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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

"Lisa the Tree Hugger"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Tree_Hugger

Chalkboard "I am not the acting President."

"Lisa the Tree Hugger" is the fourth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on November 19, 2000.

Needing money after seeing a commercial for a new video game console, Bart is forced to get a job as a menu boy for a Thai restaurant named You Thai Now. However, the menus he delivers soon litter Springfield, upsetting Lisa over the number of trees cut down to make them.

Later the family go to Krusty Burger only to find a group of people dressed in cow suits protesting on the roof. She meets Jesse Grass (voiced by Joshua "Pacey Witter" Jackson), the hunky and non-violent leader of a radical environmentalist protest group named Dirt First, who claims to be a level five vegan (he refuses to eat anything that casts a shadow). She later joins Dirt First, and after learning that Springfield's oldest redwood tree is about to be cut down by the Rich Texan, volunteers to camp in the tree to keep the loggers at bay. However, missing her family, she leaves the tree for a night, and returns in the morning to find the tree felled by lightning.

Not knowing her fate, everyone in Springfield thinks Lisa died in the storm and offers condolences to the family, which Homer and Bart briefly take advantage of. The Rich Texan also decides to turn the forest into a sanctuary in memory of Lisa, but later he changes his mind and offers to build an amusement park, "Lisa Land".

Fortunately, Lisa comes to the site, and protests the park. The log being used as the sign for Lisa Land is cut loose by Jesse and heads for Springfield's business district, destroying the Rich Texan's company and eventually heads out on a cross-country journey out to the sea. Although Jesse lands himself in jail again, he has apparently not stopped his crusade for the environment.





From 11/25/1986 to 11/18/2000 (Saturday) is 13 years, 359 days

'1-33-59'

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701157/

"The Simpsons"
Lisa the Tree Hugger (2000)

Original Air Date: 19 November 2000 (Season 12, Episode 4)

Plot Outline: Lisa's crush on an environmental activist inspires her to live in a tree threatened by loggers.





From 12/21/1968 (Apollo 8 launches for Moon) to 6/11/1978 (Joshua Jackson) is: 3459 days

'34-59'

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005045/

Joshua Jackson (I)
Date of Birth: 11 June 1978

"The Simpsons" .... Jesse Grass (1 episode, 2000)
- Lisa the Tree Hugger (2000) TV Episode (voice) .... Jesse Grass





From 4/30/1982 (USNA82) to 2/25/2001 ("New Kids on the Blecch") is: 6876 days
6876 = 3638 + 3638
From 7/16/1963 to 12/13/1972 (Apollo 17 lunar EVA) is: 3438 days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kids_on_the_Blecch

Orig. airdate February 25, 2001

Chalkboard "I will not buy a presidential pardon"

Couch gag The family tunnels to the couch dressed in prison garb.

New Kids on the Blecch is an episode from the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It features the members of the pop music group 'N Sync.

By paralleling Rosie Ruiz's cheating in the 1980 Boston Marathon, Bart cheats in the Springfield's equivalent. When Bart's dishonesty is quickly discovered, he finds himself in hot water with fellow competitors and spectators, so he accepts a stranger's offer to help him escape. The stranger reveals that his identity is L.T. Smash. L.T. offers Bart a career as a member of a boy band known as "The Party Posse". Bart accepts, and becomes Party Posse's 4th member, joining Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum and Milhouse Van Houten. The Party Posse quickly ascend to stardom, albeit using complex voice enhancers built by NASA. No one is aware of the voice enhancer's use, and as such Party Posse's success depends on the voice enhancer.

The band releases a single titled "Drop da Bomb!", which contains the suspicious lyric "YVAN EHT NIOJ". Lisa's growing suspicion around The Party Posse eventually results in her discovering the line is a subliminal recruiting message to join the Navy, as Yvan Eht Nioj is Join the Navy written backwards. Lisa also discovers that L.T. Smash is, in reality, Lieutenant Smash ("LT" being the abbreviation for the Navy rank of Lieutenant). He says he is working to recruit people for the United States Navy.

Lisa points out her discoveries to Homer and Marge, but they dismiss her accusations as jealousy to Bart. The events come to a head when The Party Posse perform at a concert on an aircraft carrier, which only increases Lisa's suspicion towards the band. During the first song (which also contains subliminal messages), L.T. learns from his superior officer that MAD Magazine's next issue will lampoon The Party Posse, calling them The Potty Posse and thus the band will not have any recruiting power. L.T.'s superior officer terminates "Project Boy Band" by shutting off the band's voice enhancer, exposing the group's mediocre voices. L.T. becomes increasingly aggravated about his Superior Officers' actions, and threatens to send the carrier out to sea. When L.T.'s completes his threat, a terrified audience evacuate the carrier. The only people left on the ship are The Party Posse and Homer (Homer was unfortunately in the toilet at the time). L.T. sends the ship to New York City in an attempt to destroy the MAD skyscraper. Despite 'N Sync's attempt to stop L.T., he destroys the MAD building with the ship's missiles, but L.T.'s actions appear to only reinvigorate the MAD workers. After L.T.'s criminal actions, he is arrested and the potential of the fraudulent Party Posse remains unfulfilled.