Recap
Bart is at the breakfast table eating a bowl of cereal. Little does he know, the cereal that he is eating contains a jagged metal Krusty-O, which he swallows. The next part is him getting a stomachache, and eventually sending him to the hospital. He gets his appendix removed, and Lisa roams around the hospital and finds Bleeding Gums Murphy, an old jazz musician from the first season. Lisa has a recital coming up, and Bleeding Gums gives her his saxophone to play in it. After knocking them all dead at the recital, she goes back to the hospital to thank him, only to find out he passed away. Meanwhile, Bart files a lawsuit for $100,000 on the jagged metal Krusty-O, and receives 500 dollars from his lawyer, Lionel Hutz. Lisa wants to honor the memory of Bleeding Gums, and decides to pay a tribute to him on the radio, playing one of his songs. She needs to get an album, but doesn't have the money for it. Bart decides to buy it for her, and she plays it on the radio. After everyone in Springfield listens to his music, Bleeding Gums Murphy appears to her in the form of a cloud, thanking her for making his name known to the entire city, and to show his satisfaction, he plays jazz with Lisa one more time...
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Episode Notes
Chalkboard: Nerve gas is not a toy
Couch: Repeat of the couch gag from "A Star is Burns" where the family's sizes are reversed, making Maggie the tallest one in the family while Homer is the smallest.
Episode Quotes
Reverend Lovejoy: Anyway,Bloody Gums Murphy was quite the sousaphone player...
Lisa: Saxophone! He was a jazz musician! You didn't know him! Nobody knew him! But he was a great man, and I won't rest until all of Springfield knows the name of Bleeding Gums Murphy!
Homer: And I won't rest until I've gotten a hot dog.
Marge: Homer, this is a cemetery.
Hot Dog Man: Hot dogs, get your hot dogs here!
Homer: Woohoo!
Marge: What do you do, follow my husband around?
Hot Dog Man: Lady, he's putting my kids through college.
Lisa: Mom, I want to honor Bleeding Gums' memory but I don't know where to start.
Marge: Maybe you could get the local jazz station to do a tribute to him, huh?
Homer: Jazz, pfft. They just make it up as they go along. I could do that: dee dee-dee dee dee dee dee, dee dee dee …
Marge: That's "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
Homer: OK, then, this: doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo …
Marge: That's the same thing; you just replaced "dee"s with "doo"s.
Homer: D'oh!
Lisa: Hi, I have a request. I would like you to do a tribute to Bleeding Gums Murphy, please.
DJ: Aw, I'd love to, little sister, but we don't have his album.
Lisa: What if I could find it?
DJ: Well, I'd spin it for you, but you know, ain't no one going to hear it. Our broadcast range is only 23 feet which makes us the most powerful jazz station in the entire US of A.
Lisa: Gee, your station has a lot of problems.
DJ: Tell me about it: just look at our morning guy.
Moleman: This is Hans Moleman in the morning. Good Moleman to you. Today, part four of our series about the agonizing pain which I live with everyday.
Grampa: Death stalks you at every turn!
Lisa: Grampa!
Grampa: Well, it does-- Aah! Death! There it is! Death!
Lisa: It's only Maggie.
Grampa: (laughs sheepishly) Oh, yeah. You know, at my age, the mind starts playing tricks. So-- Aah! Death!
Lisa: That's only the cat.
Grampa: Oh. Aah! Death!
Lisa: That's Maggie again, Grampa.
Grampa: Oh. Where were we? Death!