Lisa starts to date a boy named Nick (played by Michael Cera), in a Whole-Plot Reference to Pyramus and Thisbe. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse become Myth Crackers, cracking every legend in the school.
Tropes:
- 360-Degree Swing Set Swing: Bart and Milhouse manage to achieve this (with Milhouse as the test subject) by taping a bunch of fireworks to the seat of the swing and lighting them. The myth that they hoped to test, that doing a 360 swing will turn you inside out, turns out to be false however.
- Call-Back: The third triplet to Sherri and Terri mentioned in the previous season shows up, but they claim that it’s a result of Marge undergoing Sanity Slippage.
- Compressed Vice: Marge now struggles to see Lisa as a different person from her to the point of being reluctant to let her date, when she's been nothing but supportive with regard to Lisa's prior Love Interests.
- Disney Owns This Trope: Lisa’s fantasy about Pyramus and Thisbe have Disney adding a wise-cracking parrot to the story to claim ownership.Parrot: Talk to the wing, Thisbe.
- Jerkass Ball: Marge's reason for not wanting her daughter to date is because she doesn't want her daughter to be a separate person from her.
- The Reveal: Willie isn’t from Edinburgh, and he’s not from Glasgow. He’s from Kirkwall, near Orkney.
- Shout-Out: Myth Crackers is an obvious parody of MythBusters.
- Take That!: The wisecracking parrot is one to Aladdin.
- Valentine's Day Episode: What this starts out as.
