S24E10 · SCENE 12/20 · 12:58
A Test Before Trying · Springfield Elementary
Skinner pulls fire alarm

Skinner pulls the fire alarm to buy Bart study time.

12:58→14:28
in the episode · 1m 30s · S24E10

What happens

12:58–14:28

Skinner, pressured by students, pulls the fire alarm to delay the test. He admits he broke school rules for the first time, buying Bart time to study.

WhereSpringfield Elementary
DriverPrincipal Skinner
Positionact2 · complication
ThreadBart's test to save school

Key lines

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13:18

Well, well, well...

13:38

They will be, Seymour. They will be.

13:45

I'm king of the bus station.

14:12

And the man or woman could be Hispanic or, most frightening, contain no punctuation at all.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1
social rule violation1.0
tense1.0
argument

Beats

13:12Skinner pulls fire alarm

Scene in the episode

12:58–14:28
A · Homer's parking meter scheme
B · Bart's test to save school

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Nelson Muntz55 episodes · drives 40 scenes

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