# Lisa the Tree Hugger

The Simpsons, season 12, episode 4 (S12E04), first aired November 19, 2000.
Written by Matt Selman. Directed by Steven Dean Moore. Production code CABF01.
Guest stars: Joshua Jackson as Jesse Grass.
Chalkboard gag: "I am not the acting President". Couch gag: Teletubbies.

Smitten with Jesse Grass, teenage head of the radical eco-group Dirt First, Lisa volunteers to live in Springfield's oldest redwood to keep the Rich Texan's loggers away. When she slips home for one stormy night, lightning brings the tree down and the whole town believes she has died. Meanwhile, Bart takes a job delivering menus for a Thai restaurant to afford a video game console.

Who's in it: Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson, Maggie Simpson, Moe Szyslak, Milhouse Van Houten, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders, Chief Wiggum, Krusty the Clown, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Mrs. Krabappel, Dr. Hibbert, Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, Otto Mann, Jasper Beardsley, Reverend Lovejoy, Groundskeeper Willie, Santa's Little Helper, Lou, Richard, Jimbo Jones, Eddie, Miss Hoover, Snowball II, Kearney Zzyzwicz, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, Nina Skalka, Janey Powell, Larry Dalrymple, Helen Lovejoy, Sam, Adrian Belew, Professor Frink, Bernice Hibbert, Becky Shorter, Dolph Starbeam, Horatio McCallister, Sophie Jensen, Comic Book Guy, Snake, Itchy, Long-haired girl, Ruth Powers, Jaffee Ziswhisky, Buck-toothed boy, Gareth Prince, Dewey Largo, Superintendent Chalmers, Buck-toothed girl, Gloria Prince, Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon, Cletus Spuckler, Alice Glick, Lunchlady Dora, Charlie, Raphael, Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon, Allison Taylor, Ms. Albright, Mayor Quimby's Bodyguards, Abraham Lincoln, The Rich Texan, Lucille Botzcowski, George Washington, Lurleen Lumpkin, Jake the Barber, Old Dad, Mrs. Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt, Noodles, Sir Widebottom, Branford Marsalis, Caleb, Jesse Grass, Mr. Thai, Thomas Jefferson.

Every line said in the episode, and when. Its moments aren't described yet. The dialogue is from the episode's subtitles.

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## Every line

- 0:03 The Simpsons
- 0:37 Oh,
- 0:53 my God.
- 1:21 Five, four, three, two, one!
- 1:25 Well, that's all the time we have.
- 1:28 So long, kids!
- 1:32 Krusty the Clown is brought to you by the new Game Station 256.
- 1:36 It's slightly faster to the max.
- 1:40 256?
- 1:42 Oh, when I'm stuck with this useless 252.
- 1:47 Don't destroy me.
- 1:49 I can still make you happy.
- 1:51 To the max.
- 1:54 Here's a headline for Jay.
- 1:56 Ketchup truck hits hamburger stand.
- 2:01 Mom, can I have 200 bucks for a 256K game station?
- 2:05 That's less than a dollar a K.
- 2:07 Oh, I might be able to help you.
- 2:10 With a song about thrift.
- 2:12 When you get a penny from a chum, don't just buy some bubble gum.
- 2:18 Put it in your cap, put it in your cap. When you find a nickel in the snow,
- 2:23 don't just blow it on a picture show. Put it in your cap, put it in your cap.
- 2:28 I don't have a cap. When you spy a quarter in a pie.
- 2:33 Oh.
- 2:34 You want money? Get a job. Like your old man.
- 2:37 Well, maybe I should.
- 2:39 So, now you're smarter than your old man, huh?
- 2:42 I guess.
- 2:43 I like your attitude.
- 2:44 Take what you need.
- 2:52 Nice day's work, kid.
- 2:54 This is for you.
- 2:58 You're paying me in hair?
- 3:00 Are you insane?
- 3:05 Man, I need a job.
- 3:08 You need job? I have job for you.
- 3:14 You take these.
- 3:15 You hang Thai menu on door. I get more business.
- 3:19 Send daughters to small liberal arts college.
- 3:22 Swarthmore, maybe Sarah Lawrence.
- 3:24 Co-professors by first name. Ha!
- 3:26 Dynamite. Hang him on the door.
- 3:28 Got it.
- 3:31 Hey, hey, no menus! Or I'll cut you like a box along the flaps.
- 3:38 You quitter.
- 3:40 Quitter, boy.
- 3:43 I'm sorry.
- 3:44 Now restaurant fail.
- 3:45 Children go to state cottage.
- 3:48 Serious students powerless against drunken jockocracy.
- 3:51 Baseball hats everywhere.
