Lemon of Troy when Springfield's lemon tree gets stolen after a Bart has a fight with a boy from Shelbyville The kids of Springfield form an army to rescue the beloved tree.
PlotThe couch gag is the Simpsons as Steamboat Willie style Disney characters doing a stupid dance.
Across Springfield that summer Bart and his friends were doing stuff.
Bart was tagging El Barto in spray paint on things. He writes El Barto.
"Ahoy youngun! Glavin! Want a ride on my flying motorcycle?! I'm Hagrid! With the flying baby Harry Potter with no helmets! It's not very safe!" Frink was riding a flying motorcycle.
"Um no." said Bart.
"Okay, suit yourself." Frink flew away.
Troy McClure is looking at some wet cement.
"Wet cement." Is there any sweeter sign? Well, maybe "high voltage." He sees the camera. "Hi! I'm Troy McClure introducing you to tonight's episode, Lemon of Troy. You may remember me from such others as Mr Plow! Saturdays of Thunder! And Who Shot Mr Burns!"
Bart winced at Troy showing off.
"And now because I'm a beloved celebrity I will leave my hand prints in the wet cement ruining this new sidewalk." said Troy.
"Oh no you don't! I think that's vandalism for some reason!" Marge nagged.
"No it's not Marge. Celebrities do that to the Hollywood sidewalk all the time." said Homer.
"Homer, will you please help me make a big deal of this?" Marge nagged.
"No." said Homer.
"Hrrrrrrmmmmm! What would Jebediah think about you leaving hand prints and tags in wet cement?!"
"He'd be cool with it," said Bart.
"Troy your setting Bart a bad example!" Marge frowned.
"Marge. Nobody cared when Bogart defaced that sidewalk in Hollywood." saud Homer.
"Well, I'm just shocked by this whole family." Marge ranted. "And Troy McClure."
The Simpsons and Troy looked bored.
"What happened to good old fashioned town pride?" Mare ranted.
"It went out of fashion when gay pride became a thing." said Oscar standing on the sidewalk.
Homer growled at him.
" It's been going down since the lake caught fire." said Lisa.
"How the hell does a lake catch fire?!" Oscar yelled in shock.
Marge bickered with Troy,
"Fine! Ruin that beautiful new sidewalk! I bet the workers who worked hard smoothing out that cement will not be pleased!" Marge snapped.
Troy and Bart left hand prints and signatures in the cement.
(Splats and squelches)
"Hey! We worked for hours flattening out that cement!" A worker whined.
"See?" Marge said smugly.
Troy McClure and Bart sighed exasperated.
"Mom... big shot celebrities like Troy leave hand prints in wet cement all the time..." Bart explained.
"Bartholomew! Your lack of civic spirit is disturbing." Marge nagged.
"I find your lack of faith disturbing..." said Darth Vader. Oscar um summoned him...
Bart winced baffled.
"Now, just a darn minute. This town is a part of who you are." Marge nagged.
"This is a Springfield lsotopes cap. When you wear it, you're wearing Springfield." Marge held a cap.
"When you eat a fish from our river, you're eating Springfield." said Marge.
Hugo was eating a raw fish.
Bart winced.
"When you make lemonade from our trees, you're drinking Springfield." said Marge.
"Mom, when you give that lecture, you're boring Springfield." Bart groaned.
"Yeah you annoying squirrel!" said Homer annoyed.
...
Elsewhere Nelson was fishing, with green tiny plastic army men as bait... somehow he caught fish.
"Nothing catches trout like German light infantry." said Nelson.
"I don't remember learning about killer trout being involved with the D Day landings..." said Oscar.
"Beautiful aren't they?" Database asked.
"Oh I'm gonna just huck them at cars on the freeway." said Nelson.
"Not before I take my share back to the Simpsons house to feed to the monster in the attic." said Oscar.
He meant Hugo...
"Catch your own fish!" Nelson stopped him from taking one.
Oscar sighed.
Meanwhile Milhouse and Martin ran a lemonade stand on Evergreen Terrace. Because lemons are naturally sour they were offering to put sugar in the lemon juice to sweeten it.
"When life gives you lemons. Make lemonade." said Milhouse.
