Original air date: 2/11/2007 (produced in 2006)
Production code: JABF-04
Lisa lies about being an American Indian for a school essay contest about racial diversity while Bart gets a driver's license (legally, this time) and meets a teenager who might be carrying his baby.
Tropes:
- Accidental Hero: Bart became one when he initially was toying around with multiple fire extinguishers to propel a kiddy wagon. Ironically, he stole the extinguishers around the same time the city was on fire.
- Accidental Truth: As it turns out, Lisa has some actual Native American ancestry on Homer's side. She is not, however, part of the "Hitachi tribe."
- Aside Glance: Smithers gets caught on fire and tries to get Mr. Burns to help, alerting him to the situation by shouting "I'm flaming!" Burns then shatters the fourth wall by turning towards the camera with a look that just screams "Tell me something I don't know."
- Bait-and-Switch: When a fire spread around Cletus's barn, it looked like it would go out of control...but then his cow puts it out. But then, Cletus was shocked by the sight he had seen that his corn pipe fell out of his mouth and started another fire.
- Call-Back: North Haverbrook, the town that was devastated by the unnecessary monorail is the one Bart visits. It apparently made a remarkable recovery.
- Chick Magnet: Bart attracted a fifteen year old girl. Subverted because she's just looking for someone to be the father of the child she's expecting.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: As Homer suggests and Lisa angrily agrees, Homer should have told Lisa they do have a Native American heritage.
- Family Relationship Switcheroo: How Darcy's parents plan to explain the existence of her baby, making him pass for theirs. In fact, the mother is herself pregnant, and she plans to tell everyone that the two babies are twins.
- Flock of Wolves: When, at a cultural event, Lisa publicly confesses that she does not have any Native American blood, it turns out most, if not all, of the supposed "Native Americans" in attendance were pulling similar bluffs. For added irony, it turns out Lisa's deception was an Accidental Truth, making her the most legitimate person there aside from the emcee.
- Give the Baby a Father: Bart agrees to marry the teenage pregnant girl so her baby will have a father.
- Imagine Spot: When Mayor Quimby offered Bart a wish as a reward for his accidental heroism, he imagined a few potential wishes.
- An IV that connected to a Squishee machine.
- Various people (Homer, Principal Skinner) lining up to kiss his butt.
- Finally, he decides on a driver's license.
- Later, Bart has this, visualizing himself as he skateboards through Utah and its scenic areas before coming home to a log cabin, where Darcy is cooking, holding her first-born child and pregnant with another before they kiss.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Darcy has a mole on her left cheek like her voice actress Natalie Portman.
- Kids Driving Cars: As a reward for putting out the fires, Bart chooses getting a driver's license. which he uses to cruise around in Homer's car.
- Line-of-Sight Alias: Lisa's fake tribe is named "Hitachi" after the microwave in the kitchen.
- Literal Ass-Kissing: One of the wishes Bart considers (before settling on a driver's license) is to have people line up and kiss his butt.
- Miss Conception: Bart believes he got a girl pregnant just by kissing and holding hands.Darcy: Wow, you really are ten. I thought you were just kind of stupid.
Bart: I'm ten and stupid. - Missing Steps Plan: Throwing balls over the prison wall to cause confusion and chaos, there is the missing reason why Homer would want that.
- Noodle Incident: A lot of reason why Homer calls Bart are this, once about him being stuck in the trunk of the car by bad people.
- Opening Shout-Out: After Bart manages to get a legal driver's license, we get a version of the intro sequence where he writes "So Long, Suckers!" on the chalkboard, drives the car out of the school instead of riding his skateboard and hits the pedestrians standing on the sidewalk on his way back.
- Ping Pong Naïveté: Homer gave Bart The Talk two seasons ago, but it seems Bart forgot.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Bart immediately tries to drive off when Darcy tells him she's pregnant, only for the car not to turn over.
- Shame If Something Happened: After he gets fed up with Lisa constantly criticising his driving, Bart calmly threatens to expose her for lying about her Indian heritage. Lisa quickly backs down.Lisa: Slow down! You're too close to that car! Your hands should be at ten and two, not three and nothing!
Bart: You know, it'd be a real shame if someone started investigating your Indian heritage!
Lisa: [meekly] I'll be good. - Shout-Out:
- When Bart asked for a license, Mayor Quimby asked if it was to kill. Also his Imagine Spot of several citizens in line to kiss his butt had Harry Potter in the line.
- The dinner scene in Lady and the Tramp was spoofed, with the Spaghetti Kiss having a twist in that instead of Bart, Darcy ends up kissing a dog that looks just like the Tramp himself.
- Burns' reaction to Smithers being in flames mirrors the characteristic pose of famed comedian Jack Benny. Incidentally, both characters' VA, Harry Shearer, started out on Benny's radio show back in the 1950s.
- One of the pictures at the entrance of the multicultural meeting is Darth Vader's helmet.
- Similar Item Confusion: Homer calls Bart to ask the difference between ketchup and catsup. He's being held hostage and will have his head cut off if he doesn't know.
- Smoking Hot Sex: After kissing and holding hands with Darcy at the drive-in movie, Bart is seen enjoying a lollipop. As it turns out, he has no idea they didn't go all the way.
- Special Guest: Natalie Portman as Darcy.
- Take That!: When Groundskeeper Willie tries to stop the school fire with wet napkins, he says they're drier than a Charles Grodin quip.
- Teen Pregnancy: Darcy
- Totem Pole Trench: A Native American known as Fibbin' Bear is a pair of midgets pulling this trick.
