2F05.1
Paul Nosov
Lisa on Ice Written by Mike
Scul
Directed by Bob
Anders
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Production code: 2F05 Original airdate in N.A.:
13-Nov-
Capsule revision F,
22-Feb-
Title sequence
Blackboard :- I will not dissect things unless instructed.
I will not dissect things unless instruc/ at cutoff.
Lisa's Solo:- None due to shortened intro.
Couch :- When the family sits down, the couch springs them off,
sticking their heads firmly into the ceiling.
Did you notice...
... Homer's head makes a large dent in the range hood?
Aaron Varhola:
... Lisa pulls Jimbo's shirt over his head -- just like hockey
players do when they fight?
... Snake's prisoner number is 7F20 -- the code of the episode in
which he first appeared?
Don Del Grande:
... Bart's (new?) pajamas have "feet" and a buttoned-up "rear flap"
(i.e. they're "Doctor Dentons")?
... Dolph's Newton has a green apple with a worm as its logo,
instead of the Apple "rainbow apple"?
... Lisa tries to throw the note into the wastebasket with her left
hand?
... Sherri, Terri, and the light-blue-haired girl with the glasses
who sits behind Bart are at basketball and volleyball tryouts?
... everybody wears identical outfits, except that Lisa's shoes are
black instead of blue at basketball?
... Marge dribbles the ball with both hands?
... when Lisa grabs the ketchup Bart passes to Homer, her necklace
stretches; you can see space between the "pearls"?
... Moe calls Marge "Midge" and "Blanche"?
... Lisa's helmet and mask come off when Dolph and two teammates
charge her?
Matthew Kurth:
... when Marge signs Lisa's Academic Alert card, it's still crinkled
after being wadded up?
... Bart has a pet turtle?
... OFF doesn't have grounded outlets in their kitchen?
... OFF has a cubist (or at least post-impressionist) painting in
their dining room?
Tony Hill:
... the death counter resembles slot machine wheels?
... the assembly is called at 11:24 a.m.?
... Milhouse wears his glasses outside his hockey mask?
... Lisa is allowed inside the boys' locker room?
... Apu has desert landscape paintings on his walls?
... Wiggum starts the riot, followed by the seniors?
Dave Hall:
... Bart is doing homework in front of the TV?
... the bags under Kent Brockman's eyes?
... the weather forecast map doesn't show which state Springfield is
in?
... Bart landing on his butt when he slides down the banister?
... Martin sitting beside Wendell in the auditorium?
... Kearney needs a reminder for beating up Martin?
... Homer is left-handed while Marge is right-handed?
... the family don't wear seat belts?
... Maggie laughs at Homer's joke about killing Bart, too?
... the hockey player on the cake at Apu's?
... the tiny X on Snake's forehead?
... Maggie waving at Lisa?
... young Lisa didn't always wear her pearl necklace?
... Maggie looks really cute when she's mad?
Martin Landauer:
... although Snake's English is ostensibly Oxbridge English, it's
Americanized because he says "like" in, "Those kids are, _like_,
so sweet"?
Voice credits
- Starring
- Dan Castellaneta (Channel Six announcer, Homer, Abe, Krusty, Hans
Moleman)
- Julie Kavner (Marge)
- Nancy Cartwright (Bart, Kearney, Ralph, Nelson)
- Yeardley Smith (Lisa)
- Hank Azaria (weatherman, Wiggum, Apu, reporter, man on Monster
Island, Snake, Moe)
- Harry Shearer (Kent Brockman, Skinner, inauguration man, rink
announcer)
- Special Guest Voice
- Marcia Wallace (Mrs. Krabappel)
- Also Starring
- Pamela Hayden (Jimbo, Milhouse)
- Tress MacNeille (Lisa's gym teacher)
- Maggie Roswell (volleyball coach) [uncredited by accident? - ed]
- Russi Taylor (Martin, Uter, Sherri & Terri)
Movie (and other) references
+ "Darkwing Duck" {ab}
- Bart says "I love being a S-s-s-simpson" in the style of Camille
the Chameleon, who is also voiced by Nancy Cartwright
+ "The Mighty Ducks"
- team name, "The Mighty Pigs", and their logo
- three players bowling Lisa over in the net {av}
+ "Gamera" [as seen on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" - ed]
- Homer returns Bart's small turtle, and Kenny owns a small turtle,
Tibby, in the film
- one of the monsters chasing Lisa in her future is a fire-breathing
turtle, very similar to Gamera
+ "A League of their Own" {av}
- Geena Davis catches a baseball in her bare hand (just like Lisa
catching the puck)
+ "Slapshot"
- similar ending: principal character, on ice, ignores riot
Previous episode references
- [7G06] Lisa has a problem in gym class {av}
- [7F08] "If you lose, you're out of the family!" (cf. "I'll kill
you!") {av}
- [7F08] Bart decides friendship is more important that winning {av}
- [7F08] Homer thinks of a tie as both sides losing {mk}
- [8F12] Moe the bookie {av}
- [8F16] The music from the "World Without Zinc" film is used {ab}
- [8F17] A book is tossed on the fire {av}
- [8F18] Marge is referred to as "Blanche"
- [9F01] Ganeesha, Apu's god, appears {dh}
- [9F08] Homer: "I like those odds!"
