After Lisa confronts Homer and Marge, They dismiss her claims as stemming from jealousy of Bart's fame.ĭuring a Party Posse concert aboard an aircraft carrier, Smash's superior officer informs him that the boy band project is being shut down because the band is due to be satirized in an upcoming issue of Mad, sabotaging their recruiting power. Seeing that the single's hidden message is beginning to affect the Springfield populace, Lisa confronts Smash, who reveals himself as a Navy lieutenant and explains that popular music has long been used as a recruiting tool by the military. Puzzled, Lisa analyzes the video and finds a subliminal recruiting message for the United States Navy within it she also realizes that the chorus is simply 'JOIN THE NAVY' sung backwards.

Party Posse releases a single whose accompanying video includes the strange line 'YVAN EHT NIOJ' in its chorus. Bart accepts the opportunity, and the four boys quickly rise to stardom, secretly using voice-enhancing software developed by NASA to improve their singing abilities. He offers Bart a chance to join a boy band he is assembling called Party Posse, including Nelson, Ralph and Milhouse. To escape from the outraged crowd, Bart accepts a ride from a stranger, who introduces himself as music producer L.T. Bart dons a stereotypical Italian disguise and wins the marathon by cheating, but a bird pulls off his fake mustache during the trophy presentation. The episode has received positive reviews from critics and was watched by over 18 million viewers.Īfter watching an Olympic Games documentary on TV, Homer decides to participate in the Springfield marathon to prove to Marge that he is fit. The episode's title is a play on the boy band New Kids on the Block and Mad Magazine 's tendency to use the word 'blecch' in their parodic titles. The episode was written by Tim Long and directed by Steven Dean Moore. In the episode, a music producer selects Bart, Nelson, Milhouse and Ralph to be members of the next hit boy band, who record songs containing subliminal messages about joining the Navy. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 25, 2001. ' New Kids on the Blecch' is the fourteenth episode of the twelfth season of the American television series The Simpsons. A siren wails and a searchlight moves as The Simpsons (dressed in striped prison jumpsuits) tunnel their way to the couch.

14th episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons ' New Kids on the Blecch'

Simpson subliminal messages