Summer of 4 Ft. 2

"Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
The Simpsons episode
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Episode no.	Season 7
Directed by	Mark Kirkland
Written by	Dan Greaney
Original air dates	May 19, 1996
Episode features
Couch gag	The family is portrayed as a fax, and the couch as a fax machine

"Summer of 4 Ft. 2" is the last episode of The Simpsons' seventh season.

Synopsis

Template:Spoiler Despite her expectations of popularity for having worked on the school yearbook, Lisa finds no one willing to sign her own. Instead, Bart finds lots of children to sign his yearbook. With school closing for the summer, the Simpson family are invited to stay at Ned Flanders' beach house while Ned performs jury duty. Marge tells the kids that they can bring a friend, and Bart obliges by bringing along Milhouse. Lisa, however, apparently has no friends to invite. Thus, she purposely neglects to pack, planning to buy a new style of clothes and remake her personality to see if she can become popular.

At the community of Little Pwagmattasquarmesettport, Lisa manages to blend in with some local children, and she turns the tables by making Bart look like a nerd. All of Bart's attempts to appear "cool" to Lisa's friends fall flat. Feeling jealous of her sister's newfound identity, Bart decides to expose Lisa's real identity with her yearbook. Enraged, Lisa tells Bart he has ruined her life, and the two spend the rest of the vacation fighting. As it turns out, however, the local children still respect Lisa, saying that she taught them much and was a good friend. At the end, Lisa finds them secretly attempting to deface the family car, but instead of writing vandalism insulting Lisa, the kids spell out "Lisa Rules" in sea shells. Lisa is elated at the gesture, but Homer is horrified at all the seashells covering his car. At Bart's request, Lisa's friends, as well as Milhouse (who has become visibly burnt out by the trip) sign her yearbook. In the end, the whole family goes home happy on Homer's car, though it is plagued with seagulls that scour the seashells.

Trivia

• The episode title is a play on the 1971 Robert Mulligan film Summer of '42.
• The song played before and during the end credits is "All Summer Long" by The Beach Boys
• Marge is apparently unaware that Gore Vidal is gay.

Quotes

• Marge: Bart, you can invite Milhouse. Lisa, you can bring a friend too.
  Lisa: Hey, great, a friend... heh, heh... or companion, or... I 'unno, stuffed animal?
• Marge: So, did you call any of your friends?
  Lisa: Friends? (holds up copy of Tome: A Novel by Gore Vidal) These are my only friends: grown-up nerds like Gore Vidal. And even he's kissed more boys than I ever will.
  Marge: Girls, Lisa. Boys kiss girls.
• Homer: (lifting Lisa's empty suitcase) Somebody's travelling light.
  Lisa: Meh. Maybe you're just getting stronger.
  Homer: Well, I have been eating more.
• Homer: (Reading a note from Flanders) Wel-diddily-elcome, Simpsons... ugh, he actually wrote "diddily".
• Lisa: Hey! A library... No, I can't. That's the old, nerdy Lisa.
  Pippi Longstocking: Lisa, read about my adventures in the South Seas, and make me live again!
  Eustace Tilly: We've got periodicals on microfiche!
  Alice: Won't you join our tea party? It would be ever so-(The Mad Hatter cocks a gun and holds Alice hostage) Don't do it, Lisa! It's a trick! Run!
• (kids talking under the boardwalk)
  Boy: So he's all, like, pffhhhtt...
  Girl: Pft, I can totally hear him going that.
  Lisa: [listening in] Only kids are that incoherent!
• Milhouse: Hey Bart, Lisa's skating with some cool kids... and she looks like Blossom.
  Bart: Lisa with people? We'll just see about that.
• (the family plays a boardgame)
  Marge: Come on, Homer. Open the door for your mystery date.
  Homer: Ooh, the captain of the football team. He's a dreamboat. Don't wait up, Marge.
• Lisa: A gift from my favorite crustacean.
  Rick: Hey... Did you learn that word from a teacher or something?
  Lisa: No... No, I heard it on Baywatch.
  They reply, Oh, yeah, Baywatch. David Hasselhoff, man.
• Homer: (trying to buy fireworks in a low-key way) Hi... um, let me have some of those porno magazines, large box of condoms, a bottle of Old Harper, a couple of those panty shields, and someillegalfireworks, and one of those disposable enemas. Eh, make it two.
  An Apu look-alike: I'm sorry, sir, but the sale of fireworks is prohibited in this state under penalty of... (He sees a man leave) Follow me. (Walks in the back of the store) The M320. What can be a better way to celebrate the birth of our nation than to blow a small piece of it up.
  (later, when Marge is going through Homer's purchase)
  Marge: I don't know what you have planned for tonight, but count me out.
• (Lisa's friends have pasted seashells onto the family car)
  Lisa: This is the most thoughtful thing anyone has ever —
  (hear Homer run up) Homer: Sweet merciful crap! My car!

External links

• "Summer of 4 Ft. 2 episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.