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== Appearances ==
 
== Appearances ==
:''Bart appears in almost every episode and every video game. The only episode he does not appear nor is mentioned is "[[Four Great Women and a Manicure]]".
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*{{ul|Good Night}}
 
*{{ul|Watching Television}}
 
*{{ul|Bart Jumps}}
 
*{{ul|Babysitting Maggie}}
 
*{{ul|The Pacifier}}
 
*{{ul|Burp Contest}}
 
*{{ul|Eating Dinner}}
 
*{{ul|Making Faces}}
 
*{{ul|The Funeral}}
 
*{{ul|Maggie's Brain}}
 
*{{ul|Football}}
 
*{{ul|House of Cards}}
 
*{{ul|Bart and Homer's Dinner}}
 
*{{ul|Space Patrol}}
 
*{{ul|Bart's Haircut}}
 
*{{ul|World War III}}
 
*{{ul|The Perfect Crime}}
 
*{{ul|Scary Stories}}
 
*{{ul|Grampa & the Kids}}
 
*{{ul|Gone Fishin'}}
 
*{{ul|Skateboarding}}
 
*{{ul|The Pagans}}
 
*{{ul|The Closet}}
 
*{{ul|The Aquarium}}
 
*{{ul|Family Portrait}}
 
*{{ul|Bart's Hiccups}}
 
*{{ul|The Money Jar}}
 
*{{ul|The Art Museum}}
 
*{{ul|Zoo Story}}
 
*{{ul|Shut Up Simpsons}}
 
*{{ul|The Shell Game}}
 
*{{ul|The Bart Simpson Show}}
 
*{{ul|Punching Bag}}
 
*{{ul|Simpson Christmas}}
 
*{{ul|The Krusty the Clown Show}}
 
*{{ul|Bart the Hero}}
 
*{{ul|Bart's Little Fantasy}}
 
*{{ul|Scary Movie}}
 
*{{ul|Home Hypnotism}}
 
*{{ul|Shoplifting}}
 
*{{ul|Echo Canyon}}
 
*{{ul|Bathtime}}
 
*{{ul|Bart's Nightmare}}
 
*{{ul|Bart of the Jungle}}
 
*{{ul|Family Therapy}}
 
*{{ul|Maggie in Peril - Chapter One}}
 
*{{ul|Maggie in Peril - The Thrilling Conclusion}}
 
*{{ul|TV Simpsons}}
 
*{{ep|Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Genius}}
 
*{{ep|Homer's Odyssey}}
 
*{{ep|There's No Disgrace Like Home}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the General}}
 
*{{ep|Moaning Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|The Call of the Simpsons}}
 
*{{ep|The Telltale Head}}
 
*{{ep|Life on the Fast Lane}}
 
*{{ep|Homer's Night Out}}
 
*{{ep|The Crepes of Wrath}}
 
*{{ep|Krusty Gets Busted}}
 
*{{ep|Some Enchanted Evening}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Gets an "F"}}
 
*{{ep|Simpson and Delilah}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror}}
 
*{{ep|Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish}}
 
*{{ep|Dancin' Homer}}
 
*{{ep|Dead Putting Society}}
 
*{{ep|Bart vs. Thanksgiving}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Daredevil}}
 
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy & Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Gets Hit by a Car}}
 
*{{ep|One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish}}
 
*{{ep|The Way We Was}}
 
*{{ep|Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment}}
 
*{{ep|Principal Charming}}
 
*{{ep|Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Dog Gets an "F"}}
 
*{{ep|Old Money}}
 
*{{ep|Brush with Greatness}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's Substitute}}
 
*{{ep|The War of the Simpsons}}
 
*{{ep|Three Men and a Comic Book}}
 
*{{ep|Blood Feud}}
 
*{{ep|Stark Raving Dad}}
 
*{{ep|Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington}}
 
*{{ep|When Flanders Failed}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Defined}}
 
*{{ep|Like Father, Like Clown}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror II}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's Pony}}
 
*{{ep|Saturdays of Thunder}}
 
*{{ep|Flaming Moe's}}
 
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
 
*{{ep|I Married Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Greek}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Lover}}
 
*{{ep|Homer at the Bat}}
 
*{{ep|Separate Vocations}}
 
*{{ep|Dog of Death}}
 
*{{ep|Colonel Homer}}
 
*{{ep|Black Widower}}
 
*{{ep|The Otto Show}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Friend Falls in Love}}
 
*{{ep|Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?}}
 
*{{ep|Kamp Krusty}}
 
*{{ep|A Streetcar Named Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Heretic}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Beauty Queen}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror III}}
 
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie}}
 
*{{ep|Marge Gets a Job}}
 
*{{ep|New Kid on the Block}}
 
*{{ep|Mr. Plow}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's First Word}}
 
