The Simpsons (1989–…): Season 18, Episode 6 - Moe'N'A Lisa - full transcript

Lisa helps Moe become a distinguished poet, but she turns on him when he takes all the credit for his newfound greatness.

The Simpsons 18x06
Moe'n'a Lisa

Hmm.

I must be supposed

to remember something.

Huh?

Huh.

Hmm.

Come on, memory, wake up.

Is it our anniversary?

No, we don't have one this year.

Hmm.



Hm-hmm...

Don't forge ?

Don't forge what?

Oh... don't forget.

???????????? Don't forget what?

Hustle your

bustles, gang.

We're going to the Senior

Olympics to root for Grampa.

The Senior Olympics?

That's what I was supposed

to remember?!

Oh...

Don't you dare go limp.



Too late. The deed is done.

Kids, grab a fold.

Oh, hey, Homer.

Uh, I hope you didn't forget

that today's our big day.

I sure am looking forward

to my birthday fishing trip.

Well, I'll see you soon.

This is Moe, big day.

Uh... waiting,

feeling, uh, kind of fragile.

Moe, the birthday boy,

listening for your car.

I can finally win

a gold medal.

I came close

at the 1936 Olympics.

I threw a javelin

that barely missed Hitler.

But I did hit an assassin

who was trying to kill Hitler.

What is this?

Kill Hitler day?

The next time I saw Hitler,

we had dinner

and laughed about it.

What's with the lined

composition book?

My report on a "Fascinating

Springfielder" is due Monday,

and everybody I've tried

to interview is so boring.

You could interview me.

I collect Absolut ads.

How many others do you have?

There are others?

This guy sucks.

He can barely make it

to the top.

72 lousy events

and Grampa hasn't won
a single medal.

Well, it's not fair

when Moleman uses

his replacement legs.

On your mark!

Oh...

Oh, it's clouding up.

I better put on me rain poncho.

Sir!

You dropped your munchers!

You'll never take me alive,

Grim Reaper

Yay, Grampa.

Take the boy.

His soul is fresher.

I've never been happier.

Turn that hippie crap off!

I wonder if the dog thought about us while we were gone.

Oh...

I was supposed to take Moe fishing today.

Everybody hide!

Finally,that jerk Homer is home.

Oh, it's just his car.

Happy birthday to me

Happy birthday to me

I feel so damn lonely

Won't someone kill me...

And many more.

Homer, we can't scuttle like crabs

for the rest of our lives.

Says you.

"Dear Pus Bag"?

Whoa, Marge, who'd you piss off?

It's for you, Pus Bag!

Birthdays never meant squat to me.

Then you offered to take me fishing,

and like a stumblebum chump,

I dared to hope.

But you shattered my dreams

like a Duff tall boy in a bar brawl,

and you jammed the jagged neck right up my heart's butt.

I guess I just wasn't meant to be happy

or handsome or anything, really.

What a deep, tormented soul.

Loser!

Moe !

You have a world view both bleak and beautiful.

I want to write a report about you.

Wow, for the first time in my life,

someone's takinga genuine interest

in what's inside of me.

Heh, suddenly, this is my best birthday ever.

Still in the top three.

Still in the top ten.

How come you wanna do a report on me?

I ain't no great man, like Bob Seger or Haystacks Calhoun.

Because I suspect deep within you is an artist's soul.

Thanks. Say, here's my digs.

Moe, you live in a hotel?

You're just like "Eloise"!

Did someone say my name?

This vibrating massage chair feels great!

That ain't a massage chair.It's just full of cockroaches.

See?

eyeball screams
broken pige

Liver fights kidney
who wins ? no one

Wow!

Moe, these fragments are fascinating.

"I was in the Christmas pageant once.

"Mom showed up with a new boyfriend.

He called me Steve."

Oh... what you've got here is poetry!

Oh... what you've got here is poetry!

Ooh, Moe's a poet!

He has a soul!

Flutter your wings!

It's tea time in Buttercup Junction!

Dee-dee-dee...

Moe's the Princess of Lollipop Land!

He lunches on lavender and potpourri!

Seriously, Moe,I think you have a gift.

Thanks, Homer.I love ya, man.

Ooh, you love a man!

You know, artfully arranged,these fragments could be

an epic poem-- like T.S.Eliot's "The Wasteland."

What-which why-liot's the who-now?

Whoa!

My brain-goo's comin' out all artistical, thanks to you.

How 'bout this for a title:

"Howling at a Concrete Moon."

That's a terrific title!

It jumps out at you like a ratin your underwear drawer.

We make a great team there, Liser.

"...my soul smells like a dead pigeon after three weeks.

