History Recap / TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding

''"Hugh:''' And we saved ''your'' arse in World War III.\\

The Simpson family attend Springfield's pathetic attempt at a Renaissance Fair, and Lisa ends up wandering away from the main event and into a Fortune Teller's tent. She then proceeds to show Lisa her future, or more precisely, the story of her first true love, who happens to be a proper, British gentleman called Hugh Parkfield. Hugh, who attends the same university as Lisa, seems like the perfect match for her despite some initial clashing. Unfortunately one clash they can't overcome is Lisa's family, leaving her with the difficult decision of choosing between her family and Hugh.

* AmericaWonWorldWarII: {{Parodied|Trope}} indirectly. Moe tells Hugh that "We saved your ass in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII." Hugh replies, "Well, we saved your [America's] ''arse'' in WorldWarIII." Moe concedes the point.

* BitingTheHandHumor: Marge's comment about how FOX has become a hardcore sex channel in 2010.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: At the time of the episodes release, Milhouse harboring feelings for Lisa was just one of the strange new revelations about the 15 year timeskip. In later episodes, the present version of Milhouse would have a crush on Lisa as well, making Lisa and Milhouse dating seem less surprising to viewers today.
* CocaPepsiInc: Kent Brockman working for "CNNBCBS: A Division of ABC".

* ContinuityNod: Bart plans to study law. It nods to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie]]," which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and will finally get permission from Homer to see ''Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie''.

-->'''Homer''': OK, Marge, I'll plan everything: we can have the reception at Moe's. Wait. Why not have the whole wedding there? We'll do it on a Monday morning. There'll be fewer drunks.
-->'''Marge''': Homer, don't be offended, but I've obtained a court order to prevent you from planning this wedding.
-->'''Homer''': [''Looks through the papers of the court order''] [[GracefulLoser Well, these seem to be in order. I'll be out back in the hammock.]]

-->'''Homer:''' Little Lisa, Lisa Simpson. You know, I always felt you were the best thing my name ever got attached to. Since the time you learned to pin your own diapers, you've been smarter than me.
-->'''Lisa:''' Oh, Dad --
-->'''Homer:''' No, no, let me finish. I just want you to know I've always been proud of you. You're my greatest accomplishment and you did it all yourself. You helped me understand my own wife better and taught me to be a better person, but you're also my daughter, and I don't think anybody could have had a better daughter than you--
-->'''Lisa:''' Dad, you're babbling.
-->'''Homer:''' See? You're still helping me.

* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Future Moe Szyslak has an eyepatch.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Intentional or not, this episode establishes Lisa to have become a vegetarian, which would happen next season in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E5LisaTheVegetarian Lisa the Vegetarian]]."

-->'''Lisa:''' You said you'd tell me about my true love.
-->'''Fortune Teller:''' Oh, you'll have a true love. But I specialize in foretelling the relationships where you get jerked around.

-->'''Hugh:''' I'll get the dictionary.
-->'''Lisa:''' Why?
-->'''Hugh:''' You'll see when you get there: the word "stochastic".
-->'''Lisa:''' "Pertaining to a process involving a randomly-determined sequence of observations." Ha-ha-ha. [''They make out'']

** When Homer hasn't exactly made a good impression on Hugh, but it seems like he’s starting to get somewhere when he tells him about his father's and his wedding cufflinks, asking that Hugh were them for the wedding. Hugh appears to be genuinely touched by this and agrees. [[BaitAndSwitch He then sees that the cufflinks are a childish pig design]]. This winds up being more important than it initially appears to be, as mentioned below.
** When Hugh introduces Homer to his parents, he's clearly dreading the worst. To his surprise, Homer winds up talking about Film/{{Octopussy}}. Sure it's an awkward moment, but it’s a thousand times better than Hugh could've ever imagined, and his relieved reaction makes the audience believe that the two very different families can get along with each other. Unfortunately, it later becomes clear that Hugh has no intention of letting such a thing happen, as he plans keep his family and Lisa completely separate from the Simpsons. With this is mind, his reaction starts to feel less like he's reassured about his future family history, and more that he's reassured that Homer didn’t embarrass him in front of his folks.

* INeverToldYouMyName: Occurs where Lisa is talking to the fortune teller:
-->'''Woman:''' I've been waiting for you, Lisa.
-->'''Lisa:''' [''{{Gasp}}''] How did you know my name?
-->'''Woman:''' [[SubvertedTrope Your nametag.]]

