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-{{Desc|After missing a catch that would have won the [[Springfield Isotots]] a championship game, [[Bart]] becomes a pariah who is mocked and terrorized by the townspeople. His guilt and shame over the incident begin to take their toll on him. Meanwhile, [[Homer]] trades his and [[Marge]]'s mattress to the Lovejoys, which ruins his and Marge's sex life.}}
+{{Synopsis|After missing a catch that would have won the [[Springfield Isotots]] a championship game, [[Bart]] becomes a pariah who is mocked and terrorized by the townspeople. His guilt and shame over the incident begin to take their toll on him. Meanwhile, [[Homer]] trades his and [[Marge]]'s mattress to the Lovejoys, which ruins his and Marge's sex life.}}
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-"'''The Boys of Bummer'''" is the eighteenth episode of [[season 18]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the three-hundred and ninety-sixth episode overall. It originally aired on April 29, [[2007]]. The episode was written by [[Michael Price]] and directed by [[Rob Oliver]].
+"'''The Boys of Bummer'''" is the eighteenth episode of [[Season 18|broadcast season 18]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the three-hundred and ninety-sixth episode overall. It originally aired on April 29, [[2007]]. The episode was written by [[Michael Price]] and directed by [[Rob Oliver]].
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 |couchgag= The Simpsons play a game of musical chairs and when the music stops, everyone sits down but Homer.
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-{{Desc|Bart becomes a hometown hero when he makes the game-winning catch at his Little League game, sending the Springfield Isotots to the Little League championship for the first time ever. However, Springfield turns on him when he drops an easy pop fly in the bottom of the ninth, losing the game for his team. As the citizens of Springfield continue to mock and terrorize Bart, his guilt and shame threaten to send him over the edge. In an effort to cheer him up, Lisa introduces Bart to Bill Buckner. Meanwhile, after falling asleep in a department store display bed, Homer is saved from disaster when a customer mistakes Homer's crafty excuses for a sales pitch, leading the store owner to hire Homer as a salesperson. When the Lovejoys return a mattress they had purchased in hopes of spicing up their sex life, they find success on Homer's personal mattress and convince him to trade, a transaction Homer and Marge immediately regret and seek to remedy.}}
+{{Desc|After missing a catch that would have won the [[Springfield Isotots]] a championship game, [[Bart]] becomes a pariah who is mocked and terrorized by the townspeople. His guilt and shame over the incident begin to take their toll on him. Meanwhile, [[Homer]] trades his and [[Marge]]'s mattress to the Lovejoys, which ruins his and Marge's sex life.}}
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 Sixty years later, [[Milhouse]] nearly lets it slip to Bart that the game was faked to make up for his lack of talent, but then takes it back when Bart starts crying, prompting Bart to say that he rules and Milhouse drools. The episode ends with the ghosts of Homer and Marge watching Bart taunt Milhouse and voicing their disappointment. Homer attempts to talk Marge in to having ghost sex with him, only for Marge to tell him that it is just not the same as when they were alive, although they apparently do so as she is heard making moaning sounds.
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 |airdate= April 29, [[2007]]
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 == Airdate ==
-Originally, this episode was to air on May 6, [[2007]]. However, on April 16, the {{W|Virginia Tech massacre}} took place, less than two weeks before the airdate of "[[Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!]]", which prominently featured gunplay in some scenes. Out of sensitivity to the victims of the shootings, Fox moved this episode up in the schedule.
+Originally, this episode was to air on May 6, [[2007]]. However, on April 16, the {{W|Virginia Tech massacre}} took place, less than two weeks before the airdate of "[[Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!]]", which prominently featured gunplay in some scenes. Out of sensitivity to the victims of the shootings, Fox moved this episode up in the schedule.
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 == Plot ==
 [[File:Homer in a bed.png|200px|left|thumb|After a hard day shopping, Homer decides to go to sleep in a bed at [[Costingtons]].]]
-As the episode starts, the Simpsons are at a Little League Baseball game, and [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] catches a fly ball, pushing the Springfield Isotots into the championship. The next day, [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] is shopping at a department store, but [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] is tired and can not find a place to sit, so he lies down on a mattress and ends up falling asleep. However, when he wakes up, everybody is staring at him, so he gets up and exclaims his love for the mattress and manages to sell five; he is promptly hired as a mattress salesman.
+As the episode starts, the Simpsons are at a Little League Baseball game, and [[Bart]] catches a fly ball, pushing the Springfield Isotots into the championship. The next day, [[Marge]] is shopping at a department store, but [[Homer]] is tired and can not find a place to sit, so he lies down on a mattress and ends up falling asleep. However, when he wakes up, everybody is staring at him, so he gets up and exclaims his love for the mattress and manages to sell five; he is promptly hired as a mattress salesman.
 At the championship, [[Springfield]] is against [[Shelbyville]], and is leading 5-2 in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, but Shelbyville has the bases loaded. When their batter hits the ball that could decide the game, it heads towards Bart. He drops an easily caught pop up and repeatedly fails to pick it up, allowing all four runners to score on a walk-off inside the park grand slam, giving Shelbyville the 6-5 victory. The entire crowd turns against Bart and throws beer at him, to the point where [[Chief Wiggum]] hurries him in to his police car, only to drive back to the stadium and open the car roof so the crowds can continue to throw beer at him after fleeing the stadium. Bart is totally humiliated and is now the town pariah.
