10 Worst Things Lisa Simpson Has Ever Done
7. Ruining Bart’s E-Sports Career
Lisa is unnecessarily added to episodes just to make her the villain a lot in Season 30, but E My Sports is probably the worst offender.
It begins with Bart and his team of Springfield children getting insanely good at E sports, with Homer taking a keen interest and even hiring them a coach. Homer acts as a manager for the team too, opting for a man management style of encouragement which brings him closer to Bart.
It’s a very sweet episode for the first half, and aside from the obvious technology storyline and some of the jokes not landing, it’s very much in the spirit of the Golden Era. Enter Lisa.
When Bart’s team is invited to a tournament in Korea, Lisa whines her way into going too. There’s then a tacked on subplot where Lisa preaches the idea of inner peace, which Bart’s lucrative career that he actually enjoys apparently does not provide.
After seeing the ‘light’, Homer deliberately sabotages the tournament, getting Bart’s team disqualified. Again, there’s a question of culpability. Homer is the one who actually ruins things, but Lisa definitely guides him there and didn’t need to feature in this episode at all.