High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Old Man and the 'C' Student" is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons' tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 25, 1999. In the episode, after offending the Olympic committee during their visit to Springfield Elementary, the school's students are committed to 20 hours of community service. Bart, along with his sister Lisa, are put in charge of Springfield's old folks home, where Bart notices the doldrums that the old people go through every day. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa's father Homer tries to sell springs.