Lisa the Simpson/References

==Trivia==
*Despite airing in season nine, this episode has the production code 4F24. The 4F production line is for episodes that have aired (or were meant to air) during the eighth season. In large part because of this, there was a reference to Non-Stop FOX, which was still a timeslot when the episode entered production, but had been removed by the time the episode aired. As such, this episode streams as episode 3 of season 9, on Disney+
==Continuity==
*"King-Size Homer":
**A Simpson kid (Bart/Lisa) imagines himself (or herself) as a morbidly obese adult with an inexplicable Southern accent.
**Lisa in her vision of the future wears the same muu-muu Homer wore when he gained 300 pounds to work from home.
*"Lisa the Skeptic", "The Springfield Files", and "Radio Bart":
**A carnival sideshow is set up around something bizarre (Timmy O'Toole in a well, the alien sighting, the angel statue, and Jasper freezing himself in the Kwik-E-Mart).
**"Lisa the Skeptic", "Itchy& Scratchy & Marge", and "Radio Bart": Simpsons family members appear on "Smartline".
*"The Old Man and the Lisa": An elderly character voiced by Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns/Jasper Beardley) locks himself in a grocery store freezer.
*"Homer and Apu": Kent Brockman mentions "Geezers in freezers" (which is what Jasper is in this episode)
*"Bart Star": Homer orders something weird at the Kwik-E-Mart (a drink made of beer and Skittles; the after-dinner burrito)
*"Last Exit of Springfield": Homer wants a burrito (demands one during the last time the nuclear plant went on strike and got hit with a food truck awning/asks Apu for an after-dinner burrito).
*"Homer Badman": The regional sales coordinator in bunk and trundle beds looks like the women's rights/anti-sexual harassment/"Justice for Ashley Grant" protester who said, "Yeah, right! That's the oldest trick in the book!" after Homer tries to tell the group that he actually peeled the gummi Venus off Ashley's jeans rather than touch her butt.
*"Homie the Clown" and "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": The Freak-E-Mart music is the same music Homer heard when he began seeing everyone as clowns and in the "Whack-A-Mole Simpsons" couch gag.
*"Separate Vocations": Lisa fears that she won't be smart and creative as she gets older.
*"Moaning Lisa":
**Lisa goes to the Jazz Hole jazz club.
**Lisa is depressed and runs away from home.
*"Selma's Choice": A female character (Selma/Lisa) imagines a future where she is the mother of several children with an unsavory male character (Hans Moleman/Ralph Wiggum).
*"Lisa the Vegetarian":
**Lisa watches an educational film starring Troy McClure and a little boy named Timmy or Billy.
**Lisa and tomato soup (tries to serve gazpacho at Homer's barbecue/ran away from home and let her tomato soup get so cold that Homer eats the skin off it).
**Homer's relatives who all look and sound like him are similar to Ned Flanders's relatives who look and sound like him.
***"Team Homer": A character voiced by Dan Castellaneta (Homer/Mayor Quimby) has relatives who look and sound like him.
*"Lisa the Iconoclast": Lisa fails one of her school assignments.
*"Homer's Phobia": A plastic pink flamingo appears.
*"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular": A K.C. and the Sunshine Band song plays during a scene where a male character is naked ("Shake Your Booty" is used during the credits montage featuring "hardcore nudity"/"That's The Way I Like It" plays when Apu and Sanjay turn the Kwik-E-Mart into the Nude-E-Mart)
*"Lisa on Ice": 
**Reference to towel snappings (Homer chases Uter around the locker room and snaps a towel at him/Kent Brockman's report on towel snappings getting worse).
**Lisa is upset over being a failure.
*"Bart vs. Thanksgiving": A Simpson kid runs away from home and ends up on the news (Bart at the homeless shelter during Kent's report/Lisa on "Smartline")
*The Tracy Ullman Show shorts: Homer's line, "Let's go out for some frosty swirls" is similar to Homer's old catchphrase "Let's go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes."
*"Mother Simpson": 
**The female architect in Homer's family looks like Homer's mom, Mona.
**Lisa worries over being a Simpson and is happy to find female members of the family who are actually smart, creative, and/or successful.
*"Bart Gets an "F"": Homer and soup skin (Homer hates "...that icky soup skin"/Homer apparently likes soup skin as he eats Lisa's).
