Little Girl in the Big Ten
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"Little Girl in the Big Ten" is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons
’ thirteenth season
. It originally aired on the Fox network
in the United States
on May 12, 2002. In the episode, after seeing John F. Kennedy
in a hallucination during gym class, Lisa
befriends two college students in order to join college. Meanwhile, after being bitten by a mosquito
from a Chinese
made toy, Bart
is infected with the "panda virus" and in a plastic bubble to prevent others from infection.
"Little Girl in the Big Ten" was directed Lauren MacMullan
and written by Jon Vitti
. The episode's main plot was pitched by Vitti, who suggested an episode in which Lisa meets girls who thought she was a college student. The subplot was pitched by the Simpsons writing staff, who wanted it to be completely different from the main story. The episode features former poet laureate Robert Pinsky
as himself. In its original broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately 6.8 million viewers and finished in 40th place in the ratings the week it aired. Following its home video release on August 24, 2010, the episode received mixed reviews from critics.
finds herself unable to do any sports in PE class, taught by Brunella Pommelhorst, and finds herself failing physical education (again
). She then signs up to do gymnastics with Coach Lugash. There, she receives encouragement from the ghost of John F. Kennedy
in a dream. With boosted self-confidence, and her large head which gives her perfect balance, Lisa passes with flying colors. Lisa also meets two girls and becomes friends with them, but with their fractals and parking permits, she realizes they are college students "with small gymnast bodies!" They give Lisa a ride home, and she acts like a college student to keep their friendship. The two girls invite her to a poetry reading by Robert Pinsky
soon after. Lisa begins to wear a beret to help her fit in better.
Meanwhile, Bart
gets bitten by a Chinese
mosquito
that was in his Krusty-saurus toy, and becomes infected with "Panda virus
". To prevent others from getting sick, Dr. Hibbert puts Bart in a plastic bubble. Bart has trouble adapting to life in the bubble even though Hibbert emphasized just how "normal" it would feel; he has trouble eating and Homer
gives him a bath by filling up the bubble with the hose and rolling Bart around outside of the house. Lisa is able to keep up her double life, attending a poetry reading by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
at night and attending her second grade class during the day. While going to Springfield University, she is tracked by Milhouse
, Martin
, and Database. At a lecture about Itchy & Scratchy cartoons, they blow Lisa's cover and she is no longer welcome by her college friends.
Lisa tries to convince Homer and Marge
that college suits her, but they refuse to listen. Lisa also loses all of her friends her age, thinking they are not "college enough for her". In the meantime, Bart gets used to his bubble, as it brings him a lot of popularity. Bart tells Lisa what she should do to get her friends back: she has to pull a prank on Principal Skinner. The next day, Chalmers is dedicating the Seymour Skinner
parking annex. While Martin takes pictures of Skinner posing next to a giant chocolate cake
in his dress polyester
, Bart rolls Lisa (inside his bubble) to the edge of the school's roof. He then pushes her over the edge, splattering the cake all over Skinner. Lisa gets her friends back, while Bart goes paranoid after being outside for the first time in days. He stays in an air vent and gets sucked in.
and directed by Lauren MacMullan
. The idea for the episode was pitched by Vitti, who suggested an episode in which Lisa meets girls who thought she was a college student. It was first broadcast on the Fox network
in the United States
on May 12, 2002. Jean thought the idea was "brilliant," and the subplot involving Bart in a "germ-free" plastic bubble was conceived by the writers wanting to make "the most different subplot from[...] an intellectual college plot" they could think of. A scene in the episode shows Lisa talking to Bart on the branch of a tree in their garden. Bart says the line "You can't believe what that sunset looks like to me," to which Lisa replies "That's not a sunset, that's a bird on fire." Originally, Lisa's line read "[...] that's a plane on fire," however, after the September 11 attacks, the line was considered offensive and was changed. "[...] since we work so far ahead we usually do these things that are sort of timeless stories," Jean said, "but every once in a while there's something that turns out to be ironic in a bad way, then we have to change it."
