"Pokey Mom" is the tenth episode of The Simpsons' twelfth season, aired on January 14, 2001.
After visiting the Apron Expo, the family attends a prison rodeo. Marge meets Jack Crowley, a convict whom she believes to have great artistic potential after becoming impressed with his work. Marge later teaches a class on being an artist to the prisoners. Jack is up for parole and, with Marge's help, is granted parole under her custody. When Jack is loo...
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"Pokey Mom" is the tenth episode of The Simpsons' twelfth season, aired on January 14, 2001.
After visiting the Apron Expo, the family attends a prison rodeo. Marge meets Jack Crowley, a convict whom she believes to have great artistic potential after becoming impressed with his work. Marge later teaches a class on being an artist to the prisoners. Jack is up for parole and, with Marge's help, is granted parole under her custody. When Jack is looking for a job, Marge finds a mural-painting job at Springfield Elementary School. Jack paints a powerful, epic mural symbolizing school spirit with a puma, which the whole school likes (including the teachers), but Principal Skinner (who hates it) demands that he tone it down using his childish idea of bunnies in a fantasy land. After reluctantly giving into Skinner's wishes, Jack is criticized for doing a terrible job. He goes crazy and commits arson on the mural and later Skinner's car. Inevitably, Marge resents Jack for lying to her that...
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