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Template:Infobox The Simpsons season seven "Lisa the Iconoclast" is an episode in the seventh season of The Simpsons, and it was probably the most important episode for Jebediah Springfield since "The Telltale Head".

Episode details

Production Number: 3F13
Original Air Date: February 18, 1996
Writer: John Collier
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Couch Gag: The family is portrayed as the Brady Bunch.
Guest Voices: Donald Sutherland as Hollis Hurlbut

Synopsis

Template:Spoiler As Springfield celebrates its bicentennial, Lisa Simpson makes the shocking discovery that the town's beloved founder, the late Jebediah Springfield, was actually a villainous pirate who kept his dark past hidden. Lisa's revelations do not go over well with the town, of course, but the municipal government is convinced to check Mr. Springfield's body for evidence of a legendary silver tongue by exhuming his body. The skeleton contains no silver tongue, despite Lisa's suspicions that it would. However, Lisa soon figures out that the town historian Hollis Hurlbut stole the tongue before anyone else could see it. The two decide to go public with their discovery, but Lisa then realizes Jebediah Springfield's good image means too much to the town, and she drops the issue.

Quotes

• Film narrator: "1796. A fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible. Their destination: New Sodom. This is their story."
  
• Jebediah Springfield: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." (sic)
  
• Hollis Hurlbut (to eight-year-old Lisa): "You're banned from this Historical Society! You and your children and your children's children! ...For three months."
  
• Mayor Quimby: "Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?"
  
• Miss Hoover: "This is nothing but dead white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you who keep the rest of us from landing a husband."
  
• Clancy Wiggum (using Jebediah Springfield's skull as a hand puppet): "There is no silver tongue. Is there, Bonesy?"
  
• Ghost of George Washington (Washington was Jebediah Springfield's enemy): "We had quitters in the Revolution too. We called them 'Kentuckians.'"
  
• Lisa (upon hearing fellow classmate might be president): "No, not Janey! She'll pack the Supreme Court with boys!"
• Homer Simpson: "You su-diddly-uck, Flanders!"
  

Trivia

• Lisa's decision to preserve Jebediah Springfield's good image is reminiscent of the logically fallacious argument known as appeal to consequences. However, Lisa did not technically make the fallacy, as she did not personally reject the truth about Springfield, but merely chose not to announce it to the public, due to her ethical values.
• Lisa jokingly claims she has "Chester A. Arthritis" in the historical society. This is a reference to the twenty first president of the United States: Chester A. Arthur.
• On the outside of the historical society’s building it claims "where the dead come alive (metaphorically)".
• Guest star Donald Sutherland played a character named "Homer Simpson" in the film The Day of the Locust.

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