Bart the Genius/References

References/Trivia

Season 1 Episode References

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Debut appearances

"Bart the Genius" is the first "proper" Simpsons episode and the second Simpsons episode of the show.
This is also the first episode to have Bart's name somewhere in the title.
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.
This is the first Bart is seen naked on The Simpsons
Maggie spells out EMCSQU (or E=MC²) on her building blocks.
This is the first (and so far, only) couch gag to visually continue into the TV scene.
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 title character's appearance is vastly different from his appearance is later episodes.

When the Simpsons are playing Scrabble and Homer is complaining that he has no good letters, his slate of letters shows "O-X-I-D-I-Z-E", which is the highest word score one can achieve in Scrabble by using seven letters.
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 and Punishment, Babylonian Myths, Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick, Plato, Dante's Inferno, The Illiad, Design of Computers, 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.

The Simpsons play Scrabble.
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.
The opera attended by the family is Carmen, by Georges Bizet; the song Bart mocks is a famous aria called the "Toreador Song".

Ms. Melon, teacher at The Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children 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".

There is no answers on Martin's paper.
There is a blackboard behind Dr. Pryor, although when the camera does a close-up on him there is just a purple wall behind him.
When Bart makes his science experiment explode, he is at the right (our view) side of the room. After a shot of the outside of the school, there is a shot of the classroom, where Bart is holding his test tube, surrounded by kids, at the LEFT side of the room.