History Recap / TheSimpsonsS10E7LisaGetsAnA

* CanadaEh: Comptroller Atkins mentions he's Canadian as a HandWave for why he allows Springfield Elementary to keep the money after Lisa bravely admitted she cheated... or rather, the fake Comptroller Atkins says this, and there's no telling if the real Atkins would have taken the money back in the face of such a thing.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: Superintendent Chalmers after Lisa threatens to report Principal Skinner to him for covering up the fact that she cheated.
-->'''Chalmers:''' Skinner!!! I am outraged that you kept this from me! You were supposed to call as soon as the new scoreboard was in. Tell me, does it play that song "Charge"?

* CompressedHair: Otto somehow manages to fit his very long curly hair (as well as his hat and headphones) underneath the Comptroller mask. When he takes it off, all his hair bursts out.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Lisa worries that an F on one second-grade test will cost her admission to Harvard University, and the only school that would accept her would be [[TakeThat Brown University]].

* InelegantBlubbering: Homer, after accidentally boiling Pinchy, succumbs to eating (and thoroughly enjoying) him, all the while still bawling traumatised.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Homer has one when he realises that he has accidentally killed Pinchy by giving him a hot bath. In the last scene, he is sobbing over Pinchy while eating him.

* NotHelpingYourCase: Willie recommends Lisa not cheat on the test and just take the F. After all, he got an F once, and his life "turned out just fine." Note that Willie says this while unclogging a school toilet with his bare hands.

* RedLiveLobster: The subplot involves Homer raising a lobster to eat, but instead makes it his pet. Pinchy, the lobster, is red, even before it ultimately gets boiled.

* TakeAThirdOption: Lisa has to decide whether to accept her award or confess her cheating and lose the school it's badly needed grant. She ultimately confesses. But, it's Skinner and Chalmers (along with Bart, Marge, Homer, and the audience) who have taken the third option: having her confess to Otto in a comptroller mask at a fake ceremony and then sending her out with her parents. The real comptroller then gives the real check to the school at the real ceremony.

** The ImagineSpot of Lisa being forced to go to Brown University due to her one "F." Ian Maxtone-Graham, who wrote the story, [[SelfDeprecation went to Brown University]].

* FateWorseThanDeath: See FelonyMisdemeanor below.

** Ralph calls Superintendent Chalmers "Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Chalmers".

** Ralph calls Superintendent Chalmers "UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo Chalmers".

* EveryoneHasStandards: A very weird example. At first, it is only shown that Bart, Nelson, Skinner, Groundskeeper Willie, and Chalmers know about the truth that Lisa cheated on the test. However, it turns out that the entire school body (both the students and teachers) already knew about it (as they were presumably informed by Chalmers and Skinner), but they willingly tagged along with Skinner and Chalmers's plan to get the basic grant money from the school district, presumably out of desperation. Even Bart, who has been in hot water with Skinner and Chalmers for his bad behavior, was involved in it as he fooled Lisa into attending a fake presentation with a fake comptroller in case she would come clean; Skinner even got Bart to use a fake Lisa puppet in order fool the real comptroller in handing the grant money during the real presentation. This comes to show that the school body (especially Bart) genuinely valued education to ensure the school for a better future, despite everything what has happened.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Actually, there are four pluses." "No, that's dramboie."]]

* HighSchoolHustler: For this episode, Nelson is one. He uses one of the stalls in the boys' bathroom as an office and he sells test answers in a way that sort of resembles a drug dealer (after he sells Lisa the answer to the ''Wind in the Willows'' test, he meets her again and offers her the answers to another test -- he'll give her the consonants for free but she will need to buy the vowels).

* ChekhovsGag: The decoy of himself Bart made in shop really only serves to set up his making the fake Lisa puppet to fool Comptroller Atkins.

