Compare & Contrast: Lisa Learns a Sport

“Let’s see . . . football . . . football, homoeroticism in, oddball Canadian rules, Phyllis George and.” – Lisa Simpson  There are obviously a lot of ways “MoneyBART” fails miserably in comparison to “Homer at the Bat”, which it consciously aped.  But there is a different Season 3 masterpiece to which it is pathetic and terrible in comparison: “Lisa the Greek”.  In both episodes, Lisa needs to study a sport she doesn’t know about.  In “MoneyBART”, everything about this, from how much she knows at first, to how she goes about it, to what she reads for research is…

Quote of the Day

“Hey brush-head, you’ve been nursing that thing for an hour.” – Ice Cream Lady “You know, I was just wondering how someone who works in an ice cream store keeps such a trim figure.” – Bart Simpson “I’ve misjudged you.” – Ice Cream Lady Doris Grau would’ve been 86 today, happy birthday.