High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Skinner`s Sense of Snow" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons` twelfth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 17, 2000. In the episode, a snowstorm traps the students with principal Seymour Skinner and Groundskeeper Willie in Springfield Elementary. When Skinner uses his army skills to control the students, they overthrow him and take over the school. Meanwhile, Homer and his neighbor Ned Flanders set out to rescue the children using Flanders` car.