Which Aesop tale is parodied in the Simpsons episode titled "Marge Gets a Job"?
The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" and glossed by the "Oxford English Dictionary" as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true claims are disbelieved.
Lisa's Pony "Lisa's Pony" is the eighth episode in the third season of the American animated television series "The Simpsons". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 7, 1991. In this episode, Homer goes drinking at Moe's Tavern instead of buying a new reed for Lisa's saxophone, resulting in her flopping at the school talent show. Desperate to win back his daughter's love, Homer gives Lisa the one thing she has always wanted: a pony. Homer struggles with two jobs to cover the cost of sheltering and feeding the pony. Lisa, upon seeing what Homer must go through to pay for the pony, decides to give it away.