Difference between revisions of "Breaking the fourth wall"

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This is a list of when the fourth wall is broken in the show. Breaking the fourth wall in The Simpsons occurs when a character looks directly at the camera, or they refer to themslves as fictional.

Season 1

Image	Episode	Description	Ep #
200px	"Bart the General"	Bart sits on a table in a library and talks directly to the camera about the seriousness of war.	5

Season 9

Image	Episode	Description	Ep #
200px	"Bart Star"	Joe Namath talks to viewers about vaporlock.	184

Season 11

Image	Episode	Description	Ep #
200px	"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"	Homer informs the audience that the show will be back after the commercial break.	229

Image	Episode	Description	Ep #
200px	"Saddlesore Galactica"	Comic Book Guy wears a shirt that proclaims the ongoing episode to be the "worst ever".	240

Image	Episode	Description	Ep #
200 px	"Missionary: Impossible"	A Fox pledge-a-thon presented by Betty White interrupts the ending of the episode. When Bart pledges the needed money, he receives a phone call telling him that he's saved the network. He comments that it "wouldn't be the first time".	242

Season 12

Image	Episode	Description	Ep #
200 px	"New Kids on the Blecch"	'N Sync talks to the camera about the navy.	262

Image	Episode	Description	Ep #
200 px	"Trilogy of Error"	Mr. Teeny murmurs in monkey language "this plot made no sense" to the camera.	266

Season 14

Image	Episode	Description	Ep #
200 px	"Old Yeller-Belly"	Homer remarks to the camera about how the plan to get Santa's Little Helper back is working.	310

Music videos

Image	Episode	Description	Ep #
200px	"Do the Bartman"	Bart tells the viewers about his story of how he invented the Bartman dance moves.	SPECIAL
200px	"Deep, Deep Trouble"	Bart talks to viewers the whole short on how he got in prison.	SPECIAL