- 3:53 Hey, man, this job is too dangerous. Menu boy no be coward like shrimp.
- 3:58 Menu boy be brave like prawn.
- 4:03 Menu boy must move silently like a ghost.
- 4:08 Leave no footprint, only lunch specials.
- 4:39 Oh,
- 4:39 what a waste.
- 4:51 There you go, little fish.
- 4:53 Oh.
- 4:55 Bart, do you know how many trees died to make those menus?
- 4:59 I don't know. A million? You're ruining the earth.
- 5:02 True, but I gots to get paid.
- 5:05 Money equals funny, sister.
- 5:07 Oh, Betty.
- 5:10 Bart, it's so sweet of you to take the family out to Krusty Burger.
- 5:15 Hey, some people in this family are doers and some are donters.
- 5:19 Don't you call me a...
- 5:22 Take that, Lisa's beliefs.
- 5:27 Oh, how cute.
- 5:29 Kids, look who's on the roof.
- 5:32 I knew this day would come. The cows are taking back what's theirs.
- 5:36 No, I think they're protesters.
- 5:41 Hey, there are cows on the roof.
- 5:43 I thought my pager was busted.
- 5:46 Get back in. It's only funny with a small car.
- 5:55 Take down the clown!
- 5:59 Listen, I'm on your side. Let's get a dialogue going.
- 6:02 Take out the mother cow. The rest will follow.
- 6:06 Your corporation cuts down the rainforest to create grazing land for cattle.
- 6:10 Oh, for the lava. Give me that!
- 6:14 No, you can't! Don't worry, honey. They're just firing beanbags.
- 6:20 Hey, hey, watch! You can't silence the truth with beanbags.
- 6:26 That's nice work with the bag-zooka.
- 6:28 Gotta love what you do, Chief.
- 6:30 Mm-mm.
- 6:31 Are you all right?
- 6:34 I've had worse.
- 6:37 In New Orleans, they hose us with Tabasco.
- 6:39 Oh, you're so heroic.
- 6:42 All right, cowboy.
- 6:44 I'll see you in municipal court.
- 6:47 Ha, good one, Chief. What? What'd I say?
- 6:50 I can't believe how young he is. He'd be cute if he weren't so idealistic.
- 6:59 Look, Marge, I'm in a limo.
- 7:02 The Simpsons are going to Paris.
- 7:08 The eco-radical group Dirt First staged a daring protest today at Krusty Burger.
- 7:14 Krusty the Clown has issued the following statement.
- 7:16 This I don't need.
- 7:19 The group is led by teenage activist Jesse Grass,
- 7:22 a dreadlocked dreamboat whose Birkin stock is on the rise.
- 7:27 Ah.
- 7:29 Boring.
- 7:32 Ah, the Luftwaffe. The Washington generals of the History Channel.
- 7:37 Dad, change it back.
- 7:39 Yeah, that was the boy Lisa likes. No, I don't.
- 7:42 Lisa and Jesse sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
- 7:46 Shut up!
- 7:47 First comes love, then comes...
- 7:50 Um... Damn it, I know this.
- 7:55 I'd like to visit a prisoner.
- 7:57 Yeah, sure.
- 7:58 Aren't you coming with me? Hey, I get enough flaming toilet paper thrown on me at home.
- 8:06 Fire in the hole!
- 8:10 Jesse?
- 8:13 You do yoga?
- 8:14 Yeah, but I started before it was cool.
- 8:17 My name's Lisa Simpson.
- 8:18 I think your protest was incredibly brave.
- 8:20 Thank you.
- 8:21 This planet needs every friend it can get.
- 8:24 Oh, the Earth is the best. That's why I'm a vegetarian.
- 8:28 Well, that's a start.
- 8:30 Well, I was thinking of going vegan.
- 8:33 I'm a level five vegan. I won't eat anything that casts a shadow.
- 8:36 Wow.
- 8:38 Um, I started an organic compost pile at home.
- 8:42 Only at home?
- 8:43 You mean you don't pocket mulch? Oh, it's so decomposed.
- 8:48 Do you think I could join dirt first?
- 8:50 Well, we might have an opening at the poser level.
- 8:54 Oh, thank you, thank you.
- 8:58 Have a good time at your hippie club. You're welcome to come, too.
- 9:02 No, I like to save the environment my own way.
- 9:12 Ooh, donuts.
- 9:14 I am happy to report we've succeeded in blocking the St.
- 9:17 Patrick's Day parade, which every year steps on several lizards.
- 9:22 Don't celebrate yet.
- 9:23 The mayor had a secret tree auction last night.
- 9:27 What am I bid for the logging rights to Springfield's oldest redwood tree?
