"The Simpsons" Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy (TV Episode 1994) Poster

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9/10
"Don't ask me, I'm just a girl. Heehee, heehee"
richspenc18 August 2017
This classic Simpsons ep is great. The Lisa/Malibu Stacy part is really good, so is the Grampa part. The Lisa part's another of the typical righteous Lisa stories, but it has some pretty funny jokes thrown in such as Smithers being revealed to have the biggest Malibu Stacy collection, and the very funny joke of Smithers' screen when his computer's turned on with naked Mr. Burns' "Hello Smithers, you're quite good at turning me on". Smithers to Lisa: "you should probably just ignore that". Hilarious.

I also liked the senior Malibu Stacy inventor, who's become a hermit (and kept a kid's frisbee on her roof for 9 years), but still has a sweet side to her nature and really cares for Lisa's concerns about Malibu Stacy encouraging air- headed flimflam. That includes the following saying "Dont ask me, I'm just a girl. Heehee heehee", and the doll repeating Marge's "helpful" advice to Lisa's righteous concerns about Malibu Stacy by saying "let's forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry icecream. Heehee heehee". The company executives at the Malibu Stacy factory were not real understanding to Lisa's concerns, and I found amusing the funny film strip about the doll and repeating Lisa's doll's comment "Don't ask me, I'm just a girl. Heehee heehee", and the filmstrip narrator saying " hehe, she sure is". Then, also funny, one of the executives right in front of Marge and Lisa telling a female co worker "hey Jiggles, grab a pen and march that butt on in here" Female worker: "oh, get away, heehee" Executive: "ah, don't act like you don't like it", then female worker shutting door with her butt. Marge also reveals that Lisa did the same type of righteous complaining at the Keebler company and threw paint on the executives there. Lol. I wonder what Lisa's righteous problem was with the Keebler stuff? And Lisa's righteousness also got Bart's picture in the paper at the gay right's parade (for added laughs, under the gay rights parade article with Bart's picture, they should've added another headline saying "local boy gets beat up after parade", because Bart got beat up by Jimbo and Nelson after marching in the gay rights parade. I just made that up).

The Grampa parts were hilarious. Grandpa's rant during the family trip to the mall including Grampa saying "on Thanksgiving, we had a turkey, which we used to call a 'walking bird', and we with it we had all the trimmings, cranberries, gravy, and yams stuffed with gunpowder". And on ride home Grampa rattling on "I'm thirsty. Ohh, what smells like mustard? There sure a lot of ugly people in your neighborhood. Ohh, my glaucoma just got worse. The president's a demmycrat", so funny the way those random comments were all said one after another without giving anyone a second to respond. Grandpa's always been good at that. Other funny moments with Grampa were everyone avoiding him, Homer tripping over the phone trying to sneak behind him unseen, Grampa asking Homer "does my withered old face remind everyone of the reaper of death?" Homer: Yes, and there's more. You're my dad and I love you, but you're a weird, sore headed old cook and no one likes ya". Then Grampa getting a job, us seeing just Grampa with headphones and speaker on: "mayday, mayday, come in, please repeat yourself", then it being revealed an irritated guy at drive through at Krusty Burger: "I said I want French fries!" Then Grampa calling his 20 year old boss "old man Peterson" and saying as soon as he leaves "now we can slack off", but no one else listening. Then Grampa losing his false teeth to someone's burger and them repeating what Grampa said before losing his teeth to the burger " hey! This sandwich took a bite outta me!". It was all a funny episode.
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8/10
Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy
MrFilmAndTelevisionShow30 January 2022
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This episode while a classic is not the most memorable ever, especially when you consider same-season episodes like Cape Feare, it is a good episode though. They go for a almost happy ending for Lisa, and it's interesting meet the woman who created Malibu Stacy (and to find out she was once married to Dr Colossus).
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8/10
You should ignore that
snoozejonc16 September 2022
Lisa wants to make doll that is a positive roll model for young girls.

This is a strong episode with a sharp satire of sexism in the toy industry.

The plot regarding the Malibu Stacy doll is excellent and parodies the Teen Talk Barbie controversies wonderfully. The character of Lisa has a great little arc and Kathleen Turner's cameo as the real Stacy is a classic. I particularly love the concept of her ex-husbands and the identity of the person with the world's largest largest Malibu Stacy collection.

I think the Abe Simpson subplot is the weakest aspect of episode, but it has some decent moments.

For me it is a 7.5/10 but I always round scores upward.
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10/10
"Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" is awesomeness. It shows how companies easily continue to dominate the general public with collectible merchandise.
Zabon7 June 2011
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This is a very good episode... it revolves around the deception of collectible items and various toys having a degrading influence on children and collectors in general. A Malibu Stacy doll falls under Lisa's grasp and she begins to despise its purpose and message to children. It generally provokes females to be looked upon as a degraded sexual object with wildly funny comments. Of course, this is fine with most girls as they enjoy duplicating this image... but it's not fine with Lisa... who proceeds to try and track down the creator of the Malibu Stacy line of figurines. First, she visits Waylon Smithers, the number one collector of Malibu Stacy dolls. He has a tremendously huge collection of the dolls... and a very nice sexual background of Mr. Burns on his home computer (but that's just some awesome trivia)... anyway... Smithers tells Lisa about the company's real Malibu Stacy... Stacy Lovelle... whom Lisa goes to meet. She eventually convinces Lovelle to fund a new figurine called the Lisa Lionheart doll which happens to reveal a more intellectual message to children rather than simply being a sex object. However, the doll primarily fails due to popular demand of the ever-popular Malibu Stacy line of figures... for which Smithers (along with lots of young girls) run to acquire upon their release. The episode is awesomeness. My all-time favorite character Smithers plays a huge role here... and the overall story is well-written. It portrays how companies easily deceive the general public... and will always continue to do so. Very solid plot.
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8/10
A Little Preachy...But
Hitchcoc13 May 2022
Lisa is fed up with Malibu Stacy, the Simpsons' version of Barbie. When they create one that speaks, the dialogue is out of the fifties and subservient to males. So she goes about trying to create a new doll. There is great resistance but she meets the doll's creator. A second story has to do with the treatment of older people by commercial enterprises and features Abe.
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8/10
Classic
gianmarcoronconi25 May 2022
Classic episode with a classic moral and starring Liza who is not very funny but teaches us something very trivial but still very important, too bad it's a little slow.
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8/10
Malibu Stacy
safenoe17 January 2024
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Kathleen Turner, who achieved stardom with her leading role in Romancing the Stone, voices Stacy Lavelle, and this episode deals with a multiplicity of issues that are layered upon layered, and quite relevant in light of the movie recently about a famous doll, and it goes to what is represented in dolls and what isn't represented.

The ending was kind of bittersweet with Lavelle revealing it cost her $46,000 to produce Lisa Lionheart, but hopefully Lavelle didn't suffer the same fate as Herb Powell (Homer's half-brother) when Homer sent his company bankrupt in the episode Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
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