Bart The Genius
The instant classic that brought us 'Kwyjibo' - a big, dumb, balding North American Ape with no chin - and brought us a little closer to Bart's character.
Martin is at his dorkiest already, and the Simpson/Skinner feud is underway. Bart's infamous giant discipline file is represented in this episode, and of course the phrase 'Eat My Shorts' is uttered for the first time.
Homer and Bart really bonded in this episode as Homer was convinced that Bart was a genius. Even as Bart confessed and gave Homer a heartfelt speech, none of it mattered as Homer was just upset that the boy cheated and wasnt smart. Classic.
Meanwhile the episode starts off with Maggie spelling EMCSQU with her blocks. Its that subtlety that puts this show over the edge to genius themselves. There are no manatee's picking idea-balls here, even if Miss Milan had the same voice as Mrs. Krabapel.
Quotable Quotes:
After Bart was introduced to his new genius classmate Sydney Swift,
"Dont mind Sydney, he's just speaking in backwards phonetics today." - Miss Milan
The instant classic that brought us 'Kwyjibo' - a big, dumb, balding North American Ape with no chin - and brought us a little closer to Bart's character.
Martin is at his dorkiest already, and the Simpson/Skinner feud is underway. Bart's infamous giant discipline file is represented in this episode, and of course the phrase 'Eat My Shorts' is uttered for the first time.
Homer and Bart really bonded in this episode as Homer was convinced that Bart was a genius. Even as Bart confessed and gave Homer a heartfelt speech, none of it mattered as Homer was just upset that the boy cheated and wasnt smart. Classic.
Meanwhile the episode starts off with Maggie spelling EMCSQU with her blocks. Its that subtlety that puts this show over the edge to genius themselves. There are no manatee's picking idea-balls here, even if Miss Milan had the same voice as Mrs. Krabapel.
Quotable Quotes:
After Bart was introduced to his new genius classmate Sydney Swift,
"Dont mind Sydney, he's just speaking in backwards phonetics today." - Miss Milan
4 comments:
Not sure why they don't have it in the States yet, but you can get Simpsons Scrabble here.. and KWYJIBO is a legal (bonus) word! Lots of other fun Simpsons things too, including Homer on the playing board eating all the bonus word scores. :-)
mmm bonus word scores...
On another note, I wonder if the fact that Sydney is speaking in backward phonetics is a slam on Australians... cause I sure as hell can't understand a word half of them say and I've been here 8 months!
So I thought it would be interesting to catalogue a couple of things from the intro... What Bart writes on the chalkboard and what happens when they run into the living room. I skipped episode 1 cause my version starts after the intro. Boo. So in episode 2....
Bart writes: "I will not waste chalk"
And the family doesn't fit on the couch so Bart pops off and falls back down in front of the tv
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