*{{ep|Homer's Triple Bypass}}
 
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
 
*{{ep|Selma's Choice}}
 
*{{ep|Brother from the Same Planet}}
 
*{{ep|I Love Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|Duffless}}
 
*{{ep|Last Exit to Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show}}
 
*{{ep|The Front}}
 
*{{ep|Whacking Day}}
 
*{{ep|Marge in Chains}}
 
*{{ep|Krusty Gets Kancelled}}
 
*{{ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet}}
 
*{{ep|Cape Feare}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Goes to College}}
 
*{{ep|Rosebud}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IV}}
 
*{{ep|Marge on the Lam}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Inner Child}}
 
*{{ep|Boy-Scoutz 'N the Hood}}
 
*{{ep|The Last Temptation of Homer}}
 
*{{ep|$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Gets Famous}}
 
*{{ep|Homer and Apu}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy}}
 
*{{ep|Deep Space Homer}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Loves Flanders}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Gets an Elephant}}
 
*{{ep|Burns' Heir}}
 
*{{ep|Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song}}
 
*{{ep|The Boy Who Knew Too Much}}
 
*{{ep|Lady Bouvier's Lover}}
 
*{{ep|Secrets of a Successful Marriage}}
 
*{{ep|Bart of Darkness}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's Rival}}
 
*{{ep|Another Simpsons Clip Show}}
 
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy Land}}
 
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob Roberts}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror V}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Girlfriend}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa on Ice}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Badman}}
 
*{{ep|Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy}}
 
*{{ep|Fear of Flying}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Great}}
 
*{{ep|And Maggie Makes Three}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Comet}}
 
*{{ep|Homie the Clown}}
 
*{{ep|Bart vs. Australia}}
 
*{{ep|Homer vs. Patty and Selma}}
 
*{{ep|A Star Is Burns}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's Wedding}}
 
*{{ep|Two Dozen and One Greyhounds}}
 
*{{ep|The PTA Disbands}}
 
*{{ep|'Round Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|The Springfield Connection}}
 
*{{ep|Lemon of Troy}}
 
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
 
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)}}
 
*{{ep|Radioactive Man}}
 
*{{ep|Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Sells His Soul}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Vegetarian}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VI}}
 
*{{ep|King-Size Homer}}
 
*{{ep|Mother Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming}}
 
*{{ep|The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular}}
 
*{{ep|Marge Be Not Proud}}
 
*{{ep|Team Homer}}
 
*{{ep|Two Bad Neighbors}}
 
*{{ep|Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Fink}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Iconoclast}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Smithers}}
 
*{{ep|The Day the Violence Died}}
 
*{{ep|A Fish Called Selma}}
 
*{{ep|Bart on the Road}}
 
*{{ep|22 Short Films About Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"}}
 
*{{ep|Much Apu About Nothing}}
 
*{{ep|Homerpalooza}}
 
*{{ep|Summer of 4 Ft. 2}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VII}}
 
*{{ep|You Only Move Twice}}
 
*{{ep|The Homer They Fall}}
 
*{{ep|Burns, Baby Burns}}
 
*{{ep|Bart After Dark}}
 
*{{ep|A Milhouse Divided}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's Date with Density}}
 
*{{ep|Hurricane Neddy}}
 
*{{ep|El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer}}
 
*{{ep|The Springfield Files}}
 
*{{ep|The Twisted World of Marge Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|Mountain of Madness}}
 
*{{ep|Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious}}
 
*{{ep|The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show}}
 
*{{ep|Homer's Phobia}}
 
*{{ep|Brother from Another Series}}
 
*{{ep|My Sister, My Sitter}}
 
*{{ep|Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment}}
 
*{{ep|Grade School Confidential}}
 
*{{ep|The Canine Mutiny}}
 
*{{ep|The Old Man and the Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|In Marge We Trust}}
 
*{{ep|Homer's Enemy}}
 
*{{ep|The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase}}
 
*{{ep|The Secret War of Lisa Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|The Principal and the Pauper}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's Sax}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VIII}}
 
*{{ep|The Cartridge Family}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Star}}
 
*{{ep|The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Skeptic}}
 
*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
 
*{{ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace}}
 
*{{ep|All Singing, All Dancing}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Carny}}
 
*{{ep|The Joy of Sect}}
 
*{{ep|Das Bus}}
 
*{{ep|The Last Temptation of Krust}}
 
*{{ep|Dumbbell Indemnity}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|This Little Wiggy}}
 
*{{ep|Simpson Tide}}
 
*{{ep|The Trouble With Trillions}}
 
*{{ep|Girly Edition}}
 
*{{ep|Trash of the Titans}}
 
*{{ep|King of the Hill}}
 
*{{ep|Lost Our Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|Natural Born Kissers}}
 
