Template:Infobox The Simpsons season seven
"Summer of 4 Ft. 2" is the last episode in the seventh season of The Simpsons, and guest-stars Christina Ricci.
Episode details
Production Number: 3F22
Original Air Date: May 19, 1996
Writer: Dan Greaney
Director: Mark Kirkland
Couch Gag: The family is portrayed as a fax, and the couch as a fax machine
Guest Voice: Christina Ricci (Erin)
Synopsis
Template:Spoiler Despite her expectations of popularity for having worked on the yearbook, Lisa finds no one willing to sign her own. Instead, Bart finds lots of children to sign his yearbook. With school closing for the summer, the Simpson family and Milhouse head to a house on the beach for a vacation. Lisa, however, purposely forgets to pack, planning to buy a new style of clothes and remake her personality to see if she can become popular.
At the community of Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport, Lisa manages to blend in with some local children, and she turns the tables by making Bart look like a nerd. Bart feels robbed, and exposes Lisa's real identity. Enraged, Lisa tells Bart he has ruined her life, and the two spend the rest of the vacation fighting. As it turns out, however, the local children still respect Lisa, saying that she taught them much and was a good friend. They, and Milhouse, sign her yearbook.
Trivia
- The episode title is a play on the 1971 Robert Mulligan film Summer of '42.
- The song played before and during the end credits is "All Summer Long" by The Beach Boys
- Marge is apparently unaware that Gore Vidal is gay.
Quotes
- Marge: Bart, you can invite Milhouse. Lisa, you can bring a friend too.
Lisa: Hey, great, a friend... heh, heh... or companion, or... I 'unno, stuffed animal? - Marge: So, did you call any of your friends?
Lisa: Friends? (holds up copy of Tome: A Novel by Gore Vidal) These are my only friends: grown-up nerds like Gore Vidal. And even he's kissed more boys than I ever will.
Marge: Girls, Lisa. Boys kiss girls. - Homer: (lifting Lisa's empty suitcase) Somebody's travelling light.
Lisa: Meh. Maybe you're just getting stronger.
Homer: Well, I have been eating more. - (kids talking under the boardwalk)
Boy: So he's all, like, pffhhhtt...
Girl: Pft, I can totally hear him going that. - Milhouse: Hey Bart, Lisa's skating with some cool kids... and she looks like Blossom.
Bart: So, Lisa has a friend... We'll just see about that. - (the family plays a boardgame)
Marge: Come on, Homer. Open the door for your mystery date.
Homer: Ooh, the captain of the football team. He's a dreamboat. Don't wait up, Marge. - Lisa: A gift from my favorite crustacean.
Rick: Hey... Did you learn that word from a teacher for something?
Lisa: No... I heard it on Baywatch.
They reply, Oh, yeah. I love Baywatch. David Hasselhoff, man.
- Homer: (trying to buy fireworks in a low-key way) Hi... um, let me have some of those porno magazines, large box of condoms, a bottle of Old Harper, a couple of those panty shields, and someillegalfireworks, and one of those disposable enemas. Eh, make it two.
An Apu look-alike: I'm sorry, sir, we don't sell those. They can get you... (He sees a man leave) Follow me. (Walks in the back of the store) The M120. What can be a better way to celebrate the birth of our nation than to blow a small piece up.
...
Marge: (later, going through Homer's purchase) I don't know what you have planned for tonight, but count me out. - (Lisa's friends have pasted seashells onto the family car)
Lisa: This is the most thoughtful thing anyone has ever—
Homer: Sweet merciful crap! My car!
External link
- "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" in The Simpsons Archive.