# Lisa the Skeptic The Simpsons, season 9, episode 8 (S09E08), first aired November 23, 1997. Written by David X. Cohen. Directed by Neil Affleck. Production code 5F05. Guest stars: Marcia Wallace as Mrs. Krabappel; Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz; Stephen Jay Gould. Chalkboard gag: "I will not tease fatty". Couch gag: Sauna. On a school fossil dig, Lisa uncovers a winged human skeleton, and Springfield hails it as an angel while Homer charges admission to view it in the garage. Lisa asks paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to test it, and her scoffing on TV sparks a riot against science. The skeleton then vanishes and reappears, warning of the end at sundown, as a stunt for a new mall. Who's in it: Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson, Maggie Simpson, Moe Szyslak, Milhouse Van Houten, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders, Barney Gumble, Chief Wiggum, Krusty the Clown, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Mrs. Krabappel, Dr. Hibbert, Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Nelson Muntz, Kent Brockman, Otto Mann, Jasper Beardsley, Martin Prince, Ralph Wiggum, Patty Bouvier, Reverend Lovejoy, Selma Bouvier, Groundskeeper Willie, Lou, Richard, Jimbo Jones, Eddie, Miss Hoover, Todd Flanders, Maude Flanders, Rod Flanders, Kearney Zzyzwicz, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, Kirk Van Houten, Luann Van Houten, Helen Lovejoy, Professor Frink, Bernice Hibbert, Agnes Skinner, Dolph Starbeam, Snake, Gareth Prince, Superintendent Chalmers, Lionel Hutz, Sarah Wiggum, Herman Hermann, Gloria Prince, Cletus Spuckler, Alice Glick, Bumblebee Man, Blue-Haired Lawyer, Brandine Spuckler, Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon, Sherri and Terri, Roy Snyder, Mr. Teeny, Üter Zörker, Disco Stu, Jimmy the Scumbag, Pope John Paul II, Stephen Jay Gould, Heavenly Hills businessman, Heavenly Hills owner, Pope's advisor. Every moment of the episode, about ten seconds each: when it is, what happens on screen, and what's said. The descriptions are written by an AI model from frames of each moment and can get small details wrong. The dialogue is from the episode's subtitles. Web page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic From Ultrahouse 3000 (https://ultrahouse3k.com/). Search engines and AI are welcome to use it: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes. ## 0:00–0:12 Bart, the boy with spiky hair in an orange shirt and blue shorts, is at the chalkboard in a classroom, writing lines that read "I will not tease Fatty" over and over. Early on the blackboard is filled with the repeated lines, and he turns to chalk the board again, then pauses and looks back with a bit of a grin. Near the end he runs toward the door with his hand raised, leaving the chalkboard, a wall clock, and a bin of crumpled paper in the room, while the opening title card for The Simpsons, white clouds on a blue sky with yellow lettering, appears at the start of the sequence. > The Simpsons Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1043.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/6048 ## 0:12–0:24 Homer, in a yellow protective suit with an orange harness and a visor, holds a glowing green rod at a CAUTION sign in the nuclear plant while Mr. Burns, frail and stooped with grey hair at the sides, and his thin assistant Smithers, with glasses, watch from the control booth. The scene cuts to a store checkout where Marge, with her tall blue beehive and red beads, reads a MOM MONTHLY magazine with a Frosted Krusty Flakes cover while Maggie, with her blue bow and pacifier, sits on the conveyor belt beside a clerk in a grey apron. Marge then pushes a wire shopping cart across an orange tiled floor, and Maggie peeks over the cart's edge before Marge waves her hands in front of her. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/13347.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/18560 ## 0:24–0:38 Lisa Simpson, in her red dress and pearl necklace, plays a saxophone-like horn in a school band room alongside Mr. Burns, a frail, stooped old man with a hooked nose, grey hair at the sides and a black bow tie, who conducts from a music stand with a stern expression and raised hand, while other students play brass, woodwinds and drums around them. Lisa then walks alone down an orange hallway carrying a large horn toward a blue door. Outside the Simpsons' house, the pink car sits in the driveway; Bart on a skateboard rolls past the open garage with a bicycle and boxes inside, and then Homer stands by the car while Lisa rides up on a red bicycle balancing a tall stack of books. Finally Homer bends over at the car's open hood, gripping his head in frustration, with the mailbox at the edge of the lawn. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/26068.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/31907 ## 0:38–0:51 Homer, in a white shirt and blue shorts, gestures and talks in a purple room beside a red bed holding a glass, then the scene moves to a pink room where three towel-wrapped older men soak their feet in a glowing red bubbling tub on a brown couch. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and baby Maggie, all in towels, gather around the tub and watch while the men sit still, with a blue lamp shade, a phone and a TV set in the room. The scene ends on a TV screen in pink surroundings first reading "CREATED BY MATT GROENING" and then "DEVELOPED BY JAMES L. BROOKS, MATT GROENING, SAM SIMON". Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/39831.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/44836 ## 0:51–1:02 Chief Wiggum, the heavyset police chief in uniform, stands on the steps of the Springfield Police Station holding a white envelope, while two officers on ladders hang a light blue banner reading "BOAT GIVEAWAY TODAY!" above the entrance. The scene begins with the building's banner and sign alone, then the chief is shown on the stairs, moving up toward the doors and glancing back as he holds the envelope. On-screen credits appear over the steps, first "Co-Executive Producer GEORGE MEYER" and then "Co-Executive Producer DAVID S. COHEN." > Ha-ha, this sting can't miss, boys. > I mailed these bogus prize certificates to every scofflaw in Springfield. > When they show up for their free motorboats, Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/52135.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/56723 ## 1:02–1:15 Chief Wiggum, the fat police chief, stands before the Springfield Police Station holding up a card reading "You have won a FREE MOTORBOAT!!" while a police officer on a ladder hangs a blue "BOAT GIVE AWAY TODAY" banner above the entrance. A second officer, a Black man in a blue uniform, comes down the steps and points, and Wiggum grins, then turns his gaze aside with a startled, wide-eyed look. White producer credit captions appear over the scene at points. > we arrest them and beat them to the full extent of the law. > So the hook is baited, huh? > Nice metaphor, Eddie. > Yeah, good work, Eddie. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/63605.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/69027 ## 1:15–1:29 Homer, in a white captain's hat, and Marge, with her tall blue beehive, sit in the front of a pink car with Marge's hands on the wheel while Homer gestures and talks excitedly. Later, Bart in an orange shirt and Maggie with a pacifier and blue bow ride in the back, Bart holding up a paper ticket while Homer, now gripping the wheel, looks over with a grin and then holds up a sheet of paper. Producer credits appear over the lower part of the screen, naming Donick Cary, Brian Scully, Julie Thacker, Jace Richdale and Ian Maxtone-Graham. > Up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful motorboat. > But we didn't enter any police raffle. That doesn't matter. > The important thing is we won. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/76743.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/82374 ## 1:29–1:41 Homer, in a captain's hat and white shirt, sits at the wheel of a pink car with Marge, whose tall blue beehive and red beads are visible, beside him. Lisa and Bart sit in the back with Maggie in a baby seat in front of them. Outside the Springfield Police Station, under a banner reading 'BOAT GIVEAWAY TODAY!', Homer pulls the car up to the curb. In the car, Marge and Homer glance around warily, then the family sits in the car with Homer gesturing and looking uneasy while Marge and the kids stare ahead. Homer's hands are on the steering wheel as he drives away, and the scene ends with the family in the back seat looking nervously forward. Consulting producer and director credits appear as white text over the images. > I don't know. > There's something very peculiar about this. > Sheesh! > You're the most paranoid family I've ever been affiliated with. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/90299.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/95304 ## 1:41–1:51 Homer in a white captain's hat enters a police station through a door, then leans in at a front counter where Nelson, in a blue vest with a green tattoo on his arm and reddish swept hair, scowls and grips a slip of paper while Homer gestures at him. Chief Wiggum, in his blue uniform, reaches across the counter and takes hold of Nelson's arm, then sits at his desk holding a small card and points toward a door labeled BOAT ROOM. Yellow production credit text appears over the scene, including names such as Colin A.B.V. Lewis, J. Michael Mendel, Bonita Pietila and Richard Raynis. > I'd like a yellow boat, please. > With extra motors. > Yo, no cuts, bro. > Where's my motorboat, pig? Uh, right through that door. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/102394.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/106565 ## 1:51–2:05 Chief Wiggum, the fat police chief, and Homer in a white uniform and captain's cap appear in a station hallway, while a man with swept-back reddish hair in a blue jumpsuit with a green-striped sleeve walks past a door marked BOAT ROOM and goes inside. Another officer in a blue uniform and cap crowds into the doorway with him, and they jostle and struggle as the door swings open and shut, until Wiggum, holding a card, strides over and Homer watches from behind. Credits overlay the early moments, including 'Produced by RICHARD RAYNIS' and 'Directed by NEIL AFFLECK'. > Ouch! > Oh, I called brutality on you. You have the right to remain... > All right, Simpson Homer, you're next. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/113030.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/118452 ## 2:05–2:17 Homer, in his white captain's hat and white shirt, is in a police station with Chief Wiggum, a fat police chief in a blue cap, and a dark-skinned police officer, while several seated people on benches in the waiting room look on. Homer walks in through a doorway, waving one arm, and is then grabbed by the officers, who pin him over a dark desk as he yells and struggles. He ends up slumped across the desk with his arms stretched out, while Wiggum holds a baton and the officers' handcuffs hang from their belts. > Woo-hoo! > Howdy, gents. I'm here to collect my free... > Oh! > Oh, my boating arm! What's going on? You're under arrest, slime bag. > What's this perp in for, Lou? Uh, 235 unpaid. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/126168.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/131381 ## 2:17–2:31 Chief Wiggum, the fat police chief in a blue uniform and cap, stands at the left of a police station room, while Homer, bald and in a white shirt, is held from behind by two officers, one of them Lou with a grey-blue cap and the other a Black officer in a blue cap with a tall hat badge. A thin man in a blue jacket and red shirt watches from the left edge, and a blue police cap lies on the floor near a green desk. Wiggum speaks and gestures with a baton and cuffs, then Homer is pinned over the desk, struggles, and is later shown seated at the desk writing with a blue pen on a small white form while the officers hold him and Wiggum watches from the foreground. > I paid parking tickets totaling $175. > I hope you brought your checkbook, wise guy. > Lousy cops. Lucky for you, I'm double parked right... Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/138889.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/144728 ## 2:31–2:37 Homer Simpson, in a white shirt and a white sailor cap, stands in a police station room with his arms crossed, while Chief Wiggum, the fat police chief in blue uniform, holds a small paper and stands at left beside a dark desk. Two uniformed officers stand at right, one with a blonde-ish hairline and one with a moustache and dark curly hair, both looking on, and a seated man in a red shirt and jacket sits at far left. In the early frames Homer is pushed forward by the officers and gestures toward the desk, and he then steps back and folds his arms while speaking, with Wiggum keeping his eyes on the paper. A blue motorboat-like object with a white base sits on the purple floor in front of the desk. > There! > Now, can I please have my motorboat? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/152444.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/154321 ## 2:37–2:50 Inside the purple family car, Homer Simpson grips the steering wheel with a tense, angry expression while Marge Simpson sits at the far left in her tall blue beehive and green dress, with Lisa, Bart and Maggie (in her pink car seat with a pacifier) in the back. Across the scene Homer's mouth opens and closes as if he is speaking through gritted teeth, and the others glance sideways at him, Bart and Lisa showing wary, uneasy looks; in the later frames Lisa's mouth moves and Maggie's pacifier is visible as the car passes green trees and a wooden cabin outside the window. > Dad, why aren't you saying anything? > Where's our motorboat? > I didn't like it. The mast had termites. > Why would our motorboat have a mast? Because! > The thingy was... Shut up! