Lisa's Substitute vs. Bart Sells His Soul

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Lisa's Substitute

Lisa's teacher, Miss Hoover, thinks she has come down with Lyme disease and is replaced by substitute teacher Mr. Bergstrom. Because of his unorthodox teaching methods and friendly nature, Lisa starts falling in love with him.

Lisa runs into Mr. Bergstrom at a museum and is embarrassed when Homer displays his ignorance. Sensing a void in their relationship, Mr. Bergstrom takes Homer aside to suggest he be a more positive role model. After venting to her mother about Homer ruining her 'one chance' to get to know Bergstrom outside of the classroom, Lisa is given permission to invite him to family dinner, only to be shattered when she finds Miss Hoover back and Mr. Bergstrom gone. She rushes to his apartment and learns that he has accepted employment in "Capital City". She rushes to the train station to catch him, and confesses that she will be lost without him; he replies and she sobbingly accepts that he has to go help the more needy. To comfort her, he writes her a note and tells her that any time she feels alone, its contents are all she needs to know. He then boards the train and departs. It reads, "You are Lisa Simpson".

In a subplot, Bart's class prepares to elect a class president. Mrs. Krabappel nominates Martin, while Sherri and Terri nominate Bart. During a debate with Martin, Bart tells jokes and wins the class over. Afterwards, certain of Bart's inevitable victory thanks to his popular campaigning, none of the children in his class—including himself—actually voted, giving Martin the victory with just two votes: one from himself, and the other from Wendell Borton.

Devastated by Mr. Bergstrom's departure, Lisa takes her grief out on the insensitive Homer, calling him a baboon. Marge tells Homer to console Lisa, explaining how her daughter is very hurt emotionally and is in need of her father. Homer enters Lisa's room and finds her crying over her desk. He is uncertain of how to deal with Lisa's sadness, and is uncomfortable seeing his daughter crying. Homer explains to Lisa how he cannot really understand how it feels to lose someone special: everyone he has ever loved and cared about lives with him still. He then alludes to Lisa calling him a baboon, and in a loving manner mimics a monkey, cheering her up. Lisa apologizes to Homer for calling him a baboon, and he accepts the apology. Finding Bart still seething over the election result, Homer cheers him up by reminding him that all the job of class president would have really meant was a lot of extra work with little reward, making Bart feel happy that he lost the election. Finally going by Maggie's room, he places her pacifier in her mouth. Proud that he helped all three of his children, Homer goes to bed with Marge happily that night, stating he is "on the biggest roll" of his life.

Bart Sells His Soul

During a church service, Bart tricks the congregation by distributing the lyrics to a hymn titled "In the Garden of Eden" by "I. Ron Butterfly", which is actually the psychedelic rock song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly,[3] that the unwitting parishioners and organist proceed to perform for 17 minutes, after which the elderly organist passes out from exhaustion. Reverend Lovejoy demands that the perpetrator step forward, with threats of fire and brimstone, at which Milhouse snitches on Bart. Lovejoy sentences Bart (as well as Milhouse for tattling) to clean the pipe organ. Bart is indignant with Milhouse, who apologizes but was fearful of losing his soul. Bart proclaims that there is no such thing as a soul and for $5 agrees to sell his to Milhouse in the form of a piece of paper saying "Bart Simpson's soul". Lisa warns that Bart will regret selling his soul, but he dismisses her fears. However, Bart soon finds that Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II seem hostile towards him, automatic doors fail to open for him, when he breathes on the freezer doors at the Kwik-E-Mart no condensation forms, and he can no longer laugh at Itchy & Scratchy cartoons. Suspecting he literally lost his soul, he sets out to retrieve it.

Bart attempts to retrieve his soul from Milhouse, who agrees to sell it...for $50, then laughs at Bart for being the fool. That night, Bart has a nightmare about being the only child in Springfield who does not have a soul. Lisa torments Bart with a dinnertime prayer leading him to make a desperate, all-out attempt to get the piece of paper back. Bart crosses town to where Milhouse and his parents are staying with his grandmother while their house is being fumigated. The visit turns out to be fruitless; Milhouse had traded the paper to Comic Book Guy at the Android's Dungeon. A frustrated Bart runs off into the night. He encounters Ralph Wiggum in his father's police cruiser and attempts to buy his soul. When Ralph refuses he hisses and disappears in a vale of smoke and haze.

The following morning, an annoyed Comic Book Guy tells Bart that he no longer has the piece of paper but refuses to reveal to whom he sold it. Bart walks home in the rain, then in his room he prays to God for his soul. Suddenly, a piece of paper with the words "Bart Simpson's soul" floats down from above. Bart discovers that Lisa had purchased the piece of paper. While she explains philosophers' opinions on the human soul, Bart happily devours the piece of paper. Realizing how uninterested Bart was in about her lecture about the human soul, Lisa tells him that she hoped he learned his lesson from this. At night when Bart goes to bed, he and his soul are having fun with their quirks, proving that Bart did learn his lesson in the consequences of selling his soul.

In the subplot, Moe attempts to expand his customer base by converting his tavern into a family restaurant called "Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag", after numerous unhelpful concept ideas from Homer. The restaurant turns out to be a T.G.I. Friday's-style restaurant full of tacky decorations and gimmicks, including one where a special French Fries dish is served with the basket strapped to Moe's head. However, the stress of running a family restaurant by himself ultimately starts to drive him unhinged, especially his ill-conceived policy of voiding the bill for anyone he does not smile for when he gives it to them. Finally, driven over the edge, he yells at a little girl who complained that the soda was too cold. The family patrons are outraged and abandon the restaurant, forcing Moe to return the restaurant to the run-down tavern.

[tragabigzanda]

Really torn here.

[Simple Torture]

Really torn here.

Me too.

[LoathedVermin72]

Guys, this is super easy. Soul is much, much better.