The Itchy & Scratchy cartoon "Butter Off Dead" was, according to Jean, "completely improv[ise]d" by director MacMullan. Usually, the episodes are too "narrow" for there to be any room for improvisation, but MacMullan was an exception, since her improvisations "always turned out great." The writers came up with the cartoons title and its "template," however "the way the death proceeded and the different digestion[s]" were "All Lauren [MacMullan]." The sequence in which Pinsky is reading the poem was "very hard to do," since the animators did not have access to computers at the time. One of the audience members in the scene was designed after staff writer Matt Warburton
.
The episode features former poet laureate Robert Pinsky
as himself. Pinsky was chosen to guest star because the writers wanted an intellectual reference for Lisa, and because they knew that Pinsky was a fan of the show, having read an article of The Time in which Pinsky stated that he "admired the writing" of The Simpsons. In the DVD audio commentary for the episode, Pinsky stated that he flew to the Simpsons recording studios in Los Angeles on September 10, 2001, and, following the September 11 attacks, was "stranded" there for four days, since no planes were flying following the attacks. Pinsky enjoyed his stay however; "Ian [Maxtone-Graham] and The Simpsons people were very nice to me," he said. "... One of the things they did for me is they invited me to a table-read of another episode[...] Thursday the 13th[...] I remember everybody laughed like hell[...] It felt really good. People just went to work and everybody laughed a lot."
Pinsky stated that he felt "really inept" when recording his dialogue. He said "Amongst my friends I'm funny. In that context of Dan Castellaneta... I would say it was like a disaster movie, and I was that character played by Susan Hayward
." The poem Pinsky reads in the episode was picked by the Simpsons writing staff, "The poem has two jokes in it," Pinsky said, "and when I say jokes I don't mean witty remarks. It's more like an optician, the pope and a zebra go into the bar and then there's a punch line at the end." He stated that the poem was "an elegy for a friend of mine who liked jokes." He added that his appearance on the show gave him "a lot more prestige" when visiting high schools and colleges. The episode also features Karl Wiedergott
as the professor at the Springfield University.
, in which a boy born with an improperly functioning immune system lives out his life in incubator-like conditions. In one of Lisa's college courses, the students are watching an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon title "Butter Off Dead". The lecture was a reference to college courses which include The Simpsons episodes in their teachings. The gate to Springfield University was based "loosely" on the ivy gate at Harvard University
. The episode also parodies the British anarcho-punk
band Chumbawamba
.
, translating to approximately 6.8 million viewers. The episode finished in 40th place in the ratings for the week of May 6–12, 2002, making it the most watched program of the network tied with Malcolm in the Middle
and Boston Public
. On August 24, 2010, "Little Girl in the Big Ten" was released as part of The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season DVD
and Blu-ray set. Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Matt Selman, Tom Gammill, Max Pross and Robert Pinsky participated in the audio commentary of the episode.
Following its home video release, "Little Girl in the Big Ten" received mixed reviews from critics. Nate Boss of Project-Blu called it "An average episode, for the series as a whole, making it a great one for this season," praising "a superb Chumbawumba parody" which he thought was "way better than the R.E.M. lyrics gag earlier in the season
." Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide wrote "Lisa-based shows definitely fall into the hit or miss category, and “Ten” stays within those confines." While he praised some of Homer's scenes, including "his drunken versions of pop songs," he maintained that "not much else connects." He concluded his review by writing "Though we find the occasional laugh, the overall impact remains lackluster." DVD Verdict's Jennifer Malkowski gave the episode a B-, and wrote that "Homer's answer to the rhetorical question about gymnastics 'Who wants to put on a leotard and get screamed at?'" was the episode's "highlight."
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
’ thirteenth season
The Simpsons (season 13)
The Simpsons thirteenth season originally aired on the Fox network between November 6, 2001 and May 22, 2002 and consists of 22 episodes. The show runner for the thirteenth production season was Al Jean who executive-produced 17 episodes...
