Now Museum, Now You Don't
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"Now Museum, Now You Don't"
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Episode Information
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"Now Museum, Now You Don't" is the third episode of broadcast season 32 of The Simpsons and the six hundred eighty-seventh episode overall. It originally aired on October 11, 2020. The episode was written by Dan Greaney and directed by Timothy Bailey.
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Synopsis[edit]
- "Lisa stays home from school to explore the wonders of Western art. She appears as Lisanardo da Vinci, while Bart takes the shape of a French impressionist, Maggie as a warrior Cupid, and Homer and Marge as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo."
Plot[edit]
Lisa is staying home sick, and receives from Marge the book Illustrated History of Western Art to read, and she starts fantasizing the stories.
Lisanardo da Vinci[edit]
In Venice, Lisanardo is drawing the picture of a suspect for Wiggum when he announces she'll make her family rich. In Florence, at the start of the Renaissance, Lisanardo becomes the apprentice of Andrea del Verrocchio, alongside Barticelli, Dolphatello, and Ralphael.
When Lisanardo shows her work to Andrea, it discourages him from painting, so he enrolls in music school, while the other kids accuse her of receiving help from the Heaven above—when an angel appears to give her more.
Her Vitruvian Man inspires her to invent weapons of war, but her diary is stolen by Barticelli and brought to the Cardinal, who uses it to kill slightly different Christians.
When she realizes it is heresy, she escapes to France, where under King Francis I she paints the Mona Lisa and writes The Da Vinci Code.
1863 France[edit]
Bart listens to the story, and Lisa compares him to another artist who had trouble with the Academy.
Bart is the main character this time, getting bad grades at the Aujourd'Hui: Royal Salon, and being mocked by the other students. Toulouse-Moetrec arrives at the Moulin Rouge, acclaims Bart's work, and changes the minds of the other kids to follow him.
Back at the school, Chalmers arrives and Skinner shows him the new paintings, scaring him into not showing them to the emperor coming later that day. Toulouse-Moetrec encourages them to show their work to the emperor anyway. Since he loves cheese, they bring a large wheel of cheese to the school.
Emperor Napoleon III starts eating it, and it gets destroyed against the wall in the back room of the salon, where Bart and the other kids show him their work and are acclaimed. When Empress Eugénie notes how Skinner expelled Bart from the salon, she has both him and Chalmers decapitated.
Cupid[edit]
Maggie arrives in Lisa's room and asks for her story, as she is Cupid, fighting off Gerald Samson's evil attacks. On one occasion, he switches Cupid's arrows with Death arrows. Maggie shoots one at Homer, who dies. He weighs so much that the staircase to Heaven breaks and he falls into Hell.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo[edit]
Homer arrives in the room and Lisa tells the story of him and Marge as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. The story starts with their marriage, and everyone congratulates them just before El Barto appears, killing Wiggum with his sword. After the ceremony, Diego announces they'll move to America, in New York, to his wife's dismay.
There, they visit John D. Rockefeller Jr., a young capitalist, and Marge mentions how Bernie Sanders is being born, ready to take capitalists down. Bernie is seen at Springfield Elementary School bullying other kids to follow him.
Rockefeller tasks Diego with building a mural at the Rockefeller Center, while Frida is cast aside. After a discussion in bed, Diego goes to the bar, and Frida is left alone in front of the mirror, contemplating what to do, when her sisters, as angels, show up, telling her to paint her feelings and leave Diego.
She presents her work to Diego, who, after admiring her paintings, decides to adapt his mural to her beliefs by painting a communist on it. Rockefeller isn't happy and threatens to revoke his commission if he doesn't paint over it.
He refuses, and they leave the Center, while Rockefeller ejects himself into a canal. Lisa tells how Frida becomes more famous than Diego and an icon for female artists everywhere. In the end, Diego paints another mural telling the stories shown in the episode. The episode ends with Moe telling the short story of Vincent van Moe.
Gallery[edit]
Production[edit]
As of this episode, Eric Lopez takes over voicing Bumblebee Man, taking over the role from Hank Azaria.[1]
Promo videos[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Al Jean's Twitter (account closed)
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