"New Kids on the Blecch"
"Original Air Date: 2/25/01"
Bart ruins a Spingfield Race and an unruly mob starts. A guy named L. T. Smash tells Bart that he is just what he was looking for for a boy band he was starting. Bart accepts and becomes a part of the "Party Posse" with Nelson, Milhouse, and Ralph. The four can't sing so they have a machine that does all the singing for them. When they have their first single, "YVON EHT NIOJ," Lisa becomes suspicious and investigates finding out that YVON EHT NIOJ backwards is JOIN THE NAVY. She goes to see L. T. Smash to find out he is actually a lietenaunt in the navy using the Party Posse to brainwash people to join the navy. When she tells everyone no one believes her though. At a Party Posse concert on a navy ship, Smash finds out that Mad Magazine was coming out with an issue that makes fun of the Party Posse so the band had to be shut down before the magazine hit stores the next day. Smash went crazy and drove the ship right up to New York Harbour, prepared to shoot a missile at the Mad Magazine Headquarters.
N 'Sync guest stars as themselves.
This is Episode #262 in The Simpsons series. It is Episode #14 in Season 12.