*{{ep|Lard of the Dance}}
 
*{{ep|The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Mother}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IX}}
 
*{{ep|When You Dish Upon a Star}}
 
*{{ep|D'oh-in' in the Wind}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa Gets an "A"}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"}}
 
*{{ep|Mayored to the Mob}}
 
*{{ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}
 
*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
 
*{{ep|Sunday, Cruddy Sunday}}
 
*{{ep|Homer to the Max}}
 
*{{ep|I'm with Cupid}}
 
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
 
*{{ep|Make Room for Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|Maximum Homerdrive}}
 
*{{ep|Simpsons Bible Stories}}
 
*{{ep|Mom and Pop Art}}
 
*{{ep|The Old Man and the "C" Student}}
 
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
 
*{{ep|They Saved Lisa's Brain}}
 
*{{ep|Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo}}
 
*{{ep|Beyond Blunderdome}}
 
*{{ep|Brother's Little Helper}}
 
*{{ep|Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror X}}
 
*{{ep|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
 
*{{ep|Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder}}
 
*{{ep|Eight Misbehavin'}}
 
*{{ep|Take My Wife, Sleaze}}
 
*{{ep|Grift of the Magi}}
 
*{{ep|Little Big Mom}}
 
*{{ep|Faith Off}}
 
*{{ep|The Mansion Family}}
 
*{{ep|Saddlesore Galactica}}
 
*{{ep|Alone Again, Natura-Diddily}}
 
*{{ep|Missionary: Impossible}}
 
*{{ep|Pygmoelian}}
 
*{{ep|Bart to the Future}}
 
*{{ep|Days of Wine and D'oh'ses}}
 
*{{ep|Kill the Alligator and Run}}
 
*{{ep|It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Behind the Laughter}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XI}}
 
*{{ep|A Tale of Two Springfields}}
 
*{{ep|Insane Clown Poppy}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Tree Hugger}}
 
*{{ep|Homer vs. Dignity}}
 
*{{ep|The Computer Wore Menace Shoes}}
 
*{{ep|The Great Money Caper}}
 
*{{ep|Skinner's Sense of Snow}}
 
*{{ep|HOMЯ}}
 
*{{ep|Pokey Mom}}
 
*{{ep|Worst Episode Ever}}
 
*{{ep|Tennis the Menace}}
 
*{{ep|Day of the Jackanapes}}
 
*{{ep|New Kids on the Blecch}}
 
*{{ep|Hungry, Hungry Homer}}
 
*{{ep|Bye Bye Nerdie}}
 
*{{ep|Simpson Safari}}
 
*{{ep|Trilogy of Error}}
 
*{{ep|I'm Goin' to Praiseland}}
 
*{{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
 
*{{ep|Simpsons Tall Tales}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XII}}
 
*{{ep|The Parent Rap}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Moe}}
 
*{{ep|A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love}}
 
*{{ep|The Blunder Years}}
 
*{{ep|She of Little Faith}}
 
*{{ep|Brawl in the Family}}
 
*{{ep|Sweets and Sour Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Jaws Wired Shut}}
 
*{{ep|Half-Decent Proposal}}
 
*{{ep|The Bart Wants What It Wants}}
 
*{{ep|The Lastest Gun in the West}}
 
*{{ep|The Old Man and the Key}}
 
*{{ep|Tales from the Public Domain}}
 
*{{ep|Blame It on Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|Weekend at Burnsie's}}
 
