S27 - Friend with Benefit

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The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 06 - Friend with Benefit

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About this "The Simpsons" episode:
The Simpsons - "Friend with Benefit" is the sixth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 580th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on November 8, 2015. In this The Simpsons episode, Springfield Elementary's club sign-up day, Lisa Simpson is trying to get signatures for The Magic Club, where she first meets Harper Jambowski, who appears interested in joining the club, because it was the only one that doesn't creep her out. Lisa shows interest on her new friend, discovering that she's also a pretty talented magician. When the Springfieldians realize that their money was spent on such a useless thing as the chair, they form a mob and go to the Simpsons' house to burn the chair down. At night, Homer gets angry about the chair complaining that he never gets the finest things in life. That's when Lisa asks him to take her to an Australian boy band concert with Harper, as her father has bought the seats. Feeling confident, he takes Lisa to the show. At the sports arena, Homer gets surprised as he's given platinum with stripes VIP wristbands. That's when he first meets Harper's dad and discovers that they also have a lot of things in common and that Harper's father is extremely rich from his IT company. At their way back home, Lisa complains about Harper didn't letting her say a word at the show, so Homer tries to convince Lisa to keep her as her best friend, because that way Lisa will enjoy the many great things in the world that Homer can't afford (namely, all of them). Harper then invites them to see a David Copperfield presentation. At the show once again, Harper doesn't let Lisa participate while their fathers are enjoying themselves. Lisa becomes more disenchanted with Harper, but Homer remains good friends with Harper's father and gets an invitation for the Simpson family to spend a week at their private island. They originally think they can't go because it's a school week, but Principal Skinner calls the Simpsons saying that school next week has been canceled (he received a whopping $10 bribe from Mike Jambowski to make that happen). Later, Harper gives Lisa a gift: a new bicycle. Lisa, though, has become fed-up with Harper and takes the bike gift as an insult because she likes her current bicycle (Harper doesn't help by saying Lisa's old bike is "crappy") and feels it's another example of Harper wanting to control everything around her. They argue to the point of mutually ending their friendship, but Lisa once again decides to go along with being around for her dad's sake, so they could go to the island. At the private island (which was formerly Haiti), the family's fun is ruined when Harper and Lisa fight once again so Homer has to make a hard decision: continue being friends with Harper's father or go home so Lisa can get away from Harper. He decides to leave the island and go home, saying that Harper is "kinda spoiled" and that she doesn't deserve Lisa.