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/158283.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/163705 ## 2:50–3:00 Homer, Marge, Lisa and baby Maggie ride inside a pink car, with Homer at the wheel and Marge in the passenger seat wearing a red bead necklace and green top, while Lisa and Maggie sit in the back. They stop at a red traffic light beside a grey road, then the car continues forward down the road past a large construction site where a dome-topped building frame is going up. Cranes, bulldozers, dump trucks and a cement mixer work among dirt tracks and steel beams, and the red light stays lit as the pink car waits at the intersection before the scene widens to show the whole site. > Ooh, there's that new mega mall they're building. > They say the air conditioner will be more powerful than a million hydrogen bombs. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/171213.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/175384 ## 3:00–3:13 Marge, with her tall blue beehive, Homer, in a white shirt with his seatbelt on, and Lisa, with her star-shaped spiky hair and red dress, sit in a pink car, with Homer driving and Marge beside him. Over the sequence Lisa gestures with both hands and looks worried, Homer grimaces and drives with his mouth open as the car moves along a road against a blue sky with white clouds, and Bart's spiky-haired head appears at the edge of the window in some shots. The scene changes as Homer's expression sours, Marge looks ahead, and Lisa keeps flapping her hands, with green bushes and hills behind the car. > Hey, they can't just build a parking lot on Sabertooth Meadow. > That's where they discovered all those fossils. > Fossils, schmossils. > You can't stop progress because of some moldy old bones. > Bones schmoans. But they might be paving over rare specimens. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/181640.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/187062 ## 3:13–3:20 Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie sit crammed together in the purple family station wagon, with Homer driving and Marge in the left seat wearing her red beads and tall blue beehive. Bart sits between Marge and Lisa, who leans over the back of the seat in her pearl necklace, while Maggie sits in her pink car seat in front of them, her pacifier in her mouth. Outside the windows, green trees and a passing landscape roll by, and in the later part of the moment a construction site with a crane appears at the right window. Across the sequence Homer's head slowly tilts and his eyes drift shut and open, Lisa grins and gestures as she leans forward, and Marge's and Bart's expressions shift from bored to sullen. > Pull over so we can complain, Dad. > Come on, who wants to complain with me? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/194569.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/197280 ## 3:20–3:28 Inside the family car, Marge with her tall blue beehive, Bart, Lisa, and baby Maggie in her car seat sit in the back while Homer drives in his white shirt and seatbelt. Over the seven seconds, Lisa's expression shifts from a glance toward the front to a sulky, eyes-half-closed look, and she later grins and leans forward, with Bart and Maggie staying largely still and the scenery passing outside the windows. No on-screen text is visible. > Fine. > I'll come back later. > Who wants to come back with me? > Fine. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/201868.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/204579 ## 3:28–3:40 Lisa Simpson, in her red dress and pearl necklace, talks with a man in a pale blue suit and red tie holding a brown briefcase, while two hard-hatted men in a blue suit with glasses and a maroon suit holding a rolled blueprint stand nearby beside a blue site office. Outside on a dirt construction lot, a yellow bulldozer, excavator, and crane work around a steel-framed building, with workers in hard hats moving beams and a welder on a girder in the background. Lisa gestures and grimaces as she walks beside the man across the site, and he finally grins and lifts the briefcase. > My attorney, Lionel Hutz, calls your attention to Municipal Code 147C, > Protection of Antiquities and Fossils. > That's right. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/209167.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/214589 ## 3:40–3:51 Lisa Simpson, in her red dress and pearl necklace, stands on a dusty construction site with a reddish-haired man in a light blue suit, who is likely Troy McClure, and two men in orange hard hats: one in a blue suit and glasses, and one in a red suit holding a rolled blueprint. The reddish-haired man holds open a brown briefcase showing a half-eaten sandwich, and the men then turn toward Lisa as she talks and gestures, with an excavator and a trailer behind them. Lisa's wide-eyed expression and raised hands suggest she is pleading her case while the men look down at her, and the briefcase remains open in the reddish-haired man's hand. > There aren't any fossils here, little girl. > Museum folks dug them all up years ago. But what if they miss something? > You have to allow an archaeological survey. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/222097.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/226268 ## 3:51–4:01 Lisa, in her red dress and pearl necklace, stands on a construction site beside a man in a blue suit and glasses and a man in a red suit, both wearing orange hard hats, with a yellow bulldozer and a blue trailer behind them. A heavy man in a pale blue suit and red tie stands to the left and talks to Lisa while the two hard-hatted men look on. The man in blue later raises both open palms and then rests a hand on the red-suited man's neck, who looks uneasy and holds a rolled-up plan under one arm. > Who's gonna make us? You? > Now, hold on, Sid. Hold on. Maybe we should let the kid dig. > Could be good publicity. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/232941.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/236903 ## 4:01–4:14 Lisa, in her red dress and pearl necklace, stands on a dirt construction site beside a man in a pale blue suit carrying a briefcase. Two men in orange hard hats stand by a blue trailer near a yellow dump truck, and the man in the blue suit pats the shoulder of the man in the maroon suit holding a rolled paper, then points and gestures as they talk. Later the pale-suited man points toward them with his hands on his hips while Lisa looks up and shrugs with open hands, a yellow crane visible in the background. > All right. > Oh, yes. > Okay. > You wanna dig? Be my guest. > Fine. We'll see you in court. > Mr. Hutz, we won. > We? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/242951.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/248373 ## 4:14–4:26 Lisa Simpson, a girl with spiky hair in an orange skirt and a pearl necklace, first stands outside the school, then enters Principal Skinner's office, where he sits behind his desk in a blue suit and pink tie. Lisa stands before the desk, pleads with outstretched arms, and Skinner steeples his fingers and then raises two fingers in a stern gesture, with bookshelves, red chairs, and framed certificates in the room and a yellow sign on the school's brick facade. > Principal Skinner, remember how I didn't sue when I found that scorpion in my applesauce? > Well, I'm calling in a favor. > I knew this day would come. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/255881.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/260677 ## 4:26–4:36 The scene opens on a grey wall vent with a round grille against a green wall under an orange ceiling, with no one visible, and it stays unchanged for several moments. Inside a classroom, Bart and Milhouse sit among rows of students at wooden desks while Mrs. Krabappel, with her tall brown hairdo, stands at the lower right near a blackboard. A boy with orange hair in a white shirt grins with his eyes shut, then his arms spread as he talks, while the two purple-haired girls in pink sweaters at the front gesture and speak with open mouths, and the vested bully Nelson slouches at the back. > Attention! > All honor students will be rewarded with a trip to an archaeological dig. > Yay! > Conversely, all detention students will be punished with a trip to an archaeological dig. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/267559.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/271521 ## 4:36–4:43 Bart Simpson sits at a school desk beside Nelson, the bully in a vest, and Milhouse, who has blue hair and glasses, in a classroom with large windows. Bart leans on his hand, then sits upright with his mouth open, looking worried, while Milhouse glances over and Nelson stares ahead. Later, in an outdoor excavation pit under a pale sun and a steel building frame, a crowd of small figures digs with shovels and pickaxes, including a worker in an orange jumpsuit who swings a pickaxe and another who hauls a shovel, while a yellow bulldozer sits at the top right and a few people in red and blue stand at the edge. > Oh, no! > That's my... Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/277778.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/280280 ## 4:43–4:56 Mrs. Krabappel, in a green jacket and teal skirt with her tall brown hairdo, stands with her arms folded at the edge of a dug pit, with a boy in glasses and a blue shirt and an older grey-haired man in a blue shirt nearby, while a boy with a large afro and a girl with pigtails watch. A boy with reddish-orange hair in a white shirt holds a measuring tool in the foreground, and the twin girls in pink dresses with purple hair and bows stand by the pit as he works. Bald, heavy prisoners in orange jumpsuits labeled "DETENTION" dig with pickaxes among rocks on the dirt, with a woman with long reddish hair also digging, and a figure in a purple beanie with long brown hair swinging a pickaxe in the foreground; the scene switches between them as they swing their tools and kick up dirt, with the rows of stakes and string marking the site. > Gonna dig me a hole. Gonna dig me a hole. > Gonna put a nerd in it. Gonna put a nerd in it. > Gonna take a firecracker. Gonna take a firecracker. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/284868.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/289873 ## 4:56–4:59 Lisa Simpson, in her green cap and orange dress, stands with three men in orange hard hats on the edge of a brown dirt cliff under a bright blue sky, while a man in a khaki hat and green shirt peers through a surveying theodolite on a tripod. Across the moment Lisa clasps her hands, her wide eyes and grin shifting as she looks on, and the surveyor turns the instrument's knobs and keeps his eye pressed to its eyepiece. The purple hills behind them and the tripod legs stay fixed in place. > This is so exciting. > I can't wait to see what we find. I must admit it is rather exciting. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/297172.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/297798 ## 4:59–5:07 Lisa Simpson, in her green cap, orange dress and blue neckerchief, stands beside an older man in a brown safari hat, green shirt and khaki shorts, who is at a surveying instrument on a tripod in a dusty field with purple mountains behind them. He peers through the instrument, then straightens to talk with his hands on his hips, and later stoops to the ground beside a wire crate. He comes back up holding a brown clump of dirt in both hands, showing it to Lisa, who watches him and looks on as he admires it. > And look, here's something right here. > It appears to be some sort of rock. > Oh, no, it's just a clump of dirt. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/300926.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/303845 ## 5:07–5:15 A young girl in a green cap, orange dress and blue neckerchief stands beside an older man in a khaki safari hat, green shirt and shorts, who gestures and talks while standing next to a surveying instrument on a tripod. Outdoors on flat dry ground before purple mountains, a wire crate sits nearby. He keeps gesturing and then pulls out a white cloth, wipes his forehead with it, and sits down on the crate while still holding his hat and cloth as the girl watches. > Even so, my heart is pounding like a kettle drum. > I better sit down for a moment. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/308850.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/311770 ## 5:15–5:27 Ralph Wiggum, a blond boy in a blue shirt and red-belted pants, kneels in a dig pit with a trowel, and in the first frames he stands and gestures while grinning, then kneels again. Behind him at the edge of the trench, a man in a khaki vest and wide-brimmed hat with a tripod-mounted instrument stands beside a girl in a green cap and red dress, and later a bearded man in a brown fedora and green shirt, a woman with a tall brown hairdo and pink bow blouse, and Lisa in a green cap join them while Bart watches from far off. The mood shifts as the grey-haired man in a green shirt and fedora holds up a pointed metal blade, and the woman with brown hair and glasses, with a pink bow at her collar, looks at it and speaks, while a boy in glasses and a purple cap peers in from below. Sunny blue sky, a yellow sun, string lines across the sandy dig site, and a bulldozed trench wall are visible throughout. > Print Skipper Skipple! > Print Michael Skipsker! I found something! > It's a spearhead! > That's your trowel blade, Ralph. It fell off the handle. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/316775.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/321571 ## 5:27–5:30 A small blond-haired boy in a blue sweater and red trousers kneels in a dirt patch beside a pile of rocks and dirt, with a wire fence behind him. He holds a pointed metal trowel blade aloft in one hand and a red-handled trowel tool in the other. He smiles, glances sideways, then opens his mouth wide in a broad grin and closes his eyes, before raising the blade higher and grinning with his teeth showing. > And I found it! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/328662.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/328870 ## 5:30–5:39 Ralph Wiggum, a small blond boy in a blue shirt and red pants, kneels at a sandy desert dig site holding a small tool, while a woman in a green jacket, a man in a khaki safari hat, a girl in a green cap and orange dress, a tall woman with a brown hairdo and glasses, and a girl with purple hair and a pink bow look on. Ralph turns and gestures with his hands, then crawls away across the sand as the group watches and the girl in the green cap steps forward, and the scene fades to a large orange-red setting sun above silhouetted desert shrubs. > Okay, everyone, back to work. You never know when we might uncover a tyrannosaurus. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/331373.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/334918 ## 5:39–5:48 Milhouse in a blue cap, red glasses, pink shirt and red shorts kneels beside a prone child in a white shirt, holding a red cloth over them, while Bart in an orange shirt and blue shorts stands nearby, first watching and then working a shovel across the child's back in a shallow pit with a wooden wall, stakes and string, and a shovel stuck in the dirt. Before the pit scene, a huge yellow sun sets over a red-orange sky above a row of dark silhouetted figures on the horizon, and two identical girls with long purple hair and pink bows sit in the dirt beside a boy in a blue vest leaning on a pickaxe. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/340549.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/343885 ## 5:48–5:56 Lisa, in a green cap, red dress and blue bib, stands at a dusty dig site leaning on a shovel while a man in a green shirt, khaki shorts, safari hat and boots carries a tripod beside her. She gestures and then grips the shovel with both hands, and the man turns and walks away across the dirt as she looks after him. Behind them, string lines mark off the site, and a few children dig in a trench under an orange sky. > Well, this was a big bust. > Come on, kids. Let's go home to our mothers. > Don't give up. I'm sure we'll find something. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/349516.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/352644 ## 5:56–6:05 Lisa Simpson, in a green cap, red dress and blue bandana, digs with a shovel at a sandy site fenced with white rope, against an orange sky and a brown cliff wall. She jabs the shovel into the ground and lifts a clump of dirt, then stops to lean on the handle with her mouth open. She carries on digging and looks around anxiously while bending and kneeling over the hole. A fresh pile of dirt is left on the shovel blade, and a small hole is visible in the dirt beside her. > Come on. > Bottle, cap, a shoe, a bar of gold, anything. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/358066.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/361194 ## 6:05–6:16 Lisa Simpson, in her green cap, red dress and blue scarf, digs at the dirt of an excavation site with a bare-handed scrape, then uncovers a large grey skull and gestures at it while dirt smudges her face. She then stands with her arms spread and waves a hand as a man in a green uniform shirt and shorts walks up beside a boy in a white shirt and red shorts, and a group gathers around her at the pit's edge. The wide view shows a crowd of townspeople, Bart in his orange shirt, and police officers standing around the large oval excavation pit, with parked cars, a green pickup and a police car along the rim under an orange sky. > Everybody, come quick! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/366616.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/370787 ## 6:16–6:25 Lisa, in a green cap, red dress and blue scarf, works at a rocky dig site with a brush while Marge, Homer, Barney, Moe, Milhouse, a man in a white lab coat and a man with glasses and brown hair watch from behind a rope. Homer leans in and gestures, then the crowd settles as the rock wall comes into view with small stones and a pale skeleton embedded in it. Lisa moves closer to the skeleton, brushing and reaching toward its ribcage, while Marge and the watchers stay behind the rope. Dusty orange sky and crumbly brown rock fill the background. > Let me through. I got here late. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/377252.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/380797 ## 6:25–6:35 Lisa, in a green cap, red dress and blue scarf, stands at a wooden fence at a dig site and sweeps a brush over a buried skeleton, sending up puffs of dust from its ribs and arm. Behind the fence, a one-off man in a white lab coat with a medallion gestures and grins while a police chief, a boy in a white shirt with red shorts, a man in a brown fedora, Homer and Ned Flanders watch. The scene shifts so Lisa is seen brushing the skeleton's shoulder and ribs against the brown dirt of the pit, with flecks of dirt scattered across the frame. > From the looks of it, I'd say this fellow died from causes unknown. > Look, there's more. > What the heck is this thing? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/386636.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/390390 ## 6:35–6:45 Lisa Simpson, in a green cap, red dress and blue bandana, brushes dust off a large white dinosaur skeleton at a dig site, sending puffs of dust into the air while a brown-haired woman in glasses watches and a man in a brown fedora and green shirt stands behind. Lisa then stops, looks up wide-eyed with her mouth open and arms raised, as Carl, a Black man in a white lab coat with a stethoscope, and other onlookers, including Homer, Marge with her tall blue beehive, and Ned Flanders in his green sweater and glasses, gather behind the wooden fence and rope. Bones, brushes and a rope barrier mark the excavation. > Speaking from a strictly medical point of view, that ain't right. > Oh my goodness! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/396646.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/400609 ## 6:45–6:55 Lisa Simpson, in a green hat and red dress, stands in a dig site in front of a skeleton with wing-like bones set into a rock wall, while a crowd including Marge, Maggie, Homer, Milhouse and Ned Flanders watches. She looks up anxiously, opens her mouth as if speaking, and spreads her arms wide with an uneasy grimace. The scene then cuts to a close-up of Ned Flanders with his moustache and green sweater, talking and grimacing beside Marge and Maggie, whose pacifier is visible. > What is it, Lisa? > It looks like a human skeleton. > But these other bones look almost like wings. > You mean like an angel? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/406865.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/410827 ## 6:55–7:06 Lisa Simpson, in a green cap, red dress, blue scarf and pearl necklace, stands in the foreground at a dig site, talking and then shrugging with her arms spread, while behind a wooden fence Homer, Moe in his blue bow tie and apron, Marge with her tall blue beehive, Ned Flanders in his green sweater and moustache, and a man in a white coat watch her. The scene cuts to a winged skeleton embedded in rock, with a paintbrush and string markers at the excavation, and the image holds on it before fading to black. > Well, obviously that's impossible. Lisa's right, it's an angel! > Now that's interesting. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/417083.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/421463 ## 7:06–7:18 Lisa, wearing a green cap, a red dress and a blue bandana, stands in front of a crowd of townspeople at a dig site, where a winged skeleton is embedded in a rock wall. Lisa is a bit flushed and stands in front of the rock, while Moe, the grey-haired bartender in a bow tie and blue vest, points and talks with a dismissive gesture, and Homer, with a bald head, a white shirt and stubble, watches on. Behind them stand Dr. Hibbert in a white coat, Ned Flanders in a green sweater with a moustache, Chief Wiggum in a blue uniform, and a man in a brown hat. In the first set of frames, the skeleton with spread bony wings is pinned to the brown rock while the crowd gathers around. Later, the camera-less scene shows Lisa stepping forward with her arms out, Moe gesturing with an open hand, and Moe pointing at his nose while Homer looks on, all against an orange sky with a rope boundary line at the bottom of the dig. > But it can't be an angel. > Oh no? > Well if you're so sure what it ain't, how about telling us what it am? > Yeah, whatever. > Well, Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/427928.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/432515 ## 7:18–7:31 Lisa, wearing a green cap, blue neckerchief and pearl necklace, stands on a rocky dirt ground with people's legs visible behind her, first wide-eyed and open-mouthed, then grimacing and gesturing with her hands in a shrug. The scene changes to a prehistoric riverbank under a green sky with red mountains, where a caveman with brown hair and a fur tunic sits holding a red starfish, then ducks his head into the water and comes up gripping two blue fish with gaping teeth, which he carries along the shore past a palm tree and a pile of grey stones. > maybe it's a Neanderthal who got bitten by some angry fish. > This is me. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/439189.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/444819 ## 7:31–7:35 Homer, in a brown fur loincloth, is attacked by two purple fish-like creatures with gaping jaws on a green grassy field, screaming with his arms raised while sparkly dust puffs around him. He then turns into a skeleton with fish-fin wings, which is shown alone against a grey background before being mounted on a tan rocky display slab with metal poles, a small jar near the left edge. A small child with a round green hairdo in an orange shirt and several onlookers at the bottom edge, including a curly-haired man in white, watch the winged skeleton as the scene holds. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/452744.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/453787 ## 7:35–7:47 Lisa Simpson, in a green cap, blue bandana and red dress, stands in a crowd with Ned Flanders, who has a moustache, glasses and a green sweater, and Homer Simpson in his white shirt and blue pants beside him. Among the onlookers are a Black man in a white lab coat with a stethoscope, a woman with her hair pulled back, a man in a brown fedora at the left edge, and a bald man with a blue beehive behind Ned. Against an orange background, Lisa clasps her hands and grins nervously while Ned gestures with an open hand and then points a finger, and Chief Wiggum, the heavy police chief in blue uniform and cap, speaks and then raises his hands in a playful gesture before standing with his hands on his hips. > Oh, I gotta say, Lisa, it sounds like you're straining to do some explaining. > Yeah, everyone's heard of angels, but who's ever heard of a Neanderthal? > It could be anything. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/457123.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/461503 ## 7:47–7:56 Lisa Simpson, wearing a green cap, blue neckerchief and orange skirt, stands in a desert canyon with a dinosaur skeleton behind her, shrugging, raising a hand to her head and spreading her arms in a grimace. She is then replaced by a crowd where Mr. Burns, frail and stooped with a hooked nose, stands beside Smithers in glasses, a purple bow tie and an ID badge, with Marge, Maggie and a brown-haired woman in a pink bow blouse behind them. Burns gestures with an open hand, taps his finger and glances sideways, his wide-eyed look turning into a sour, sidelong scowl. > It could be a mutant from the nuclear plant. > Oh, fiddle faddle. Everyone knows our mutants have flippers. > Oops, I've said too much. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/468176.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/471721 ## 7:56–8:07 Mr. Burns, the frail, stooped bald man with a hooked nose and blue suit, scowls and gestures near his face beside his thin assistant Smithers, who wears glasses, a purple bow tie and an ID badge, while Marge's blue beehive and a bearded man with glasses stand in the crowd behind them. The scene then shifts to a desert dig site where a large winged skeleton lies in a pit held up by metal poles, and a small boy in a green cap stands inside it. A man in a white lab coat examines the skeleton, Chief Wiggum in his blue police uniform and a hatted man watch nearby, and the crowd of townspeople in the foreground moves and shifts as the man walks toward them. > Smithers use the amnesia ray. You mean the revolver, sir? > Precisely. > Be sure to wipe your own memory clear when you're finished. > Now, regardless of what this thing is, it's a priceless scientific find. > So our most pressing concern now is determining who owns such a valuable skeleton. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/477352.