- 9:32 $30,000 to make cages for animal experimentation.
- 9:37 $50,000 for Thai menus.
- 9:39 Daughter on wait list at Bennington.
- 9:41 100,000 simoleons to make the world's first drive through humidor.
- 9:48 Sold to the rich Texan. Yee-haw!
- 9:52 Yippee-yay-kay-yay!
- 9:54 Woo, doggies!
- 9:56 Yahoo!
- 9:58 Thanks to Caleb for the tape. How'd you sneak that camera in?
- 10:01 I got my ways.
- 10:04 They can't cut down that sequoia if one of us is living in it.
- 10:08 Any volunteers?
- 10:09 All doors!
- 10:10 I'm so there! Oh, me, me, me! Whoa, hold on.
- 10:13 Once you're up there, you can't come down.
- 10:16 Not for a fish concert, not even for Burning Man.
- 10:20 Well, someone will hear the call.
- 10:25 And whoever does will have a place in my heart.
- 10:32 Sheesh, look at these refugees.
- 10:34 How about a smile? They've undergone terrible hardships.
- 10:39 Well, moping won't make it better.
- 10:41 Mom, Dad, there's something I have to do.
- 10:44 You're not gonna like it, but I really believe it's the right thing.
- 10:50 Arch, she's gonna knock on our stash. We don't have a stash.
- 10:55 No, of course not.
- 11:08 Wow.
- 11:12 I didn't think it would be so high.
- 11:14 Maybe I could just circulate a petition.
- 11:22 I'll show you.
- 11:43 Well, this looks like a good place to set up camp.
- 11:48 Wow!
- 11:49 What a view!
- 12:00 Gentlemen, start your chainsaw.
- 12:04 Not so fast.
- 12:10 Now you come down from there, Missy.
- 12:12 I won't come down till you spare this tree.
- 12:19 Hang in there, Laura.
- 12:21 It's Lisa.
- 12:23 Right, Lisa, you're hardcore.
- 12:27 He said I was hardcore.
- 12:29 Whoa!
- 12:38 Oh, no!
- 12:39 My baby's up there!
- 12:41 It's okay, Mom!
- 12:42 I have a safety line!
- 12:44 This is your fault with your non-threatening Bobby Sherman-style good looks.
- 12:49 No girl could resist your charms! This was her choice, Mr.
- 12:52 Simpson. I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.
- 12:54 I was lost in your eyes.
- 12:57 All right, a care bucket.
- 13:03 Hot Thai soup.
- 13:05 Oh, Bart.
- 13:07 Dear Lisa, you rock.
- 13:10 Mom is calling rescue agencies, Dad is building a giant ladder, but it is of poor quality.
- 13:16 We miss you, Bart.
- 13:18 Aw. It's day four for Springfield's littlest tree hugger.
- 13:24 Excuse me, that's littlest tree hugger. And whether you love or hate her politics,
- 13:28 you gotta go gawk at this crazy idiot.
- 13:33 Oh, seven o'clock.
- 13:36 The family's just sitting down to dinner.
- 13:40 Aw.
- 13:42 You call that same grace?
- 13:54 Oh, now they're making popcorn.
- 13:58 And hanging Christmas stockings. And coloring Easter eggs.
- 14:02 Oh, I can't take it.
- 14:04 Would it be so bad if I just went home for an hour?
- 14:16 Don't worry, I'll be right back.
- 14:20 Ew, someone's been marking their territory.
- 14:27 Hey, everybody, I...
- 14:32 Aww.
- 14:36 I'll just rest here for a minute.
- 14:52 Oh, it's morning.
- 14:54 I gotta get back.
- 15:02 Oh, no.
- 15:08 Oh, Mom, those loggers chopped down the tree.
- 15:11 Why did I have to leave my post? Now, honey,
- 15:15 let's turn on the news and forget our troubles.
- 15:18 Springfield's oldest resident has died.
- 15:21 No, it wasn't Mr.
- 15:23 Burns. It was this majestic old redwood, which was brutally cut down last night.
- 15:29 Oh.
- 15:30 Not by loggers, but by lightning.
- 15:33 Lightning?
- 15:34 Oh, at least it wasn't my fault.
- 15:37 Lightning attracted by this metal bucket.
- 15:39 Ew. Still unknown is the fate of tree sitter Lisa Simpson.
- 15:43 I'm afraid it doesn't look good, Kent.
- 15:46 We found her sleeping bag. Right here.
- 15:48 Our working theory is that the lightning exploded her.
- 15:52 Back to you, Kent. You don't get to say that.
- 15:54 Goodbye, Lisa.
- 15:56 We'll miss you.
