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CHOIR:
<i>♪ The Simpsons ♪</i>

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(school bell ringing)

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(whistle blows)

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(beeping)

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(playing the blues)

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D’oh!

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(screams)

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♪♪

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♪♪

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(crow cawing)

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{\an8}Come on, Mr. Burns,
keep moving.

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{\an8}We can’t leave work
till you do.

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{\an8}Aw, no.

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{\an8}He’s talking to
that mailroom guy.

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I hope he’s not telling
that stupid story

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about hang gliding again.

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{\an8}ALL:
Oh! Oh! Oh!

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Listen carefully.

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{\an8}I have taken your wife hostage.

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{\an8}If you don’t have a wife,
I have kidnapped your brother.

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{\an8}Nod if you understand.

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{\an8}Now back away from Burns
and I will let your dog live.

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{\an8}Good. Now stop and dance
like a happy prospector.

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{\an8}Happier.

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{\an8}Happier!

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{\an8}Happier!

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{\an8}Homer, we want to get him
<i>away </i>from Burns.

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{\an8}Oh, right.
Just leave.

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{\an8}But kick like
a Rockette.

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(humming)

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{\an8}(tires screeching)

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{\an8}-Woo! Yes!
-We’re free!

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{\an8}Empty apartment
here I come!

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Set the table, Marge.

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{\an8}I can already taste
those deep-fried pork chops.

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Don’t you remember
what today is?

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Oh, when you ask me that
it’s never good.

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It’s the first
of the month.

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The day you promised
to start your new diet.

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(whimpering)

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{\an8}I’m just really worried
about your weight.

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{\an8}Bart says that we got
a call from NASA,

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{\an8}and your gravity is pulling
satellites out of their orbits.

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Marge, that was a joke.

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{\an8}-But it comes
from a true place.
-Oh!

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{\an8}Well, if I’m going
to start a diet,

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{\an8}this is my last chance to eat
all the crap I love.

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I think I’ll miss
you most of all,

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Captain Corn Dog
Schnitzel Palace.

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No tears, Homer.

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<i>♪ I’m lost in a crowd ♪</i>

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<i>♪ And I’m hungry</i>
<i>like the wolf ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ Straddle the line,</i>
<i>in discord and rhyme ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ And I’m hungry</i>
<i>like the wolf ♪</i>

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{\an8}Uh-ooh.
Can’t let Marge see this.

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SIDESHOW MEL’S VOICE:
<i>Thank you!</i>

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(gasps)

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A drive-up trash can.

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{\an8}This must be how the rich toss
out their gold.

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And as long as I’m cleaning out
the family chariot...

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Cups... newspapers...

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bottles...

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tricycle...

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lawn chair...

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un-cashed checks.

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{\an8}Hmm, "Dispose of properly."

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{\an8}Aw, this book is too hard.

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{\an8}(hissing)

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{\an8}And now for a victory cigar.

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<i>Thank you!</i>

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(screaming)

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<i>♪ And I’m hungry</i>
<i>like the wolf ♪</i>

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(old man grunts)

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{\an8}The calamity in our
Fast-Food District

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{\an8}destroyed 37 restaurants
rated "awful" to "mediocre."

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And put these beloved
mascots out on the street.

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(sobbing)

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I told myself
I’d stay strong.

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(sobbing)

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{\an8}There, there,
Cheesy McMayor.

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{\an8}No one likes weepy meat.

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I can’t stand to see
a grown burger cry.

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We must rebuild
Fast Food Boulevard!

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I don’t know about you,
but I don’t want

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to live in a future

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where food is brought
by "waiters..."

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where the chairs aren’t
attached to the tables...

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and where I can’t ditch
my kids

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in a pit of dirty balls.

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I say we rebuild
the Fast-Food District--

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bigger and better than ever!

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(cheering)

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To raise the money,
we’ll need a bond issue.

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But won’t that just shift
the burden to your children?

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No, you idiot.

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We just pay for it
with another bond issue.

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Let her figure out
someone to dump it on.

