[13] Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, praised the scene in which Skinner explains his disappearance to the courtroom, calling it Skinner's "finest hour" on the show. Bart then shifts to a different hotel. She knew there were other people like herthere, but she never got to meet th… In common with all the previous Simpsons Halloween episodes, the program is made up of three self-contained stories; "The Homega Man", "Fly vs. Bart rushes to confront Fat Tony at the bar after a nightmare about Skinner's ghost and his own execution. To get away from all of his threats, the Simpsons are moved into witness protection. They are soon impressed by his ability to pick winning horses and make excellent Manhattans. Oh and Bart tries to kill himself, but instead gets hospitalized! [11] The scene is also referenced in the season fourteen episode "Treehouse of Horror XIII", in which a large number of Homer's clones created in the episode fall down the gorge. [4] Mantegna commented: "Who knew that Fat Tony was gonna resonate in the hearts and minds of the [Simpsons fans] out there? After Fat Tony hires him as the club's bartender and errand boy, Bart starts wearing Rat Pack suits, tries to bribe Principal Skinner to avoid punishment, and allows the Mob to store a truckload of stolen cigarettes in his bedroom until they can be fenced. Fat Tony blames Skinner's disappearance on Bart, who is put on trial for murder. [18] To promote The Simpsons Sing the Blues, the music video for the album's lead single, "Do the Bartman", premiered shortly after this episode's first broadcast. "Bart the Murderer" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons' third season. He eventually ends up in a hospital room with Murdock. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 10, 1991. The scene, which also features added more graphic animation of Homer hitting the jagged rocks at the bottom of gorge, is followed by his recovery from the fall where he becomes addicted to painkillers. [20], Since airing, the episode has received positive reviews from critics. [7] Nate Meyers of Digitally Obsessed named the episode the best in the third season, and commented that there are "many priceless moments" in it, such as Homer's meeting with the Springfield Mafia. The writers conceived the idea of the episode before the 1990 film Goodfellas, which has a similar plot, was released. Later, Roop and Svetlana discuss their plan against the Oberois. [8] Bart appearing at Springfield Gorge in the distance is based on Omar Sharif's entrance in Lawrence of Arabia. [13][14] It is also referenced in the Family Guy season thirteen episode "The Simpsons Guy", where Homer and Peter Griffin fell down to Earth in Kang and Kodos' ship and jump the gorge during their fight. As a child she was found by Project Blackwing under Scott Riggins, where she was titled as Project Marzanna. He also appears briefly in "Moonshine River" (season 24, 2012), where he tries to sneak up from behind to kill Bart, only to be quickly hit by a train in the process. I love the settings. After 25 years, Sideshow Bob will finally get his wish. The character Lance Murdock was based on Evel Knievel, an American motorcycle daredevil and entertainer famous in the United States and elsewhere between the late 1960s and early 1980s. With different ghosts appearing, Bart has a horrid time as he tries to recover from a rather serious medical scare. [4] Matt Groening thought the piece was too weird and nixed it, thinking it was too early in the series to present something so offbeat to the audience. The Russian wrestler in the ring, Rasputin, is named after mystic Grigori Rasputin. [1] In his room, Bart stores the Springfield Mafia's loot—a truckload of cartons of Laramie cigarettes. The music video for the "Do the Bartman" single premiered after this episode. But Lisa persuades him to visit Murdock at the hospital, hoping he will discourage Bart from jumping the gorge but instead, Murdock encourages Bart to be a daredevil. When Bart was a kid she was held by the CIA division Project Blackwing. [8] While strutting around the kitchen, he sings Frank Sinatra's song "Witchcraft". people, the worst occasion for this was the season 18 episode "The Boys of Bummer", better known as "Let's torment a child for one mistake until he tries to kill himself." Fly-headed Bart loves his new life of feasting on sugar and syrup and tries to kill both fly-body Bart and Lisa. Fly" and "Easy-Bake Coven". "Treehouse of Horror VIII" is a Halloween-themed episode from the ninth season of the animated comedy series The Simpsons. [10] The scene in which Bart wakes up screaming after having a nightmare about Skinner is a reference to a scene in the 1972 film The Godfather, in which Jack Woltz screams after waking up in bed and finding a decapitated horse head by his side. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 28, 1996. The Simpsons attend a monster truck rally featuring Truckasaurus, a giant robotic dinosaur that crushes their car when they accidentally drive into the arena. Mantegna has since appeared many times on the show as Fat Tony, who became a recurring character; it is Mantegna's longest-running role in his acting career. [12], Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. [1] Mantegna was offered the role during the show's second season, and since he had seen the show before and thought it was "funny", he decided to give it a shot. The sequence of Bart crashing down the stairwell to the Mafia bar is similar to a scene in the film Goodfellas and "A Bronx Tale" , in which a young boy is employed by a Mafia as their messenger. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 13.4 and was the highest-rated show on Fox the week it aired. Hank follows Bill home, where he finds presents wrapped with fading paper. Undeterred, Bart keeps performing daredevil stunts, and during a class trip to Springfield Gorge, announces he will jump the gorge on his skateboard the next Saturday. Someone attempts to kill Homer, and despite the complaints of Bart and Lisa, Bob is released from prison to help find the would-be killer. