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  • Season 1, Episode 4 “There’s No Disgrace Like Home” [Jan. 28, 1990]
  • Season 6, Episode 21 “The PTA Disbands” [April 16, 1995]
  • Season 14, Episode 12 “I’m Spelling as Fast as I Can” [Feb. 16, 2003]
  • Season 24, Episode 15 “Black-Eyed, Please” [March 10, 2013]
  • Season 28, Episode 2 “Friends and Family” [Oct. 2, 2016]

The ur-text of this collection, almost everyone knows at least one of these references, which now are a running joke/character point across all 30+ years of this show’s run. The standard joke was that Lisa, as the know-it-all, wanted to go to Vassar, though there are some unusual characterizations of the Seven Sisters here as well — Vassar is pegged as being a place for radical, non-conforming hippies.