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/481940 ## 8:07–8:20 A heavyset Black doctor in a white coat with a stethoscope stands at the front of a crowd of townspeople against an orange sky, with Mrs. Krabappel in her green jacket and tall brown hairdo and two grey-violet-haired women with pink bows, Patty and Selma, in the foreground. He talks and gestures, pressing a hand to his chest and then looking to the side, while the crowd reacts with wide eyes and open mouths. In the final frames a girl with a huge turquoise hairdo topped with two white bones and a green spiked necklace steps forward, raising one finger as the doctor watches her. > And I'd like to suggest that I do. Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! > No, no, no! Excuse me! I'd like to hear from Lionel Hutz! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/489030.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/494244 ## 8:20–8:32 Troy McClure, in a light blue suit with swept-back reddish hair, stands holding a briefcase and stroking his chin before gesturing with one hand, while inmates in orange jumpsuits marked DETENTION crowd around him on a sandy lot under an orange sky. Later, Ned Flanders in a green sweater, with a moustache and glasses, clasps his hands and speaks as Carl in a white coat and Marge with her tall blue beehive look on. Chief Wiggum in his blue police uniform stands at the right as the group watches, and white chalk-like lines are drawn on the ground. > It's a thorny legal issue, all right. > I'll need to refer to the case of finders versus keepers. > Oh, we can work this out, friends. In the spirit of sharing, > let's say we simply place the sacred bones and... Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/501751.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/506756 ## 8:32–8:42 Moe, Ned Flanders, and a man in a white lab coat stand on a dusty, tire-marked field, then Homer waves from the driver's seat of a pink car with a dinosaur skeleton chained to its roof while Bart and Lisa watch from the edge of a pit. The scene cuts to the Simpsons' house from outside, then inside the pink hallway, where Homer strains to push the skeleton past the stairs as a figure in green moves beside it. Homer finally shoves the skeleton forward while the figure in green looks on from behind the rock slab. > So long, suckers! > Come on, come on, Angel. > What are you doing with that? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/514055.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/517809 ## 8:42–8:53 Homer, a bald heavy man in a white shirt and blue jeans, strains to push a large grey boulder against the pink wall beside a red arched door while Marge, with her tall blue beehive and green dress, watches from the left. Bart, the spiky-haired boy in an orange shirt, joins them and stares as Homer gestures and keeps shoving. The scene then centers on the arched closet, where Homer and Bart stand before shelves holding a gold trophy, cans, a gold bell, a gramophone, a bag of Father Homer's Sweet Sugar, a folded Mr. Plow jacket, a white hat, and a Japanese-language box showing Homer's face, while small grey creatures with big eyes sit on the floor. > I'm locking it up in my safe deposit closet with my other valuables. > I'll just leave it in here a few years and let it appreciate in value. > It's probably a million years old, Dad. I think it's as valuable as it's gonna get. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/523857.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/528028 ## 8:53–9:00 Homer Simpson, a bald heavy man in a white shirt, and his son Bart, the spiky-haired boy in an orange shirt, stand behind a counter in a cluttered room with a large skeleton and a grey tarp-like backdrop behind them, with rows of silver cans in front. Bart glances sideways and looks unimpressed while Homer, eyes wide, shifts his gaze and then lifts a red-and-white Billy Beer can, gesturing at it with one finger and talking. Homer keeps the can raised while Bart stares at it, and by the end Homer is smiling and holding the can up beside Bart, who is leaning toward him. > That's what they said about this Billy Beer, Smarty Pants. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/534492.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/537203 ## 9:00–9:08 Homer, the bald, heavy man in a white shirt, and Bart, the boy with spiky hair in an orange shirt, stand in front of a large skeleton and a row of silver cans in a pink-walled room. Homer holds a red and white can of Billy Beer, sips from it, pulls it away and grins, then takes another swig and lets out a satisfied, open-mouthed laugh while Bart watches with half-closed eyes. Bart's eyes slowly narrow as Homer lowers the can, sipping and smiling again, with the can tilted back toward his mouth at the end. > Ah, we elected the wrong Carter. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/541791.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/544502 ## 9:08–9:19 Homer Simpson, a bald heavy man in a white shirt and blue pants, and Marge Simpson, with her tall blue beehive and green dress, sit side by side on a brown couch in their pink living room, Homer holding a red bowl of popcorn. Homer gestures with one hand and talks while Marge watches, and he keeps eating from the bowl as they look toward the television at the lower right. A framed sailboat picture hangs on the wall and a red lamp stands in the corner. > Coming up next, > an hilarious boat giveaway scam at Springfield's Dumbest Criminals. > Sounds like good watching. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/549090.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/553887 ## 9:19–9:29 Marge Simpson, with her tall blue beehive and red bead necklace, stands at a pink doorway facing Ned Flanders, who has a moustache, glasses and a green sweater, as he stands in the doorway with two curly-haired boys in front of him and a woman with orange hair and a pink top behind. Ned talks and grins, shifting his expression while the children stand beside him with their eyes wide or half-closed, and Marge looks back at him and then glances away with a skeptical look. Their house and a street with a red-roofed building are visible behind them. > Hey there, Marge. Just brought the kids over to share a prayer with the Blessed Angel, > if it's okay with you. > Get your own angel, you moocher. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/560769.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/564522 ## 9:29–9:39 Marge Simpson, with her tall blue beehive and red bead necklace, stands in a pink doorway beside Ned Flanders, who wears a moustache, glasses and a green jacket, and two curly red-haired boys in suits. Ned and the boys leave, and Marge is alone, holding a purple ball and glancing at a round hand mirror before peeking around the edge of the red door. An elderly woman with lavender curls, a blue coat and purple beads then appears in the doorway, and she and Marge talk while a red-roofed house, a blue mailbox and a green lawn show behind them. > Thanks anyway, Homer. > Oh, hello, Adnes. > Sorry to trouble you, > but I'm going in for surgery tomorrow and I wondered if I could rub the angel with my foot Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/570570.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/574324 ## 9:39–9:48 Marge Simpson, with her tall blue beehive and green dress, stands in a pink doorway while an elderly woman with lavender curly hair, a blue jacket and purple beaded necklace faces her on the front walk. The woman gestures with an open hand toward the lawn and sidewalk, then points with a finger and talks, while Marge looks at her with wide eyes. Behind them a brick house with a red roof, a blue mailbox and a green lawn sit under a blue sky. > for good luck. It's foot surgery. > Hey, I'm trying to eat here. Beat it, peg leg. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/580163.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/583917 ## 9:48–9:58 Marge, with her tall blue beehive and red bead necklace, stands in a pink arched doorway talking with an older woman with grey-violet hair, a blue jacket and purple beads, who gestures and then turns away on a cane while a house, mailbox and lawn sit across the street. Marge then stands alone by a mirror, sulks, and picks up a purple ball, before a crowd gathers at the door where Moe, grey-haired in a bow tie and apron, gestures and speaks while a small blond boy, a woman with teal hair and a bone-shaped ornament, and a messy brown-haired man look on. > Jackass! Marge. > I really want to see the angel. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/589964.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/593718 ## 9:58–10:06 Homer, in a white shirt, and Marge, with her tall blue beehive and green dress, stand in the entryway of their house by a staircase while a crowd of townspeople presses in around them, some raising their arms and hands. Homer looks wide-eyed and startled, then is shown in close-up, lifting a finger to his chin and squinting in thought, his expression shifting to a sly, grinning look as he ponders the matter. The scene ends with him still thinking, his mouth half-open and his finger at his chin. > Come on, Homer, I just want a quick look-see. > Pay a buck. A buck, eh? > That gives me an idea. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/599557.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/602685 ## 10:06–10:17 Homer, a bald heavy man in a white shirt, holds out coins to a thin, long-nosed man in a green sweater and purple suspenders while a redheaded woman in a green top and a man with red hair stand nearby by a water jug of coins. They walk past a workbench of rakes and a cardboard box, then a crowd gathers in a dim purple room to stare up at a winged skeleton wrapped in fairy lights, with two dice above it, candles below, and a green object in its hands. The group stares silently at the skeleton as the scene holds on it, with no visible on-screen text. > 50 cents, please. > Here's the angel. See the angel. It's my angel. > No one else is next to the rakes. Dad, it's not fair to claim this thing is an angel. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/607899.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/612070 ## 10:17–10:29 Homer, bald and wearing a white shirt and blue pants, stands in a dim room with blue walls beside Lisa, who wears a red dress and a pearl necklace, while a thin man with reddish hair and a moustache stands behind them and then drifts toward the back. Homer gestures with his hands, speaks, and at one point raises a finger to his lips, while Lisa looks up and gestures back as she points toward the side. Behind them are rakes and a hammer on a wall rack, a purple booth with a skeleton, giant dice, and strings of lights, and a crowd of onlookers at the right edge. > There's no proof of that. > No one's calling it an angel, Lisa. If you look carefully, > you'll notice I never once used the word angel. > What about that sign right there? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/618535.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/623540 ## 10:29–10:42 Homer, the bald heavy man with stubble in a white shirt and blue pants, and Lisa, the girl with star-shaped spiky hair, red dress and pearl necklace, stand together in a scene beginning with a banner reading ANGEL and an arrow pointing left. Lisa gestures with an upraised finger while Homer looks at her, then the two talk in front of a grey wall. Lisa turns her head, gasps and grimaces with a nervous look, then gestures with open hands as Homer, in front of a blue cabinet and a window showing a red house, raises his hands, speaks, and jabs a finger toward Lisa's head. > That's a typo. > Just let me take you to the museum for one day. > They can do scientific tests and prove it's not an angel. > Oh, no, oh, no. We could lose out on bags and bags of money. > It's sacrilegious, I tell you. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/630630.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/635844 ## 10:42–10:53 Lisa, the girl with star-shaped spiky hair in a red dress and pearl necklace, appears first in a close-up with a pointing hand at the left edge, then the scene cuts to the Simpson house at night under a starry sky with a pink front door, lit windows and a pink garage door. Back inside a purple room, Lisa in a teal outfit stands by a pink doorway beside a skeleton with outstretched wings in a tan rock, holding a pickaxe and a small tool, and she gradually works at the rock: she turns to face it, then raises the pickaxe and chips at the stone while holding a tool to her face. Shelves of tools and a cardboard box sit on the right. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/643143.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/647522 ## 10:53–11:06 Lisa Simpson, in green coveralls with a hammer and chisel, first works beside a large fossil skeleton, then rides a small pink bicycle with a green basket up the steps of the Museum of Natural History, where a sign reads "NOW HIRING STUFFERS". She dismounts and leaves the bicycle by the sign, then walks alone across the tiled hall beneath a huge hanging blue whale model, with glass display cases along the walls. > Wow, so lifelike. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/654195.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/659826 ## 11:06–11:16 A small figure in an orange shirt with spiky hair, likely Bart, watches from the bottom left of a museum hall as two workers in blue caps on swings wash a large blue whale model hanging from the ceiling. One worker sprays water from a hose at the whale's side while the other scrubs its open white mouth with a sponge, and the whale stays still throughout. The scene then shifts to a door with a sign reading "Stephen Jay Gould Ph. D." > Ooh! > Astonishing, simply astonishing. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/667750.