"Future-Drama" is the fifteenth episode of the sixteenth season of The Simpsons. It takes place in the year 2013. The title is based on Matt Groening's other show, Futurama.
Episode details
Production Number: GABF12
Original Air Date: April 17, 2005
Writer: Matt Selman
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Couch Gag: Transportation object toys are on the floor, and they morph into Transformers-like Simpson family members.
Guest Voices: John DiMaggio as Bender Bending Rodriguez and Amy Poehler as Jenda
Synopsis
Bart and Lisa get in a feud over who each other would like. But when trouble breaks out, enter Professor Frink, who uses an astrology machine to ease the constant bickering. He shows them what life will be like in their final days of high school, eight years from Tuesday...
Marge and Homer have separated. Bart and Lisa are graduating (Lisa is graduating two years early). Bart is in love with a blonde girl, Jenda, while Lisa falls in love with a muscular Milhouse (she fell in love after Milhouse saved her from a house fire he started). After prom, Bart tells Jenda he wants to marry her, but she turns him down.
Homer takes Bart to a night on the town, though the only girls he finds are Mrs. Krabappel and Ms Hoover. Bart then decides to get a job at the Kwik-E-Mart, though he is tormented by the octuplets. While making a delivery to Mr. Burns, he is held at phaser-point by Snake. He saves Burns when Snake gets a call from his roommate. As a reward for saving him, Burns offers to send Bart to Yale with the Monty Burns Scholarship (it was promised to Lisa, but Bart takes it as Jenda could fall in love with him again). When Lisa finds out, she gets angry at Bart.
Bart gets back together with Jenda, while Lisa has to accept Milhouse now. While walking with Jenda, Bart finds Prof. Frink's house. He then uses the astrology machine to see what the future holds for Lisa and Milhouse: they live a no-where marriage and Milhouse sells all his bone marrow just to pay the electric bill, which still isn't enough. Even though Jenda wants to have sex with Bart, he does what he has to do and saves Lisa from ruining her life. With his relation with Jenda over, Bart decides to find a girl who loves him for him...
Back in the present, Frink tells Bart he will find that special girl...one minute before he dies. As for Homer and Marge, they get back together after Homer gets beaten up by Krusty, whom Marge was dating.
Things that happen in the year 2013
- Homer and Marge are split up because Homer blew all their money on an underwater home. Marge falls in love with Krusty—however briefly.
- Milhouse is muscular, similar to The Incredible Hulk, and is dating Lisa (or was dating her).
- Kearney is the assistant principal of Springfield High School and is very anti-drug.
- Superintendent Chalmers is in a Terri Schiavo-like persistent vegetative state after taking stim . All he can say is, "Skinner!"
- Nelson impregnated Sherri and Terri , who each gave birth to twins.
- The United States is in the midst of Gulf War V, Operation Find Our President's Head.
- Moe has a clone (who claims to be the real Moe) as well as a spider clone (a spider entered the cloning machine).
- Mr. Burns sponsors a Yale scholarship as punishment for stealing Christmas. His home is also guarded by a large group of unicorn-clam creatures (uni-clams).
- Yale University is now owned by McDonald's.
- All the cops in Springfield have become RoboCops.
- Smithers (who appearently is gay after all) is straight as long as he takes special injections every ten minutes.
- Patty now has a fluffy tail because of plastic surgery.
- Seen at the end, Cletus is Vice President of the United States, which is another option of what you can see in the future. Other options include Kang and Kodos invading Earth, Maggie getting arrested for DUI, Lenny having a super pet.
- In the U.S., there is a monetary fund which has Ronald Regan on it, possibly more than 100 dollar bills. There is also a 51st state-Saudi Israila
- Apes are trying to get the right to vote. (You won't regret it!)
- Snake's weapon of choice is his phaser-cell phone.
- Genetically modified foods have led to smart puke.
- Singers at prom night have been replaced with IPods.
- Skinner is principal of Springfield High School.
- Alaska has become much hotter due to global warming.
Quotes
- Kearney: Okay, I want a nice clean prom. That means no booze, kick, puff, doze , max, stim , or turb . Remember, stim kills!
(Note: please try to get the spelling of the drugs he mentions and fix links)
- Moe: (MoeClone drops a beer mug) You moron! Oh, why did I think I ever needed a clone?
MoeClone: Hey, I'm not the clone! You're the clone!
Moe: Oh, please, not this again.
- (Moe and MoeClone are watching Homer and Krusty strangle each other)
Moe(?): Once they destroy each other...
MoeClone(?): ...then we make our move.
(a spider with Moe's head lowers himself down)
MoeSpiderClone: Yes, we make our move.
(camera zooms in on SpiderClone and both Moes look at him)
MoeSpiderClone: What? A spider got into the cloning machine.
- (In the future, Teenage Lisa strangling Teenage Bart after finding out he took the Yale scholarship)
Teenage Lisa: You've wrecked my life!
(In the present, Lisa is also strangling Bart)
Lisa: You're gonna wreck my life!
- (Homer puts on a wig and leds Bart to the airlock in his underwater home)
Homer: Come on, boy! We're hitting the town!
(They sit in the decompression chamber. Homer reaches for a knob)
Homer: After decompression, of course.
(Homer turns the knob which begins a countdown of three hours as well as the hissing noise of decompression. By the end of this dialogue, only eleven seconds tick by)
Bart: (beat) So...what do ya do to kill time in here?
Homer: I have a DVD player, but it doesn't work.
- (Milhouse gets stuck between two trees)
Milhouse: Lenny, Carl, can you pull me out?
Lenny: Sorry, we're ghosts now.
Carl: Our spirits live in those two trees.
Lenny: Or maybe we're alive and feel like jerking you around!
Carl: Or maybe we're one of each!
(Lenny and Carl chuckle as they leave, complete with eerie alien-style music)
- Bart: This blows! I wanna see Vice President Cletus!
(changes machine screen to VP Cletus)
Vice President Cletus: (on phone) You want me to attend the funeral of the Sultan of Brunei? Well, I would consider it my honor. (yelling) Hey, Brandine! Pack my evenin britches! We gonna to Brunei!
- Lisa: How did you know we were coming?
Prof. Frink: Because I have mastered the one true science...(dramatic pose) astrology!
Lisa: Don't you mean "astronomy"?
Prof. Frink: No, my dear, I said (goes back to dramatic pose) astrology!
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