"Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda" is the twenty-first and penultimate episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
Chazz Busby (the ballet teacher from "Smoke on the Daughter") starts auditioning actors for a production of a passion play.
Bart, noticing Edna's struggle to bond with Rod and Todd when alone with them, urges her to introduce them to the "real world" or life will be extremely difficult for them.
Disgusted by the lack of proper education in their school, Edna transfers them to Springfield Elementary, much to Ned's chagrin.
[3] In July 2023, it was reported that this episode may have predicted that Elon Musk would rename Twitter to X because a screenshot showed Homer's smartphone having an app with an X logo.
By creating the relationship name immediately, and turning it into a finale/voting gimmick, the show made it look like a desperate cry for relevance (Marge tacitly admits as much, when she snaps ‘No voting!’ at Homer).
But as tonight’s episode demonstrated, had the Ned/Edna relationship been allowed to develop more organically, away from the extra-textual bells and whistles, it could have been, and could still be, something that doesn’t immediately induce cringing.