Lisa on Ice

"Lisa on Ice" is the eighth episode of Season 6.
==Synopsis==
When test scores hit an all-time low at Springfield Elementary, Principal Skinner instates academic alerts (little slips of paper warning a student that they're failing one or more subjects) — and Lisa discovers that she's on the academic alert list for failing gym class. After trying and failing at basketball and volleyball, Apu discovers that Lisa has a talent for blocking/parrying objects, and makes her goalie for his pee-wee hockey team...which puts her in direct sibling rivalry with Bart, who's on Chief Wiggum's team.
==Full Story ==
 One night, Bart and Homer are watching TV, Lisa tells Bart that there is a test tomorrow but Bart tells her it's supposed to snow tomorrow so it's no big deal. The next morning Lisa throws a snowball at Bart, excited he runs out in his pajamas, but surprisingly, there is no snow and he’s laughed at by some of the kids. As it turns out the "snowball" Lisa threw was just some frost from the freezer, which means they have school. Because of impossibly low test scores that day, Principal Skinner starts to give out academic alerts so the children's parents can understand they are doing poorly. After the various failing kids receive their alerts, Lisa is called up, surprising everyone. It is then revealed that she is failing gym. She thinks that is stupid until she fails to land a paper ball into the trash can. Lisa tries her hand at the different sports at school, after doing poorly at all the sports, she goes to her PE teacher and is told that she can pass gym if she joins a Pee-Wee team outside of school.
 In the meantime, Bart shows that he is excellent at sports, in one match knocking the Gouger's goalie Milhouse down so that he has to be tied to the net to act as goalie, which is about as effective as can be expected. Homer praises Bart calling him a winner despite Marge pointing out Lisa needs some encouragement.
 After successfully catching a hockey puck with her hand during another practice, Lisa joins the Gougers, which is sponsored by Apu - which is also Bart's rival team. Turning out to be a far superior goalie, Lisa helps turn the team around and Homer starts paying more attention to her. Bart is troubled about the lack of attention and this is not improved when Marge tries to hang out with him. Homer then starts to pit his own kids against each other.
After Lisa excels at both sports and school, Bart thinks he might become a scholar, this doesn't work out. While he raises his hand for every question, Krabappel eventually becomes fed up especially since none of Bart’s answers were correct, after class, Nelson and the bully trio confront Bart and prepare to bully him by beating him up, accusing him of wasting Mrs. Krabappel's time. He is inadvertently saved by Lisa who scares off the bullies and instead of being grateful, he accuses her for stealing Homer's affections away from him. This leads to a rivalry between the entire family, which Marge is less then pleased about, having tried to keep the peace with them and Homer.
When Lisa and Bart play each other, Homer tries to get Marge to choose a side. He claims Maggie is contributing nothing in it, while never taking into account that she actually saves him from a flying beer bottle. Marge refuses and furiously proceeds to reprimand Homer for escalating the rivalry. She tells him off how bitterly disappointed she is in him for it. Marge also reveals that Maggie saved Homer's life from being knocked out from a fan who threw that beer bottle and this is how he appreciates her, by ignoring her. She exclaims that it shows how much of a bad father he is in general, that he took the rivalry between Bart and Lisa too far with his playing favorites and she won't tolerate it anymore. Once the family gets home, Marge ends her argument by telling Homer off that he's going to be sleeping in his car for the next month. He begs her to go easy on him, but her decision is final and mentions maybe he'd take that time to think about what he's done. The game gets down to the wire, with the stadium split between Bart fans and Lisa fans, while Marge is the only one maintaining neutrality because she refuses to pick a side. However, when Bart is chosen to take the penalty shot against Lisa, the goalie, they both reminisce about how they helped each other as younger kids (Lisa giving Bart a bandage after he falls off his skateboard, Bart entertaining Lisa with shadow puppets, and Bart giving Lisa one of his scoops of ice cream when her own falls on the ground). Lisa and Bart throw their hockey gear on the ice and hug, ending the game in a tie. While Marge is touched by the events, Homer wails that both of his kids are losers and the stadium erupts into a riot. While rioting, Snake, surprisingly, is also touched and comments that, if pee-wee hockey was around when he was a kid, he never would have fallen into the criminal life, but then shrugs it off and riots with everyone else.
==Broadcast History==
===United States===
Broadcast date(s)	Channel aired
*November 13, 1994
*April 2, 1995	
*December 20, 2020	
fr:Le Hockey qui tue
pl:Lisa on Ice
pt:Lisa no hóquei
ru:Лиза на льду
Category:Sport-themed Episodes
Category:Lisa episodes
Category:Bart episodes
Category:Episodes named after a character
Category:Ralph episodes
Category:Simpson Family Bonding episodes
Category:Lisa seeks understanding episodes
Category:Chief Wiggum episodes
Category:Apu episodes
Category:Episodes named after Lisa
Category:Bart vs. Lisa episodes
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Category:Flash-forward episodes
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Category:Written by Mike Scully
Category:Directed by Bob Anderson
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