. It originally aired on the Fox network
Fox Broadcasting Company
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in the United States
United States
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on May 12, 2002. In the episode, after seeing John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
in a hallucination during gym class, Lisa
Lisa Simpson
Lisa Marie Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons. She is the middle child of the Simpson family. Voiced by Yeardley Smith, Lisa first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Cartoonist Matt Groening...
befriends two college students in order to join college. Meanwhile, after being bitten by a mosquito
Mosquito
Mosquitoes are members of a family of nematocerid flies: the Culicidae . The word Mosquito is from the Spanish and Portuguese for little fly...
from a Chinese
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
made toy, Bart
Bart Simpson
Bartholomew JoJo "Bart" Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family. He is voiced by actress Nancy Cartwright and first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987...
is infected with the "panda virus" and in a plastic bubble to prevent others from infection.
"Little Girl in the Big Ten" was directed Lauren MacMullan
Lauren MacMullan
Lauren MacMullan is an animation director. Her first primetime TV job was on The Critic, followed by directing for King of the Hill. She went on to become the supervising director and designer for Mission Hill. After the show was cancelled quickly, she got a job directing on The Simpsons, and...
and written by Jon Vitti
Jon Vitti
Jon Vitti is an American writer best known for his work on the television series The Simpsons. He has also written for the King of the Hill and The Critic series, and has served as a consultant for several animated movies, including Ice Age and Robots...
. The episode's main plot was pitched by Vitti, who suggested an episode in which Lisa meets girls who thought she was a college student. The subplot was pitched by the Simpsons writing staff, who wanted it to be completely different from the main story. The episode features former poet laureate Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry...
as himself. In its original broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately 6.8 million viewers and finished in 40th place in the ratings the week it aired. Following its home video release on August 24, 2010, the episode received mixed reviews from critics.
Plot
LisaLisa Simpson
Lisa Marie Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons. She is the middle child of the Simpson family. Voiced by Yeardley Smith, Lisa first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Cartoonist Matt Groening...
finds herself unable to do any sports in PE class, taught by Brunella Pommelhorst, and finds herself failing physical education (again
Lisa on Ice
"Lisa on Ice" is the eighth television episode of The Simpsons sixth season. It was first broadcast on Fox in the United States on November 13, 1994. In the episode, Principal Skinner hands out academic alerts to the Springfield Elementary students, and Lisa discovers that she is in peril of...
). She then signs up to do gymnastics with Coach Lugash. There, she receives encouragement from the ghost of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
in a dream. With boosted self-confidence, and her large head which gives her perfect balance, Lisa passes with flying colors. Lisa also meets two girls and becomes friends with them, but with their fractals and parking permits, she realizes they are college students "with small gymnast bodies!" They give Lisa a ride home, and she acts like a college student to keep their friendship. The two girls invite her to a poetry reading by Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry...
soon after. Lisa begins to wear a beret to help her fit in better.
Meanwhile, Bart
Bart Simpson
Bartholomew JoJo "Bart" Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family. He is voiced by actress Nancy Cartwright and first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987...
gets bitten by a Chinese
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
mosquito
Mosquito
Mosquitoes are members of a family of nematocerid flies: the Culicidae . The word Mosquito is from the Spanish and Portuguese for little fly...
that was in his Krusty-saurus toy, and becomes infected with "Panda virus
Hantavirus
Hantaviruses are negative sense RNA viruses in the Bunyaviridae family. Humans may be infected with hantaviruses through rodent bites, urine, saliva or contact with rodent waste products...
". To prevent others from getting sick, Dr. Hibbert puts Bart in a plastic bubble. Bart has trouble adapting to life in the bubble even though Hibbert emphasized just how "normal" it would feel; he has trouble eating and Homer
Homer Simpson
Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons and the patriarch of the eponymous family. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987...
gives him a bath by filling up the bubble with the hose and rolling Bart around outside of the house. Lisa is able to keep up her double life, attending a poetry reading by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry...
at night and attending her second grade class during the day. While going to Springfield University, she is tracked by Milhouse
Milhouse Van Houten
Milhouse Mussolini Van Houten is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Pamela Hayden. He is Bart Simpson's best friend in Mrs. Krabappel's fourth grade class at Springfield Elementary School....
