The Simpsons
Season 37 – Episode 7
Episode title: Sashes to Sashes
Original air date: November 16, 2025
Plot: Bart runs against Mayor Quimby’s son for student council president, while Lisa learns troubling secrets about the Quimby clan – and about the Simpsons.
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The Simpsons – S37E07 – Sashes to Sashes | Transcript
And Moses raised his staff unto the sky, and the Lord sent forth a mighty tempest that thundered like
[pipe organ plays]
Oh, come on now, Alice. That’s a bit much.
Alice!
[all gasp]
Today, we hold an assembly for a dead lady you never met, because this wonderful, generous woman has left her entire estate to the school to fund the new music program.
[gasps] This is a dream come true. We can get–
Um… Uh… I’d like a word.
My name is Joe Quimby III. Mr. Dahan’s homeroom. I go to this school now.
[Nelson] Welcome, rich kid.
Maybe by “music program”, instead of new instruments, Mrs. Glick really meant an epic three-day music festival.
[♪ techno music plays]
We could get performers like Little Smelly, DJ Breakfast, Jupiter Jerks, the recently reunited G.O.R.M, and possibly Chunk Mafia!
[Nelson] Chunk it up!
This once-in-a-generation tornado of fun will become a reality when I’m elected as your student council president in next month’s election.
[all clamoring] Absolutely!
[Lisa] No, no. A festival is just one weekend, but a new music program will produce timpanists and flautists forever.
We could be lectured by Lisa, or let’s all kick off my son’s campaign with free frozen yogurt!
This isn’t what Mrs. Glick wanted!
I’ve heard of frozen water and plain yogurt, but this is extraordinary.
[Lisa] Those Quimbys have run this town forever, and they’ve never had a day of struggle in their lives!
What’s for supper?
I was weeping in the fields when I found a turnip! A whole blessed turnip!
A rock?
Wee Joe has the real turnip!
[mob clamoring]
Farewell, Ma and Pa. In this town, all I shall ever be is the son of a pig whistler. I want something more!
[whistling]
[grunting] Oink, oink, oink.
[♪ orchestral music playing]
Hmm. Joseph O’Shaughnessy from Quimby, Ireland. Never seen an apostrophe in a name before. Must be a typo. Welcome to America, Joe Quimby.
[♪ atmospheric music playing]
[Lisa] Someone ought to run against that rich, little nepo-Quimby. Someone who cares about the school with real plans for the future. Someone like… [gasps] …me.
Two votes. That’s all you get. You and Milhouse… maybe.
I’m still doing my research.
The only candidate with a chance against Joe Quimby III would be Bart. Everyone loves the cis Caucasian bad boy, and you should see his polling. Bart’s playing well with all the demos, bullies, nerds, twinks, by which I mean kids who like Twinkies.
[Lisa] So, I have to get my idiot brother elected to save the music program? [groans] Well, I guess if you wanna win in politics, you’ve got to get your hands dirty.
[grunting] Do we really want to spend the rest of our days scavenging through horse leavings for coins and buttons?
Buck up, Joe. Being a dunglark is part of the fast-growing gag economy, and who else will hire us? No Irish can be a footpost, a beetler, a bodger, a coal heaver, a garthman, a hello girl, a loblolly boy, a propbobby, or even a lowly scrimshander.
Well, at least we can watch the Saint Patrick’s Day parade.
[♪ “The Wind That Shakes The Barley” playing]
Hey, this is a respectable parade.
Oh, there’s Spanucci, the barrel king of Slobtown.
Ooh. He looks like a good man. Perhaps he’ll give me a job.
Ha! I’d never hire an Irish! Farewell, you slightly different kind of Catholic dog.
[♪ traditional Irish music playing]
[keys jingling]
Oh, hello, Celtic scum. What are you carrying?
I made you a corned beef sandwich.
[choking] Needs mustard. [chokes]
[reporter] After the accidental choking death of Rigatoni Spanucci, a will found on his body states he’s bequeathed his barrel factory to his dearest friend, Joe Quimby. And bad news for Wall Street means a windfall for Quimby’s new business. Stockbrokers are losing the shirts off their backs and the suits that go with them. Lucky for them, Quimby’s barrels are there to cover their shame. Quimby then bet it all to start his own movie studio. Here he is at the premiere of his new hit, barrel-based musical Over the Falls. Hey, Joe. Stave a seat for me!
