Season 31 (2019-2020)

"The Winter of Our Monetized Content"

A food fight erupts in the Springfield Elementary cafeteria.

Kyle (aka Database): Ahh! This calls for massive retaliation. Use your quadratic equations, men.

[He and his two friends launch tater tots into the air. Arrows depict their parabolic arcs along with quadratic equations.]

In the school cafeteria, children see visualizations of quadratic equations and associated parabolic paths toward them.

"The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson"

A leaderboard titled The Star Board displays the ranking of the top five students.

At the newly created Springfield STEM Academy, on the leaderboard of students ranked according to academic achievement, Nelson’s name appears as Haw-squared.

2. At the Springfield STEM Academy, the teacher of Lisa’s gifted class writes at a board labeled Riemann Hypothesis. The writing includes equations related to the conjecture and also a graph illustrating related content.

Lisa Simpson and her classmates, seated with laptop computers, watch their write about the Riemann Hypothesis on a whiteboard

"Frinkcoin"

At Move’s Tavern, patrons play a difficult trivia game at “Level Infinity.”

2. After Professor Frink becomes the richest man in town due to his proprietary cryptocurrency, Mr. Burns and his assistant Smithers assemble a team of mathematicians and cryptographers in order to create a superior digital currency.

Burns: This Frink has been gold peacocking all over town. What’s taking you Slide Rule Charlies so long?

Benjamin: We aren’t able to create a cryptocurrency as powerful as the Frinkcoin. But, this equation, if solved, could make all digital coins worthless – including Frink’s.

[Benjamin points to a whiteboard on which is written, with mathematical notation, his conjecture that hashing algorithm SHA-256 is not secure.]

Burns: Excellent. How long will it take to solve?

Gary: Well, if we work weekends, and bring in some extra help, I’d say 90,000 years.

Mr. Burns, Smithers, and three employees gesture at a whiteboard containing a mathematical conjecture.

3. Mr. Burns and Smithers place the whiteboard in the center of town, in the hope that someone will solve the problem. The next morning, the whiteboard shows the original writing together with several lines of mathematical writing including modular arithmetic, equivalences, and a statement of Fermat’s Little Theorem. It is revealed that Professor Frink wrote the additional lines.

A whiteboard containing mathematical writing stands in the center of town next to the statue of Jedediah Springfield.

"Screenless"

Chief Wiggum sits at his desk in front of a box of donuts.

Wiggum: Only twelve donuts for three cops – well, there’s no way to divide them evenly, so, uh, I’ll just eat them all.

"Better Off Ned"
Bart, who has been spending more time with his neighbor Ned Flanders, works on his math homework at Ned’s house.

Homer: Listen, I can help my own kid.

[Homer pushes Bart aside and considers the math assignment.]

Homer: Uh, let’s see. Four and two-thirds plus five-sixths equals . . . uh, uh . . . carry the math … and, uh . . .

[Homer brushes the paper off the table and into Ned’s dog’s mouth.]

Homer: Oh, no! The dog ate it!

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