- 15:57 Oh, no.
- 15:58 Lisa's gone. And nothing will bring her back.
- 16:03 Unless... Dad, I'm not dead.
- 16:05 Oh, praise God, you're alive.
- 16:09 Unless... Oh, my!
- 16:11 They made you a shrine!
- 16:15 I loved Lisa Simpson, loved her like a shrub,
- 16:18 and I would give anything to see her sweet face again.
- 16:22 Oh!
- 16:23 But in death, she will do more for our cause than she ever could have done in life.
- 16:29 Uh-huh.
- 16:30 In Texas, we do tragedy right. That's why, in memory of that poor little girl,
- 16:35 I'm turning this entire forest into the Lisa Simpson Wilderness Preserve.
- 16:39 We won, Lisa.
- 16:41 We finally won.
- 16:44 This is for you.
- 16:50 He cut off his favorite dread.
- 16:53 We have to tell them you're not dead.
- 16:57 No, Mom. It's a memorial for us now. If I'm alive, they'll cut it down.
- 17:03 You are not pretending to be dead, young lady.
- 17:06 This family has had nothing but bad luck when it comes to farce.
- 17:10 Homer, it's Nettie.
- 17:11 I baked you a little something to ease the pain.
- 17:13 Oh, my side, Lisa.
- 17:18 Come in.
- 17:22 So, Bart, our school policy is to give students in your situation straight A's.
- 17:27 Get out. What's the catch?
- 17:29 The tragic loss of your sister.
- 17:31 Ah, yes.
- 17:32 Gastly business, that.
- 17:38 Raven Father, coming through.
- 17:40 Homer, booze is on the house, seeing as how Lisa is, um...
- 17:45 How do I put this?
- 17:48 Riding the midnight train to Slave City.
- 17:51 Thanks for the beer, Moe. But before Lisa died,
- 17:54 she made this tape that I think you should hear.
- 17:56 Dear Moe, if anything should ever happen to me,
- 17:59 I want you to tear up my dad's tab and pour it to me.
- 18:04 I can't. Read it.
- 18:06 Pour cocktail onions down your pants.
- 18:11 Well, I ain't never said no to a dead girl yet.
- 18:18 And now, Branford Marcellus will play using Lisa's very own saxophone.
- 18:23 Don't touch it! They can clone her from the spit!
- 18:27 Good luck, Milhouse.
- 18:29 And finally, an exciting announcement from our good friends.
- 18:32 at OmniPave.
- 18:34 Folks, last night, the dear departed Lisa came to me in a dream,
- 18:38 and she told me her fondest wish was that this forest would become the world's rootinous,
- 18:44 tootinous, pollutinous amusement park!
- 18:52 You promised us a nature preserve.
- 18:55 Now, don't you fret.
- 18:56 We're sensitive to all your eco-concerns.
- 19:01 That's it, boys.
- 19:02 The gift shop will go right there.
- 19:05 Oh, cut it down!
- 19:06 No!
- 19:13 Uh, g-g-girl!
- 19:15 I'm not dead, and neither is my sense of moral outrage.
- 19:20 Uh, here we go.
- 19:21 Sir, have you no shame?
- 19:23 Clearly I don't.
- 19:27 Now get your hiney off of Lisa Land. A redwood is not a promotional tool!
- 19:35 Good lord, he's cutting the guy wells!
- 19:53 Nice work, Tree.
- 19:56 Now, return to me.
- 20:01 Alright, I don't have superpowers.
- 20:03 Just yet.
- 20:05 Sweet!
- 20:06 It's headed for the business district!
- 20:11 Not my company!
- 20:22 No!
- 20:24 It was Finger Ling Ling Good!
- 20:31 No!
- 20:34 Yee-haw!
- 20:35 Score one for the bad guys!
- 20:41 Hey, Lisa.
- 20:43 Aw, Jesse, they locked you up again.
- 20:45 Yeah, but I'm still fighting for the Earth.
- 20:47 I even got them to install a solar-powered electric chair.
- 20:50 Dude, we've been here all morning.
- 20:52 Could you at least re-moisten my head sponge?
- 20:55 Well, I'll write you letters. On rice paper, with a soy pencil.
- 21:00 Ah, you're sweet.
- 21:03 Did they ever stop that log? Not yet.
- 21:06 What's up with that?
- 21:08 This log is your log. This log is my log.
- 21:13 When lightning struck it, it kicked the bucket.
- 21:17 I poured some onions inside my trousers.
- 21:23 This log, it used to be a tree.
- 21:27 Now it spreads love to you and me.
- 21:32 Hey, look, it's heading out to sea.
- 21:57 Thank you.