Bart the Genius
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Bart the Genius was the second non short episode of The Simpsons released on television. In this episode, Bart is caught vandalising school property with a crude spray-painting of Principal Skinner and then swaps IQ tests with Martin and is declared a genius.
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Episode details
Production Number: 7G02
Original Air Date: January 14, 1990
Writer: John Vitti
Director: David Silverman
Blackboard: "I will not waste chalk"
Couch Gag: The family hurries on to the couch and Bart pops up into the air and crashes down again
Synopsis
Mrs. Krabappel's class is subjected to an IQ test; Martin finishes early and mocks Bart; Bart finishes last but swaps his test with Martin's and changes the names. Bart is then declared a genius and sent to a separate school. Homer and Marge are suddenly more attentive and supportive of Bart, yet after being conned out of his lunch and causing a large green explosion from mixing an acid with a base, Bart becomes discouraged and confesses that he is not really a genius. Bart is returned to his old school, where he is scorned for being intelligent; when he tells Homer that he lied on the test, Homer chases him through the house and Lisa comments that Bart is not a genius anymore.
Memorable Quotes
- Bart:You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't.
- Homer: I'll bet Einstein turned all sorts of colors before he invented the light-bulb.
Trivia
- Maggie's blocks were E-M-C-2.
- In the game room, there’s a picture of Homer screaming.
- The Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children, library collection:
- Plato
- Puskin
- Life of Leonardo
- Crime and Punishment
- Wana by Emile Zola
- Shakespeare I – XV
- Dante's Inferno
- Babylonian Myths
- Design of Computers
- Moby Dick
- Paradise Lost
- Iliad by Homer
- Odyssey by Homer
- Radioactive Man (used as a prop in a film about illiteracy)
- Candide
- Astrophysics
- Balzac
- In the lunchroom, at The Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children, there is A likeness of a young Marge eats her sushi with chopsticks.
- Sidney has a Anatoly Karpov lunchbox
Goofs
- Maggie turns into a multi-armed creature when she knocks down her blocks.
- Lisa's face when she grabs the dictionary.
- Mrs. Krabappel grows an extra two pairs of eyeballs when she tells Bart to face the window.
- The Scrabble (tm) board keeps changing.
- After the kids have tricked Bart of his lunch they chat privately. During that brief conversation, the voices are switched.
- Staphylococcus is not a virus.
- Homer couldn't spell oxidize, anyway. You have to build off of what's already there.
- In Scrabble "He" would be worth 5 points but Marge only gives herself 2 points.
- The Frosty Krusty Flakes box has no writing or information on the back.
References
Jane Goodall: Pryor says: “Like Jane Goodall and the chimps.
Carmen: The opera the Simpson family heads out to see is the famous Carmen.
The Adding Machine: Barts dream is based on the math problems in this play.
