Milhouse of Sand and Fog [SEP] series
Milhouse of Sand and Fog
"Milhouse of Sand and Fog" is the third episode of the seventeenth season of "The Simpsons". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 25, 2005.
Plot.
During Reverend Lovejoy's sermon, Maggie is scratching. The family takes Maggie to see Dr. Hibbert, who diagnoses Maggie with chicken pox. Inspired by Flanders' suggestion of purposely exposing his sons to the chicken pox, Homer invites all the neighborhood kids over to the Simpson house
that involved Bart being jealous of Milhouse and wishing that Marge and Homer would also separate. Several scenes were written and animated for the episode, but ultimately they were cut because the script was very long. A similar idea would go on to be used as a plot point in the season 17 episode "Milhouse of Sand and Fog". The third act of the episode shifts the focus from the Van Houtens to Homer and Marge because the writers felt that tertiary characters could not carry an audience's interest for an entire episode