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"Fat Man and Little Boy" is the fifth episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season and the last new episode of 2004.

Synopsis.

After attacking Lisa with spitballs, Bart finds out his last baby tooth is loose. After a failed attempt in getting it out, Bart's tooth comes out when Marge forces a drawer open. Bart puts his tooth under his pillow for the Tooth Fairy and in the morning, he finds the Tooth Fairy made a donation in his name to the United Way. He soon begins to realize that he is not a kid anymore. Bart puts his toys into a small boat and sets it on fire, a proper "Viking funeral".

Lisa tells Bart that she writes things when she feels depressed. Bart does so and begins writing things on his T-Shirts. When Milhouse wants one of his shirts, Bart decides to go into business. When the police confiscate his shirts, Bart takes his shirts to a retailer show. However, his stand is destroyed by Krusty the Clown's massive stand. While leaving, Bart is run over by Goose Gladwell, a Willy Wonka-type salesman who sells weird items. He looks at Bart's shirts and decides to sell them in most of his 20 stores which are in 30 states. The shirts are fast sellers and Goose gives Bart enough money to support the Simpson family. The family structure is soon reversed when Homer asks Bart for money to pay the bill for their dinner in a restaurant(he accidently broke some bathroom fixtures). Homer later quits his job at the power plant when he says he will never have to work again.

While watching a documentary about lions by Declan Desmond (voiced by Eric Idle), Homer decides to nurture Lisa after thinking Bart has replaced him. They quickly bond as Homer plays Malibu Stacey with her. In Lisa's room, Homer sees her entry for the science fair, which is a history of nuclear physics and a scale model of the first nuclear reactor. However, Martin shows them his project, a child-like robot. With Lisa sure to lose, Homer decides to help her by stealing some plutonium from the power plant and building a small working Class II plutonium fission reactor. At Goose's store, Bart learns that Goose sold the rights to make his shirts into movies, but Bart will get nothing. He runs into Homer after leaving and this angers Homer. In Goose's shop, Homer threatens to detonate his nuclear reactor if he does not give Bart what he deserves. Goose does so and Homer uses his leverage to get himself some novelty items as well.

Bart shirt phrases:

• Adults Suck, Then You Are One
• Life Ends at Ten
• Wake Me When It's Recess
• I've Puked More Beer Than You've Drunk
• I ♥ ♥ Attacks
• Do not resuscitate
• Think Globally, Fart Locally
• My Other T-shirt is Also a Joke T-shirt
• Weapon of Ass Destruction
• Top of the Dude chain
• Wish You Were Beer
• Stop World Hunger, Eat My Shorts!
• Sucking Sucks
• Everything Sucks
• America's least wanted
• Bored in the USA
• Pobody's Sherfect Nithead
• Impeach Everybody
• Get Bent
• Proud Nubian Princess
• I'm Not Fat, I'm Enormous
• This Shirt Sucks
• Don't Blame Me I Voted For Scooby-Doo
• Stop Staring At My Man Boobs
• Jews For Jebus
• Body By Oreo
• If You Can Read This The Backpack Fell Off
• I'm Not Getting Older, I'm Getting Bitter
• Don't Wake Me I'm Working
• Rich Bitch

Trivia

• What Homer did is similar to what Boy Scout David Hahn did in 1994. [1]
• Among the items in Goose's store are a 8-ball fortune teller and a Star Destroyer model.
• There are no holiday decorations in the power plant or the Simpson home, and no snow to be seen. This indicates that Smithers' line "It's Christmas, sir" may have been a last-minute addition when it was noted that the episode was slated to air around Christmas.
• When Homer is stealing the Plutonium from the power plant, the Pink Panther theme song plays. The final note plays when Lisa opens the basement door.
• Before the episode first aired, Matt Groening registered the domain nuclear-secrets.com, but never created a website.
• Bart's Toys:
  • Spirogram
  • Sketch-an-Etch
  • Sock-Em Knock-Em Cyborgs
  • Ravenous Ravenous Rhinos
  • Duopoly
  • Parchoosey
  • Humor Putty