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Then it’s decided--

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the bond issue will be part
of our next scheduled election,

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the Springfield
presidential primary.

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But that’s not till next June.

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In that case, I hereby move
the election up to next Tuesday.

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(cheering)

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That means the Springfield
Presidential Primary

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will be first in the nation.

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Even earlier than New Hampshire.

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Uh-oh, they’re going
to be cheesed.

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As they day
of the primary nears,

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this race is as wide open

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as a hobo’s mouth
at a pie-flinging contest.

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What do you
New Hampshirites think

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of the current crop
of presidential candidates?

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Well, Mr. Rather,
the way I see it,

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as my father always said,
"The way I look at it..."

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Dan, breaking news.

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Springfield just moved
its primary

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a week ahead
of New Hampshire’s.

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Now <i>it’s </i>the first one.

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Sweet mother
of Murrow.

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We’re off to
Springfield, people.

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Come on, folks,
move it.

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Grandma was slow,
but she was old.

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You have no excuse.

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Into the truck!

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PEOPLE: (shouting)
<i>To Springfield!</i>

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WOMAN:
<i>Which Springfield?</i>

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MAN: <i>The one the Simpsons</i>
<i>live in.</i>

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Eh, looks like everyone’s
gone but the cashier.

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Time to make our move.

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Nice knitting
on these masks, Martha.

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Now that you’ve
said my name,

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I have to kill him.

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♪♪

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With Springfield’s primary
now first in the nation,

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our humble city is overrun
with candidates, newshounds,

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spin doctors, hacks, flacks,

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Russerts, Blitzers
and even the occasional voter.

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Sir, do you have
a preference?

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Yeah, I like girls,
fruit loop.

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(scoffs)
Are you a registered voter?

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I’m a registered... something.

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This election
is on every channel.

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Come on, Marge.
It’s primary fever.

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Catch it!

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That’s what you said
about yellow fever,

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and that was no fun.

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I think it’s exciting.

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Springfield is the center
of the political universe.

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I feel like a pundit
in a think tank!

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Think tank, eh?

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Hmm.

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Now let’s consider World Bank
lending policy

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towards Micronesia.

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(indistinct,
overlapping chatter)

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What? I’m not allowed
to get one right?

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I like you newsies.

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You really lap up
the sauce.

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Do you have
Internet access?

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Sure thing, mouse pad.
Ten bucks.

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Knock yourself out.

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This is Jon Stewart reporting
from Springfield.

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Do I need to say my name?

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People know me, right?

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Know it’s just cable, but...

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You know what? I’m not
gonna worry about it.

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I gonna just...

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(inhales deeply,
and exhales, sputtering)

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Great. Now I’m worried.

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Hey, hey,
it’s Jon Stewart,

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everyone’s favorite
political funnyman!

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Hey, Krusty!

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Haven’t seen you since you
bailed on that benefit.

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Yeah, well,

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I really didn’t believe
in the cause.

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Well, Krusty’s Kids
sure missed ya.

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Yeah, they’re great.

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A little clingy...

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But anyway, this Springfield
primary election--

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pretty crazy, huh?

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Yeah, it sure is.

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With many comic elements,
such as, uh...?

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You know, if you ask me...

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(chuckling):
there’s more hot air here
than there is at...

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Uh-huh.

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Are you writing
this down?

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Nah, this is
somethin’ else.

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So, uh, where is there
less hot air than here?

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Albuquerque
Balloon Festival?

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Rush Limbaugh’s
sweatpants?

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Krusty, you’re obviously
fishing for jokes so you
can steal them.

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No!

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That’s ridiculous!

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More ridiculous
than that place

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with all the hot air,
which is...

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Well, I’ll thank you

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to keep my zingers
out of your mouth.

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I’m gonna try and remember you
the way you used to be.

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But I’ve always been terrible!

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With me here
to comment

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on today’s
Democratic Debate

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is Andrea Crowley of CNN,

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Dumont Evans
of Slate.com

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and Ron Lehar,

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a print journalist
from the <i>Washington Post.</i>

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Haw-haw!

