"player"". Lisa plays the baritone saxophone, but according to Matt Groening, ""she doesn't always play a baritone sax because the animators don't know what it looks like, so it changes shape and color from show to show."" After the switch to HD production, Lisa has also occasionally performed her solo on an instrument other than the saxophone. As of Season 20 to 29, she has played a trumpet, violin or fiddle, tuba, baritone horn, clarinet, theremin, and harp. In this last instance, she drags the instrument with her and continues playing once Mr. Largo orders her out of the room."
"she converted to Buddhism. Lisa plays the baritone saxophone, and some episodes use that as a plot device. According to Matt Groening, the baritone saxophone was chosen because he found the thought of an eight-year-old girl playing it amusing. He added, ""But she doesn't always play a baritone sax because the animators don't know what it looks like, so it changes shape and color from show to show."" One of the hallmarks of the show's opening sequence is a brief solo Lisa plays on her saxophone after being thrown out of music class. ""The Simpsons"" composer Alf Clausen said that"
"a New York City subway band, the trio has released three albums and been featured on a TEDxYouth@Budapest segment. In The Simpsons, Lisa Simpson plays a baritone saxophone. Her music is typically performed by Terry Harrington. Baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone or ""bari sax"" is one of the largest members of the saxophone family, only being smaller than the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use. The baritone saxophone uses a mouthpiece, reed, and ligature in order to produce sound. It is larger than the tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, which are the other"
"Moaning Lisa ""Moaning Lisa"" is the sixth episode of ""The Simpsons""<nowiki>'</nowiki> first season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 11, 1990. The episode was written by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, and was directed by Wes Archer. Ron Taylor guest stars in the episode as Bleeding Gums Murphy. The episode deals with Lisa's depression and her attempts to sublimate it by playing her saxophone. It received positive reviews from television critics. Lisa wakes up one morning saddened. At school, she gets in trouble with her music teacher for improvising, and becomes reluctant to"
"with the sweet ending [of Lisa playing her saxophone for Bart]."" The music school that Lisa visits has a sign out front with a picture of a diapered baby Ludwig van Beethoven on it. When Principal Skinner is questioning Lisa about her newfound sense of irresponsibility, he asks ""What are you rebelling against?"" She responds ""Whaddaya got?"", like Marlon Brando's character Johnny Strabler did in the film ""The Wild One"". She also has a toothpick in her mouth, like Johnny had in the film. The fifth graders that Lisa talks to in the school washroom are smoking Laramie cigarettes. The"
"Lisa's Pony ""Lisa's Pony"" is the eighth episode in the third season of the American animated television series ""The Simpsons"". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 7, 1991. In this episode, Homer goes drinking at Moe's Tavern instead of buying a new reed for Lisa's saxophone, resulting in her flopping at the school talent show. Desperate to win back his daughter's love, Homer gives Lisa the one thing she has always wanted: a pony. Homer struggles with two jobs to cover the cost of sheltering and feeding the pony. Lisa, upon seeing what"
"timeline has been contradicted in subsequent episodes. Lisa's year of birth is given in ""Lisa's First Word"" (season 4, 1992) as 1984, during the Summer Olympics. The episode ""That '90s Show"" (season 19, 2008), however, contradicts much of the established backstory; for example, it presents Homer and Marge as being childless in the late 1990s. Lisa is a lover of music, with jazz as her favorite genre. She enjoys and excels at playing the saxophone and became friends with jazz musician Bleeding Gums Murphy, whom she regards as an idol. Murphy helps pull Lisa out of her depression in ""Moaning"
