Season 27 (2015-2016)

"Friend with Benefit"

1. Homer watches a TV commercial for the Seat-to-Feet Lift Chair and then sees the price displayed as $1,100.

Homer (gasps, groans): Eleventy-hundred?  I can’t afford that.

2. The Australian boy band Doe-Eyed Boys takes the stage and performs their opening song at a concert attended by Homer and Lisa.

Band: When we harmonize / And you look in our eyes / You’ll see it’s no surprise / That we’re your Nobel Prize.

[The screen behind them shows four Nobel Prize winners including Albert Einstein, wearing his medal while standing in front of chalkboards containing mathematical symbols.]

"'Paths of Glory"

Having recently learned of Amelia Vanderbuckle, Springfield’s original female inventor and the first female graduate of Springfield Tech, Lisa unveils the inventor’s greatest invention which had not seen the light of day while she was alive, decades ago.

Kent Brockman: Behold, the masterpiece of Amelia Vanderbuckle.

Barney: A loom?!

Superintendent Chalmers: That isn’t science, that’s home economics.  Everyone, storm the stage!

Lisa: Not so fast!  This is no ordinary loom!

Barney: Even an extraordinary loom is the most boring thing I can think of.

Lisa: This is much, much more than just a loom.

[She inserts a board with cutouts and then cranks a wheel.  The loom begins operating and weaves the message HELLO WORLD.]

Carl: It’s alive!

Barney: And polite!

[The loom weaves the message ENTER OPERAND.]

Lisa: “Operand”? Looks like it wants us to give it a math problem.

[In order, she enters boards labeled 27, x, and 35, and then cranks the wheel.  The loom weaves the message 945.]

Professor Frink:  Oh, my God.  Oh, God!  It’s the first computational device!  People, people, don’t you see?  The board acts like punch cards and the loom like a computer, with the Charles Babbage and the John von Neumann . . .  Let’s have “the square root of nine” cheers for Lisa!

[The loom weaves the message THE SQUARE ROOT OF 9 IS 3.]

Crowd: Lisa!  Lisa!  Lisa!

"The Girl Code"

Lisa and a group of coders work in the family’s living room to create an app.  Some boards and papers posted on the walls contain mathematical symbols.

"Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles"

Bart’s class has a new teacher, retired Air Force Sergeant Carol Berrera.

Martin: How many hospitals did you help build?

Ms. Berrera: Negative three.

"Much Apu about Nothing"

Homer orders Bart to stop doing pranks.  As one of the results, Bart earns a grade of B+ on a long division quiz, which is displayed on his bedroom wall.

"Love is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-Ch4"

Professor Frink, trying to uncover the science behind romantic attraction, has mathematical symbols on his chalkboard.

"Gal of Constant Sorrow"

On the mirror in his room, Bart has posted an arithmetic quiz which received a grade of “D-.”