-->'''Bart:''' Wow, Lisa, looking at you makes me want to get married for a third time. I met a really nice exotic dancer the other night at Hugh's bachelor party.
-->'''Lisa:''' Hugh didn't have a bachelor party.
-->'''Bart:''' We had one in his honor. [''Lisa stares at him''] ''I'' had one in his honor. [''Lisa continues to stare at him''] I went to a strip club.

-->'''Lisa:''' Mom, remember when I was little, we'd always planned my dream wedding and you always promised to ... you know, well, keep Dad from ruining it?
-->'''Marge:''' [''Crossing her fingers''] Oh, don't worry, honey, I guarantee your father will behave.
-->'''Lisa:''' Mom, it's a picture phone.
-->'''Marge:''' [''Looking at her fingers''] What? This? Oh, no, I've just got a touch of the rheumatiz.
-->'''Lisa:''' Oh, OK.
-->'''Marge:''' [''Whew gesture'']
-->'''Lisa:''' Mom, picture phone.

* NoisyRobots: Subverted as we FlashForward to the far future ([[IWantMyJetpack 2010]]) and see what we think are robots overtaking the world. Turns out they're university kids auditioning for the role of The Tin Man for ''TheWizardOfOz''.

** Sometime in the future, Mr. Burns has been cryogenically frozen until there is a cure for ''17 stab wounds in his back''.[[note]]Although the scientists had already cured fifteen of the wounds.[[/note]] This begs the question of who stabbed him, although given his reputation, it's anybody's guess.

* SherlockCanRead: The fortune teller momentarily impresses Lisa by knowing her name.
-->'''Fortune Teller:''' I've been waiting for you...Lisa.
-->'''Lisa:''' [''{{Gasp}}''] How did you know my name?
-->'''Fortune Teller:''' Your nametag.

** Hugh's wristwatch communicator makes the same beeping sound as the communicators on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Additional ''Star Trek'' sound effects can be heard throughout the episode, such as automatic doors making the same sound as the Starship Enterprise's doors, along with flying car sounds straight out of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''.

-->'''Lisa:''' Mom, I feel kind of funny wearing white. I mean ... Milhouse.
-->''' Marge:''' [''Dismissive''] Oh, [[ButtMonkey Milhouse]] doesn't count.

* WorldWarIII: Moe scolds Hugh because he's British and claims: "We saved your ass in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII". Hugh responds: "And we saved ''your'' arse in World War III." Moe admits: "True."

-->'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Yon meat, 'tis sweet as summer's wafting breeze.
-->'''Homer:''' Can I have some?
-->'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Mine ears are only open to the pleas of those who speak ye olde English.
-->'''Homer:''' Sweet maiden of the spit, grant now my boon, that I might sup on some suckling pig this noon.
-->'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Whatever.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: On hearing Lisa, whom he still harbours a crush for, is getting married to someone else, an angry Milhouse tells Homer he's going to go write Homer's evaluation right that minute. Homer, naturally, starts smiling optimistically.

* GracefulLoser: Upon being informed Marge got a Court Order to prevent him from planning Lisa's wedding, Homer goes over it and seeing it all being in order. Goes outside to lay in the hammock without any fuss.

** When Homer hasn't exactly made a good impression on Hugh, but it seems like he’s starting to get somewhere when he tells him about his father's and his wedding cufflinks, asking that Hugh were them for the wedding. Hugh appears to be genuinely touched by this and agrees. [[BaitAndSwitch He then sees that the cufflinks are a childish pug design]]. This winds up being more important than it initially appears to be, as mentioned below.

* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: When Marge talks to Lisa, who is spending her summer with her boyfriend in England, she tells her she should remember that an elevator is a "lift", a mile is called a "kilometer"[[note]]Actually, 1 mile equals 1.6 km.[[/note]] and botulism is "steak-and-kidney pie".

* ContinuityNod: Bart plans to study law. It nods to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie]]," which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and will finally get permission from Homer to see ''Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie''. [[TechnologyMarchesOn (Never mind that between 1992 and now, the Internet would make seeing a movie like that stupid easy.)]][[invoked]]

* GentlemanAndAScholar: Hugh at first seems to be this, but is immediately subverted at the end of the episode, becoming a JerkAss.

