The Scorpion's Tale

In this weeks episode of The Simpson's Lisa make a makes a major medical discovery. Lisa and Bart's school went on a class trip to the dessert and there Lisa happened upon two scorpions that almost stung her till she fell into a patch of flowers that calmed the angry creatures. collecting the scorpions and the flower, she brought them home to make a science experiment. At home Homer decides that if the secret chemical can calm down a scorpion it may also calm down a very grumpy grandpa. Homer puts the chemical in Grandpa's coffee and Grandpa turns into a new man. He is much happier and much better off. In Moe's Homer meets a man who is willing to buy the chemical from Homer and turn it into a legal drug. To test out the drug he gives a bottle of the pills to Grandpa advising he not loose them for fear they may be sold on the black market. Bart hears this idea and sells the drug to a lot of the older citizens of Springfield claiming it will make them less annoying. After Bart gets back home, the family realizes that the drug has a very severe side effect. It makes your eyes pop out of your head. I think my favorite scene in the episode is when Bart finds out this after confessing to selling all of the drugs for money, he shows that he spent his money on a pair of slinky eye glasses which the eyes pop out much like the drug. At the end of the episode one part I found humorous was when Homer ran over tire spikes and instead of getting it fixed, he decided he would buy a new one, blaming it on our generation. The older generation figured if the stopped being grumpy the younger generation would get nothing done, and therefore repaired Homer's car good as new.