Lisa Goes Gaga/References

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Lisa Goes Gaga

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Continuity

• Maggie offers Lisa her pacifier, just like in the short "The Pacifier".
• "Stark Raving Dad": A pop singer (Michael Jackson/Lady Gaga) comes to Springfield and changes a Simpson family member's life.
• "Moaning Lisa": A musician (Bleeding Gums Murphy/Lady Gaga) helps a depressed Lisa.
• "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious: Grampa falls asleep as he flies away.
• "Today, I Am a Clown": Someone spells "BOOBS" on a calculator using 80085.
• "Much Apu About Nothing" and "Judge Me Tender": Moe may be Armenian.
• "Midnight Rx": Flanders thinks the Devil will tempt him by being attractive.
• Homer admits to cheating on his diet, something that was shown in "Dial "N" for Nerder".

Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on "going gaga" (a slang term for "going crazy") and is a reference to Lady Gaga's guest appearance.
• A song Homer Face, which is sung by Homer during credits, is a parody of Lady Gaga's popular song Poker Face.
• Lady Gaga's song Poker Face is playing when her train is seen for the first time.
• The vessel from the 53rd Grammy Awards appear in this episode.
• When Lady Gaga arrives in Springfield, the crowd chant to the lyrics of her song Bad Romance: "Ga-Ga-Oh-La-La!"
• The Lady Gaga Express conductor's design and voice appear to be modeled after Cee-Lo Green.
• The user interface on Lady Gaga's phone is based heavily on the design of Apple's iOS operating system, specifically versions 1 through 6 of iOS (this episode aired when iOS 5 was current).

Trivia

• Lady Gaga wears eighteen outfits in the episode, including the meat dress, used in the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.
• During the episode hashtags were featured in the episode. The hashtags were: #TheSimpsons #GagaExpress #GagaKissesMarge
• The Grumple was in the audience at the Lady Gaga concert.
• This is the third episode to finish a season and air on May 20, the other two are "Simpsons Tall Tales" and "You Kent Always Say What You Want".
• This is another instance that features a kiss between Bart and Lisa.
• This episode marks the brief reintroduction of the "Just Stamp the Ticket" man since "When Flanders Failed".
• This is also the second Episode Bart can be seen kissing Lisa, the first being "Bart Sells His Soul".
• Lisa sucks on a pacifier given to her by Maggie, noting that "it worked once". This may be a reference to The Tracey Ullman Show short "The Pacifier", in which Maggie gives Lisa as well as Bart pacifiers which end up calming them down.
• This episode was the last one to star Tonino Accolla as the Italian voice of Homer prior to his death on July 14, 2013, caused by a long illness. Massimo Lopez has replaced him since the episode "Moonshine River".
• This episode was severely disliked by many viewers due to Lisa's voice and having too much focus on Lady Gaga.
  • This episode is also the lowest-rated in the show's history on IMDb, currently having a rating of 4.
  • This episode is placed the first on "The 15 Worst Episodes of 'The Simpsons,' Ranked According to IMDb" in Collider.

Goofs

Jessica Lovejoy disappeared as Lady Gaga's dancers approach Lisa which error was made.

• In the promotional image, a part of Martin's arm is transparent and has not been colored in. However, this error wasn't present in the episode.
• The treehouse was missing in the backyard while Lady Gaga tweeted to the flash mob.
• The "just stamp the ticket" man does not appear in flash mob, until he corrects them spelling "disperse."
• Jessica Lovejoy disappears in the next two scenes as Lady Gaga dancers approaching Lisa. She then appeared again as everyone ran away.
• When Lady Gaga Express train stops, there's only one railroad track. The next scene, Moe got hit by another train, which there's an opposite railroad track that runs on.