At the start:
Miss Hoover: [shakily] Children, I won't be staying long. I just came from the doctor, and I have lyme disease. Principal Skinner will run the class until a substitute arrives. Ralph: What's lyme disease? Pr. Skinner: I'll field that one. [goes to blackboard] Lyme disease is spread by small parasites called `ticks'. [writes `TICKS' on blackboard] When a diseased tick attaches itself to you, it begins sucking your blood... Miss Hoover: [not calmed] Oh... Pr. Skinner: Malignant spirochetes infect your bloodstream, eventually spreading to your spinal fluid and on into the brain. Miss Hoover: The brain!? Oh, dear God... Class: Wow
and at the end:
Miss Hoover: You see class, my Lyme disease turned out to be psychosomatic.
Ralph Wiggum: Does that me you were crazy?
Janie No, that means she was faking it.
Miss Hoover: No, actually, it was a little of both. Sometimes, when a disease is in all the magazines and on all the news shows, it’s only natural that you think you have it.
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