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/671504 ## 11:16–11:28 Lisa Simpson, in her red dress and pearl necklace, stands in a cluttered laboratory lined with shelves of jars, beakers, and a skeleton beside a preserved heart. A mustached man in a white lab coat leans over a microscope in front of a chalkboard diagram labeled "5mm LENGTH," then straightens up and turns toward Lisa, gesturing with his hand. Lisa looks wide-eyed and speechless at a counter, then raises a small blue paper holding a tiny white bone fragment as she speaks. > One of the most singular specimens I've encountered in all my distinguished career. > But enough about my work. What did you want to show me, Lisa? > It's a bone scraping from that skeleton I found. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/677552.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/682765 ## 11:28–11:40 Lisa Simpson, with her spiky star-shaped hair, red dress and pearl necklace, stands at a lab counter facing a mustached man in a white lab coat, who is not one of the regulars. Beside them a chalkboard shows diagrams and the words "5mm LENGTH", and beakers, a sink and cabinets sit behind. The man picks up a small blue packet holding a white object and holds it up between them, then extends his open hand as he speaks. Lisa reacts with wide eyes, a clenched grimace and an open-mouthed look of alarm, glancing sideways and resting her hand on the counter. > Oh, yeah, the so-called angel. > The whole thing's preposterous, of course. > Quite preposterous. But no one will believe me until I can prove what it really is. > Can't you do a DNA test or something? Certainly. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/690064.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/694652 ## 11:40–11:48 Lisa Simpson, with star-shaped spiky hair, a red dress and a pearl necklace, talks with a mustached man with dark blue-grey hair in a white lab coat. He first stands before a dark chalkboard with a diagram and the word MEETING, then they are at a lab counter lined with beakers, flasks and glass tubes, where Lisa speaks, grins, grimaces and frowns while the man listens with his back to the viewer. Lisa's wide-eyed, hopeful look gradually turns to a worried frown as she keeps talking. > I'll have the results by tomorrow. > Oh, thank you so much. Um, but you know, I can't afford to pay you. > I didn't become a scientist for financial gain. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/701534.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/704245 ## 11:48–12:02 Lisa Simpson, in her red dress and pearl necklace, faces a moustached man in a white lab coat who gestures at a blackboard diagram of a creature labeled with measurements; he then bends to peer into a blue microscope while she watches. Later, outside a building marked with an ANGEL arrow sign, a crowd queues past police barricades toward the entrance, where two uniformed officers stand. Finally, in a purple room strung with Christmas lights, a long-haired man in a green sweater and a dark-skinned man in a light blue jacket and pink sweater argue in front of a winged angel skeleton holding a green leaf, and a small red light glows near the hand of the man in the jacket. > whatever little money you have will be just fine. > I say it's the angel of peace, you idiot. > I say it's the angel of mercy, you jerk! > Excuse me. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/709250.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/715089 ## 12:02–12:07 Lisa Simpson, in her red dress, starts seated on a wooden stool in a purple room while Homer, Moe, Ned Flanders in his green sweater and glasses, a man in a white coat with a stethoscope, and a woman in a purple suit look on from around her. She then stands up on the stool and spreads her arms wide to the sides, with the group still watching. Behind them hang a skeleton display and blue string lights. > I took a piece of this skeleton for scientific analysis. > Soon we'll have all the facts. > You did what? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/723223.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/724891 ## 12:07–12:19 Homer, in his white shirt and blue shorts, stands with Ned Flanders, who wears a green sweater, moustache and glasses, while Apu in his pink shirt and Lisa in her red dress stand close by in a crowded blue-walled room with brooms on the wall. Homer gestures with his arms and talks animatedly, then turns toward Ned, reaching out his hand, while Ned stands with his hands at his sides. Homer's expression shifts from intense to puzzled and back, and he keeps gesturing at Ned as Apu looks on. Ned lifts his hand and points as a crowd of onlookers, including a bald man with glasses in a white lab coat, watches from behind them. > You know what? I don't like that. > Facts are meaningless. > You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true. > Facts, Max. > Ah, here's Dr. Gould now. What were the results, Professor? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/728645.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/733650 ## 12:19–12:30 Lisa Simpson, in a red dress and pearl necklace, stands in a room with a purple wall beside a pink curtain tangled with red and blue Christmas lights, and a wire hook is nailed into the wall above them. She goes from wide-eyed and open-mouthed to grimacing and clenching her teeth as she stares at the lights. Later, Homer Simpson, a bald man in a white shirt, stands in a crowd with a grey-haired man in a green jacket and a grey moustache, while Ned Flanders in a green sweater and glasses looks on. Moe, the grey-haired bartender in a bow tie, stands at the edge of the group next to a woman with long black hair, and Lisa leans in toward the grey-haired man as he looks past her. > Inconclusive. > Then why'd you come running up like that? > Can I use your bathroom? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/740949.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/745119 ## 12:30–12:42 Lisa Simpson, in her red dress and pearl necklace, stands on a wooden stool in a purple room decorated with blue and red string lights, a hanging skeleton and a dice ornament. A man with a black pompadour and a pink shirt and teal tie, who is not one of the named regulars, stands in front of her, and then a grey-haired man in a light shirt with suspenders, who is not Moe, enters from the left. Lisa's expression shifts from a bored stare to a worried, mouth-open look as the man with the pompadour grimaces, folds his arms and glances around, while the grey-haired man scowls and stares at him. The scene ends with the two men still facing each other while Lisa stands watching on the stool. > Well, > it appears science has faltered once again in the face of overwhelming religious > evidence. > Go home, science girl. > I am home. Good, stay there. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/751584.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/756589 ## 12:42–12:55 Moe, the grey-haired bartender in a bow tie and suspenders, and Ned Flanders in a green sweater and glasses stand beside a wall of brooms, while Homer, in a white shirt, holds a box labeled "Angel Glow Sticks" and waves a glowing green stick as a blond man in a white lab coat and a woman in pink with headphones watch. Homer then grips the sticks and Ned holds out a fistful of cash to him. Afterward Lisa, in her red dress and pearl necklace, walks across a checkered floor past a pink door, and Marge, with tall blue hair and an apron, stirs a pot at the stove as Lisa opens the green refrigerator. > Okay, folks, get your angel glow sticks. > No one gets into heaven without a glow stick. > I'll take four. > Ugh, those morons make me so angry. > Maybe so, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't call them morons. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/763888.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/768893 ## 12:55–13:05 Marge Simpson, with her tall blue beehive and green apron over a green dress, stands at the stove in the kitchen, first opening a green refrigerator door and looking startled, then turning to face a glass of milk. Lisa Simpson, with star-shaped spiky hair, red dress and pearl necklace, holds a pink carton marked MILK and pours it into a glass on the counter, while Marge glances over with a wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression. Marge later stands by the stove with a pot and a red bead necklace, staring up and talking, while the purple cabinets, yellow corn-patterned curtains and green stove stay in view. > But they are morons. What grown person could believe in angels? > Well, your mother, for one. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/776192.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/780363 ## 13:05–13:17 Lisa Simpson, the girl with star-shaped spiky hair in a red dress and pearl necklace, sits at a blue table in the kitchen with a pink milk carton and a glass of milk, first sipping and then looking uneasy, grimacing and gesturing with her hand. Marge Simpson, with her tall blue beehive and pink apron, stands at the stove holding a pot, then moves to face Lisa across the table with arms crossed as the two talk. The kitchen has purple cabinets, a checkered floor, and a window with corn-patterned curtains. > You? > But you're an intelligent person, Mom. > There has to be more to life than just what we see, Lisa. > Everyone needs something to believe in. It's not that I don't have a spiritual side. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/786828.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/791624 ## 13:17–13:24 Marge, with her tall blue beehive and red bead necklace, sits with her back to the viewer at a blue kitchen table, while Lisa, with her star-shaped spiky hair, red dress and pearl necklace, sits across from her. Lisa talks with her mouth open, grimaces, and shrugs with both hands out, her eyes shifting and narrowing as she speaks. A carton labeled MILK and a glass of milk sit on the table, with a blue oven and purple cabinets behind them. > I just find it hard to believe there's a dead angel hanging in our garage. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/798715.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/801009 ## 13:24–13:35 Marge Simpson, with her tall blue beehive and red bead necklace, and Lisa Simpson, with her star-shaped spiky hair and pearl necklace, sit at a round blue kitchen table in front of a carton of milk and a glass of milk. Marge starts with arms folded and a pained, wide-eyed expression, while Lisa looks worried. Later Marge turns her head and glances toward Lisa, who lifts the glass to drink, then sets it down and gives a sly, smug grin as the two face each other across the table. Kitchen cabinets, a coffee maker, and a row of pink utensils hang on the wall behind them. > Oh, my poor Lisa. > If you can't make a leap of faith now and then, well, I feel sorry for you. > Don't feel sorry for me, Mom. > I feel sorry for you. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/805596.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/810184 ## 13:35–13:47 Marge Simpson sits at the kitchen table with her arms folded, her blue beehive and red beads visible, glancing sideways beside a milk carton and a glass of milk. The scene cuts to a television showing the SmartLine logo over a blue night skyline, then to a grey-haired news anchor in a red jacket and blue tie with an earpiece, who speaks and shifts his eyes. Finally Lisa Simpson, in a pearl necklace and orange dress, sits stiffly in a purple chair, fidgeting with her hands and glancing to the side as the broadcast continues. > Next on SmartLine, the Springfield Angel Controversy. > Our guest tonight making her 13th appearance on SmartLine, Miss Lisa Simpson. > Kent? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/816858.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/821863 ## 13:47–13:59 Lisa Simpson, in her orange dress and pearl necklace, sits in a purple chair beside an older, white-haired man in a red jacket and blue tie, who is not one of the regulars and is simply described. They are in a blue-walled room with a wall-mounted screen showing a question mark over a winged, angel-like shape. The man first looks sideways with a skeptical frown, then talks and gestures with an open hand toward the console. Lisa smiles nervously, then speaks with her hands open, and later half-closes her eyes wearily before speaking again. The man keeps his mouth moving and gestures while Lisa fidgets in her seat. > Miss Simpson, > how can you maintain your skepticism in spite of the fact that this thing really, > really looks like an angel? I just think it's a fantasy. > If you believe in angels, then why not unicorns or sea monsters or leprechauns? > Oh, that's a bunch of baloney, Lisa. Everyone knows leprechauns are extinct. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/828745.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/833750 ## 13:59–14:10 On a TV screen, an elderly man with white hair, a red jacket, blue tie and red earring, who matches Mr. Burns, sits in a chair and frowns, squints, then speaks with his mouth open, while Lisa Simpson, with star-shaped spiky hair, a pearl necklace and a red dress, sits beside him in a purple chair with a blue window behind her. Lisa looks up and to the side, raises a hand as if making a point, then gestures with an open palm and shrugs, and in the final frame she sits with a stern, skeptical look. A small blue TV with an angel-like figure sits on the wall in the background. > Look, you can either accept science and face reality, > or you can believe in angels and live in a childish dream world. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/840840.