*{{ep|Gump Roast}}
 
*{{ep|I Am Furious (Yellow)}}
 
*{{ep|The Sweetest Apu}}
 
*{{ep|Little Girl in the Big Ten}}
 
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
 
*{{ep|Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIII}}
 
*{{ep|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
 
*{{ep|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade}}
 
*{{ep|Large Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Helter Shelter}}
 
*{{ep|The Great Louse Detective}}
 
*{{ep|Special Edna}}
 
*{{ep|The Dad Who Knew Too Little}}
 
*{{ep|The Strong Arms of the Ma}}
 
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
 
*{{ep|Barting Over}}
 
*{{ep|I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can}}
 
*{{ep|A Star Is Born Again}}
 
*{{ep|Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington}}
 
*{{ep|C.E. D'oh}}
 
*{{ep|'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky}}
 
*{{ep|Three Gays of the Condo}}
 
*{{ep|Dude, Where's My Ranch?}}
 
*{{ep|Old Yeller-Belly}}
 
*{{ep|Brake My Wife, Please}}
 
*{{ep|The Bart of War}}
 
*{{ep|Moe Baby Blues}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIV}}
 
*{{ep|My Mother the Carjacker}}
 
*{{ep|The President Wore Pearls}}
 
*{{ep|The Regina Monologues}}
 
*{{ep|The Fat and the Furriest}}
 
*{{ep|Today, I Am a Clown}}
 
*{{ep|'Tis the Fifteenth Season}}
 
*{{ep|Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays}}
 
*{{ep|I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot}}
 
*{{ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
 
*{{ep|Margical History Tour}}
 
*{{ep|Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore}}
 
*{{ep|Smart and Smarter}}
 
*{{ep|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}}
 
*{{ep|Co-Dependent's Day}}
 
*{{ep|The Wandering Juvie}}
 
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
 
*{{ep|Catch 'Em If You Can}}
 
*{{ep|Simple Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|The Way We Weren't}}
 
*{{ep|Bart-Mangled Banner}}
 
*{{ep|Fraudcast News}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XV}}
 
*{{ep|All's Fair in Oven War}}
 
*{{ep|Sleeping with the Enemy}}
 
*{{ep|She Used to Be My Girl}}
 
*{{ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
 
*{{ep|Midnight Rx}}
 
*{{ep|Mommie Beerest}}
 
*{{ep|Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass}}
 
*{{ep|Pranksta Rap}}
 
*{{ep|There's Something About Marrying}}
 
*{{ep|On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister}}
 
*{{ep|Goo Goo Gai Pan}}
 
*{{ep|Mobile Homer}}
 
*{{ep|The Seven-Beer Snitch}}
 
*{{ep|Future-Drama}}
 
*{{ep|Don't Fear the Roofer}}
 
*{{ep|The Heartbroke Kid}}
 
*{{ep|A Star Is Torn}}
 
*{{ep|Thank God It's Doomsday}}
 
*{{ep|Home Away from Homer}}
 
*{{ep|The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star}}
 
*{{ep|The Bonfire of the Manatees}}
 
*{{ep|The Girl Who Slept Too Little}}
 
*{{ep|Milhouse of Sand and Fog}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVI}}
 
*{{ep|Marge's Son Poisoning}}
 
*{{ep|See Homer Run}}
 
*{{ep|The Last of the Red Hat Mamas}}
 
*{{ep|The Italian Bob}}
 
*{{ep|Simpsons Christmas Stories}}
 
*{{ep|Homer's Paternity Coot}}
 
*{{ep|We're on the Road to D'oh-where}}
 
*{{ep|My Fair Laddy}}
 
*{{ep|The Seemingly Never-Ending Story}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Has Two Mommies}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife}}
 
*{{ep|Million-Dollar Abie}}
 
*{{ep|Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore}}
 
*{{ep|The Wettest Stories Ever Told}}
 
*{{ep|Girls Just Want to Have Sums}}
 
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
 
*{{ep|The Monkey Suit}}
 
*{{ep|Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play}}
 
*{{ep|The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer}}
 
*{{ep|Jazzy and the Pussycats}}
 
*{{ep|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVII}}
 
*{{ep|G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)}}
 
*{{ep|Moe'N'a Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)}}
 
*{{ep|The Haw-Hawed Couple}}
 
*{{ep|Kill Gil, Volumes I & II}}
 
*{{ep|The Wife Aquatic}}
 
*{{ep|Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
 
*{{ep|Little Big Girl}}
 
*{{ep|Springfield Up}}
 
*{{ep|Yokel Chords}}
 
*{{ep|Rome-Old and Julie-Eh}}
 
*{{ep|Homerazzi}}
 
*{{ep|Marge Gamer}}
 
*{{ep|The Boys of Bummer}}
 
*{{ep|Crook and Ladder}}
 
*{{ep|Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!}}
 
*{{ep|24 Minutes}}
 
*{{ep|You Kent Always Say What You Want}}
 
*{{mov}}
 
*{{ep|He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs}}
 
*{{ep|The Homer of Seville}}
 
*{{ep|Midnight Towboy}}
 
*{{ep|I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVIII}}
 
*{{ep|Little Orphan Millie}}
 
*{{ep|Husbands and Knives}}
 
*{{ep|Funeral for a Fiend}}
 
*{{ep|Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind}}
 
*{{ep|E Pluribus Wiggum}}
 
*{{ep|That '90s Show}}
 
*{{ep|Love, Springfieldian Style}}
 
*{{ep|The Debarted}}
 
*{{ep|Dial "N" for Nerder}}
 
*{{ep|Smoke on the Daughter}}
 
*{{ep|Papa Don't Leech}}
 
*{{ep|Apocalypse Cow}}
 
*{{ep|Any Given Sundance}}
 
*{{ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
 
*{{ep|All About Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes}}
 
*{{ep|Lost Verizon}}
 
*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIX}}
 
*{{ep|Dangerous Curves}}
 
*{{ep|Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words}}
 
*{{ep|MyPods and Boomsticks}}
 
*{{ep|The Burns and the Bees}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Drama Queen}}
 
