As the longest-running primetime scripted series, The Simpsons has delivered a mountain of memorable TV moments in its 36-plus years on the air. The most hilariously heartbreaking happened in Season 4, with an episode titled, “I Love Lisa.”
If you’re a Simpsons fan you know. If you’re not, I won’t bore you with a lot of details. But things end very badly for poor Ralph Wiggum, the second-grade’s village idiot, when he declares his love for second-grade intellectual Lisa Simpson on live TV. A gesture of kindness turns to horror when Lisa, furious and fed up, screams that she doesn’t like Ralph, has never liked him, and that the cherished Valentine’s Day card she had given him was offered out of pity, not affection.
