History Recap / TheSimpsonsS12E4LisaTheTreeHugger

* CloudCuckoolander: Jesse is implied to be one. At the end, when [[ItMakesSenseInContext he cuts down the large tree with Lisa's head carved at the top which rolls down the hill and starts destroys the town in the process]], he stretches his hand out and says Return to me, much to the confusion of the other environmentalists. He then says "Oh, that's right, I don't have powers. Yet."

* BlandNameProduct: The game system that Bart is trying to get is the latest [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation GameStation]].

* ToTheTuneOf: The ending has an offscreen choir singing "This Log is Your Log" to the tune of Music/WoodyGuthrie's "This Land is Your Land" as the Lisa-log goes rolls through America.

* ToTheTuneOf: The ending has an offscreen choir singing "This Log is Your Log" to the tune of Music/WoodyGuthrie's "This Land is Your Land" as the Lisa-log goes rolling through America.

'''Moe''': [[[HollywoodToneDeaf off-key]]] [[NonSequitur I poured some onions]]\\
[[NonSequitur Inside my trousers]]\\

[[NonSequitur Into my trousers]]\\

* OffModel: [[https://frinkiac.com/gif/S12E04/1118576/1122955/ Check out some of the characters in the background of the shot when the Rich Texan addresses the crowd.]] Particularly Lenny (with his extra long lips) and Apu and Largo (who have huge pupils).

* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The plot of Bart getting a job to earn money for a new video game console sudden switches to Lisa's plot once the Simpsons discover Dirt First on the roof of Krusty Burger.

[[quoteright:249:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px_lisa_the_tree_hugger_promo.jpg]] Lisa's crush on an environmentalist (voiced by Creator/JoshuaJackson) leads her to camp out on Springfield's tallest tree in protest over plans to have it felled. Meanwhile, Bart gets a job as a menu delivery boy for a Thai restaurant so he can raise money for a new video game system.

** While in the tree, a wistful Lisa uses binoculars to check up on her family at home and becomes more homesick than ever when she sees, through a curtain, what appears to be Homer hugging Bart. [[RunningGag The viewer will probably not be surprised to learn that Homer is actually strangling him]]. Becomes a BrickJoke later when she finds the whole family in a SleepCute moment with Homer's hands around Bart's neck.

* SerendipitousSurvival: Lisa leaves the tree to be at home with her family. She goes back the next day only to discover that it's collapsed and she's presumed dead.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: The Thai restaurateur speaks in a pseudo-Japanese accent. He trains Bart in menu distribution using a Chinese wooden dummy. Bart in said training wears a Japanese karate gi, and later hands out menus dressed up as a ninja.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: The Thai restaurateur speaks in a pseudo-Japanese accent. He trains Bart in menu distribution using a Chinese wooden dummy. Bart in said training wearing in a Japanese karate gi, and later hands out menus dressed up as a ninja.

[[quoteright:249:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px_lisa_the_tree_hugger_promo.jpg]] Lisa's crush on an environmentalist (voiced by Joshua Jackson, who was on ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' at the time) leads her to camp out on Springfield's tallest tree in protest over plans to have it felled. Meanwhile, Bart gets a job as a menu delivery boy for a Thai restaurant so he can raise money for a new video game system.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Bart's storyline about raising money for a new video game system seemed to disappear after Bart is trained ''[[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]''-style in leaving menus behind. It gets two more acknowledgements (the Thai restaurateur bidding for logging rights on the redwood, and Bart's care package including food from the restaurant), but it's never explained if he got his console or why he left a decently-paying job he liked.
** Similarly when the environmentalists get attacked on the roof of Krusty Burger, we only ever see Jesse get arrested.

* EpicFail: The giant tree with Lisa's head slides into the city and destroys most of the businesses harming animals, but it also ends up destroying Hemp City; the environmentalists favorite store.