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 title is a pun on the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
• Part of the episode is a parody of the Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window starring Jimmy Stewart. A Jimmy Stewart look-alike also shown looking back at Bart through a telescope and later yells out for "Grace" and the other star of Rear Window is Grace Kelly.
• When the statues in the Springfield Wax Museum melt, among them are the original cast of M*A*S*H.
• 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.
• On the Krusty show, both the host and guest are smoking. This happened on interview shows in the 1960's.
• The song Martin sings at the end of the episode is "Summer Wind" by Frank Sinatra.

Trivia

• Nelson says that the epidermis is your hair when actually, it's the outer layer of your skin. This could be put down to Nelson being uneducated about it.

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

• 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 that should be impossible, being on Earth.
• When Richard throws a beach ball at the camera, he has dark skin and black hair.
• When Marge and Homer swim naked in the pool, the dress hanging on the pool's edge has straps even though Marge's dress is normally strapless.
• As Bart adjusts the aim of his telescope, a white-colored section of the telescope turns black for a frame.
• In the widescreen version of the episode, as seen on Disney+, Matt Groening's name is misspelled as "Matt Gorening" in the Executive Producer credits.

Continuity

• A mobile swimming pool (this one in a dump truck) also appears in the comic story Carpool Party.

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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)