# 22 Short Films About Springfield

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21st episode of the 7th season of The Simpsons

"22 Short Films About Springfield" The Simpsons episode Title card Episode no. Season 7 Episode 21 Directed by Jim Reardon Written by Richard Appel David X. Cohen Jonathan Collier Jennifer Crittenden Greg Daniels Brent Forrester Dan Greaney Rachel Pulido Steve Tompkins Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein Matt Groening Production code 3F18 Original air date April 14, 1996 (1996-04-14) Guest appearances Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz and the hospital board chairman[1] Episode features Couch gag The Simpsons are Sea-Monkeys who swim to a couch made of clam shells to stare at an open treasure chest.[2] Commentary Matt Groening Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein Richard Appel David X. Cohen Rachel Pulido Yeardley Smith Jim Reardon David Silverman Episode chronology ← Previous "Bart on the Road" Next → "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'" The Simpsons season 7 List of episodes

"**22 Short Films About Springfield**" is the twenty-first episode of the [seventh season](/source/The_Simpsons_season_7) of the American animated television series *[The Simpsons](/source/The_Simpsons)*. It originally aired on the [Fox Network](/source/Fox_Network) in the United States on April 14, 1996.[1] It was written by [Richard Appel](/source/Richard_Appel), [David X. Cohen](/source/David_X._Cohen), [Jonathan Collier](/source/Jonathan_Collier), [Jennifer Crittenden](/source/Jennifer_Crittenden), [Greg Daniels](/source/Greg_Daniels), [Brent Forrester](/source/Brent_Forrester), [Dan Greaney](/source/Dan_Greaney), [Rachel Pulido](/source/Rachel_Pulido), [Steve Tompkins](/source/Steve_Tompkins), [Josh Weinstein](/source/Josh_Weinstein), [Bill Oakley](/source/Bill_Oakley), and [Matt Groening](/source/Matt_Groening), with the writing being supervised by Daniels. The episode was directed by [Jim Reardon](/source/Jim_Reardon).[1] [Phil Hartman](/source/Phil_Hartman) guest-starred as [Lionel Hutz](/source/Lionel_Hutz) and the hospital board chairman.[1][2]

The episode depicts brief incidents experienced by a wide array of Springfield residents in a series of interconnected stories that take place over a single day. The episode's concept originated from the end segment of the [season four](/source/The_Simpsons_season_4) episode "[The Front](/source/The_Front_(The_Simpsons))", which gave the staff the idea of a possible spin-off from *The Simpsons*, and serves as a loose parody of *[Pulp Fiction](/source/Pulp_Fiction)*. The title is a reference to the 1993 film *[Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould](/source/Thirty_Two_Short_Films_About_Glenn_Gould)*.

The episode received positive reviews from critics, and is noted for its popularity among fans, with the "Steamed Hams" segment becoming a popular [Internet meme](/source/Internet_meme) in 2016.

## Plot

The episode is a series of shorts ranging in length from under half a minute to over two and a half minutes, each showing daily life in [Springfield](/source/Springfield_(The_Simpsons)), after [Bart](/source/Bart_Simpson) wonders if anything interesting happens to the town's citizens.

1. Bart and [Milhouse](/source/Milhouse) spit and squirt condiments from a highway overpass onto cars, then go to the [Kwik-E-Mart](/source/Kwik-E-Mart).

1. [Apu](/source/Apu_Nahasapeemapetilon) closes the Kwik-E-Mart for five minutes to attend a party at [Sanjay's](/source/List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Sanjay_Nahasapeemapetilon) house, trapping [Moleman](/source/Hans_Moleman) in the store.

1. Bart unknowingly throws [gum](/source/Chewing_gum) in [Lisa's](/source/Lisa_Simpson) hair, and [Marge](/source/Marge_Simpson) tries to remove the gum by putting peanut butter and mayonnaise on her hair. Lisa's hair attracts a swarm of bees, one of which flies away.

1. While bike riding with [Mr. Burns](/source/Mr._Burns), [Smithers](/source/Waylon_Smithers) suffers an [allergic reaction](/source/Allergic_reaction) to the bee's sting and rides to the hospital, but the orderlies admit only Burns.

1. [Dr. Nick](/source/Dr._Nick) is criticized by the hospital board for his [unorthodox medical procedures](/source/Quackery), only to treat [Grampa](/source/Grampa_Simpson) with an electric light socket, saving his career.