- [1F11], [2F04] Nelson justifies beating up Bart {av}
Freeze frame fun
- The visible part of the warning slip: {mk}
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PARENTS SIGNATURE
- Gym sign: {mk}
Springfield
Youth Center
"Building Unrealistic
Hopes Since 1966"
- The Kwik-E-Mart Gougers: Jimbo, Kearney, Nelson, Uter, Milhouse, Lisa
{av}
- The Mighty Pigs: Bart, Dolph, Ralph, Lewis. {av}
- Rink sign: {mk} Tonight: Championship Hockey Tomorrow: Entertain
Yourselves, Dammit!
- In the crowd at the final game: Homer, Marge, Maggie, Grampa, Jasper,
Charlie, Lenny, Carl, Snake, Hans, Willy, and one of Quimby's guards
{ddg}
- Matthew Kurth adds, "Groundskeeper Willie is in the seat above and
to the left of Marge, and Ms. Hoover is three rows back from
Marge at the championship game.
- A sign in the rink: {mk}
MOE'S BAR
The 70's Are Back
So Let's Drink
Like It.
- Another sign in the rink: {mk}
Menthol
Moose Says:
"Smoke
Laramies!
Animation, continuity, and other goofs
The opening scene shows a snowstorm outside the house, yet there's no
snow on the ground during the snowstorm, and no sign of snow, nor any
puddles, the next day. {ddg}
The family doesn't have a fireplace where Bart throws the book. {dh}
Mrs. Krabappel's clipboard appears out of thin air. {dh}
Wendell changes seats in the auditorium. {dh}
Bart can't be enrolled in as many subjects to be (near) failing in as
the stack of cards Homer signed would indicate. {mk}
Lisa's hair has been demonstrated to be as soft as anyone else's; why
would it puncture the ball? {mk}
After Bart takes the slapshot at Milhouse in the first game, the blue
line he skates to turns red. {av}
Sometimes the goal crease is shaded blue, sometimes not. {ddg}
When Jimbo dumps the puck into the Pigs' zone in the first game, the
goal line is blue. It's red in real hockey. {av}
Just before the pile-up that sends the puck slowly into the net under
Milhouse, a player smacks the puck down the other end of the rink. The
puck looks as though it's on the boards, not on the ice.
When the puck goes slowly across the ice and underneath the tied
Milhouse, the linesman in the background signals "wash-out" (in this
case, "not offside"), but he's not standing over any line like he's
supposed to be. {ddg}
How could the puck slide that far on its own? {th}
Bart's turtle disappears. {dh}
Bart and Lisa switch places when Apu looks up at them. {dh}
It's not like Marge to lie about having Milhouse's teeth. {ddg}
How did Marge _get_ Milhouse's teeth, anyway? {mk}
Why is Bart at Apu's apartment when he's not on their team? {mk}
Marge says "play the basketball" and "Harvey Globetrotter", yet she
knows what a "Shaq Attaq" is. {ddg}
The Simpsons don't have a basketball hoop over the garage. See other
episodes. {dh}
It's daylight during "the basketball" scene, yet it is dark outside when
the clock in Lisa's room read 4:37 p.m. And the "Cops" marathon is an
hour old. {th}
When Marge flips the light on and off in Lisa's room, up is on and down
is off, but when Homer does, it's the other way around. {mk}
Homer shouldn't be able to pick up Marge's pie with his bare hands if
she had just taken it out of the oven. {dh}
Snake is serving time in the Springfield City Jail (as opposed to the
Springfield Penitentiary). {ddg}
When Wiggum lets the prisoners out, we _don't_ see Snake run out along
with them, yet he's at the game.
