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Lisa The Vegetarian

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{{Infobox Simpsons episode| episode_name = {{PAGENAME}} | episode_no = 132 | prod_code = 3F03 | airdate = October 15, 1995 | writer = David S. Cohen | director = Mark Kirkland | blackboard = "The boys room is not a water park." | couch_gag = The family runs to the couch in black-and-white, until colors are sprayed on them by robotic arms. | guest_star = Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney as themselves | image = | season = 7 | }} "'''{{PAGENAME}}'''" is the fifth episode of ''The Simpsons''' List of The Simpsons episodes#Season 7: 1995-1996 seventh season.

Synopsis
{{spoiler}} The family visits the petting zoo at Storytown Village and is immediately enraptured as they see one little lamb after another, each one more absurdly adorable than the one before it. That night, Marge Simpson Marge serves lamb for dinner, and Lisa cannot eat it. She keeps hearing the bleating voice of the lambs at the petting zoo--"Lisa Simpson Li-i-i-sa, I thought you lo-o-o-ved me-e-eee!" Lisa pushes her plate away, crying, "I can't eat this. I can't eat a poor little lamb!" Her mother, trying to help, offers up rump roast, chicken breast, and hot dogs instead, but Lisa suddenly makes the connection between these dishes and their living counterparts. "No I can't! I can't eat any of them!" At school, her newfound vegetarianism becomes a problem when she is almost forced to dissect a live worm whom she imagines pleading, "Li-i-isa, what did I ever do to you-u-u-u?" She's a little confused ("Why does it talk like a lamb?") but no less committed to her cause, and so she refuses to dissect it. At lunch, the only vegetarian option is a hot dog bun, which Lunchlady Doris proclaims "rich in bunly goodness." (In the Mexican dubbed version, Doris claims it's "rich in wheat and mustard"). Meanwhile, Homer Simpson Homer hosts a barbecue complete with roast pig. Lisa brings gazpacho but is laughed out of the yard and into her room, where she sulks on her bed and resents the partygoers for rubbing their carnivorous habits "in [my] face." Just then, a hamburger haphazardly flipped by Homer flies through her window and lands on her face. Enraged, Lisa climbs aboard a riding mower, and drives away with the roast pig in tow. Homer and Bart Simpson Bart chase after her, but she pushes the pig off of a slope and they're too late. Back at home, Lisa and Homer are too angry to speak to one another. They fight and she leaves the house. While walking, she is mocked by classmates and hit with a barrage of meat-related advertisements. And so the pressures to conform to an omnivorous society are too great that she grabs a hot dog off of the grill at the Kwik-E-Mart, takes a bite, and shouts, "There! Is everybody happy now?" Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Apu tells her that she has, in fact, eaten a tofu dog and takes her through a secret passageway to the Kwik-E-Mart roof to meet guest stars Paul McCartney Paul and Linda McCartney. One brief heart-to-heart later, Lisa is committed once more to vegetarianism. She also learns an important lesson from Apu: "I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always." Thus inspired, she returns home to make up with her father, who offers her "a piggyback--I mean, a ''veggieback'' ride."

