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Bart the Murderer |
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Trivia[]
- This was Fat Tony's debut appearance, and also that of Legs and Louie.
- Fat Tony's prison number was 8F03, the production code for this episode.
- All the horses in the third race at Shelbyville Downs are named for famous cartoon phrases:
- Sufferin' Succotash (Sylvester the Cat)
- Yabba-Dabba-Doo (Fred Flintstone)
- Ooh Ain't I A Stinker (Bugs Bunny)
- That's All Folks! (Porky Pig)
- I Yam What I Yam (Popeye)
- Don't Have A Cow (Bart Simpson)
- Eat My Shorts is a horse running in another race (and another of Bart's catchphrases).
- There is a large drum of nuclear waste seen in the basement of the Simpson house in this episode.
- Bart's forgotten permission slip can be seen (just barely) under his pillow before he wakes up at the beginning of the episode.
- While imprisoned, Bart's cellmate is a seriously pumped-up Sideshow Bob. Sideshow Bob does not speak in this episode, presumably because he may be contemplating how Bart, who got Bob arrested in Krusty Gets Busted, is now an accused lawbreaker himself.
- During the final scene the Simpsons watch a movie based on this episode. When the narrator lists the actors, the actor voicing Fat Tony is Joe Mantegna, who provides the voice of Fat Tony on The Simpsons.
- The producers attempted to have "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes play midway through the episode. Due to being unable to secure permission, they used "One Fine Day" by the Chiffons instead. Be My Baby was famously used in Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese's breakthrough film.
- On the news, Fat Tony's real name is revealed as "William "Fat Tony" Williams" but would later change to "Anthony "Fat Tony" D'Amico" in "The Homer They Fall", although the different names could be aliases, as Fat Tony is a mob boss and would need fake names to keep law enforcement off his tracks.
- One of the rumors of Skinner's assumed murder is that the cafeteria made his corpse into hamburgers. In "Treehouse of Horror V", many Springfield Elementary students would be turned to food to solve the school's problems with overcrowding and budget cuts to the lunch program.
- The footage of Smithers showing Mr. Burns the newspaper headline about Bart is recycled from "Brush with Greatness". The scene where Marge is stirring her coffee with a concerned look on her face is also a recycled scene taken from "Lisa's Substitute".
- This is the last episode in which Bart says "Don't have a cow". This is later referenced in the Season 7 episode "Summer of 4 Ft. 2".
- This is the last episode to use the short opening sequence until "Brawl in the Family".
- The episode's promo image featured Bart on the electric chair, even though it's both extremely rare for a juvenile to get executed, and a murder without proof doesn't usually result in execution.
- This is the last episode to use the Season 1 Ending Theme.
Cultural References[]
- This episode takes several plot points from the film Goodfellas. Bart serving drinks to mobsters and abetting the gang by storing hijacked cigarette shipments was a reference to the rise of Henry Hill as a juvenile delinquent. The difference in the film is that Henry Hill was arrested for reselling the stolen cartons of cigarettes, whereas Bart naively assumed Fat Tony was a tobacco salesman.
- Psychic Princess Opal's line, "I'm afraid it's splitsville for Delta Burke and Major Dad" is a reference to then-tabloid fodder Delta Burke and her husband Gerald McRaney. At the time of the episode, they were newlyweds, and a likely prediction that Hollywood marriages fail. However, the couple has remained together as of today.
- In the French version of the episode, Princess Opal says instead that divorce is in the air for Prince Charles and Lady Di, which did come true five years after the episode premiered.
- The Itchy & Scratchy episode "The Sounds of Silencers" is a reference to the Simon & Garfunkel song The Sounds of Silence.
- The episode features references to songs such as "Witchcraft" and "One Fine Day", and the American television series MacGyver.
- Ahfudge Chocolate is a parody of Hershey's Chocolate.
- The Indian shown in the film on the field trip is akin to Chief Yahoo, who allowed his caricature to be used as the mascot for the Cleveland Indians.
- The scene in the Itchy & Scratchy Show where Itchy (dressed as a police officer) shoots all the cats (dressed as gangsters) with a Thompson submachine gun is a reference to Saint Valentine's Day Massacre where five members of North Side Gang led by George "Bugs" Moran along with two associates were shot by four suspected members of the rival Chicago Outfit led by Al Capone at the North Side Gang's Warehouse at 2122 North Clark Street in the Lincoln Park Area of Chicago on the morning of the 14th February 1929, it is believed that two of the four gunmen were dressed as police officers and they were aided by members of the Purple Gang from Detroit and Egan's Rats from St. Louis. It was also alleged that members of the Chicago Police Department were involved in the massacre as an act of retaliation for the killing of a police officer's son.
Goofs[]
Black-haired Wiggum
- Chief Wiggum has black hair rather than blue.
- Ms. Hoover has red hair in is episode instead of her usual blond.
- In this episode Seymour Skinner is shown as having his own house, but later in the series he is shown as living with his mother. Later on he could have moved in with her, or vice versa.
- In the scene in which Edna Krabappel is grieving over Seymour Skinner's absence, among the students who are there, Becky, is seen wearing green instead of the usual turquoise. She could've chosen to wear green that day.
- Bart is shown bruised and his clothes ripped throughout the misadventures of his bad day. However, by the time he is inside the Legitimate Businessman's Social Club, he has no scrapes or bruises, and he is now wearing intact clothes.
- Bart is imprisoned with Sideshow Bob. Juvenile offenders are never jailed with their adult counterparts. In fact, later episodes even establish Springfield has juvenile detention centers.
- Why didn’t Bart just ask Marge or Homer to drive him to school after he missed the bus instead of walking there which made him come late?
- Bart walks to the school in the rain but later is shown riding his skateboard when he leaves.
- When Fat Tony says: "This guy Skinner causing you trouble?", his dark eye bags disappears, then reappear when Bart says: "He sure is, patron."
- The Executive Producer names for this episode is white instead of yellow.
- Bart's 'can I go now?' letter is missing a question mark.
- Captions mispell 'Krusty as 'Crusty'.