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Plot

Lisa feels as if she's going to have to work a little bit more now that a new student named Allison Taylor (voiced by Winona Ryder) has arrived at Springfield Elementary. Allison is as smart Lisa, younger (having skipped a grade) and like Lisa, a young master of the saxophone. Lisa Marie Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Yeardley Smith; Lisa is the only character Smith voices on a regular basis. ... Freshman Year redirects here. ... Allison Taylor is a fictional character in the Simpsons, a student at Springfield Elementary ... Winona Ryder (born October 29, 1971) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress. ... In the television series The Simpsons, Springfield Elementary School is the name of the school that Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson and their fellow peers attend. ... A child prodigy is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family. ...

Lisa tries to be her friend, though she battles her envy and fears that she will lose her purpose. At a band practice, Lisa and Allison battle saxophone to saxophone; Allison wins as Lisa plays too hard and faints. It comes to a climax during Springfield Elementary's annual "Diorama-rama", a competition in which the students build dioramas. Allison chose and constructed her project early: a scene from The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe. Although Lisa goes to great efforts to produce a better diorama of a scene from Oliver Twist, it is destroyed, and with Bart's help and prompting, Lisa decides to sabotage Allison's entry by switching Allison's diorama with one containing a rotten cow's heart. When Principal Skinner not only criticizes the diorama but begins to question Allison's overall qualifications, Lisa's guilt overcomes her and she produces the real diorama. A diorama is any of the two display devices mentioned below. ... Illustration by Harry Clarke, detail from He shrieked once -once only The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, which was first published in James Russell Lowells The Pioneer in January 1843; Poe republished it in his periodical The Broadway Journal for August 23, 1845. ... Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... Oliver Twist (1838) is Charles Dickens second novel. ... Bart and his sister Lisa as news anchors. ... COW is an acronym for a number of things: Can of worms The COW programming language, an esoteric programming language. ... In the television series The Simpsons, Springfield Elementary School is the name of the school that Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson and their fellow peers attend. ...

However, Skinner is unimpressed by both Alison's and Lisa's work and proclaims Ralph Wiggums collection of Star Wars action figures, which have nostalgic value to him, to be the winner. In the end, Lisa and Allison put aside their differences and become friends as they walk off into the sunset, picking up Ralph along the way to hang out with them after he accidentally trips and breaks his action figures (saying two of his more well known lines "I bent my Wookiee" and "My cat's breath smells like cat food"). Ralph Wiggum is a fictional character on the animated series The Simpsons, voiced by Nancy Cartwright. ... Star Wars is an epic space opera saga and a fictional universe initially developed by George Lucas during the 1970s and expanded since that time. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

A secondary story arc follows Homer after he encounters and then steals hundreds of pounds of sugar he finds at the site of a truck accident. The sugar attracts bees from a local bee hive whose owners try to buy the bees back, but at the last moment it starts raining. The sugar melts and the bees return to their hives, Homer loses out on money for returning the bees. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, and is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... Magnification of grains of sugar, showing their monoclinic hemihedral crystalline structure. ... The term Beehive can refer to several different things: Beehive (beekeeping) is a human-provided structure in which bees are induced to live and raise their young. ... Families Andrenidae Anthophoridae Apidae Colletidae Ctenoplectridae Halictidae Heterogynaidae Megachilidae Melittidae Oxaeidae Sphecidae Stenotritidae This article is about the insect. ... Rain is a type of precipitation, a product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that is deposited on the earths surface. ...

Production

According to the DVD audio commentary for the episode, the Northridge earthquake occurred during the production of this episode. It also notes that Conan O'Brien, who by this time had left the show, suggested having an episode about a rival for Lisa (though it was only the basic concept and not the story line that came from O'Brien). The following Simpsons DVDs are all one-disc compilation releases in various regions. ... A major selling point of DVD video is that its storage capacity allows for a wide variety of extra features in addition to the feature film itself. ... The occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:30:55 AM Pacific Standard Time in the city of Los Angeles, California, falling on in 1994. ... Conan Christopher OBrien (born April 18, 1963)[1] is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and television personality best known as host of NBCs late-night talk/variety show Late Night with Conan OBrien. ...

And in production this is the 100th episode.

Cultural references

• Marge reads Love in the Time of Scurvy, a reference to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.
• The episode references the movie The Fugitive in the scene where Milhouse is thought to be a criminal on America's Most Wanted. Later, Milhouse is at the end of a drainpipe on the top of a dam being gunned down by an FBI agent resembling Tommy Lee Jones.
• The episode also references the backup artists of popular music groups. Known as "The Second Best Band" the band includes Art Garfunkel, from Simon & Garfunkel, Jim Messina, from Loggins and Messina, John Oates, from Hall & Oates, and Lisa Simpson. The song they play is called "Born to Runner-up," a reference to the popular song, "Born to Run".
• We can briefly see a picture of Jazz saxophonist Bleeding Gums Murphy hanging on one of the walls in Allison's room when Lisa visits her.
• Homer's "In America" speech while guarding his sugar pile is a direct reference to Scarface.
• Lisa's hiding of the The Tell-Tale Heart diorama under the gym floorboards is itself a parody of The Tell-Tale Heart.

• Homer's cry of "Oh what a world!" when the sugar mound melts is a reference to The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, who screams the same line when she melts.

• The head beekeeper speaks in mannerisms reminiscent of Adam West as Batman; his enthusiastic cry "To the Beemobile!" is a reference to the Batmobile.

Scurvy (N.Lat. ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel García Márquez (born March 6, 1928) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist. ... Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera, 1985) is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez about a fifty-year love triangle between Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza and Doctor Juvenal Urbino set in the late 19th century and the first decades of... The Fugitive is a 1993 Academy Award and Golden Globe Award winning feature film, based on the television series The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones as Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard. ... For the professional wrestling tag team, see Americas Most Wanted (wrestling). ... For the musician, see Tommy Lee. ... Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing (1980) Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American white gollywog and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon and Garfunkel. ... Bridge Over Troubled Water was Simon and Garfunkels last album; the title track was their only number one hit in the United Kingdom. ... Jim Messina (born December 5, 1947) was a member of Buffalo Springfield, then an original member of the country rock band Poco, before he joined with Kenny Loggins to form Loggins and Messina. ... Kenny Loggins (born Kenneth Clark Loggins on January 7, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter best known for a number of soft rock and adult contemporary hit singles beginning in the 1970s. ... -1... Hall & Oates is a popular music duo made up of Daryl Hall & John Oates. ... Lisa Marie Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Yeardley Smith; Lisa is the only character Smith voices on a regular basis. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Bleeding Gums Murphy (possibly Murphy Hibbert) 1935-1995 was a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced mainly by Ron Taylor. ... Scarface is a 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Antonio Tony Montana. ... A diorama is any of the two display devices mentioned below. ... Illustration by Harry Clarke, detail from He shrieked once -once only The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, which was first published in James Russell Lowells The Pioneer in January 1843; Poe republished it in his periodical The Broadway Journal for August 23, 1845. ... The Wicked Witch of the West (or simply The Wicked Witch) is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum in his childrens books. ... The Wizard of Oz may refer to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900 book by L. Frank Baum, or any of its numerous adaptations, the most famous being the 1939 film version starring Judy Garland. ... Adam West (born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928) is an American actor who is best known for playing the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne on the TV series Batman (which also had a film adaptation). ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... It has been suggested that Batmissile, Bat-Humvee, Batmobile (Batman Forever) and Batmobile (Batman Begins) be merged into this article or section. ...

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