2:01 The nicest he’s ever been to his own kid, if only it was like that through the whole series Edit: I’m getting prepared to be absolutely destroyed in the comments by a certain someone saying “how can you say that when you only watch one clip of the episode wahhhh wahhh cry about it”

Episode?

One of the best episodes ever

At least the two reconcile. It shows despite his flaws, Homer is a good father.

the shot at 0:54 always makes me cry because it shows that lisa and homer mirroring each other. homer sighs because he is connecting to his daughter and feeling her sadness. they both have their heads turned down, facing into reflective surfaces as they "reflect" - lisa is in the mirror, focused on her own grief, but homer is looking out the window, imagining a world outside her childhood home, where lisa will find the happiness and connection she can't get as a powerless kid in a family that doesn't understand her. it's only on screen for a second but it's a simple yet powerful image, representing that even though your family love and care you, sometimes you just can't get what they need from them, and they don't know how to give what you need. it's a very honest, bittersweet symbol of family life, and lisa episodes are some of my favourites because they're full of moments like this.

1:32 makes me cry because my dad usually tries to make me laugh whenever I get upset 🥹🥹❤️❤️

Ironic that Homer is both at his worst and at his best as a father in here. His worse moment was his total lack of interest in Lisa's devastation once Mr. Bergstrom had left, his best when he apologizes to her later in her room and plays with her and hugs her. He also cheers up Bart after the boy loses the election when he mentions Bart will have more time for himself rather than have to work twice as hard in school as class president, and gently places back Maggie's pacifier into her mouth and she goes back to sleep.

Homer: "Are you mad because you called Daddy a baboon?" Lisa: "NO!" Homer: "Aw, nuts." 😂😂😂😂

I just love the fact Homer gets legitimately excited at how well hes doing with parenting that night

This episode is extremely disturbing once you learn about the true nature of jewish people and what they do to children. I really didn't like this episode.

At least homer tries to be a good father even if he tends to do or say the wrong thing

No matter how bad homer gets as a father in newer seasons he still a million times better than peter griffin

Marvelous scene, at a time when Homer and Marge still were parents figures, and the Simpsons kids acted like proper kids. Yeah I absolutely adore Lisa and Bart from the first 3-4 seasons. They were so childlike and so unconventional. Lisa as a little Blue girl, who tried to understand the world more than the adults around her, always from a curious and precocious child prospective, keeping an adorable naivety. And Bart, well, he was a total pain in the ass, wild and reckless to the insensitivity, yet wise and caring when he had time to think. So childlike yet so charismatic. In the 90s he was the public enemy number 1, the bad boy every parent hated and kids loved.

"I've never lost anyone special to me. Everyone special to me is under this roof." White lie...

Good fathering!!

Homer acting as a baboon to cheer her daughter up is heartwarming and hilariously touching for a Father and daughter moment

"Im on the biggest roll of my life"

Am I thé only dumbass who cries watching the Simpson😂

Sometimes when I watch this scene I start to become emotional. It never made me shed tears 😢 as a kid but now as an adult it makes me tear up. It's because I can relate with it more. I understand Homer needed to empathize with Lisa on how she felt. Homer spoke from the heart and his words were humble. Homer knew he made a huge mistake but made up for it. The Classic Simpsons was just pure gold. It was heart-warming. It demonstrated itself to be captivating. It's sad to have seen The Simpsons slide into such a bad and unfunny show. The new Simpsons is terrible.

Golden age Simpsons

Some of Homer at his best

It’s actually very heartwarming that homer believes he’s on the roll/high of his life simply for making each of his kids smile in rapid succession …

Homer saying he didn't lose anybody special is harsher to look back at when we learn about what happened with his mother.

What i love about this scene; this could have been my Dad and i when I was growing up. I can see my Dad joking like this about a "babboon, " remark, opening a music box, etc. Amazing. 😊

As a kid i laughed at this scene, as an adult i cried a bit.

Easily the best episode of season 2

While the way Homer chears up Lisa is the main star. I stil love how he chears up Bart, how playfully rough he handles with him. A very father - son dynamic that I wished we had more of

I like how Homer's idea of 'the biggest roll of his life' is being a good father for his kids. Shows where his priorites lie at the end of the day.

Can’t lie this made me tear up

Whoever wrote that trash of an excuse for a Disney short with Billie Eilish has obviously never seen this

This is without a doubt, my favorite Homer moment.

I know the main focus is on Homer's reconciliation with Lisa (as it should be), but my low-key favorite bit of this is Homer's advice to Bart. Sometimes, you lose. It happens, and it sucks when it does. But it's important to maintain perspective on it. In the grand scheme of things, something like a 4th-grade class presidency doesn't actually matter. And realizing that is an important step in getting back up and brushing yourself off after you've been knocked down. Good on Homer for helping Bart learn that lesson ^_^

(Homer to himself) Go Away.

While not the most regarded episode compared to so many others, you can't deny it had a great amount of laughs and a great amount of emotion to leave on a high note in the end. It's little moments like this that make the Simpsons one of the best shows of the 90s.

Homer didn't react to Bart calling him Dad. Lol

I keep thinking Lisa's Substitute is overrated, then I remember this ending and it's reputation is incredibly justified

My second favorite episode in the series. Homer's talk with Lisa is just about the best a sitcom can get, in my eyes.

No calling dad a baboon

Maggie is so cute

Bart dont worry about milhouse hes a meanie

Homer is a monkey

Homer you should be ashamed of yourself

Homer to Lisa, really sweet Homer to Bart, I can relate when I failed to run as class president for the first time and second time Homer to Maggie, I do anything to make sure the baby are not crying all night

These older seasons of The Simpsons were the best imo. They actually had stories about the characters and family and love and life and at the end of the episode, you felt something for them. All that's gone now and in it's place we have Family Guy-esque episodes of random comedy.

I guess Homer is sore of good parent still don’t think I’ll ever say it.

"Now, you'll have lots of special people in your life, Lisa. There's probably some place where they all get together and the food is real good, and guys like me are serving drinks." Even when she's 8 years old, he's realizing he probably has no place in her future. But he wants her to be happy, in that future and while she's still under his roof. It's so sad, and sweet.

Every girl needs her father. ❤

0:16 🤣

Homer did not understand his girls all the time but he always loved them. It is Bart he fail’s.

Homer loves his kids. Hes a great father.