History Recap / TheSimpsonsS29E08MrLisasOpus

* {{Flashback}}[=/=]FlashForward: Both in the same episode.

* NegativeContinuity:
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E15FutureDrama "Future Drama"]], Lisa goes to Yale instead of Harvard.
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E13AndMaggieMakesThree "And Maggie Makes Three"]], Maggie got her pacifier right after birth, while here, she didn't get it until sometime later.

* NegativeContinuity: In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E15FutureDrama "Future Drama"]], Lisa goes to Yale instead of Harvard.

** To "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E19FlandCanycon Fland Canyon]]": 7-year old Lisa is shown hungrily eating bacon for breakfast, which the former episode established was one of her favorite foods before she became a vegetarian.

* BrickJoke: Lisa shares a birthday with he classmate Hubert Wong, and is denied a chocolate cupcake by their teacher for unintentionally spoiling the mood. After recounting this, she says that Luigi is the only one who consistently remembers her birthday. He pops up saying it's easy because they share it, along with Hubert Wong, who also shows up to give Lisa a chocolate cupcake.

* SpiritualSuccessor: A more Lisa-focused version of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E9Barthood Barthood]]," with a few bits of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E15FutureDrama Future Drama]]" included.

* SequelEpisode: A more Lisa-focused version of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E9Barthood Barthood]]," with a few bits of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E15FutureDrama Future Drama]]" included.

* MultipleChoiceFuture: Despite its resonance with the lower-keyed "Barthood" over previous future episodes with heavy sci-fi elements, this episode still follows the other future episodes in having a completely independent continuity; for instance, Lisa's accepted into Harvard instead of Yale, and while in "Barthood" Abe has passed away by the time Bart is in his mid-teens, here he's still alive when Lisa goes to college.

* FutureLoser: After a break from such portrayals in "Barthood," this episode reverts Bart to his typical adult characterization as this; however, while urging Lisa to make their parents proud, he indicates that [[{{Downplayed}} he fully intends to do the same himself]] and simply expects Lisa to be the first rather than the ''only'' one of them to succeed.

* FutureLoser: After a break from such portrayals in "Barthood," this episode reverts Bart to his typical characterization as this; however, while urging Lisa to make their parents proud, he indicates that [[{{Downplayed}} he fully intends to do the same himself]] and simply expects Lisa to be the first rather than the ''only'' one of them to succeed.

* MultipleChoiceFuture: Despite its resonance with the lower-keyed "Barthood" over previous future episodes with heavy sci-fi elements, this episode still follows the other future episodes in having a completely independent continuity; for instance, while, in "Barthood," Abe has passed away by the time Bart is in his mid-teens, here he's still alive when Lisa goes to college.

** To [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E1StarkRavingDad Stark-Raving Dad]]: For Lisa's 14th birthday, Bart sings an updated version of the birthday song he sung back then and even brings the fake Michael Jackson who wrote it with him.

** To [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E10FlamingMoes Flaming Moe's]]: When Flanders convinces Homer to quit drinking, Homer imagines a hell with Moe as the devil offering him a Flaming Moe.
** To [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E19FlandCanycon Fland Canyon]]: 7-year old Lisa is shown hungrily eating bacon for breakfast, which the former episode established was one of her favorite foods before she became a vegetarian.

* MultipleChoiceFuture: Despite its resonance with the lower-keyed "Barthood" over previous future episodes with heavy sci-fi elements, this episode still follows an independent continuity. While, in "Barthood," Abe has passed away by the time Bart is in his mid-teens, here he's still alive when Lisa goes to college.

** To [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E19FlandCanycon Fland Canyon]]]: 7-year old Lisa is shown hungrily eating bacon for breakfast, which the former episode established was one of her favorite foods before she became a vegetarian.

* ExperimentedInCollege: Lisa ends up bonding well with her college roommate, happy to finally have a best friend. She then notices the girl appearing very interested in her, which she seems to contemplate.