[Paraphrasing Otto]
And the story has a happy ending, just like my last massage.[/paraphrasing Otto]
I almost missed that joke, took a couple of seconds for it to sink in.
When Lisa started with the first song, I thought the show would suck. I really liked the “Rainbow High” parody though. And I’m glad to say that I missed Michael Moore’s part.
All in all, it was an ok show.
It was the best Lisa episode ever, and the best episode in general in a long time.
I think some people want the show to suck these days.
Like the writers, you mean?
I was pretty disappointed. Seemed to me like the little disclaimer at the very end was an attempt at trying to save the episode for the huge number of people who wouldn’t get the joke and would have helped more people at the beginning (although it loses any humor that it might have being there). I got the joke, I just didn’t think it was funny.
Maybe it would have been in 1996.
No, the best Lisa episode was the L’il Lisa Slurry episode where she helped Mr. Burns get back from poverty. #2 on the list is the one where Lisa takes dancing lessons. This episode doesn’t even register.
What was it the zombie said? That cracked me up
If the Simpsons being back means they’re turning the show into Cop Rock, I’ll pass. (Hey, if the show can poke fun at ancient ad campaigns like Spuds McKenzie like they did last season, I can make Cop Rock jokes.) I think Eve hit the nail on the head about why the episode was made.
Here’s the thing. Realizing that it’s all a parody of Evita gets exactly one (1) laugh from the audience. For the rest of the episode to succeed, the songs themselves have to be funny … and, unlike most Simpsons songs, they weren’t. They were just dull. (And I usually like Lisa epsisodes, for the record.)
The episode was good until they started singing, then it was horrible. Once they shut off the horrible singing, it got awesome again, but then they ruined it with more horendous singing.
Awesome + suck = average episode.
It wasn’t the worst episode (the rerun shown after it was far worse, as far as story line and number of laughs go), but it wasn’t that good, either, in my opinion. To be fair, I’m not a fan of musicals to start off with, and I’ve never seen Evita because of that, so the parody was lost on me. I spent the whole episode wondering why they were doing it as a musical; it seemed so random to me. It wasn’t until the disclaimer at the end that I picked up on it. I’m not sure how much more I would have enjoyed it had I been in on it. That said, I did laugh a few times. Willie making fun of Millhouse was worth the price of admission alone!
“I’m gonna chuck spark plugs at people I don’t like. Like YOU!”
Or something largely to that effect. 
What kind of elementary school is it where a second-grader can be student president? Other than Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney, there doesn’t appear to be any students older than the 4th graders. Is there really a state with schools like this?
Say what you will about the episode as a whole, but I thought the master key gag was top notch.
That one had me rolling.
Homer: I sometimes wish I married a businessman…then I could have nice things.
So my tape from last night is of a Lisa-centric, musical episode? Think I’ll skip it in favor of playing “The Simpsons Hit & Run” instead (it’s the first decent “Simpsons” game). Too bad Lisa always hops out of her car just before I make it explode.:mad:
Something to the effect of “Zombie eat brains, but cannot swallow injustice.”
I found below par, or should that be above par because above par is bad in golf and…well I didn’t think it was great. But I did get a kick out of Michael Moore, citing some random statistic and Marge calling him on it, “Where did you get that statistic?” “Your mother!”
Other than that, meh…m-e-h, meh.
“I’m Milhouse. I tuck my shirt into my underpants!” Hilarious.
What did Homer say after Marge asked him where he got the pink tutu? I couldn’t hear it.
YellowTail
“Where’d you get that tutu?”
“Clothesline.”
I like the episode. I didn’t get the Evita joke and I missed the disclaimer at the end. What really brought me down was when I realized that the parts making me laugh were proof that The Simpsons have changed.
I watched it last night thinking that this episode was on par with some of the classics. Obviously, I was wrong. 
I thought it was sort of random that they were singing at first. Then when Lisa and Nelson debated, I recognized the portrait of Lisa as a parody of the Evita poster. I thought the episode was hilarious–packed with jokes and I laughed often. The episode also didn’t have that weird anticlimatic ending that recent episodes have had–you know, just as soon as the episode starts gaining momentum, it ends.
I hope this will signify a rebirth of The Simpsons.