Quotes
*'''Seymour Skinner Skinner''': Uh oh. Two independent thought alarms in one day. The students are overstimulated. Groundskeeper Willie Willie! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.
'''Willie''': ''[angrily]'' I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya? That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself! *'''Ned Flanders:''' ''[at his barbecue]'' I've got family here from all over the world. This is José Flanders.
'''José Flanders:''' Buenos ding-dong-diddly-dias, señor.
'''Ned Flanders:''' And this is Lord Thistlewick Flanders.
'''Lord Thistlewick Flanders:''' Charmed. ''[nudged by Ned]'' Uh, a-googly-doogly.
'''Ned Flanders:''' Ha ha. Terrific. *'''Homer:''' I'll show you, Flanders! I'm going to have my own barbecue, and I'll only invite who I want!
'''Ned Flanders:''' Can I come?
'''Homer:''' Sure...d'oh! *'''Animatronic Wolf''': Come out, come out, or I'll bloooow your house in.
'''Animatronic Pigs''': Not by the hairs of our chinny chin chin.
'''Bart''': What a load of crappy crap crap.
'''Homer''': Quiet, boy. I have a feeling some bad stuff is about to go down.
'''Marge''': ''[to Maggie]'' This is where the wolf blows down the pigs house.
'''Bart''': ''[sarcastically]'' He blows, all right. He blows big time.
'''Marge''': That's it, honey, get into the spirit! *'''Jimmy''': ''[disturbed by what he saw on the "killing floor"]'' Uhh, Troy McClure Mr. McClure? I have a crazy friend who says it's wrong to eat meat. Is he crazy?
'''Troy''': No, just ignorant. You see, your crazy friend never heard of "The Food Chain." Just ask this scientician.
''' "Scientician" ''': ''[looks up from microscope]'' Uh…
'''Troy''': He'll tell you that, in nature, one creature invariably eats another creature to survive.
''[Sequence of "nature" footage shows a lion attacking a gazelle, an eagle carrying off a sheep, a dog catching a Frisbee, and a gorilla reaching for some bananas, until a shark eats him.]'' *'''Troy''': Don't get me wrong, Jimmy! If a cow ever got the chance, he would eat you and everyone you cared about!
''[Dramatic zoom onto a cow.]''
'''Jimmy''': Wow, Mr. McClure. I was a Grade A moron to ever question eating meat.
'''Troy''': You sure were, Jimmy. You sure were. ''[begins rubbing Jimmy's head]''
'''Jimmy''': You're...hurting...me! *'''Ralph Wiggum''': When I grow up, I’m going to Bovine University! *'''Lisa''': No, I can't! I can't eat any of them!
'''Homer''': Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are you saying you're ''never'' going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
'''Lisa''': No.
'''Homer''': Ham?
'''Lisa''': No.
'''Homer''': Pork chops?
'''Lisa''': Dad! Those all come from the same animal!
'''Homer''': ''[chuckles]'' Yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal. *'''Ralph: Springfield Elementary School#Elizabeth Hoover Miss Hoover, my worm went in my mouth then I ate it, can I have a new one?
'''Miss Hoover''': No, Ralph, there aren't any more. Just try to sleep while the other children are learning.
'''Ralph''': Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a Viking! *'''Lisa''': Uhh, excuse me? Isn't there anything here that doesn't have meat in it?
'''Lunchlady Doris Doris''': Possibly the meatloaf.
'''Lisa''': Well, I believe you're required to provide a vegetarian alternative.
'''Doris''': ''[picks up a hot dog in a bun, shakes the weiner out, and slaps the bun down on Lisa's tray]'' Yum. It's rich in bunly goodness.
'''Lisa''': ''[drolly]'' Do you remember when you lost your passion for this work? *'''Homer''': You don't win friends with salad! *''[Bart and Homer chase Lisa until she pushes the pig grill off the top of a slope. The pig passes through a hedge.]''
'''Homer''': It's just a little dirty. It's still good, it's still good!
''[Passes traffic, jumps a bridge and lands in the water.]''
It's just a little slimy, it's still good, it's still good!
''[It gets caught in a dam spillway, and when the pressure builds, it shoots into the sky.]''
It's just a little airborne, it's still good, it's still good!
'''Bart''': ''[crestfallen]'' It's gone.
'''Homer''': I know. *'''Montgomery Burns Mr. Burns:''' You know, Waylon Smithers Smithers, I think I'll donate a million dollars to the local orphanage...when pigs fly!
''[They start laughing, but the grilled pig suddenly passes by flying.]''
'''Smithers:''' Will you be donating that million dollars now, sir?
'''Mr. Burns:''' Nooo, I'd still prefer not. *'''Lisa''': You don't eat cheese, Apu?
'''Apu''': No, I don't eat any food that comes from an animal.
'''Lisa''': Ohh, then you must think I'm a monster!
'''Apu''': Yes, indeed I do think that. But, I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always. It's like Paul's song, ''Live and Let Live''.
'''Paul McCartney''': Actually, it was ''Live and Let Die''.
'''Apu''': Whatever, whatever. It had a good rhythm. *'''Paul:''' Oh, and by the way, Paul is Dead I'm alive. *'''Lisa:''' ''[reading Homer's BBQ invitations]'' "Come to Homer's BBBQ. The extra B is for BYOBB."
'''Bart:''' What's ''that'' extra B for, Dad?
'''Homer:''' That's a typo.
*'''Marge:'''Bart!!! No!!!(After Lisa drives by on the mower)
'''Bart:'''Mom.
'''Marge:'''Sorry, force of habit. Lisa!!! No!!!

Trivia
* The version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" that plays over the end credits is an original mix by the Simpsons staff that when played backwards contains snippets of Paul McCartney reciting a recipe for lentil soup – a throwback to an earlier gag. * One of Paul McCartney's stipulations for doing the guest spot was that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism be a permanent one. Thus, it is an instance of continuity in the Simpsons universe that has been strictly held to.

External links
*{{snpp capsule|3F03}}
- Detailed information on the backmasked message at JustSimpsons category:simpsons episodes fr:Lisa la végétarienne see Lisa the Vegetarian

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