1. [Moe](/source/Moe_Szyslak) gets robbed by [Snake](/source/List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Snake) after [Barney](/source/Barney_Gumble) gives Moe $2,000 to pay for a portion of his $14 billion bar tab.

1. While hosting [Superintendent Chalmers](/source/Superintendent_Chalmers) for lunch, [Principal Skinner](/source/Principal_Skinner) burns his roast and bluffs his way through the meal, replacing the roast with hamburgers from Krusty Burger and dubbing them "steamed hams", setting his house on fire in the process.

1. [Homer](/source/Homer_Simpson) accidentally traps [Maggie](/source/Maggie_Simpson) in a newspaper vending box. After several unsuccessful attempts to free her, he uproots the box and takes it home with her still inside.

1. [Chief Wiggum](/source/Chief_Wiggum), [Lou](/source/List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Lou), and [Eddie](/source/List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Eddie) compare [McDonald's](/source/McDonald's) and [Krusty Burger](/source/Krusty_Burger).

1. [Bumblebee Man](/source/Bumblebee_Man) arrives home after a horrible day at work and suffers a string of humorous disasters, causing his house to collapse and his wife to serve him with divorce papers.

1. Snake runs Wiggum over, and their ensuing fight ends with [Herman](/source/List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Herman_Hermann) capturing them at gunpoint in his store.

1. [Reverend Lovejoy](/source/Reverend_Lovejoy) urges his [Old English Sheepdog](/source/Old_English_Sheepdog) to relieve himself on [Ned Flanders](/source/Ned_Flanders)'s lawn.

1. Various townspeople advise Marge and Lisa how to remove the gum stuck in Lisa's hair.

1. [Cletus](/source/Cletus_Spuckler) offers [Brandine](/source/List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Brandine_Spuckler) some shoes he found on a [telephone line](/source/Telephone_line).

1. Milhouse desperately needs to pee and asks the [Comic Book Guy's](/source/Comic_Book_Guy) at the [Android's Dungeon](/source/Springfield_(The_Simpsons)#The_Android's_Dungeon_&_Baseball_Card_Shop) if he could use the bathroom, but can only use it if he buys something, and [his father](/source/List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Kirk_Van_Houten) forces him to leave the store before he can use it. They go to use the bathroom in Hermann's store in which Hermann allows, and Hermann is reluctant to take Kirk hostage as he did Snake and Wiggum, but Milhouse accidentally knocks out Hermann with a [flail](/source/Flail_(weapon)), invertedly saving all three.

1. [Jake the barber](/source/List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Jake_the_Barber) cuts the gum out of Lisa's hair, leaving her with a different hairstyle.

1. [Nelson](/source/Nelson_Muntz) laughs at Lisa's new haircut, at an elderly lady who experienced her own misfortune, and at Ian, an extremely tall man in a small [Volkswagen Beetle](/source/Volkswagen_Beetle), the latter of whom publicly humiliates Nelson to teach him a lesson, by [pantsing](/source/Pantsing) him and forcing Nelson to parade down the main street with onlookers on the sidewalk while Ian followed behind Nelson in his car.

1. Bart and Milhouse squirt ketchup and mustard onto Nelson from the overpass, and conclude that life is interesting in their town after all.

1. [Professor Frink](/source/Professor_Frink) attempts to tell his story but is cut off by the ending credits.

## Production

The episode's principal idea came from the [season four](/source/The_Simpsons_season_4) episode "[The Front](/source/The_Front_(The_Simpsons))", which contained a short sequence entitled *[The Adventures of Ned Flanders](/source/The_Adventures_of_Ned_Flanders)*, featuring its own title card and theme song, at its conclusion. The scene has no relevance to the main plot of the episode and was designed solely as [filler](/source/Filler_(media)) to accommodate the episode's short runtime.[3][4] The staff loved the concept and attempted to fit similar scenes into other episodes, but none were short enough to require one. [Show runners](/source/Show_runner) [Bill Oakley](/source/Bill_Oakley) and [Josh Weinstein](/source/Josh_Weinstein) decided to make an entire episode of linked short scenes involving many of the show's characters, similar to [Quentin Tarantino](/source/Quentin_Tarantino)'s *[Pulp Fiction](/source/Pulp_Fiction)*.[3] The title "22 Short Films About Springfield" was decided upon from the start of the episode's production[3] even though there are not actually twenty-two stories in it, due to the standard 22-minute length of an episode.[5] Originally there were more scenes, but several of them had to be cut out for time.[3] To decide who would write each of the segments, all the writers chose their top three favorite characters and put them into a hat, the names were drawn out, and the writers were assigned their parts.[3] Oakley wrote the [Superintendent Chalmers](/source/Superintendent_Chalmers) story,[3] Weinstein did the [Comic Book Guy](/source/Comic_Book_Guy) and [Milhouse](/source/Milhouse) scene,[5] [David Cohen](/source/David_X._Cohen) penned the [Reverend Lovejoy](/source/Reverend_Lovejoy) sketch, as well as the deleted [Krusty the Clown](/source/Krusty_the_Clown) scene.[6] [Brent Forrester](/source/Brent_Forrester) wrote the Krusty Burger scene,[5] while [Rachel Pulido](/source/Rachel_Pulido) wrote the [Bumblebee Man](/source/Bumblebee_Man) one.[3] [Richard Appel](/source/Richard_Appel) wrote a deleted "elaborate fantasy segment" revolving around [Marge](/source/Marge_Simpson), the only remnant of which is her cleaning the sink during the first Lisa scene, and also a scene with [Lionel Hutz](/source/Lionel_Hutz) that was dropped.[7]