"Hey, Milhouse. How's the lemonade business?" Bart asked with hands filthy with cement.
"It's clearly booming, Bart." said Martin smiling.
"I don't even want any. I just bought a pity glass." Milhouse was being rude to Martin.
Oscar frowned and used his almighty supernatural powers to increase the summer day temperature by 1 degrees a minute. Milhouse soon sweated and felt parched.
"Okay! Okay! I'll buy a glass! I'm thirsty!"
"With or without sugar?" Martin smiled.
"With. Two spoons." said Milhouse relenting.
Bart rolled his eyes, "Oz no one likes Martin..."
"Oh! We're running low on lemons Milhouse!" Martin explained.
"To the lemon tree!" said Milhouse as they shut the stand to go to the lemon tree to pick lemons.
Bart and his friends are on a hill over looking Springfield. They are relaxing under a lemon tree.
"You know, Milhouse, I've been thinking. This town ain't so bad. Good friends, lots of lemons, numerous angel sightings." said Bart.
"Aaaaaaagh! He's predicting the future again!" Oscar screamed.
"Homer gets a gun! Lisa becomes a vegetarian!" Bart sings.
Oscar screamed.
Bart smirked.
"Why is there a lemon tree here?" Oscar asked.
"I dunno." said Bart.
"I know!" said Abraham Simpson. "Let me tell you the story."
All the kids groaned and sat down to listen to Grampa. Abe explained the origin of the lemon tree. It dated back to Jebidiah Springfield and ShelbyVille's founder having an argument over being allowed to marry one's cousins. Jebidiah refused to allow such a thing so the two groups formed separate rival towns that hated each other. The lemon tree representing that bitter feud.
Lemongrab the earl of Lemongrab saw the lemon tree.
"This tree is ACCEPTABLLLLLEEEEE!" He screamed.
Bart winced.
However later that day after Gramps went home, some boys from Shelbyville started causing trouble.
"Springfield sucks!" Yelled Shelbyville's version of Bart.
"Hey stop badmouthing our town!" Bart yelled.
"Make me, loser!" said the boy.
"I don't make trash, I burn it..." Bart replied.
"That must make you a garbage man!" said the boy.
"Like Danny Devito as Frank Reynolds!" Oscar yelled.
Everyone glared at him exasperated.
...
"Garbage man eh?" Bart smirked.
"Yeah." Shelby made a rude face at him.
"I know you are but what am I?" Bart asked.
"A garbage man."
"I know you are but what am I?"
"A garbage man."
"I know you are but what am I?" Bart asked.
"A garbage man."
"I know you are but what am I?" Bart asked teasing him.
"A-"
"Face it Shelby, he's got you with the I know you are loop!" said a Shelbyville kid.
"I know! That's the oldest trick in the book!" Shelby retorted.
"Hey stop wearing your backpacks on one arm like that! That's our thing!" yelled Milhouse.
"Nun uh!" said a blue haired kid from Shelbyville.
"Why don't you step over here and say that?! I'll kick your butt! ... At Nintendo..." Milhouse retorted.
Shelby picked up a large rock and dropped it over the border line on Springfield's side. "I just dumped a rock in your town!"
"That is a crud rock. It belongs in crud town!" Bart replied trying to lift the rock. But it was too heavy.
"Ha look at the weak little baby! Springfield baby! Springfield baby!" Shelby started a rousing song of Springfield baby.
"Springfield baby in a diaper. Poked his eye with a windshield wiper." Shelbyville Milhouse sang.
Oscar winced. "How does that news get around..." he thought someone told Shelbyville that he still wears diapers.
"You're a wimp Simpson." said Shelby.
"I know you are, but what am I?" Bart teased him.
"Ugh!" Shelby got frustrated.
Meanwhile Database was hanging about town when news, via Richard and Lewis reached him of a ruckus at the lemon tree hill.
"Nyaaaaah! There's gonna be bloody noses!" said Database peppering his speech with verbal ticks.
Richard and a Lewis sighed exasperated by his verbal tick.
They gathered up the rest of the local kids. Nelson was fishing with green plastic soldiers as bait.
