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Separate Vocations

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Separate Vocations

Rating: 3.8 (167 votes)

Plot

Springfield Elementary takes an career aptitude test. The test says that Bart will be a policemen and Lisa would be a homemaker like Marge. Dismayed, Lisa turns into a naughty kid, hanging out in the bad girls bathroom. Meanwhile, Bart goes for a ride in a police car, and helps apprehend a thief. Enjoying his new taste of authority, Bart takes sides with Principal Skinner and helps him restore order around the school. After getting detention, Lisa steals all the Teacher's Edition textbooks to see how the teachers would do without them. Bart and Skinner search the school lockers for the lost text books. They find them in Lisa's locker, but Bart takes the blame, realizing that Lisa has more to live for. Bart is sentenced to 600 days of detention.


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Notes

  • There is a snake under the floor boards.
  • The bad girls smoke Laramie Jr. cigarettes
  • A name on one of the tests which passes through the machine is James Reardon, a director on The Simpsons.
  • Bart & Skinner search the same sequence of lockers more than once.

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References

  • The car chase scene is a parody of Bullitt.
  • Lisa's ''whadda ya got?'' response to Skinner's question parodies The Wild One.
  • When Bart imagines himself in court, a blue dot conceals his identity, referencing a real-life court proceeding which was televised shortly before the episode was written.
  • The scene change when Skinner & Bart decide to do a random locker search is taken from the Batman TV show.
  • The music during the locker search is Axel F.

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Vitals

PCode
8F15

Index
3×18

Aired
27 Feb, 1992

Airing (UK)
unknown

Written by
George Meyer

Directed by
Jeff Lynch

Starring
Dan Castellaneta
Julie Kavner
Nancy Cartwright
Yeardley Smith
Hank Azaria
Harry Shearer

Also Starring
Pamela Hayden
Tress MacNeille
Maggie Roswell
Russi Taylor

Special Guest Voice
Marcia Wallace
Steve Allen as Bart's Altered Voice

Extras

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Season 3

  1. Stark Raving Dad
  2. Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
  3. When Flanders Failed
  4. Bart the Murderer
  5. Homer Defined
  6. Like Father, Like Clown
  7. Treehouse of Horror II
  8. Lisa's Pony
  9. Saturdays of Thunder
  10. Flaming Moe's
  11. Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
  12. I Married Marge
  13. Radio Bart
  14. Lisa the Greek
  15. Homer Alone
  16. Bart the Lover
  17. Homer at the Bat
  18. Separate Vocations
  19. Dog of Death
  20. Colonel Homer
  21. Black Widower
  22. The Otto Show
  23. Bart's Friend Falls in Love
  24. Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?