Why would Grampa Simpson buy groceries? {th}
The building behind the sign that says "TONIGHT: CHAMPIONSHIP HOCKEY"
looks more like the Springfield Auditorium than the Springfield Skating
Rink. {ddg}
Moe knows Marge's name in [1F20]; why does he forget it now?
When Bart scores on Lisa in the final game, he passes two blue lines in
the Gougers' zone. {av}
In the same scene, Bart is depicted skating away from a goalie wearing
_green_. But it should be a goalie wearing his own color -- blue.
Typical goof of hearing clapping and cheering from a visibly quiet
audience. {dh}
Freeze-frame the crowd as Bart and Lisa skate off the rink - one of the
angry mob changes from black to yellow repeatedly! {mk}
Snake only has one pocket on his shirt during his speech, while the
inmate next to him has two. {mk}
The hockey rules are odd. (see comments section)
Reviews
Aaron Varhola: A very good episode; clean ref's, gags that work, and I
liked Lisa's transformation into a gung-ho goalie. Some may
consider the ending sappy, but I liked it; it showed good continuity
with Bart and Lisa's behavior toward each other when things get
serious. [...] An A, but just barely.
Rick Diamant: My main problem wasn't that Homer didn't have enough good
lines, he had way too many BAD lines. He was just plain mean
throughout the show, and never redeemed himself. It sort of
reminded me of when he was giving Marge the business about having a
gambling problem, but he was like that the whole show.
Marc Singer: It's rare for the animation to make or break an episode for
me, but the swill they showed last night was terrible. And it was
too bad, because it was otherwise a pretty decent episode. Homer is
still far too stupid, but the rest was good. A great ending, and
Snake is hilarious as always.
Carl Frank: Animation was _excellent_, but plot had few, if any
references, and not even many "Homerisms" ("Now they're both
losers"). Maggie taking a brief turn at shot blocking was nice.
Lisa and Bart at the end was similar to 7F08. Overall ranking: B-
(mostly for the animation).
Gary Meadows: How to make this a B+ episode: go back to your tape and
simply delete all instances of Homer. So many elements, yet Homer
kept popping up being a jerk. I figured that I'd put up with it and
Homer would redeem himself in the end, instead we got a bunch of
crap about how both of his kids were losers.
Al Wesolowsky: I absolutely loved Lisa's transformation into one tuff
goalie and the panache with which she handled the shots coming her
way. And what about Maggie getting the spirit of competitive
violence, furrowing her little brow and glaring at the action?
Charles D. Hall: Grrrr! Who was responsible for last night's
monstrosity? He should be forced to apologize on the air, and then
be fired from the show, sterilized, and sent to live like an animal
in the sewers below Los Angeles for the rest of his life.
Don Del Grande: A-minus - definitely one of the better episodes, with a
nice violent touch on the telegraphed "Bart and Lisa are friends as
the game ends in a tie" ending. I was surprised none of the players
made fun of Lisa being a girl (Marge and Homer were the only ones to
mention it).
Carl Mueller: The stories are no longer clever, instead they're complete
crap. I think they are trying to fill an obvious lack of story
creativity with gags, and it's getting REALLY old. Duh, me lose
brain? Why I laugh?
Bailey Irwin: The only nice thing I'll say about this episode is that a
few of the throwaway lines and gags were quite good. But a handful
of isolated jokes don't atone for a completely unoriginal and
unbelievable plot that violated most of what we know about Homer,
Marge, Lisa and Bart, and just plain wasn't funny. My grade: D.
Warren Hagey: This was a great episode. I'm glad to finally see some
hockey. The conflict between Bart and Lisa was wonderful, and
Homer's treatment of his children was all too realistic. Homer once
again makes the show, but Apu and Chief Wiggum as the coaches were
splendid as well. A-.
