“Papa’s Got a Brand New Badge” is the 22nd episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. Like the episode “Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes?,” this episode was publicized as a “bonus episode,” which aired after the official season 13 finale and was supposed to be the season 14 premiere. Simpsons redirects here. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Simpsopranos. ... is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Al Jean is a TV comedy writer most known for his work on The Simpsons. ... Al Jean (left) and David Mirkin (right), have both been writers for The Simpsons for more than ten years. ... Dana Gould (born August 24, 1966) is an American comedian and comedy writer born and raised in Hopedale, Massachusetts. ... The three people are caricatures of (left to right) Rich Moore, Wes Archer and David Silverman[1] The following is a list of directors who have worked on the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... Pete Michels is an animation director on Family Guy. ... The couch gag is a running visual joke in the opening credits of the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Blue Man Group (Blue Man, BMG) is a creative organization founded by Phil Stanton, Chris Wink, and Matt Goldman; it is centered on a trio of mute performers, called Blue Men, who present themselves in blue grease paint, latex bald caps, and black clothing. ... (left to right) Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Keith Richards, Homer, Mick Jagger, Lenny Kravitz and Brian Setzer guest starred in the heavily promoted season 14 episode How I Spent My Strummer Vacation. This is a list of guest stars who appeared on The Simpsons. ... Joseph Anthony Mantegna, Jr. ... Fat Tony (voiced by Joe Mantegna) is the fictional local Mafia Don and leader of the Springfield Mafia in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... The Simpsons 13th season (November 2001 - May 2002) began on Tuesday, November 6, 2001 with Treehouse of Horror XII. The season contains five hold-over episodes from the season 12 (CABF) production line. ... is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Treehouse of Horror XII is the first episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season, as well as the twelfth Halloween episode. ... The Parent Rap is the second episode and official premiere of The Simpsons thirteenth season. ... Homer the Moe is the third episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season. ... A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love is an episode of the thirteenth season of the animated television series The Simpsons. ... The Blunder Years is an episode from The Simpsons 13th season. ... She of Little Faith is an episode from The Simpsons 13th season. ... Brawl in the Family is an episode in the thirteenth season of the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Sweets and Sour Marge is the eighth episode of the thirteenth season of The Simpsons. ... Jaws Wired Shut is the ninth episode of the thirteenth season of The Simpsons. ... Half-Decent Proposal is the tenth episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season. ... The Bart Wants What it Wants is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season. ... The Lastest Gun in the West is a season 13 episode from the television series The Simpsons, which February 4, 2002. ... The Old Man and the Key is the thirteenth episode of the thirteenth season of The Simpsons. ... “Tales from the Public Domain” is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. ... Blame it on Lisa is an episode from the thirteenth season of The Simpsons in which the family goes to Brazil in search of Lisas pen pal, a Brazilian orphan named Ronaldo. ... “Weekend at Burnsie’s” is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. ... “Gump Roast” is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. ... “I Am Furious Yellow” is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. ... “The Sweetest Apu” is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. ... “Little Girl in the Big Ten” is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. ... The Frying Game is the 21st episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season. ... The following is an episode list for the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... The following is an episode list for the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Plot

Once again, Springfield is in the midst of a massive heat wave. Every apartment building has installed a large air conditioning device. However, this draws a lot of power from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Despite the safety measures Mr. Burns has taken (cutting power to the orphanage), the plant is at full power. At home, without an air conditioning device, the Simpsons have to follow an old-fashioned fan. Homer decides to give them a taste of winter by plugging in his dancing Santa Claus. This overloads the plant and causes a town-wide blackout. Eventually, a huge riot and looting occur. The police become powerless to stop the massive crime wave. For other uses, see Springfield. ... For other uses, see Heat wave (disambiguation). ... Note: in the broadest sense, air conditioning can refer to any form of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning. ... Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is a fictional nuclear power plant in the television animated cartoon series The Simpsons. ... A typical depiction of Santa Claus. ... Power Outage is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed. ... Teamsters, armed with pipes, riot in a clash with riot police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934. ... Looting (which derives via the Hindi lut from Sanskrit lung, to rob), sacking, plundering, or pillaging is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe or riot, such as during war,[1] natural disaster,[2] or rioting. ...