* EveryoneHasStandards: A very weird example. At first, it is only shown that Bart, Nelson, Skinner, Groundskeeper Willie, and Chalmers know about the truth that Lisa cheated on the test. However, it turns out that the entire school body (both the students and teachers) already knew about it (as they were presumably informed by Chalmers and Skinner), but they willingly tagged along with Skinner and Chalmers's plan to get the basic grant money from the school district, presumably out of desperation. Even Bart, who has been in hot water with Skinner and Chalmers for his bad behavior, was involved in it as he fooled Lisa into attending a fake presentation with a fake comptroller in case she would come clean. Even during the real presentation, Bart uses a puppet of Lisa to fool the real comptroller into handing the real grant money as part of the plan. This comes to show that the school body (especially Bart) genuinely valued education to ensure the school for a better future, despite everything what has happened.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Not "evil" exactly but Bart is genuinely unable to fathom why Lisa would have an issue with getting a good grade through cheating rather than earning it honestly, even trying but simply not able to see the issue.

** She also complained about Homer sparing Pinchy the lobster, despite being a vegetarian and a fierce animal lover. Homer even lampshades it by calling her out on it.

* EveryoneHasStandards: A very weird example. At first, it is only shown that Bart, Nelson, Skinner, Groundskeeper Willie, and Chalmers know about the truth that Lisa cheated on the test. However, it turns out that the entire school body (both the students and teachers) already knew about it (as they were presumably informed by Chalmers and Skinner), but they willingly tagged along with Skinner and Chalmers's plan to get the basic grant money from the school district out of desperation. Even Bart, who has been in hot water with Skinner and Chalmers for his bad behavior, was involved in it as he fooled her into attending a fake presentation with a fake comptroller in case Lisa would come clean. Even during the real presentation, Bart uses a puppet of Lisa to fool the real comptroller into handing the real grant money as part of the plan. This comes to show that the school body (especially Bart) genuinely valued education to ensure the school for a better future, despite everything what has happened.

* BlackComedyPetDeatth: Homer weeping over the death of his beloved pet lobster... while eating him.

* BlackComedy: Homer weeping over the death of his beloved pet lobster... while eating him.

'''Production code:''' AABF03

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Lisa and Skinner react with the same surprise the audience probably has when Chalmers appears to casually reveal [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield where the hell Springfield is]], before he clarifies that the school, after being declared "the most dilapidated in all of Missouri," was shut down and moved to Springfield "brick by brick." Of course, InUniverse they'd be reacting that way because they already know Springfield isn't in Missouri.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E1BartGetsAnF Bart Gets an F]]". That episode saw Bart trying desperately to avoid getting an F on an upcoming test by intense studying. This sees Lisa trying desperately to avoid getting an F on a test she did not study for by cheating. In this same vein, Bart's F would mean he had to repeat the fourth grade, while Lisa's A+++ meant the school would be (unjustly) using it for grant money.

* SavedByTheAwesome: {{Subverted}} ForLaughs. Lisa is lead to believe that this happens when she publicly confesses to cheating for the grade that netted Springfield Elementary a much-needed grant, with Comptroller Atkins commending her for having the courage to be honest and giving the school the grant anyway. In fact, [[CrazyPrepared Skinner took her]] HonorBeforeReason tendencies into account and faked the ceremony before it happened with Otto impersonating Atkins, thereby getting rid of Lisa before the real Comptroller shows up to award the grant.

* CallBack:
** The oblivious rich mother and her rude son Gavin from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E11MargeBeNotProud Marge Not Be Proud]]" return for a brief appearance.
** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E8LisaOnIce Once again]], Lisa is worried that failing one test will ruin her life.

* TypicalCartoonAnimalColors: In real life, lobsters only turn red once they're cooked. Downplayed with Pinchy being a pale dark red while he was alive, only to turn bright red when he's cooked.

* CastAsAMask: An interesting aversion: during the fake ceremomy where Lisa confesses, the "Comptroller Atkins" on stage turns out to be Otto [[LatexPerfection in a latex mask]], and his fake comptroller voice, while sounding radically different from Otto's normal voice, was still done by Creator/HarryShearer (Otto's regular voice actor). And then the ''real'' Comptroller Atkins who shows up for the real ceremony is voiced by Creator/HankAzaria.