"Lisa's Sax ""Lisa's Sax"" is the third episode of ""The Simpsons""<nowiki>'</nowiki> ninth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 19, 1997 to overwhelmingly positive reviews. In the series' sixth flashback episode, it is explained how Lisa got her saxophone. The episode was executive produced by Al Jean and Mike Reiss and was the first episode Jean wrote by himself as all of his previous writing credits had been shared with Reiss. It was directed by Dominic Polcino and guest starred Fyvush Finkel, who appeared as himself portraying Krusty in a film. Homer and"
"while going through a list of Lisa's interests, and Jean told Reiss, ""Lisa likes ponies; we [should] give her a pony."" While writing down ideas for the story, they decided to explore the consequences of having a pony in a suburban house. Carlos Baeza served as animation director for the episode. ""The Simpsons"" creator Matt Groening said animating horses is ""the most difficult thing to do."" The animators used Eadweard Muybridge's famous and other photo references as models for Princess. In the talent show scene, Lisa is lit up by a spotlight when she performs with her saxophone. After the"
"play dodgeball in gym. At home, Homer and Bart pummel each other at video boxing, but despite Homer's attempts, he is unable to defeat Bart. Homer and Marge try to cheer Lisa up, but she is consumed with existentialism and worry over all the suffering in the world. In her room, Lisa hears music coming from outside her window. She follows the music through town and meets Bleeding Gums Murphy, a soulful saxophonist playing the blues. Lisa learns about expressing herself through her music from him, only to be discovered and whisked away by Marge. Homer goes to the arcade"
"criticized the show for. Lisa's Pony ""Lisa's Pony"" is the eighth episode in the third season of the American animated television series ""The Simpsons"". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 7, 1991. In this episode, Homer goes drinking at Moe's Tavern instead of buying a new reed for Lisa's saxophone, resulting in her flopping at the school talent show. Desperate to win back his daughter's love, Homer gives Lisa the one thing she has always wanted: a pony. Homer struggles with two jobs to cover the cost of sheltering and feeding the pony."
"while Bart declares his retirement as undefeated video boxing champ. Later, the Simpsons visit a jazz club to hear Bleeding Gums Murphy sing a blues number written by Lisa. ""Moaning Lisa"" was the first episode of the series to focus on Lisa. The idea for it was suggested by ""The Simpsons"" producer James L. Brooks, who wanted to do an episode where Lisa was sad but she did not know why. The writers also felt that they had done several ""jokey"" episodes on the show and wanted to try something new that was ""really emotional and sweet"". The song Lisa"
"sings in this episode later reappeared in expanded form on ""The Simpsons Sing the Blues"" CD. Mr. Largo, Lisa's music teacher, was partly inspired by a music teacher Matt Groening had as a kid. The designs of the boxers in the video game Homer and Bart play were loosely based on Homer and Bart, and the referee in the game was based on a character from Matt Groening's ""Life in Hell"" comic strip. Bleeding Gums Murphy was loosely based on the famous blues musician Blind Lemon Jefferson. Ralph Wiggum, Bleeding Gums Murphy, and Jacqueline Bouvier (during Marge's childhood flashback) all"
"Haw-Haw Land ""Haw-Haw Land"" is the tenth episode of the twenty-ninth season of the animated television series ""The Simpsons"", and the 628th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on January 7, 2018. The title and the opening musical number spoof ""La La Land"". On a rainy day, the Simpson family goes to a STEM conference, where Lisa meets Brendan Beiderbecke, a boy who is proficient in the piano, and falls in love with him. The bullies are overthrown by Brendan, including Lisa's ex-boyfriend Nelson who tries to impress her musically at Phineas Q."
