“Lisa the Vegetarian” is the fifth episode of the seventh season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 15, 1995. In the episode, Lisa decides to stop eating meat after bonding with a lamb at a petting zoo. With the help of Apu as well as Paul and Linda McCartney, she commits to vegetarianism. Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Linda guest star in the episode.
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“Lisa the Vegetarian” is the fifth episode of the seventh season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 15, 1995. In the episode, Lisa decides to stop eating meat after bonding with a lamb at a petting zoo. Her schoolmates and family members ridicule her for her beliefs, but with the help of Apu as well as Paul and Linda McCartney, she commits to vegetarianism. Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Linda guest star in the episode; their condition for appearing was that Lisa would remain a vegetarian for the rest of the series. The episode received acclaim from television critics and it has won two awards, an Environmental Media Award and a Genesis Award, for highlighting environmental and animal issues, respectively. It is the first full-length episode David S. Cohen wrote for The Simpsons, and the most prominent work for the show to that point in its history. The idea for the episode came to him while he was working on another script for the season six “Treehouse of Horror V” segment. Forrester noted that many of Lisa’s experiences were based on his own experiences with vegetarianism and later noted that he had become a vegetarian himself, and later wrote a note to the show’s showrunner saying, “Lisa becomes a vegetarian?”. The episode was watched by 14. 6 million viewers and finished 47th in the ratings for the week of October 9–15, 1995, with a 9.
0 Nielsen rating. It was the fourth highest-rated show on theFox network that week. It has been cited as one of the best episodes of all time by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and has been described as the “greatest episode of animated television ever” by many critics. It was also the first episode to feature a guest appearance by a former Beatle, Paul McCartney, and his song “Maybe I’m Amazed” was played during the closing credits of the episode. The showrunner at the time, David Mirkin, supported the episode in part because he had just become a Vegetarian himself and liked the idea of Lisa as a vegetarian, and he liked the story idea for it as much as the other characters. It also featured the first appearance of the character Apu, who is an avid vegan, and who helps Lisa understand her intolerance towards others’ views. In that moment, she realizes that she should not force her animal rights views onto others. That night, Marge serves lamb chops for dinner and Lisa succumbs to the pressure to eat meat and bites into a hot dog from the roller grill at the Kwik-E-Mart. Apu reveals that she has eaten a tofu dog. He leads Lisa through a secret passageway to the KWik-E.Mart roof, where they meet Paul andinda McCartney. Being vegetarians, the McCartneys explain that they are old friends ofApu from Paul’s days in India.
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