“Krusty! About time you got here.” – Jack Larson “Yeah, yeah, what is this? The, uh, Republican fundraiser?” – Krusty the Klown
Tag: Lisa the Beauty Queen
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“Coming up next, a new fad that’s sweeping the nation: wasting food.” – Scott Christian
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“Are we done?” – Lisa Simpson “We are just warming up.” – Turn Your Head and Coif Guy “Uh, isn’t this dangerous?” – Lisa Simpson “Don’t worry, I am well protected.” – Turn Your Head and Coif Guy
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“Dad, do you remember why you entered me in that pageant?” – Lisa Simpson “I don’t know. Was I drunk?” – Homer Simpson “Possibly.” – Lisa Simpson
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“Lisa, I know a song that will cheer you up. . . . There once was an ugly duckling…” – Marge Simpson “So you think I’m ugly?” – Lisa Simpson “No! No, I meant you were one of the good looking ducks . . . that makes fun of the ugly one. Hmm.” – Marge Simpson
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“It does seem the father of the deposed beauty queen, Homer Simpson, filled out the pageant application incorrectly. In the area under ‘Do Not Write In This Space’, he wrote, ‘OK’.” – Kent Brockman
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“Amber Dempsy.” – Pageant Contestant #1 “In the same week, she was Pork Princess and Little Miss Kosher.” – Pageant Contestant #2
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“I’m an ugmo!” – Lisa Simpson “Now, that’s not true. You’re cute as a bug’s ear.” – Homer Simpson “Fathers have to say that stuff.” – Lisa Simpson “Dad, am I cute as a bug’s ear?” – Homer Simpson “No, you’re homely as a mule’s butt!” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
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“Did you see Tine Epstein?” – Pageant Contestant #1 “Whoa, if you’re gonna binge, you better purge.” – Pageant Contestant #2
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“Pick the red, get ahead! Pick the black, set you back!” – Bart Simpson “I don’t recall authorizing this booth.” – Principal Skinner “Goodbye, gentlemen.” – Bart Simpson
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“There’s no way I can beat this girl. She’s the Jack Nicklaus of the pageant circuit.” – Lisa Simpson “Oh, I don’t know that she’s as attractive as Jack Nicklaus.” – Marge Simpson “I meant because they both win all the time, Mom.” – Lisa Simpson “Oh, well, yes, that’s what I meant too.” – Marge Simpson
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“Your daughter could be crowned Little Miss Springfield by our host, the maitre d’ of glee, Krusty the Klown.” – Jack Larson “I heartily endorse this event or product.” – Krusty the Klown
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“Hey, nobody’s prettier than my little girl.” – Homer Simpson “You’re looking at her through a father’s eyes.” – Marge Simpson “Well, if I could gouge out somebody else’s eyes and shove ’em into my sockets, I would. But to me, she’s beautiful.” – Homer Simpson “That is so sweet.” – Marge Simpson
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“Moe, have you ever felt unattractive?” – Homer Simpson “No.” – Moe “How about you, Barney?” – Homer Simpson “Not for a second.” – Barney Gumble
Lisa the Beauty Queen Spews Truth
“What a feeling! I’m as happy as a smoker taking that first puff in the morning.” – Pageant Girl “That could be Lisa!” – Homer Simpson As usual with these early season commentaries, there are a small enough number of people that they can have an actual conversation, the topic never strays far from the episode, there’s lots of genuine laughter, and Jean sounds like he’s actually having fun instead of watching the clock and trying to fill time while everyone else sits silently as some horrible Zombie Simpsons crap parades across the screen. Plus this one has a Bob Hope story. Just four guys here, Groening, Mark Kirkland, Jean, and Jeff Martin. 0:20 – Groening asks Jean about the origin of this episode. Apparently, Jean and Reiss were among the few people still under contract when this was getting going, and they came up with it hoping guys like Jeff Martin would come back, which they did 1:30 – Noting that they were ahead of the curve on making fun of little girl beauty pageants, but that they didn’t realize the seedier side of it at the time. 1:45 – Disney never complained, so they just kept making Disney jokes. 2:15 – Jean jokes that the lawyer is based on Roy Cohn, “which the kids always find hilarious”. 2:20 – Nelson spraying Martin was based off of something that a National Lampoon writer once did to Jean. 3:40 – Martin used to draw caricatures when he was a teenager at Astro-World, the amusement park next to the Astrodome in Houston. He drew the Lisa one, and the regular artists were nice enough to use it. 5:00 – The big raffle prize at Martin’s school really was a ride on the blimp. 5:30 – Lots of praise here for Yeardley Smith as always putting a lot of emotion into Lisa. 6:00 – Groening notes that Lisa is a character who isn’t completely ruled by her impulses, which causes Martin to joke, “Yes, and as a result she’s in pain a lot of the time.” 6:45 – Krusty’s “heartily endorse” came from the old board game Life which had a picture of Art Linkletter on the front saying he “heartily endorsed” it. Reiss knew exactly where it was from the first time he read the script. 7:45 – Lona Williams, who did the voice of Amber Dempsey, was an assistant on the show at the time. She actually had been in beauty pageants and gave Martin a tape of one of them if he promised not to show it to anyone else. 8:50 – Everyone cracks up as Homer cries while singing the blimp song and holding a pickle. 9:30 – They just made up the Jack Nicklaus thing, none of them are sure whether or not he was actually considered handsome. 11:00 – Jean’s not sure if Homer’s fantasy of Marge mowing the lawn while he lies in a hammock is based off of it, but there did used to…
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“This year Laramie is sponsoring the Little Miss Springfield pageant. You see, government regulations prohibit us from advertising on TV . . . ah, that sweet Carolina smoke . . . but they can’t prohibit us from holding a beauty pageant for little girls age seven to nine.” – Jack Larson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Lisa the Beauty Queen”! Original airdate 15 October 1992.
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“Hey, Barney, will you give me two-hundred-and-fifty bucks for this blimp ticket?” – Homer Simpson “Sure!” – Barney Gumble “Where’d you get all the money?” – Homer Simpson “From some scientist. Since they stopped testing on animals, a guy like me can really clean up.” – Barney Gumble
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“Get yer haggis right here! Chopped heart and lungs boiled in a wee sheep’s stomach! Tastes as good as it sounds!” – Groundskeeper Willie
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“I’d say fifty-three years old and four hundred twenty pounds.” – Guess Your Age & Weight Guy “Ha ha, you lose, thirty-six and two-thirty-nine.” – Homer Simpson
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“Wait, she’s about to bring out the big guns.” – Pageant Contestant #1 “Eyelash implants.” – Pageant Contestant #2 “I thought those were illegal.” – Lisa Simpson “Not in Paraguay.” – Pageant Contestant #2