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(sing-songy):
♪ Your medium is dying! ♪

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Nelson!

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But it is!

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There’s being right,
and there’s being nice.

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Thank you all for coming
to our focus group.

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Today, we’re going
to show you commercials

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from the Republican
candidates.

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We’d like your
honest opinions.

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This punch
is too sweet.

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Your blouse
makes you look fat.

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Opinions about the ads.

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(gasps)
I live in that place!

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MALE ANNOUNCER:
<i>Who should America elect</i>
<i>in 2008?</i>

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<i>Former governor Vincent Aleppo</i>
<i>said in the New York Times,</i>

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<i>"I will protect the nation</i>
<i>from attack."</i>

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He’s got my vote.

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<i>But in that same issue</i>

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<i>of the New York Times,</i>

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<i>they also printed an article</i>

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<i>about terrorist leader</i>
<i>Nussaf Al Mustaffi.</i>

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Dear God,
what have I done?

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<i>"And ye shall judge them</i>
<i>by the company they keep."</i>

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(theme from <i>A Summer Place</i>
plays)

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Oh, my God.

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They’re going steady!

231
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Did everyone see that?!

232
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So, what do we think?

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Well, I thought
every part of it was good,

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but overall, I hated it.

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I feel exactly the opposite,
but the same.

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That was the best milkshake
ad I’ve ever seen.

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It makes me want
a milkshake!

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The top fifth
is consuming 60%

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of our nation’s
resources,

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while the bottom two-fifths
is consuming one eighth.

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Hence my campaign slogan,

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"End quintile disparity."

243
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Look, we all care
about quintile disparity,

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but the Democrats can’t win
with another prissy brainiac.

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Thank you, Senator Winnergill.

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(chuckles)
That’s Whiner-girl.

247
00:12:31,834 --> 00:12:35,045
Honey, how many of these signs
do I have to put up?

248
00:12:35,129 --> 00:12:36,505
(angry, fast, high-pitched,
unintelligible squawking)

249
00:12:36,589 --> 00:12:38,215
Twenty-five more?

250
00:12:38,299 --> 00:12:41,051
What did I ever do to you
to deserve this?

251
00:12:41,135 --> 00:12:43,387
(short, angry, high-pitched
unintelligible squawk)

252
00:12:43,471 --> 00:12:45,514
(scoffs)
You’re never gonna
let that go, are you?

253
00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:47,641
Oh, my God!

254
00:12:47,725 --> 00:12:49,143
This family is undecided!

255
00:12:49,226 --> 00:12:50,936
Undecided!

256
00:12:54,774 --> 00:12:57,109
(indistinct shouting)

257
00:12:57,193 --> 00:12:59,195
(elephants trumpeting)

258
00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:07,119
(gentle knocking)

259
00:13:07,203 --> 00:13:09,121
Hmm. I wonder who that could...

260
00:13:09,205 --> 00:13:11,290
be...!

261
00:13:12,208 --> 00:13:16,378
(camera shutters clicking)

262
00:13:16,462 --> 00:13:17,588
Family values!

263
00:13:17,671 --> 00:13:18,672
Vanishing
middle class!

264
00:13:18,756 --> 00:13:19,924
Cut and run!

265
00:13:20,007 --> 00:13:22,092
Terrorists win!
Terrorists win!

266
00:13:22,176 --> 00:13:24,178
Stop all this
pandering!

267
00:13:24,261 --> 00:13:26,931
If you haven’t sprung from,
or aren’t married to my loins,

268
00:13:27,014 --> 00:13:29,099
get the hell out
of this house!

269
00:13:29,183 --> 00:13:30,392
(muttering)

270
00:13:34,438 --> 00:13:36,190
You, too,
Fred Thompson.

271
00:13:36,273 --> 00:13:37,817
But I was in <i>Die Hard.</i>

272
00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:39,777
(scoffs)
<i>Die Hard Two!</i>

273
00:13:42,029 --> 00:13:42,863
Mmm.

