" Lisa the Vegetarian " was approved by Mirkin after the story was pitched by Cohen ; Mirkin had just become a vegetarian himself, and so many of Lisa's experiences in the episode were based on his own.

She then uses tarot cards to predict Lisa's future, and says she will tell Lisa the story of her true love.

In the episode, as the Simpson family gathers around Maggie and tries to encourage her to say her first word, Marge reminisces and tells the story of Lisa's first word.

The family is trying unsuccessfully to get Maggie to speak, inspiring Marge to share the story of Lisa's first word.

Marge begins telling her story of Lisa's first word by saying: " This story begins in the unforgettable spring of 1983.

The plot of Lisa's nightmare is a reference to W. W. Jacobs's short story The Monkey's Paw, and The New Twilight Zone episode " A Small Talent for War ".

Cohen's first draft contained a more philosophical argument between Lisa and Homer about eating meat, but Oakley told Cohen that the story needed something more specific to serve as the basis of Homer and Lisa's dispute.

Both the boy and Nussbaum showed signs of physical abuse, and Nussbaum's battered, unkempt appearance did much to fuel the media frenzy that accompanied the story of Lisa's death.

The producers wondered whether the story needed to explain the change in Lisa's voice, as she would be played by a different actor.

The book is about Todd and Lisa's life before the crash and her life after the crash.

At home, Homer is about to defeat Bart in a rematch when Marge unplugs the TV to announce Lisa's recovery.

* Oliver's and Lisa's stories about each other — where fact cannot be distinguished from joke.

" Batiuk was very open about the fact that Lisa's latest ordeal would end with her death and some of the events that would take place as a result.

Readers got a preview of the new-look feature starting with the October 5 strip in which a middle-aged Les talks to an unseen psychologist about events that immediately followed Lisa's passing, which are then depicted in flashback form.

The strip on the 21st showed a younger Les talking with Summer about death in general to help her understand that of Lisa's, before switching to the new-look Moores in the closing frames, and the first week of strips that followed, following the Moores participating in a Making Strides walk, had a banner saying " Act III: Ten Years Later " in the first frame ( an " Act III " statement directing readers to the official website would be discreetly included in fine print for some time afterwards ).

It was revealed that Wally had been held as a prisoner of war in Iraq for the past decade ( possibly taken hostage around the time of Lisa's death ), and — unaware that he was presumed dead and that Becky had remarried — stated during that interview that what kept him sane during his time in captivity was thinking about his wife and family.

Reactions to the most recent chapter of Lisa's Story led to further complaints over the comic's gloomy content, and Batiuk has mentioned in interviews about the storyline that he has received complaints about the current direction of the storyline.

At her first class, Katherine discovers that the girls have already memorized the entire syllabus from the textbook so she instead uses the classes to introduce them to Modern Art and encourages spirited classroom discussions about topics such as what makes good art and what the Mona Lisa's smile means.

Bart tells Lisa about his vision of the future where he has a rock band and a moped, while downplaying Lisa's future presidency as " some government job.

Lisa plants her own bodhi tree in the back yard and begins to meditate, but Marge grows increasingly worried about Lisa's soul and tries to convince her to come back to Christianity.

Lisa's friends at school tease her about her " big butt " ( for seemingly no reason other than to embarrass Lisa ), causing her to become self conscious about her weight.

On his way home that night Rick realizes he was wrong to behave the way he did and, after thinking about Vanessa's words and the photos Lisa gave him, he starts to realize Lisa's feelings are true and tries to talk to her after finding her at Claudia's home.

It isn't long until Bart realises that Lisa's suspicions are proving to be true about their parents drifting apart and offers Homer some advice in keeping his mouth shut so it doesn't get worse.

In its original American broadcast, " Lisa's First Word " finished thirteenth in the ratings for the week of November 30 to December 6, 1992, with a Nielsen rating of 16. 6 ( translating to about 15. 5 million households ).

Little is known about Lisa's life.

Like O ' Brien, Turner also analyzed the episode in the context of Lisa's questions about existentialism, self-absorption, and consumption.

The episode is used as a tool, to involve the students in a debate about religion and science, as well as to discuss Lisa's own skepticism, and her respect towards others.

While Lisa lectures the other students about global warming, Bart steals two walkie-talkies from the ranger station then places one in Lisa's backpack, and spits into the other, making it sound like she is passing gas.

Lisa's line about Michael Jackson and Dustin Hoffman appearing anonymously in The Itchy & Scratchy Movie is a reference to the fact that both had made guest appearances on The Simpsons using fake names in " Stark Raving Dad " and " Lisa's Substitute ", respectively.

Clint picks up on Lisa's unease about her mother's situation and begins charming her.

At the Simpsons ' house, someone steals Lisa's Malibu Stacy collection.

" While trying to determine who stole Lisa's Malibu Stacy car, Homer holds Bart as his prime suspect.

The Krusty doll returns to his girlfriend ( a Malibu Stacy doll ) in Lisa's dollhouse.

Even attempting to share an interest in Malibu Stacy does not work since Francine steals and ruins Lisa's Malibu Stacy doll.

The doll is quietly released, but the executives of Malibu Stacy view Lisa's doll as a real threat because it might hurt the sales of their doll.

Before the episode aired, Malibu Stacy had already appeared many times on the show as one of Lisa's dolls.

" before Lisa's Malibu Stacy doll catches the front wheel of the bike, sending Abe flying into an open grave.

He wrote: " The fact that the less intellectual doll is vastly preferred over Lisa's doll, even though Lisa's objections are reasonable, demonstrates the ways in which reasonable ideas can be made to take a back seat to having fun and going with the flow.

" Batiuk also revealed that a " clue " to Wally's fate could be found in the October 11 strip which features Les getting mugged in New York after Lisa's death after walking past a newspaper vending machine with a headline saying " Soldiers Taken Hostage ".

They also criticised Entertainment Weekly for leaving this episode and " Lisa's Substitute " off their top 25 list, saying it was the " equivalent of leaving the Sistine Chapel off a list of Michelangelo's best work ...

Todd Gilchrist named the episode as one of his favorites of the ninth season in his review of the DVD boxset, and authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, thought well of the episode, saying, " A terrific episode, with a good mix of pathos ( Lisa's farewell to the Springsonian and her favourite jazz club are inspired ) and fun ( her Homeresque ' woo-hoo ') which comes together to make a refreshing and exciting look at Lisa's life.