“ | Kudos, kudos | „ |
~ Stacy Lovell |
Stacey Lovell is the creator of the Malibu Stacy franchise.
History[]
Early Life[]
She is the creator of the Malibu Stacy dolls and is the founder of the franchise. Lovell explained to Lisa Simpson that she was forced out of the company in 1974; Lovell tells Lisa that the reason she was forced out of the company was because the executives claimed that her "way of thinking wasn't 'cost-effective.'" (Which is ultimately proven true due to her admitting under her breath that producing the Lisa Lionheart doll at all costs $46,000.) However, it's implied that the real reason Lovell was forced out of the company was because she was funneling profits to the Vietcong in Vietnam (essentially committing treason against the United States and more-or-less getting away with it).
Present Day[]
Lisa bikes to Stacy Lovell's house (built exactly like Malibu Stacy's dream house), she says she wants Miss Lovell to hear what Stacy is telling a generation of young girls.
Lisa and Stacy decide to create a new talking doll, Lisa Lionheart, voiced by Lisa herself and complete with her own encouraging phrases. The doll is quietly released, and even Kent Brockman (at the request of his daughter), spends his whole newscast talking about the doll, ignoring breaking news that the President was arrested for murder. However, the creators of Malibu Stacy view Lisa's doll as a real threat, and plan to sink Lisa Lionheart.
On the day the doll is officially released, numerous young girls (and Smithers) rush into the toy store at the Springfield Mall to buy Lisa Lionheart. As Lisa and Stacy Lovell watch, a cart of "new" Malibu Stacy dolls with a new hat is wheeled right into the path of the group running for the Lisa display. Lisa appeals to them that it's just the same doll with a new hat, but they all prefer to stick with Malibu Stacy (largely due to a phrase from Smithers, "but she's got a new hat!") ...except for one little girl, who leaves with a Lisa Lionheart doll. Lisa remarks that even though they didn't sell out of the dolls, they at least managed to get through to one little girl. Stacy agrees, and mutters under her breath, 'Particularly if that that little girl happens to pay $46,000 for that doll,' suggesting her gloomy outlook on the financial success of the venture (and more-or-less confirming the executives' claim that her ideas were not cost-effective).
She lives in her own house, and is also the "Ego-Destroying Control Freak" type of mom you meet at the PTA.[1]
Appearances[]
- Episode – "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"
- Episode – "Radioactive Man"
- Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
- Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields"
- Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
- – The Simpsons Movie
- Book – The Marge Book
- Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out
The Simpsons: Season Five | ||||
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet": | "Cape Feare": | "Homer Goes to College": | "Rosebud": | "Treehouse of Horror IV": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Marge on the Lam": | "Bart's Inner Child": | "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": | "The Last Temptation of Homer": | "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Homer the Vigilante": | "Bart Gets Famous": | "Homer and Apu": | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": | "Deep Space Homer": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Major | Absent |
"Homer Loves Flanders": | "Bart Gets an Elephant": | "Burns' Heir": | "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": | "The Boy Who Knew Too Much": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Lady Bouvier's Lover": | "Secrets of a Successful Marriage": | |||
Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Seven | ||||
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)": | "Radioactive Man": | "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily": | "Bart Sells His Soul": | "Lisa the Vegetarian": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Treehouse of Horror VI": | "King-Size Homer": | "Mother Simpson": | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Marge Be Not Proud": | "Team Homer": | "Two Bad Neighbors": | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield": | "Bart the Fink": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Lisa The Iconoclast": | "Homer The Smithers": | "The Day The Violence Died": | "A Fish Called Selma": | "Bart on the Road": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"22 Short Films About Springfield": | "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"": | "Much Apu About Nothing": | "Homerpalooza": | "Summer of 4 Ft. 2": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |