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10th episode of the fourth season of The Simpsons

"Lisa'due south Commencement Word"
The Simpsons episode
Lisa says her first word.jpg

Lisa says her offset word, which is "Bart", to an annoyed Bart.
Episode no. Season iv
Episode x
Directed by Marker Kirkland
Written by Jeff Martin
Production code 9F08
Original air date Dec 3, 1992
Invitee appearance
  • Elizabeth Taylor every bit Maggie Simpson[1]
Episode features
Chalkboard gag "Instructor is not a leper"[two]
Couch gag The Simpsons and a lot of circus performers form a kickline.
Commentary Matt Groening
Al Jean
Jeff Martin
Marker Kirkland
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"Lisa's First Word" is the tenth episode of the fourth flavour of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on Dec 3, 1992. In the episode, as the Simpson family unit gathers around Maggie and tries to encourage her to say her first discussion, Marge reminisces and tells the story of Lisa'south outset word. Elizabeth Taylor appeared for the voicing of Maggie'southward first word.

The episode was directed by Mark Kirkland and written by Jeff Martin. After its initial ambulation on Fox, the episode was afterwards released every bit part of a 1999 video collection: The Simpsons: Greatest Hits, and released again on the 2003 DVD edition of the same collection. The episode features cultural references to ii bondage of fast food restaurants, Wendy's and McDonald'southward, a reference to the 1981 arcade video game Ms. Pac-Man, and to Olympic gymnast Shun Fujimoto's performance in the 1976 Summertime Olympics in spite of a serious injury.

"Lisa's First Discussion" received positive reception from tv set critics, and acquired a Nielsen rating of xvi.6.

Plot [edit]

The Simpson family are trying unsuccessfully to get Maggie to speak, inspiring Marge to share the story of Lisa'southward outset word.

The story flashes dorsum to 1983 when Homer, Marge and Bart, anile two, lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Springfield. Marge is pregnant once more, and she points out to Homer that they will probably need a bigger place. After viewing several unsuitable properties, they buy a house on Evergreen Terrace with a $15,000 down payment from the sale of Grampa's house. In 1984, the Simpsons motility there and meet their neighbors, Ned Flemish region and his family.

Meanwhile, Krusty the Clown begins a promotion for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games with his Krusty Burger chain. The promotion is a "scratch-and-win" game where customers can win free Krusty Burgers if America wins a gilt medal, simply the game cards are rigged to feature events that athletes from Communist countries are most likely to win. But then, Krusty receives word of the Soviet boycott of the Olympics, which will crusade him to lose $44 million from all the burgers he volition take to give abroad.

Bart will take to give up his crib for the new infant so Homer builds him a new bed shaped like a clown, only information technology is so desperately made that Bart is terrified of information technology. Lisa is built-in and gets all the attention; Bart takes an immediate dislike to her. He is near to run away when Lisa says her first give-and-take, "Bart". He is thrilled, and Marge explains that Lisa adores him. Bart and Lisa hug each other and they think it's funny that they both call Homer by his name, rather than "Daddy" as he wishes.

In the nowadays solar day, Homer puts Maggie to bed; as soon equally he turns off the calorie-free and closes the door, Maggie takes her pacifier out of her oral cavity and says, "Daddy".

Production [edit]

"Lisa'southward First Word" was written past Jeff Martin, and directed by Mark Kirkland.[i] The Simpsons writers Mike Reiss and Al Jean were discussing about having an episode where Maggie would say her get-go word, and Reiss thought it would be cute to have her say "daddy" when no one could hear her.[3] Jeff Martin was assigned to write the episode considering he had done some other flashback episode in the past, "I Married Marge".[3] Martin was excited to do some other flashback episode because he thought it was fun to check out quondam newspapers and go back and run across what was in the news back in 1983 and 1984.[4] Martin felt it was a adept way of finding a new set of things to make jokes about.[4] The extended couch gag was added since the episode was nigh thirty seconds too short to air.[5]

In the episode, Homer builds a scary clown-shaped bed for Bart. The scene was inspired by Mike Reiss, whose dad had built him a clown-shaped bed when he was younger, and only like Bart, Reiss was scared of sleeping in it.[half-dozen] [7] Equally the flashback begins in 1983, a young Homer strolls down the street, singing Cyndi Lauper's song "Girls But Want to Have Fun", which was released the same year.[8] The idea for this sequence came from blitheness director Chuck Sheetz, who suggested it because the length of the concluding version of the episode was likewise short.[4] The Fob censors wrote a note apropos Homer's line, "Bart can kiss my hairy, xanthous butt!" after Marge tells Homer that Bart might be jealous of infant Lisa, citing that the line is considered "fibroid", due to the fact that Bart was two during the flashback.[9]

Maggie'south first word was provided past the Academy Accolade-winning extra Elizabeth Taylor, who would too voice herself in the season four finale, "Krusty Gets Kancelled".[four] While promoting the episode, the producers initially did not reveal who the vox of Maggie would be, prompting speculation as to the identity of the extra.[10] Although it was only i give-and-take, the voice came out "also sexy" and Taylor had to record the role numerous times earlier the producers were satisfied and thought information technology sounded similar a baby.[eleven] [12] Several sources, including John Ortved'south The Simpsons history article "Simpsons Family unit Values" in Vanity Fair, have reported that after Taylor had been made to repeatedly record the line, she said "fuck you" to serial creator Matt Groening and stormed out of the studio.[13] Groening recounted this upshot on a 1994 appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien,[14] and was also quoted by the New York Daily News in 2007 every bit saying "We did 24 takes, but they were always also sexual. Finally Liz said, 'F— you,' and walked out."[11] Yet, Groening later denied the story in the DVD commentary for the episode "Gump Roast",[fifteen] while Jean stated in a piece later on Taylor's expiry in 2011 that Taylor had said "fuck you" in jest and in Maggie's voice and did non storm out.[16] [17] Yeardley Smith supports the latter as well, tweeting she "didn't tempest out but she did take exception to existence asked to say 'Daddy' twenty times & she let us know she past proverb 'fuck you' when she was done."[18] Nancy Cartwright as well mentions the incident in her book My Life equally a 10-Yr-Old Boy, but states Taylor jokingly ad-libbed "fuck y'all Daddy" as an initial sound cheque for Sam Simon.[xix]

Cultural references [edit]

The Springfield Shopper headline from the twenty-four hours Lisa was born ("Mondale to Hart: Where's the beef?") uses the then-current advertizement slogan for Wendy's.[3] Mondale, a candidate in the 1984 presidential election, used the "Where'south the beef?" phrase at an election rally in 1984 while mocking one of his opponents.[1] Marge begins telling her story of Lisa's first word by maxim: "This story begins in the unforgettable spring of 1983. Ms. Pac-Man struck a blow for women'southward rights and a young Joe Piscopo taught us how to express mirth", making references to the 1981 arcade video game Ms. Pac-Man and the American actor Joe Piscopo.[six] The episode features an Itchy & Scratchy drawing called "100-Yard Gash", which uses the music from the 1981 picture show Chariots of Fire.[2]

The Olympic promotion by Krusty Burger is loosely based on the 1984 Olympics promotion by McDonald's, in which McDonald's visitors could win a Big Mac, french chips, a drink, or fifty-fifty a cash prize upwards to $10,000 if Squad USA won a medal in the visitor'southward listed event. McDonald's lost millions on the promotion due to the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott by the Soviet Union, as happened to Krusty.[iii] [6] [8] At one indicate in the episode, Dr. Hibbert refers to Olympic gymnastic medalist Mary Lou Retton.[i]

Reception [edit]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from boob tube critics. Warren Martyn and Adrian Woods, the authors of the volume I Tin't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, said the episode is a "disarming portrait of immature marriage and hardship in the days of Reaganomics—and the biggest proper name to guest voice gets the littlest, but the most pregnant, to say".[i] When asked to pick his favorite season out of The Simpsons seasons one through xx, Paul Lane of the Niagara Gazette picked flavour four and highlighted "the sweetly funny" "Lisa'due south First Word".[twenty] David Johnson at DVD Verdict named it "one of the greatest flashback episodes".[21] Dave Manley at DVDActive said in a review of The Simpsons: Greatest Hits DVD that it is "one of the meliorate episodes and probably my personal favourite on the disc, although most Simpsons connoisseurs would probably go for the previous episode [on the DVD]", and added that there are "some not bad parodies in the episode too".[22] The Orlando Sentinel 'due south Gregory Hardy named it the fourteenth best episode of the show with a sports theme (the Olympics in this case).[23]