"Wow! That's a lot of fish!" Database commented.
There was no time for small talk though as Lewis explained the problem and Nelson followed them.
Next they picked up Martin from his lemonade stall.
"Urk!" Nelson dragged Martin with them.
"Ooooh! Look who brought in the cavalry!" Shelby taunted.
"Get out of here before I pound ya!" Nelson warned.
"Duh, you'll have to get through me first before you pound anyone!" said Shelbyville's bully.
"Hey! They're taking our lemons!" Milhouse yelled.
"We need those for lemonade!" said Martin in his high pitched voice.
"UNACCEPTABLLLLLEEEE!" Lemongrab screamed.
Bart's gang started throwing lemons at Shelby's gang. They dropped the lemons and ran away. One hit Shelby very hard.
"You just got citric acid in my eye!" Shelby yelled. "You'll pay for this!" The Shelbyville kids left.
Bart and his friends made handbag noises. (They went ooooooooh!)
"They'll be back..." Oscar sighed.
"We'll be ready for them..." said Nelson making a fist in his palm gesture.
"I better head home for lunch." said Bart.
...
Elsewhere.
The lake was on fire.
"Oh my!" said Cletus.
Seriously... a lake... on fire...
While Springfield lake broke the laws of physics, Inane Brian picked his nose. Eeeeew!
Ace winced in disgust as Inane Brian picked his nose.
Plot 2At home at lunch time.
"Why do those Shelbyville Rats want our lemon tree?" Bart asked.
"Hmmmm! I wish you boys would try to get along with our neighbours..." Marge sighed.
"Don't stifle the boy Marge! He's right! They are rats! Troublesome, nasty little rats!" said Homer.
Marge sighed annoyed by the prejudice against Shelbyville.
"Now listen here boy." said Homer sitting Bart on his lap. "The animosity, which by the way is all Shelbyville's fault! Dates back to the times of Jebediah Springfield..."
Jebe Springfield and Shelbyville Manhattan arrived somewhere and made it the site of a new town.
"People, our search is over. On this site, we shall build a new town, where we can worship freely... govern justly and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets." said Jebediah.
"Yes, and marry our cousins." said Shelbyville Manhattan.
"I was... What are you talking about, Shelbyville? Why would we marry our cousins?" Jebediah was disgusted.
"Because they're so attractive." said Shelbyville. Oscar's ancestor in the background suddenly vomited profusely in disgust. "I thought that was the whole point of this journey."
"Absolutely not." said Jebediah.
"I tell you... I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins." Shelbyville yelled.
"Well, then we'll form our own town. Who will come and live a life devoted to chastity, abstinence... and a flavorless mush I call rootmarm." said Jebediah leaving.
"The town of Springfield was born on that day." said Homer.
"Dad I wanted to know why they want our lemon tree not why their town founder was weirdo obsessed with incest!" said Bart.
"Well the thing is Shelbyville doesn't have the right soil for lemon trees but they have a huge turnip crop. However no one wants to drink turnip juice..." said Homer. "Basically they wanted what the other had..."
"Oh." said Bart.
"It's like with that two headed goat they took." said Homer.
"Dad, the two headed goat was born in Shelbyville..." said Lisa.
"But he came to Springfield to die." Homer retorted.
"That must have felt baaaaaaaad!" said Oscar bleating like a billy goat.
"That's not funny Oz!" Bart groaned at his stupid puns.
"Then why am I laughing!" Oscar was in hysterical laughter.
Bart groaned.
After lunch.
Marge was changing Oscar's diaper.
"Hey they changed the dinosaur character." said Homer.
"Yes they have, father of the year..." Marge was still annoyed with him.
"Ugh! Marge. It is NOT vandalism for celebrities to leave handprints in the cement! They do that at Hollywood all the time!"
"I'm not having this discussion! I needed your support today! And you sided with Bart! And you wonder why he's so disrespectful!" Marge nagged.
"I want the diapee with the teddy bear creature things with feelers and big round red shiny noses." Oscar whined.
Marge sighed and tickled him while changing him. Oscar giggled.
Homer sighed annoyed at Marge being triggered by people leaving their handprints in the cement like celebrities do ever so often.