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please}}
 
*{{ep|How the Test Was Won}}
 
*{{ep|No Loan Again, Naturally}}
 
*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
 
*{{ep|Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe}}
 
*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
 
*{{ep|Four Great Women and a Manicure|(couch gag only)}}
 
*{{ep|Coming to Homerica}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Whopper}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Gets a "Z"}}
 
*{{ep|The Great Wife Hope}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XX}}
 
*{{ep|The Devil Wears Nada}}
 
*{{ep|Pranks and Greens}}
 
*{{ep|Rednecks and Broomsticks}}
 
*{{ep|Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?}}
 
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
 
*{{ep|Once Upon a Time in Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|Million Dollar Maybe}}
 
*{{ep|Boy Meets Curl}}
 
*{{ep|The Color Yellow}}
 
*{{ep|Postcards from the Wedge}}
 
*{{ep|Stealing First Base}}
 
*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
 
*{{ep|American History X-cellent}}
 
*{{ep|Chief of Hearts}}
 
*{{ep|The Squirt and the Whale}}
 
*{{ep|To Surveil With Love}}
 
*{{ep|Moe Letter Blues}}
 
*{{ep|The Bob Next Door}}
 
*{{ep|Judge Me Tender}}
 
*{{ep|Elementary School Musical}}
 
*{{ep|Loan-a Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|MoneyBART}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXI}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life}}
 
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
 
*{{ep|How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?}}
 
*{{ep|The Fight Before Christmas}}
 
*{{ep|Donnie Fatso}}
 
*{{ep|Flaming Moe}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Father}}
 
*{{ep|Angry Dad: The Movie}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Scissorhands}}
 
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts}}
 
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
 
*{{ep|The Food Wife}}
 
*{{ep|The Book Job}}
 
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants}}
 
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
 
*{{ep|Holidays of Future Passed}}
 
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|Beware My Cheating Bart}}
 
*{{ep|A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again}}
 
*{{ep|The Spy Who Learned Me}}
 
*{{ep|Ned 'N' Edna's Blend}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
 
*{{ep|Moonshine River}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIII}}
 
*{{ep|Adventures in Baby-Getting}}
 
*{{ep|Gone Abie Gone}}
 
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|The Day the Earth Stood Cool}}
 
*{{ep|To Cur, with Love}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Goes to Prep School}}
 
*{{ep|A Test Before Trying}}
 
*{{ep|Changing of the Guardian}}
 
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing}}
 
*{{ep|Hardly Kirk-ing}}
 
*{{ep|Gorgeous Grampa}}
 
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
 
*{{ep|Dark Knight Court}}
 
*{{ep|What Animated Women Want}}
 
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
 
*{{ep|Whiskey Business}}
 
*{{ep|The Fabulous Faker Boy}}
 
*{{ep|The Saga of Carl}}
 
*{{ep|Dangers on a Train}}
 
*{{ep|Homerland}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIV}}
 
*{{ep|Four Regrettings and a Funeral}}
 
*{{ep|YOLO}}
 
*{{ep|Labor Pains}}
 
*{{ep|The Kid is All Right}}
 
*{{ep|Yellow Subterfuge}}
 
*{{ep|White Christmas Blues}}
 
*{{ep|Steal This Episode}}
 
*{{ep|Married to the Blob}}
 
*{{ep|Specs and the City}}
 
*{{ep|Diggs}}
 
*{{ep|The Man Who Grew Too Much}}
 
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"Eat My Shorts!"
―Bart's catchphrase
"Ay caramba!"
―Bart's catchphrase
"Don't have a cow man!"
―Bart's catchphrase
Bartholomew JoJo Simpson
Bart Simpson.png
Artwork of Bart by Matt Groening
Character Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Status:
Alive
Alias(es): Bartman
El Barto
Cupcake Kid
"I Didn't Do It" Boy
Edith Knickertwist
Bartron
Age: 10
Hair: Blond (yellow), naturally red[1]
Occupation: Student at Springfield Elementary
Relatives: Parents: Homer and Marge Simpson
Sisters: Lisa and Maggie Simpson
Grandfathers: Abraham Simpson and Clancy Bouvier
Grandmothers: Mona Simpson and Jacqueline Bouvier
Cousin: Jessica Simpson[2]
First appearance: "Good Night"
Voiced by: Nancy Cartwright


Bartholomew JoJo[3] "Bart" Simpson (born April 1[3]), also known as El Barto and Bartman, is the mischievous, rebellious, misunderstood, and "potentially dangerous" eldest child of Homer and Marge Simpson, and the brother of Lisa and Maggie Simpson.

