'My' episode of The Simpsons

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Has anyone ever seen the episode where Lisa feels she needs to find friends her own age when the family takes a trip to Ned Flander's beach house? I remember watching back in 1997 when it was first on and totally identifying with all the things Lisa was saying. A few things that stick out

When they are at the dinner table and Marge says Bart can bring Milhouse and says "Lisa, you can bring a friend too". Lisa is left mumbling alone, "Yay, a friend, a... companion... I don't know, stuffed animal?"

Lisa saying her only friends were grown up book writers who wrote about ideas her peers would never understand or be able to converse with her about.

When she tries to walk up to a group of kids and attempts to talk, only to be cut off by a squawking bird and she has to give herself a pep talk in order to try again. (This always happens to me when I get the courage to speak up, I get cut off by some loud mouth and I retreat into my shell, losing the spontaneous courage I just had.)

The end where she is walking alone saying "Being myself didn't work, being someone else didn't work, maybe I'm just not meant to have friends." Which to me is true, I never beleived people when they say "just be yourself", since I have, yet no one has stuck around as a true friend when I am "me".

All my experiences with similar feelings, especially while in high school, came out in this episode. Lisa just felt outside the realm of what her peers were at mentally. Being different. I think this is one of my favorite episodes because it deals with exactly something I understand and is expressed by a character.

IS there an episode on a TV show that has practically spoken your own feelings at all?

Homerpalooza, the only way I've ever gotten any "respect" was by being a freak (My fingers are double jointed and I can bend my legs to a degree that isn't normal), and once I did people would constantly want to see it, eventually I got fairly sick of it, even though it was pretty funny to see the looks on their faces.

Not really any episodes of any programme speak out to me (Lesson learning + relating to situation wise).

The only way they speak out to me is the characters that I can relate to on the programmes.

I can relate to:

Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) - His Randomness.

Eric Cartman (South Park) - His humor and selfishness.

Dougal Maguire (Father Ted) - His slow wit.

Father Jack (Father Ted) - His anger and violent behaviour.

Vyvyan (The Young Ones) - His randomness + Violent behaviour.

Its a move not a tv show
but Miles played by Paul Giamatti in sideways
reminds me a lot of me if you replace wine with muisc

I remember that episode quite well and like you, understood how Lisa felt. I liked the part of the story when Lisa was able to make friends with some kids she met on the beach and Bart got jealous so he tried to steal her friends away from her by showing off but it didn't work. I had very few friends in my life and on the rare occasions when I did, my sister was able to steal them from me by showing off something better about herself, like the fact she'd read books I hadn't, seen movies I hadn't, and for some reason, her taste in music was better than mine. Two friends I made in particular often ended up pushing me to the side and talking to her more than me, which really hurt. I used to have this fantasy of having a friend she could try her stuff on and it would fail the way Bart did, but it never happened. The only way to keep her from stealing my friends was to keep them away from her.

I also liked the part how even though Bart was able to humiliate her and expose how she really was to her new friends, they still realized that even though she wasn't what she made herself appear to be, that she was still a great person nonetheless. Happy endings are always nice, even though they seldom occur in real life.

I empathized with Lisa in that one, but my hands-down Lisa episode is the one with the substitute teacher. At the end, he gives her a note that reads 'You are Lisa Simpson'.

I never had a crush on a teacher, but during my first year at college, I was having a rough time, and a guy in my drama class that I didn't even know that well left me a note telling me that I was who I was, and that was enough, and I shouldn't try to change that, and it was my 'You are Lisa Simpson' moment.

I bet if I looked hard enough, I could find that note-- I know I wouldn't have thrown it away.

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TheRoaroftheGreasepaint

I like that episode (Summer Of 4'2") especially the part where Homer buys illegal fireworks from an Apu-lookalike.

"Let me have one of those porno magazines, large box of condoms, a bottle of Old Harper, a couple of those panty shields, and some illegal fireworks, and one of those disposable enemas...eh, make it two"

'I'm sorry but i'm forbiden to sell under federal (man leaves the shop) Follow me!'