Lisa the Tree Hugger

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The Simpsons episode
"Lisa the Tree Hugger"

Episode no.	252
Prod. code	CABF01
Orig. Airdate	November 19, 2000
Show Runner(s)	Mike Scully
Written by	Matt Selman
Directed by	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	Joshua Jackson as Jesse Grass
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Season 12 November 1, 2000 – May 20, 2001
Treehouse of Horror XI A Tale of Two Springfields Insane Clown Poppy Lisa the Tree Hugger Homer vs. Dignity The Computer Wore Menace Shoes The Great Money Caper Skinner's Sense of Snow HOMR Pokey Mom Worst Episode Ever Tennis the Menace Day of the Jackanapes New Kids on the Blecch Hungry, Hungry Homer Bye Bye Nerdie Simpson Safari Trilogy of Error I'm Goin' to Praiseland Children of a Lesser Clod Simpsons Tall Tales
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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.

1 Synopsis
2 Cultural references
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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 "Spybreak!" by Propellerheads, which featured on the soundtrack to The Matrix. The song also plays during Bart's martial arts delivering scene, which parodies the lobby scene from the film.

[edit] Trivia

In one shot, the fallen log barrels past a Red Blazer Realty building.
Whilst she is in the tree, Lisa wears a pink T-shirt and brown shorts instead of her usual red dress.