Oscar being cheeky while being wiped grunted and released his bladder to squirt a pee stream at Marge.
"Nice try mister..." said Marge smugly as she folded his new diaper quickly over him.
Oscar frowned as his new diaper quickly became damp and wet under him from him peeing.
...
At school.
"And that kid with the backpack said "radical." I say "radical." That's my thing that I say." Milhouse ranted.
"Like hell it is! Milhouse stop coming up with dumb catchphrases! I'm not letting you go around saying radical!" Bart scolded him.
"How about Cowabunga?" Milhouse smirked.
"No!"
"Jiminy Jillickers?"
"No!"
"Sweet Lizzy McGuire?"
"No! Your thing is to be quiet!" Bart snapped.
"I fill like I'm gonna explode here!" Milhouse scared Todd.
"Sasshhhh! Use your indoor voice..." said Bart.
"I'm a human boy! I HAVE FEELINGS!" Said Milhouse.
Bart winced.
Oscar had to say something rude...
"Go go Gadget penis!"
Bart frowned at him.
...
In town Troy was ruining more new sidewalks with his hand prints.
"Wet cement." Is there any sweeter sign? Well, maybe "Park Entrance... Beware of the dog... Keep off the grass... boy do I not listen..." Teddy Oscar's living teddy bear creature saw the wet cement. He treads his paws in it.
Marge gasped. "Oscar get yourself pet um teddy bear creature out of that cement! It enrages me!"
"Ha! Triggered!" Oscar laughed collecting Teddy from the cement. He then put him down and watched him pee on a fire hydrant.
"Oz! Don't let him do that!" Marge was triggered.
"Marge that's how dogs and um cartoon teddy bear things and Jungledyret Hugos go to the bathroom." said Oscar.
Santa's Little Helper and Jungledyret Hugo were arching their back feet at fire hydrants and peeing.
Teddy smirked and stood on his hind paws upright and peed like a person.
Marge stormed off.
Oscar winced and shrugged.
Teddy was still peeing.
However they soon regretted antagonising the Shelbyville kids because one afternoon during class while learning Roman numerals, Milhouse ran in with a frantic message.
"Milhouse your tardy for Cla-" said Mrs Krabappel cross with him.
"There's no time Mrs K, the lemon tree! It's been stolen!" Milhouse cried.
Fourth grade gasped. The main cast ie the Goonies, hehehehe! Goonies... Were Bart Simpson, Milhouse Van Houten, Martin, Nelson, Todd and Database.
"No boys please! It's very important that you learn about your Roman numerals!" said Mrs Krabappel. "Ah what's the use..."
...
The gang headed to the hill to find the lemon tree gone!
"Those no good Shelbyville mugs!" Bart yelled.
They each went home to gather supplies and stuff to explore Shelbyville to get back the lemon tree,
"Going to teach some boy's a lesson!" Bart told his family.
"That's nice..." said Marge.
"Death to Shelbyville!" Bart yelled as he left.
"Um Marge... Isn't he supposed to be in school?" Patty asked while smoking.
Back at the hill. Everyone was ready. Milhouse was wearing camouflage. He had a daydream of himself hiding in the bushes tormenting the Shelbyville kids with his invisibility.
"Hehehehe! You'll never find me! Am I here? Or here? Or here..." Milhouse invisible warped about in the trees and bushes.
The Shelbyville boys were terrified.
"This is some Predator stuff yo! He probably has heat vision and laser casters!" said a boy.
"That's a movie..." Shelby sighed exasperated.
Oscar spun around firing a machine gun, mad from invisible Milhouse.
The Shadow grabbed him. "You're a fool Claymore! Get outta my sight!"
Tim Curry made duck sounds.
"Guys. Where we're going, we may never come back from. Prepare yourselves." Bart explained. They marched into Shelbyville.
The group split up, Martin and Nelson were put together to snoop and interrogate, Bart and Milhouse were together going after Shelby and Todd was the crazy religious sniper dude from Saving Private Ryan. Todd gave the fourth wall a worried look.
"Todd what are you looking at?" Oscar asked Todd.
Bart gave everyone a pep talk.