Matthew Kurth: This episode seemed to be fighting itself, almost as if
it wasn't sure whether to be from season five or from season three.
There were several great moments, but a lot of things that just
weren't right. The resolution lifted from 7F08 didn't help. An
episode that tried to be a 10, but didn't quite make it. 8/10
Tony Hill: This was a fabulous episode, the sappy ending
notwithstanding. The chants of "Kill, Bart"/"Kill Bart" were OFF's
sinister best. The riot was simply that. I give "Lisa on Ice" an
A.
Yours truly: Hmm. I'm torn. On the one hand, there were lots of
unrealistic things (the bullies on a sports team, Lisa playing in
male hockey, Homer's behavior), but there quite a few classic scenes
("Competitive violence!" being my favorite). I think it's a C-.
Comments and other observations
The Butthead Memorial Auditorium
This is referring to the MTV cartoon, "Beavis and Butthead". Aaron
Varhola writes, "This is also a veiled reference to an incident in
Greenwood, South Carolina, where children decided to name a new
elementary school `Springfield Elementary School'. I wonder where
they got that idea. :) (See Simpsons Comics #3 and #5 for the
story)."
Lisa's future as President
Don Del Grande says that "I now pronounce you President of these United
States" is not part of the inauguration ceremony. "When the
President is done taking the oath, the presiding officer (usually
the Chief Justice of the United States) usually shakes the
President's hand and adds congratulations."
Realistic hockey rules
Don Del Grande lists the national high school rules for hockey and
contrasts the rules in this episode.
- Periods last 15 minutes; the clock said 20:00 at the start of the
game. (I find it hard to believe school kids would play 60
minutes of hockey; they did play three periods.)
- All players are required to wear face masks; only the goalies were
wearing them. Also, players are required to wear tooth guards
(mouthpieces), but none are.
- Falling or diving on the puck (other than the goalie) is a minor
penalty, as is body-checking somebody (Bart) into the boards, as
is body-checking the goalie (Lisa) in the crease. (Note that
there were a number of times players held the stick "high" (more
than 4 feet/1.3m off the ground), especially when taking
slapshots, but it's not a penalty unless a referee feels it is
"likely to cause injury" or contact is made.)
- If any game is tied after three periods, an eight-minute sudden-
death period must be played before the game is declared a tie.
- The clock does not run during a penalty shot; if the shot is
missed, there is a faceoff in one of the circles in front of the
fouling team's goalie.
Quotes and Scene Summary
[Syndication cuts are marked in curly braces "{}" and are courtesy of
Ricardo Lafaurie and Frederic Briere.]
Everyone but Marge sits in front of the TV.
Announcer: It's "Channel Six Action News."
[several explosions are shown]
Bart: Ah, Action News. The last place an impressionable kid can
go for TV violence.
Announcer: And now, here's your Action Anchor[tm], Kent Brockman.
Kent: [jumping in, panting] Hello, I'm Kent Brockman! Our top
stories tonight: a tremendous _explosion_ in the price of
lumber, President Reagan _dyes_...his hair, plus Garry
Trudeau and his new musical comedy revue. But first! Let's
check the death count from the killer storm bearing down on
us like a shotgun full of snow.
Weatherman: Well, Kent, as of now the death count is zero. But it _is_
ready to shoot right up.
Kent: Oh my God. [shakes fist at heaven] Damn you snow!
-- Doing what's needed for ratings, "Lisa on Ice"
Bart is jubilant upon hearing of the snowstorm.
Bart: All right! Snow day. No school tomorrow! [throws his
schoolbook on the fire]
Lisa: That doesn't mean you don't have to do your book report.
What if the weatherman is wrong?
Bart: Lisa, that man is a professional meteorologist.
Weatherman: Kent, I'd like to remind everybody to come down and watch me
at the Springfield Laff'N'Brew, and burgers and fries this
Saturday. The forecast calls for a 75% chance of hilarity!
Homer: I like those odds...
-- Professional barbequer too, "Lisa on Ice"
The next morning at seven o'clock, Bart sleeps peacefully in bed when
Lisa throws open his door and yells "Snowball fight!" Bart wakes up