"The Front" is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons' fourth season, which originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 15, 1993. In the episode, Bart and Lisa decide to write an episode of Itchy & Scratchy, but their script is rejected, so they resubmit it under the name of Abraham Simpson. The episode was written by Adam I. Lapidus and directed by Rich Moore. Initially, this episode ran extremely short, and Lapidus had to ...
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"The Front" is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons' fourth season, which originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 15, 1993. In the episode, Bart and Lisa decide to write an episode of Itchy & Scratchy, but their script is rejected, so they resubmit it under the name of Abraham Simpson. The episode was written by Adam I. Lapidus and directed by Rich Moore. Initially, this episode ran extremely short, and Lapidus had to "Pad like crazy" to complete the episode. It was also the only episode that Lapidus ever wrote.
Bart and Lisa watch a terrible episode of The Itchy & Scratchy Show and decide they can write a better one themselves. Inspired by the sight of Homer accidentally cutting Marge's hair with hedge shears, they write "The Little Barbershop of Horrors", but the episode is rejected by Roger Meyers, head of Itchy & Scratchy International. Correctly guessing that Meyers did not take them seriously because they were children, they resubmit the manuscript...
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