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The Simpsons: $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)

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During a town meeting, Principal Skinner pitches the idea of opening a casino. Mr. Burns adopts this notion and builds the "Mr. Burns' Casino." Homer takes a job as a blackjack dealer and Marge takes up gambling. At home, Lisa is having difficulties with her school project and Bart opens a treehouse casino. Read full recap »

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Writers:: Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein

Director:: Wesley Archer

Stars:: Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson); Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others); Hank Azaria (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others); Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others); Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others); Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier)

Recurring Role:: Pamela Hayden (Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones, and others)

Guest Star:: Gerry Cooney (Himself); Robert Goulet (Himself)

Odds at Bart's casino:
Krabappel nervous breakdown: 2-1
Fat kid popular: 50-1
Bart gets his own TV show: 1000-1 edit »
The scene with Homer at the blackjack table parodies ''Rain Man.'' edit »
Homer's photographic memory details himself with huge muscles, Marge in a blue dress and green hair, Apu with three heads, and an alligator in a suit. edit »
Along with several hats, a hair brush and false teeth are thrown into the air at the town meeting. edit »

Deleted Scene: James Bond and a villain are playing blackjack with Homer as the dealer. Homer gives Bond a joker. Bond tells him he has to take those away from the deck. The he gives Bond the card with the game rules. Bond loses and the villain takes him away. edit »
This is the episode in which Marge develops her gambing problem. edit »
There is a scene depicting Siegfried & Roy knockoffs, "Gunter and Ernst" getting mauled by one of their tigers. Although this episode aired several years before the real life incident that nearly took Roy Horn's life, one wonders if we'll get to see this gag again. edit »
Blackboard Joke: I will not say "Springfield" just to get applause.
Couch Gag: The family run into each other and shatter as if they're ceramic. Santa's Little Helper inspects the debris. edit »

Mr Burns: (holding a miniature wooden plane) Do you see this plane, Smithers? This gonna help us to take the Spruce Goose and take us outta here!
Smithers: Excellent model, sir.
Mr. Burns: Uh, model? edit »
Lisa: Dad, Mom said she'd be home to help me with my costume and she's not, and the geography pageant is tonight!
Homer: Lisa, your mom still loves you. It's just that she has a career now. She's a slot-jockey. edit »
Lisa: Do you get the feeling this family is disintegrating? I mean, we haven't had a meal with Mom all week. And she hasn't even started my costume for the geography pageant.
Bart: Pipe down, sister. I gotta book a new act for tonight. Turns out that Liza Minnelli impersonator was really Liza Minnelli. (shudders) edit »
Homer: Marge! You waited for me.
Marge: Er.
Homer: Okay, Marge, let's go.
Marge: I'll catch up to you.
Homer: Marge, I'm taking the car.
Marge: I'll walk.
Homer: This late? Through the bad neighborhood?
Marge: Yeah.
Homer: Marge�
Marge: Go home! You're bad luck.
Homer: Wait! I see what's happening here. You're just mad because everyone in this town loves gambling except for you. Well that's just sad. edit »
(Barney saves Maggie from a tiger in the casino)
Barney: Marge, you gotta watch out. Your little boy, Bart, could have been eaten by that pony! edit »

Tales From the Crypt
Homer says that he once let a maniac dressed as Santa Claus into the house. This is a reference to the Tales From the Crypt episode "And All Through the House" where the daughter of a woman who murdered her husband lets an escaped mental patient dressed as Santa Claus into the house. edit »
James Bond
In a deleted scene to this episode, which can be seen in the 7th season episode "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" James Bond makes a cameo gambling to save the world. When Homer doesn't remove a joker from the deck it makes Bond lose. edit »
Terms of Endearment/I'll Do Anything
The movie posters for "Sperms of Endearment" and "I'll Do Anyone" are spoofs on the movies Terms of Endearment and I'll Do Anything which happen to have been produced by The Simpsons Executive Producer, James L. Brooks. edit »
The Ren and Stimpy Show
The music heard in the newsreel is the same stock music heard on The Ren and Stimpy Show. edit »
Blackboard Joke: I will not say "Springfield" just to get applause.
The blackboard quote is a parody of David Letterman's habit of constantly saying, "Buttafuoco" and his audience applauding during the Amy Fisher debacle in 1992-93. edit »

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$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
The Bottom Line: "Fine example"
It would be better, if the title wasn't so damn long ...Continue »
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$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
The Bottom Line: "Exactly why I watch this series"
The kind of humor in this is episode gets me hooked on the Simpsons. It is episodes like this that make it exactly why I watch this series... ...Continue »
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$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
The Bottom Line: "Another great installment"
no lisa the only monster is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother i call him gamblor ...Continue »
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nercirus
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$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
The Bottom Line: "Another great installment"
To help the economy Springfield legalizes gambling. Homer gets a job at the casino, Marge becomes an addict, and Mr. Burns becomes oddly similar to Howard Hughes. ...Continue »
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$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
The Bottom Line: "Series classic"
Funniest episode of the series. ...Continue »
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