24 Minutes

Season 18, Episode 21, Aired
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Principal Skinner opens a CTU Counter Truancy Unit at Springfield Elementary School with Lisa heading up the operation. Homer is sent to dispose a container of yogurt so far past its freshness date that it could be toxic, but the reeking yogurt falls into the hands of Dolph, Jimbo and Kearney. With the help of Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian, Bart and Lisa must stop the bullies from releasing the ultimate stink bomb at the school's bake sale.moreless
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  • Hank Azaria

    Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others

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    Harry Shearer

    Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others

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    Julie Kavner

    Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier

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  • Best Modern Simpsons episode!

    10
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    By AdrenalinDragon, Aug 20, 2011 Report Abuse
    "24 Minutes"
    Grade: A*
    Wow! Who would have thought a 24 Parody on The Simpsons would turn out to be one of the greatest episodes of the show? 24 Minutes has everything you could ever want in a Simpsons episode. The humour is excellent, every second of the episode is entertaining, the plot is genius, and Bart Simpson attacks Nelson Muntz in it. Jack Bauer's cameo appearence in it is used effectively, and everything comes full circle at the end with a dark joke to finish the episode off. It's just amazing to see The Simpsons can still pull off 10/10 episodes like this, and FOX should have made this the 400th episode. It was THAT good!moreless

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  • One of my favorite episodes

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    By smpsnkki, Jan 31, 2011 Report Abuse
    I haven't seen 24 even so, this episode was hilarious and awesome. It was just so funny and I didn't get that it was a parody of 24 (cause I'd never seen it) but I definitely got that it was a parody of such action/science fiction movies. SO, It begins with Principal Skinner opening CTU: Counter Truancy Unit. His agents are Lisa, Database, Martin, Milhouse, and some of the other nerds. Immediately three 6th graders (Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney) go missing. They are tracked to the Kwik-E-Mart, where Homer is returning a toxic yoghurt well past its freshness date. They steal the yoghurt, putting it in a suitcase, and walk outside, where Milhouse is spying on them for Principal Skinner. Homer comes up and says:
    "Hey, Milhouse, who you spying on? Those bullies?" The bullies throw both Homer and Milhouse in a dumpster and send it rolling down the road. Lisa, suspicious of the bullies activities, makes a deal with Bart to go see what the bullies are doing. He figures out they are going to put a stink bomb in the school-just as the annual bake sale is happening. Martin is a traitor and instructs Jimbo to leave. The bullies leave just as Bart comes to their house. The bullies come with the stink bomb to school, hiding in the janitors closet. Bart tracks them, finding out that Martin is a traitor, but too late, he knocks Bart out with a french horn and sends him (along with Willie, who was in the janitors room) to be tied to a chair until after the bake sale is over. They leave the stink bomb in the janitors room with a countdown and push Martin out, just as the bake sale starts.

    Meanwhile, Marge struggles to make a cake on time for the bake sale, but has problems: One, they are out of raisins, so she must go to the store to get more. She comes back with 5 minutes to spare, and bakes the cake at 1200 degrees to get it done on time. Not surprisingly, the oven explodes, and her cake is ruined. None the less, she decides to go to the bake sale anyway, covering the whole cake with pink frosting. When she gets there, she drops it on the ground and picks it up again. She then walks into the gym, proclaiming, "I'm in the sale, i'm in the sale!" Meanwhile, Homer and Milhouse steer the dumpster around town and eventually end up at the bake sale. Now comes the climax

    Really good episode, I commend the writers for doing something out of the ordinary, and it works really well. I wish they would do something like this nowadays

    This, 'Trilogy of Error,' 'Who Shot Mr. Burns, parts 1 and 2,' and '22 Short Films about Springfield' are some of my favorite episodes because I love it when the writers do something unusual. A big improvement from some of the episodes in the 18th and 17th season.

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  • 24 teams up with the Simpsons!

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    By joshta101, Jan 31, 2011 Report Abuse
    I love 24 and the Simpsons so I was really excited about the episode, 24 Minutes. The idea was brilliant and the cameos from Jack Bauer and Chloe O' Brian were funny and the ending were Bart got arrested was hilarious. Whoever thought up the Counter Truancy Unit was a genius and I hope the writer makes more episodes like this! Hopefully we will see more of CTU, Bart and Lisa in another 24 parody sooner or later in Season 21. This is a brilliant episode and if you haven't seen it yet, try and see it anyway you can!moreless

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  • One of season 18's best episodes!

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    By Sami5118, Jan 31, 2011 Report Abuse
    Principal Skinner opens a CTU Counter Truancy Unit at Springfield Elementary School with Lisa heading up the operation. Homer is sent to dispose a container of yogurt so far past its freshness date that it could be toxic, but the reeking yogurt falls into the hands of Dolph, Jimbo and Kearney. With the help of Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian, Bart and Lisa must stop the bullies from releasing the ultimate stink bomb at the school's bake sale.

    What I liked: Awesome 24 parody- probably one of the very few parodys that I actually liked.
    The part with Homer riding in the dumpster- funny as hell!

    There's alot more stuff that I liked, but I'm too lazy to put them all so overall, I think that this was one of s18's best eps.moreless

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  • 24 minutes

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    By sasuke6798, Aug 05, 2010 Report Abuse
    24 minutes: Jimbo and the gang are planning to make the supreme stinky bomb and marge is planning to bake a raisin cake with strawberry but there are no raisins and she fights with a lady to the last box of raisins and only gives him five dollars while the others give ten or more and in the ventilation tunnel there was a kid, and the year books of the 50's (too racists) and the year books of the 80's (not racists enough) and a kid and a skelleton and when bart gets on the window and clancy willigum shoots and marge uses his raisin cake and then he had weenie flavor and the custodian was drowned and telled that they leaved down there to die because he had to clean all the mess. The episode was so funny. I sincerely liked these episodes so blah, blah, blah, yadda, ydda, ydda, very funny oh well. . . . . .moreless

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  • Trivia

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    • Ingredients of the stink bomb: Road kill, Burnt hair, Jimbo's sister's retainer case, Six weeks of bottled farts, Possum placenta, Sweat from a walk-around Goofy suit, and TCBY (That Container of Botulized Yogurt). Edit
    • The upside-down newspaper Milhouse is holding is the Springfield Shopper. The headlines read "Mayor's Breath Still Problem", "Corn Less Popular" and "Bake Sale Today". Edit
    • Goof: Somehow, the lettering on Martin's sash reverses so it can be read properly in the mirror's reflection, and flips back to normal when he turns around. Edit

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    • This episode won the 2008 Annie Award for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production. Edit
    • (The opening was similar to 24, but with a story about the new CTU -Counter Truancy Unit- at Springfield Elementary.) Blackboard Joke: none Couch Gag: none Edit

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    • Milhouse: Lisa, if I don't make it back, there's a letter in my locker I want you to read. Lisa: I've already read it. Principal Skinner: We've all read it. Edit
    • Principal Skinner: (On the phone) Lord, give me guidance... That's right, the guidance department. Thank you, Mrs. Lord. Edit
    • Lisa: I've got something! The sixth grade security camera shows three empty desks. Principal Skinner: Enhance! (Camera zooms in on desk with "Skinner Stinks" carved into it) Principal Skinner: De-hance! De-hance! Edit

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    • The Odd Couple Jimbo's cell phone ring tone is the theme song from the old television show The Odd Couple. Edit
    • Episode Title: "24 Minutes" This title and episode is a parody of FOX's show, 24. Edit

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