• Wikisimpsons needs more Featured Article, Picture, Quote, Episode and Comprehensive article nominations!
  • Wikisimpsons has a Discord server! Click here for your invite! Join to talk about the wiki, Simpsons and Tapped Out news, or just to talk to other users.
  • Make an account! It's easy, free, and your work on the wiki can be attributed to you.
TwitterFacebookDiscord

Lisa Goes Gaga

Wikisimpsons - The Simpsons Wiki
Revision as of 16:23, March 30, 2013 by Effluvium (talk | contribs)
Season 23 Episode
← "Ned 'N' Edna's Blend"
508
"Lisa Goes Gaga"
"The Longest Daycare" →
"Someone in Springfield needs my help. Light up the after-bras!"
―Lady Gaga

Template:EpisodeHD

"Lisa Goes Gaga" is the twenty-second episode and season finale of season 23.

Synopsis

Lisa tries to reverse her status as one of the least popular girls in school by ghostwriting positive things about herself on the school blog. When her plan backfires, her social ranking plummets to a new low – until a psychic force tells Lady Gaga that Lisa needs her help. With Gaga’s assistance, Lisa and the entire town of Springfield realize that being yourself is better than being like anyone else.

Plot

The Lady Gaga Express passes through Springfield and Lady Gaga decides to stop and visit the town after she learns that it has the lowest self-esteem of any place on the planet. Meanwhile, at Springfield Elementary, the Student Choice Awards are taking place. Lisa wins the award for Least Popular Student, which depresses her. At dinner that evening, Milhouse shows Lisa the school's message board, where there are several posts written by a user named "Truth Teller" who praises her. The next day, Lisa is excited to learn that her fellow classmates now wish to befriend her after reading the message board...until Bart uncovers a notepad from Lisa's backpack full of Truth Teller's messages. Putting two-and-two together, Bart figures out that Lisa is Truth Teller and was ghostwriting the messages herself, in an attempt to reverse her status as the school's least popular student. Lisa's classmates overhear Bart and begin chanting "Lie Smeller" and she runs off in tears. On the Lady Gaga Express, a psychic force alerts Gaga to Lisa's depression and she makes it her mission to try and help.

Lady Gaga arrives in Springfield and is greeted by its inhabitants. At the Simpson home, Homer and Marge are trying their best to cheer up Lisa, with little success. Homer spots a news report on the TV about Gaga's arrival and makes plans to go and see her. Lisa reluctantly agrees and the family goes to watch Gaga perform. Gaga spots Lisa in the crowd and the two of them make their way back to the Simpson home to talk. There, Gaga tries to teach Lisa that being your #1 fan is the best way to live and that being yourself is better than being like anyone else. However, Lisa still remains upset and admits that she's given up hope.

Production

Lady Gaga recording the show

"Lisa Goes Gaga" was written by Tim Long and directed by Matthew Schofield.

During August 2011, it was revealed that Lady Gaga would star as herself in an upcoming episode.[1][2][3] Gaga's recording sessions took place on August 22-26th in Los Angeles. Entertainment Weekly interviewed Gaga, expressing that her appearance was "a little nerve wracking" and that she "[doesn't] do voice-overs every day of the week". "Their characters are so awesomely convincing and sincere and wild and funny, [that] I had to remind myself constantly of the sincerity of the humor. That's what I was trying to focus on, not putting on a character too much and really being as sincere as I could with the lines." Despite these initial emotions, Gaga exclaimed that working with the staff of the show was "one of the coolest things that [she] has ever done".[4] The show producers were impressed with Gaga's ad-libbing skills and her voice-acting range. Matt Groening was also interviewed by the Entertainment Weekly, he stated that "since the very beginning, I’ve always wanted to have on the most iconic personalities of our time, and she's it". Also, Yeardley Smith was interviewed by Broadway.com, and stated that she "was stunned that she has time in her schedule that she's coming to our studio to record."[5]

Reception

The episode was watched by an approximated 4.79 million viewers and received a 2.1 rating in the 18–49 key demographic. These ratings ultimately made it the fourth least watched episode of the show to date.[6]

Critically, "Lisa Goes Gaga" evoked mixed-to-positive responses from TV reviewers, with many praising Gaga's appearance, yet criticizing the general execution of the episode. TV Equals said, "Lady Gaga helped The Simpsons end its 23rd season on a memorable note." [7] and TV Fanatic added that the writers made good use of Gaga, instead of reducing her role to a small cameo.[8] Meanwhile, Rowan Kaiser of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B- and said that "If you wanted to call it a half-hour commercial for Lady Gaga, you probably wouldn't be wrong. Fortunately for 'Lisa Goes Gaga', the celebrity at its heart is entertaining enough that it being her commercial isn't a complete waste of time."

However, fans of the show reacted extremely negatively to the episode. It currently holds a 5.4/10 IMDB rating and a 5.7/10 TV.com rating.[9][10]

In other languages

Language Name Translation
Hispanic America.gif Español "Lisa y Lady Gaga" Lisa and Lady Gaga
France.png Français "Lisa devient Gaga" Lisa becomes Gaga
Brasil Flag.png Português "Lisa toca Gaga" Lisa touches Gaga

Promotional images

  • Lisa Goes Gaga promo 1.jpg
  • Lisa Goes Gaga promo 2.jpg
  • Lisa Goes Gaga promo 3.jpg
  • Lisa Goes Gaga promo 5.jpg
  • Lisa Goes Gaga promo 6.jpg
  • Lisa Goes Gaga promo 7.jpg
  • Lisa Goes Gaga promo 8.jpg
  • Lisa Goes Gaga promo 9.jpg

References

  1. ↑ http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-to-spice-up-the-simpsons-16041045.html
  2. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/lady-gaga-gets-animated-for-the-simpsons/2011/08/23/gIQA3B2CZJ_blog.html
  3. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/lady-gaga-to-guest-star-the-simpsons_n_934423.html
  4. ↑ http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/23/lady-gaga-the-simpsons-exclusive-photo/?iid=rcfooter-tv-%27simpsons%27+goes+gaga%3A+first+pic!
  5. ↑ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1669502/lady-gaga-the-simpsons-guest.jhtml
  6. ↑ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/05/21/tv-ratings-sunday-billboard-music-awards-leads-abc-to-nightly-win-family-guy-simpsons-celebrity-apprentice-finales-up/135161/
  7. ↑ http://www.tvequals.com/2012/05/21/the-simpsons-lisa-goes-gaga-review/
  8. ↑ http://www.tvfanatic.com/2012/05/the-simpsons-review-lady-blah-blah/#ixzz1vZdgtBTv
  9. ↑ http://www.imdb.co.uk/title/tt2403733/
  10. ↑ http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/lisa-goes-gaga-2449228/


External links

The Simpsons TV.png This article about a Simpsons episode is a stub. You can help Wikisimpsons by embiggening it.
Season 23 Episodes
The Falcon and the D'ohman • Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts • Treehouse of Horror XXII • Replaceable You • The Food Wife • The Book Job • The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants • The Ten-Per-Cent Solution • Holidays of Future Passed • Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson • The D'oh-cial Network • Moe Goes from Rags to Riches • The Daughter Also Rises • At Long Last Leave • Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart‎ • How I Wet Your Mother • Them, Robot • Beware My Cheating Bart‎ • A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again • The Spy Who Learned Me • Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda • Lisa Goes Gaga
Retrieved from "https://simpsonswiki.com/w/index.php?title=Lisa_Goes_Gaga&oldid=531209"
  • Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
  • Powered by MediaWiki