"If you get lost, remember... you can always find east by staring directly at the sun." said Bart.
"Uh... No..." Oscar winced. Even he knew that was stupid advice.
...
Elsewhere a woman called Helen needed rescuing from a fortress city called Troy in Ancient Greek times. Also the episode is about lemons so I replaced the king with Lemongrab.
"This is UNACCEPTABLLLLE!" Lemongrab screeched.
Bart winced.
Elsewhere at school, lunch at the cafeteria.
"Anyone want to trade me for these delicious sardines?" asked Hugo Simpson opening a tin of sardines.
The stench disgusted Lewis and Richard.
"Uuuuuugh! That's sick!" Lewis groaned.
Elsewhere the lake was on fire, somehow.
"Ye gods!" Mayor Quimby gasped at such a sight.
"Okay, Milhouse and I are Team Omega. Rod and Kyle you're Team Strike Force. And Martin and Nelson, you're team Discovery Channel." said Bart. Hehehehe! Discovery Channel.
"You're an idiot..." Oscar remarked annoyed.
Martin and interrogated a young boy making lemonade only to find it was a false lead and Nelson had to save Martin from a bully.
"Where did you get the lemons for that lemonade!" Martin threatened the little boy.
"This is Country Time Lemonade Mix. There's never been anything close to a lemon in it. I swear." The little boy whined.
"Hey. Nobody hassles my little brother." said a larger tougher kid.
Martin yelped. "Hey. And no one manhandles the bosom chum of Nelson Muntz."
Oscar screamed with laughter. "Bosom..."
"Spring forth, burly protector, and save me." Martin cried.
Nelson reluctantly threatened the big kid. "Jeez. I never normally hang out with him..."
They head off with Martin skipping and singing gayly. Nelson halfheartedly swipes at him.
Milhouse was captured by his Shelbyville counterpart also called Milhouse and they decided to set aside their differences as Milhouses.
"I guess this is why doves cry." said Milhouse crying as he hugged Shelbyville Milhouse.
"Prince reference!" Oscar yelled.
Milhouse and errr... Milhouse winced exasperated.
Elsewhere.
"I'm here complain about the lemons!" said Dr Drakken.
"Hey leave the lemons alone! What did they ever do to you?!" Bart yelled. It's a lemon related episode.
"I um don't know!" said Dr Drakken
Bart morphed into Rufus the naked mole rat and-
"STOP REFERENCING OTHER CHARACTERS MY VOICE ACTOR PLAYS!" Bart yelled.
"Never!" Oscar yelled.
Bart and Oscar skateboarded throughout Shelbyville. They found several parallels with their own town but with subtle differences. Shelbyville's Kwik-e Mart was ran by a Chinese man. Moe's was Joe's, and the bartender smoked. And Shelbyville Elementary School had a female version of Willie as its Groundskeeper.
Hillie the Groundskeeper yelled at Bart and Oscar for skateboarding.
"Okay that's just weird..." said Bart.
No it's not..." said Oscar skateboarding.
Plot 3Bart found Shelby and several kids looking for trouble. Bart had a cunning plan to get information out of them.
He disguised himself with a wig and scar. When questioned by the boys why they've never seen him at school he explained he didn't go to school and convinced them.
"What's 2 + 2?" Shelby asked.
"5" said Bart.
"Aaaaaaaaaaagh! 1984!" A Shelbyville nerd screamed and fled.
Shelby winced.
The boys took him into the mountains and made him prove his loyalty by spraying Springfield sucks in green paint on the mountain.
However Bart sprayed Springfield rules, suckers! instead.
"It is me. Bart Simpson... From Springfield." Bart explained shedding his disguise.
"Get him!" Shelby yelled.
Bart ran from them.
He got cornered.
"Um... look! Your cousins!"
"Where?" Shelby asked with red hearts as pupils as romantic saxophones played.
"Eeeeeeew! Cousin marrying freaks..." Bart groaned as he fled on his skateboard.
...
He skateboarded through so e wet cement and his skateboard got stuck.
"If only I had a flying motorcycle..." Bart sighed.
"Well tough. I have one. Glavin!" said Professor Frink flying about.
