The Simpsons (TV Series)

She of Little Faith (2001)

Harry Shearer: Announcer, Captain, Ned Flanders, Gary, Wino Executive, Reverend Lovejoy, Montgomery Burns, Lenny

Quotes 

• Lisa Simpson : Lenny and Carl? You guys are Buddhist?

  Carl : Oh, yeah. If I didn't have inner peace, I'd go completely psycho on all you guys all the time.

  Lisa Simpson : Well, I'm looking for a new faith, one that isn't so materialistic.

  Richard Gere : Well, you've come to the right place. Buddhism teaches that suffering is caused by desire.

  Lisa Simpson : Richard Gere?

  Lenny : Ooh! The world's most famous Buddhist.

  Richard Gere : Well, what about the Dalai Lama?

  Carl : You know, the fourteenth incarnation of the Buddha Avalokesvara?

  Lenny : Who's Buddha?

  Richard Gere : It's a good thing Buddhism teaches freedom from desire, 'cause I've got the desire to kick your ass.

• [Lenny and Carl are meditating] 

  Lenny : Who... likes... short shorts?

  Carl : I... like... short shorts.

• Marge : So you're saying that I should bribe Lisa back to Christianity?

  Rev. Lovejoy : Sure. You could save a lot more souls with roller-skates and Easy-Bake ovens, than with this.

  [lifts Bible] 

  Rev. Lovejoy : 2000-page sleeping pill.

• Marge : So you're saying that I should bribe Lisa back to Christianity?

  Rev. Lovejoy : Sure. You could save a lot more souls with roller-skates and Easy-Bake ovens, than with this

  [lifts Bible] 

  Rev. Lovejoy : 2000 page sleeping pill.