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*There is a picture of Bart on the wall opposite one of Albert Einstein in Dr. Pryor's office. | *There is a picture of Bart on the wall opposite one of Albert Einstein in Dr. Pryor's office. | ||
*After Bart comes home green Homer washes him in Turpentine. | *After Bart comes home green Homer washes him in Turpentine. | ||
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*On the opera poster, the conductor is identified as Boris Csuposki, a play on the name of producer and supervising animation director Gabor Csupo. | *On the opera poster, the conductor is identified as Boris Csuposki, a play on the name of producer and supervising animation director Gabor Csupo. | ||
*After he is dubbed a genius, Bart's Principal Skinner graffiti is framed and labeled as a work of art entitled "The Principal" by Bart Simpson. | *After he is dubbed a genius, Bart's Principal Skinner graffiti is framed and labeled as a work of art entitled "The Principal" by Bart Simpson. | ||
| − | *Martin and his parents were at the opera. | + | *Martin and his parents were at the opera. Mr. Prince is the man commenting on Homer and Bart's boorish behavior. |
| + | *[[Marcia Wallace]]'s name is misspelled "Masha" in the credits. | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
*[[Bart the Genius]] is the first proper Simpsons episode and the second Simpsons episode of the show. | *[[Bart the Genius]] is the first proper Simpsons episode and the second Simpsons episode of the show. | ||
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| + | *The Gifted School Teacher is seen dancing with [[Jacques]] in the music video ''[[Do the Bartman]]''. | ||
| + | *Homer comments to Bart that for generations Simpson men have dreamed of outsmarting someone. Homer does just that, by outsmarting Cooder in ''[[Bart Carny]]''. | ||
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Cultural references
- In the opening scene, Maggie spells EMCSQU with her blocks, a reference to Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence equation. A picture of Einstein also appears on the wall of Dr. Pryor's office. At one point Homer erroneously refers to Einstein as the inventor of the light bulb.
- Dr. Pryor compares Bart's proposed work among ordinary children to Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees. Goodall was pleased to be mentioned in the episode, sending the program a letter, and Vitti a signed book. Jane Goodall was later featured as a major guest star in the episode "Simpson Safari".
- The composer of the opera the family attends is named Boris Csuposki, a reference to animator Gabor Csupo. The opera attended by the family is Carmen, by Georges Bizet; the song Bart mocks is a famous aria called the Toreador Song.
- The Simpsons are playing Scrabble at the beginning of the episode.
Trivia
- There is a picture of Bart on the wall opposite one of Albert Einstein in Dr. Pryor's office.
- After Bart comes home green Homer washes him in Turpentine.
- Homer thinks it was Albert Einstein that invented the light bulb.
- Maggie spells out EMCSQU (or E=MC²) on her building blocks.
- Maggie falls once (As Lisa looks up id).
Introductions
- Milhouse has black hair in this episode.
- This is the first episode where Bart uses his soon to be famous catch phrase "Eat My Shorts".
- A Radioactive Man comic book is seen, though the tile character's appearance is vastly different from his appearance is later episodes.
Hard to See Stuff
- Martin Prince is the train conductor when Bart is told to visualize his IQ problems.
- Principal Skinner devotes an entire file drawer to Bart Simpson.
- Homer makes a cheque of $75, to pay for Bart's defacing of school property, to "Dept. of Education".
- Martin's IQ is 216.
- Bart wears a pink shirt to his first day of class at the "Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children".
- Books on the shelf in Bart's new advanced school classroom include Crime & Punishment, Babylonian Myths, Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick, Plato, Dante's Inferno, The Illiad, Plato, Design of Computers (remember this is 1990), Astrophysics, Wana by Emile Zona, Puskin, Shakespeare I-XV, Quantum Mechanics, and the Life of Leonardo.
- The Simpsons attend the opera "Carmen", advertised as "Tonight Only in Russian."
- On the opera poster, the conductor is identified as Boris Csuposki, a play on the name of producer and supervising animation director Gabor Csupo.
- After he is dubbed a genius, Bart's Principal Skinner graffiti is framed and labeled as a work of art entitled "The Principal" by Bart Simpson.
- Martin and his parents were at the opera. Mr. Prince is the man commenting on Homer and Bart's boorish behavior.
- Marcia Wallace's name is misspelled "Masha" in the credits.
Notes
- Bart the Genius is the first proper Simpsons episode and the second Simpsons episode of the show.
Connections to future episodes
- The Gifted School Teacher is seen dancing with Jacques in the music video Do the Bartman.
- Homer comments to Bart that for generations Simpson men have dreamed of outsmarting someone. Homer does just that, by outsmarting Cooder in Bart Carny.
References
- Scrabble: the family plays this.
- Albert Einstein: Maggie spells E=MC2 with blocks, a portrait appears in Pryor's office and Homer refers to him as inventing the lightbulb.
- Jane Goodall: Pryor refers to Bart's work as being like her and chimps.
- Carmen: the family goes to see this.
- Gabor Csupo: Boris Csupowski is a pun.
- Toreador Song: Bart sings a different version.
