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The Simpsons - 9F16: The Front (Table Draft)

This is a table draft for The Simpsons episode 9F16: The Front. Episode aired on April 15th, 1993. This script was used for the table read on August 20th, 1992. This episode was famously short during production, and the writers pulled "every trick in the book" to get it to length: The circus couch gag, two full-length Itchy & Scratchy cartoons, ADR to extend certain scenes, and "The Adventures of Ned Flanders" short at the end of the episode. However, this script is actually too long at 52 pages. So what got cut? Well, in this draft, Abe accepts his award for Little Barbershop of Horrors and fails to mention Bart & Lisa in any way. Afterwards, Bart & Lisa refuse to write anymore scripts; at the same time, Roger Meyers Jr. demands a new script after firing all of his writers except Abe. He writes a rather humorless cartoon screed wherein Grampa Itchy & Scratchy are visited by their grandsons asking for money. The elder Itchy & Scratchy rant directly to camera about the neglect of the elderly. Meyers fires Abe after seeing the cartoon. The last scene sees Bart & Lisa visiting Grampa in the retirement home, where they play that game where you drop clothespins into a bottle. The aired

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