High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Front" is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons` fourth season, and originally aired in the United States on the Fox network on April 15, 1993. In the episode, Bart and Lisa decide to write an episode of The Itchy Scratchy Show; after their script is rejected, they resubmit it under the name of Abraham Simpson, resulting in Grampa being hired as a staff writer. Meanwhile, Homer returns to high school to retake a failed science course.