274
00:13:46,033 --> 00:13:47,409
Is everyone here as sick

275
00:13:47,493 --> 00:13:49,370
of those stupid politicians
as I am?

276
00:13:49,453 --> 00:13:50,246
(all assenting)

277
00:13:50,329 --> 00:13:51,372
What about the media?

278
00:13:51,455 --> 00:13:52,665
They’re not covering the issues.

279
00:13:52,748 --> 00:13:54,375
They just want
to declare a frontrunner

280
00:13:54,458 --> 00:13:56,085
and go back to their mansions.

281
00:13:56,168 --> 00:13:57,044
(all assenting)

282
00:13:57,127 --> 00:13:59,046
Who wants
to abolish democracy forever?

283
00:13:59,129 --> 00:14:00,381
Show of hands.

284
00:14:00,464 --> 00:14:02,800
I could really go for some
kind of military dictator

285
00:14:02,883 --> 00:14:04,301
like, uh, Juan Peron.

286
00:14:04,385 --> 00:14:06,512
When he disappeared ya,
you stayed disappeared.

287
00:14:06,595 --> 00:14:07,805
Plus his wife
was Madonna.

288
00:14:07,888 --> 00:14:09,431
What are we gonna do?

289
00:14:09,515 --> 00:14:12,184
We can’t <i>not </i>vote,
nobody does that.

290
00:14:12,268 --> 00:14:14,854
Why don’t we all pick the most
ridiculous candidate

291
00:14:14,937 --> 00:14:16,355
and write him in?

292
00:14:16,438 --> 00:14:17,815
You mean Dennis Kucinich?

293
00:14:17,898 --> 00:14:19,400
Hey! I’m right here!

294
00:14:19,483 --> 00:14:20,609
Oh, sorry.

295
00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:24,280
No, no. This candidate has to be
unbelievably ridiculous.

296
00:14:24,363 --> 00:14:25,614
Chief Wiggum!

297
00:14:25,698 --> 00:14:28,450
No. But you’re close.

298
00:14:28,534 --> 00:14:30,244
KENT BROCKMAN:
<i>Roll over, Anne Coulter,</i>

299
00:14:30,327 --> 00:14:32,371
<i>and tell James Carville</i>
<i>the news:</i>

300
00:14:32,454 --> 00:14:34,582
Springfield voters
have overwhelmingly rejected

301
00:14:34,665 --> 00:14:37,501
the major candidates of both
parties in favor of a write-in:

302
00:14:37,585 --> 00:14:39,795
eight-year-old Ralph Wiggum.

303
00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:44,383
Shockingly, this new face is now
favored by 53% of likely voters.

304
00:14:44,466 --> 00:14:46,760
A new frontrunner
has been crowned!

305
00:14:46,844 --> 00:14:48,262
(chuckles)

306
00:14:48,345 --> 00:14:51,015
What I did made
the TV thing happen.

307
00:14:53,350 --> 00:14:57,479
♪♪

308
00:14:57,563 --> 00:14:59,481
ANNOUNCER:
<i>Live from our nation’s capitol,</i>

309
00:14:59,565 --> 00:15:02,318
this is <i>Headbutt</i>
<i>with Nash Castor.</i>

310
00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:11,452
Our top story:
<i>President </i>Ralph Wiggum?

311
00:15:11,535 --> 00:15:14,747
Two days ago, this bed-wetter
made a splash

312
00:15:14,830 --> 00:15:16,248
in the Springfield Primary.

313
00:15:16,332 --> 00:15:19,835
With the remaining 49 primaries
scheduled for next Tuesday,

314
00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:23,464
can Ralph go from <i>Sesame Street</i>
to Pennsylvania Avenue?

315
00:15:23,547 --> 00:15:25,591
Adriatica Vel Johnson!

316
00:15:25,674 --> 00:15:28,719
Well, Nash, Ralph Wiggum
is a breath of fresh air

317
00:15:28,802 --> 00:15:31,096
for a country hungry
for a change of air.

318
00:15:31,180 --> 00:15:33,515
And he’s already a master
of the sound bite,

319
00:15:33,599 --> 00:15:35,726
from his take
on immigration reform...

