Lost Our Lisa

"Lost Our Lisa" is the twenty-fourth episode of Season 9.
==Synopsis==
When Marge has to back out of taking Lisa to an ancient Egyptian exhibit at the museum so she can take Bart to Dr. Hibbert's office, Lisa tricks Homer into letting her ride the bus, but she boards the wrong one and must find her way home through a series of unfamiliar neighborhoods.
== Full Story ==
Bart and Milhouse are at a joke shop on a day off from school. After looking around, Bart buys some novelty face items and takes some glue from Homer at the Power Plant. Marge agrees to take Lisa to the Springsonian Museum so she can see the Orb of Isis, but she learns that Bart went to the joke store (she has told him not to throw money away at that store) and the glued items are stuck to his face. So she has to take Bart to the doctors instead which she is annoyed at. Since this is Lisa's last chance to see the exhibit, she phones Homer to ask him if she can take the bus, despite her young age. He seems uncertain, which prompts her to trick him and he unwisely agrees which she is thrilled about.
Lisa takes Bus Route 22 which passes Crackton. Having not passed the museum for so long, she asks the driver if the bus is Route 22 and learns that she is riding Bus Route 22A, the wrong bus and has to get off at the last stop, which is in the middle of nowhere. After a conversation with Lenny and Carl during his lunch break (one was wearing a hat from the Isis exhibit), Homer learns the error of his judgment, and rushes to find Lisa. He heads to the museum and ends up in Springfield's Russian District. He is unable to locate her amongst the crowds and bribes a workman with balloons so that he can use the workman's cherry picker to get up high. Homer and Lisa spot each other, but the vehicle's wheels creak backwards and it hurtles down the hill. After scraping his head under a tunnel and smashing into some traffic lights, it slides off the edge of a pier at the harbor, but fortunately, the cherry picker's "neck" is tall enough to keep Homer just above the water level. His head is caught between the two closing halves of the raised drawbridge but he miraculously survives with nothing more that a few tire marks across his forehead.
Meanwhile, Bart's novelties get removed by Dr. Hibbert scaring them off with "terror sweat", by pretending a harmless button applicator was gonna be used to painfully remove them with surgery. Marge and Bart return home, thinking Lisa is crying in her bedroom. Marge asks him to apologize to her, much to the anger of Bart. Bart hears no sound or response from Lisa. With Homer and Lisa reunited, he tells her that it is all right to take a few risks in life. Thus, the two agree to go to the museum after all, by illegally entering since it is now closed. However, Homer has Lisa open the window since Homer already has his fingerprints on file at the Police Department from an implied earlier arrest and thus couldn't open the window himself. While there, the two make a fascinating discovery that the Orb of Isis is a music box which had apparently been overlooked by scientists and museum staff, and Lisa concludes that what her father said about risks was right—until the alarm goes off and guard dogs chase them out of the building.
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== Citations ==
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pl:Lost Our Lisa
pt:Lisa se perdeu
Category:Lisa episodes
Category:Episodes named after a character
Category:Homer episodes
Category:Bart episodes
Category:Dr. Hibbert Episodes
Category:Travel episodes
Category:Medical-Themed Episodes
Category:Agnes Skinner episodes
Category:Directed by Pete Michels
Category:Written by Brian Scully
Category:Episodes named after Lisa