Summer of 4 Ft. 2
"Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
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Episode Information
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"Summer of 4 Ft. 2" is the 25th episode of the seventh season.
Plot
It's the end of another school year at Springfield Elementary School. While Bart and Milhouse discuss their plans for the summer, Lisa is taking care of the distribution of yearbooks. However, even with her academic track record and accolades in the yearbook (she edited the whole thing after Mr. Estes died), She becomes very disappointed when nobody wants to sign her yearbook. Later that day, Flanders makes a deal with Homer to watch over his beach house while he serves Jury Duty. The Simpson family moves out to the beach house, taking Milhouse along with them.
Seeing this as a chance for a new beginning, Lisa abandons her old, nerdy image, and tries to develop a new persona. She gets a cool new look at the beach, and finds some skateboarding friends: Erin, Dean, Rick and Ben. Trying her best to fit in, she humiliates Bart by telling her new friends that he is a nerd. Bart becomes furiously jealous of the attention Lisa is getting, and attempts to ruin her friendships by showing them Lisa's accolades in her yearbook. Saddened at this event, Lisa runs off.
The next day, the family attends a carnival, where Bart and Lisa continue to fight over the previous night's events. Finally having enough of her brother's torment, Lisa dejectedly walks back to the beach house. Once she arrives, she discovers her friends have decorated the family car with seashells. When Lisa asks why they would do such a thing for her, they let her know that her yearbook reputation doesn't matter. To them, she's still a great person.
As the family leaves the next day in their car, Bart returns Lisa's yearbook. Though before they left, he showed it to her new friends, who all have signed little messages inside. Lisa smiles and thanks Bart for the kind gesture, as the Simpsons head home.
Quotes
Milhouse, upon the school bell ringing: "School's out! Up yours, Krabappel!"
Ned Flanders, beginning to work on Homer's sump pump problem: "Hello Mr. Brown-ground, whatcha got for me?"
Lisa, lamenting her lack of friends: "These are my only friends. Grown-up nerds like Gore Vidal, and even he's kissed more boys than I ever will."
Alice from 'Alice in Wonderland,' as Lisa walks by the town library, and imagines the literary figures coming to life: "(timidly)Won't you join our tea party? It'd be ever so-don't do it Lisa, it's a trick! (Suddenly, the Mad Hatter grabs Alice, and holds a loaded gun to her temple) Run! Run!!"
Lisa, trying to be cool: "Like y'know, whatever."
Lisa, when her first introduction to the 'cool kids' is thwarted by a seagull: "You don't control the birds. You will someday, but not now."
Milhouse: "Hey Bart! Lisa's skateboarding with some cool kids...and she looks like Blossom!"
Homer, on playing the 'Mystery Date' game in the Flanders' beach house, and noting the similarity of the 'dud' character to Milhouse: "Hey! He looks just like you, poindexter!"
Convenience store clerk on selling Homer the M-320: "Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it."
Marge on digging through the groceries Homer bought at the store: "Homer, I don't know what you've got planned for tonight, but count me out!"
Homer, eyeing his new toy, the M-320, as Marge asks if he bought any meat from the grocery store: "I'm sure to kill something with this baby."
Homer: "Sweet Merciful crap, my car" After Lisa's friends decorated to impress her with starfish and seashells.
