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D'oh-in' in the Wind
Lisa Gets an "A"
Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"


I'm delighted to report that your grade brought the entire school's G.P.A. up to our state's minimum standard. We now qualify for a basic assistance grant. It's the greatest honor the school has ever received and it's all thanks to you. Your devotion to scholarship is a shining beacon to all who...
Principal Skinner
Hi, Lisa. Hi, 'Super Nintendo Chalmers.' I’m 'learnding.'
Ralph Wiggum

"Lisa Gets An A" is the seventh episode of Season 10.

Synopsis[]

Lisa's A+++ grade she got on a test for the book The Wind in the Willows gives Springfield Elementary the grant money it sorely needs to update the school. The problem: Lisa cheated on the exam after spending her sick days from school playing video games instead of studying. Meanwhile, Homer raises a lobster to eat, but makes it his pet.

Full Story[]

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Homer's lobster inside the aquarium

After yet another long Sunday morning at church, Homer takes the family to a local store for Sunday brunch, by eating the free samples. After getting stuffed into a freezer, by Homer who wants some ice cream, Lisa comes down with a bad cold and is forced to stay home from school. At first Lisa tries to prevent it, Marge tells Lisa she is staying home. Lisa tries to make a deal with her mother but Marge tells her she doesn't have anything she wants. In order to keep her mind off school, Marge encourages Lisa to play one of Bart's video games. Lisa becomes addicted to playing the game "Dash Dingo". She claims to still be sick for a few more days to play video games, until Marge stops believing her and sends her to school.

Lischeated

Lisa admits to cheating

When Lisa returns to school Miss Hoover has her take a test on The Wind in the Willows, a book she was supposed to have read while she was sick. Lisa panics and excuses herself to go get a drink. While in the hallway she runs into Bart who refers her to the boy's restroom. There they meet Nelson who is selling test answers. Lisa completes the tests with Nelson's answers and gets an A+++. Later, she is summoned to Skinner's office. He tells her that her A+++ increased to the school's GPA allowing the school to receive an assistance grant. Lisa admits to Skinner that she cheated. Both himself and Chalmers agree that Lisa's cheating should be kept silent so that they can still get the grant money. Lisa initially refuses to hold her tongue until she is taken on a tour of the school to show how under funded and in desperate need of money the school is for even the most basic of equipment and she relents. At the ceremony, however, Lisa's inability to hold the truth for her own guilt even at the expense of others shines through and confesses to cheating on stage. The comptroller plans to give the school the money anyway to reward Lisa's honesty. All of the family, except for Bart, leave the auditorium. It is then revealed that the ceremony was fake, orchestrated by Principal Skinner and Chalmers who understood Lisa well enough to realize what would happen and the comptroller was really Otto wearing a latex mask. The real ceremony takes place without Lisa's knowledge and the real comptroller gives the school the grant money.

Meanwhile, Homer buys a small live lobster at the grocery store and fattens him up with plans to feed the crustacean to the entire family. When it is time for a feast, Homer has a change of heart and decides to keep the lobster as a pet, naming him Pinchy. When Pinchy gets dirty after chasing birds in the yard, Homer gives him a hot bath, unintentionally boiling him alive. Homer mourns and cries over Pinchy's loss by eating the lobster by himself, as he feels "Pinchy would have wanted it that way."

Citations[]

Season 9 Season 10 Episodes Season 11
Lard of the DanceThe Wizard of Evergreen TerraceBart the MotherTreehouse of Horror IXWhen You Dish Upon a StarD'oh-in' in the WindLisa Gets an "A"Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"Mayored to the MobViva Ned FlandersWild Barts Can't Be BrokenSunday, Cruddy SundayHomer to the MaxI'm with CupidMarge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"Make Room for LisaMaximum HomerdriveSimpsons Bible StoriesMom and Pop ArtThe Old Man and the "C" StudentMonty Can't Buy Me LoveThey Saved Lisa's BrainThirty Minutes Over Tokyo
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