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/845219 ## 14:10–14:23 Ned Flanders, with his moustache, glasses and green sweater, and Moe, the grey-haired man in a bow tie, stand before a wooden lectern in a room with hanging banners reading 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me' and 'Thou shalt not bear false witness.' A small dark-haired child sits in front of an open book on the lectern, and a boxy wood-cased television on top shows Lisa's face at first, then cuts to a static-like bright blue-white pattern. Ned gestures with his hands and points at the child while Moe stands with a stern expression, and the audience of seated figures in the foreground watches. > Science. What's science ever done for us? > TV off. Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling how it ends. > Well, I say there are some things we don't want to know. > Important things. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/851893.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/857106 ## 14:23–14:36 Inside the Museum of Natural History, a crowd of angry townsfolk, including Homer, Lenny, Carl, Ned Flanders and Milhouse, gathers first near a television-like crowd in a meeting room, with Mrs. Krabappel-like teacher figures and Apu, Patty and Selma nearby, while Mrs. Krabappel's tall brown hair is absent here. Then Lenny and Carl and Smithers-like figures are not present; instead Moe-like and Barney-like men, Mr. Burns and Smithers appear among them. In the museum hall, Homer and Bart and Lisa and Maggie stand by a large dinosaur skeleton as the mob, some carrying wooden clubs and a torch, rushes in from the entrance; the mob then smashes the skeleton, which collapses in pieces across the floor while bones fly into the air. > Yes, brother! > Enough talk. > It's smashing time. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/864405.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/870036 ## 14:36–14:47 Marge, with her tall blue beehive, stands at the left edge while a large white robot with spherical pods spins and tilts under a starry blue dome, and a man holding a pitchfork watches from the right. Below the mammoth exhibit, a grey-haired figure in a blue dress swings a bat, and a prone Moe lies under a large white pillow as dark torch-carrying crowds move behind. The scene ends outside the lit Springfield Robotics Laboratory at night, where a crowd of townspeople with torches, pitchforks and bats advances toward the building entrance. > And that. > And boom! > Oh, I'm paralyzed. I just hope medical science can cure me. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/877960.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/882340 ## 14:47–14:54 No regular characters appear in this scene, which opens on the entrance of the Springfield Robotics Laboratory, its name in blue letters on the yellow doors. A red brick smashes through the window, shattering the glass, and a teal canister tumbles through the wreckage trailing smoke and flame. The building's interior burns while a grey robot with raised arms is engulfed in fire outside, and the flames spread across the walkway until the robot is hidden in a wall of fire. > Why? Why was I programmed to feel pain? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/889013.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/890890 ## 14:54–15:02 Kent Brockman, the grey-haired news anchor in a brown suit and blue tie, speaks into a microphone in front of a burning building with a sign reading "Christian Science Reading Room." He talks with a weary, deadpan expression, mouth opening and closing, while a crowd of townspeople behind him raises torches and a pitchfork against the flames. The fire keeps blazing around him as the crowd holds its ground and he continues his report. > Technocrats are learning a lesson in humility tonight as angel supporters lay waste to > Springfield's scientific institutions. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/895061.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/898189 ## 15:02–15:14 Lisa, in her red dress, stands in the living room with Homer, who sits on the brown couch holding a brown bottle, Marge holding Maggie, and Bart slouched on the couch's right end. Lisa reaches into a purple umbrella stand beside the floor lamp, pulls out a blue hooked rod, and holds it across her body as she moves past the couch. Marge keeps hold of Maggie while Lisa walks toward the left side of the room, and Homer watches from his seat as she goes by the lamp, the telephone and the bookshelf. > Ugh! I wish I'd never found those stupid bones! > It's time to put an end to this. Bart, I'm borrowing your blue crowbar. > Good old Bluey. > Hey, she's gonna smash the angel! Somebody stop her! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/903194.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/908408 ## 15:14–15:24 Lisa, in a red dress with pearl beads and holding a blue cane, starts in a purple hallway by a pink-doored room, then walks over to a light switch and reaches for it. Homer, Bart, Lisa and Marge then gather in a room with a purple tent-like canopy draped in tangled Christmas lights, a small red table with candles and a gift-laden setup at its base. Homer stands with his arms raised and then leans in toward Bart, who stands with his hands at his sides, while Marge holds Maggie and Lisa watches with her cane. Marge clutches Maggie and the family reacts in alarm as Homer leans forward at Bart's level, the group frozen in shock around the glowing, wire-strewn canopy. > It's gone. > Oh no! > This can't be happening! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/915498.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/919252 ## 15:24–15:30 Homer Simpson, the bald, heavy man in a white shirt and blue pants, stands beside a cardboard box stuffed with packing material in a purple room, with bat-decorated boxes stacked behind him and string lights draped over a purple curtain on the right. He holds up a small clear plastic case containing a tan angel-shaped ashtray, gesturing and shouting, then raises it higher with both arms flung out in exasperation. Later he lowers the case, stares at it, and points toward the curtain's lights while Bart, the boy with spiky hair in an orange shirt, looks on at the right edge of the frame. > What the hell are we gonna do with 10,000 angel ashtrays? > I can take up smoking. You damn well better. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/925091.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/927176 ## 15:30–15:43 Homer, a bald heavy man in a white shirt and blue pants, stands in a blue room with Marge, whose tall blue beehive is visible, and Lisa and Bart, the boy with spiky hair in an orange shirt, gathered before a pink curtain strung with tangled colored lights and dice hanging from a ring above. Homer's panicked expression turns frantic as he gestures with both hands, first grabbing Lisa's shoulders and then turning to Bart, whom he points at angrily while holding a red tool in his fist beside a shelf of tools. He then pinches and grips Bart's head with one hand, with Bart's wide-eyed face in the foreground, while the family stands in place around the room. > Okay, okay, don't panic. > Mart, stop panicking! > We need a replacement skeleton and we need it now. > Mart, strip down to your skeleton. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/931347.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/936561 ## 15:43–15:53 Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa stand in a blue-walled room while Ned Flanders in his green sweater, Chief Wiggum and other men watch headlights shining from a car at the open doorway. Ned turns to face the family, mouth open, and then points toward the room's clutter of brooms and a red lawnmower, with a hanging Christmas-style decoration nearby. Moe, in his apron and bow tie, then stands at a red, green-patterned table with three lit candles, while Homer, Lisa and Marge look on and a man in a dark suit leans in and points at the candles. > We've come for the angel, Homer. It's not safe with the unbeliever. > It's gone. > We're too late. Little girl, what have you done with our precious angel? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/944068.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/948030 ## 15:53–16:06 Lisa Simpson, in a red dress and pearl necklace, grips a blue pipe wrench as a heavy man in a purple suit, a grey-haired man in a bow tie and apron (Moe), and a black-haired man in a pink shirt and dark tie stand around a cluttered workbench in a dim purple room. The black-haired man scowls, gestures, and at one point grabs the wrench and points at Lisa while she looks up at him. Chief Wiggum, the heavyset police chief in uniform, then steps forward with a second officer behind him and jabs his finger toward Lisa. Hanging chains, shelves of binders, and a green box are visible in the background. > Nothing. > Someone must have stolen it. > Looks to me like Lisa Simpson found something science couldn't explain, > so she had to destroy it. > Well, that's all the evidence I need. Arrest the girl. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/954287.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/959709 ## 16:06–16:16 Lisa Simpson, a girl with spiky star-shaped hair in a red dress, is held by Chief Wiggum, the fat police chief in uniform, as she tangles with a string of Christmas lights and is led past Marge, who has a tall blue beehive and a green dress, and Bart, the spiky-haired boy in an orange shirt, inside a police station with a 'Angel' sign and a broom on the wall. Lisa is pulled along by Wiggum, who is pushing her forward while a second officer stands behind, and then the scene cuts to the front of the Springfield County Courthouse, with its columns, flag, clock, and stone lions beside a 'No Parking' sign, before a stern, heavyset judge in a black robe with a mustache and a 'Springfield County Court' seal behind him bangs at his bench. > What? Hey! > She didn't do anything. > Give her a nice cell. > Something in C-block. > Lisa Simpson, you are charged with destruction of an historic curiosity, a misdemeanor. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/967216.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/971179 ## 16:16–16:28 In a courtroom with a crowd of onlookers and a uniformed bailiff near the back, Milhouse with blue hair and glasses stands in a blue suit at the right, beside a seated Lisa in her red dress. A heavy judge with curly dark hair and a beard, wearing a black robe and blue tie, sits behind the bench under a blue and red seal, speaking, clasping and gesturing with his hands, and then raising his gavel. A man with dark curly hair in a black jacket is seen from behind in the left foreground. > But in a larger sense, > this trial will settle the age-old question of science versus religion. > Let the opening statements commence. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/977435.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/982231 ## 16:28–16:38 In a courtroom, a tall, thin man with blue hair, green-rimmed glasses, a grey suit and a red tie stands beside a desk while Lisa, wearing pearls, sits in the witness box with a police officer behind her. A man with brown hair, a green jacket and suspenders stands and points toward Lisa as the lawyer glances at him, with Ned Flanders in a green sweater and moustache seated in the gallery. The scene then shifts to a church-like room with arched windows showing a winged angel statue on a grassy hill, where the pointing man gestures upward as the seated crowd, including Marge with her tall blue beehive, Homer, Bart and Flanders, looks toward the windows. > Your Honor, over the coming weeks and months, > we intend to prove Lisa Simpson willfully destroyed... > There's the angel! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/989322.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/993284 ## 16:38–16:43 Marge Simpson with her tall blue beehive, Bart in his orange shirt, Lisa in her orange dress, Krusty the Clown with green hair, Sideshow Bob with his red mane, and Chief Wiggum in his blue police uniform are among a crowd of people in a courthouse. The crowd crowds through arched doorways and a tiled hallway as people run and push past one another, with Moe-like grey-haired man and a man in a green sweater leading the rush. Lisa then runs alone toward a courtroom where a man in a black robe sits at the bench beneath a round seal on the wall. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/999332.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1000791 ## 16:43–16:55 A robed judge with dark slicked-back hair presides from a tall wooden bench beneath a blue and red seal in a courtroom, while an older woman with puffy grey-violet hair and a blue top sits at a small desk on the left, all seen through an open door. The judge looks down and speaks, raises a gavel in one moment and gestures with his hand in another, while the woman shifts and moves her hands over the desk. Yellow ceiling panels, wooden rails and an empty red chair stay in place as the scene unfolds with these small movements. > I find the defendant not guilty. > As for science versus religion, I'm issuing a restraining order. > Religion must stay 500 yards from science at all times. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1004545.