Love, Springfieldian Style

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Love, Springfieldian Style
Season 19 Episode 12
Production Code	KABF05
Original Airdate	February 17, 2008
Written By	Don Payne
Directed By	Raymond S. Persi
Show Runners	Al Jean
Special Guests
Blackboard Text	None

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"Love, Springfieldian Style" is the twelfth episode of the Nineteenth Season, Episode 412 over all.

The episode takes place on Valentine's Day Where Homer takes Marge to a carnival, as a valentines present where they lose the kids in order to spend the day with one another in the Tunnel of Love. As always Bart attempts to spoil his parents' happiness, this time he fills the water in the tunnel of love with jello powder, causing the water to gel making Homer and Marge's boat stop. Now trapped, Homer decides to pass time by telling Marge a love story: Bonnie and Clyde.. Followed by Marge's Story and last but not least Bart's Story.

Contents 1 Bonnie and Clyde (Homer's Story) 2 Shady and the Vamp (Marge's Story) 3 Sid and Nancy (Bart's story) 4 Cultural references

Bonnie and Clyde (Homer's Story)

The Story takes place in 1933, during the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker, who's played by Marge rejects Cletus's advancements, saying she is looking for someone more exciting. Soon after Clyde Barrow, who is Played by Homer arrives. To impress Bonnie he robs the local market, a store (which he co-owned with his father, ironically), the two leave town and go on a crime spree by robbing banks. After tricking a citizen Ned Flanders into unknowingly helping them. The gang acquire a huge popularity across the country. Soon afterwards Flanders realizes what had happened, and snitches to Police Chief Wiggum. The officers soon arrive, and the cops gun Bonnie and Clyde down. While dying, Bonnie tells Clyde that she is looking for a man with more excitement, and that they would never have been together.

Shady and the Vamp (Marge's Story)

Bart and Lisa arrive at Marge and Homer's boat, demanding a love story for children, where Marge launches into a story of two dogs in love, Shady and the Vamp. Vamp. Shady mutt dog who has Homer's persona and voice see's Vamp who is portayed by Marge as a royal and luxurious female dog. Shady falls head over heals for her after their eyes meet from a distance, vowing that he will win her. Shortly after Shady is trampled by a mob of children, Vamp comforts Shady, and he asks her out for dinner. The two go to Luigi's, where, after a romantic pasta dinner, the two run off onto a hill. In the morning, Vamp wakes up with nauseous feelings, and Shady leaves her, knowing she is pregnant. In a musical number entitled "Any Minute Now," the two dogs await for one another's return, though the cats living with Vamp (Patty and Selma) convince her that Shady would never come back, whilst the dog who is friends with Shady (Moe) convinces him that Vamp would never come back. Her puppies (Bart and Lisa) decide to go look for their father, and after being kidnapped by the dog catcher played by Grounds keeper Willie, Shady arrives to save his children. Shady returns them home and reunites with Vamp, choosing to stay with her, though Vamp informs him that they have not two, but eleven puppies in the house (Five each resembling Bart and Lisa and one resembling Maggie).

Sid and Nancy (Bart's story)

Which is loosley based on the late 70's biography movie "Sid and Nancy". Nancy Spungen who is protrayed by Lisa, a young model student walks into a rock concert by the Sex Pistols, where she is enamored by the eccentric bassist, Sid Vicious who is played by Nelson. After viewing him throw a student protrayed by Martin Prince into a jukebox, she decides to go after him. A chocolate dealer played by Otto, sells her a chocolate bar which she gives to Sid, who soon begins dating her. As shown in a montage, the two begin having their lives spiraled out of control while gaining a heavy chocolate addiction. Sid soon begins ditching the band, angering lead singer Johnny Rotten played by Bart. Sid arrives in the middle of a performance after a major chocolate spree, and knocks into an amplifier which topples over and crushes their drum player played by the school yard bully Dolph. Later on you see Dolph survives and visibly escapes with no injuries. Nancy arrives to defend Sid, and informs the Pistols that Sid doesn't need them, and the two go off trying to sing a soft type of music, performing at CBGB (Comic Book Guy's Bar). When they are kicked out for a terrible performance, the two decide to go back to their addiction and begin kissing, ending the story. The episode ends within Bart's story parodying the garbage scene in Sid and Nancy, but showing Homer dumping the trash as it covers the final scene.

Cultural references

The title of the episode is a take-off of Love, American Style. In the Bonnie and Clyde segment, the radio actors performing "The Bonnie and Clyde Hour" are drawn to resemble George Burns and Gracie Allen. The death of Bonnie and Clyde is a reference to the movie's well-known ending. In the Shady and the Vamp segment, the two dogs parody the spaghetti scene from Lady and the Tramp. Patty and Selma represent the Siamese cats, Si and Am. The dog Willie takes into the gas chamber is Disney's character, Goofy, who says the ordeal was better than working for Disney] The final segment is a reference to the romance of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen and the film Sid and Nancy. Bart is also featured in the story as Johnny Rotten. CBGB was a Famous music bar in New York City, which has been called the birthplace of American Punk Rock. Sadly CBGBs Closed down near the end of 2006.(although in the episode we discover that it stands for Comic Book Guy's Bar).