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| If he had given Lisa that sceptre sooner, Lisa would've been hit. Krusty is a true hero. |
At a school fair, Lisa has a caricature drawn of herself. Not understanding the purpose of a caricature, the resulting drawing leads Lisa to believe she's ugly. Meanwhile, Homer wins a raffle, and the reward is tickets to the Duff Blimp. Later, however, he notices Lisa being sad and learns why, and is bothered that he isn't able to help Lisa feel better about herself. At the bar, Homer sees a commercial for a "Little Miss Springfield" beauty pageant, hosted by a cigarette company, for ages 7-9. Needing $250 to apply Lisa into the contest, Homer sells his blimp tickets to Barney to pay for the cost. When Homer tells Lisa what he did, she's upset (especially when Homer told her he used Lisa's caricature as the picture to apply with). Knowing the reasoning behind Homer's deed, Marge is able to convince Lisa to do it after telling Lisa what Homer sacrificed to get her in.
At the pageant, Lisa sees the top competition: Amber Dempsey, who had fake eyelashes implanted in Portugal or somewhere. Marge helps Lisa get beautiful at a parlor, while Bart trains her for other pageant-related things. Soon, the pageant occurs, and Lisa goes in and does well, but ends up in second place behind Dempsey. Shortly after that, Dempsey is at a store to unveil some tire spikes, when lightning strikes her sceptre, leaving her unable to perform her duties. As such, Lisa as the runner up becomes sworn in as the new Little Miss Springfield.
Lisa's duties start off simple enough, seeing off deportees and appearing at Fort Springfield alongside Bob Hope. However, she learns that, because the pageant was sponsored by a cigarette company, they now want Lisa to be her spokesperson to increase youth smoking. While hesitant at first, she decides to go along with her duty, however at a parade she sees kids picking up free cigarettes and decides that's enough, and begins to rebel against smoking, and then college football. When its learned she's next going after the mayor, panic begins to mount among the top ranks. Fortunately for them, however, they found a technicality that removes Lisa from the position: when Homer filled out the application, in the space "Do not write here", Homer wrote "OK". Her title stripped and returned to Dempsey, Lisa is still happy that Homer went through so much effort to make her feel better about herself.
Quick Review
Lisa the Beauty Queen is a superb episode, which is odd for a Lisa-centric episode but Homer really pulls through in the episode as well. The few moments Krusty the Klown was in were great too. It is one of Season 4's best episodes.
Final Score: 9.6
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