, Martin
Martin Prince
Martin Prince, Jr. is a recurring character in the Fox animated series, The Simpsons, and is voiced by Russi Taylor. Martin is Bart Simpson's classmate, and is Lisa Simpson's rival in intelligence, as well as Nelson Muntz's favorite target for bullying...
, and Database. At a lecture about Itchy & Scratchy cartoons, they blow Lisa's cover and she is no longer welcome by her college friends.
Lisa tries to convince Homer and Marge
Marge Simpson
Marjorie "Marge" Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons and part of the eponymous family. She is voiced by actress Julie Kavner and first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987...
that college suits her, but they refuse to listen. Lisa also loses all of her friends her age, thinking they are not "college enough for her". In the meantime, Bart gets used to his bubble, as it brings him a lot of popularity. Bart tells Lisa what she should do to get her friends back: she has to pull a prank on Principal Skinner. The next day, Chalmers is dedicating the Seymour Skinner
Seymour Skinner
Principal W. Seymour Skinner is a fictional character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. He is voiced by Harry Shearer. Born in Capitol City, he is the principal of Springfield Elementary School...
parking annex. While Martin takes pictures of Skinner posing next to a giant chocolate cake
Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake is a cake flavored with melted chocolate or cocoa powder.-History:Chocolate cake is made with chocolate; it can be made with other ingredients, as well. These ingredients include fudge, vanilla creme, and other sweeteners. The history of chocolate cake goes back to 1764, when Dr...
in his dress polyester
Polyester
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, Bart rolls Lisa (inside his bubble) to the edge of the school's roof. He then pushes her over the edge, splattering the cake all over Skinner. Lisa gets her friends back, while Bart goes paranoid after being outside for the first time in days. He stays in an air vent and gets sucked in.
Production
"Little Girl in the Big Ten" was written by producer Jon VittiJon Vitti
Jon Vitti is an American writer best known for his work on the television series The Simpsons. He has also written for the King of the Hill and The Critic series, and has served as a consultant for several animated movies, including Ice Age and Robots...
and directed by Lauren MacMullan
Lauren MacMullan
Lauren MacMullan is an animation director. Her first primetime TV job was on The Critic, followed by directing for King of the Hill. She went on to become the supervising director and designer for Mission Hill. After the show was cancelled quickly, she got a job directing on The Simpsons, and...
. The idea for the episode was pitched by Vitti, who suggested an episode in which Lisa meets girls who thought she was a college student. It was first broadcast on the Fox network
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
on May 12, 2002. Jean thought the idea was "brilliant," and the subplot involving Bart in a "germ-free" plastic bubble was conceived by the writers wanting to make "the most different subplot from[...] an intellectual college plot" they could think of. A scene in the episode shows Lisa talking to Bart on the branch of a tree in their garden. Bart says the line "You can't believe what that sunset looks like to me," to which Lisa replies "That's not a sunset, that's a bird on fire." Originally, Lisa's line read "[...] that's a plane on fire," however, after the September 11 attacks, the line was considered offensive and was changed. "[...] since we work so far ahead we usually do these things that are sort of timeless stories," Jean said, "but every once in a while there's something that turns out to be ironic in a bad way, then we have to change it."
Matt Warburton
Matt Warburton is an American television writer currently working on The Simpsons. In reference to Warburton, Current show runner Al Jean once joked that the show now has a writer younger than Bart...
.
The episode features former poet laureate Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry...
as himself. Pinsky was chosen to guest star because the writers wanted an intellectual reference for Lisa, and because they knew that Pinsky was a fan of the show, having read an article of The Time in which Pinsky stated that he "admired the writing" of The Simpsons. In the DVD audio commentary for the episode, Pinsky stated that he flew to the Simpsons recording studios in Los Angeles on September 10, 2001, and, following the September 11 attacks, was "stranded" there for four days, since no planes were flying following the attacks. Pinsky enjoyed his stay however; "Ian [Maxtone-Graham] and The Simpsons people were very nice to me," he said. "... One of the things they did for me is they invited me to a table-read of another episode[...] Thursday the 13th[...] I remember everybody laughed like hell[...] It felt really good. People just went to work and everybody laughed a lot."
