“Blame It On Lisa” is the thirteenth episode of Season 15 of “The Simpsons.” In it, the household travels to Rio de Janeiro to seek for a younger Brazilian boy named Ronaldo (voiced by Tress MacNeille) who Lisa (Yeardley Smith) is sponsoring. In the course of the course of the episode, the household is attacked by violent monkeys in Rio’s favelas, robbed by little one gangs, and Homer (Dan Castellaneta) is kidnapped by taxi drivers. The episode even ends with Bart (Nancy Cartwright) being consumed by an anaconda.
In different phrases, the Simpsons did not a lot journey to Brazil as they did to a land stuffed with damaging stereotypes about Brazilians. Brazil took discover too. A 2002 article within the Houston Chronicle cited Brazilian critics’ declare that a lot of the episode’s portrayal appeared to conflate the tradition of Brazil with the nation’s surrounding, Spanish-speaking nations (Brazilians communicate Portuguese).
A few of it was right down to timing as properly. As famous by CBR, the Brazilian vacationer board Riotur was not proud of how the nation was portrayed as a crime-ridden nation with numerous slum dwellings. Riotur even threatened to file a lawsuit in opposition to Fox, which was supported by the nation’s then-president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
