The Simpsons S4E15 "I Love Lisa" / YMMV

Crosses the Line Twice:
- Lisa outright telling Ralph that she doesn't like him and she never did, breaking his heart and humiliating him on live TV? Very sad. Immediately segueing into Bart replaying the scene in slow motion to "pinpoint the second [Ralph's] heart rips in half?" Darkly hilarious.
- Skinner's Vietnam flashback and mental break over the intercom could also count, being followed up with Bart's comment "Cool! I broke his brain."
- Bart being such a fan of Krusty that he bought a home pregnancy test that's said to cause birth defects (and how that works exactly isn't addressed).
- The rejection lines Homer has heard before go from the normal stock lines ("I like you as a friend" and "I think we should see other people") to random ("I no speak English" and "I'm married to the sea") to slightly disturbing and oddly specific ("I don't want to kill you, but I will" and "I'm not gay, but I'll learn.")
- Chief Wiggum telling the story of how Krusty gave him tickets to his anniversary special (Krusty was in a porno theater and Chief Wiggum — while in uniform — sits behind him. Krusty freaks out, thinking he's going to be arrested — even though he didn't do anything illegal while watching the porno — and Chief Wiggum gives him a "Sure, Let's Go with That" response. Lisa then cuts in, saying the story's not appropriate for children, but, according to Chief Wiggum, it is, because there's a version where Wiggum had no pants on).
- Pretty much everything about the Lincoln segment of the play: Miss Hoover rudely telling Milhouse (after the latter complains about his beard giving him a rash) that he has one line and he's shot, Bart playing John Wilkes Booth as the Terminator, Homer loudly yelling at Bart "Come on, boy, finish him off" and Bart attempting to go off script and kill Chester A. Arthur before Miss Hoover drags him off stage.
Harsher in Hindsight: Miss Hoover's comment to Milhouse playing Abraham Lincoln at the school play ("You have one line, and then you're shot") becomes this since that's almost the exact way another one of Maggie Roswell's characters (Maude Flanders) will go out later on the series.
Hilarious in Hindsight: One of Homer's suggestions to Lisa is to tell Ralph (who's interested in her, but she's not interested in him) "Six simple words: I'm not gay, but I'll learn". A later episode would reveal that Lisa had a relationship with another woman in college.
Memetic Mutation: "You can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half."^Explanation
One-Scene Wonder: Sideshow Raheem, despite not really doing anything.
Unintentionally Sympathetic: While loudly and aggressively rejecting Ralph on public television seems like a Kick the Dog moment on Lisa's part, it's understandable. She had explained to Ralph, clearly and kindly, that she didn't want to be in a relationship with him, but he continued to pursue her, regardless of her feelings, with borderline stalker behavior, eventually pushing her to her Rage Breaking Point when Ralph over-zealously declared that he was going to marry her (again, on public television).
Values Dissonance: Chief Wiggum gives Ralph some advice to get a girl that isn't interested in him (in this case Lisa), telling him he must insist until she gives in. Such a comment nowadays would be seen as encouraging stalking.
The Woobie:
- Ralph is so unpopular that someone as historically unpopular as Lisa wouldn’t give him a valentine if she hadn't felt bad for him.
- Skinner becomes one during the Vietnam flashback sequence, where the painted candy hearts Bart vandalized caused him to remember his best friend Johnny being gunned down while making a valentine to his girlfriend back home. It caused Skinner to shout out Johnny's name in despair, which the whole school hears.

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