Lisa's Wedding
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| "Lisa's Wedding" | |
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| Episode no. | 122 |
| Prod. code | 2F15 |
| Orig. Airdate | March 19, 1995 |
| Writer(s) | Greg Daniels |
| Director | Jim Reardon |
| Chalkboard | "I will not strut around like I own the place" |
| Couch gag | The couch springs the family off, lodging their heads in the ceiling. |
| Guest star(s) | Mandy Patinkin as Hugh |
| SNPP capsule | |
| Season 6 September 4, 1994 – May 21, 1995 |
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"Lisa's Wedding" is the 19th episode of The Simpsons' sixth season. It won an Emmy Award.
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[edit] Synopsis
While attending a medieval festival with the family, Lisa follows a rabbit, which Chief Wiggum refers to as an "esquilax", into the forest and finds a fortune teller. There, Lisa learns of her first love in the year 2010. As a university student, she meets a British man named Hugh St. John Alastair Parkfield and they both fall in love suddenly. While she visits England to meet Hugh's family, Hugh asks Lisa to marry him, and she agrees. When Lisa brings him to meet her family, he is disgusted by their way of life. At the wedding, Hugh tells Lisa that they will return to England and never see her family again after they are wed; "Well, possibly your mother will come when the children are born." Unable to accept the prospect of leaving her family, Lisa calls off the wedding suddenly. Back in the present once more, Lisa returns to the fair and meets up with Homer excitedly.
[edit] In the year 2010
- Homer still works at his old station at the nuclear plant, which has four cooling towers. Milhouse is now his supervisor. The plant is operated mainly by robots and Lenny and Carl have advanced into executive positions.
- Bart has married twice and is considering marrying once again. He also has a receding hairline, stubble, just like his father, and works a blue-collar job (operating a wrecking ball). He mentions that he's "just getting all his aggression out before I go to law school." (Apparently he fulfills this promise, as in Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie it is revealed he eventually becomes Chief Justice of the United States). He apparently frequents strip clubs.
- Mr. Burns is cryogenically-frozen while his doctors work on a cure for seventeen stab wounds to the back. The doctors, led by Professor Frink, are currently up to fifteen. (At the wedding, Mr. Burns breaks in half due to thawing too quickly.)
- Big Ben is now a digital clock, though apparently stuck on 12:00.
- World War III occurred, in which Great Britain saved the United States from defeat.
- Ralph Wiggum is a "sideshow" (presumably to Krusty the Klown in the same manner as Sideshow Bob and Sideshow Mel) and was arrested for being a celebrity. Most celebrities are being arrested and are presumed dangerous. This is seen on a very fast scroll down, and is hard to see unless the viewer slows down the frames. Aside from this, Ralph's fate is quite ambiguous.
- The Simpson house has an additional bedroom built by Homer, who claims it is a window box to the building inspector.
- Mayor Quimby was indicted and has become a taxi driver, using the alias "Mohammed Jafar". He works for a taxi company founded by Otto (Established 2003).
- Martin Prince is presumed dead after a science fair explosion. He is actually in a lair deep underground and has become akin to The Phantom of the Opera. He apparently is also in love with Ms. Hoover.
- Early airplane designs (ones with multiple wings) are being used for commercial flights.
- Kent Brockman works for CNNBCBS (a division of ABC).
- Fox has turned into a hard-core sex channel (so slowly that Marge did not notice).
- The Rolling Stones are still performing, even though they are now in wheelchairs.
- University campuses have holographic images of trees, in memory of real ones. Trees may no longer exist.
- A new snack called "Soy Pops" now has more gag suppressant.
- It is hinted that Lisa has lost her virginity to Milhouse (although Marge says this doesn't count, because it was Milhouse).
- Maggie is a teenager with an apparent wild side, as suggested by her grunge-like style of dress and a motorcycle trophy on her shelf. Dr. Hibbert refers to her as a "hellion" but says she has a remarkable singing voice (which the audience does not get to hear). Lisa also asks her if she would like to come to her Wedding Dress Fitting that afternoon but Maggie starts trying to talk with her mouth full but Marge prevents her. She still has her pacifier.
- Grampa Simpson is not mentioned, and as he is not present at Lisa's wedding it can be assumed that he either died or is unable to attend the wedding.
- Moe now has an eyepatch, possibly from serving during World War III, or a bar fight.
- Both virtual darts and virtual pool exist (as well as many other new technologies), as well as human androids whose heads explode if they begin to cry.
- Nelson has a son who looks a lot like him and has the same characteristic "Ha, ha".
