"Tennis the Menace" is the twelfth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons which originally aired February 11, 2001. This is also the second episode (the first being season seven's "Radioactive Man") to be digitally colored instead of colored traditionally through cel animation, a practice that would later be used starting with the season 14 episode, The Great Louse Detective.
The Springfield Retirement Castle holds a talent show, which the...
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"Tennis the Menace" is the twelfth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons which originally aired February 11, 2001. This is also the second episode (the first being season seven's "Radioactive Man") to be digitally colored instead of colored traditionally through cel animation, a practice that would later be used starting with the season 14 episode, The Great Louse Detective.
The Springfield Retirement Castle holds a talent show, which the Simpsons attend. Grampa wins the show after doing a bad version of What's New, Pussycat? His prize is a free autopsy, so the Simpsons go to a funeral salesman. Instead, Homer realizes that a certain kind of cemetery monument uses the same amount of cement as a tennis court, and so Homer decides to get the house a tennis court, even though Homer mistook tennis for foxy boxing (or, as Homer puts it, "the sport where the chicks whale on each other", though, it should be noted that Homer knew that the "sport" had a name in the season six episode...
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