Bart of Darkness/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 6 Episode References
← 103 "Secrets of a Successful Marriage"	104 "Bart of Darkness"	"Lisa's Rival" 105 →

Cultural references

• The episode is a parody of the Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window starring Jimmy Stewart. A character resembling Stewart also appears, looking at Bart through a telescope.
• The episode title is a pun on the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
• When Ned walks upstairs carrying the axe, he is singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
• The first Klassic Krusty episode is dated February 6, 1961. Krusty's guest was AFL-CIO chairman George Meany.

DVD information

• The Complete Sixth Season Disc 1
• Run time: 21:57
• Scene selection

1. Main title
2. "Marge, can you set the oven to cold?"
3. "Can we have a pool, dad?"
4. "Great, I get to spend the summer with my brain"
5. "Save Lisa, trash can or no trash can!"
6. End credits

• Audio commentary featuring Matt Groening, David Mirkin, Jim Reardon, David X. Cohen, Greg Daniels, and David Silverman.
• Deleted scenes

Goofs

• When Ned is putting mud into the grave, the grave is below half-full. The camera pans back to Bart, and suddenly, after Bart says "This can't be what it looks like. There's gotta be some other explanation", the grave is full.
• Hans Moleman's cane switches hands, and his cane disappears.
• While in the tent, Bart is seen wearing shoes along with his underwear. Out of the tent, he isn't.
• The treehouse ladder disappears in one scene, and switches sides a couple of times.
• Bart's door is already wide open, yet when Lisa enters the room, we hear the sound of a door opening.
• Everybody can stand up in the pool, yet it's too tall for Lisa to get out when it's empty.
• As Bart watches Lisa walk by the rolltop desk in the Flanders home, it is already open. A few scenes later, we see Lisa opening it.
• The portable TV in Bart's room disappears.
• In the scene where Lisa runs into the attic as she dives behind the chest she rattles a bird cage, later when Ned faints you can see that the bird cage has disappeared.
• When Bart is watching Rod and Todd walk over to Ned Flanders, you can see their reflections on Bart's telescope. Their reflections do not match their actual positions.
• When Dr. Hibbert is seen in Bart's telescope, the people in the pictures don't have faces!
• When Bart looks at the universe, we see Earth even though there in Earth.

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Bart of Darkness • Lisa's Rival • Another Simpsons Clip Show • Itchy & Scratchy Land • Sideshow Bob Roberts • Treehouse of Horror V • Bart's Girlfriend • Lisa on Ice • Homer Badman • Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy • Fear of Flying • Homer the Great • And Maggie Makes Three • Bart's Comet • Homie the Clown • Bart vs. Australia • Homer vs. Patty and Selma • A Star Is Burns • Lisa's Wedding • Two Dozen and One Greyhounds • The PTA Disbands • 'Round Springfield • The Springfield Connection • Lemon of Troy • Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)