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border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; -khtml-border-radius: 10px; -icab-border-radius: 10px; -o-border-radius: 10px;;" align="center"> <b>Episode Information</b> <table align="center" style="background: #FFFDF0; width: 100%; border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; -khtml-border-radius: 10px; -icab-border-radius: 10px; -o-border-radius: 10px;"> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px"> Episode number: </th> <td> 563 </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Season number: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Season_26" title="Season 26">S26</a> E11 </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Production code: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> TABF05 </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Original airdate: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> January 11, <a href="/wiki/2015" title="2015">2015</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_title_screen_gags" title="List of title screen gags">Title screen</a>: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> The Pieman and the Cupcake Kid (Homer and Bart) fly by. </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_billboard_gags" title="List of billboard gags">Billboard gag</a>: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> You Tried The Rest-- Now settle for <a href="/wiki/Luigi%27s_Pizza" title="Luigi's Pizza">Luigi's Pizza</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_chalkboard_gags" title="List of chalkboard gags">Chalkboard gag</a>: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Snowmen don't have carrot penises </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_couch_gags" title="List of couch gags">Couch gag</a>: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> In an updated version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, <a href="/wiki/Homer" class="mw-redirect" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marge" class="mw-redirect" title="Marge">Marge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bart" class="mw-redirect" title="Bart">Bart</a> are shown walking into their home. They find out that someone has been eating their porridge and broke their couch but they catch <a href="/wiki/Lisa" class="mw-redirect" title="Lisa">Lisa</a> who is sleeping on Bart's couch. She wakes up to find the three of them surrounding her, causing a fight between them. Later that night, the Simpsons are shown eating parts of Homer's body and the story transitions to the present where he reads the whole thing to Maggie. </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_guest_stars" title="List of guest stars">Guest star(s)</a>: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Stacy_Keach" title="Stacy Keach">Stacy Keach</a> as <a href="/wiki/Don_Bookner" title="Don Bookner">Don Bookner</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_showrunners" title="List of showrunners">Showrunner</a>: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Al_Jean" title="Al Jean">Al Jean</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Written by: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Judd_Apatow" title="Judd Apatow">Judd Apatow</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Directed by: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Bob_Anderson" title="Bob Anderson">Bob Anderson</a> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table> <p><br /> "<b>Bart's New Friend</b>" is the eleventh episode of <a href="/wiki/Season_26" title="Season 26">season 26</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a></i> and the five-hundred and sixty-third episode overall. It originally aired on January 11, <a href="/wiki/2015" title="2015">2015</a>. The episode was written by <a href="/wiki/Judd_Apatow" title="Judd Apatow">Judd Apatow</a> and directed by <a href="/wiki/Bob_Anderson" title="Bob Anderson">Bob Anderson</a>. It guest stars <a href="/wiki/Stacy_Keach" title="Stacy Keach">Stacy Keach</a> as <a href="/wiki/Don_Bookner" title="Don Bookner">Don Bookner</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc"><div id="toctitle" class="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Synopsis"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Synopsis</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Production"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Production</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Reception"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Reception</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#International_airdates"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">International airdates</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Gallery"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Gallery</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Synopsis">Synopsis</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart%27s_New_Friend&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <dl><dd><span>"<i><a href="/wiki/Homer" class="mw-redirect" title="Homer">Homer</a> is hypnotized to think he's 10 years old and becomes friends with <a href="/wiki/Bart" class="mw-redirect" title="Bart">Bart</a>.</i>"</span></dd></dl> <p><br /> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Production">Production</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart%27s_New_Friend&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Production">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>In an interview on <a href="/wiki/Conan_O%27Brien" title="Conan O'Brien">Conan O'Brien</a>'s Internet show, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Jibber-Jabber" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Serious Jibber-Jabber">Serious Jibber-Jabber</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Judd_Apatow" title="Judd Apatow">Judd Apatow</a> stated that he wrote the episode in 1990 and "[he] got a call from <i>The Simpsons</i>, saying "We're going to shoot that episode next year".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>During an interview with Slashfilm, Apatow revealed elements of the plot, saying that "they [<i>The Simpsons</i>] went to see a hypnotism show and at the hypnotism show, they made <a href="/wiki/Homer" class="mw-redirect" title="Homer">Homer</a> think he was the same age at <a href="/wiki/Bart" class="mw-redirect" title="Bart">Bart</a>. And then the hypnotist had a heart attack. So now Homer and Bart became best friends and they spent the rest of the show running away because Homer didn't want responsibility and didn't want to be brought back to his real age."