On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister

"On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	Season 16
Directed by	Bob Anderson
Written by	Jeff Westbrook
Original air dates	March 6, 2005
Episode features
Chalkboard gag	"Beer in a milk carton is not milk"
Couch gag	The camera pans out from the living room, to outer space and beyond, and back to Homer's head

"On A Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season. The episode aired on March 6, 2005.

The episode's couch gag spoofs the 1977 science fiction movie Powers of Ten, which shows the house, Springfield, the continent, the planet, the Milky Way, the universe and back to Homer's body.

Synopsis

The students of Springfield Elementary School head for a field trip to the Springfield Glacier. Unfortunately, the glacier has melted heavily, and Lisa blames the melt on global warming, as a right-wing park ranger tries to shut her up. Bart torments her as Lisa asks the students to save the glacier. Meanwhile, while Homer and Marge go shopping at the Sprawl-Mart, Grampa loses his people greeting abilities and wants Homer to succeed him as the people greeter. Homer does a successful job of being the new people greeter that the manager says Homer can get a full time position without any form of advancement.

The next day, Lisa gets a restraining order against Bart. Under the order, according to Chief Wiggum, Bart is forced to be twenty feet away from Lisa at all times, or he will go to jail. Wiggum shows the family a Gary Busey-hosted videotape, "Get Out of My Dreams and Also Out of My Car: A Guide to Your Restraining Order", which teaches Bart how to live with a restraining order. To make the restraining order more fun, Homer makes a 20 foot pole that Lisa can use to keep them apart easier, but it actually impacts Bart's life at home and school. In family court, Bart testifies that Lisa is bad, and Judge Constance Harm increases the restraining order to 200 feet. Bart can now only live at the edge of the Simpson family property.

When he lives at the edge of the property, Bart takes a look at nature and embraces it. At Sprawl-Mart, Homer is forced to work overtime without being paid, and he cannot leave the store, and lobby the associates at Sprawl-Mart to shut the store down, but they insist that they have learned to accept the things he cannot change and steal whatever is not nailed down, and Homer leaves the store on his own, along with several plasma TVs. Bart, still in the backyard, does a statue of Lisa using wicker. She actually likes it so much, she forgives him, and as it is being burnt, she throws the restraining order and the pole Homer made into the fire.

Quotes

• Lisa: (After being told Global Warming is not happening) Help! I'm sinking in the lake!
  Park Ranger: You mean you're walking on the glacier.
• Lisa: Name one good thing Bart has done for me.
  Marge: He brought your homework home for you when you were sick.
  Lisa: Yes, but he thought it was a bad thing!
• Chief Wiggum: So, you see what happens when you don't obey your restraining order?
  Bart: (in jail cell) Yes, Chief Wiggum.
  Chief Wiggum: And Snake, do you see what happens when you kidnap the President?
  Snake: (sighing) Yes, Chief Wiggum.
  (Chief Wiggum walks to Lou in the next cell)
  Chief Wiggum: And Lou, do you see what happens when my coffee comes back cold?
  Lou: But you said to get an ice coffee.
  Chief Wiggum: I said nice coffee. Nice.
• Lisa: Oh, Bart, I miss your lies.
• Bart: I think the world's my potty now.
• Homer: I did it! I pulled it out! And with no brain damage, amage, AMAGE, amage, amage.
• Grandpa: (As he's about to hit a large display of garden gnomes) Gnooooooo....mes!
• Üter (as all the students are pulling the school bus): I feel like I'm in Fitz Caraldo.
  Nelson: That movie was flawed!
• Lisa: This must be because of global warming!
  Park Ranger: Young lady, the federal government's stance on global warming is that it does not exist.
  Lisa: No, it is very real!
  Park Ranger: I have a little girl just like you at home. (sinister) And that's where she stays! At home!
• Wiggum: Hey, whoever you are, get off this channel. We're combing the woods for a killer.
  Lou: Let him do it, Chief. It lightens the mood. (blood splatters on his cheek) Oh...my...GOD!!! That use to be a face!
• Bart: Look in your heart. I beg you. Look in your heart!
  Lisa: Don't worry. I'm relinquishing the pole.
  Bart: That means you're sharpening it, right?