Elizabeth Taylor'due south operation as Maggie was praised past critics. She was named the 13th greatest guest spot in the history of the bear witness by IGN.[24] Taylor also appeared on AOL's list of their favorite 25 Simpsons guest stars.[25] Todd Everett at Diversity called the last scene in the episode, where Maggie speaks her outset word, "quite a heart-melter".[8] He added that "it is probably no surprise that the casting of Elizabeth Taylor as the phonation for baby Maggie Simpson's first give-and-take was a publicity stunt [...] No mind, the episode in question delivered well-rounded view of series' multiple attractions."[8] Total Film'south Nathan Ditum ranked her performance as the best guest advent in the show's history.[26] Fox rebroadcast the episode on April 3, 2011 in memory of Taylor, following her death on March 23.[27]

Ratings [edit]

In its original American broadcast, "Lisa's Offset Word" was watched by 28.half dozen million viewers,[28] the most-watched episode of the season. Information technology finished thirteenth in the ratings for the calendar week of November 30 to December 6, 1992, with a Nielsen rating of 16.6.[29] The episode was the highest-rated show on Fox that week.[29] It acquired the highest national Nielsen rating of the show since the season two episode "Bart Gets an 'F'" aired on Oct xi, 1990.[thirty]

Legacy [edit]

"Can't sleep, clown will eat me" [edit]

Young Bart in his clown bed, poorly synthetic by Homer

Inspired by an issue in The Simpsons writer Mike Reiss' babyhood,[half dozen] [7] young Bart does not want to give up sleeping in the crib to make style for his newborn sis. Noticing Bart's amore for Krusty the Clown but unable to afford a professionally built Krusty-themed bed, Homer decides to build a bed with Krusty'southward likeness to delight his son. Nevertheless, because of Homer's poor handicraft skills, the bed takes on an ominous appearance and frightens Bart, especially in the darkened room. In his beginning night in the new bed, far from "laughing himself to sleep", Bart imagines that the face on the headboard of the bed comes to life, intoning with evil glee, "if you should dice before you wake...", before collapsing into evil cackling.

The adjacent morning, Bart is curled up into the fetal position on the flooring adjacent to the sofa downstairs, repeatedly uttering the phrase "tin't sleep, clown will eat me..." The catchphrase inspired the Alice Cooper vocal "Can't Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me" from the 2001 album Dragontown.[31] The phrase has since constitute its way into popular apply.[32]

Merchandise [edit]

"Lisa's Start Word" originally aired on the Trick network in the United States on December 3, 1992.[2] The episode was selected for release in a 1999 video collection of selected episodes titled: The Simpsons: Greatest Hits.[33] Other episodes included in the collection set were "Simpsons Roasting on an Open up Burn", "Sweetness Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Vocal", "Trash of the Titans", and "Bart Gets an 'F'".[33] It was included in The Simpsons season 4 DVD set, which was released on June 15, 2004 every bit The Simpsons — The Complete Fourth Season.[34] The episode was again included in the 2003 DVD release of the "Greatest Hits" set, only this time the set did not include "Trash of the Titans".[35]

References [edit]

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  18. ^ @YeardleySmith (4 December 2019). "Yes, indeed, this is more accurate. She didn't tempest out out but she did have exception to being asked to say "Daddy" twenty times & she let us know she by maxim "fuck you" when she was washed 😂. She also brought her little white dog to the session & one of her giant diamond rings" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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Bibliography [edit]

  • Groening, Matt (1997). Richmond, Ray; Coffman, Antonia (eds.). The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (1st ed.). New York: HarperPerennial. ISBN978-0-06-095252-5. LCCN 98141857. OCLC 37796735. OL 433519M.
  • Turner, Chris (2004). Planet Simpson: How a Drawing Masterpiece Documented an Era and Divers a Generation. Foreword by Douglas Coupland. (1st ed.). Toronto: Random Business firm Canada. ISBN978-0-679-31318-2. OCLC 55682258.

External links [edit]

  • "Lisa'south First Word episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.
  • "Lisa'south First Give-and-take" at IMDb

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