The Girl Who Slept Too Little

"The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	Season 17 Episode 2
Directed by	Raymond S. Persi
Written by	John Frink
Production code	GABF16
Original air date	September 18, 2005 (2005-09-18)
Episode features
Couch gag	Filmed in clay animation, six balls roll in and bump into each other in the living room before turning into Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and Gumby.
Commentary	Al Jean John Frink Michael Price David Silverman Raymond S. Persi Matt Selman Max Pross
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"The Girl Who Slept Too Little" ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} is the second episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 18, 2005, and was seen by 9.79 million people during this broadcast.

Plot

When construction on a stamp museum wakes up the Simpsons, everyone in Springfield protests against its construction to the beat of the song "Eve of Destruction". Soon, Mayor Quimby moves it to where the Springfield Cemetery used to be, and the cemetery is moved next door to the Simpsons' house. Lisa is the only member of the family whose room overlooks it. She is scared and cannot sleep at night, and ends up sleeping with Homer and Marge. The next night, Lisa meets a white-haired man known as Gravedigger Billy, who is Groundskeeper Willie's cousin. After a hand comes out of a tomb, Lisa goes to Marge and Homer's room and makes a promise that if they go to the Springfield Stamp Museum, Lisa will sleep in her room. At the museum, there is a lecture for Milton Burkhart's book "The Land of the Wild Beasts", and an advertisement based on the book for a restaurant called The Hillside Wrangler.

Lisa then feels that she can sleep in her room with the cemetery, but is already afraid, and sleeps in Homer and Marge's room again, much to their consternation. Marge and Homer then spend a night in Lisa's room and find out how scary the view really is. They then try to book a therapist, but find out that it is expensive and Lisa may have to resolve her fears herself, as she was not nurtured enough as a baby. Lisa, however, does not want to go see a therapist, and goes with Santa's Little Helper to overcome her fears at the cemetery. When the gate is locked, Lisa is left alone when Santa's Little Helper flees. Afterwards, Lisa, unnerved after witnessing Dr Nick Riviera grave-robbing, hits her head on a tombstone and faints. She experiences a dream where she is eaten by a skeleton, and then is on a web in a slime pond with a slug resembling Milhouse, and a spider resembling Bart. Lisa then has another vision with the monsters from "The Land of the Wild Beasts", and finds out they are funny, instead of scary, and that it is okay to be scared. Marge and Homer then find Lisa, wake her up, and they go home.

Reception

John Frink was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing in Animation at the 58th Writers Guild of America Awards for his script to this episode. ^[5]

References

1. Bates, James W.; Gimple, Scott M.; McCann, Jesse L.; Richmond, Ray; Seghers, Christine, eds. (2010). Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1–20 (1st ed.). Harper Collins Publishers. pp. 812–813. ISBN   978-0-00-738815-8.
2. "Series 17 Episode 2 The Girl Who Slept Too Little". Channel 4 . Retrieved August 31, 2011.
3. "The Simpsons: The Girl Who Slept Too Little". Sky One . Retrieved August 31, 2011.
4. "The Simpsons Episode: "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"". TV Guide . Retrieved August 31, 2011.
5. McNary, Dave (December 14, 2005). "Peacock laffers have the write stuff". Variety. Retrieved February 23, 2019.

External links

• The Simpsons portal

• "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" at The Simpsons.com
• "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" at IMDb