Lisa the Tree Hugger
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| "Lisa the Tree Hugger" | |
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| Episode no. | 252 |
| Prod. code | CABF01 |
| Orig. Airdate | November 19, 2000 |
| Show Runner(s) | Mike Scully |
| Writer(s) | Matt Selman |
| Director | Steven Dean Moore |
| Chalkboard | "I am not the acting President." |
| Couch gag | Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa appear as Teletubbies in the living room. Maggie applauds. |
| Guest star(s) | Joshua Jackson as Jesse Grass |
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| Season 12 November 1, 2000 – May 20, 2001 |
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"Lisa the Tree Hugger" is the fourth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on November 19, 2000.
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[edit] Synopsis
When Bart gets a job as a menu boy for a Thai restaurant named You Thai Now, the menus he delivers are paper litter scattered about Springfield. Lisa is scared that the paper is a waste of trees. She meets Jesse Grass, the hunky and non-violent leader of a radical environmentalist protest group named Dirt First, and joins the group after meeting him at a Krusty Burger, where he was arrested for protesting. When Springfield's oldest redwood tree is about to be cut down, she camps in the tree to prevent it being cut down. However, she leaves the tree for a night, and the tree is struck down by lightning overnight.
After the tree is struck by lightning, everyone in Springfield thinks Lisa died in the storm. The Rich Texan says he is going to make the forest into a sanctuary, but he changes his mind and offers to build an amusement park, "Lisa Land". Fortunately, Lisa comes to the site, and protests the park. The tree being used as the sign for Lisa Land is pushed down and heads for Springfield's business district, but eventually goes on a cross-country journey out to the sea. Although Jesse is in jail again, he has apparently not stopped his crusade for the environment.
[edit] Cultural References
- The environmentalist group's name is a parody of Earth First.
- At a Dirt First meeting, Jesse Grass says "Once you're up there, you can't come down. Not for a Phish concert, not even for Burning Man."
- The song playing during the end credits is a part of the soundtrack to The Matrix, it's also played on Bart's martial arts delivering scene which resembles scenes from The Matrix.
[edit] Trivia
- In one shot, the fallen log barrels past a Red Blazer Realty building.
[edit] Quotes
- Jesse: I'm a level five vegan -- I won't eat anything that casts a shadow
- Marge: Bart, it's so sweet of you to take the family out to Krusty Burger.
Bart: Hey, some people in this family are doers, and some are don'ters. (he looks at Lisa)
Lisa: Don't you call me a-- (Bart places a menu on her finger)
Homer: Take that, Lisa's beliefs! - Lisa: I won't come down till you spare this tree!
Jesse: Hang in there, Laura!
Lisa: It's Lisa!
Jesse: Right -- Lisa! You're hardcore! - Lisa: I'm not dead, and neither is my sense of moral outrage!
- Homer (driving his car in circles): Mmm... donuts.
- Homer (watching a squadron of Stukas on TV): Ah, the Luftwaffe, the Washington Generals of the History Channel.
- Homer (watching the giant tree hit Kentucky Fried Panda): NOOOO! It was finger Ling-Ling good!
- Homer: Oh no! Lisa's dead and nothing will ever bring her back! (slyly as he strokes his chin) Unless...
Lisa: Dad, I'm not dead.
Homer: Oh praise God! You're alive! (slyly as he strokes his chin again) Unless... - Homer (after Lisa tells them her plan): (whispering) Marge, I think she's going to narc on our stash.
Marge: We don't have a stash.
Homer (shifting his eyes): Uh...no...of course...not. - Quimby: And now, Branford Marsalis will play using Lisa Simpson's very own saxophone.
Milhouse: (grabs saxophone) Don't touch it! They can clone her from the spit! (runs off, sobbing)
Quimby: Good luck, Milhouse! - Wiggum: Aim for the female cow!
- Kent: Still unknown is the fate of tree-sitter Lisa Simpson.
Wiggum: I'm afraid it doesn't look good, Kent. We found her sleeping bag right here. (holds a zipper and ash) Our working theory is that the lightning exploded her. Back to you, Kent.
Kent: You don't get to say that! - Lisa: No, wait! don't shoot him!
Wiggum: it's all right, honey, we're only shooting him with bean bags.
Jesse: You can't silence the truth with bean bags! (gets shot down from the roof onto a pile of beanbags)
Wiggum: That's some nice work with the "Bag-zooka", Lou.
Lou: Ya gotta love what ya do, Chief. (rubs the Bag-zooka affectionately) - Krusty (arriving at Krusty Burger): Oh my God! There are cows on the roof! I just thought my pager was busted. (several clowns then exit his limo) Get back in! It's only funny with the small car!
- Marge: Oh no! My baby's up there!
Lisa: It's okay, Mom! (holds up rope) I have a safety line
Homer: (to Jesse) This is your fault, with your non-threatening Bobby-Sherman-style good looks! No girl could resist your charms!
Jesse: This was her choice, Mr. Simpson.
Homer: I'm sorry, I wasn't listening. I was lost in your eyes.
[edit] Alternate lyrics to "This Log is Your Log"
The song to close out the final act of the episode, "This Log is Your Log", originally had different and somewhat darker lyrics:
- Original lyrics:[citation needed]
- (to the tune of This Land)
- This log is your log.
- This log is my log.
- When lightning struck it,
- It kicked the bucket.
- I poured some onions
- Inside my trousers.
- This log -- it used to be a tree,
- but now it plagues society.
- Crushing nice folks like you and me.
- Lyrics as aired on television[1]:
- (to the tune of This Land)
- This log is your log.
- This log is my log.
- When lightning struck it,
- It kicked the bucket.
- I poured some onions
- Inside my trousers.
- This log -- it used to be a tree.
- Now it spreads love to you and me.
- Hey, look, it's headed out to sea.
Oddly, the original lyrics are preserved in the closed captioning.
[edit] External links
- "Lisa the Tree Hugger" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
- "Lisa the Tree Hugger" at the Internet Movie Database
