When Paul and Linda McCartney turned Lisa Simpson into a vegetarian

For a long time, the creators of “The Simpsons” had worked to win Paul and Linda McCartney for a guest appearance in the series. The screenplay for the episode “Lisa The Vegetarian”, in which the Simpsons daughter makes friends with a lamb and doesn’t want to eat meat anymore, seemed suitable to the producers for the proposal to the ex-Beatle.

Lisa was to renounce the flesh for all eternity

But Paul McCartney did not agree with this version. McCartney, himself a committed vegetarian, made his appearance and that of his wife Linda dependent on a drastic biographical change: Lisa was also to renounce meat for the rest of the series, i.e. forever. “Simpsons” boss Matt Groening didn’t hesitate and even changed existing scripts for future episodes – Lisa Simpson, vegetarian for life.

Lisa doesn’t meet the McCartneys until towards the end of the episode. Apu, who lives as a secret vegetarian, takes her to the roof of his Kwik-E-Mart. Paul and Linda, who know Apu from a time together in India, are already waiting there. They convince Lisa that animals shouldn’t be killed.

Recipe for a tasty lentil soup

During the end credits of the episode, while Lisa is riding down a street on her father Homer’s back, McCartney’s song “Maybe I’m Amazed” plays. McCartney partially re-recorded the piece for the “Simpsons” – because, as he tells Lisa on the roof, it contains a new text played backwards: The ex-Beatle now says a dish for lentil soup in the new version. And confirms: “Oh, and by the way, I’m alive”. Paul McCartney’s answer to all the conspiracy theories that the real Paul died in the ’60s:

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