Lisa the Vegetarian

"**Lisa the Vegetarian**"
"Lisa the Vegetarian"
The Simpsons episode
	Lisa’s bonding with the lamb leads her to becoming a vegetarian.
Episode no.	Season 7; Episode 5
Directed by	Mark Kirkland
Written by	David S. Cohen
Production code	3F03
Original air date	October 15, 1995
Guest appearances
	Phil Hartman as Troy McClure; Linda and Paul McCartney as themselves;
Episode features
Chalkboard gag	"The boys' room is not a water park"
Couch gag	Robotic paint guns color the Simpson family.
Commentary	Matt Groening; David Mirkin; David X. Cohen; Mark Kirkland;
Episode chronology
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	List of episodes

"Lisa the Vegetarian" is the fifth episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.^[3] It originally aired on Fox in the United States on October 15, 1995.^[1] 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.

Directed by Mark Kirkland,^[1] "Lisa the Vegetarian" is the first full-length episode David S. Cohen wrote for The Simpsons.^[1] David Mirkin, the showrunner at the time, supported the episode in part because he had just become a vegetarian himself. 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 makes several references to McCartney's musical career, and his song "Maybe I'm Amazed" plays during the closing credits.

In its original broadcast, "Lisa the Vegetarian" was watched by 14.6 million viewers^[4] 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 the Fox network that week.

The episode received widespread 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.

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^ Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "Lisa the Vegetarian". British Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on March 9, 2005. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
^ Jody Baumgartner; Jonathan S. Morris (August 21, 2012). Laughing Matters: Humor and American Politics in the Media Age. Routledge. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-135-90777-8.
^ "Nielsen ratings". USA Today. October 18, 1995. p. D3.

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[BBC-2] Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "Lisa the Vegetarian". British Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on March 9, 2005. Retrieved November 30, 2008.

[BaumgartnerMorris2012-3] Jody Baumgartner; Jonathan S. Morris (August 21, 2012). Laughing Matters: Humor and American Politics in the Media Age. Routledge. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-135-90777-8.

[4] "Nielsen ratings". USA Today. October 18, 1995. p. D3.

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