"I shut my window and go to sleep.

In my dream

I eat corn with my eyes."

Philistines.

Lisa, I'm sorry you

got a bad grade on your "Moe and tell."

I don't care about my grade.

I'm gonna send Moe's poem to American Poetry Perspectives.

Do not mention that publication in this house!

They never published my poem!"There once was a rapping tomato

"That's right,I said 'rapping tomato'

"He rapped all day from April to May

And also, guess what,it was me."

Hey, Chief, we just got a submission

from a brilliant poet no one's ever heard of!

Hmm ! Genius !

Pay him nothing,and run it on the cover!

Stop the presses ! Send my wife some flowers!

And bring me an Advil! What do you mean you don't work for me?!

You're hired ! Now that you're hired, you're fired!

Now that you don't work here, we can be friends.

Now that we're friends,how come you never call?

Some friend you are !

God, I love this business.

Here it is.

Bad news, Maya Angelou : you've been bumped.

...you can't bump me...

...bump you!

Moe, you're a published author!

Wow, Just think : earlier tonight,

a newly-published poet cleaned up my barf.

Moe's Tavern.

Who ?

Where ?

To what ?

Screw you, snail trail!

Who was that?

Eh, some jerk makin'a prank call

with a gag name:"Tom Wolfe."

Tom Wolfe?!

He wrote The Right Stuff

and Bonfire of the Vanities.

And coined the phrase "radical chic !"

Wait, wait, wait. Then that guy wasn't squeezin' my 'roids

when he invited me to the Wordloaf Festival in Vermont?

The Wordloaf Festival?!

You'll meet all the great American writers, Moe!

You have to go!

Yeah? Well, okay, all right,but uh... only if you come, huh?

Ah, I wouldn't-a had none of this without you, kid.

Hello. Oh, hey, Milhouse.

I'm not here.

Ah, a family trip with
the family bartender,

what could be better?

How's it goin', Homer ?

I gotta go to Vermon t
for some stupid poetry thing.

Homer, don't drink and drive!

Fine. I'll drive between sips.

Whoop !

They got an open bar
at this thing, right?

Wow. Troopers from every
state in New England.

Including Rhode Island!

We're a small state,
but we give big tickets.

Hey, guys, did ja hear?

The Da Vinci Code just sold
one hundred million copies!

It's Tom Wolfe!

He uses more exclamation points
than any other major American writer.

It's true !

- How ya doin' there ? Moe Szyslak.
- Ah, magnificent Moe.

He stands, stoop-shouldered,
blinking in the light,

hollow-chested like
a dough-faced fall guy

who's made a career of
taking dives but has decided

to get his manhood out of
hockand take a shot at the title.

or at least go for the jaw and thwack

hyperextend the champ's pterygoideus
before kissing the mat good night.

You ever scrub your hands real fast,
and you think you're seein' a third one?

One time I looked down
and there really was.

I gotta get a new lock
for that bathroom.

Moe, your debut poem is as refreshing
as a second pair of socks on a wet hike.

I must know how you came
up with that brilliant title,

"Howling at a Concrete Moon."

Uh, well actually, I had
some help on the title...

You needed help to write your title?

Well, so have I, Gore Vidal.

1876 was the price
I paid for gas once.

I thought of Burr when I saw it
written on an Eskimo Pie package.

I can't believe it!

Those sound like terrible jokes!

Sir, I must ask you to pick up your
gift bag and leave this festival.

I don't need your
sycophantic laughter!

I have some on tape.

You still love me, Temple
University Class of 1987.

So Moe, you were telling us
how you came up with your title.

Yeah, well, I-I was
just saying that um...

...that I, uh, I thought
it up all by myself.

Ah, like a real writer.
Outstanding, Moe!

To the hayride!

Let's get it started

Let's get it started in here,
let's get it started...

But we were a team!

Let's get it started...

I'd like to introduce our panel:

Jonathan Franzen,
Michael Chabon and Moe.

Whoa, clear water.
Swanky ! Woo-hoo.

Now we'll open the floor to
fawning praise and obvious questions.

Uh, yeah, first of all,

I'd like to thank all of you
for your brilliant work.

Yes, yes.

My question is, who are
your biggest influences ?

I'd have to say my good
friend Jonathan Franzen.

I thought his novel The
Corrections needed none.

Cha-bone... !

Well, in turn, I'd have to
say my biggest influence is...

Albert Camus.

You were supposed to say me.
I blurbed you.

Yeah, and it looks real
sweet on my dust jacket.

- How do you like me now?
- Fran-zone... !

Moe, who inspired
you to become a writer?

