THE SIMPSONS NEWS – What I Remember About Working on Lisa the Vegetarian.

Simpsons Quote:

Homer: Are you saying you’re never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?

Lisa: No.

Homer: Ham?

Lisa: No.

Homer: Pork chops?

Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.

Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

Hi.  Today I’m going to talk to you about having worked on Lisa the Vegetarian. You can watch the video below or read the transcription:

How Much Do I Remember?

It was season seven directed by Mark Kirkland.  I’ve been asked to talk about this. Apparently it was a topic of discussion in the NoHomers.net site.  To be quite honest I don’t remember working on the show in such a way that it is a clear experience in my mind as to what I did and how I did it.  I do remember having watched the show recently, in fact only two things or areas in the show that I worked on…well, three.

The first when I was watching it I’m like,

“Hey wait a minute I did that scene and I did this section.”

B.Y.O.B.B.

It was when Homer comes in with the B.Y.O.B.B. little note with the pig note.  And Bart says something about cartoons are about getting hit in the head and all this other stuff, after having watch the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon.  And then Homer slams the door open on him that was all me.

I remember having worked on that show, having done that scene and doing the Bart acting.  There’s a lot of hand acting in it.

At the time I was trying really hard to animate and really act out stuff.  So you’ll notice in that scene where Bart  is talking about the cartoons then he walks over and he’s using his hands a lot.  I use my hands a lot.

But Bart’s using his hands a lot and you see him moving around and moving his hands.  And to me having worked on that scene it looks so spastic like I was trying so hard to act.  I was acting.  So yeah, I over emoted.

And then Homer comes in with his note and then I remember just basically tracing over the model sheet for that scene, for that pig invite prop and then just adding some dimension to it and adding Homers hand around it I think.

“That was a typo,” you know, his little gag.

You Can’t Win Friends with Salad

This doesn’t look like my art. I think someone revised my drawings.

So I do remember that definitely.  And you don’t win friends with salad.  I don’t remember if I did that scene or not.  I believe that I did bits.  I worked on some of it but not all of it.  So that is vague.

I don’t recall all of it.  I mean I would’ve remembered – it seemed like something that would be something really involved, a pain in the butt and that I would of remembered working on.  But that section was mine so it must’ve been me.  I just don’t remember now.

Lisa Eats a Hot Dog

The other scene that I do remember working on was in act three where Lisa goes and finally gives in and she eats a tofu dog in the Kwik E Mart.  Apu tells her that it’s a tofu dog.  I remember working on the scene where she sees the hot dog.

I remember working on the scene where she grab the hot dog and that close-up of her with the dog I remember drawing that.  I remembered drawing the view of the hot dog coming over to you.  And then it would just get bigger.

I remember doing that scene and taking a bite and eating it and she says, “There I did it!  Are you happy?”  I remember doing that. I think it was a match cut and it was a pullout and it was a huge pain – it was very technical and a pain in the neck.

I think that’s where I stopped.  I don’t think I did the rest of it.  I don’t remember doing the part with or did I do the part where they open the door to the non-alcoholic beer?  I may have worked on that scene to and then they go upstairs.

Revisions

So those are the only two scenes I remember working on.  I remember working on revisions in the earlier scene in the barbecue where everybody was eating. I did do some revisions on some characters there.  I believe I did some revisions on Wiggum.

“I can’t seem to get up my own energy”…or I forgot what it was.

I do believe I did a little bit of that scene or there was some kind of revisions that needed to be done.  I did not remember anything in act one that I may have worked on.

I Was a Rookie at the Time

You’ve got to understand that at the time I was very new still.  I had just gotten rehired so I was still very much a rookie and they weren’t giving me a whole lot to do.  My artwork in those scenes I did; those characters just weren’t as good, well drawn, as they ought to have been.

So yeah that’s my recollection.  That’s pretty much what I can remember working on Lisa the Vegetarian.  Good times.  I like watching the old shows. They are a lot of fun to watch and sometimes they trigger my memory.

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