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The Simpsons episode
"Tennis the Menace"
Episode no.	260
Prod. code	CABF07
Orig. airdate	February 11, 2001
Show runner(s)	Mike Scully
Written by	Ian Maxtone-Graham
Directed by	Jen Kamerman
Chalkboard	"I will not publish the principal's credit report"
Couch gag	The living room floor is frozen over. The Simpsons ice skate to the couch. When Homer sits down, his side falls through the ice.
Guest star(s)	Andre Agassi as himself; Pete Sampras as himself; Venus and Serena Williams as themselves
DVD; commentary	; Mike Scully; Al Jean; Ian Maxtone-Graham; Matt Selman; John Frink; Don Payne; Max Pross; Phil Rosenthal
Season 12
	November 1, 2000 – May 20, 2001
	"Treehouse of Horror XI"; "A Tale of Two Springfields"; "Insane Clown Poppy"; "Lisa the Tree Hugger"; "Homer vs. Dignity"; "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"; "The Great Money Caper"; "Skinner's Sense of Snow"; "HOMR"; "Pokey Mom"; "Worst Episode Ever"; "Tennis the Menace"; "Day of the Jackanapes"; "New Kids on the Blecch"; "Hungry, Hungry Homer"; "Bye Bye Nerdie"; "Simpson Safari"; "Trilogy of Error"; "I'm Goin' to Praiseland"; "Children of a Lesser Clod"; "Simpsons Tall Tales";
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"Tennis the Menace" is the twelfth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons which originally aired February 11, 2001. This is also the second episode (the first being season seven's "Radioactive Man") to be digitally colored instead of colored traditionally through cel animation, a practice that would later be used starting with the season 14 episode, The Great Louse Detective.

[edit] Plot

The Springfield Retirement Castle holds a talent show, which the Simpsons attend. Grampa wins the show after doing a bad version of What's New, Pussycat? His prize is a free autopsy, so the Simpsons go to a funeral salesman. Instead, Homer realizes that a certain kind of cemetery monument uses the same amount of cement as a tennis court, and so Homer decides to get the house a tennis court, even though Homer mistook tennis for foxy boxing (or, as Homer puts it, "the sport where the chicks whale on each other", though, it should be noted that Homer knew that the "sport" had a name in the season six episode Lisa on Ice) and, as it is, The Simpsons can hardly afford their own house. The court is very popular with Springfield's residents, and yet, these residents mock Homer and Marge for losing all the time due to Homer's absent-mindedness. (Lou calls them the "L.A. Clippers of backyard tennis"). Homer tries to please Marge by entering Krusty's celebrity tournament, the "Krusty Kharity Klassic". However Homer is a hopeless tennis player and so Marge "dumps" him and enters with Bart as her new partner. Homer is outraged that he was abandoned for a ten year old. He receives a nightmare where Bart and Marge are married and he is a wall trophy, after being shot at a guillotine factory. Homer enters the tournament with Lisa as his partner.

The tournament takes place and in the stands are leading tennis pros Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Venus Williams and Serena Williams. At the tournament, Homer dumps Lisa for Venus Williams. In response, Marge replaces Bart with Serena Williams as her partner. Ultimately, Serena and Venus replace Marge and Homer with Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, respectively. This forces the family to go back to the bench and resume their normal places in the family; as they enjoy the exhibition of top-class tennis, they agree that it is better to watch things than to do things and Homer offers to go eat dinner with money he took from Pete Sampras' wallet.

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