Name of machine that shrinks Lisa: Debigulator. When Lisa proposas a "rebigulator," the scientist responds, "That is an idea so patently absurd I can't even begin to comprehend it."
The linguistic humor here arises from the complicated-sounding Latinate word really based on a simple Anglo-Saxon word.
Episode: a Halloween special
The linguistic humor here arises from the complicated-sounding Latinate word really based on a simple Anglo-Saxon word.
Episode: a Halloween special
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name.
Lisa: The media's making a monster out of you because... - FOO 1. [from the Yiddish 'feh' or Anglo-Saxon 'fooey'] interj.
Term of disgust. 2. [from FUBAR, WWII acronym, often... - Faith: Lisa, I'm Faith Crowley, Patriotism Editor of Reading Digest.
Homer: Oh, I love your magazine. My favourite section... - Bart: I was sitting there!
Lisa: I don't see your name on it!
Bart: It's right there! Marge: Bart, don't write on... - Bart: I wanna hold the baby. I wanna hold the baby.
Marge: I'm sorry, Bart, you're too little. Homer: Here... - Bart: Can you say David Hasselhoff?
Lisa: Davah Hassa-hoff.
Lisa learns to talk, "Lisa's First... - What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-
sounding word that we tend to use when we would really... - What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-
sounding word that we tend to use when we would really...
