Lisa's First Word promotion due to the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott by the Soviet Union, as happened to Krusty. At one point in the episode, Dr. Hibbert refers to Olympic gymnastic medalist Mary Lou Retton. In its original American broadcast, "Lisa's First Word" was watched by 28.6 million viewers, the most-watched episode of the season. It finished thirteenth in the ratings for the week of November 30 to December 6, 1992, with a Nielsen rating of 16.6. The episode was the highest-rated show on Fox that week. It acquired the highest national Nielsen rating of the show since the season two episode "Bart
Word of the year (Norway) to marches held in Oslo and other places in Norway following the 2011 terror attacks. Other notable words of the year also related to the terror attacks: "kontrajihadisme" () and "ytringsansvar" (). Other notable words of the year were "gjeldskrise" () and "eurokrise" () referring to the situation in Europe, while "smørkrise" () referred to the Norwegian butter crisis at the end of the year. "Jasminrevolusjon" () also received mention. "Nave" (verb) (and the noun "naving") was named word of the year. The word refers to living on some kind of pension or welfare from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare