Principal Skinner's Bottom 40

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Principal Skinner's Bottom 40

Comic Story information Released: Winter 1992 Comic series: Simpsons Illustrated Pages: 1

Principal Skinner's Bottom 40 is a Simpsons Illustrated list first printed in Simpsons Illustrated #7.

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A list of Principal Skinner's Bottom 40 things.

List

40. The first day of yet another school year

39. Wretched, ungrateful students who fail to appreciate the priceless gift we educators are trying to bestow upon them

38. Hooliganism

37. Having to actually eat in the cafeteria occasionally, to keep up appearances

36. Students who don't clean their plates

35. Recurring screaming nightmares that I am a grade-school principal

34. The way Groundskeeper Willie always fertilizes whichever section of the school grounds is upwind from my office window

33. "Talent" Night

32. The way the sound of a cherry-bombed toilet sets off my Vietnam flashbacks

31. Food fights

30. The smell of the teachers' lounge

29. When a trusted hall monitor goes bad

28. Whoever is drinking out of the flask I keep in my bottom drawer

27. Unflattering caricatures of me spraypainted onto school walls

26. Namby-pamby school board members who won't allow kids to be spanked like in the good old days

25. The ongoing failure of the Springfield School Board to name me "Principal of the Year"

24. Teachers who lack the gumption to flunk their entire class

23. Water balloons

22. Comic books

21. Slingshots

20. Stink bombs

19. Mayhem

18. Kids who won't snitch on their friends

17. The embarrassment of yet another 0-14 season for our Junior Pumas soccer team

16. Having to change my unlisted home phone number 21 times a year - and still they call

15. Whoever started the vicious rumor that I wear a toupee

14. Disorder

13. Whoever keeps writing "I AM A WIENER" in the dirt on my car's back window

12. Parent-teacher meetings

11. Faculty meetings

10. Uppity teachers who think they are more important to this institution than I am

9. The fact the kids have learned my childhood nickname "Spanky"

8. Seeing former students o on to achieve great success in the outside world - fortunately, very few of them have

7. Boom boxes

6. T-shirts with slogans that encourage disrespect for authority

5. Snotty little punks who laugh at me behind my back

4. Knowing I have to endure another 17 years of this living hell before I can take early retirement

3. Underachievers who are proud of it

2. Bart Simpson

1. El Barto - whoever you are, I vow someday I will make you pay!

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