The first draft was 65 pages long and needed to be cut down to just 42, so numerous scenes were removed for time or because they did not fit into the overall dynamic of the episode.[3] To solve this problem, a scene before the second act break, where the townspeople go to the Simpson house to provide advice of how Lisa can get the gum out of her hair, was created to include every character that did not appear anywhere else during the course of the episode.[3] Weinstein and writing supervisor [Greg Daniels](/source/Greg_Daniels) were responsible for ordering and linking together the episodes, and director [Jim Reardon](/source/Jim_Reardon) had the challenge of segueing between each section in a way that did not make the change seem abrupt.[8] Those that were hard to link were put before or after an act break or were given a theme song, one of which was cut from the Apu story, but was included as a deleted scene on *The Complete Seventh Season* DVD.[5]

Oakley wrote the Chalmers scene because he is his all-time favorite character from the show. The main reason he loved him was that, until Frank Grimes was created for the [season eight](/source/The_Simpsons_season_8) episode "[Homer's Enemy](/source/Homer's_Enemy)", Chalmers was the only character that "seemed to operate in the normal human universe".[3] In previous episodes, Skinner and Chalmers' scenes together revolved around one joke: Skinner tells Chalmers an unbelievable lie, but Chalmers believes him anyway. So, their scene in this episode is made up of a string of thirteen interconnected lies.[3] The dialogue between him and Skinner was something that had never been done before, in that it is just a long relaxed conversation with nothing important being said at all.[6] The idea behind the scene was to make fun of the classic sitcom trope of taking the boss home for dinner, the boss doubting his employee's lies and ultimately believing them. Oakley wrote the scene in one afternoon, with the finished product resembling almost exactly its first draft. Layout artist Sarge Morton was given the task to storyboard the whole scene, as he had an affinity for scenes featuring both Skinner and Chalmers.[9]

In the Mr. Burns story, every word he yells at Smithers is real and used correctly. To maintain accuracy, the writers used a 19th-century slang thesaurus.[5] Many of the Spanish words used in Bumblebee Man's segment are easily understood [cognates](/source/Cognates) of English and not accurate Spanish; this was done deliberately so that non-Spanish speakers could understand the dialogue without subtitles.[5][10] Ian, the very tall man, was a caricature of writer [Ian Maxtone-Graham](/source/Ian_Maxtone-Graham)[5] also sharing his first name, and the crowd on the street who laugh at Nelson, Oakley wrote in the script that the street was filled with Springfield's biggest idiots; the animators drew caricatures of him, Weinstein, and Groening into the scene.[3]

## Cultural references

The episode's title is a reference to [François Girard](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Girard)'s film *[Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould](/source/Thirty_Two_Short_Films_About_Glenn_Gould)*.[1] The episode contains numerous references to [Quentin Tarantino](/source/Quentin_Tarantino)'s *[Pulp Fiction](/source/Pulp_Fiction)*. Like the film, the episode is episodic, though the stories are interconnected. The policemen's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion,[1][11] and the music played during the segment's beginning was also taken from the film.[5] The story involving Chief Wiggum and Snake is a direct parody of the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Snake runs over Wiggum at a red light, alluding to the segment of the film where the character of Butch Coolidge did the same to Marsellus Wallace, before crashing into a fire hydrant and beginning an on-foot chase.[5][11] The two run into [Herman](/source/List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Herman_Hermann)'s Military Antique shop, where Herman beats, ties up and gags the two, then waits for "Zed" to arrive, exactly as Maynard does in *Pulp Fiction*.[1][11] The writers were pleased that Herman already existed, as otherwise they would have had to create another character just for this scene.[3] The song Apu briefly dances to at Sanjay's party is "Freak-A-Zoid" by American R&B group [Midnight Star](/source/Midnight_Star_(band)).[12] The Dr. Nick segment is a parody of *[ER](/source/ER_(TV_series))*. After passing the board, Dr. Nick exclaims "Free nose jobs for everybody!"; [Jasper Beardsley](/source/List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Jasper_Beardsley) says "Give me a [Van Heflin](/source/Van_Heflin)."[11]