[camera shutters clicking]
Joe, you’ve conquered so many industries. What’s next?
Well, I was thinking of running for city council.
[all laughing]
The Irish barrel monkey wants to be in politics.
[scoffs] Know your place, you filthy Irish.
[journalists laughing]
[groans]
Extra, extra. Barrel Baron’s baby about to be born! Father just hearing it now.
Son, I may be a barrel king and movie mogul, but to the people that hold the strings, I’ll always be a dirty Irish dung lark. Not you. One day you’ll wear these.
[babbling, stammering]
Trust me, boy, you’re going to be a winner.
[Lisa] Trust me, Bart, you’re gonna be a winner.
I’m already a winner. I just got the high score.
[Lisa] Bart, you have to run for president. Somebody’s gotta stop little Quimby.
Oh, but I don’t wanna be president, and I’m excited for that music festival. He’s getting the Chunk Mafia. Chunk, chunk it up.
[panting] Are you guys chunking it up?
[♪ techno music playing]
Chunk it up. Chunk it up.
Chunk it up. Chunk it up.
[both beatboxing]
Chunk it up.
[Lisa] But, Bart, if you run for president and win, it’ll drive Skinner crazy.
Huh? Chunk it up.
[music continues, ends]
[Lisa] A cherry bomb in every toilet and a beehive in Skinner’s car.
[Skinner] They’re in my ears!
And we’ll save Lisa’s stupid music program.
No! [muffled scream]
[bees buzzing]
[narrator] Can our school risk a president whose name rhymes with fart?
Six, five.
[narrator] Four, three, two, one.
[farting]
[narrator] Bart dealt it, but you don’t need to smelt it. Next Thursday, vote Joe Quimby III.
He’s killing us on the Bartfart rhyme angle.
This is exactly what took down Kevin Kiarrhea.
[all groan]
[Lisa] Hold on. Hold on. If they’re gonna fight dirty, so can we. With exhaustive negative opposition research.
[Lisa] The Quimbys have had so many scandals, and nothing has stopped them. From bootlegging to barrel shaving and so much philandering. Also, how many bridges can one family drive off? Ugh, just keep micro-ficheing. Fiche, fiche, fiche, fiche… [softly] …fiche, fiche. Wait a second. Bouvier? That woman who married Mayor Quimby looks a little like Mom… [gasps] And that flower girl is Mom.
Yeah, that’s me in the picture… [grunting] …and the bride is my aunt Beatrice, and I don’t want to talk about it.
[Lisa] Uh, okay, but I just have a couple more questions.
Sorry, I can’t hear you! I think a fork fell in.
[clinking]
I’m not afraid to tell you the hard truth. The rich deserve tax breaks for yachts and LeRoy Neiman paintings and fancy dinners like this one.
[cheering]
[rattling]
Terrific speech, Son. You’ve grown up to make me, your mother, and my five mistresses very proud.
Uh… [sighs] Oh, Donkey Kong Junior. Maybe we’ll both live up to the expectations of our barrel-cursed fathers.
You’re blowing your chance to do real good for the people of Springfield.
Who the hell are you?
Beatrice Bouvier. I get coffee for the person who gets you coffee. Look, your family money and your pretty-boy good looks aren’t going to win you this election.
You, uh, think I’m pretty?
You can make a real difference, but oh, no, you just wanna please your rich daddy and his lobster rattling friends. Hmm. Who am I kidding? The first casualty of politics is hope. I quit.
Don’t leave, you lippy dame!
If you want me to stay, you have to hit the real neighborhoods and meet the people you’ll be serving.
Okay, but you’re driving. There’s a, uh, lot of bridges between here and there.
[♪ traditional Irish music playing]
This is Slobtown. The working-class heart of Springfield.
Ugh. My father left this neighborhood as soon as he could. Ugh. What is that?
That’s a Slobtown meat cone. A waffle cone full of beef stew.
Ugh, these people are animals. Thank God they don’t get to vote.
