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Gone Boy
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Gone Boy is the ninth episode of Season 29.

Synopsis[]

Winter is ruined for Springfield when Bart falls into an underground missile silo, leading the town to put together a search party to find him. After most give up hope, Sideshow Bob manipulates Milhouse into revealing where Bart is hiding.

Full Story[]

Sideshow Bob is collecting trash for community service with other criminals. But when they finish the work, the Simpson family runs over it with their rental car. After finishing the rental time and using the fuel, Homer goes with Bart to play. However, Bart needs to goes in the forest to take a leak, and ends up falling down a manhole.

The family and the Springfield Police Department start searching the forest, but Chief Wiggum and his fellow police officers fail as usual. Bart finds himself in some kind of bunker, filled with electronic equipment, which appears to be a military installation. The townspeople are looking for him, including Sideshow Bob, Shaquille O'Neal, and the other detainees.

Bart tries to escape, but the rusty ladder gives in. He finds a phone, but instead of calling for help, he calls Moe for a prank, only for the phone to then burn its wires out. Milhouse finds the entrance, but fails to help him. The news states that he is dead, and Milhouse fails to bring the truth, in favor of Lisa's affection.

Sideshow Bob is having issues accepting Bart's 'death', and Bart phones Marge confirming that he is alive. When Milhouse leaves the house, Bob appears, convincing him to bring the outlaw to Bart, with the Simpson family right behind. Bob shoves Milhouse down the manhole and then follows immediately. Homer and Grandpa fail to find them once again, while Bob ties the boys to a Norad missile and tries to launch them with the missile, stretching himself to overcome the failsafe that prevents one person from launching a missile. He then regrets his strategy and saves them at the advice of the injured prison therapist. As for the Norad rocket, it crashes at a nearby sculpture garden, as the people laugh at the Norad name, mistaking it for art.

Back in prison, Sideshow Bob is having his prison therapy stating that he will do good when his life sentences are complete. The therapist will continue the session at different times when the lights flickering has him throwing out the files of the other prisoners, indicating that they have been executed.

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Many years later, Sideshow Bob (as Elder Bob) has retired to a lighthouse somewhere as Jeremy Freedman, who works as a mailman, delivers his mail. He is still going crazy over killing Bart, where his message on the beach's sand keeps getting washed by the tides. Jeremy states that he wouldn't hear his ranting if he would get a mailbox. Elder Bob considers taking that advice for good measure.

Broadcast History[]

United States[]

Broadcast date(s) Channel aired
  • December 10, 2017
  • June 24, 2018
  • September 30, 2018
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  • December 20, 2020
  • December 25, 2020
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  • December 21, 2020
  • December 24, 2020
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United Kingdom[]

Broadcast date(s) Channel aired
  • December 2, 2021
Channel 4

Republic of Ireland[]

Broadcast date(s) Channel aired
  • January 12, 2022
RTE2

Citations[]

Sideshow Bob Episodes
Krusty Gets BustedBlack WidowerCape FeareSideshow Bob RobertsSideshow Bob's Last GleamingBrother from Another SeriesDay of the JackanapesThe Great Louse DetectiveThe Italian BobFuneral for a FiendThe Bob Next DoorThe Man Who Grew Too MuchTreehouse of Horror XXVIGone BoyBobby, It's Cold OutsideTreehouse of Horror XXXIV
Season 28 Season 29 Episodes Season 30
The SerfsonsSpringfield SplendorWhistler's FatherTreehouse of Horror XXVIIIGrampy Can Ya Hear MeThe Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to BeSingin' in the LaneMr. Lisa's OpusGone BoyHaw-Haw LandFrink Gets TestyHomer Is Where the Art Isn't3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a MarriageFears of a ClownNo Good Read Goes UnpunishedKing LeerLisa Gets the BluesForgive and RegretLeft BehindThrow Grampa from the DaneFlanders' Ladder
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