Lisa's wedding
| Episode of the series The Simpsons | |
|---|---|
| title | Lisa's wedding |
| Original title | Lisa's Wedding |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| length | approx. 22 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| classification | Season 6, episode 19 122nd episode overall ( list ) |
| First broadcast | March 19, 1995 on FOX |
| German-language first broadcast |
November 19, 1995 on ProSieben |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jim Reardon |
| script | Greg Daniels |
| music | Alf Clausen |
| synchronization | |
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Lisa's Wedding ( English Title: Lisa's Wedding ) is the 19th episode of the sixth season and thus the 122nd episode of the series The Simpsons . It won the 1995 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) .
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The episode begins with the Simpson family visiting a medieval market . Father Homer eats eight different types of meat there and shows what daughter Lisa is very ashamed of and therefore continues to go to the market alone. Eventually she comes to the booth of a fortune teller . She may be suspicious at first, but the fortune teller can get her attention by giving her the names of the other family members. She promises Lisa that she will use the tarot to predict her future and tell her the story of her first true love.
The plot now reflects the prophecy: In 2010 (at the time it was broadcast, 15 years in the future) the now 23-year-old Lisa met her British fellow student Hugh Parkfield while studying at an Ivy League university. A tussle over a book and rivalry in academic performance quickly lead to a stormy love affair. Hugh invites Lisa to England to live with his parents, who are members of the upper class . There he makes her a marriage proposal, which she spontaneously accepts. When she tells her mother Marge about this on the phone, she promises to prevent father Homer from ruining the wedding.
Marge is still a housewife in the future vision, Lisa's brother Bart (now 25) is successful as a demolition contractor, little sister Maggie is supposedly a very talkative teenager, but she never gets a word in this episode. Homer is still the safety officer of the local nuclear power plant, Milhouse Van Houten, a former classmate and friend of his son, is now his supervisor.
Lisa and Hugh travel to Lisa's hometown Springfield to prepare for their wedding, but Lisa worries that her family will embarrass her. Things get off to a bad start when Bart and Homer accidentally set a British flag on fire and then put out the fire with compost. After dinner, Homer invites Hugh to his local bar while Lisa tries on her wedding dress. In the pub, Homer Hugh shows very kitschy cufflinks (two pigs as bride and groom), which in his family are traditionally worn by the groom to the wedding; he asks him to continue this tradition. Hugh reluctantly agrees. Later that evening, when Lisa wants to apologize to Hugh for the behavior of her family, Hugh pretends not to have a problem with it, but appears unhappy.
On the day of the wedding, Lisa discovers that Hugh is not wearing the cufflinks. Finding her father's gesture touching, she asks Hugh to put on the cufflinks. He gives in; but at the same time he shows that he expects them to live in England and that Lisa should turn her back on her family. Lisa is very upset and tells Hugh that she cannot marry him because he does not understand that despite their mistakes, she loves her family very much. She drops the wedding and runs away.
Then the fortune teller ends her story: She tells that Hugh is going back to England and that he and Lisa will never see each other again. She should not be able to prevent this fate, but the fortune teller asks her to look astonished when it happens. Lisa asks if that will have been her only true love, the fortune teller exclaims: Lisa would find true love, but her predictions would be limited to relationships where you get torn. Lisa leaves the stand and meets her father, who is excited to tell her about his experiences at the fair. No longer ashamed, Lisa takes his hand as they go home and listens happily to him.
credentials
"Hugh Parkfield" is a parody of the English actor Hugh Grant .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeff lenburg: Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film & Television's Award Winning and Legendary Animators . Hal Leonard, 2006, ISBN 1-55783-671-X .
- ↑ Lisa's Wedding. In: BBC Home. Retrieved July 6, 2013 .
Web links
- Lisa's Wedding in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of The Simpsons