Three-eyed Fish — Season 2, Episode 4



In this episode from 1990, Bart catches a three-eyed fish named Blinky in the river by the power plant, which makes local headlines.
More than a decade later, a three-eyed fish was discovered in a reservoir in Argentina. Strangely enough, the reservoir itself was fed by water from a nuclear power plant.


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