Season

18

Production Code

HABF18

Episode Number

0

Airdate

17 September 2006

Writer

Daniel Chun

Director

Steven Dean Moore

Executive Producer

Al Jean

Editor

Gary M. Gadsdon

Plot At Amber's Funeral, Bart plays with a paddle toy and the ball breaks off into Reverend Lovejoy's mouth and Flanders gives him the Heimlich. It is then called that Bart needs psychiatrist. Who gives Bart a drum kit. He bumps into the White Stripes (as themselves) and drums all night. Lisa suggests that she takes Bart to a local Jazz Club where kids perform on stage. There Bart gets noticed by Defanzo Skinny-Palmer and Marcus Marbles-Lemarkez where he joins their trio. A week later, Bart is known as a great jazz drummer, but Lisa is upset about it. Marge suggests that getting a puppy might help, she picks one, but later regrets not picking another dog, as a result she starts to take other dogs from the pound to rescue them, and various other abandoned animals, and hides them in the attic. In the attack a tiger bites Bart's arm and he cant drum anymore. Bart's trio holds a benefit concert to cure it, but instead he decides to build a nature reserve dedicated to Lisa.