"New Kid on the Block" is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

The Winfields' old house is purchased by divorced mother Ruth Powers and her teenage daughter Laura, with whom Bart falls in love at first sight.

After seeing a television advertisement about an all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant called "The Frying Dutchman", Homer decides to go and take Marge with him, and Bart suggests that Laura should babysit him, Lisa, and Maggie.

Meanwhile, at the restaurant, Homer quickly enrages the Sea Captain, devouring nearly all the food in the buffet, and is eventually hauled out before he has finished.

Believing Jimbo to be the one who has been pranking him all along, Moe rushes to the Simpson house brandishing a large, "rusty and dull" kitchen knife.

[2] Despite O'Brien and other production staff being sure that Rickles would appear in the episode, he was reportedly upset by the concept of the storyline, as he did not wish to be portrayed as a "mean guy".

Rickles began shouting at Groening, accusing him of spying on his Las Vegas act and using material from that for the episode.

Bart's fantasy of dancing with Laura is based on Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Top Hat (1935).

The courtroom scene in which numerous sacks of letters to Santa Claus are delivered to court is a parody of Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

[7] Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, commented that it was "a fun episode, introducing the Powers family [and featuring] the last appearance of the Winfields".