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"The Day of the Jack-up" |
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| “ | Kneesock Dolls! They're my favorite girl pop band from my favorite Korea. | „ |
| ~ Lisa Simpson |
"The Day of the Jack-up" is the eighth episode of Season 37, being the 798th episode overall. It originally aired on November 23, 2025. The episode was written by Joel H. Cohen and directed by Mike Frank Polcino. It features guest stars Paget Brewster as the profiler.
Plot[]
After a mysterious buyer purchases every ticket for the KPOP concert Lisa wants to go to, the Simpsons have to figure out the identity of this evil ticket reseller. Or do they? (Yes, they do).
Full story[]
At the power plant, when natural resources are used for electricity production, Mr. Burns tries to sell it with cryptocurrencies, but fails. Smithers has an idea for the excess power to build a spherical concert hall, The Circulus, with a bright exterior display to make a profit. Upon powering on, Kent Brockman is on the globe, announcing that K-pop sensation Kneesock Dolls tickets will go on sale; Lisa is her favorite pop band. When the tickets are released online, they sell out immediately, and Homer is unable to buy them, so he tries to look for tickets on the secondary market, but they are too expensive. Much to everyone else's frustration, the tickets for the concert were sold out.
At the Town Hall, Professor Frink learns that their account has been created, which is used for scalpers, at the Springfield Library. To track down who is behind it, Mayor Quimby hires an FBI profiler. At home, Homer finds another way to get tickets, and when he arrives at the dome and starts damaging it, Otto informs Homer to come to his office, the school bus. Otto sells the tickets for cheaper and clean-ish urine, and it works, and they proceed to the concert to enjoy it.
Bart is bored, so he goes to look around and sees many security guards heavily guarding all doors, looking for the suspect. Bart finds and asks Squeaky-Voiced Teen what is with all the security, and Teen quietly tells him that the concert is a giant trap from the profiler to catch the SeatMiser, who resold all the tickets—something Bart realizes he was guilty of when his phone buzzed with a notification. It was revealed later that Bart was guilty because he used CheatGPT to execute this scam with the prompt "set up an online ticket reselling racket," something the real ChatGPT tells users is illegal. The teen told Bart that the way out is through the restricted areas, but it needs an employee pass to access it, so Bart managed to steal it from him.
Bart is on the way to evade the police but hears a radio that they will find him backstage what Bart goes, so he hides in the control room. Bart almost gets caught by Raphael, but tricks him by imitating the teen. While the family is enjoying the concert, Bart is having difficulty escaping, but the profiler purchased 100 tickets to help find the triangulation. His phone is being tracked by the profiler, so Bart attempts to abandon his phone by drowning it in the toilet in the restroom. After the concert finished, all the kids lined up to verify their phone's facial ID to try to find SeatMiser before leaving.
After Lisa was cleared on the line, it was Bart's turn. Being the last one, the Profiler now believed that Bart is the SeatMiser and placed the phone to his face and prepared to arrest him, but in a shocking twist, his face didn't open the phone, thus clearing him from being SeatMiser. The Profiler is then upset that SeatMiser actually manages to get away from her and making tonight's plan ruin, causing her to throw the phone in the bushes.
As the family is walking, Lisa admits that she's sorry that she believed that Bart would get arrested for his crime, where he comments on either being happy that he got away or that he humiliated Lisa on her beliefs that he would get caught. He also revealed that, being inside, he was able to record himself pulling down his pants to show his butt. It was also revealed that the reason why the phone's facial recognition didn't open for his face was that he never used his actual face, but rather his butt, where the image of his butt reflects on the screen of his phone, opening it, but since The Profiler threw away the phone, she can't see the content of the phone.
Behind the Laughter[]
Production[]
The group of Kneesock Dolls singing and dancing was performed by Symone Holliday and Courtney Rosemont with motion capture at the production studio Desert Eclipse.
Release[]
The episode aired simultaneously across all time zones at 8:31 PM Eastern Time (5:31 PM Pacific Time), following the release of a special episode "Spectrum Slam" of the series Universal Basic Guys.
Videos[]
External Links[]
- "The Day of the Jack-up" at the Internet Movie Database
- "The Day of the Jack-up" press release via The Futon Critic
- "The Day of the Jack-up" script via Springfield! Springfield!