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 Bart's humiliation goes on as {{ap|Bill|KBBL}} and [[Marty]] tell everyone on the radio, and [[Jimbo]], [[Dolph]], and [[Kearney]] sung a song about it. The town continues to angrily mock Bart for losing the game. Lisa, feeling remorseful for him, tries to cheer him up by taking to see an old baseball star (Joe La Boot) who dropped a fly ball and still grew up to be rich and famous. Unfortunately, it only makes Bart feel worse after the baseball player learns who he is and makes everybody in the building boo him, causing Bart to break down. The next morning, Springfield awakes to find a deranged Bart has spray-painted "I HATE BART SIMPSON" on everything in town (including a passed-out Barney). While he is painting the message on the water tower (Marge viewing him using glasses), he lets go of the rope that was holding him up in an attempted suicide to everyone's encouragement.
-He survives, of course, and is revived by [[Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]]. Marge looks outside and sees an angry mob outside chanting "Bart Sucks" over and over. Finally fed up with all the abuse poured onto Bart, she walks out to them and angrily tells them off for mocking Bart's "boo-boo", telling them they should be ashamed of themselves for treating Bart like this. She also says that it was no big deal for a little boy to lose a game, and she backs up her negative assessment of their harsh treatment of Bart by saying that Springfield is the "Meanest City in America", which is true.
+He survives, of course, and is revived by [[Dr. Hibbert]]. Marge looks outside and sees an angry mob outside chanting "Bart Sucks" over and over. Finally fed up with all the abuse poured onto Bart, she walks out to them and angrily tells them off for mocking Bart's "boo-boo", telling them they should be ashamed of themselves for treating Bart like this. She also says that it was no big deal for a little boy to lose a game, and she backs up her negative assessment of their harsh treatment of Bart by saying that Springfield is the "Meanest City in America", which is true.
 [[File:DerangedBart.png|200px|thumb|left|Bart, having lost his mind, spray paints "I HATE BART SIMPSON" on the water tower.]]
 Feeling guilty, the town apologizes to Bart and agrees to restage the game. After 78 tries (some flying into orbit, some stolen by Homer, one where Moe ran naked on the field), Bart catches the ball, winning the game. Homer and Marge sneak in to the Lovejoys' home to steal back their mattress, but the Lovejoys return and excitedly rush up to bed, and Reverend solves the problem Solomon-style – he cuts the mattress in half diagonally. Homer convinces Marge to drive behind a billboard where they have sex, just as they did on their honeymoon – complete with the same bum watching them.
-Sixty years later, [[Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]] nearly lets it slip to Bart that the game was faked to make up for his lack of talent, but then takes it back when Bart starts crying, prompting Bart to say that he rules and Milhouse drools. The episode ends with the ghosts of Homer and Marge watching Bart taunt Milhouse and voicing their disappointment. Homer attempts to talk Marge in to having ghost sex with him, only for Marge to tell him that it is just not the same as when they were alive, although they apparently do so as she is heard making moaning sounds.
+Sixty years later, [[Milhouse]] nearly lets it slip to Bart that the game was faked to make up for his lack of talent, but then takes it back when Bart starts crying, prompting Bart to say that he rules and Milhouse drools. The episode ends with the ghosts of Homer and Marge watching Bart taunt Milhouse and voicing their disappointment. Homer attempts to talk Marge in to having ghost sex with him, only for Marge to tell him that it is just not the same as when they were alive, although they apparently do so as she is heard making moaning sounds.
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 [[File:Bart falls off.png|200px|thumb|right|After spraying "I HATE BART SIMPSON" on a water tower, Bart decides to pretend to commit suicide to get attention.]]
-Bart's humiliation goes on as [[Bill and Marty]] tell everyone on the radio, and [[Jimbo]], [[Dolph]], and [[Kearney]] sung a song about it. The town continues to angrily mock Bart for losing the game. Lisa, feeling remorseful for him, tries to cheer him up by taking to see an old baseball star (Joe La Boot) who dropped a fly ball and still grew up to be rich and famous. Unfortunately, it only makes Bart feel worse after the baseball player learns who he is and makes everybody in the building boo him, causing Bart to break down. The next morning, Springfield awakes to find a deranged Bart has spray-painted "I HATE BART SIMPSON" on everything in town (including a passed-out Barney). While he is painting the message on the water tower (Marge viewing him using glasses), he lets go of the rope that was holding him up in an attempted suicide to everyone's encouragement.
+Bart's humiliation goes on as {{ap|Bill|KBBL}} and [[Marty]] tell everyone on the radio, and [[Jimbo]], [[Dolph]], and [[Kearney]] sung a song about it. The town continues to angrily mock Bart for losing the game. Lisa, feeling remorseful for him, tries to cheer him up by taking to see an old baseball star (Joe La Boot) who dropped a fly ball and still grew up to be rich and famous. Unfortunately, it only makes Bart feel worse after the baseball player learns who he is and makes everybody in the building boo him, causing Bart to break down. The next morning, Springfield awakes to find a deranged Bart has spray-painted "I HATE BART SIMPSON" on everything in town (including a passed-out Barney). While he is painting the message on the water tower (Marge viewing him using glasses), he lets go of the rope that was holding him up in an attempted suicide to everyone's encouragement.
 He survives, of course, and is revived by [[Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]]. Marge looks outside and sees an angry mob outside chanting "Bart Sucks" over and over. Finally fed up with all the abuse poured onto Bart, she walks out to them and angrily tells them off for mocking Bart's "boo-boo", telling them they should be ashamed of themselves for treating Bart like this. She also says that it was no big deal for a little boy to lose a game, and she backs up her negative assessment of their harsh treatment of Bart by saying that Springfield is the "Meanest City in America", which is true.