Biography

Bart with his mother and sisters
Homer strangling Bart
Bart is a self-proclaimed underachiever who is constantly in detention. He is easily distracted (even, strangely enough, by algebraic equations). His penchant for shocking people began before he was born: Bart "mooned" Dr. Hibbert while he performed a sonogram on Marge, and moments after being born he set fire to Homer's tie. His blood type is the very rare Double O Negative (OO-);[4] only he and Mr. Burns are known to have it.

Bart's interests include Krusty the Clown (he is "Krusty Buddy" number 16302), skateboarding, reading comic books (especially Radioactive Man), watching television (especially the Krusty the Clown Show and The Itchy & Scratchy Show), terrorizing Lisa, playing video games, helping Lisa solve various problems (e.g. reuniting Krusty with his estranged Father), and pulling off various pranks (such as mooning unsuspecting people and prank calling Moe at his tavern). Bart also sprays graffiti under the alias 'El Barto', and regularly frequents the Kwik-E-Mart (for bubblegum and Squishees) and The Android's Dungeon.

Bart hinted that his favorite movies are Jaws and the Star Wars trilogy.[5] His best friend is Milhouse Van Houten.

Bart is a polyglot and can speak several languages with varying degrees of fluency. Though he has not demonstrated the ability since his trip to France as an exchange student, he speaks near-perfect French.[6] He also learned Spanish in a matter of hours in preparation for the family's trip to Brazil.[7] Upon learning that Brazilians speak Portuguese and not Spanish, Homer orders his son to forget what he learned, prompting Bart to strike himself over the head until he forgot the language. Bart also speaks Japanese (which he also learned in a couple of hours in prison along with Homer, and is also shown speaking Japanese,[8] Cantonese and Latin. His advanced linguistic skills may be inherited from Homer, who also speaks advanced languages, including penguin. He was also shown to be a skilled drummer.[9] He was a player in the Mighty Pigs Peewee Hockey League Team. He is also quite capable of firing advanced firearms with a frighteningly immense amount of accuracy, as evidenced when, while at Military School as a result of a prank involving bullhorns, he was given a RGB6 Grenade Launcher by the firing range instructor due to his belief that Bart would have most likely known how to operate handguns, and managed to destroy four out of five targets before one of his shots missed and ended up hitting Principal Skinner's car just as he was about to unlock it, to which Bart implied that he deliberately missed the fifth target and was actually aiming for Skinner's car that time.[10] He later displayed a similar proficiency towards weapons when he managed to hijack a tank by stealing the keys, drive it over to the park, and managed to shoot down a MLB satellite with surprising accuracy all by himself, although at that point, he was also under the effects of an experimental drug that was supposed to suppress his Attention Deficit Disorder.[11]

Bart can also drive vehicles with surprising skill for his age. He has his own driving license, given to him after saving Springfield from a fire,[12] although he has been seen driving before with a fake license at times.[13] He still possesses it, using it to steal Principal Skinner's car to get to Jimbo's house.[14]

He is the most misunderstood of the family, constantly frustrated by the narrow-minded people of Springfield, who judge him merely by his thoughts and actions.

Bart is also a skilled chef. He cooked a three course meal for his parents and made a dessert.[15]

When he was made Hall Monitor, he also had a great degree of skill in enforcing the law and rules.[16] This trait was later exemplified when he, in a similar fashion to a bouncer, removed Homer Simpson from the premises of the La Maison Derrière after he continuously heckled Marge's ventriloquist performance.[17]

Behavior

"I can't believe that it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows"
―Bart
Artwork of Bart, Lisa and Maggie from season 24
Artwork of Bart from season 25
Artwork of Bart from Animation Domination

Bart is considerably motivated in disrupting the routine at Springfield Elementary, and his pranks are often elaborately complex, but can lead to unfortunate consequences. Despite his behaviour, his actions and speech frequently show considerable mental agility, street-smarts, and understanding. When Bart became a hall monitor for Springfield Elementary, his grades went up, showing that he only struggles because he does not pay any attention.[18] Bart suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder[11] On the other hand, Bart often seems to have trouble understanding even the simplest concepts, such as the word "irony", what the equator is and that the logo on his globe ("Rand McNally") is not actually a country. It was also once implied that his mischievous behavior may have been a result of Marge accidentally ingesting a droplet of champagne while pregnant with him.[19]

