The Heartbroke Kid

"The Heartbroke Kid"
The Simpsons episode
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Episode no.	Season 16 Episode 17
Directed by	Steven Dean Moore
Written by	Ian Maxtone-Graham
Production code	GABF11[1]
Original air date	May 1, 2005 (2005-05-01)
Guest appearances
Albert Brooks as Tab Spangler and Jacques
Episode features
Chalkboard gag	An obese Bart buys a chocolate bar from a vending machine instead of doing a chalkboard gag during this episode.
Couch gag	(first) The family, along with the couch, are launched by a catapult. / (second) Everyone makes it to the couch normally, except for the now-obese Bart, who walks in a few seconds later and suffers a heart attack.
Commentary	Al Jean Ian Maxtone-Graham Dana Gould Michael Price Matt Selman Lance Kramer Max Pross David Silverman Steven Dean Moore
Episode chronology
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The Simpsons season 16
List of episodes

"The Heartbroke Kid" is the seventeenth episode^[1] of the sixteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.^[2] It was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and directed by Steven Dean Moore. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 1, 2005.^[3] Albert Brooks guest stars in the episode, playing the character Tab Spangler, as well as briefly reprising Jacques from "Life on the Fast Lane".

"The Heartbroke Kid" is the 352nd episode in the program's history and was broadcast straight after the 351st episode, "Don't Fear the Roofer", on the Fox network in the United States.^[4]