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 27, 1998. [22], Jeremy Kleinman of DVD Talk considered "Bart the Daredevil" one of his favorite episodes of the season. At first it appears Homer will make it safely across, but he loses momentum, and plunges onto several jagged rocks during his fall until he hits the bottom of the gorge. : A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family ...Continued Yet Again, Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bart_the_Daredevil&oldid=998571874, Short description is different from Wikidata, Television episode articles with short description for single episodes, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 January 2021, at 00:49. “Hey Simpson! In the episode, Bart stumbles upon a Mafia bar after having a terrible day at school. [7] All the horses in the race that Bart bets on are named after a famous animated character's catchphrase: "Ain't I a Stinker?" It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 10, 1991. After getting struck by lightning, Bartreceives visits from ghosts, who want closure only he can provide. In "The … His younger brother, Cecil, was actually the one who was auditioning for the role, which Krusty was not impressed by and saw Bob as the ideal comic foil who would be ridiculous and never stand him up. Tej confronts Svetlana for giving the video footage to the media. Apparently [the writers] got enough feedback as to how the character was liked that they wrote it in again and again, and I was kind of a recurring guy that they'd tap into at least a couple episodes a season."[5]. [19], In an interview conducted by Entertainment Weekly in 2000 celebrating the show's tenth anniversary, Groening named "Bart the Daredevil" his favorite episode of the series, and chose the scene in which Homer is loaded into an ambulance and then falls out of it as the funniest moment in the series. He thought the script was smart and clever, and he enjoyed recording it. "[25] Kogen also considers the episode to be his favorite of the ones he has written. He masks his interview by pretending to be genuinely interested in what Bart does, and Bart agrees to let him shadow at the office a few days a week. He liked the decent morals explored in the episode, and called the conclusion a "great one", making it a "consistently fine episode". A great guest spot from Mantegna helps. This episode marks the first appearances of Fat Tony (voiced by Joe Mantegna) and his henchmen, Legs and Louie. [15] DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson thought "Bart the Murderer" was season three's first "truly great" episode because it "starts off strong and gets even better as it moves". What an asshole Homer is now days. "[4] In the short, amongst other things, Mr. Burns would be making planes for the war effort at his aircraft plant, Bart's spiky hair would be replaced by a pointy Jughead cap and Moe Szyslak would be a dog. Ana flirts her way to get a free room. As Bart is about to perform the stunt, Homer arrives, tackles Bart and decides to jump the gorge himself to show him what it feels like to see a family member unnecessarily risking their life. Directed by Rob Oliver. At the hospital, Dr. Hibbert shows Bart a ward full of children who have been hurt by dangerous stunts. [10], In the season thirteen episode "The Blunder Years", when the family is trying to find out why Homer cannot stop screaming after he is hypnotized, Homer flashes back to his greatest moment: jumping the Springfield Gorge, only to be interrupted by Lisa saying "Everyone's sick of that memory," referring to the fact that the scene has been referenced so many times. This episode is DEFINITELY NOT worth your time! Robert Terwilliger (aka Sideshow Bob) began his career as \"Sideshow Bob\", a non-speaking sidekick on Krusty the Clown's television show. When he returned home that day, Skinner became trapped beneath stacks of old newspapers in his garage and lay stuck there until freeing himself and racing to the courtroom. [15], At the beginning of the episode, Lisa, Bart and Bart's friends watch professional wrestling. [1] The character Fat Tony makes his first appearance on the show in this episode. [8] In particular, the scene of Homer plummeting down Springfield Gorge has become one of the most used The Simpsons clips. The episode features the return of guest star Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob, who tries to kill Bart Simpson after getting out of jail, spoofing the 1962 film Cape Fear and its 1991 remake. [17], In its original American broadcast, "Bart the Daredevil" finished 20th in Nielsen ratings for the week of December 3–9, 1990, making The Simpsons the highest-rated television series on the Fox network that week. [11], In its original American broadcast, "Bart the Murderer" finished 31st in the ratings for the week of October 7–13, 1991, with a Nielsen rating of 13.4, equivalent to approximately 12.5 million viewing households. Series creator Matt Groening said that the episode is his favorite of the series, and it is also considered among the series' best by several critics. Bart & Lisa: AAAHH!! Instead, Fat Tony and his henchmen visited his office and left sheepishly after Skinner scolded them for interfering in student discipline. Bart becomes the most hated person in Springfield after he is the goat in a championship baseball game, and Homer's new Read more about this topic: Sideshow Bob , … Legs and Louie, Fat Tony's henchmen, also made their first appearances in this episode. Sideshow Bob endured much as it was to be expected from being clown sidekicks, suc… He found the daredevil scenes to be funny, but also appreciated the episode's scenes with "true heart". The owner of the bar, mobster Fat Tony, hires Bart as a bartender. The episode was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Rich Moore. She was brought in by Mr. Priestat age 