They do, and the cone allows them to hold stew in one hand while hooping a barrel with the other.
[♪ oompah music playing]
♪ Oompah, oompah, slap your son
Oompah, oompah, lots of fun… ♪
My father would sing me to sleep with this song.
♪ The widow drowned herself in tears ♪
♪ Oompah, oompah, fun for years ♪
Hey!
Hey!
[all cheering]
I get it now. Politics is about improving the lot of working folks. Beatrice, will you be my campaign manager?
Will you promise to be the best version of yourself?
You’re the first person I’ve never wanted to lie to, so I’m not lying when I say yes.
I may be a lemon pelted simpleton, but this feels like real growth.
Elect me, and we’ll have more money for parks, education, and inspiring murals of ethnically diverse children getting along.
[all cheering]
Meat cones for both of you on the house.
Would you like a napkin?
No, because it ain’t a Slobtown meat cone unless you’re wearing it.
[all cheering]
As E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial said, we “phoned home” with a message of hope, and the voters told us we have the “Eye of the Tiger”.
[crowd cheering]
You’ve always vetted my policy proposals, but this one’s all my own. Beatrice Bouvier, will you, uh… [stammers]
Yes, yes. A thousand focus groups, yes!
[cheering]
[Bart] Are you tired of band-aids in the Jell-O?
[farts]
[Bart] Playground slides with exposed bolts?
[farts]
[Bart] And entitled rich kids trying to run our school?
[farts]
[Bart] It’s 3 a.m. Whose finger do you pull? Next Tuesday, vote Bart “The Fart” Simpson.
Dude, way to flip the fart narrative.
Oh, genius ad, Lisa.
[Lisa] And get this, in the school paper’s poll of foursquare players, you’re tied with Quimby two to two.
It’s weird, but it turns out I love popularity. Excuse me, I got a rope of kindergartners begging for the Fart Man.
[all chuckling]
Do you, Joe Quimby Junior, take Beatrice Bouvier to be your lawfully wedded wife?
Yes, I do, and there’s no ums, uhs, or ahs about it.
I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride.
[all cheering]
Joe, your father wants to talk to you.
Marrying a slobtown girl will help us with the unions. Smart move, Son.
I married her because I love her.
Never say that on the record. Now, there’s one thing your image needs.
What? Mistresses?
Uh… [stammers] My dad says being a philanderer is an essential part of my hypermasculine political image, but don’t worry, I told him I would never cheat on you.
Oh, thank God.
He’ll be happy as long as the press catches me in bed naked with many, many sexy ladies, but I will commit neither hanky nor panky.
So you’ll respect me privately, but humiliate me publicly?
I don’t have a choice. I’m sorry, but whatever my father wants, my father gets.
Oh. You broke my heart, Joe Quimby. [sobbing]
Are you going off to your magical castle?
Princesses aren’t real, and there is no happily ever after.
[sobbing]
[♪ pensive music playing]
[♪ orchestral music playing]
Let’s check the lunchroom map. It all comes down to the girls who sniff Sharpies and that sad boy who’s always throwing up. Uh, I’m hearing all the votes are in, and we can now call the election for Joseph Quimby III.
[Lisa] They rejected my music program.
Oh, who cares? They rejected me.
[students] Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe.
[Lisa] Failure music, please.
[♪ melancholy music playing]
[Lisa] And that’s the best they’ll ever sound.
I need to talk to you. I thought you did an amazing job on Bart’s campaign. The way you linked me to chocolate milk inflation? Negative, unfair, and I wish I’d thought of it.
[Lisa] Compliment noted.
Lisa, my father has endless plans for me, and now those plans include having you on my team.
[Lisa] Why would I work for you? You deep faked a picture of my brother picking his nose.
That wasn’t a deep fake.
[Lisa] [groans] That makes sense.
My father wants you, and whatever my father wants, my father gets. I need your answer by Monday at recess. Don’t sweat this decision too much. Just remember, it’s all just a game. [slurps]
[sighs] It’s all just a game. You spend your whole life chasing sashes, and then it’s over.
Mr. Mayor, something amazing has happened.
Beatrice came back?
No, you forgot about your televised debate. It starts in five minutes.