"King Leer ""King Leer"" is the sixteenth episode of the twenty-ninth season of the animated television series ""The Simpsons"", and the 634th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on April 15, 2018. The family (excluding Maggie Simpson) is at the school, where Bart is there to play a new musical instrument. Bart proceeds to ask the music teacher that if he breaks it, Homer will have to pay for it. From there on, Bart taunts Homer with the thought of breaking his violin. Homer goes berserk when Bart throws it up in the"
"Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for her performance as Bart in the episode. After taking career aptitude tests, scored by a malfunctioning computer, Lisa discovers that the occupation she is best suited for is homemaker, while Bart's test shows that he should be a policeman. Lisa is heartbroken over the result and is determined to prove the test wrong. She consults a music teacher for his opinion, but he tells her that, having inherited her father Homer's stubby fingers, she can never be a professional saxophone player. Lisa is therefore required by the test to spend the day"
"United States containing the episode, through Amazon Video and iTunes. Moaning Lisa ""Moaning Lisa"" is the sixth episode of ""The Simpsons""<nowiki>'</nowiki> first season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 11, 1990. The episode was written by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, and was directed by Wes Archer. Ron Taylor guest stars in the episode as Bleeding Gums Murphy. The episode deals with Lisa's depression and her attempts to sublimate it by playing her saxophone. It received positive reviews from television critics. Lisa wakes up one morning saddened. At school, she gets in trouble"
"Kent Brockman, children's entertainer veteran Krusty The Clown and Hispanic comedian Bumblebee Man. Their radio channel hosts are DJ's Bill and Marty. The station jingle is ""No sports, no rock, no information! For mindless chatter, we're your station!"" King Toot's is a music store located next door to Moe's Tavern. The store sells musical instruments and is the place where Lisa's saxophone was purchased. The most notable appearance of King Toot's Music Store was in ""Lisa's Pony"" where Lisa asks Homer to pick up a new reed for her saxophone for her recital. Homer heads to the store after work"
"path to a dance. Lisa finds out that Clara is Luke's sister and runs to the beaver dam with Bart. They find Clara standing on a rock in the middle of a torrential river. Bart taunts some beavers and scales a tree; the beavers chew through the tree, causing it to fall and create a bridge that Clara can cross. When Lisa comes clean about what happened to Clara, Luke is offended and leaves her. As the Simpsons return to Springfield, they hear a song entitled ""The Moe Szyslak Connection"" on the radio, sung by Moe Szyslak, and turn around"
"affinity for Lisa"", and highlighted this episode along with ""Das Bus"" and ""Lisa the Simpson"" in his review of the DVD. A segment of the episode where two schoolgirls chant the digits of pi while playing patty-cake is used by mathematicians Sarah J. Greenwald of Appalachian State University and Andrew Nestler of Santa Monica College in a website on the mathematics of ""The Simpsons"". Lisa's Sax ""Lisa's Sax"" is the third episode of ""The Simpsons""<nowiki>'</nowiki> ninth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 19, 1997 to overwhelmingly positive reviews. In the series' sixth"
"to Marge, but Homer interrupts the conversation by falling through the roof trying to rescue Santa's Little Helper. Marge reveals that she has already rescued him. She also tells Homer about Hettie, but Hettie has gone missing with her concert in thirty minutes. Homer and Bart manage to find Hettie drinking on Cletus Spuckler's farm while Lisa is distracting the concert's audience by playing her saxophone. After a conversation and almost getting shot in the face, Homer manages to bring Hettie to her concert, but Lisa had failed to entertain the crowd, so the place is almost empty. Lisa is"
"his pupils whitened with correction fluid) because of a prank Bart made on Jimbo, knowing he uses his hat to cover his baldness. The bandleader of The Spotted Cat, a jazz bar Lisa and Homer go in, calls Lisa by name, actually being ""Bleeding Gums"" Murphy's nephew, the deceased jazzman (whose name was apparently Oscar) telling him that Lisa was the most promising musician he knew (much to his nephew's chagrin). He finally convinces Lisa to play his sax in spite of her protests, rekindling her love for the instrument. Back in Springfield, she keeps on playing, and the ghost"
"episode), which leads to Lisa discovering that, once she’s given away everything but her sax (and her Bleeding Gums Murphy poster), she’s lost all joy in playing. 'I finally feel about my sax the way you all do!,' she wails in horror. And that’s another episode. Throw in some promising emotional beats to that story—Homer comforts the confused Lisa during an anxiety attack, Bart hijacks the school’s PA system to restore her love for jazz—and there’s an abundance of good ideas not given enough time to come to fruition."" ""Pork and Burns"" scored a 3.5 rating with an 11 share"
"Bart are watching television when they are interrupted by Lisa playing her saxophone in her bedroom. Bart enters Lisa's bedroom and tries to grab the saxophone from her, but he inadvertently tosses it out the window. It lands in the middle of the street and is run over by traffic and stomped on by Nelson Muntz. In a period of mourning, Lisa reveals she cannot remember ever ""not"" having that saxophone, so Homer recounts the instrument's origins. In a flashback to 1990, Bart goes to his first day of school, but things do not go so well for him and"