* {{Zeerust}}: While for the most part this is played for comic effect, with the technology of 2010 being depicted via a mixture of "futuristic" versions of devices that were already considered outdated when the episode was made (i.e. a video call phone that uses rotary dialling) and things that the creators knew full well wouldn't yet be invented by the time 2010 actually rolled around. However, a couple of things -- including watches that allow you to make phone calls, and bars with VirtualReality games -- only stand out as being this in that they're depicted as being present a little too early in the decade.

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Normally Lisa and Maggie have nearly identical designs with a starfish hairstyle, just shifted in approximate age and different clothing. But to portray their adult/teenage versions Lisa's hair has a more curled and feathered look while Maggie's hair is longer and more moppy looking (sort of a cross between dreadlocks and AnimeHair).

* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard: A teenage Maggie can never say a word without being interrupted. Ironically, Homer describes her as a chatterbox -- but then she merely rolls her eyes at her father in silence. She's also supposed to have an angelic singing voice, but she gets cut off just as she's preparing to do so. All the audience gets is the sound of her inhaling.

* TheVoiceless: Maggie is presented this way as a moody teenager. She's apparently VERY talkative at times, but tends to be quiet and reserved around her family.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe:

* NoLongerWithUs: When Marge first appears in a video call, she makes a BaitAndSwitchComment in which she implies Honer is dead by saying "I wish he was here with us..." and then explaining that Homer is at Moe's Tavern.

%% * NoLongerWithUs: See BaitAndSwitchComment.

* FutureLoser: Bart, fairly popular in elementary school and proud of his position in the school food chain, is a wrecking ball operator and a double divorcee in his mid-twenties who hits strip clubs to meet girls. (He's pretty happy with his job, though.) He plans to get to law school, though it sounds hilariously delusional.
-->'''Bart:''' Anyway, Hugh, there's more to my life than just the wrecking ball. I also crush cars into cubes. On the side, I promote local tough-man contests. I'm getting out all my aggression till I go to law school.
** Though in a previous episode, he does end up [[ContinuityNod becoming a Supreme Court justice]], so maybe not.
** In a more conventional example, Mayor Quimby is now a cab driver, and he doesn't want to be recognized.
** Subverted with Otto who's a deadbeat stoner bus driver in the present, he owns his own cab company in the future and is barking orders at Quimby who works for him.
* GaiasLament: There is a hideously polluted skyline.

* TheNewTens: Lisa almost gets married on August 1, 2010.

* NoLongerWithUs: See BaitAndSwitchComment.
* NoodleIncident: Sometime in the future, Mr. Burns has been cryogenically frozen until there is a cure for ''17 stab wounds in his back''.[[note]]Although the scientists had already cured fifteen of the wounds.[[/note]] This begs the question of who stabbed him, although given his reputation, it's anybody's guess.
** There's also the science fair explosion that the Springfield Elementary School faculty believe killed Martin Prince (though it turns out he survived in a fairly obvious ShoutOut to ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'').

* DaddysGirl: Homer and Lisa's bond is fully displayed in this episode.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Bart first gets the call about Lisa's wedding, the shot makes it look like he's sitting in a fancy office. Instead, he's in a crane about to take a wrecking ball to an office building.

* {{Foil}}: Hugh is this to Mr. Bergstrom from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E19LisasSubsitute Lisa's Substitute]]". At first glance, they're both everything Lisa wants from a companion: witty, intelligent, cultured, sensitive, putting her at odds with her seemingly oblivious father Homer. But while Mr. Bergstrom helps Lisa understand that Homer does love her, Hugh tries to cut him out of her life, which makes Lisa realize that he doesn't really care about her.

* NoLongerWithUs: Subverted; see BaitAndSwitchComment.

** Hugh's wristwatch communicator makes the same beeping sound as the communicators on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.

* TinMan: A librarian catches Lisa with her fiancé-to-be, and questions aloud how two so opposite personalities could ever fall in love. A bystander comments, "How would you know, you're a robot?", prompting the robot librarian to shed a SingleTear ... [[NoWaterproofingInTheFuture which then causes her to catch fire]]. Then it happens again when said fiancé proposes; the two robots hiding in the bushes to implement plan B also start crying, causing their faces to melt.