"Yokel Chords" is the fourteenth episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

The episode received mixed reviews and won an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production.

Marge oversleeps, forcing Homer to make the children's lunch for the day, but he gives Lisa a drawing of a sandwich and gives Bart some of Grampa's medication.

Without any food, Bart scares the students with a story about a cannibal cafeteria worker named Dark Stanley.

At lunchtime, Bart pretends to be killed by Dark Stanley, leading all the students to run away while he eats their lunches.

Principal Skinner tells Superintendent Chalmers that the kids have been refused education in fear that they will lower test averages and cost the school federal funding.

Happy with his mental state, Bart leaves the session early, which makes Dr. Swanson sad, so she goes to see her own psychiatrist.

He decided to make a parody of The Sound of Music with Lisa as the Maria character and the Spuckler children as the Von Trapp family.

Logan was working on the film adaptation of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Sondheim at the time.

In that sequence, Lisa takes the kids to an art film screening showing Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou.

[5] Bart's story of Dark Stanley is animated in the style of the opening sequence of the television anthology series Mystery!

It had many of the ingredients -- lots of guest stars, a storyline loosely based on an existing musical -- that would normally make for a memorable outing, but when it was all over, the whole thing fell short of producing a stellar half-hour.

[6]Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide liked the focus on the Spuckler family and the subplot involving Bart.