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) April 2009, it was used more than 8,500 times during the rest of the year. "Pandemi" () was another notable word of the year. The words "tvitre" and "tvitring", which relate to the use of Twitter, were also mentioned as notable new words, as was "snikislamisering" (). "Askefast" () was named word of the year. The word refers to people who were unable to travel as planned because of the air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption. Other mentions as notable words were "app", "nettbrett" () and "lesebrett" (). "Rosetog" () was named word of the year. This referred