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"The Girl Who Slept Too Little", also known as "The Girl Who Knew Too Little"[1] is the second episode of The Simpsons' seventeenth season.
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Plot
When stamp museum construction wakes up the Simpsons, everyone in Springfield protests against its construction. Soon Mayor Quimby moves it to where the Springfield Cemetery used to be and the cemetery is moved to the backyard of The Simpsons' house. Lisa is the only member of the family who has her room close to it. Lisa then can't sleep at night and ends up making a habit of sleeping with Homer. The next night Lisa meets a white-haired gravedigger resembling Groundskeeper Willie known as Gravedigger Billy, who shares Willie's Scottish accent and claims to be his cousin. After a hand comes out of a tomb (which Billy promptly hits with a shovel) Lisa goes to Marge and Homer's room and makes a promise that if they go to the Springfield Stamp Museum Lisa will sleep in her room. At the museum there is a lecture for Milton Burkhart's book "The Land of the Wild Beasts" and an ad based on the book for a restaurant called The Hillside Wrangler.
Lisa then feels that she can sleep in her room with the cemetery but is already afraid and sleeps in Homer and Marge's room. Homer and Marge then come back from a night with Apu and Dr. Hibbert and Marge tells Lisa she is breaking her promise (via "I Spy") however Homer mistakes it for the real game. Marge and Homer then spend a night in Lisa's room to find out how scary it really is and they contact a psychologist. Marge and Homer then try to contact a psychologist and find out that it is expensive and her fears are mostly going to be solved by herself as she was not nurtured enough as a baby. Lisa, however, does not want to go see a therapist and goes with Bart and Santa's Little Helper to overcome her fears at the cemetery but Bart leaves and SLH runs away.
Lisa then changes her mind but the gate is locked and Lisa is left alone. Luckily Chief Wiggum and Eddie and Lou are here but Chief gets very scared and takes off his clothes and hides up a tree. Lisa in the meantime sees Dr. Nick who is pretending to be Dr. Octopus and tells Lisa she has a check-up on Tuesday and Lisa replies with "we go to a better doctor". Afterwards, Lisa's head is hit by a tombstone and Lisa faints. In the meantime Marge and Homer worry about Lisa and Bart won't do anything except watch Itchy & Scratchy. Lisa is then in a dream where she is eaten by a wolf and then is on a web in a slime pond with a slug resembling Milhouse and a spider resembling Bart. Lisa is then in another vision with the monsters from "Land of the Wildbeasts" and Lisa finds out they are funny instead of scary and it is okay to be scared. Marge and Homer then find Lisa and wake her up and they go home. Wiggum in the meantime is still on his tree naked and Lou uses a pizza bagel to get him down and Wiggum finally comes down with his uniform.
Cultural references
The title "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" is a take on the 1997 film titled The Man Who Knew Too Little starring Bill Murray, which was itself a take on the title of two Hitchcock films, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) starring Peter Lorre and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) starring James Stewart. This is not the first time this title has been parodied; see "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" and "The Dad Who Knew Too Little". The title of the film, though not the plot, is originally from the G. K. Chesterton book of the same name published in 1922. The monsters in "Land of the Wild Beasts" are parodies of those in Where the Wild Things Are.
Production
This episode was originally scheduled to be the last episode of the sixteenth season, but was replaced by "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star," which was temporarily shelved following Pope John Paul II's death due to the episode centering on the Catholic Church.
References
- ^ "The Girl Who Knew Too Little". The Simpsons.com. http://www.thesimpsons.com/episode_guide/1702.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
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