The Simpsons episode
"On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"
Episode no.	346
Prod. code	GABF05
Orig. airdate	March 6, 2005
Written by	Jeff Westbrook
Directed by	Bob Anderson
Chalkboard	"Beer in a milk carton is not milk"
Couch gag	In a The Power of Tens parody, the camera pans out from the living room, to outer space and beyond, through DNA and atoms, and back into Homer's head
Guest star(s)	Gary Busey as Himself Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Harm
Season 16 November 7, 2004 – May 15, 2005
Treehouse of Horror XV All's Fair in Oven War Sleeping with the Enemy She Used to Be My Girl Fat Man and Little Boy Midnight Rx Mommie Beerest Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass Pranksta Rap There's Something About Marrying On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister Goo Goo Gai Pan Mobile Homer The Seven-Beer Snitch Future-Drama Don't Fear the Roofer The Heartbroke Kid A Star Is Torn Thank God It's Doomsday Home Away from Homer The Father, The Son & The Holy Guest Star
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Plot

The students of Springfield Elementary go on a field trip to the Springfield Glacier. Unfortunately, the glacier has melted heavily, becoming little more then a lake. Lisa claims that the melting must be due to global warming. The park ranger disputes this, saying that the government’s position on global warming is that it does not exist. Bart makes Lisa's entire trip a living nightmare. From tripping her on the bus to making a bad drawing of her for everyone to see. Lisa soon starts desperately pleading with the students to accept global warming, to no success. Bart begins tormenting and humiliating her even more. Lisa gets more and more upset, eventually ending up being pushed into the water and being thought to have farted consciously. The kids get back on the bus. Lisa, now absolutely furious, promises swift revenge against Bart. Meanwhile, Homer and Marge go shopping at the local Sprawl-Mart, where Grampa has the job of store greeter. He soon causes an accident that puts him out of action and Homer takes over his job. Homer does such a good job that the manager says Homer can get a full time position. Springfield is the fictional city in which the animated American sitcom The Simpsons is set. ... This article is about the fictitious Springfield Elementary School in the American television show The Simpsons. ... This article is about the geological formation. ... 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. ... Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earths near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. ... Homer Simpson is also a character in the book and film The Day of the Locust. ... Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ... Sprawl-Mart is the name of a fictional store in The Simpsons. ... Abraham J. Simpson also known as Grampa Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated cartoon television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ...

The next day, it transpires that Lisa has had a restraining order filed against Bart. Bart is forced to be twenty feet away from Lisa at all times, or he will face legal consequences. Chief Wiggum shows the family a videotape hosted by Gary Busey (who has about 15 restraining orders due to "being too real"), "Get Out of My Dreams and Also Out of My Car: A Guide to Your Restraining Order", which teaches Bart how to live with a restraining order. To make the restraining order easier to enforce, Homer makes a 20-foot pole with a screwdriver on one of the ends to keep them apart. However, this drastically affects Bart's life at home and school, where Principal Skinner assigns Groundskeeper Willie to be his new teacher. After seeing Bart so depressed and Lisa enjoying terrorizing him, Marge makes an appeal in court to get the restraining order removed. Bart unintentionally antagonises and insults Judge Constance Harm, which leads to her increasing the restraining order to 200 feet. Bart can now only live at the edge of the Simpson family property. While he lives there, his life steadily degrades. He lives with feral dogs and goes to the toilet in the backyard. Marge watches with ever increasing anxiety, concerned he is losing his sanity. An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that either prohibits or compels (enjoins or restrains) a party from continuing a particular activity. ... Police Chief Clancy Wiggum is a fictional character from the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria. ... William Gary Busey (born 29 June 1944) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and stage actor. ... In the television series The Simpsons, the Springfield Elementary School is the school which Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson and their fellow students attend. ... Groundskeeper Willie (a. ... Judge Constance Harm is a supporting character on The Simpsons, voiced by Jane Kaczmarek. ...

At Sprawl-Mart, Homer is forced to work overtime without being paid and locked in the store after hours. When he complains, Homer is painfully electrocuted. The manager reveals that he had a “compliance chip” embedded in his neck during the company physical. When he leaves, Homer immediately rips it out. He offers to do the same for the other employee but they reveal that they took their chips out years ago and have been stealing numerous items from the store ever since. Homer leaves the store forever, taking several plasma TVs with him on a stolen forklift. The term electrocution can mean either: death by electric shock, usually by accident or deliberate execution by electric shock, in an electric chair See also: Capital punishment (death penalty) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A plasma display is an emissive flat panel display where light is created by phosphors excited by a plasma discharge between two flat panels of glass. ... US airman operates forklift at a truck A forklift is a powered industrial truck used to hoist and transport materials by means of steel forks inserted under the load. ...

Bart is still in the backyard, now wrestling with a dog for a steak. Marge is now upset with Lisa that she would stoop this low, especially to her brother. She pleads with Lisa to forgive him. But she claims that Bart has never done three nice things for her in his life. Marge points out two (bringing homework to her while she was sick, and cheering her up after her pet hamster died, by putting Homer's hand between two buns of bread and making him bite it constantly, as if it were a hotdog) and Lisa looks out the window, where she sees that Bart has made a giant statue of her made out of straw. She happily runs out to meet him, but the school bullies turn up and reveal that they were intending to burn the statue. Lisa is initially disheartened, but after Bart tells her that the fire represents her musical ability, she admits she was wrong and burns the restraining order and the poking pole along with the statue. The family reunites and play the song Tijuana Taxi. A steak (from Old Norse steik, roast) is a slice from a larger piece of meat, typically from red meat like beef, or fish. ...

Cultural references

• The title is taken from the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.

• The title on the Gary Busey video is taken from the Billy Ocean song "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car".

• The episode's couch gag spoofs the 1977 science education movie Powers of Ten, which shows the house, Springfield, the continent, the planet, the Milky Way, the universe, atoms, DNA, and back to Homer's body. This gag was first used in "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner".

• The song played during the Lisa/Bart montage is "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police.

• Classic Music is extensively used in this episode: Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra in the couch gag, Edvard Grieg's "Morning Mood" and In the Hall of the Mountain King from the Peer Gynt Suite and the first movement from Vivaldi's Concerto No. 1 in E major, "La primavera" (Spring).

• Bart's lines "Look in your heart. I beg you. Look in your heart!" are a reference to the movie Miller's Crossing where John Turturro's character twice implores Gabriel Byrne's character to look into his heart before killing him (Turturro).

• When the schoolchildren are forced to tow their bus up an icy road and Üter exclaims, "I feel like I'm in Fitzcarraldo": this references the 1982 Werner Herzog movie Fitzcarraldo, whose main topic is hauling a steamship over a hill by manpower. When Nelson replies "That movie was flawed!", punching Üter in the stomach: this references a popular criticism of the movie's ending.

• The wicker statue of Lisa, to which the bullies aim to burn, is a reference to the 1973 British Movie, The Wicker Man.

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