| "Mr. Lisa's Opus"
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"Mr. Lisa's Opus" is the 8th episode of season 29. The episode aired on December 3, 2017.
Synopsis
- "Lisa's version of Barthood. Homer discovers how smart she is, she'll go to college, and being scared out of Springfield. Ned will try to cure Homer of his alcohol problem.
As future Lisa writes her college application essay for Harvard, she recalls past disappointing birthdays that helped shape her."
Plot
7 even years ago, Lisa wakes up Marge and Homer, who admires how awesome she is, offending Bart, who stabs him in the leg with a pencil. In the present, Lisa is writing an Harvard College admission essay and she starts writing her past.
She begins with her 7th birthday, showing how Marge gets Maggie addicted to pacifiers. The family and Ms. Myles, her teacher, forget her birthday, with Ms. Myles sending her to the Principal too, after she gets sad on them celebrating Hubert Wong's birthday. Homer comes to get her and finally remembers it's her birthday, and coming home they find out Ned didn't forget and gifts her a tricicle. The family celebrates her birthday with a cake made of a cup of milk and some candles on it.
Next, Homer is working on a exercise bike and is having medical trouble, and Lisa shows how the marriage with Marge is troubled, that nearly fell apart when she turned 14. The family this time remembers, and brings Leon Kompowsky to sing new verses for Happy Birthday, Lisa.
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