But I remember it!

Lisa it's your birthday, Happy birthday Lisa

Lisa, you’re teeth are big and green
Lisa, you smell like gasoline
Lisa it's your birthday and god bless you this day
he gave me the gift of a little sister and I'm proud of you today

i just ripped that season from my dvd collection. i should seed it. 🫣

Here... You dropped this: 👑

Do they not rerun this one anymore?

The episode was also omitted from the streaming service Disney+.[51] The Slate journalist Isaac Butler criticized the removal as "an offense against art and the medium of television, and part of a growing trend of corporations using their consolidated power and the death of physical media to do damage control by destroying works by troublesome artists".
Stark Raving Dad - Wikipedia https://share.google/bkT2WOa5qDZKeQICR
Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.
- They do this with sunny, a bunch of sunny episodes are gone because of racial stuff, one including where Dee pretends to be Puerto Rican. As a Latino I found that episode hilarious and im more offended that they removed it.
  If they removed the Simpsons Michael Jackson episode, they’ll probably delete the Sunny episodes with P Diddy
- Why did you short url a wikipedia link with google?
- One excerpt I enjoyed reading.
  Michael Jackson guest-starred as Leon Kompowsky, but went uncredited (credited as John Jay Smith) for contractual reasons; his role was not confirmed until later. Jackson was a fan of the show and called its creator, Matt Groening, offering to do a guest spot. Jackson pitched several story ideas and wrote the song "Happy Birthday Lisa" for the episode. Leon's singing voice was performed by a Jackson soundalike, Kipp Lennon, due to Jackson's contractual obligations with his record company.[3] The episode references Jackson's career, with Kompowsky singing portions of the songs "Billie Jean" and "Ben".
  Side note, why does this link above go through Google? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Raving_Dad
- Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.
  and people will blame the wokes/DEI/whatever
- This is a decades old story.
  The show runners themselves pulled the episode because the thought of Jackson using The Simpsons to get to kids was "icky" to put it lightly.
  Calling it corporate censorship, is just bullshit.
They famously took it off the air years ago because of the Michael Jackson stuff, but I don't know if that has changed.
- It has not on the high seas. Also Disney shows the old 4:3 episodes in 16:9, cropping away like 30% of the image. I hate the way corpos rape art and culture.

If the episode didn't happen, why do I have the song stuck in my head Bart?

It’s literally one of the best episodes of that season (although many of s3 were great!). I get why but wtf. Glad I have a copy 🏴‍☠️

My newest and favorite argument in favor of piracy. Disney doesn't get to throw my hard drive in the memory hole

One of the most well-known episodes. Who is saying this didn't happen?

Nobody is actually claiming it doesn't exist. It just isn't available for streaming because everyone involved doesn't want to stream it.
Disney, for one

A shame, that episode was one of the better ones. What next, Sonic 3 being unavailable because MJ supposedly helped with the music?

No, they just wrote new tracks for the most recent re-release, Sonic Origins. Not because Jackson is controversial or anything, but because there was some kind of copyright issue.
Personally I never liked Carnival Night Zone, but the rest of the tracks were a downgrade.
- Just to add cause I think it's neat, the tracks aren't actually new, but were used in the old PC version and even in the original beta. They're still new to most people, but I think it's interesting that these were technically the originals.
  I agree though, they're not as good.
I bet it’s probably more the race bits in the episode than MJ himself.
“the big white guy who thinks he’s the little black guy who thinks he’s the white guy” line

Community advanced DND episode was peak!!!!

That episode getting removed from Netflix over some virtue signaling bs was one of the reasons I wrote off streaming and started hoarding content.

Leon's even got his own questline in Tapped Out. Weird the episode's banned, but he's still A OK in alt media.

What, did they stop running the episode?

Yes, in 2019
- Fwiw, that song has been in my head ever since I saw this thread. Thanks everyone, I hate my life right now. 😉
- Why?

Wait, it this a legit debate? This episode actually happened...

It's the first Simpsons episode I remember seeing

Even if MJ is a pedophile, there are still more offensive episodes of the simpsons. Such as the pufferfish one.

The episode where Homer is at the mental institute is so funny but what made me lose it is when he calls home to try and say he's coming back, only for Bart to answer and Homer to lose his shit and start threatening him..

pure laughter

Same here.

there was a john jay episode though

Never forget that after he died they finally admitted to finding his secret CP room.

source
- His ass.