What are the 22 short films in "22 Short Films About Springfield"?
Commonly referred to as the "Pulp Fiction" episode of The Simpsons, season 7's episode titled "22 Short Films About Springfield" is a series of short stories about a minute long. However, by my count there are only 18 individual segments and I feel I've been liberal in my separation (e.g., the Reverend Lovejoy scene could be argued to have been the opening of Lisa's Hair part 2).
So am I missing 4 segments? Or did they miscount? Maybe the title is meant as a reference that I don't get?
- Bart and Milhouse on the bridge
- Apu goes to a party
- Lisa gets gum in her hair part 1
- Burns and Smithers on a tandem bike
- Dr Nick saves the day
- Snake robs Moe's
- Super Intendent Chalmers and Skinner have lunch (steamed hams)
- Maggie gets trapped in a newspaper box
- Springfield PD talk about McDonald's in Shelbyville
- The Spanish Bee goes home from work
- Military surplus store part 1
- Reverend Lovejoy's dog poops in Flanders' lawn
- Lisa's hair part 2 (half the town in the kitchen)
- Cletus the Slackjawed Yokel
- Comic Book Guy won't let Milhouse use restroom
- Military surplus store part 2
- Lisa's hair part 3 (the haircut)
- Nelson vs tall man in small car
Best Answer
The name of the episode is a reference to the film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, which like the episode is an anthology of vignettes.
On the DVD commentary they explain that they chose it because they liked the name.
You'll notice that there are not 22 short films. We insisted on the name from the beginning, though we never bothered to count how many are actually done.
I know that George Meyer was extremely irritated by that but we did it anyway. We kept cutting them out.
There's one cut out at the last minute, which you'll see in the outtakes.
In addition, showrunner Josh Weinstein recently tweeted an additional cut scene featuring Hans Moleman.
They don’t state it explicitly, but the reason the writers liked “22” specifically is most likely referencing the fact that an episode of The Simpsons (or most half hour American network TV shows) has 22 minutes of “show”.
That said, there are a few that you have not counted: at the end Bart and Milhouse have an epilogue, and Professor Frink attempts to tell his story before being cut off by the credits.
Wikipedia lists 21 total, though it is not explained why the first Lisa segment counts for two. Given its position in the episode, I believe there may be a commercial break between when she is on the kerb and when she is inside with Marge.
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