## Reception

In its original broadcast, "22 Short Films About Springfield" finished tied for 73rd in the weekly ratings for the week of April 8–14, 1996, with a [Nielsen rating](/source/Nielsen_rating) of 6.9. It was the seventh highest rated show from the [Fox network](/source/Fox_network) that week.[13] It is [Bill Oakley](/source/Bill_Oakley)'s personal favorite episode, but he claimed that it is hated by two prominent (and unnamed) figures within the running of the show.[3] The episode is frequently cited as a popular one among the show's fans on the Internet.[5]

In 1998, *[TV Guide](/source/TV_Guide)* listed it in its list of top twelve *Simpsons* episodes.[14]

*[Entertainment Weekly](/source/Entertainment_Weekly)*, in 2003, placed the episode 14th on their top 25 *The Simpsons* episode list, praising the episode's structure and finding the *Pulp Fiction* references "priceless".[15] The episode is the favorite of British comedian [Jimmy Carr](/source/Jimmy_Carr) who, in 2003, called it "a brilliant pastiche of art cinema".[16]

In 2004, *[Empire](/source/Empire_(film_magazine))* named the episode's *Pulp Fiction* parody the seventh best film gag in the show, calling Wiggum and Snake bound and gagged with red balls in their mouths "the sickest visual gag in *Simpsons* history".[17]

[Gary Russell](/source/Gary_Russell) and [Gareth Roberts](/source/Gareth_Roberts_(writer)),[18] the authors of the book *I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide*, called it "an untypical episode, and a very good one", naming the Skinner and Chalmers story as the best.[2]

In 2019, several sources cited the episode as one of the show's best, including *[Consequence of Sound](/source/Consequence_of_Sound)* who ranked it number five on its list of top 30 *Simpsons* episodes;[19] *[Entertainment.ie](/source/Entertainment.ie)* who named it among the 10 greatest *Simpsons* episodes of all time;[20] *[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)* who named it one of the five greatest episodes in *Simpsons* history;[21] and, in early 2010, [IGN](/source/IGN) named "[A Fish Called Selma](/source/A_Fish_Called_Selma)" the best episode of the seventh season, adding that "22 Short Films About Springfield" was "good competition" for the crown.[22] When *The Simpsons* began streaming on [Disney+](/source/Disney%2B) in 2019, Oakley named this one of the best classic Simpsons episodes to watch on the service.[23]

Emily St. James praised the episode: "'22 Short Films' is fundamentally an experiment, an attempt by the series to do something different at a time when coming up with stories must have started to get exhausting. But it's also a wonderful reminder of how everybody on this show was the protagonist of some other, weirder show. The Simpsons might have been the center of the series, but they didn't need to be the only thing in it anymore. Springfield had ceased to be a solar system with them as the sun. Instead, everybody else had become stars of their own, and the show expanded into a galaxy."[24]

### Legacy

#### Unproduced spin-off

The episode sparked the idea among the staff for a spin-off series entitled *Springfield Stories*[25] or simply *Springfield*.[26][9] The proposed show would focus on the town in general, rather than the Simpson family. Every week would be a different scenario, such as three short stories, an adventure with young Homer, or a story about a background character that was not tied into the Simpson family at all.[25] According to Bill Oakley, the show was not just going to focus on secondary and minor characters, but also in other things that were outside the normal *Simpsons* universe, with the episodes being "free-form", but Josh Weinstein recalls that executive producer [James L. Brooks](/source/James_L._Brooks) "didn't go for it".[9] The idea never resulted in anything, as Groening realized that the staff did not have the capacity to produce another show as well as *The Simpsons*.[26][27] By 2006, the staff maintained that it was something that they would still be interested in doing,[5] and by 2007 that it "could happen someday".[27] "22 Short Films About Springfield" also helped inspire the *[Futurama](/source/Futurama)* episode "[Three Hundred Big Boys](/source/Three_Hundred_Big_Boys)".[6]

#### "Steamed Hams"

"Steamed ham" redirects here. For the food item sometimes known by this name, see [Steamed cheeseburger](/source/Steamed_cheeseburger).

