Lagdon Alger was a friend of the writer of the episode.IIRC.


And I think Lisa Igitov has a nice ring to it.

lol

Maybe they aren't showing it to make Lisa more loveable. Maybe she wouldn't be as loved as she is now if she already had someone. Or am I saying something crazy now?

Well, even after "Lisa's weddind" everyone still love her, Milhouse and Hugh don't count So, I think admirers will be happy if Lisa will get love and attention from somebody... Sometimes she is so lonely.

btw, in russian female surnames have "va", not "v" endings  

lizard_queen
Yeah, i know that Lisa's schoolmates not proper partners for her, but i want just find type of character, some strains of that Lisa's ideal... What kind of family will they build, will Lisa become a perfect mom, etc.

A very interesting theme!

I'm risking to seem biassed in this plan, but all the same i shall express. I think that Lisa is the person of an affair and she, probably, have not enough time for creation own family. And i do not think she can be sometime happy in her family. On the one hand it's her self-estimation which simply will not allow her to be intimate with the "unworthy" person. From the other hand Lisa's brains constantly require training, it's simply necessary for her to digest the great volume of information. And then she chooses loading corresponding to her abilities, for example, to be the President. Certainly, it is very intense and a tough work combining in of the requirements to erudition of the person, of it's intellectual and mental qualities, abilities to make the correct decisions quickly and to be a stress-stable one. I think because of her work Lisa and cannot receive personal happiness. Or she have to go to any second-grade educational institution to get a job of the waitress or the librarian, to leave early in marriage and to spent the rest of her life in melancholy about she has missed the opportunities of self-realization. That is both in that and other case Lisa will not be happy up to the end. And there's a "hopelessness" for such kind of a person who gifted and have far-reaching ambitions.

As for her groom... I think it is Hugh who was and still are the one of the best candidates for that role (in "Simpsons"-universe ) or well, that guy - Thelonius from another school. The other men simply will not appreciate her i fear.

I think one day that Lisa will find her other half. I'd love for it to be me, but sadly, I know it never will come to pass. Well, at least not in this life.

However, I must disagree with Yggdrasill, as I do believe that one day Lisa will meet her true love. But I also don't want to see her turn out as Marge did That would be very sad indeed... but I don't think that her ambitions will stop her from loving someone. Remember when she told Milhouse she didn't plan to get married? It was probably just an easy way of letting him down, but I think at the time she maybe even believed it. And then she so willingly agreed to marry Hugh when she realized that she loved him. The power of love cannot be denied; and if it is love, then all of your plans will stand before it as if a barn before a cyclone.

brakusaetsya
I think in Martin, Lisa has found more of a rival.

However, it is funny that you should mention Rod Flanders... I remember being at my friends house several months ago, and picking up a discarded Simpsons comic book. I'm not into reading these things, but I picked it up and read for the hell of it. I didn't get very far, but basically the story was that Bart had the "Flanders birthmark" and was given to live with the Flanders. The same thing happened to Rod (Simpson birthmark), and he moved in with the Simpsons. Then Lisa discovered she and Rod had a lot in common and enjoyed being around him... although that is as far as I got.

brakusaetsya

I always thought Lisa was honest that moment, really, i.e. that guy exists... but it's also possible that Lisa just told Homer random name. But in any case, someone did exist in her mind that moment, I'm sure in that! Remember Lisa's voice, when she told Homer his name (unsure) and when she continued about his personality (enthusiastic).

Dagdamor

Yep, but also there was a long pause between Homer's question and her answer. Maybe it's just shyness, but maybe she just prepared for lying. When she pronounced this name, her voice sounded a bit unsure,  but not as like she was deciding to tell the truth, but as she was making-up it. And she never mentioned him again (like some others boys, but we saw them, not like Alger).

Thelonius' personality was shown not so well as, for example, High's or boys of Springfield Elementary. He just was mentally similar to Lisa, but discover more his strains and make their story interesting - it'll be hard task for fic-writer, I think.

That's quite fine by me

LISA: That should be "If I choose to get married"...

Uh, little girl, we have other talking dollies to record.

brakusaetsya
Yeah, personally I like Lisa Simpson better than Lisa Harrison.

I'm not sure exactly how much paperwork is involved in the changing of one's surname, having never done it before Although I do know some people, who when married, didn't officially "change" their surname, only did they call themselves by the married surname.

Casper
Ah of course, the separation of realities.