Episode complete credited cast: | |||
Dan Castellaneta | ... | Homer Simpson / Archery Targets Truck Driver / Male Ballerina / Mayor Quimby / Sideshow Mel / Frank Tripp (voice) | |
Julie Kavner | ... | Marge Simpson / Patty Bouvier (voice) | |
Nancy Cartwright | ... | Bart Simpson / Database / Nelson Muntz / Miss Springfield (voice) | |
Yeardley Smith | ... | Lisa Simpson (voice) | |
Hank Azaria | ... | Comic Book Guy / Kirk Van Houten / Chazz Busby / Apu / Carl / Horatio Caine (voice) | |
Harry Shearer | ... | Principal Skinner / Kent Brockman / Ned Flanders / Lenny (voice) | |
Pamela Hayden | ... | Milhouse Van Houten / Rod Flanders / Ballerina (voice) | |
Tress MacNeille | ... | Ballerina / Mary Hart / Lillian Hellman (voice) | |
Russi Taylor | ... | Martin Prince / Sherri / Terri (voice) | |
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Karl Wiedergott | ... | Additional Voices (voice) |
Homer makes his own beef jerky in the basement,only for it to be stolen by raccoons. Marge,meanwhile,wants to fulfill her childhood dream of being a ballerina and goes with Lisa to the Chazz Buzby dance academy. She is turned down but Chazz notices that Lisa has the right posture for a dancer. Unfortunately she can only dance well after inhaling the other ballerinas' cigarette smoke. Homer is appalled and has the raccoons steal all the dancers' cigarettes. At a performance of 'Sleeping Beauty' all the dancers are rubbish when deprived of their smokes and Lisa delivers a diatribe from the stage against something which is unhealthy and stunts the growth of American children - ballet. Written by don @ minifie-1
There have been some good episodes of the show in its 19th series, but also some duds, and this is one of them.
Lisa helps her dancing career by smoking, and Homer/Bart devise a scheme to sell their own beef jerky.
It's got its moments, but not the show at its best.