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1009342 ## 16:55–17:06 A crowd including Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie climbs a grassy hill path toward a winged statue at the top, with Ned Flanders, Moe, Principal Skinner's look-alike bald man in a blue suit and red tie, and a woman with glasses and a pink bow beside them. Later the group stands in a line against a blue sky, with Ned staring upward and Moe scowling, then Homer turns and points to the right with his arm extended while exclaiming. The scene shows the crowd moving up the hill and the characters reacting, with no readable on-screen text. > Wow. > You think it flew up here? > Well, it didn't ride up on no zebra. > Look! A message! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1016432.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1021020 ## 17:06–17:14 Homer Simpson, in a white shirt, stands with a group that includes Apu in a green jacket on the right, and a bald man in a blue suit with a red tie on the left, beside a woman with round glasses and a bearded man with a red moustache. In the first frames, a crowd of people seen from behind, including a figure with a tall purple-blue hairdo and another with curly dark hair, look up at a grey rock with a skeleton's leg bones jutting out of its top and the red carved words 'THE END WILL COME AT SUNDOWN' beneath them. The scene then shifts to a close view of the rock, after which the same group is shown against a blue sky. Homer's mouth opens as he talks, his eyes roll and widen, and he clasps his hands in front of him in the final frame. > The end will come at sundown. > Wait a second. I don't like the sound of that. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1027693.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1030613 ## 17:14–17:26 Chief Wiggum stands with a red-haired woman, a mustached man in a white tank top, a small blond boy in a blue shirt, and the bald, stooped Mr. Burns beside his thin assistant Smithers, all watching in front of a bright blue sky. The small boy clutches Wiggum's side and then the group turns toward a winged skeleton monument with a partly legible sign reading "THE END IS NEAR." A black-haired man in a pink shirt and tie puts his arm around a man in a green sweater and points at the monument, while Moe and two other men look on. Finally the black-haired man gestures with open arms as Lisa, in her red dress and pearl necklace, stands beside Homer and Apu. > I'm scared, Daddy. > Too scared to even wet my pants. > It's okay, son. Just relax and it'll come. > Even Lisa Simpson must now agree we have witnessed a miracle. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1035826.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1040414 ## 17:26–17:38 Lisa, in a red dress and pearls, stands on a grassy lawn in front of a crowd while Homer in a white shirt waves and points, with Marge's tall blue beehive and Mr. Burns among the onlookers behind them. Lisa grimaces and spreads her arms wide, and Ned Flanders in a green sweater, with a moustache and glasses, stands beside Carl in a purple shirt and a dark-haired man in a pink shirt and blue tie, who grins and reaches to Ned's shoulder. A skeleton figure and a large grey fossil-like sculpture rise behind them under a blue sky. > Hardly. Anyone could have written that. > Oh, angel, listen not to this child of Satan. > Reverend, I gotta admit this doomsday warning has me just a smidge Twitterpated. > Oh, now be calm, Ned. But be afraid also, Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1047088.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1052510 ## 17:38–17:50 Lenny, with spiky black hair, a pink shirt and blue tie, stands in the center of a crowd on a grassy hill with Ned Flanders in a green sweater and Carl in a purple suit nearby, all facing a giant winged skeleton statue under a blue sky. Lenny gestures, then raises his arms and spreads them wide with his eyes closed while the crowd reacts, and the scene cuts to a bright orange sun and then to a domed building with columns. > tremendously afraid, for the day of reckoning is upon us. > The reckoning is upon us. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1060017.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1064605 ## 17:50–18:02 A cardinal in a black cassock with a red skullcap walks down a long red-carpeted hall of blue Gothic columns toward a distant throne, then stands before a seated Pope in a white mitre and robes, who sits reading a copy of La Stampa with his glasses on. Once he reaches the Pope's side, the cardinal gestures with both hands and speaks animatedly, then turns his head and looks down at the newspaper, while the Pope keeps reading without looking up. The paper's masthead reads LA STAMPA, and the lavish hall's gold ornaments and twisted black columns frame the scene. > Your Holiness, there is word from America. > They say an angel has foretold the apocalypse. > Keep an eye on it. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1071070.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1076284 ## 18:02–18:16 The moment opens on the exterior of a brick school with purple columns, a flagpole with an American flag, a sign above the entrance, and a bright sun in the sky. Inside an office, Principal Skinner, a grey-haired man in a blue suit and tie, sits in a red chair while Mrs. Krabappel, with a tall reddish-brown hairdo and a green cardigan, leans over the desk and fusses with his tie before the two lean close together. She then pulls back and gestures while he holds a pen over a stack of small printed papers, with blinds and a window behind them. > This could be our last day together, my love. > How about a farewell romp in the garden of earthly delights? > Oh, Edna, my sweet buttercup, you read my mind. > Just give me 20 minutes or so to finish these tardy slips. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1083583.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1089213 ## 18:16–18:27 A blue-beehived woman in a green dress with red beads and a spiky-haired boy in a blue suit and purple tie stand in a pink room, beside a window showing a brick house with a purple roof, hills, and a yellow sun. Marge combs the boy's spiky hair, then turns to talk while she looks at him and he glances aside, and later the boy stands by a blue dresser with a red object on top and a framed portrait of a bald man on the wall, speaking with a worried expression while Marge looks uneasy. > Why are we getting dressed up, Mom? > Are we going to Black Angus? > Well, you might say we're going to the best steakhouse in the whole universe. > So we're not going to Black Angus. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1097138.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1101934 ## 18:27–18:36 Lisa, the girl with star-shaped spiky hair, a pink bow and a red dress, sits on a purple armchair in a pink living room, arms folded, while Marge, the tall blue-beehive woman in a green dress and red bead necklace, stands beside her. A framed portrait of an older man with glasses and a tie hangs on the pink wall, and a window with greenery shows outside on the right. Marge gestures with an open hand toward Lisa, then reaches up to smooth Lisa's hair with both hands as Lisa squirms with her arms out and mouth open. Marge then steps back, clasps her hands and talks while Lisa sits sulking with her arms crossed and her mouth open mid-speech. > Will you leave me alone? > It's bad enough you're making me go to your stupid judgment day. > Please, Lisa. > I don't know exactly what's gonna happen, Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1109025.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1111944 ## 18:36–18:48 Marge Simpson, with her tall blue beehive and green sweater with a red bead necklace, stands by a window with yellow curtains in the first part of the moment, looking worried and fidgeting with her hands clasped at her chest, her mouth moving as she talks. Then Lisa, the girl with star-shaped spiky hair, red bow and white dress, sits on a purple couch in the pink room, gesturing with open hands and then flinging her arms wide and speaking with an animated expression while Marge, seen from behind, faces her. The scene ends with Lisa sitting on the couch with her arms down, grinning nervously. > but I really wish we could make peace before sunset. > Nothing is going to happen, Mom. > I hate to disappoint you, but the world is not coming to an end. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1117158.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1121954 ## 18:48–18:54 Marge, with her tall blue beehive and green dress and red beads, is first seen in her bedroom beside a vanity with an oval blue mirror, while Lisa in a red-and-white dress and bow stands near the vanity, then moves off to the side. Marge stands by a purple armchair, then walks over to the window, where a framed photo of Homer sits on an orange-and-blue dresser beneath a yellow curtain. Later the scene shifts outdoors to a hilltop crowd gathered around a winged skeleton statue under a pink sky and sun, where Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, Patty and Selma, and Chief Wiggum's officers stand watching, with Lisa holding a small book or paper. The crowd remains still across the last frames. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1129045.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1131339 ## 18:54–19:03 Ned Flanders, with his moustache, glasses and green suit, stands at the front of a crowd beside a dark-haired man in a white robe, while Marge with her tall blue beehive stands at the far right in a green dress. Other townsfolk, including a woman with orange hair and a curly-haired boy in a blue suit with a small girl in pink, stand on a teal grassy ledge at the edge of a rocky cliff, with a white rock formation to the right. Across the moment the people glance and shift their gaze toward the edge, their expressions and mouths changing slightly while the rocky ground below stays still. > Well, shall we sing a hymn? > Near My God to Thee, maybe? Or Amazing Grace? > No. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1135718.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1139263 ## 19:03–19:14 Homer, in his blue suit, clutches Marge and baby Maggie in a packed crowd with Bart, Patty and Selma, Moe and Carl around them, and they stand on a hill under a pink sky while Homer pulls them close and speaks. Later, Krusty and others join the crowd on the hill as the view turns to a sunset over a town of blue streets and twin power plant cooling towers. Chief Wiggum, in his police cap and uniform, checks his wristwatch as the orange sun sinks lower. > Oh, Marge, don't let go. No matter what. > If they want you in heaven, they gotta take me too. > Ten seconds till sundown. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1144894.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1149273 ## 19:14–19:27 Patty and Selma, Marge's twin sisters with grey-violet hair, stand side by side in a crowd against an orange backdrop, smoking cigarettes, exhaling smoke, and gesturing with their hands. Principal Skinner, in a green jacket and purple bow tie, stands among the onlookers, his mouth opening and grimacing as he looks around. Finally, Skinner grabs the face of Mr. Burns, a frail, hook-nosed old man in a blue suit, while a grinning man in a bee costume watches from behind them. > We did it. We beat cancer. > What the hell? Mwah! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1155946.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1161160 ## 19:27–19:39 Chief Wiggum checks his wristwatch in a crowd at sunset, with Ned Flanders at the edge of the frame and Marge, with her tall blue beehive, Milhouse, and a heavy man in a maroon sweater standing nearby. Krusty, in clown makeup, holds a monkey in a bow tie, and Apu stands beside a woman in a yellow top, while a skeleton sits in a dark chair and a large brown tree-like wooden frame rises above the crowd. The scene then cuts to a green valley with two cooling towers and a church as the orange sun sinks behind the hills. > Seven, six, five, four, > three, two, one! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1168250.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1173255 ## 19:39–19:49 Chief Wiggum, the fat police chief, and another officer stand at left in front of a large crowd on a grassy field at dusk, beside a huge dark tree stump in the foreground, as Wiggum talks and gestures. The scene then moves to a crowd on a blue carpet under a pink-red sky, where Marge with her tall blue beehive holding Maggie, Lisa in a pink dress, Homer in a blue suit, Bart, Apu, and a black-haired man in a white jacket stand together. In the final moment, Homer and Apu shout with mouths wide open while the man in the white jacket looks startled and Lisa stares wide-eyed. > Well, there you go. I hope you all learned about... > Silence! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1180554.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1184517 ## 19:49–20:02 Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart stand in a crowd with Ned Flanders, Apu and his wife Manjula, and Krusty holding a small monkey, all gazing at a winged skeleton statue on a stone pedestal under a red spotlight. The inscription "The end will come at sundown" is carved on the base, and the onlookers' wide-eyed, open-mouthed expressions show alarm as they stare at it. The camera-free view then pulls back to show the whole crowd ringed around the gray stone monument with its outspread wings. > Prepare for the end. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1190773.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1195778 ## 20:02–20:14 Lisa, in her red dress and pink bow, stands beside Homer, Marge and a crowd of townsfolk under a red spotlight as a glowing skeleton-winged statue with the words 'THE END IS NEAR, WELCOME AT SUNDOWN' hangs above them. Ned Flanders with his moustache and Principal Skinner in a suit gape and react while Maggie clings to Marge and Lisa clutches at Homer's side. The scene then dims to darkness, with only the skeleton statue lit as the spotlight fades, and the view pans to a row of glowing blue lamps leading up to a pinkish building with a domed roof and a sign reading 'MALL' above its entrance. The Heavenly Hills Mall is revealed in full, lit by red beams rising behind it. > The end of high prices. > What? > Behold! > The grand opening of the Heavenly Hills Mall. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1203285.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1208290 ## 20:14–20:25 Marge, with her tall blue beehive, Homer, and a crowd of townspeople stand on a hilltop under a red spotlight beneath a hanging stone angel statue, while a man in a red jacket speaks into a microphone and a uniformed man in a blue jacket with 'FIRE' lettering stands nearby. The statue is then lifted away along power lines, where it snags in a tree beside a worker in an orange vest and hard hat holding a long pole, and later hangs from a utility pole. The angel finally drifts past a domed building with a sign reading 'MALL' under a red sky. > Please follow the angel for all your shopping needs. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1215589.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1219969 ## 20:25–20:37 Lisa Simpson stands facing two men on a plaza at dusk: Smithers, thin with glasses and a blue suit, and an older man in a red suit with swept-back grey hair. Under a red sky and searchlight beams, the older man grins and talks while Lisa gestures and reacts with wide eyes, and he later points toward her. Behind them rise the glowing blue dome and arched entrance of the Heavenly Hills Mall, whose neon sign and a skeleton-topped sign appear at the start. > Wait a second. > You planted a phony skeleton for me to find. > This was all a big hoax. > Not a hoax. A publicity stunt. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1226851.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1231647 ## 20:37–20:44 Lisa Simpson, the girl with star-shaped spiky hair, pink bow and white dress with pink sash, stands on a dark street in a crowd of legs and feet, initially wide-eyed and then looking glum and half-lidded before grimacing and widening her mouth as she speaks. A bystander in a grey suit appears at the right edge, and a uniformed police officer with a baton and belt steps in behind her. Lisa then plants her hands on her hips and scowls indignantly, mouth open mid-speech, as the officer stands beside her. > You exploited people's deepest beliefs just to hawk your cheesy wares? > Well, we are outraged, aren't we? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1238738.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1241240 ## 20:44–20:52 Lisa Simpson, the girl with star-shaped spiky hair, a pink bow and a white dress with a pink sash, stands with her hands on her hips and a sulky expression in front of a crowd on a dark street under a red-purple sky. Chief Wiggum, the fat police chief in a blue uniform and cap, stands beside her gesturing with open hands and speaking, while a grey-haired man in a suit and bow tie, Mr. Burns' assistant type figure, and a woman with grey-violet hair in a red dress look on among the onlookers. Wiggum's gestures grow more animated over the seconds, with his hands waving and then spreading wide, while Lisa keeps her arms on her hips and her eyes narrowed, and the crowd stays motionless behind them. > Oh, yeah, yeah, we're outraged. Very, uh, very much so. > But look at all the stores. A pottery barn! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1246036.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1248539 ## 20:52–20:54 Chief Wiggum, the fat police chief in a blue cap and uniform, stands in the foreground in front of a red backdrop, with Mr. Burns' thin, hook-nosed profile behind him, Smithers in glasses and a green jacket with a purple bow tie on the left, and a woman with a tall blue beehive on the right. Wiggum's eyes widen and his mouth opens and closes as he talks excitedly, pointing a finger, grinning, and then turning to a mild, sideways-looking expression before grinning again, while a man in a pink shirt peers over his shoulder from behind him. > And 20% off everything? Hey, does that include rat spray? Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1253335.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1253335 ## 20:54–21:04 Lisa stands in her pink dress and red bow at the front of a crowd, while Moe, the grey-haired bartender, points and talks to a curly-haired man in a blue suit with glasses who stands with his arms folded, and others, including a woman with grey-violet hair, watch from behind. The scene then pulls back to a glowing domed building with an arched entrance marked MALL under red searchlights, as an elderly man with white hair and a cane walks toward it, followed by Moe running after him. Onlookers, including a police officer and a woman in a blue dress with lavender hair, hurry across the dark lot toward the mall as the crowd rushes forward. > Oh, yeah. > Out of my way, shorty. Hey! Hey, hey, hey! > Hey, hey, hey, hey! Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1255421.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1259592 ## 21:04–21:15 Lisa, in a white dress with a pink sash and bow, stands on a hilltop beside Marge, whose tall blue beehive and green dress with red beads mark her, while an unnamed older man with grey hair, a moustache, a green jacket and blue trousers stands nearby with his hands in his pockets under a red dusk sky with pine trees. Lisa flings her arms out and talks with her mouth open as Marge looks on wide-eyed and the man keeps his eyes half-closed. In the final moments the man turns and walks off to the left, leaving Lisa and Marge standing on the grassy rise. > I don't understand, Professor. > Why didn't your test show the skeleton was a fake? > I'm gonna be honest with you, Lisa. I never did the tests. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1266056.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1270436 ## 21:15–21:18 Small cartoon crowds of one-off characters, none clearly identifiable as regulars, walk and run along a sidewalk past storefronts beneath a glowing blue neon sign reading "Heavenly Hills Mall" topped by a winged angel statue. The sign holds steady at first, then the view angles down the sidewalk as people in pink, green, and orange outfits hurry past the shop windows, one man in a dark green shirt and a figure in black and yellow carrying a tennis racket move along the walkway, and a woman with grey-white hair in a pink dress walks by the entrance. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1276692.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1276901 ## 21:18–21:29 Smithers, the thin assistant with glasses and a magenta bow tie, stands beside Mr. Burns, the frail, stooped old man with a hooked nose and grey hair at the sides, in a blue suit and black tie, at a glass door in a lobby with a balcony behind them. Smithers starts by gesturing with his hand and grinning, then turns to speak to Burns, who looks sideways with a sour expression. Smithers keeps talking and gesturing, pressing a hand to his chest as he speaks, while Burns stays stooped and unimpressed, and later Burns opens his mouth to speak as Smithers smiles and gestures toward the door. A small ID badge is clipped to Smithers' green jacket. > Uh, sir, about that, uh, > that kiss I hope you understand It was merely a sign of my respect > Yes, yes, of course Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1279403.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1283991 ## 21:29–21:41 Marge, with her tall blue beehive and green dress with red beads, and Lisa, in a pink dress with a red bow, stand on a snowy hill at night, with a domed building behind a fence in the distance. Lisa turns to look up at Marge, who grimaces with clenched teeth, then glances sideways and speaks with her mouth open while her eyes shift. Marge keeps talking with a wide-eyed, uneasy expression against a starry purple sky. > Well, I guess you were right, > honey But you have to admit When that angel started to talk You were squeezing my hand > pretty hard Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1290873.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1295461 ## 21:41–21:50 Lisa Simpson, a girl with star-shaped spiky yellow hair, a pink bow and a pink dress, and Marge Simpson, with her tall blue beehive and green dress with red beads, stand together on a blue hillside under a starry purple night sky. Lisa first stands facing Marge with a wide-eyed grin, then looks down with half-closed eyes, then looks up and speaks while Marge listens. Later Lisa sits down on the grass in front of a glowing dome-topped building and pine trees, and Marge bends toward her, gestures with an open hand and talks. In the last moments Marge reaches out and clasps Lisa's outstretched hand as Lisa rises to her feet. > Well, it was just so loud > Thanks for squeezing back. > Anytime, my angel. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1302134.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1305888 ## 21:50–22:00 Marge, with her tall blue beehive and green dress, and a small blonde girl in a pink dress, presumably Maggie, walk hand in hand along a winding nighttime path past a bridge railing and glowing street lamps, with blue-tinted trees and distant houses behind them. In the middle of the sequence the little girl drops down and sits on the path while Marge stays beside her, and then Marge is seen alone further off, bending and standing near the edge of the path. Over the scene, opening credits appear in white letters, first reading 'Executive Producer MIKE SCULLY', then 'Executive Producers JAMES L. BROOKS, MATT GROENING, SAM SIMON', and the sequence ends on a black screen where 'Starring DAN CASTELLANETA' fades in and out in gold lettering. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1311727.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1315481 ## 22:00–22:09 No characters appear; the moment is a black title card sequence of credits against a plain black background. Gold stylized text on screen first reads JULIE KAVNER, then NANCY CARTWRIGHT, then YEARDLEY SMITH, then HANK AZARIA, followed by 'and HARRY SHEARER.' Next come 'Special Guest Voice STEPHEN JAY GOULD' and 'Special Guest Voice PHIL HARTMAN,' then 'Special Guest Voice MARCIA WALLACE,' and the sequence ends with an 'Also Starring' list of PAMELA HAYDEN, TRESS MACNEILLE, MAGGIE ROSWELL and RUSSI TAYLOR held on screen. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1321529.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1325074 ## 22:09–22:19 No regular Simpsons characters or one-off characters appear in this moment; it is a sequence of black title cards against a black background, each showing gold stylized text in succession. The cards read "Also Starring" with Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell and Russi Taylor, then "Animation Executive Producer Phil Roman," "Animation Producers Lolee Aries and Michael Wolf," "Executive Consultant David Silverman," "Executive Story Editor Ned Goldreyer," "Story Editors Jane C. O'Brien and Larry Doyle," "Staff Writer Matt Selman," "Associate Producer Alison Elliott," "Theme by Danny Elfman," and "Music by Alf Clausen." Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1331121.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1334667 ## 22:19–22:29 No characters appear in this sequence, which is a black closing credits roll for The Simpsons. Gold text on a plain black background cycles through credits in order: 'Casting by Bonita Pietila,' then editors Michael Bridge, Don Barozzo and Lee Harting, then 'Animation Production Manager for Gracie Films' Joel Kuwahara, post production supervisor Dominique Braud-Stiger and coordinator Alexander Duke, dialogue sound editors Bobby Mackston, Terry Greene and Norm Macleod, music editor Chris Ledesma, sound effects editor Travis Powers, and re-recording mixers R. Russell Smith and Bill Freesh. Later cards list production staff and assistants, then 'Animation Produced by Film Roman, Inc.' and 'Overseas Production by Anivision, J.C. Park' with overseas animation director Utit Choomuang, ending with a Dolby Surround logo. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1340714.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1344260 ## 22:29–22:38 No characters appear in this moment; it is a black closing credits sequence for a Simpsons episode. Gold serif credit text scrolls over a plain black background, listing roles such as Assistant Director Shaun Cashman, Storyboard Supervisor Christian Roman, Character Design by Kevin Newman, Matt Groening and Sam Simon, Artist Supervisor Mike B. Anderson, and a copyright notice reading The Simpsons Episode #5F05, Copyright 1997, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. The credits move from production crew lists to single-name title cards for Creative Consultant Matt Groening and Executive Creative Consultant James L. Brooks. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1350307.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1354061 ## 22:38–22:50 Silhouetted audience members, including one with a large spiky head on the left, sit in rows in a dark movie theater, facing a blank screen that glows faintly. A blue projector beam then sweeps across the screen as white text reading "GRACIE FILMS" appears over the seats. The scene cuts to a golden "20th Century Fox Television" logo rising over a dusky sky and skyline, with "A News Corporation Company" beneath it, before fading to black. > Thank you. Frame: https://ultrahouse3k.com/img/S09E08/1359900.jpg Page: https://ultrahouse3k.com/episode/s09e08-lisa-the-skeptic/1364488