King Leer
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"King Leer"
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Episode Information
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"King Leer" is the sixteenth episode of 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[edit]
- Homer and Marge follow Moe after the bar closes early and discover him and his father fighting. The Simpsons, after finding out that Moe has been excommunicated from his family for years, attempt to bring them back together.
Plot[edit]
At 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, 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 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.
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 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.
Marge convinces Moe to make peace with his father, brother (Marv), and sister (Minnie), and invites them to a family dinner at the Simpson house. The dinner gets heated, so Homer attempts to reconcile them by showing an old Christmas commercial, which brings them together.
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.
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.
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.
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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Reception[edit]
In its original airing, "King Leer" scored a 1.0 rating with a 4 share and was watched by 2.26 million people. It was Fox's highest rated show of the night.[1]
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