Pinsky stated that he felt "really inept" when recording his dialogue. He said "Amongst my friends I'm funny. In that context of Dan Castellaneta... I would say it was like a disaster movie, and I was that character played by Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone with the Wind . Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting...
." The poem Pinsky reads in the episode was picked by the Simpsons writing staff, "The poem has two jokes in it," Pinsky said, "and when I say jokes I don't mean witty remarks. It's more like an optician, the pope and a zebra go into the bar and then there's a punch line at the end." He stated that the poem was "an elegy for a friend of mine who liked jokes." He added that his appearance on the show gave him "a lot more prestige" when visiting high schools and colleges. The episode also features Karl Wiedergott
Karl Wiedergott
Karl Wiedergott, born Karl Aloysious Treaton is a German actor. He is noted for his voice work on the long-running Fox sitcom The Simpsons since 1998, voicing background characters and some celebrities such as John Travolta and Bill Clinton...
as the professor at the Springfield University.
Cultural references
The episode's subplot was based on the 1976 made-for-TV movie The Boy in the Plastic BubbleThe Boy in the Plastic Bubble
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 made-for-TV movie inspired by the lives of David Vetter and Ted DeVita, who lacked effective immune systems. It stars John Travolta, Glynnis O'Connor, Diana Hyland, Robert Reed, and P.J. Soles...
, in which a boy born with an improperly functioning immune system lives out his life in incubator-like conditions. In one of Lisa's college courses, the students are watching an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon title "Butter Off Dead". The lecture was a reference to college courses which include The Simpsons episodes in their teachings. The gate to Springfield University was based "loosely" on the ivy gate at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. The episode also parodies the British anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk is punk rock that promotes anarchism. The term anarcho-punk is sometimes applied exclusively to bands that were part of the original anarcho-punk movement in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
band Chumbawamba
Chumbawamba
Chumbawamba is a British musical group who have, over a career spanning nearly three decades, played punk rock, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music...
.
Reception
In its original American broadcast on May 12, 2002, "Little Girl in the Big Ten" received a 6.4 rating, according to Nielsen Media ResearchNielsen Media Research
Nielsen Media Research is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre films and newspapers...
, translating to approximately 6.8 million viewers. The episode finished in 40th place in the ratings for the week of May 6–12, 2002, making it the most watched program of the network tied with Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...
and Boston Public
Boston Public
Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school district in which it takes place...
. On August 24, 2010, "Little Girl in the Big Ten" was released as part of The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season DVD
DVD
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and Blu-ray set. Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Matt Selman, Tom Gammill, Max Pross and Robert Pinsky participated in the audio commentary of the episode.
Following its home video release, "Little Girl in the Big Ten" received mixed reviews from critics. Nate Boss of Project-Blu called it "An average episode, for the series as a whole, making it a great one for this season," praising "a superb Chumbawumba parody" which he thought was "way better than the R.E.M. lyrics gag earlier in the season
Homer the Moe
“Homer the Moe” is the third episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. The episode first aired on the Fox network on November 18, 2001. In the episode, Moe, following advice of his former bartending professor, decides to modernize his bar...
." Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide wrote "Lisa-based shows definitely fall into the hit or miss category, and “Ten” stays within those confines." While he praised some of Homer's scenes, including "his drunken versions of pop songs," he maintained that "not much else connects." He concluded his review by writing "Though we find the occasional laugh, the overall impact remains lackluster." DVD Verdict's Jennifer Malkowski gave the episode a B-, and wrote that "Homer's answer to the rhetorical question about gymnastics 'Who wants to put on a leotard and get screamed at?'" was the episode's "highlight."
External links
- "Little Girl in the Big Ten" at The Simpsons.com