320
00:15:35,809 --> 00:15:37,019
Stranger danger!

321
00:15:37,102 --> 00:15:39,647
...to his disciplined stance
on government spending.

322
00:15:39,730 --> 00:15:41,899
I only have this much monies.

323
00:15:41,982 --> 00:15:44,068
Well, um, I’d hate to be

324
00:15:44,151 --> 00:15:46,278
the fingernail
in this Cobb salad,

325
00:15:46,362 --> 00:15:47,988
but we don’t even know
if this young man

326
00:15:48,072 --> 00:15:49,949
is a Democrat or Republican.

327
00:15:50,032 --> 00:15:52,493
Before we invite Ralph
to the prom,

328
00:15:52,576 --> 00:15:55,704
we should find out if he’s
wearing a tux or a tutu.

329
00:15:55,788 --> 00:15:57,122
(chuckles)

330
00:15:57,206 --> 00:16:00,501
Mom, they’re taking Ralph’s
candidacy seriously.

331
00:16:00,584 --> 00:16:02,086
This is a disaster!

332
00:16:02,169 --> 00:16:04,922
Speaking of disasters,
have you seen this?

333
00:16:05,005 --> 00:16:08,133
{\an8}Springfield Dodge bought
too much inventory,

334
00:16:08,217 --> 00:16:12,137
{\an8}and they’ve only got one weekend
to get rid of all the ’07s.

335
00:16:12,221 --> 00:16:13,055
(groans anxiously)

336
00:16:13,138 --> 00:16:14,640
(sighing)
Oh...

337
00:16:14,723 --> 00:16:17,768
Lisa, I’m sure this
Wiggum-arole will blow over.

338
00:16:17,851 --> 00:16:19,561
You have to have faith
in the wisdom

339
00:16:19,645 --> 00:16:21,105
of the average voter.

340
00:16:21,188 --> 00:16:23,232
I dig the Wig!
I dig the Wig!

341
00:16:23,315 --> 00:16:24,608
Oh, dear God...

342
00:16:24,692 --> 00:16:27,111
Come on, Lis, hop on
the Wiggum Wagon.

343
00:16:27,194 --> 00:16:29,530
Ralph said he’d let me be
Secretary of Indian Burns.

344
00:16:29,613 --> 00:16:31,115
Here’s my first
official act:

345
00:16:31,198 --> 00:16:32,908
Ow! (grunting)

346
00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:34,868
Ralph can’t be president.

347
00:16:34,952 --> 00:16:37,413
He’s the dumbest person,
in the slowest reading group.

348
00:16:37,496 --> 00:16:39,957
Lisa, being president is easy.

349
00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,126
You just point the Army
and shoot.

350
00:16:42,209 --> 00:16:43,669
And Ralph is
only eight years old.

351
00:16:43,752 --> 00:16:46,547
It says in the Constitution,
you have to be 35.

352
00:16:46,630 --> 00:16:47,756
The Constitution?

353
00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,050
I’m pretty sure
the Patriot Act killed it

354
00:16:50,134 --> 00:16:51,051
to ensure our freedoms.

355
00:16:51,135 --> 00:16:53,512
(mockingly):
Oh, the Patriot Act
is so terrible!

356
00:16:53,595 --> 00:16:56,849
The government might find out
what library books I take out.

357
00:16:56,932 --> 00:17:01,603
What’s next? Finding out
what operas I go to?

358
00:17:01,687 --> 00:17:02,604
{\an8}MR. BURNS:
<i>So it’s agreed:</i>

359
00:17:02,688 --> 00:17:04,398
we cancel the rest
of the primaries and offer

360
00:17:04,481 --> 00:17:07,359
the G.O.P. nomination
to this knee-high want-wit.

361
00:17:07,443 --> 00:17:10,946
My oil rig is already gushin’
for this Wiggum critter!

362
00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:12,948
Do you have bats
in your belfry?

363
00:17:13,032 --> 00:17:15,576
They don’t even let him
use big-boy scissors!

