Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, Bart finds love with an older woman.
WAR
29.3
Wins Above Replacement
“Little Big Girl” ranks #459 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 73.5 — Solid. The episode packs 45 scored jokes at 2.8 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.5 on impact, with Bart landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Grampa: In a world of 31 flavors, we're the cup of water they rinse the scoops in.
Grampa Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: By speaking with forked tongue, I am in heap big trouble. And now I'm thinking in stereotypes! That's even worse!
Lisa Meta/Self-Referential Escalation ★ Rewatch Bart: Take my wife... please. Hey, I finally get that joke.
Bart Meta/Self-Referential Callback ★ Rewatch Lisa: They had seven names for that.
Bart: My last words are 'Lisa sucks!'
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 45 analyzed
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Grampa Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grampa Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Marge · Homer: We should take lots of pictures of him while we still can. Camera's broken!
Bart: With some clever scissor work, I can make the Lake Land Butter Indian maiden show me her boobs.
Bart Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Bart Visual Gag Character Comedy Bart: Look what Snap's doing to Pop while Crackle watches!
Lisa Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Marge: Lisa, the world needs you to go to Wellesley!
Marge Character Comedy Escalation German person: I didn't come here to be insulted. Guten tag!
Lisa: By speaking with forked tongue, I am in heap big trouble. And now I'm thinking in stereotypes! That's even worse!
Lisa Meta/Self-Referential Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer · Marge: Must be the war cry of her tribe. Probably.
Cletus: Still?! Are you drownin' 'em or makin' love to 'em?
Cletus Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Mr. Burns · Groundskeeper Willie: Why? You're not helping me. But, sir, I'm flaming!
Groundskeeper Willie: These are drier than a Charles Grodin quip.
Bart: My last words are 'Lisa sucks!'
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bart: No way! I don't want my guts touching some sick guy.
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Background character: Oh, this is a bad time for me to have massive organ failure
Homer: Eat Marshall Tucker, idiot!
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: They had seven names for that.
Homer: My little girl's just like CBS News.
Homer Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Lisa: North Dakota-lahoma.
Lisa Wordplay/Pun Misdirection John Squawking Bear: I kid, but he's a real jerk.
Hippie Hulk toy: Hey, hey, LBJ, how many pants you rip today?
Bart: Yeah. I have that disease that makes you look like an old man, but they gave me medicine for it and I took too much.
Bart Absurdist Misdirection Homer: They're gonna cut my head off...
Homer Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Bart: That is such a girl thing to say.
Bart Character Comedy Reaction Beat Bart: Oh, man, I must be the first guy who was ever pressured into marriage.
Bart Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Bart · Darcy: Really? We didn't? But we kissed and held hands at the same time. Wow, you really are ten. I thought you were just kind of stupid.
Darcy: A Norwegian exchange student. He's long gone, back to Norwegia.
Darcy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Darcy: Home of America's most powerful weirdos?
Darcy Observational Irony/Sarcasm Lisa: I took the name from my microwave.
Lisa Callback Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback John Squawking Bear: I'm not Native American, either. I just ski a lot.
Various crowd members: I'm Japanese. I'm an Aborigine. I'm two midgets in a costume.
Background character: I'm two midgets in a costume.
Bart: Take my wife... please. Hey, I finally get that joke.
Bart Meta/Self-Referential Callback ★ Rewatch Marge Simpson: I mean, what kind of tramp gets knocked up before she's even married? I did.
Homer: I mean in this day and age, when the link between sex and pregnancy has been proven so... conclusively... in Scientific American
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: Actually, that was me.
Homer Reaction Beat Character Comedy Utah officiant: What are you, gay?
Darcy's father: Utah karate!
Darcy's father: We can lie to the neighbors and tell them they're twins.
Bart: Is that Bart? And I'll go... and you'll know.
Bart Character Comedy Callback Bart Simpson · Homer Simpson: Instead we just ended up fighting all the time. Yeah, how 'bout that?
Bart: And someday you'll be one, too.
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Top Episodes — The Simpsons
