(183) Lisa and the Angel

In May 2002 my wife called me in to see an episode of The Simpsons she was watching, as it featured Stephen Jay Gould. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gould He had been called in by Lisa Simpson to test the putative fossil of an angel. At the end of the show he admitted that he had not done the tests. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI7YmnhDq6Q

Here are some facts about this episode -

Lisa the Skeptic

Synopsis
While Lisa and her classmates conduct an archaeological survey, a skeleton with abnormal bone structure protruding from its shoulders is uncovered, leading the townspeople to conclude the remains are that of an angel.

First aired in US 23 Nov 1997.
First aired in Australia 22 Apr 1998.

But I saw it on UK TV 3 - 4 days before Gould’s actual death, aged sixty, from cancer on May 10th 2004 
He died just ten weeks after the cancer was detected.

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