict, so she goes to [[Johnny Bermuda Retirement Attire]] to find him and brings him back to the warehouse, where Moe threatens his siblings with bed-bugging their mattresses—claiming his are safe at Moe's Tavern.
-Marge realizes that the only one that can stop this is Morty, so she goes to [[Johnny Bermuda Retirement Attire]] and gets him, returning to the warehouse where Moe is treatening his siblings with bed bugging their mattresses, while his are safe at his tavern.
+Morty, however, encourages him to go through with it to prove his worth. Moe remembers the good times instead and hesitates. When Marge consoles him, he drops the jar, and the bed bugs spread across the mattresses and onto everyone in the warehouse, who run out trying to shake them off.
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-'''"King Leer"''' is the sixteenth episode of [[season 29]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the six-hundred and thirty-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on April 15, [[2018]]. The episode was written by [[Daniel Furlong]] and [[Zach Posner]] and directed by [[Chris Clements]]. It guest stars [[Ray Liotta]] as [[Morty Szyslak]], [[Debi Mazar]] as [[Minnie Szyslak]] and [[Jonathan Schmock]] as [[Johnny Bermuda salesman]].
+'''"King Leer"''' is the sixteenth episode of [[season 29]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the six hundred thirty-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on April 15, [[2018]]. The episode was written by [[Daniel Furlong]] and [[Zach Posner]] and directed by [[Chris Clements]]. It guest stars [[Ray Liotta]] as [[Morty Szyslak]], [[Debi Mazar]] as [[Minnie Szyslak]] and [[Jonathan Schmock]] as [[Johnny Bermuda salesman]].
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 |guests=[[Ray Liotta]] as [[Morty Szyslak]]<br>[[Debi Mazar]] as [[Minnie Szyslak]]<br>[[Jonathan Schmock]] as [[Johnny Bermuda salesman]]
 |showrunner1= Matt Selman
 |writer= [[Daniel Furlong]]<br>[[Zach Posner]]
 |director= [[Chris Clements]]

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 == Reception ==

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 == Promo videos ==
-*{{youtube|lJv2vKOoFtc|Marge Takes Moe To Apologize To Morty}}
+*{{Youtube|lJv2vKOoFtc|Marge Takes Moe To Apologize To Morty}}
-*{{youtube|SZULjOxTpsE|Bart Gets A New Violin}}
+*{{Youtube|SZULjOxTpsE|Bart Gets A New Violin}}
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