The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson
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- "This school was supposed to prepare you for the jobs of the future. But in the future, all the jobs we've learned here will be done by robots. The only job left for humans will be..."
- ―Lisa Simpson
- "Elder care!"
- ―Bart and Lisa Simpson
"The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson"
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Episode Information
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"The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson" is the twelfth episode of broadcast season 31 of The Simpsons and the six hundred seventy-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on February 16, 2020. The episode was written by J. Stewart Burns and directed by Matthew Nastuk. It guest stars John Legend as himself, Chrissy Teigen as herself, and Zach Woods as Zane Furlong.
Synopsis[edit]
- The Sea Captain finds a treasure he's been searching for all his life, but it's taken from him by the townspeople, who extended the boundary of the town to encompass the treasure. Marge convinces the people of Springfield to build a S.T.E.M. school with the money.
Plot[edit]
Horatio McCallister is in a bar with his wife drinking when Germans enter the bar and ask for the other half of a map. Horatio and the woman use a candle to burn the German men and escape, blowing up the bar. Outside, they set their destination for treasure hunting: Springfield.
Forty years later, the sea captain is on his boat searching for the sunken treasure, still living with his wife. Years pass until he finally finds the treasure, but his wife betrays him by telling Quimby to extend the limits of Springfield to include the area where they found it, making the treasure property of the town.
At the Town Hall, a debate is held on how to use the treasure. Marge suggests using it for the kids by building a STEM school (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and calls John Legend for support by singing the STEM song. The Springfielders agree to build the Springfield STEM Academy.
Bart and Lisa meet the CEO Zane Furlong. Lisa and other smart kids are placed in the "gifted" class. Bart, for once, is excited about school, as it includes video game-style learning. During "Career Day," Zane tells the parents that their jobs will soon cease to exist. Lisa grows suspicious about what the kids outside the gifted class are being taught.
Eventually, she realizes they are being trained for mundane, minimum wage jobs. Homer tries to warn the Power Plant employees about robots taking over their jobs. Lisa tries to tell the other students the truth, but Bart—who finally enjoys school—stops her.
Lisa sneaks into the school's server room to investigate the algorithms, only for Bart to stop her again. Zane finds them arguing, and the three look up what jobs will be left for humans in the future.
At the Nuclear Plant, Homer stops Lenny and Carl from using the machine by demonstrating how men can still do the job. He collapses from the stress but quickly recovers and claims their jobs are safe—while new robots begin operating under Mr. Burns' command in the background.
Lisa, Bart, and Zane reveal they only found one job left for humans: elder care. They tell the students this, joking that STEM now stands for Sponge Bathing, Toileting, Elderly, and Massage. The students give the school bad reviews, causing its servers to self-destruct.
Zane gets Bart and Lisa out before the school explodes, and the students return to their old school, now converted into a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lisa reminds Bart that elder care is still the only job left, but they don't even know how to do it.
Zane, now working for Postmates, delivers hot wings to Homer and notes that nobody really knows where technology will lead. A vision of the future is shown with Bart and Lisa filling cups for a machine that has taken over the world, pondering how the algorithm never predicted that. Chalmers goes on a cruise aboard The Buckeye Belle to meet widows. On the ship, he speaks to a woman who lost her husband, saying he'd love to sketch her.
Production[edit]
A rejected title for the episode was "Lisa vs. the 1099 Percent".[1] A deleted scene that was cut from the episode to make time shows Lisa arguing with Zane about the kids doing menial tasks, which Zane tells Lisa are what the algorithm is saying are the jobs of tomorrow.[2] In the original draft for the episode, Bart was Lisa's hallucination all along. However, this got written out.[3]
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Promo videos[edit]
"We're making music in Springfield with @chrissyteigen and @johnlegend on #TheSimpsons this SUNDAY at 8/7c!" on Twitter
Guest Starring Chrissy Teigen & John Legend at YouTube- Chrissy Teigen & John Legend Visit Springfield at YouTube
- Bart & Lisa Arrive At A Fancy School at YouTube
- Homer Is Afraid Of The Robots at YouTube
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