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First Aired: Mar. 22, 1998 on FOX

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Season 9 » Episode #18 - This Little Wiggy

Summary: When Marge meets Ralph Wiggum, she decides to invite him over for a playdate with Bart. Bart initially rejects Ralph, but when he goes over to the Wiggum household and sees that it's filled with police equipment and files, he finds himself in a troublemaker's paradise. The two boys start hanging out more and more, eventually having a sleepover during which they steal Chief Wiggum's master key and let themselves into every building in Springfield. In the middle of their spree, Bart and Ralph run into Nelson and his bully buddies. Trying to impress them, Bart shows them the master key and the whole group ventures into the abandoned prison. While there, they play with the electric chair, but leave before they can use the key to turn it off again. When Mayor Quimby decides to reopen the prison, he calls a press conference and sits in the electric chair to demonstrate how it works. Watching the event on TV, Bart and Ralph are sure that Quimby will be killed if anyone flips the electric chair switch. With a little help from Mr. Burns, however, the mayor escapes his fate. After going through so much together, Bart and Ralph remain friends.

Who appeared in this episode?

Krusty	voiced by Dan Castellaneta
Penetantiary Security Guard	voiced by Dan Castellaneta
Database	voiced by Nancy Cartwright
Robbie the Automatom	voiced by Hank Azaria
Professor Frink	voiced by Hank Azaria
Leprechaun	voiced by Hank Azaria
Smithers	voiced by Harry Shearer
Mr. Burns	voiced by Harry Shearer

Episode Quotes

Ralph Wiggum: There's the key! [a rat takes it] Aah! The pointy kitty took it!

Penetantiary Security Guard: Somebody down there?
Bart Simpson: [gasps] Uh-oh. Let's get outta here!

Penetantiary Security Guard: Why do I always shout first? Just gives them a chance to run away. Well, I'm an idiot.

Chief Wiggum: What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mysteries?

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Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (factual errors): The plastic wedding cake bride and groom, which doesn't conduct electricity, wouldn't have melted in the electric chair.

Trivia

The title references a line from the children's nursery rhyme "This Little Piggy Went to Market".