I will say, next week's is a stone cold classic, and I hope no one tries to claim otherwise.

"I thought I told you to TRIM those sideburns!"

Awwww, I thought this was kind of hard on the episode (and from a site that gave a higher rating than this to Lisa the Skeptic no less!) Unlike…that other episode, this one really balanced the difference between Lisa the genius and Lisa the little kid - the fact that her great works of literature includes Yertle the…

"When I get married, I'm keeping my own name!"
But really, she got married before she had her Sixties Awakening, so I don't think we need to make it any more complicated than that.

State fair hookers are well-known for their business savvy!

The A.V. Club(?)

Only because you're a dirty Yank!

Normally, it just annoys me when The Simpsons tries to acknowledge past episodes (the "his name was Stampy and you loved him" non-joke in The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons a couple weeks ago was kind of painful), but even I spent the whole montage of Simpsons failures wondering what happened to Unkie Herb!

Curses! Foiled by facts!

I take it this is proof of my point?

Those prostitutes upstairs are sure making a racket!

Not to mention Ancient Rome, where the fire department was basically a protection racket.

Mobsters really are the truest Libertarians, aren't they?

Well, isn't that what your classmates' work is for?

What's really bizarre is that everything seems to indicate that it got to that level of absolute awful BECAUSE of the studio system and their protectiveness of capes!

Honey? Where are my paaaaaaants?

Objectivism is such a weird name for Rand's philosophy, isn't it? What could be less objective than deciding what you want is more important than what everybody else needs?

If the two families unite in a political marriage, we'll have Bristol Kristol!

But you still beat him in the upvote stakes! Yay!

It's as old as the Old Testament.
"As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?"