High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Lisa the Iconoclast" is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons` seventh season. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on February 18, 1996. In the episode, Springfield`s bicentennial approaches, and Lisa writes an essay on town founder Jebediah Springfield. While doing research, she finds a confession revealing that Springfield was a murderous pirate named Hans Sprungfeld who never cared about the people of Springfield. Lisa and Homer decide to get the message out, but instead anger the town council.