# Last Exit to Springfield **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392 "2018-03-11T19:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/21 "2018-03-12T16:00:27Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > I’ve never seen a episode of Jay Leno or Oprah but I can deduce from pop culture references that one was a late night host who’s voice went high every time he told a punchline to a joke while the other was some kind of leader to a cult of mostly middle aged women. “Hey, kids! Who do you love?” “KRUSTY!” “How much do you love me?” “WITH ALL OUR HEARTS!” “What would you do if I went off the air?” “WE’D KILL OURSELVES!” - Krusty Gets Busted, where Sideshow Bob has some big shoes to fill. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/22 "2018-03-13T02:52:26Z")
Mr. Burns: If only we’d listened to that boy, instead of walling him up in the abandoned coke oven. And also: I prefer the personal touch you only get with hired goons. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/23 "2018-03-13T15:26:44Z")
Based on this thread, and how season 4 has so many of my favorite episodes, I bought the season on Amazon. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/24 "2018-03-13T17:16:40Z")
I watch both LEtS and Krusty Gets Kancelled last night, because of this thread. I see the season also has Selma’s Choice, another classic! That one tonight. “I am the lizard QUEEN!” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/25 "2018-03-13T17:33:06Z")
It was a great show. Those first five years were some of the best TV ever made and subversive in its day. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/26 "2018-03-13T21:25:38Z")
And that’s the tooth! Whoops, I left the gas on. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/27 "2018-03-14T19:53:31Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I had no idea that this was considered [one of the best if not the best episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Exit_to_Springfield#Reception). Just for season 4 alone, I’d put it behind _Treehouse of Horror III_, _Marge vs. the Monorail_, _Whacking Day_, _I Love Lisa_, and _Kamp Krusty_. Also good, but sadly maligned, Saddlesore Galactica and the Principal and the Pauper! An yes, i’m serious, I love those eps. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/28 "2018-03-15T02:12:09Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > It was a great show. Those first five years were some of the best TV ever made and subversive in its day. I agree. On a slight tangent, Season 5 has an amazing number of great episodes. > **[The Simpsons season 5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_(season_5))** > > The fifth season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons aired on Fox between September 30, 1993, and May 19, 1994. The showrunner for the fifth production season was David Mirkin who executive produced 20 episodes, with the season being produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television. Al Jean and Mike Reiss executive produced the remaining two, which were both hold overs that were produced for the previous season. The season contains some of the series' most acclaimed and popula... ---
**Author:** ![sms339](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@sms339](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sms339)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/29 "2018-03-19T02:02:15Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I watch both LEtS and Krusty Gets Kancelled last night, because of this thread. I see the season also has Selma’s Choice, another classic! That one tonight. > > “I am the lizard QUEEN!” Not to derail the thread, but the Homer/Giant hoagie sequence in “Selma’s Choice” kills me everytime. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/30 "2018-03-19T02:25:21Z")
I’d like to be alone with the sandwhich. Are you going to eat it? . . . . yes ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/31 "2018-03-19T02:33:46Z")
Two more feet, and I can fit it in the fridge. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/32 "2018-03-19T16:24:54Z")
I still wonder what were the “original” third and fourth lines to Lisa’s song. The lines, “We’ll fight 'til we drop, the girls and the fellas / We’ll march to the death or else fold like umbrealls,” do not match Lisa’s lip movements. And in the 25 years since then, I can’t remember any subsequent reference to Lisa’s braces **don’t even think about replying "Dental Plan"** ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/33 "2018-03-19T20:11:02Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > And in the 25 years since then, I can’t remember any subsequent reference to Lisa’s braces **don’t even think about replying “Dental Plan”** Perhaps all those episodes take place before “Last Exit to Springfield”? I.e., it is set sometime late in the Eternal Year in the Simpsons Universe. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/34 "2018-03-19T20:18:58Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > I still wonder what were the “original” third and fourth lines to Lisa’s song. The lines, “We’ll fight 'til we drop, the girls and the fellas / We’ll march to the death or else fold like umbrealls,” do not match Lisa’s lip movements. > > And in the 25 years since then, I can’t remember any subsequent reference to Lisa’s braces **don’t even think about replying “Dental Plan”** I thought she got invisible braces at the end of the episode once Homer’s dental plan was reinstated. Maybe she STILL has the braces after 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/35 "2018-03-19T20:20:39Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Perhaps all those episodes take place before “Last Exit to Springfield”? I.e., it is set sometime late in the Eternal Year in the Simpsons Universe. You have to wear braces for at least a year, and Lisa is still the same age, 25 years later. So they are still on her teeth. Straightening. She probably had them off sometime before she became President, though. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/36 "2018-03-19T21:19:49Z")
I assume her braces are never referenced again because of a court decree, similar to the end of [The Principal and the Pauper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principal_and_the_Pauper). > [@Judge Snyder](#): > > And I further decree that everything will be just like it was before all this happened, and no one will ever mention it again… > Under penalty of torture! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392/37 "2018-03-19T21:35:32Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I assume her braces are never referenced again because of a court decree, similar to the end of [The Principal and the Pauper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principal_and_the_Pauper). And yet, Lisa did [mention it again](https://youtu.be/6rxdhKRODLw?t=60) [only 7 years later](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/I,_(Annoyed_Grunt)-Bot). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-exit-to-springfield/810392.md?page=1)