==Cultural References==
*When Lisa is figuring out the puzzle, one of the clues she rules out is that it's not one of Prince's names, a reference to the period between 1993 and 2000 that Prince changed his name to a symbol and was known as "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince" (or simply "The Artist").
*Lisa creates a small pig from a rubber eraser and pushpins, which was featured in a Life in Hell comic strip.
*Lisa's story is similar to the book, Flowers For Algernon, about the journal of a mentally disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to become super intelligent, only to realize the effects were temporary and struggles to preserve his intellect before he relapses into retardation (the Season 12 episode "HOMЯ" would follow a similar plot that Flowers For Algernon does).
*A portrait of a 50s Elvis Presley can be seen behind Lisa when she is imagining her future. 
*Jasper's subplot calls to mind the Frozen Dead Guy Days festival, held annually in Nederland, Colorado. The events of this festival are in homage to Grandpa Bredo, a cryogenically-frozen corpse who, since 1989, has remained in stasis inside a Tuff Shed and inspired two documentaries. It is unknown whether this festival inspired the scenario.
*In the show "When Buildings Collapse," the last building to fall is the House of Usher, a reference to an Edgar Allan Poe book of the same name. The reference was even highlighted when Homer says with barely held back giddiness "Do you think it was gonna fall?" right before its destruction. The building which exploded resembles the infamous aerial bombing of the abbey on Monte Cassino, Italy, by the United States during World War II.
**The show itself when being announced, had the announcer mentioning that it aired on Non-Stop FOX, which was an actual time slot for the FOX Channel during early 1996 through 1997 that during that time did in fact air disaster reality shows (namely When Animals Attack and World's Wildest Police Chases).
**The song playing in the background of When Buildings Collapse is the 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
*When Bart hoots this is likely a reference to the crowd hooting at the Arsenio Hall Show that ran from 1989 to 1994
*Lisa recommends some books to TV viewers: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh and Yertle the Turtle, by Dr. Seuss (real name Theodore Geisel).
==Goofs==
*When Lisa writes in her diary about her decreasing intelligence, the end of her arm is for a few seconds drawn over her necklace so that a bead looks incomplete.
*When Kent Brockman gives his after thought on Lisa's speech his hair and clothes all have entirely different colors.
*The Simpson Gene doesn't explain how Herb Powell (who is partially a Simpson) is rich and successful if all Simpson males are doomed to be stupid and useless to modern society. Herb was unaware of his genes and as such could be under a placebo effect. Also it could be argued that he fits into the mold because he did give Homer free reign to design a car which bankrupted Herb.
**Also: Homer, Bart, and Grampa have all shown flashes of being book and street smart in past episodes, and it's pretty much established that Homer is dumb because of his drinking and near-constant head injuries (and later, because of the crayon stuck in his brain) and Bart became a bad student because of undiagnosed ADD and how his kindergarten teacher treated him according to "Lisa's Sax". On the subject of "Lisa's Sax," that episode showed that Bart struggled academically from the very beginning of his school days, which is contradicted by this episode's claim that he initially got good grades.
*When Jasper Beardly starts twitching in the freezer, Apu turns the setting from "cold" to "freezing". But since it is a freezer which holds ice cream, its temperature should already be below freezing.
*Homer and Bart's candy bars initially have many different colors of wrappers, but after Lisa imagines her potential future, all of the candy bars have red wrappers.
*In this episode, Homer eats Lisa's tomato soup skin, despite that "Bart Gets an "F"" established that he hated "...that icky soup skin." He could have learned to like it between that time. Also, it might depend on what kind of soup he eats.
*The "offensive baseball cap" is colored green when the Flanders children try to read it. However, it is colored blue when the Rich Texan enters the shop.
*Luann van Houten is shown with Kirk, even though this episode (in both production and broadcast order) comes after Luann's divorce and her makeover.
*When The Rich Texan comes to the Kwik-E-Mart, his appearance is completely different from usual. He has black hair, grey coat and a brownish-green pants rather than his usual grey hair and cream colored coat and pants.
== Production Notes ==
* The final draft for this episode was published on December 19, 1996.https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search_Arg=the%20simpsons%204f24&Search_Code=FT%2A&CNT=25&PID=Gfwhndi1vRn8nWgAFYQejLyYPfXm
== Citations == 
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