- Maude Flanders is alive, even though she was killed off in a later episode. Some fans postulate that this is a robot. Actually there might be a very simple explanation for it: the fortune teller isn't showing Lisa her future, she is telling her about it and Lisa is imagining it; when this episode was aired Maude was not dead yet and Lisa was imagining her wedding with everyone she knows present (including Maude). The most logical explanation, Maude wasn't meant to be killed at all in future episodes by the writers, she was probably killed due to an argument over her voice actress' salary.
- Lisa is a vegetarian due to her belief that eating animals is wrong. She would convert to vegetarianism in the episode, Lisa the Vegetarian.
[edit] List of celebrities that have been arrested
- The Baldwin Brothers Gang
- Dr. Brad Pitt
- John John John Kennedy
- George Burns
- Infamous Amos
- Grandson of Sam
- The Artist Formerly Known as
- Tim Allen, Jr.
- Senator and Mrs. Dracula
- The Artist Formerly Known as Buddy Hackett
- Madonnabots: Series K
- Sideshow Ralph Wiggum
- Martha Hitler
- Johnny Neutrino
[edit] Trivia
- The first of (to date) three future-themed episodes. The second was "Bart to the Future" in the 11th season, and "Future-Drama" in the 16th.
- While both "Lisa's Wedding" and "Future-Drama" were nominated for an Emmy, Entertainment Weekly named "Bart to the Future" the worst episode ever.
- BBC viewers voted for this episode to be shown on "Simpsons Night", broadcast on BBC Two on 23 June 2000. The other options were "Life on the Fast Lane", "Bart of Darkness", "Sideshow Bob Roberts", and "Homer the Great".
- In "The Way We Weren't", Homer recounts various stupid things he has done in previous episodes, including "ruining Lisa's wedding in the future."
- It is important to note that all the future depictions' canon relevancy should be treated lightly, as they are events that have yet to happen. "Future-Drama" depicts Bart and Lisa in their final year of High School, but this supposedly takes place three years after 2010. This might have been caused due the difference in the two episodes' production year.
- The song that Martin Prince plays on the organ is A Fifth of Beethoven by Walter Murphy, a disco version of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, .
[edit] Cultural references
- Lisa's romance with Hugh is largely based on Love Story.
- Martin Prince's fate is a parody of The Phantom of the Opera.
- The physical appearance and behavior of Hugh resembles to Hugh Grant and some of his movie characters.
- The idea of Big Ben being stuck on 12:00 could be a reference to the clock tower in the Back to the Future films.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Quotes
- Lisa: (Looking at portrait) From his clothes, I'd guess late 17th century?
Hugh's Mother: Actually, Lisa, it's just Uncle Elgar.
Uncle Elgar: I get me brain medicine from the national health! - Wiggum: Behold, The Two Headed Dog, Born With Only One Head!
- Wiggum: Behold, out of the mists of time, the legendary Esquilax, a horse with the head of a rabbit, and the body....of a rabbit.
- Marge: Remember, in England, an elevator is called a lift, a mile is called a kilometre, and botulism is called steak and kidney pie.
- Lisa: I remember you. Mayor Quimby, right?.
Quimby: Uh, no. Check my license. It's Mohammed Jafar.
Otto (on a video monitor): Hey, Quimby, when you're done with this fare, haul your indicted ass down to the convention center!
Quimby (under his breath): I cut the ribbon at that convention center! - Homer: (planning Lisa's wedding) We can have the reception at Moe's...wait, why not have the whole wedding there! We could do it on a Monday morning! There'll be fewer drunks.
Marge: Homer, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I have a court order barring you from helping to plan this wedding.
Homer: (Unoffended, looks over the document in a businesslike manner) Well, this all appears to be in order. I'll be in the hammock. - Bart: I met this exotic dancer last night at Hugh's bachelor party.
Lisa: Hugh didn't have a bachelor party.
Bart: We had one in his honor. (Lisa looks at Bart as though unconvinced) I had one in his honor. (Lisa looks at Bart as though unconvinced) ...I went to a strip club. - Marge: If only your father were still with us. (pause) But he left for work ten minutes ago.
- Homer:I've got to call everyone! (picks up the receiver, but gets a busy signal) Wha? Maggie, get off the phone! (upstairs, Maggie rolls her eyes [see picture] and hangs up) Doesn't that girl ever shut up?
- Lisa: Mom, I feel kind of funny wearing white. I mean... Milhouse.
Marge: Oh, Milhouse doesn't count.
Both Laugh - Moe: Oho, an English boy, huh? You know, we saved your ass in World War II.
Hugh: Yeah, well, we saved your arse in World War III.
Moe (conciliatory): That's true.
[edit] External links
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