Jack Kerouac ? Charles Bukowski ?

Me, Tom Wolfe ?

Well, I dunno, uh...
the only book I ever read

was Super Hounds :
The Ultimate Greyhound Betting System.

So, uh, any of you
wetnaps write that?

Mr. Szyslak, there must be some person,
possibly in this very room,

who believed in you
when no one else did.

Oh, uh, yeah,
I get what you're gettin' at.

Um... nope.

But how can you...?

Now, now, he's
answered your question.

I declare this panel dismissed.

- But I deserve acknowledgement.
- I said dismissed.

Lisa, grab your sightseeing shoes.
We're going Vermonting.

It's gonna be awesome.

Man, couples in this state
sure like to clink glasses.

You guys go ahead.

I don't think
I'd be very good company.

Hey, thanks for the heads up.

We'll see you
when we see you.

I love these covered bridges.

It's like driving through
cute little houses.

That was my house, you moron.

Oh, I'm sorry.

We should exchange
insurance information.

I have none.

No food for you grad students
till you grade 3,000 papers.

Hey, hey, there you are.
I've been lookin' for ya.

I need a brilliant new poem
for the farewell dinner.

So if you could turn
these into one of those

and then don't say nothin' while
I take all the credit,

I'd really appreciate it,
though I'd never admit that.

And, look, I got you started.

Huh ? Huh ?

Moe, you're a heartless jerk.

Huh? Whoa ,where did that come from?

Oh, right, right, my actions.

Well, let's see if I can
put this poem together.

Hah!

Hey, hey, hey.

Hey, st... stupid geese,
you're eatin' my brilliance.

Hey, hey,
I will break your beak.

What... Get... Hey...
Look at me.

It's supposed to be my big triumph,

and I'm standing in mud,
fightin' with geese.

Well, if I'm gonna fight,
I might as well win.

Yeah, go on, you cowards.
Fly off in a "V".

Hey, Lis, we learned so much
scootin' around Vermont.

Did you know that candles
are made by losers?

And we went to the
Vermont Teddy Bear factory.

Look what we got.

Oh, honey, don't cry.

They're not made from real bears
just their fur and noses.

Moe marginalized my contributions.

No one makes my daughter sob and run.

He ruined her first Wordloaf.

Look at me, sittin' here
depressed when I'm surrounded

by the happiest people
in the world: writers.

Before Moe reads his keynote poem,
I would like to stake my claim

to any unfinished
garlic mashed potatoes.

So please, if you would pass
them clockwise up to table one,

I will collect them later.

Now, I give you Moe Szyslak.

Uh, this here poem is
called "Elevator Capacity".

"Elevator capacity : 2,400 pounds.

"Inspection Certificate available
in hotel manager's office."

You just pulled that off
the wall of the elevator.

Yeah, well, uh, uh, here's
another one you might like.

"Channel 61: Family Favorites.

"Channel 62: Adult Desires.

"Channel 63: In-Room Checkout.
Chan..."

You know what ?
I got a different poem for yaz.

Ode to Lisa :
Pointy-headed mini-muse

More friend than I deserved
You pulled me from the dirt

And made me the
beautiful flower that I am.

But some flowers can
stab you in the back

For which I should send you flowers
Which I will, but they were closed

- You'll be getting them tomorrow.
- Oh, Moe.

Lisa, if you could just forgive me,

you would make me the
happiest man in Vermont.

Except for those two
dudes I saw gettin' hitched.

Not my thing,
but I wish 'em well.

Make my daughter cry, will ya.
Eat syrup, jerk.

- Wha... ?
- Dad, no!

I'm not mad at Moe anymore.

Uh, Homer, would it make you feel better
if, uh, any of that hit me?

No, not now.

I'm gonna walk away then. Okay ?

Wow. You couldn't make this stuff up.

- Well, you couldn't.
- That's it, Franzen.

I think your nose
needs some corrections.

Ooh, you fight like Anne Rice.

Well, Moe, I guess we're friends again.

That's great.

Now what do you say
we do some regional duck pin bowling?

I'd like that.
I'd like it a lot.

Aw, that's sweet.
I hate sweet.

I need photos.
Photos of Spider-Man.

- This is a poetry journal.
- Okay, then poems about Spider-Man.

And I want them
finished before you start.

And before you finish,
get me some coffee.

And the poems should have
the following rhyme scheme:

A-B-B-A-A-B-B-A-C-D-E-C-D-E.

What are you waitin' for, Chinese New Year?

Maple syru p
Sleigh on the label very good.

Rich maple color, good swirl.

Oh... Jemima!

- Touched in the head, is he?
- A-yup.