My Sister, My Sitter

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The Simpsons episode
"My Sister, My Sitter"
Episode no. 170
Prod. code 4F13
Orig. Airdate March 2, 1997
Show Runner(s) Bill Oakley
&
Josh Weinstein
Writer(s) Dan Greaney
Director Jim Reardon
Couch gag The couch is on a rocking ship. When the family sits down, a wave washes over them and all that's left is a floating television.
SNPP capsule
Season 8
October 27, 1996 – May 18, 1997
  1. Treehouse of Horror VII
  2. You Only Move Twice
  3. The Homer They Fall
  4. Burns, Baby Burns
  5. Bart After Dark
  6. A Milhouse Divided
  7. Lisa's Date with Density
  8. Hurricane Neddy
  9. El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)
  10. The Springfield Files
  11. The Twisted World of Marge Simpson
  12. Mountain of Madness
  13. Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious
  14. The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
  15. Homer's Phobia
  16. Brother from Another Series
  17. My Sister, My Sitter
  18. Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment
  19. Grade School Confidential
  20. The Canine Mutiny
  21. The Old Man and the Lisa
  22. In Marge We Trust
  23. Homer's Enemy
  24. The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase
  25. The Secret War of Lisa Simpson
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My Sister, My Sitter is an episode of The Simpsons.

Contents

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Lisa decides to earn extra money as a babysitter. However, because of her age, no one takes her seriously. One day, Ned states that Maude has been taken hostage in the Holy Land and he must leave to get her released. Lisa offers to baby-sit. After a relatively uneventful night, Ned puts out the good word for Lisa, who experiences a business boom.

The Springfield Squid Port re-opens and Homer and Marge go out. Bart is insulted by the fact that his younger sister is going to be babysitting him. To make things difficult, Bart torments her by ordering a giant sub, hiring Krusty for a bachelor party, and feeding Maggie coffee ice cream for dinner. Eventually, Lisa jumps at Bart, who falls backwards down the stairs and dislocates his arm. Bart then realises that if Lisa doesn't take him to the hospital she won't babysit him anymore. To make his condition worse, Bart locks himself in his room and hits his head on the wall "to make the lump bigger" then falls unconscious.

Lisa calling 911 trying to get a ambulance fails, after Bart attempted to make several prank calls earlier that night. Then she tries to call Dr. Hibbert but has a day-dream about what would happen. She then tries to take an unconscious Bart (and a hyperactive Maggie) to Dr. Nick Riviera's clinic but fails to get an appointment. She then takes Bart and Maggie on foot to the hospital. Along the way, Chief Wiggum halts Lisa to see what kind of wheelbarrow she has (what she was carrying Bart and Maggie in). After complimenting Lisa on her excellent choice of barrow Bart falls into the river right in front of the crowded Squid Port. Everyone assumes that Lisa murdered Bart and that she is on drugs, and is about to drown Maggie. Homer and Marge are shocked at these events. The next day, Bart gets treatment, confesses it was his fault and apologizes to Lisa. She is distraught that her reputation as a babysitter is ruined; however, despite the rumors, she still gets a few requests from other families, because she's one of the only babysitters in town.

[edit] Trivia

The checkboxes on the "PATIENT DIAGNOSIS" list is:

This is a list of Bart's prank calls:

  • Ordering a Giant Sub
  • Claiming that Lisa saw a UFO
  • Hosting an AA meeting
  • Inviting the Ambassador of Ghana over
  • Hiring Krusty for a bachelor party
  • This is the third commentary that had Molly and Simon Weinstein as guest commentators. The others were The Mysterious Voyage of Homer and 22 Short Films.

[edit] Quotes

  • Ned: Homer, I've got a Fozzie of a bear of a problem. Y'know, Maude and her mother were visiting Tyre and Sidan, the twin cities of the Holy Land. They must've kneeled in the wrong place and prayed to the wrong God, because, well, they're being held prisoner by militants of some sort.
    Homer:Militants, huh? Well, if I were you, I'd kick their asses.
    Ned:Well, any hoodily-doodle, the embassy says it's just a routine hostage-taking, but I have to drive to Capital City, fill out some forms to get 'em out. Could you possibly watch the kids tonight?
    Homer:Uh, gee, I'd reallly love to want to help you, Flanders, but...Uh, Marge was taken prisoner in the...Holy Land and uh...
    Lisa:I'll do it! I'll babysit!
    Ned:Well, I don't know, Lisa. You're awfully young, and the boys can be a handful. Todd's been pinching everyone lately.
    Lisa: But I'm smart and responsible, and my parents will be right next door!
    Ned:Well, what do you say, Homer? Can Lisa babysit my kids?
    Lisa: Please, Please, Please!
    Homer:Eh, I'll have to ask her.
  • (while playing a board game with no dice, a moth comes out of the box)
    Rod and Todd: A moth! A moth! A moth! Aaaahh!
    Lisa: Calm down! A moth's no more harmful than a ladybug.
    Rod and Todd: A ladybug?!! Aaaaaaaaaaahhh!
    (Rod and Todd run upstairs to their rooms while Lisa calmly shoos the moth outside)
    Lisa (to herself): Oh, they're gonna be eaten alive in middle school.
  • (at Planet Hollywood, Homer and Marge notice a car sticking out of the building)
    Marge: How cute. It looks as though a Cadillac drove right into the building.
    Hans Moleman (in the car): Help me.
  • Krusty: (upon learning his sandwich-delivery was a prank call by Bart) Well, I'm not leaving until I get paid. I also get $300 for just saying "Hey, hey!"
  • US Air Force officer: We just got a report that a "Lisa Simpson" spotted a UFO.
    Lisa: (frustratingly) I didn't see any UFO!
    Officer: That's right. You didn't. (waves to a doctor who puts away a hypodermic needle)
  • Mayor "Diamond" Joe Quimby: I declare this....WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!!! (everyone sees Bart in the wheelbarrow which is being pushed by Lisa)
    Helen Lovejoy: (Bart rolls out of the wheelbarrow into the ditch) She's murdered her brother!
    Sideshow Mel: (pointing to the still-caged, hyperactive Maggie) And, as a grim finale, she plans to drown that poor caged baby!
    Krusty: What kind of parents would leave their kids home with that babysitter?
    Homer: (in panic mode) NOT US!
    Lisa: (squinting to see the crowd staring at her) Where am I?
    Maude Flanders: And she's on drugs!
  • Kent: Tonight on Eye On Springfield. Opening day of the worlds first two story outhouse.
    (2 men enter the outhouse.)
    Man in bottom floor of Outhouse: Oh God, stop!
    Kent: A comedy nurse who's laughing all the way to the blood bank.
    Nurse: Ok, how many of you are here for shoulder surgery, huh?.
    (Several patients in bed attempt to lift their hands.)
    Nurse: Got'cha!

[edit] Goofs

  • In the newly released book; The Bart Book it claims that Lisa was born when Bart was 2 years and 6 months. However, in this episode, Bart claims he is "two years and thirty-eight days older" than Lisa. If the episode was right, then Lisa's birthday would be 9th May, but if this book was right it would be sometime between late September and early October, as it states in the same book that Bart was born on April 1. If that was the case, Bart's birthday would have been on the episode So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show.
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