"Lisa the Iconoclast"
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Episode Information
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Springfield's bicentenial is coming up, to celebrate, the town prepares a parade.
Lisa, decides to enter a report about
Jebediah Springfield into a school contest. To research for the report, she visits the history museum, where she meets
Hollis Hurlbut, a renowned scholar who specializes in researching
Jebediah. Meanwhile,
Homer tries out for the position of town crier in the upcoming parade.
Flanders, who was originally town crier, gracefully gives up the position and
Homer takes over.
Lisa finds a rolled up peice of parchment concealed in
Jebediah's
flute. The parchment reveals that Jebediah was an evil pirate who fought with George Washington. Lisa reveals this to Homer and they set off to reveal the truth. No one believes them, so they set out to dig up Jebediah's corpse. Hans Sprungfeild had a silver prosthetic toungue. If they find the toungue, they prove that Jebediah was not the hero he was thought to be. When they dig up the corpse, they find no toungue. Homer is banned from the parade, and he and Lisa are shunned. Determined to find the toungue, Lisa goes back to the museum. There she finds that Hollis Hurlbut stole and hid the toungue to sheild the town from the truth. She goes to reveal to the town the truth, but is unable because the lie has brought everyone together.