"There he is!" Bart could hear Shelby gaining on him. He ran into a zoo.
"He went into the zoo!" Shelby yelled.
Bart found a building with a danger! No entry! sign but went in anyway and locked himself in.
The inside of the building had numerous doors each with a Roman numeral on it. There was a note on one of the doors.
"The exit is behind door number seven. All others contain man eating tigers?!" Bart yelled. He heard tigers growling. He gulped.
"He's locked in here!" Shelby was trying to get in.
"Uh oh! Gotta hurry." Bart groaned. "Think Bart think..." he decided to guess a door. "Maybe it's this one." However that was an incorrect door with a hungry tiger behind it. "Nope!" Bart quickly slammed the door on it.
"Oh geez why didn't I pay attention when Roman numerals were being taught in class!?" Bart groaned. Then he had an idea.
"Wait! Rocky five was just a V, so V is 5 plus Rocky 2 is... Rocky Seven! Adrian's revenge! Woohoo!" Bart picked Door VII and was correct he left through the door just in time as Shelby broke in.
"Now where did he go?!" Shelby asked out loud.
...
Bart was skulking the streets of Shelbyville alone when he found a lemon shaped rock. "A lemon shaped rock!" He grabbed it. "There's a lemon behind that rock!" Eventually he found a whole trail of lemons. They lead to a car lot where the lemon tree was! However it was guarded by Shelbyville boys guarding it by driving around it in a circle on their bikes.
Bart gathered up the gang. They spied on the lot trying to find a way in.
However Homer found them.
"There you are! Do you know what time it is?!" Homer was cross because it was getting late and the kids were missing for a long time.
"But they stole our lemon tree!" Bart argued.
"I don't want any excuses you are so- Lemon tree?!"
Very soon Homer was arguing with Shelby's Dad over the stolen lemon tree.
"That tree was born in Springfield since my forefathers! You give it back now!" Homer yelled.
"Why don't you climb over the gate and get it?" taunted Shelby's Dad. Homer tried to but failed. The Dad chuckled. "All this gloating has made me thirsty! Don't mind if I do!" Shelby's Dad bit a lemon. It was so sour it gave him a sour face and his eyes watered.
"Come on Bart, I know when we're beaten..." Homer sighed as he and the other Springfield dads went home in defeat,
"No Dad! We've got to come up with something!" Bart wasn't about to give up.
"Yeah we oughta... Ah I dun wanna fight no union..." said Database/Kyle's dad. Drunk.
"Kyle's dad, you're the nerd not the drunk..." Mr Muntz sighed.
"Ooooooh! Algebra!" said Kyle dad.
Homer had an idea. "Flanders we need to borrow your new RV.
"Okily dokily!" said Ned.
...
They returned at night. The park was deceptively easy to get into. However when Bart went to scout the place a guard dog attacked!
"Run boy!" Homer yelled. Then he got the bright idea to feed it Kirk's steak he was cooking on Ned's barbecue. However the dog just ate it.
"Oh no! He's got the taste for meat!" Homer yelled. Bart ran inside and they slammed the door on the dog just in time as the door was dented by the dog's face in a comical fashion and the dog was growling trying to bite through the metal.
The gang of kids and their fathers tied the lemon tree to the roof and got going but they tripped an alarm.
"Hey you!" yelled Shelby's Dad. He activated the gates closing function to close them. However the Springfield fathers got out just about witha heavily mangled tree.
They cheered.
"Oh you! Shake your fist harder boy!" Shelby's father yelled as the two troublesome father and son shook their fists angrily at the leaving van.
However near the boarder the lemon tree fell off so Homer and the other dads had to put it back on again.
...
The lemon tree was restored back to its normal spot but was slightly mangled from its adventure.
"Don't worry boys. It'll soon grow back to full plumage! All thanks to you!" Abe explained.
The kids all celebrated with glasses of home made lemonade from the lemons.
Meanwhile in Shelbyville an old man explained the recent and failed attempt to capture the Springfield lemon tree and that everyone will just have to settle for drinking turnip juice.
The Shelbyville kids reluctantly squeezed turnips for their juice to drink. Which tasted disgusting.
The end.