The next day, Springfield has been devastated by the crime. Quimby decides to take action by forming a Blue Ribbon Committee. At the Simpsons’ house, someone stole Lisa’s Malibu Stacy collection. Homer decides to take action by finding them. He does and later foils a robbery at the Kwik-E-Mart. He likes the idea of combining his love of helping and hurting people. Homer forms his own security company called “SpringShield.” Although it only has Homer, Lenny, and Carl, it is more efficient and successful than the Springfield Police Department. When Quimby sees Chief Wiggum trying to shoot a Piñata with a shotgun, he dismisses Wiggum and makes Homer the chief of police. Blue-Ribbon Panel (sometimes called a Blue Ribbon Commission) is an informal term generally used to describe a group of exceptional persons appointed to investigate or study a given question. ... For other uses, see Security (disambiguation). ... For the animated short, see Piñata (animated film). ... Chief of Police is the title typically given to the head of a police department, particularly in the United States and Canada. ...

After stopping one of Fat Tony's operations, Homer practically rids Springfield of crime. However, Fat Tony escapes and vows to kill Homer unless he leaves town. Homer is unable to get protection from the citizens he protected (only Ned Flanders volunteers, but Homer ignores his offer) and Lenny and Carl lock themselves in a jail cell. When Homer does not leave, Fat Tony arrives with a few of his own henchmen (including Johnny Tightlips), as well as mafia muscle—the characters of the Sopranos series. Just before they are about to kill Homer, someone shoots the mobsters and injures them. Safe again, Homer makes Wiggum the chief of police again. When Marge thanks him for saving Homer, Wiggum says that he lost his gun, badge and nearly lost his squad car. Unbeknownst to them, the person who saved Homer was Maggie, who fired at the mobsters from her window with a scoped sporting rifle. Fat Tony (voiced by Joe Mantegna) is the fictional local Mafia Don and leader of the Springfield Mafia in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... The word citizen may refer to: A person with a citizenship Citizen Watch Co. ... Nedward Ned Flanders is a fictional character on The Simpsons, based on the real life Donald Macmillan, heir to the Alcan Fortune, voiced by Harry Shearer. ... This article is about the criminal society. ... This article is about the television series. ... Contents // Categories: Emergency vehicles | Law enforcement equipment | Stub ... Margaret Maggie Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. ...

Cultural references

• The episode title references the 1965 James Brown song “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag.”
• The characters that walk past Skinner include Jughead Jones, Fat Albert, and Fonzie (real name said to be Arthur).
• The picture Otto is carrying by while the Simpsons watch is Picasso’s Guernica.
• The scene where Homer is trying to recruit people to help defend himself against Fat Tony & co. is similar to a scene in the western High Noon from 1952 with Gary Cooper.
• The sequence when Fat Tony and his fellow mafiosi get in the white van is a parody of the opening sequence of the American series The Sopranos, and the song in the background is the Sopranos theme song, “Woke Up This Morning” by Alabama 3. Also the characters of Silvio Dante, Christopher Moltisanti, and Paulie Walnuts are shown as Fat Tony’s crew.
• When the power goes out, Moe says, “I’m gonna miss FOX Celebrity Boxing!” FOX Celebrity Boxing aired the same night as this episode did.
• The short dialogue between Fat Tony and the ferret wearing a wire: “You’re not a pet, and you’re not a friend. You’re nothing to me” is a direct parody of the end of the conversation between Michael Corleone and Fredo Corleone in Godfather II: “You’re not a brother, and you’re not a friend. You’re nothing to me.”
• The song playing as the riot envelops Springfield is “Summer in the City,” a 1966 hit by Lovin’ Spoonful.
• In the same riot, several looters steal musical instruments from a Music World store. The song they proceed to play is the Notre Dame Victory March.
• At the end of the episode, Homer compares Maggie to Clark Kent, saying that whenever something exciting is happening, “she’s nowhere to be found.”

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Trivia

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• This episode was dedicated to the memory of the late Stephen Jay Gould, who played himself in “Lisa the Skeptic.”
• When Fat Tony and his gang are driving into Springfield to kill Homer, they drive past the “Entering Springfield” sign, which says Springfield’s population is 30,720 and its elevation is 1582 (presumably feet).
• Additionally, his music request was Radar Love

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