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Quotes

Waylon Smithers: Welcome, Springfield Elementary second-graders! We hope you enjoy your field trip around the power plant today.

Mr. Burns: Let's start off by saying hello to a nameless minion who does some job that probably keeps the city from blowing up.

Homer: [GASP!] Lisa! What are you doing here? And please say you saw the thief who stole all my stuff!

Lisa: [PHEW!] Dad, I'm the thief. I cleaned up your station so my friends won't think I'm related to a sloppy pig.

Homer: Hey, I didn't know that keyboard had letters on it!

Miss Hoover: Oh there you are, Lisa. I should've known you were here saying hello to your father.

Lisa: "Saying hello." Yep. That's all I was doing! Right, Dad?

Homer: Hello, Lisa. Hi there. Howdy. 'Sup?...

Mr. Burns: Well, I must say, Simpson, your employee records aren't quite what I expected... Fifty percent attendance record... Voted "most likely to swim in nuclear waste" seven years running... Constantly fights with vending machines...

Homer: Those machines always start it, sir!

Mr. Burns: Don't worry, Simpson... It's clear you're not the man in that file. I'm interested in your future, not your past! Put simply, if the level of your work rises to the level of your organizational skills, then there's a big promotion in store for you!

Lisa: Dad, what's wrong? Did something happen? Is everyone okay?

Homer: Lisa, we can't talk here. I just need you to come with me! We're headed to the Power Plant!

Lisa: The Power Plant? What for?! Dad, you're really starting to freak me out! What's going on?!

Homer: I need you to show me how to do my job, so I can get a big promotion!

Homer: Okay, so... tell me what all the blinky lights and outer space levers do!

Lisa: Dad, I shouldn't be missing school to show you how to do your job! You made it this far without me! You must've done something right!

Homer: That's because I guess correctly half the time! Please, Lisa... Mr. Burns thinks cleanliness is equal to good-at-my-jobliness, and I want to prove him right!

Lisa: [SIGH!] Fine, I'll give it a try...but then you have to take me back to school!

Homer: Woo-hoo!

Smithers: Simpson! What is your daughter doing here in the middle of a school day?

Homer: She, uhhh... wanted to see you! I think she has a crush! ...I told her to go to school, but she wouldn't take "no" for an answer!

Lisa: Dad!

Smithers: Oh my... that's sweet!

Homer: In fact, she likes being around you so much that she was hoping to work as an intern. You know, before and after school every day...?

Smithers: Well, Lisa seems like a very enterprising young lady. Certainly she can be an intern, as long as it doesn't interfere with her studies... ...and she'll be unpaid of course.

Homer: We wouldn't have it any other way!

Smithers: Now you get to school, young lady! We'll see you this afternoon!

Lisa: But... but...

Homer: Lisa, what are you doing here so early?

Lisa: Hey, Dad! Today's the first day of my new career!

Homer: What new career?!

Lisa: I want to be you, Dad! I know I can't do your job until I'm eighteen, so I'll work as a part-time janitor or something until then.

Homer: But...but you can be so much more than me!

Lisa: I don't want to! Thanks to you, I feel like working in a nuclear power plant is my true calling!

Lisa: Wow. I guess sabotaging your promotion really was the best thing for you...

Homer: No, it was the best thing for you. Lisa, you're eight years old. Daddy can't let you drop out of school just to help him move up the food chain. If I'm ever going to get a real promotion around here, I have to do it on my own.

Lisa: Well, only if you're sure...

Homer: I am. Go back to school and be more than your old man ever dreamed of!

Lisa: I promise, Dad. But shouldn't we address all those flashing lights at your desk first?

Homer: Probably.

Homer: C'mon. I'll take you to school.

Lisa: Can you put your clothes back on first?

Homer: Later...I don't want to give anyone around here any ideas about me being someone I'm not.