“The Book Job” is an expert parody of heist movies, with a direct focus on Ocean’s Eleven, but revealing the thievery of assembly-line book publishing. Lisa, having encountered an actor playing her favorite author, T.R. Francis, becomes disenchanted with children’s novels put together in executive boardrooms using the latest market research, allowing writers to churn out ten books a year.
Hearing this, however, Homer envisions the perfect crime: The Book Job, which brings the show into Steven Soderbergh territory. He puts together “The Crew,” which flashes as a title card, just like in the movies: Seymour Skinner, who knows how pre-tweens think; Patty Bouvier, a fantasy literature buff; Moe, whose eyes tear up over more than his pickled onions; and Professor Frink, who owns a computer. Guest voice, author Neil Gaiman, wants to join, and is promptly put to work with a lunch order. Bart lays down the new outline.
“The vampire genre is all sucked out,” Bart says, “all we gotta do is find a new monster to be our hero.” Moe would be far too frightening for impressionable young minds, but the concept works if you replace him with an orphan troll living under the Brooklyn Bridge, in school with cool elves, pixie cheerleaders, and the stoners are gargoyles, just like on Netflix’s Wednesday. Yes, The Simpsons predicted that too. The writing gaggle flesh out the perfect Young Adult Novel. Seeing her father’s new endeavor for what it is, a book mill, Lisa decides to write her own novel, and immediately hits writer’s block.
The Heist happens at the Springfield Book Fair, with a consultation with the head of TweenLit, Inc., and Lisa provides “The Score,” where the crew steal their book back in “The Actual Heist.” It’s more than a latte at Bookaccino’s, it’s the hit novel they are going to sell, credited to Gaiman.
5. Bart vs. Itchy and Scratchy
Season 30 Episode 18 – March 24, 2019
Written by Megan Amram. Directed by Chris Clements.
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