Labeled as an "underachiever" by authority figures, Bart rides an academic rollercoaster, his grades, running the Loop-the-Loop from "F" to "D-" and back again. But he can be ingenious when the chips are down—as long as his ingenuity is not applied to anything school-related. He once learned portions of the Talmud to help reunite his idol, Krusty the Clown, with his father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky. Once, after an incident where Bart unleashed a surf wave across the school damaging property (and also saving Ned Flanders who was on fire at the time), he was given an experimental drug for Attention Deficit Disorder called Focusyn, causing his intellectual potential to reach its maximum, to the extent that he was even capable of tutoring a Navajo boy. Unfortunately, the drug also shortly thereafter drove him paranoid as a side effect, where he started sensing that Major League Baseball is actually spying on them with a satellite, and ended up going beserk when the prospect of being taken off of Focusyn became apparent, sneaking into Fort Fragg and stealing keys to one of its tanks, causing a wake of destruction by driving in the process, and later used its cannon to blow away a MLB satellite, proving his suspicions correct.[11]

Although he gets into endless trouble and is sometimes shallow and selfish, Bart also exhibits many qualities of high integrity. He has, on a few occasions, helped the love life of his school Principal and his teacher, despite the fact he often terrorizes them, and he often befriends outcasts like Milhouse. One example of his quasi sense of honor is when Bart stands up for Ralph Wiggum at the cost of peer popularity.[20] He was once sent to a juvenile detention center when he played a serious prank involving faux wedding gifts and a fake wedding.[21] He also has legitimate guilt whenever he got either Krabappel or Principal Skinner fired, especially if it was not his intention to do so, like in the former case where he and his classmates plan on getting her laid back by spiking her drink backfired when she ended up getting herself fired,[22] and the latter case where his dog ended up in the ventilation shafts and got trapped along with Willie when he intended to use Santa's Little Helper for show and tell.[23]

Appearance

Bart has yellow/blond spiky hair, although it is actually naturally red (but it stays yellow when he's out in the sun). He wears either an orange or red short-sleeved shirt, blue short pants, and blue-white shoes. In some of the earlier series, he is seen wearing a light blue short-sleeved shirt. He sometimes wears his "lucky" red baseball cap and often carries around his skateboard or a slingshot. In the winter, he wears long pants with a jacket. On special events, Bart wears a dark blue suit with matching shorts or pants with a tie with his hair sometimes combed and parted in the middle.

Alter Egos & Aliases

Bart sprays graffiti around Springfield using the name "El Barto", and his superhero alter-ego is Bartman. He called himself Cupcake Kid[24] when Homer became Pieman. Bart is also known as "The Devil in Blue Shorts"[25] by the organizers of the Teacher of the Year Awards, but he was believed to be an urban legend.
Bartman

Relationships

Non-canon

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Treehouse of Horror

In Treehouse of Horror VII, Bart learns that he has a twin brother named Hugo.

Future

As with other characters, his future follows no defined and logical pattern and simply changes to suit the episode. At the age of 18, Bart is a senior at Springfield High School. He styles his hair and wears an earring. He speaks three languages, apparently one being armpit noises, and one is hinted to be French. He pursues a relationship with a girl named Jenda who denies his proposal because he doesn't have a steady career plan. As a result, Bart pursues a career at the Kwik-E-Mart: Whether he kept the job is not mentioned. After saving Mr. Burns from a robbery, he is awarded a scholarship to Yale, which was meant to go to Lisa. He gives the scholarship back to her so she doesn't have to suffer a bleak future with Milhouse. At the age of 25, he is a building demolisher and vehicle crusher, and also attends law school. He is more kind in general, as opposed to his modern-day disposition. At age 32, he is taken to the hospital after eating too many fish logs. He seems to have lost his building demolishing company and works at a construction site. He got the "Mother" tattoo which Marge prevented him from getting, as well as a tattoo of Krusty the Clown on his chest. He receives a digestive tract transplant from Uter Zorker which saves his life. At age 40, he is a poor guitarist and alcoholic that dropped out of the DeVry Institute. He lives in a ratty beach house alongside Ralph, the only other member of Bart's band. He is addicted to a form of drug, likely marijuana. He helps Lisa, who is President, get out of debt with other countries. In return, Lisa legalizes the use of cannabis. At age 50, Bart appears to have straightened up and graduated law school, as he is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. At the age of 70, he lives at the Springfield Retirement Castle with Milhouse. At the age of 83, he finds true love, and dies one minute later (according to Professor Frink). Marge has also imagined Bart being a sleazy male stripper.

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Trivia

  • Bart's height is 4 ft. 0, he weighs 85 pounds and has blue eyes.[13]

Behind the Laughter

Creation

The first appearances of Homer and Bart Simpson in "Good Night", a short from The Tracey Ullman Show.