Cultural References

• The episode is named after the two nuclear bombs that were dropped on Japan during World War II, codenamed Fat Man and Little Boy.
• The eccentric Goose Gladwell seems to be a parody of Willy Wonka; this episode was released six months before the 2005 movie, though Gladwell's appearance is based more on the 1971 version. Homer also makes a reference to strange adults befriending small children, which is possibly a reference to Michael Jackson, who was acquitted of child molestation charges about the same time the Depp film hit theaters.
• Songs used:
  • Get Ready For This by 2 Unlimited
  • "Dust in the Wind"
  • The Pink Panther theme
  • I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred.

Quotes

• Sea Captain: So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day, nothing good can stay. Yarr.
  Bart: Hey, Sea Captain.
  Sea Captain: Given your toys a Viking funeral, eh?
  Bart: I really don't want to talk right now.
  Sea Captain: If you change your mind, I won't be f-aaar.
  Bart: Thanks, but...
  Sea Captain: I've been told I'm a good listener. But when you're a captain, ya never know when people are just flatterin' ya. Ar. What? (sees Bart has left) He's gone! Darn it! I just want a friend who isn't a work friend!

• (Bart has written "Adults suck, then you are one" on his T-shirt)
  Marge: Bart! Someone wrote something cynical on your shirt. Let me wash it off.
  Bart: Leave me alone. This expresses my rage at the machine.
  Marge: Well I like t-shirts with a nice joke, like "Support our troops".
  Homer: Bart's shirt is a classic, Marge, just like "Keep on truckin" - as if I would ever want to stop truckin'.

• Krusty: Hey, hey! Krusty-Brand show T-Shirts are made for kids by kids! And we pass the "slavings" (wink) onto you! (laugh) We got all your favorite characters: Itchy, Scratchy, Poochie, Austin Powers-Itchy, Itchy-Poochie, [cratch-Bob Itch-Pants, Confederate Itchy, and Osama bin Scratchy.

• Burns: Smithers, join me for a cup of coffee.
  Smithers: I've just had one.
  Burns: What! Why is everyone so insolent today?
  Smithers: Well it is Christmas, sir.
  Burns: I say when it's Christmas.

• Marge: Homer, use your inside voice.
  Homer: I DON'T HAVE AN INSIDE VOICE!

• Homer: How hard can it be to build a nuclear reactor. Korea did it, and look at the quality of their animation. (continues talking, and the animation of his mouth slips off his face)

• Lisa: Dad?
  Homer: Bub, bub, bub. Don't look.
  (Homer covers his reactor. The glow shows his skeleton)
  Lisa: Dad, what did you do?
  Homer: I wanted to help you. You know that non-functioning nuclear reactor you built?
  Lisa: (uneasy) Yes?
  Homer: (getting out his reactor) I juiced it up a little.
  Lisa: Dad, that could explode!
  Homer: Oh, that's ridiculous.
  (Lisa gets out her Krusty-Brand geiger counter, which begins ticking like crazy)
  Krusty Geiger Counter: That thing's gonna blow! Drop this toy and run!
  Lisa: Mom! Dad built a device that would be deadly in the wrong hands...and he's holding it!

• Homer: I can see you need your dad more than ever!
  Grampa: And Homer, I can see you need me more than ever.
  Homer: Get back in the garage, old man!
  Grampa: But, there's spiders in the boxes.
  Homer: Stay out of my boxes!

• Homer: Maybe the internet can help me out. It sure gave some good advice on wang enhancement. Okay, www.nuclearsecrets.com. "Are you a terrorist?" No. "Would you like to meet someone new, but are tired of the bar scene?" No! I will never tire of the bar scene!

• Homer: (low voice) Bart, I need $200.
  Bart: (low voice) Dad, the bill's only 100.
  Homer: (low voice) I broke some bathroom fixtures.