Oh, right. I’m running for governor now.
Mr. Mayor, some critics say you’re skating by on your family money and pretty-boy good looks. How do you respond?
I say I love you, Beatrice, and I’m so sorry I hurt you. I want the voters to know I’m not having sex with an endless parade of nubile beauties. I only want to have routine, reliable intercourse with the woman I love, and even then… [sobs] …not that frequently.
If he can’t even cheat on his wife, how can he repave our highways? I say we turn on him.
[crowd members clamoring] Yeah!
[crowd member] He’s a wuss.
Dad, other than that last question, uh, how do you think I did in the debate?
I stole the family turnip. I left the land of my birth. I killed a man with a corned beef sandwich. [inhales sharply] All to make our name in this country. [breathing heavily]
Okay, all pretty positive so far.
But you’ve ruined all that. [breathing heavily] You’ll never be more than the mayor of a two-bit town. You’re a failure, and you’ve forever brought shame to the Quimby name. [gasping] [choking]
[monitor flatlines]
[sobbing, stammering] Oh, if there was only a way to, uh, make this right.
Have a son and raise him to succeed where you failed. [gasps]
[truck beeping]
Thanks for reaching out, Lisa. I’ve only heard about your family through your aunts, Patty and Selma. How’s your morbidly obese alcoholic father dealing with his chronic butt fungus?
[Lisa] Um… He gets by.
One more question. Why is your mom just standing in the doorway?
Because when I was four, you told me that princesses aren’t real, and there’s no happily ever after.
Oh, gosh, did I say that?
Yes, and I wasn’t ready to hear that my dreams would never come true. [gasps] And that’s why I married the first… I love your dad. Great guy.
Marge, I’m so sorry, but you should know what happened that day. I had just found out that the love of my life betrayed me. I never saw him again or ate meat out of a cone.
[gasps] Oh. He chose his father’s ambitions over his love for you. I’m so sorry.
Poor Joe, he never stood a chance against his dad.
[Lisa] His son wants my help, and I think I know how to give it to him.
[Lisa] Joe, Joe. Joe, I finally understand your family, and I’ve written the first speech of your administration.
Oh, I love it.
Let me introduce my son and your new president, Joseph Fitzgerald Shriver Onassis Schlossberg Quimby III.
[students applauding, cheering]
Joe, Joe, Joe.
Ever since my grandfather got rich making barrels, my family has been jumping over those barrels and hitting them with hammers. But we have never been able to escape them because those barrels are filled with ambition instead of love, and often they are on fire.
It is true.
I can play this game no longer because my soul has run out of quarters. I’m stepping down, but I leave you in the worthy hands of Bart Simpson.
What up, Springfield? We did it! Chunk it up.
[all] Bart, Bart, Bart!
Sorry, but the school constitution says that the next in line of succession is the Chief hall monitor. That’s, uh, Martin Prince.
Suck it, Simpsons, and I’m saving the music program. Hit it.
[♪ atmospheric music playing]
I’m sorry I let you down, Father.
[singer] ♪ Oompah, oompah ♪
♪ Stare at sun ♪
♪ Burn your eyeballs, lots of fun… ♪
I’ve never been more proud of you.
[Lisa] Bart, we broke a 100year cycle of emotional trauma.
So what? History is boring. Don’t they say it just keeps repeating itself?
[Lisa] Sure, but each time it’s a little different.
♪ Eat some glass, hurts to pass ♪
♪ Oompah, oompah
♪ Lots of fun ♪
Hey!
[♪ techno music playing]
Chunk Mafia.
♪ What? Chunk, chunk ♪
♪ Chunk, chunk, chunk it up ♪
♪ Chunk, chunk ♪
♪ Chunk it up ♪
♪ Chunk, chunk, chunk it up ♪
♪ Chunk, chunk it up ♪
♪ Chunk it up ♪
♪ Chunk, chunk, chunk it up ♪
♪ Chunk, chunk it up ♪
♪ Chunk, chunk ♪
♪ Chunk, chunk, chunk it up ♪
♪ Chunk, chunk it up ♪
♪ Chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk ♪
♪ Chunk it up ♪
[music ends]
