Episode 3F22
Written by Dan Greaney
Directed by Mark Kirkland
Also starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor
Special guest voices: Christina Ricci (as Em), Marcia Wallace (as Ms Krabappel)

Premise: Flanders offers the Simpsons the use of his beach house in Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport - the perfect setting for Lisa's attempt to shake off her dorky feathers and become a fully dysfunctioning slacker-kid with her new friends Erin, Rick, Dean and Ben.

Features: Milhouse, Ms Krabappel, Eddie, Martin, Nelson, Miss Hoover, Ralph Wiggum, Ned Flanders.

Couch: The Simpsons are colour-photocopied on to the sofa.

Trivia:

• Newsweek has dubbed Springfield 'America's Crud-bucket'.

Homage: Lisa has a vision of Alice and the Mad Hatter from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (they are re-created very faithfully from the John Tenmel illustrations of the original publication), Pippi Longstocking from the books by Astnd Lindgren, and the urbane Eustace B. Tilley from the New Yorker magazine. Milhouse refers to the US sitcom Blossom.

Notes: 'Like, you know, whatever.' This episode will strike a chord with anyone that's ever tried to fit in with the crowd, and is a neat critique of East Coast port towns, Generation X, and 4th July fireworks. Lisa gets to show the many facets of her character, and there's a superb slapstick sequence as Homer tries to dispose of a firework.