A [steamed cheeseburger](/source/Steamed_cheeseburger), sliced in half. The term "steamed hams" was coined by Seymour Skinner to refer to hamburgers.

A screenshot of the "Steamed Hams" segment

In one segment of the episode, titled "Skinner & The Superintendent", a frenzied Seymour Skinner attempts to pass off fast food hamburgers as home-cooked "steamed hams", claiming that it is an expression in the [regional dialect](/source/Regional_dialect) of [Albany, New York](/source/Albany%2C_New_York), and later attempts to explain away a growing kitchen fire as an improbable case of [aurora borealis](/source/Aurora_borealis). Starting in 2016, over two decades from the episode's premiere, the scene gained renewed popularity in [Facebook](/source/Facebook) groups and pages relating to *The Simpsons*. It has also spawned numerous parody and remix videos on [YouTube](/source/YouTube), many of them featuring "Steamed Hams But..." in their titles.[28][29][30]

In 2018, Bill Oakley, the writer of the segment, posted the original draft for the segment on [Twitter](/source/Twitter).[31] He said he believed it was the most famous thing he had written, and that it was also one of his favorites.[9] Some months later, a reporter for *[GameSpot](/source/GameSpot)* convinced [Jeff Goldblum](/source/Jeff_Goldblum) to read part of the script during an interview about the video game *[Jurassic World Evolution](/source/Jurassic_World_Evolution)*. Goldblum commented at the end of the reading, "I like the writing, too—that was from what?"[32] Oakley responded immediately on Twitter, writing, "[I'm] not a fan of fairly big companies like GameSpot having famous actors perform scripts I wrote, verbatim, without giving me any sort of credit whatsoever." The video was taken down within days.[33]

In a 2021 interview with *[The Hollywood Reporter](/source/The_Hollywood_Reporter)*, Oakley, Weinstein, animation director [Jim Reardon](/source/Jim_Reardon), voice actor [Hank Azaria](/source/Hank_Azaria) and *Simpsons* showrunner [Al Jean](/source/Al_Jean) shared their thoughts about the popularity of "Steamed Hams". Azaria said he was confused about how popular the segment had become. Reardon became aware of it when his daughters pointed it out a few years prior. They shared their favorite "Steamed Hams" parodies, including one made with [Lego](/source/Lego) animation, one animating the characters in the style of the music video for the song "[Take On Me](/source/Take_On_Me)" by [A-ha](/source/A-ha), and one with the dialogue synchronized to the vocals of "[Basket Case](/source/Basket_Case_(song))" by [Green Day](/source/Green_Day). Weinstein said that Groening also enjoyed the phenomenon.[9] A [Twitch](/source/Twitch_(service)) channel streaming a 24/7 series of [procedurally generated](/source/Procedurally_generated) "Steamed Hams" parodies premiered in 2023. Oakley described it as "truly uncanny".[34] A series of short film [pastiches](/source/Pastiche) in 2025 recreate the scene in the style of the Soviet film *[The Glass Harmonica](/source/The_Glass_Harmonica_(film))*, the German expressionist film *[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari](/source/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari)*, and the 1981 comedy-drama film *[My Dinner with Andre](/source/My_Dinner_with_Andre)*.[35]

## Availability

On March 12, 2002, the episode was released in the United States on a DVD collection titled *The Simpsons Film Festival*, along with the [season eleven](/source/The_Simpsons_season_11) episode "[Beyond Blunderdome](/source/Beyond_Blunderdome)", the [season four](/source/The_Simpsons_season_4) episode "[Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie](/source/Itchy_%26_Scratchy%3A_The_Movie)", and the [season six](/source/The_Simpsons_season_6) episode "[A Star Is Burns](/source/A_Star_Is_Burns)".[36]

The DVD boxset for [season seven](/source/The_Simpsons_season_7) was released by [20th Century Fox Home Entertainment](/source/20th_Century_Fox_Home_Entertainment) in the United States and Canada on December 13, 2005, nine years after it had completed broadcast on television.[37] The episode *22 Short Films About Springfield* features an optional [audio commentary](/source/Audio_commentary) track featuring Richard Appel, David X. Cohen, Matt Groening, Bill Oakley, Rachel Pulido, Jim Reardon, David Silverman, Yeardley Smith and Josh Weinstein.

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