The Secret War of Lisa Simpson

"The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.Season 8
Episode 25
Directed byMike B. Anderson[1]
Written byRichard Appel[1]
Production code4F21
Original air dateMay 18, 1997 (1997-05-18)
Guest appearance
Episode features
Couch gagThe living room is shown upside down. The Simpsons sit down, but fall to the floor (the true ceiling).[1]
CommentaryMatt Groening
Josh Weinstein
Yeardley Smith
Mike B. Anderson
Episode chronology
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"The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" is the twenty-fifth episode and the season finale of the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 18, 1997. Bart gets sent to a military academy as punishment for bad behavior. While visiting the academy, Lisa sees that the school is far more challenging than hers and she decides that she wants to attend as well. It was directed by Mike B. Anderson, written by Richard Appel and featured Willem Dafoe in a guest spot as the school's commandant.[1]

Plot

After a day watching mind-numbing videos in class, Lisa worries that her education is not challenging enough. Bart's class goes on a field trip to the Springfield Police Department, where Bart finds a room with several megaphones. By placing them all end-to-end and speaking into one, he amplifies his voice enough to create a sonic shock wave that shatters all the glass in Springfield. Chief Wiggum suggests sending Bart to military school to correct his behavior. Under the ruse they are going to Disneyland, Homer and Marge drive the kids to Rommelwood Military School; while visiting a poetry class, Lisa decides to enroll as well in order to experience the challenge she seeks. Homer and Marge reluctantly agree to her plan and depart, ignoring Bart's pleas to let him come home.

As the school's first female cadet, Lisa is assigned a barracks to herself, angering the corps of cadets. After she and Bart endure hazing, Bart is eventually accepted by the other cadets and distances himself from his sister. Lonely, Lisa considers going home, but decides to see it through. As the school year comes to a close, the Commandant reveals the final test for the students: the "Eliminator", a hand-over-hand crawl across a rope suspended high above thorn bushes. Lisa fears she will not be able to complete the task, but Bart helps her train in secret.

On the day of the test, Lisa is the last to cross the Eliminator. She loses her grip on the rope and is in danger of falling as the cadets jeer her, but Bart cheers her on and she successfully completes the task. The other cadets vow to make the rest of the semester unbearable for Bart, but realize that their graduation ceremony is only three hours away. The Commandant awards Lisa a medal engraved "For Satisfactory Completion of the Second Grade". Homer and Marge drive Lisa and Bart to the dentist's office, once again under the false pretense of going to Disneyland.

Production

Richard Appel wrote the episode.

The episode was written by Richard Appel, but the idea of Bart and Lisa attending a military academy had previously been pitched, and had been floating around since 1991.[2] The idea had not yet been used as an episode plot, because the writers had not felt comfortable with taking Bart and Lisa to a strange place early in the series. Because this is the season finale, Yeardley Smith returned to the series for the first time since "In Marge We Trust" since she caught the flu after recording her lines in that episode, despite having brief lines recorded at home and being credited in the previous episodes "Homer's Enemy" and "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase".

During the scene where the Commandant is talking, there is a brief shot of Lisa blinking. As there had been an error in the final print of the episode, the shot was animated, painted and shot on May 16, 1997, the Friday before the episode's airdate.[3] The spiky blond-haired boy, who runs towards the Eliminator while screaming, is a caricature of director Mike B. Anderson.[3]

Reception

The episode originally aired on May 18, 1997, as the season finale, along with a rerun of "The Springfield Files."[4] The episode was mistakenly anticipated by some as being about Lisa launching "a legal battle" to enroll at the military school.[4] In its original broadcast, "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" finished 47th in ratings for the week of May 12–18, 1997, with a Nielsen rating of 8.3, equivalent to approximately 8.1 million viewing households. It was the second highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, following The X-Files.[5]

Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, disliked the episode, writing that it was "very dull" and that Dafoe was not used well.[1] However, Dafoe is one of show runner Josh Weinstein's favorite guest stars.[2] Ian Johnson argued Dafoe's casting was "rare" and "somewhat offbeat".[6]

Journalist Raju Mudhar also wrote that in this episode, "The Simpsons have succinctly laid out our eventual future." This referred to the rise of robots in the real world and the quote from this episode:

"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."[7]

Merchandise

The episode was one of four in 1999 released on a VHS (Re-released on DVD in 2005) called Bart Wars focused on crosses between The Simpsons and Star Wars. However, one critic wrote that with this episode and "Marge Be Not Proud" and "Dog of Death," both of which are also on the DVD, the "Star Wars connection" is "tangential at best."[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson". BBC.co.uk. Archived from the original on March 11, 2005. Retrieved April 13, 2007.
  2. ^ a b Weinstein, Josh (2006). The Simpsons season 8 DVD commentary for the episode "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
  3. ^ a b Anderson, Mike B. (2006). The Simpsons season 8 DVD commentary for the episode "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
  4. ^ a b Helm, Richard (April 27, 1997). "TV gets spring refresher; From myth to mobsters, sweeps give TV four- week tweek". Edmonton Journal. p. C.2.
  5. ^ "Super Mario gives CBS ratings edge". Sun-Sentinel. Associated Press. May 22, 1997. p. 4E. Archived from the original on January 23, 2022. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
  6. ^ Johnston, Ian (April 27, 1997). "TV's great cameo cavalcade! The sitcoms are pulling out the big (and old) guns to get you watching this sweeps week". Daily News. Halifax, Nova Scotia. p. 40.
  7. ^ Mudhar, Raju (March 11, 2006). "Even robots need to let off steam; Homemade bots get in the ring Sumo challenge an annual event". Toronto Star. p. H.03.
  8. ^ "Mark Hamill advises Homer to 'use the forks' in new Simpsons release". National Post. May 14, 2005. p. TO.32.

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