From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   There's an episode from this October, Halloween of Horror (TABF22), with a   
   plot like that for Lisa, but at a glance I don't see a line like that. Depends   
   on how newish you mean. The Girl Who Slept Too Little (GABF16) from season 17   
   has a similar plot, so    
   you could check that too.   
      
   On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 9:07:23 PM UTC-5, fabzorba wrote:   
   > Recently saw a newish ep. of The Simpsons, in which a psychiatrist tells   
   Lisa that her dreams might seem real, but they are not (or something like   
   that).    
   >    
   > "Oh" pipes up Lisa, "You mean like Ern Malley?"    
   >    
   > Now how did it come about that an eight year old girl somewhere in the   
   regional west of the U.S. would even know who Ern Malley was, and what would   
   entice an American scriptwriter to add this odd if flavoursome morsel. I doubt   
   that even 5% of Ern's    
   Australian compatriots have ever heard his name. Googled Lisa Simpson and Ern   
   Malley and it's one of the few things of which it has no record.  Anyone else   
   notice this odd note?    
   >    
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley    
   >    
   > Oh, posted this query to alt.usage.english and one of the snobs   
   > there who think they own the place called me a "bozo" and said   
   > that I had misheard. I did NOT mishear, and I am not a bozo.    
   >    
   > I told them someone here might be able to confirm what I had   
   > heard, and maybe cite an ep. for it.   
      
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