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> </p><p>The table reading took place on April 25, <a href="/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"><div style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><div style="margin:15px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:TABF05_Script.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/3/39/TABF05_Script.png/97px-TABF05_Script.png" width="97" height="120" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/3/39/TABF05_Script.png/146px-TABF05_Script.png 1.5x, https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/3/39/TABF05_Script.png/194px-TABF05_Script.png 2x" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <p>Script for the Episode </p> </div> </div></li> </ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Reception">Reception</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart%27s_New_Friend&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reception">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p><a href="/wiki/Dan_Castellaneta" title="Dan Castellaneta">Dan Castellaneta</a> was nominated for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Character_Voice-Over_Performance" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance">Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:67th Primetime Emmy Awards">67th Primetime Emmy Awards</a> for voicing <a href="/wiki/Homer_Simpson" title="Homer Simpson">Homer Simpson</a> in this episode, but he lost to <a href="/wiki/Hank_Azaria" title="Hank Azaria">Hank Azaria</a> for "<a href="/wiki/The_Princess_Guide" title="The Princess Guide">The Princess Guide</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="International_airdates">International airdates</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart%27s_New_Friend&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: International airdates">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table align="left" width="50%" style="background: #e9d677; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px; -khtml-border-top-left-radius: 5px; -icab-border-top-left-radius: 5px; -o-border-top-left-radius: 5px; 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border-collapse:collapse;"> <tr style="background: #f0e3a2"> <th style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266">Country </th> <th style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266">Date </th> <th style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266">Channel </th> <th style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266">Note </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;"><a href="/wiki/Los_Simpson_(Latin_America)" title="Los Simpson (Latin America)"><img alt="Hispanic America.gif" src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/e/e6/Hispanic_America.gif/25px-Hispanic_America.gif" width="25" height="17" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/e/e6/Hispanic_America.gif/38px-Hispanic_America.gif 1.5x, https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/e/e6/Hispanic_America.gif/50px-Hispanic_America.gif 2x" /></a> Latin America </td> <td style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;">May 31, 2015<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Latin_America" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Fox Latin America">Fox Latin America</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;"> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Gallery">Gallery</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart%27s_New_Friend&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Gallery">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"><div style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><div style="margin:41px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_1.png" class="image"><img alt="Bart's New Friend promo 1.png" src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/e/ec/Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_1.png/120px-Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_1.png" width="120" height="68" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/e/ec/Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_1.png/180px-Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_1.png 1.5x, https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/e/ec/Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_1.png/240px-Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_1.png 2x" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"><div style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><div style="margin:41px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_2.png" class="image"><img alt="Bart's New Friend promo 2.png" src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/9/9d/Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_2.png/120px-Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_2.png" width="120" height="68" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/9/9d/Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_2.png/180px-Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_2.png 1.5x, https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/9/9d/Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_2.png/240px-Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_2.png 2x" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"><div style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><div style="margin:41px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_3.png" class="image"><img alt="Bart's New Friend promo 3.png" src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/7/7f/Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_3.png/120px-Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_3.png" width="120" height="68" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/7/7f/Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_3.png/180px-Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_3.png 1.5x, https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/7/7f/Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_3.png/240px-Bart%27s_New_Friend_promo_3.png 2x" /></a></div></div> 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References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20443615">BBC News - Simpsons to shoot Judd Apatow script at last</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slashfilm.com/judd-apatow-and-the-simpsons-script-that-defined-every-movie-hes-made-since/">Slashfilm - Judd Apatow and 'The Simpsons' Script That Defined Every Movie He's Made Since</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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