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| *When Jebediah Springfield's grave is being dug up, the shovel flings dirt onto the grave of ]. Stevenson was buried in his hometown of ]. | *When Jebediah Springfield's grave is being dug up, the shovel flings dirt onto the grave of ]. Stevenson was buried in his hometown of ]. | ||
| *When Jebediah Springfield (né Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination. | *When Jebediah Springfield (né Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination. | ||
| *Jebediah Springfield and the annual Springfield anniversary parallel ] and the annual national holiday which bears his name. In the episode it is revealed by Lisa that Springfield was not a hero but a pirate. It has been said by a great majority that Christopher Columbus was more of a pirate than he was a great explorer. | |||
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Episode of the 7th season of The Simpsons| "Lisa the Iconoclast" | |
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| The Simpsons episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 7 |
| Directed by | Mike B. Anderson |
| Written by | Jonathan Collier |
| Original air dates | February 18, 1996 |
| Episode features | |
| Couch gag | The family is portrayed as The Brady Bunch. |
| Episode chronology | |
| The Simpsons season 7 | |
| List of episodes | |
"Lisa the Iconoclast" is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons' seventh season, and it was probably the most important episode for Jebediah Springfield since "The Telltale Head".
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)
- Edna Krabappel: "Embiggens? Humph, I've never heard that word before I moved to Springfield."
- Miss Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word."
- 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.
- Writer David S. Cohen created the word "cromulent", which was intended to sound like a real word but play on the fact that it and "embiggens" are completely fabricated.
- When Jebediah Springfield's grave is being dug up, the shovel flings dirt onto the grave of Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson was buried in his hometown of Bloomington, Illinois.
- When Jebediah Springfield (né Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination.
- Jebediah Springfield and the annual Springfield anniversary parallel Christopher Columbus and the annual national holiday which bears his name. In the episode it is revealed by Lisa that Springfield was not a hero but a pirate. It has been said by a great majority that Christopher Columbus was more of a pirate than he was a great explorer.