Matt Groening first conceived the Simpson family in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. He had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts, and had intended to present his Life in Hell series. When he realized that animating Life in Hell would force him to rescind publication rights for his life's work, Groening decided to go in another direction. He hurriedly sketched out his version of a dysfunctional family, and named the characters after various members of his own family, substituting "Bart" for his own name, as he decided it would have been too obvious for him to have named the character Matt. Bart then made his debut with the rest of the Simpsons clan on 19 April 1987 in the Tracey Ullman short "Good Night". The name "Bart" is an anagram of the word "brat". Groening conceived Bart as an extreme version of the typical misbehaving child character, merging all of the negative traits of characters such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn into one person. Groening's older brother Mark provided most of the inspiration for Bart. Groening has also said that he found the premise of Dennis the Menace disappointing and was inspired to create a character who was actually a menace.

The name of Bart was originally going to be "Mort". However, this was changed during the planning stage.

Voice Catchphrases

Nancy Cartwright originally auditioned for the role of Lisa, but soon thought that her voice was too deep for Lisa. Matt Groening let her try out for the part, and upon hearing her read, gave her the job on the spot. Bart's catchphrase "Eat My Shorts" was an ad-lib by Cartwright in one of the original table readings, harking back to an incident when she was at college. His other catchphrases included "¡Ay, caramba!" and "Don't have a cow man!" - the former being his first words after seeing Homer and Marge 'enjoying themselves' in bed - but these dropped out of use as the series progressed (as mentioned in "Summer of 4 Ft. 2", when Bart complains that Lisa stole his line). Whenever he introduces himself, he often says, "I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?"

Reception

Bart Simpson on South Park episode, "Cartoon Wars Part II".

In 1998, Time magazine selected Bart as 46th of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century — the only fictional character to make the list. He had previously appeared on the cover the December 31, 1990 edition. Both Bart and Lisa ranked #11 in TV Guide's "Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time".

During the show's early years, Bart was rebellious and frequently escaped without punishment, which led some parents' groups and conservative spokespeople to believe he provided a poor role model for children. This prompted George H. W. Bush to rally, "We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.", to which Bart replied with "Hey, we're just like the Waltons. We're praying for an end to the Depression, too."

Bart's catchphrases, "¡Ay, caramba!", "Don't have a cow, man!" and "Eat my shorts!" were featured on t-shirts in the early days of the show's run. The latter two phrases were rarely actually spoken on the show itself until after they became popular through merchandise, and the use of many of these catchphrases has declined in recent seasons. The use of catchphrase-based humor was mocked in the episode "Bart Gets Famous" in which Bart gets famous on the Krusty show for saying the line "I didn't do it."

In his book Planet Simpson, Chris Turner describes Bart as a nihilist. Bart's character traits of rebelliousness and disrespect for authority have been likened to that of America's founding fathers, rendering him an updated version of American icons Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, rolled into one. Bart is the most depicted Simpsons character on various memorabilia such as toys, books, comics, T-shirts, car decals, and even graffiti art. Bart, and other Simpsons characters, appeared in numerous commercials for Butterfinger candy bars from 1990–2001, with the slogan "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!". This association was parodied in an episode when he discovered that he was in a TV commercial when he was a baby; Bart says that he doesn't remember being in a commercial, then holds up a Butterfinger and eats it. Bart briefly appears in the entrance video used by World Wrestling Entertainment Superstar Shawn Michaels Bart has appeared in several other shows. He is featured in the South Park episode "Cartoon Wars Part II". He is not referred to by name, nor do any of the characters react to him as if he were a well known personality, but the character specifically mentions the events of "The Telltale Head" when Eric Cartman asks him to name the "most badass thing" he has done.

Foreign dubs

Language Voice dubber
Spain flag.png Español Sara Vivas
Hispanic America.gif Español Marina Huerta (seasons 1-9, since season 16)
Claudia Motta (seasons 9-15)
Finland flag.png Suomi Rinna Paatso
Flag of Belgium.png Vlaams Vicky Florus (movie)
Flag of Japan.png 日本語 Junko Hori
Atsushi Tamura (Movie)
Flag of the Netherlands.png Nederlands Marjolein Algera (movie)
Brazil flag.png Português Peterson Adriano (seasons 1-8)
Rodrigo Antas (since season 8)
Portugal.png Português Carla de Sá (movie)

Trivia

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  • Bart is left-handed, like Matt Groening.
  • The name Bart is an anagram for the word "brat."
  • Bart is allergic to cauliflower,[26] butterscotch, imitation butterscotch, glow-in-the-dark monster make-up[4] and shrimp.[27] However, Bart has been seen eating shrimp before[28] and once stated that he "ate so much shrimp".[29] so it is unknown why he was allergic to shrimp.
  • Bart's middle name is JoJo, as mentioned in The Bart Book. It is likely he is named after his great-uncle, JoJo Bouvier.

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