YMMV / The Simpsons S13 E6 "She of Little Faith"

• Franchise Original Sin: Although the episode was well received and has aged relatively well, some consider it to be the episode that solidified the trend of Lisa getting on bandwagons that'd characterize her in later episodes like getting into college or blogs (in the 2000s Buddhism was seen as the "hippy religion" for young vegan liberals to be into). Others say this episode is an even preachier rehash of "Lisa the Vegetarian".
• Harsher in Hindsight: During breakfast, Homer forces Bart to butter his bacon, then wrap the bacon around his sausage, despite Bart claiming that his heart hurts. A few seasons later, Bart would suffer a heart attack.
• Informed Wrongness: Homer is blamed for the rocket crashing into the church, but for once he didn't actually do anything wrong. He tried to stop it happening but their hamster pilot bailed.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The show doesn't do much with Lisa's Buddhism after this, for two reasons: the first is that the writers were forced into making her conversion a permanent one as a condition of guest star Richard Gere's appearance and hadn't originally intended for it to affect continuing storylines; the other is that Buddhism as a "trendy" belief system began to fade after the 2000s as subsequent generations of younger people increasingly began to abandon organized religion altogether.

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