Simpsons Top 100 Countdown

#82 Round Springfield
Season 6, Episode 22 (Guide from the Simpsons Archive)
Bart eats a jagged-metal cereal O, and is taken to the hospital to have his appendix removed. While he’s recovering, Lisa finds that Bleeding Gums Murphy is also in the hospital. They have a jam session and he gives Lisa his sax for luck at the school concert. With a terribly depleted band (thanks to most students deciding to have their appendix out like Bart), Lisa takes over the 30-second concert and the crowd loves her. When she returns to the hospital to tell Bleeding Gums how great she did, she finds that he has died. She tries to get the local jazz station to play a tribute to him, but they lack his album. She tries to buy it from Comic Book Guy, but he marks the too-high price of $250 up to $500 when he finds out the Murphy has died. Meanwhile, Bart won a lawsuit against the cereal company, and after outrageous legal fees, has $500 to blow. Since Lisa was the only one who had truly believed he was in pain and not trying to get out of a test, he decides to buy the album for her. Lisa has it played at the station and lightening strikes the antennae causing the whole town to hear the music. Bleeding Gums then says goodbye to Lisa from the clouds, a la The Lion King, and they have one final jam session. Memorable moments include the jazz, Cosby, the hot dog vendor, the funeral, Ralph Wiggum with a flute up his nose, Faberge eggs, Dr. Nick Riviera, Krusty’s press conference (and other Krusty moments, too), cheese-eating surrender monkeys, Homer’s jazz improv, and Homer “consoling” Lisa.