Little Lambs

"Lisa the Vegetarian" is the fifth episode of The Simpsons' seventh season. This episode establishes Lisa's status as a vegetarian. more...

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Synopsis

The family visits the petting zoo at Storytown Village and is immediately enraptured as they see one little lamb after another, each one more absurdly adorable than the one before it. That night, Marge serves lamb for dinner, and Lisa cannot eat it. She keeps hearing the bleating voice of the lambs at the petting zoo--"Li-i-i-sa, I thought you lo-o-o-ved me-e-eee!" Lisa pushes her plate away, crying, "I can't eat this. I can't eat a poor little lamb!" Her mother, trying to help, offers up rump roast, chicken breast, and hot dogs instead, but Lisa suddenly makes the connection between these dishes and their living counterparts. "No I can't! I can't eat any of them!"

At school, her newfound vegetarianism becomes a problem when she is almost forced to dissect a live worm whom she imagines pleading, "Li-i-isa, what did I ever do to you-u-u-u?" She's a little confused ("Why does it talk like a lamb?") but no less committed to her cause, and so she refuses to dissect it. At lunch, the only vegetarian option is a hot dog bun, which Lunchlady Doris proclaims "rich in bunly goodness." (In the Spanish dubbed version, Doris claims it's "rich in wheat and mustard"). Her caustic questioning of the exact point when Doris lost her enthusiasm for her job results in the second secret 'independent thought' alarm she's triggered that day, prompting Principal Skinner to have all coloured chalk removed from the classrooms, and to show the students a film depicting why meat-eating is a good thing (with the rather dubious belief that cows consider eating humans). At home her new found vegetarian stance is not tolerated or understood very well either, with Homer and Bart both mocking her for rejecting meat. Homer and Bart even starts a dance line "You don't win friends with salad" when Lisa asks him to serve something else at his upcoming barbecue instead of traditional meat.

Meanwhile, Homer hosts his barbecue complete with roast pig. Lisa - who is becoming increasingly self-righteous regarding her vegetarianism - brings gazpacho but is laughed out of the yard and into her room, where she sulks on her bed and resents the partygoers for rubbing their carnivorous habits "in face." Just then, a hamburger haphazardly flipped by Homer flies through her window and lands on her face.

Enraged, Lisa climbs aboard a riding mower, and drives away with the roast pig in tow. Homer and Bart chase after her, but she pushes the pig off a slope and they're too late.

Back at home, Lisa and Homer are too angry to speak to one another. They fight and she leaves the house. While walking, she is mocked by classmates and hit with a barrage of meat-related advertisements. And so the pressures to conform to an omnivorous society are too great, prompting her to grab a hot dog off of the grill at the Kwik-E-Mart, take a bite, and shout, "There! Is everybody happy now?"

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