Dr. Foster spanking Ned Flanders
The University of Minnesota Spankalogical Protocol is a treatment that involves eight months of continuous spanking sessions. Ned Flanders was subjected to the treatment by Dr. Foster at a young age after Ned's out of control behavior became too much for his mother and fahter. Presumably, if the eight month long spanking sessions occur on the patient's birthday, they're allowed a limited amount of free mobility, as Ned was seen unwrapping a present during his birthday party while otherwise still being subject to continuous spankings.
It was intended to help Ned Flanders learn to control his behavior, but it later revealed that the protocol actually backfired and only resulted in Ned Flanders suppressing all of his negative emotions. Ned's anger was repressed where he could only express negative sentiments in a nonsensical way which later became known as his standard gibberish. When a chain reaction of stressful events happened much later in his life, where a hurricane strikes through Springfield and spared the Simpsons, but only destroyed his house, a crude attempt at reconstruction got progressively worse through the house that eventually ended in a collapse after Homer asks Ned what does he think of the house that love built and the ultimate breaking point after all this, one of Ned's Glasses lens falling out and breaking. These large events of increased stress and tension led Ned to unable to calm himself down and start to lash out at the assembled people in a series of irrational angry outbursts as the repression of the experimental therapy hit a breaking point, shocking the entire crowd.
After unleashing his pent up aggression in a series of unfocused and equally nonsensical jammering (the verbal attacks on Marge, Bart, Lisa, Chief Wiggum, Krusty, Lenny, Moe, Millhouse (deleted scene), and Homer being evidence that he was still not addressing his anger, just allowing it out in a massive public display) Ned got in his car and drove off with Maude becoming shocked and devastated of her husband's violent outburst where after realizing what he had done, committed himself to Calmwood Mental Hospital, where he given the option of going in calmly or kicking and screaming.
After choosing the latter (mostly due to expressing interest in the option) and put in a straitjacket, Ned was reunited with Dr. Foster, who explained the history of Ned that he had repressed and the reason for his outburst, counselling that there are healthier ways for healthy release of anger. Ned also chose Homer as his role model to help him with releasing his anger, including the things that he hates with Dr. Foster declaring Ned cured. Ned is finally released from the Calmwood Mental Hospital and reunites with the townspeople of Springfield, including the Simpsons and Ned's family before Ned tells everybody if there's something that he doesn't like, they will hear about it.
Appearances[]
Episode – "Hurricane Neddy" (flashback)