"mad at Lisa, but he ends up forgiving her and letting her play the saxophone on stage for an empty crowd, having finally gotten closure from his childhood incident. Lisa asks Homer why Simpsons always fail and he answers that it is because of a curse as their ancestors didn't let Joseph and Mary stay at their home for Jesus' birth. Lisa then commented that Homer made it up, which Homer refutes, saying ""They look just like us, didn't they?"". In the final scene, the Lard Lad statue is being melted in the Springfield Tire Fire and engulfs Ralph Wiggum"
"in which she was raised, Lisa became a practicing Buddhist following her decision to follow the Noble Eightfold Path. She is musically proficient on the saxophone; besides the occasional riff during the opening credit sequence Carole King's Jazzman and Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street have been prominently placed during episodes. In the ""Tracey Ullman Show"" shorts, Lisa was more of a ""female Bart"" and was equally mischievous. As the series progressed, Lisa began to develop into a more intelligent and more emotional character with ""Krusty Gets Busted"" being one of the first episodes where her true intelligence is fully shown. When"
"She beat him whenever he spoke English, thus he was forced to learn Italian. He also began bed-wetting that summer. He helps Lisa learn Italian, but there is no reference to his Italian background or language skills in any other episode. Milhouse's personality drastically changes when speaking Italian, becoming a suave, confident ladies man popular with Springfield's Italian community in the episode. The show's opening sequence, and various scenes of band practice suggests that Milhouse plays a brass or woodwind instrument, possibly clarinet or trumpet, but all the Springfield Elementary band members, besides Lisa, are very poor musicians. Milhouse is"
"Lisa Goes Gaga ""Lisa Goes Gaga"" is the twenty-second and final episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated sitcom ""The Simpsons"". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 20, 2012. In the episode, American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga makes a visit to Springfield, where all of its residents are in a state of depression. Main character Lisa Simpson is arguably the most depressed person in the city, prompting Gaga to go out of her way to teach Lisa the meaning of happiness. The episode was written by Tim Long and directed by Matthew"
"The Simpsons Sing the Blues The Simpsons Sing the Blues is the first album released as an offshoot of ""The Simpsons"". The album contains originally recorded music not featured in the series save for the first verse of the track ""Moaning Lisa Blues"" which was first featured in the episode ""Moaning Lisa"", which aired in the United States on February 11, 1990. The album was released on December 4, 1990, and peaked at No. 3 on the ""Billboard"" 200. An early musical number, ""Do the Bartman"", leads the album as the first track and the first single released. It was"
"side characters."" ""King Leer"" scored a 1.0 rating with a 4 share and was watched by 2.26 million people, making it Fox's highest rated show of the night. King Leer ""King Leer"" is the sixteenth episode of the twenty-ninth season of the animated television series ""The Simpsons"", and the 634th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on April 15, 2018. The family (excluding Maggie Simpson) is at the school, where Bart is there to play a new musical instrument. Bart proceeds to ask the music teacher that if he breaks it, Homer will"
"bluegrass fiddler. She is married to guitarist Mike Einziger. Simpson began taking violin lessons at the age of three. As she says: ""I actually don't remember learning how to play, because I started when I was three. I feel like I've always known."" The first hint of her talent came at the age of four when Simpson and her father were watching a Redskins game on television. After the band played ""Hail to the Redskins"", he suddenly heard it again, only this time on the violin. ""She picked it up through her ears, and it came out through her fingers"
"jazz musician ""Bleeding Gums"" Murphy on ""The Simpsons"", appearing in the first season episode ""Moaning Lisa"" (1990) and returning for the character's death in the season six episode ""'Round Springfield"" (1995). He was one of the first people to guest star on the show. Taylor was supposed to reprise his role in the season two episode ""Dancin' Homer"", but was in New York and unable to record his part. Keith Phipps of ""The A.V. Club"" said the role gave Taylor ""television immortality"". He also reprised the role on a recording of Billie Holiday's song ""God Bless the Child"" on the"
"end, Lisa assures Maggie she doesn't care what anyone else thinks of her and that she is brilliant to her. However, Maggie plays Lisa's saxophone in the end, showing another sign of intelligence. A shocked Lisa reclaims her saxophone and tells her that ""it's not for babies"". In the credits, Simon Cowell criticizes everyone who had worked on the show. The episode's title is a reference to the 1994 film, ""Dumb and Dumber"". In this episode, Henry quotes, ""She's as common as an angry woman in an Ibsen play,"" perhaps referencing Nora in ""A Doll's House"". The revelation that Maggie"