13. When Bart himself gets stuck down there and reveals the trick, the rescue team isn’t so eager to help him out. [3] When the Fox network moved The Simpsons to prime time on Thursdays to compete against the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) top-rated The Cosby Show, the writing staff instead decided to make Hibbert a parody of Bill Cosby's character Dr. Cliff Huxtable. In Kogen and Wolodarsky's original script for "Bart the Daredevil", Hibbert was a woman named Julia Hibbert, who they named after comedic actress Julia Sweeney (Hibbert was her last name, through marriage, at the time). However, Bart later chooses to kill the story after the party is a disaster. The episode features cultural references to songs such as "Witchcraft" and "One Fine Day", and the American television series MacGyver. After it was, the writers incorporated references to the film into the episode. (Bugs Bunny), "Yabba Dabba Doo" (Fred Flintstone), "Sufferin' Succotash" (Daffy Duck), "That's All Folks" (Porky Pig), "I Yam What I Yam" (Popeye), and Bart's own "Eat my shorts" and "Don't have a cow". Meyers also praised Swartzwelder's script. Judge Snyder is about to convict Bart when Skinner, unshaven and disheveled, bursts in the courtroom. He explains that neither Bart nor the mobsters killed him. Club, Mantegna said he thinks the reason he got the role was partly due to his performance in the 1990 Mafia film The Godfather Part III, which had opened just prior to the offer. [17] The episode's reference to GoodFellas was named the 28th greatest film reference in the history of the show by Total Film's Nathan Ditum. [4] Audio from the piece was released online by Simpsons storyboard artist John Mathot in 2006. Bart tries to make a house of cards, but Lisa Maggie make noises that have the "house" fall every time. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 7, 1993. [16] In the hospital, Dr. Hibbert shows Bart a patient who tried to fly like Superman, and he also mentions the "three stooges" ward. 9 Bart The Murderer (Season 3, Episode 4) Fat Tony hires Bart to work as a bartender for the mob in season 3’s “Bart the Murderer,” and it doesn’t take long for the mischievous prankster to fit right into the mafia lifestyle. The episode has been referenced in numerous clip shows and flashback episodes throughout the series. The rally's grand finale features a death-defying stunt by legendary daredevil Lance Murdock. I just love it. It was the highest-rated show on Fox that week. Kleinman concluded by noting that the episode helps The Simpsons stand apart from other animated and live action sitcoms by focusing more on the relationships between the characters than "just a humorous weekly plotline". [1], The writers originally wanted American actor Sheldon Leonard to voice Fat Tony, but they were unable to get him, so they went with Joe Mantegna instead. [12], "Bart the Daredevil" was once again referenced in The Simpsons Movie when Bart and Homer jump over Springfield Gorge on a motorcycle, and when they land on the other side, the ambulance from this episode can be seen in the background (still smashed against the tree). [8] Skinner frees himself from being trapped under the newspapers in a way similar to the character Angus MacGyver's escapes in the American television series MacGyver. [1] Kogen, Wolodarsky, and many other members of the Simpsons' staff were fans of Knievel's stunts, and Wolodarsky named "Bart the Daredevil" as his favorite episode among the episodes that he wrote for The Simpsons, because it is "near and dear to [his] heart". "Bart the Daredevil" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons' second season. [2], Dr. Hibbert makes his first appearance on the series in the episode. Not wanting to see his father die on his account, Bart abandons the stunt and promises to stop being a daredevil; as Homer hugs Bart, the skateboard accidentally rolls down a hill and flies over the gorge. The stunt leaves Murdock badly injured and hospitalized (he did succeed but his bike fell into the tank when he was waving to the audience), but it inspires Bart to be a daredevil. Bart finds himself in some kind of bunker, where he finds electronic equipment, which appears to be a military installment. [5][6] Simpsons character designer Phil Ortiz adapted the short as a four-page comic book and handed out copies at Wizard World Philadelphia on June 2, 2016.[7]. Bob! [24] Writing for the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Simpsons writers Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky noted that "Bart the Daredevil"'s sequence in which Homer falls down the gorge is the one that "everyone remembers", noting that "he's getting much stupider by this point. Skinner goes missing the next day and is assumed murdered. The mobsters confront Principal Skinner when they find he is giving Bart detention after school. The episode begins as Hank and his friends drink beer in the alley, Bill begins to sob. In There Might be Blood , Dan is asked to write an exposé article on Bart for a major magazine. Everyone is just a jerk here just because a baseball game! [2] He felt honored they had asked him. In the first segemt of the season 27 episode, Treehouse of Horror XXVI, he seems to trapped Bart with a text on Milhouse cellphone, he tell Bart he will finally kill him with a gun, Bart tell he could not kill him same with a X on his He was modeled after the physical appearance of Paul Sorvino's character Paul Cicero in GoodFellas. Bart is cleared of all charges, despite the prosecution's unsuccessful attempt to have Skinner's speech stricken from the record. Michael Moran of The Times ranked it as the third best in the show's history. S1 E19 15 Jul 2016 12+ Anika asks Shivaay to leave. [2] The monster truck at the rally, Truckasaurus, is a parody of the Robosaurus monster truck. When Principal Skinner goes missing after punishing him at school, Bart is put on trial for his murder. 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