364
00:17:15,659 --> 00:17:17,453
Sure he’s a little green,
but, uh,

365
00:17:17,536 --> 00:17:18,787
you know, so was George W. Bush,

366
00:17:18,871 --> 00:17:22,041
and look how great, uh,
he-he... um...

367
00:17:22,124 --> 00:17:23,375
But at least he won!

368
00:17:23,459 --> 00:17:24,710
The second time...

369
00:17:24,793 --> 00:17:27,671
assuming they don’t find
those ballot boxes in Ohio.

370
00:17:29,173 --> 00:17:31,091
Look, the Wiggum boy’s better
than anyone else we’ve got.

371
00:17:31,175 --> 00:17:32,342
Hear! Hear!

372
00:17:32,426 --> 00:17:33,844
DRACULA:
Well, if you put it that way...

373
00:17:33,927 --> 00:17:34,762
(others agreeing)

374
00:17:38,724 --> 00:17:40,934
This meeting
of the Democratic Party

375
00:17:41,018 --> 00:17:42,853
will come to order, babies.

376
00:17:42,936 --> 00:17:45,314
So if we nominate this Ralph
Wiggums,

377
00:17:45,397 --> 00:17:48,776
we will be like
an unstoppable choo-choo.

378
00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:51,612
I already got my assless,
sparkle tux cleaned

379
00:17:51,695 --> 00:17:52,821
for the inauguration.

380
00:17:52,905 --> 00:17:54,698
I agree with my ex-husband.

381
00:17:54,782 --> 00:17:56,283
With Ralph on the ticket,

382
00:17:56,366 --> 00:17:59,161
I don’t know how
we will blow it, but we will.

383
00:17:59,244 --> 00:18:01,830
Because that’s what the
Democratic Party is all about.

384
00:18:01,914 --> 00:18:03,082
(cheers of agreement)

385
00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:08,170
This is Kent Brockman reporting
from the Wiggum compound,

386
00:18:08,253 --> 00:18:10,047
where both parties
have gathered to court

387
00:18:10,130 --> 00:18:13,884
the most charismatic child since
Drew Barrymore in <i>Firestarter.</i>

388
00:18:13,967 --> 00:18:16,136
When she got mad,
they got burned.

389
00:18:20,474 --> 00:18:22,309
Ralph, both parties want
to offer you their nomination.

390
00:18:22,392 --> 00:18:23,477
Whom do you like?

391
00:18:25,062 --> 00:18:26,146
Go ahead, Ralphie.

392
00:18:26,230 --> 00:18:27,481
You’re invited to two parties--

393
00:18:27,564 --> 00:18:29,775
one with a donkey
and one with an elephant.

394
00:18:29,858 --> 00:18:30,651
Who do you like?

395
00:18:32,528 --> 00:18:33,445
Elmo?
(camera shutters clicking)

396
00:18:33,529 --> 00:18:35,239
Ah, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt,

397
00:18:35,322 --> 00:18:37,116
Richard Nixon’s chief
of naval operations.

398
00:18:37,199 --> 00:18:38,700
So Ralph’s a Republican!

399
00:18:38,784 --> 00:18:40,202
Not so fast, Kent.

400
00:18:40,285 --> 00:18:43,080
Zumwalt ran for the senate
in ’76-- as a Democrat.

401
00:18:43,163 --> 00:18:46,208
No way, Lou-- you’re thinking
of Admiral Hyman Rickover.

402
00:18:46,291 --> 00:18:48,043
The father
of the Nuclear Navy?

403
00:18:48,127 --> 00:18:48,877
(scoffs)
As if!

404
00:18:48,961 --> 00:18:50,879
Only one place
to settle this--

405
00:18:50,963 --> 00:18:53,173
to the offices of the
World Book Encyclopedia!

406
00:18:56,301 --> 00:18:57,219
(siren blares)

407
00:18:57,302 --> 00:18:59,847
CROWD:
Ralph! Ralph! Ralph!

408
00:18:59,930 --> 00:19:01,265
(whimpers)

409
00:19:04,184 --> 00:19:05,018
(groans)

410
00:19:05,853 --> 00:19:07,980
Ralph, darling,
be a Democrat.

411
00:19:08,063 --> 00:19:11,275
We have Alec Baldwin,
they have <i>Stephen </i>Baldwin.

412
00:19:11,358 --> 00:19:13,485
They might as well not
even have a Baldwin.

413
00:19:13,569 --> 00:19:16,071
(door opens)
Leave him alone,
you vultures!

414
00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:17,406
Who are you?

415
00:19:17,489 --> 00:19:18,282
(groans)

416
00:19:18,365 --> 00:19:20,909
Ralph and I
used to date.

417
00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:23,912
Nice. Now maybe you can
help him pick a party.

418
00:19:25,455 --> 00:19:27,583
Ralph, they have no right
to do this to you.

419
00:19:27,666 --> 00:19:29,126
They just want to use you.

420
00:19:29,209 --> 00:19:30,878
Maybe I want
to use them.

421
00:19:30,961 --> 00:19:33,213
Maybe you <i>wha...?!</i>

422
00:19:33,297 --> 00:19:35,507
Use them to make this
country great again.

423
00:19:35,591 --> 00:19:38,343
When we’re mad,
we’ll just use our words,

424
00:19:38,427 --> 00:19:41,263
then the rest of the world
will play nice with us.

425
00:19:41,346 --> 00:19:43,765
And the only boom-booms
will be in our pants.

426
00:19:43,849 --> 00:19:46,560
Maybe you wouldn’t be
such a bad president.

427
00:19:46,643 --> 00:19:48,979
And you can be my first ladle.

428
00:19:49,062 --> 00:19:50,564
I like the sound of that.

429
00:19:50,647 --> 00:19:52,983
CROWD:
<i>Ralph! Ralph! Ralph!</i>

430
00:19:53,066 --> 00:19:55,819
Ralph! Ralph! Ralph!

431
00:19:55,903 --> 00:19:57,112
ANNOUNCER:
<i>The following is a paid</i>
<i>political announcement</i>

432
00:19:57,196 --> 00:19:59,323
<i>by the Republican</i>
<i>and Democratic parties.</i>

433
00:19:59,406 --> 00:20:01,116
<i>Compassionate...</i>

434
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,326
<i>Tough...</i>

435
00:20:05,621 --> 00:20:06,872
<i>Curious...</i>

436
00:20:06,955 --> 00:20:09,958
<i>These are all words</i>
<i>Ralph Wiggum doesn’t know;</i>

437
00:20:10,042 --> 00:20:11,418
<i>but he doesn’t need</i>
<i>to know them,</i>

438
00:20:11,501 --> 00:20:14,046
<i>he </i>lives <i>them, every day.</i>

439
00:20:14,129 --> 00:20:15,631
I’m voting Ralph for president.

440
00:20:15,714 --> 00:20:17,841
His easy smile makes me think
everything is okay,

441
00:20:17,925 --> 00:20:19,176
even when I know it ain’t.

442
00:20:19,259 --> 00:20:20,636
I’m voting for Ralph, too.

443
00:20:20,719 --> 00:20:24,097
But don’t tell you-know-who.

444
00:20:24,181 --> 00:20:25,098
ANNOUNCER:
<i>On November 4th,</i>

445
00:20:25,182 --> 00:20:29,895
<i>vote for the latest in a long</i>
<i>line of great American leaders.</i>

446
00:20:29,978 --> 00:20:31,480
I want a tricycle,

447
00:20:31,563 --> 00:20:34,399
and a dog who won’t chew
my Hot Wheels,

448
00:20:34,483 --> 00:20:36,735
and a brighter future
for America!

449
00:20:36,818 --> 00:20:39,488
I’m Ralph Wiggum,
and I’ve been a good boy!

450
00:20:43,492 --> 00:20:48,413
{\an8}Captioned by VISUAL DATA

451
00:21:29,705 --> 00:21:30,539
Shh!

452
00:21:33,917 --> 00:21:35,919
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