"Lisa the Vegetarian" is the fifth episode of The Simpsons' seventh season. This episode establishes Lisa's status as a vegetarian, an idea that was first hinted in the episode "Lisa's Wedding". The episode featured guest star Paul McCartney and his late wife Linda. One of Paul McCartney's stipulations for doing the guest spot was that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism be a permanent one. Thus, it is an instance of continuity in the Simpsons universe that has been strictly held to. This episode received an Environmental Media Award. Simpsons redirects here. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (960x623, 422 KB) Summary Promotional artwork for The Simpsons episode Lisa the Vegetarian. ©1995 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Licensing This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work... is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Plot

The Simpsons visit Storytown Village, an amusement park for 1 to 7 1/2 year olds. They visit the park's petting zoo, where Lisa is enraptured by a cute little lamb. That night, Marge serves lamb for dinner, and Lisa cannot eat it. Her mother, trying to help, offers up chicken breast, rump roast and hot dogs instead; Lisa makes the connection between these dishes and their living counterparts, and rejects them. At school, her newfound vegetarianism becomes a problem, and the students are forced to watch a propaganda film depicting why meat-eating is a good thing (with the rather dubious assertion that cows would consider eating humans, and that humans are at the top of the food chain). Reaction at home is no better, where she is mocked by Homer and Bart for rejecting meat, particularly since Homer is ready to host a barbecue complete with roast pig. Lisa brings meat-free gazpacho but is laughed out of the yard and into her room. Enraged, she returns, climbs aboard a riding mower, and drives away with the roast pig in tow. Homer and Bart chase after her, but she pushes the pig off a slope and they are too late. The pig rolls through bushes, into the river, and is shot into the air by a hydroelectic dam's suction. At that moment, Burns and Smithers are snickering over not giving money to an orphanage unless pigs fly. When they see the "flying" pig, Burns still decides to keep the money. The Simpson Family The Simpson family is the family featured in the United States animated sitcom The Simpsons. ... Theme park redirects here. ... A petting zoo (often called, and/or part of, a childrens zoo) features a combination of domestic animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed. ... 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. ... Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ... Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products[1] [2]. The reasons for choosing vegetarianism may be related to morality, religion, culture, ethics, aesthetics, environment, society, economy, politics, taste, or health. ... The Why We Fight Series depicts the Nazi propaganda machine. ... Food chains, food webs and/or food networks describe the feeding relationships between species to another within an ecosystem. ... Homer Simpson is also a character in the book and film The Day of the Locust. ... For the comic book series of the same name, see Bart Simpson comics. ... Gazpacho with blended ingredients. ...

At home, Homer scolds Lisa for ruining his barbecue and sends her to her room (which is exactly what she wanted to do), but she rebukes him for serving meat. They fight and she leaves the house. As she walks along, she finds the pressures to conform to an omnivorous society finally become too great, prompting Lisa to grab a hot dog off of the grill at the Kwik-E-Mart and take a bite. However, Apu, himself a vegan, reveals that she has eaten a tofu dog, and takes her through a secret passageway to the Kwik-E-Mart roof to meet Paul and Linda McCartney. One brief heart-to-heart later, Lisa is committed once more to vegetarianism, but is now also endowed with Apu's belief that one should not go pushing one's own views on everyone else. Before leaving, Paul asks her if she wants to hear a song. Lisa says that she would but immediately regrets it when Apu butchers the song "Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band", apparently to the enjoyment of the McCartneys. Lisa sneaks away. Inspired, Lisa begins to walk back home and finds Homer frantically searching for her. She apologizes to Homer, admitting she had no right to ruin his barbecue; he forgives her and offers her "a piggyback--I mean, a veggieback ride." An exterior of a fictitious typical Kwik-E-Mart store. ... Apu redirects here. ... Vegan redirects here. ... For other uses, see Tofu (disambiguation). ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English rock singer, bass guitarist, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer and animal-rights activist. ... Linda Louise Eastman McCartney (September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. ... Music sample Sgt. ...

Trivia

• The comic strip Pearls Before Swine used a similar gag, where the carnivorous Fraternity of Crocodiles have their main leader, Larry, who has a son named Billy is a vegetarian. Billy is somehow more smarter, nicer, and almost never angry while his father and other crocodiles are very carnivorous and unintelligent.

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Cultural references

• The pig that Homer roasts and blasts into the air, flying over the nuclear power plant, is a direct reference to the Pink Floyd's Animals album cover, which shows a pig flying over London's Battersea Power Station (see also Pink Floyd pigs).
• I Spit on Your Grave, a notorious exploitation film, is listed on the billboard for the drive-in cinema.
• The version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" that plays over the end credits is an original mix by the Simpsons staff that, when played backwards, contains snippets of Paul McCartney reciting a recipe for lentil soup – a throwback to an earlier gag. One of the backwards snippets says "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive." - a reference to the Paul is dead theory. The recited recipe can be found on the "Extras" section on Disc 1 of The Simpsons: Complete Season 7 (box set).
• Numerous references to the Beatles are present in the episode. Paul claims to have met Apu during the Maharishi period. The Beatles' visit to the Guru in India was a big media story in 1967. Apu then claims to have been called "The Fifth Beatle".^{[citation needed]}

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Reception

MSNBC listed the episode as their second favorite in the show. They called the “You don’t win friends with salad” song "one of those archetypal “Simpsons” moments, one in which the writers hit a joke so long that it goes from funny to unfunny and back to funny again."^[1] For the news website, see msnbc. ...

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