The Simpsons episode
"24 Minutes"
Episode no.	399
Prod. code	JABF14
Orig. airdate	May 20, 2007
Written by	Ian Maxtone-Graham Billy Kimball
Directed by	Raymond S. Persi
Couch gag	Episode starts with parody of 24's opening sequence (This replaces the normal opening sequence).
Guest star(s)	Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O'Brian
Season 18 September 10, 2006 – May 20, 2007
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"24 Minutes" is the twenty-first episode of The Simpsons' eighteenth season and aired on May 20, 2007 as part of the one hour season finale, alongside the episode "You Kent Always Say What You Want". It was originally promoted as being the 400th episode,^[1] but aired as the 399th. It was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham. Guest stars include Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub as their characters from 24, Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian. Simpsons redirects here. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 448 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (754 × 1009 pixel, file size: 501 KB, MIME type: image/png) Promotional artwork for Simpsons episode 24 Minutes. ©2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or... is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Plot

Principal Skinner opens a CTU – Counter Truancy Unit – at Springfield Elementary School with Lisa heading up the operation over Milhouse, Martin and Database. When the bullies Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney play truant, Milhouse is assigned on a mission to spy on them. In the television series The Simpsons, the Springfield Elementary School is the school which Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson and their fellow students attend. ... This article is about the fictitious Springfield Elementary School in the American television show The Simpsons. ... Lisa Marie Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Yeardley Smith; Lisa is the only character Smith voices on a regular basis. ... Milhouse Mussolini Van Houten is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Pamela Hayden. ... Martin Prince, Jr. ... Springfield Elementary School This is a list of the students who attend the fictional Springfield Elementary School from The Simpsons. ... Corky James Jimbo Jones (voiced by Pamela Hayden) is a character from the TV show The Simpsons. ... Dolphin Starbeam, known as Dolph (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is a character of the TV show The Simpsons. ... A Bully on The Simpsons. ...

An expired and highly pungent container of yogurt at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is found to belong to Homer, who is ordered to dispose of it by Mr. Burns. After failing to persuade Apu to take it, the yogurt falls into the hands of the bullies. Homer then unwittingly uncovers Milhouse spying on the bullies, causing the bullies to throw them both in a dumpster. Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is a fictional nuclear power plant in the television animated cartoon series The Simpsons. ... Homer Simpson is also a character in the book and film The Day of the Locust. ... Charles Montgomery Burns, normally referred to as Mr. ... Apu redirects here. ...

Meanwhile, Marge forgets about the bake sale, and only has a half hour to make a raisin sponge cake. In order to save time, Marge drastically increases the oven temperature to 1,200 degrees, burning the cake and making it rock-solid. Marge attempts to cover it up with pink and white frosting before leaving for the bake sale. Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ...

At Jimbo's house, the three bullies make a powerful stink bomb from the expired yogurt (along with other ingredients), and plan on detonating it at the bake sale. After Milhouse's failed attempt to track the bullies, Lisa suggests that Bart help them, which he does after negotiating immunity from punishment for all his past and future pranks. During his investigation, Bart's phone call is accidentally crossed with a call from Link(Legend Of Zelda) to Princess Zelda, and turns it into a prank call against Link. After finding out about the stink bomb, Bart returns to the school to tell Lisa, but is knocked out and captured by Martin, a double-agent who had been blackmailed into working for the bullies. For the comic book series of the same name, see Bart Simpson comics. ... Princess Zelda ) is a fictional character in The Legend of Zelda series of video games. ...

At the bake sale, the bullies start the three-minute timer for the bomb. Bart, locked in the ventilation room, contacts Lisa by his cell phone and shows her a picture of the stink bomb, telling her to have Principal Skinner dump the hot dog water and short circuit the ventilation fan. Skinner fills up the room with the water. Running out of air, Bart attempts to swim out, but cannot break through the room's only window. Marge helps him, breaking the glass by throwing her burnt cake through the window. Lisa then defuses the bomb, saving the bake sale from the stench. However after that, Gannondorf & several CTU field agents breaks inside the bake sale, destroying it, and start to arrest Bart for his "annoying prank call" to Link. A nuclear bomb then goes off in the distance, but everyone sighs with relief after Link reassures them that the nuclear bomb went off in Shelbyville. Ganon (sometimes referred to as Ganondorf or Ganondorf Dragmire) is the monster which takes many forms from the Legend of Zelda series of video games by Nintendo, and the final boss in a number of them. ... For other uses, see 24 (disambiguation). ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... Shelbyville is a fictional city on the television series The Simpsons that is located adjacent to Springfield. ...

Production

An original idea saw Edgar Stiles from 24 appearing in the episode and being killed, but the concept was dropped.^[2] Edgar Stiles was a fictional character played by Louis Lombardi in the American television series 24. ...

Reception

Robert Canning on IGN named "24 Minutes" the best episode of the season, citing "this smart, funny, spot-on parody of 24 was so good that it came very close to redeeming the entire season."^[3]

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