History Recap / TheSimpsonsS8E17MySisterMySitter

--->'''911 operator:''' Simpson? Look, we've already been out there tonight for a sister-ectomy, a case of severe butt rot and a leprechaun bite. How dumb do you think we are?

After regaining consciousness, Bart decides to use his dislocated arm and a bump in his head to ruin Lisa's reputation. He then locks himself in his room and bangs his head on the door until losing consciousness again. A desperate Lisa finds out 9-1-1 won't take her as they think it's another of Bart's prank calls, while realizing that her babysitting days will be over if Bart is taken to Dr. Hibbert. So, she has no other choice than to head downtown (carrying Bart on a wheelbarrow and the caffeine-addled Maggie inside a pet cage) to Dr Nick Riviera's clinic where we see a number of strange cases, such as Snake allegedly tripping over a bullet, or Smithers being unable to sit down for a reason. But the line for the wheelbarrow emergency ward is too long (including Comic Book Guy, who had an hamburger binge), Lisa decides to go to the hospital.

* IdiotBall: Homer, Marge, and Lisa carry it when the former two assumed Bart, of all people, would be mature enough to accept being taken care of by his younger sister, and Lisa was arrogant enough to think [[BigBrotherBully Bart, who frequently bullies her]], would obey her simply because she was left in charge of him.

* ShoutOut: When asking Homer for help, Ned says he's got "a [[Franchise/TheMuppets Fozzie of a Bear]] of a problem."

** Lisa herself, who has witnessed how poorly Bart treats babysitters over the years, doesn't even attempt to make the situation better for the both of them. She's smug and condescending towards Bart from the start instead of trying to reason with him and that's when he decides to show her exactly how bad he can be.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Dr Hibbert wasn't exactly wrong when he called Lisa a bad babysitter. While Bart was largely to blame for the majority of the events that occurred that night, Lisa herself instigated it by being condescending towards Bart and immediately treating him like a child when, at that point, all he had done was glare at her. Given that Lisa has witnessed how Bart has treated babysitters over the years, you think she would try to strike a deal with him rather than taunt him the moment Homer and Marge left the house. Furthermore, babysitting is about adjusting to each client's needs, something discussed in the book series the ''Babysitter Twins'' parodies, which Lisa didn't even attempt to do with Bart.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: It's actually illegal to leave children younger than 12 home alone. Then again, AnthropicPrinciple and the law isn't well-adjusted in Springfield anyway.

* DeathGlare: Bart gives one to Lisa when Homer and Marge leave Lisa in charge of him. She responds with an OhCrapSmile. He also has one in the next scene when he tells Lisa, "[[TranquilFury You're dead]]."

* DeathGlare: Bart gives one to Lisa when Homer and Marge leave Lisa in charge of him. She responds with an OhCrapSmile. He has one in the next scene when he tells Lisa, "[[TranquilFury You're dead]]."

* DeathGlare: Bart gives one to Lisa when Homer and Marge leave Lisa in charge of him. She responds with an OhCrapSmile.

Episode - 4F13\\
First Aired - 3/2/1997

* JerkassBall: Bart is much more malicious than usual in this episode, to rather disturbing levels (being annoying is in line with what he's done before, but then he shows he's perfectly okay with ''[[SelfHarm self-harm]]'' in order to achieve a victory over Lisa).

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Bart. Hurting yourself to ruin your sister's babysitter reputation is considered this.

* SelfHarm: After accidentally falling down the stairs and gaining both a dislocated arm and a nasty bump on his head, Bart purposely slams his head into his bedroom door to make his bump worse and eventually knocks himself out.

* AdultFear: Your child falling down the stairs and ending up severely harmed, your child being framed as a horrible criminal and turned into pariah, and from Lisa's point of view having your reputation as a reliable worker ruined by someone out of spite. The final scene also has the parents of Springfield continue to hire Lisa as a babysitter even if they believe that she is a horrible excuse of a human being and yet ''not giving a damn about that'' [[AbusiveParents or what this may result for their children]].

** Lisa is trying to get Bart medical attention at a clinic and Smithers won't let Lisa in front of him because of a serious injury that seemingly makes it painful for him to sit down (though this could be taken as a DoubleEntendre, considering Smithers's closeted homosexuality).

** A more positive example on Lisa's part with Chief Wiggum. On her way to the hospital, she gets stopped by him, and he compliments the brand of the wheelbarrow, rather than question why an injured Bart and Maggie in a pet carrier are in it.

* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: When Lisa asks Flanders if he's worried she might get coked up and do horrible things to his kids likely allegedly with Bart, Flanders skips the question after a {{Beat}} and [[NonAnswer asks when she is coming over to his house]], likely to change the subject.