Lisa the Vegetarian


The Simpson family visit Story Town Village, an amusement park for babies, as a special treat for Maggie. In the village, there is a petting zoo, where Lisa is enamored by a cute lamb. That night, Marge serves lamb chops for dinner, but Lisa is troubled by the connection between the dish and its living counterpart, and announces that she will no longer eat meat. In response, Bart and Homer mock her relentlessly. Reaction at school is no better; when Lisa requests a vegetarian alternative to the cafeteria food, Principal Skinner labels her an "agitator". The students are then forced to watch a Meat Council propaganda film, "The Meat Council Presents Meat and You: Partners in Patriotism",[5] starring Troy McClure, which portrays eating meat as a patriotic duty,[5] and criticizes vegetarianism. Lisa is unimpressed by the film, but her classmates tease her.

Homer and Bart continue to give Lisa a hard time at home, particularly since Homer is preparing to host a barbecue, complete with roast pig. Bart and Homer even form a conga line and sing, "You don't win friends with salad!" On the day of the barbecue, Lisa makes gazpacho for all the guests as an alternative to meat, but the partygoers laugh in her face. Enraged and deeply hurt, she climbs aboard a riding mower and drives away with the roast pig in tow. Homer and Bart chase her, but she pushes the pig off a slope and they are too late. The pig rolls through bushes, into a river, and is shot into the air by a dam spillway's suction.

At home, Homer reprimands Lisa for ruining his party and demands an apology, but Lisa refuses to apologize and chews him out for serving a meat-based dish. They fight and she leaves the house, not wanting to live in a house with a "prehistoric carnivore." As Lisa walks along, she decides that she can no longer fight the pressure to eat meat, prompting her to grab a hot dog from the grill at the Kwik-E-Mart and take a bite. However, Apu, himself a vegan, reveals that she has eaten a tofu dog, which he subtly switched out and none of his loyal customers had noticed the change.

Apu takes Lisa through a secret passageway hidden behind the cooler section assigned to non-alcoholic beer leading to the Kwik-E-Mart roof where they meet Paul and Linda McCartney. The McCartneys explain that they are old friends of Apu from Paul's days in India, and discuss their interest in animal rights. After a brief discussion, Apu asks Lisa what happened at home that made her upset. She reveals everything and while he understands, Apu warns Lisa that forcing others to accept her views can do a lot more harm than good. She is committed once more to vegetarianism, but realizes that she should tolerate those who disagree with her views.

Inspired, Lisa begins to return home and finds Homer frantically searching for her. Homer apologizes for his behavior, but Lisa admits she was wrong as well. She apologizes to Homer, admitting she had no right to ruin his barbecue; he forgives her and offers her a "veggie back" ride home. The final credits play over the still airborne roast pig.

Bart on the Road

Principal Skinner closes school the day before spring break and sends the children on a "go to work with your parents day" in order to take a trip to Hong Kong. Bart is forced to go to the DMV with his aunts Patty and Selma, and Lisa decides to go to the nuclear power plant with Homer, where she makes his work better. At the DMV, Bart makes himself a fake driver's license, which he, Nelson, Martin, and Milhouse use to hire a rental car with $600 Martin earned in the stockmarket. The boys tell their parents they are going to attend the "National Grammar Rodeo" in Canada, but secretly take the rented car for a road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee after finding a brochure for the 1982 World's Fair. During the car ride, chaos ensues as they stop to see Nelson's favorite singer Andy Williams, and Nelson later manages to provoke an agitated father of a Canadian family traveling to Cape Canaveral to turn around and head back to Winnipeg.

In Knoxville, however, they find out that the fair was held fourteen years earlier, and that its featured attraction, the Sunsphere, is now being used as a warehouse for a wig shop, now called the Wigsphere. The boys' car soon gets destroyed by the Sunsphere being toppled by a rock Nelson threw, and they are stranded without any money or transportation. They sign up as couriers and then go to Hong Kong. Bart places a collect call to Lisa, who has spent the entire spring break with Homer at work, to ask her for advice. Lisa obtains Homer's promise that he will not get upset and she reveals Bart's predicament, causing Homer to scream in his safety helmet. To get Bart home, Homer contacts a power station close to the boys' location, and orders a new command module for the power plant, after spilling soda over the current one, and ships it via courier from Knoxville, with Milhouse, Nelson, and Martin stowed away inside the crate and Bart as the courier.

The ending credits begin with an unsuspecting Marge getting phone calls from Principal Skinner (who spotted Bart in Hong Kong), the Tennessee State Police (who inquire about the crushed rental car), and the courier office (which has an assignment for Bart). Homer snickers at these calls, which leaves Marge furious.

Put Lisa the Vegetarian out of its misery.

This is a tough one.

No it isn't.

its not, but you guys are f'ing it up

Yeah I love Bart on the Road but I think Lisa the Vegetarian is a stronger episode.