{"id":18034,"date":"2013-12-16T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18034"},"modified":"2015-12-15T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T01:40:17","slug":"our-top-ten-the-simpsons-episodes-of-all-time-5-bart-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/our-top-ten-the-simpsons-episodes-of-all-time-5-bart-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Top Ten \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d Episodes of All Time: 5. Bart of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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5. Bart of Darkness<\/strong>
\nSeason Six<\/strong>
\n1994<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFlanders is going to kill Rod and Tod, that\u2019s horrible\u2026! In principle.\u201d This episode drew a little bit of a connection for yours truly, as I could pretty much sympathize with Bart\u2019s situation, sans the lunacy. Breaking my arm years ago, I was excluded from many summer activities including sports, and yes, going to public pools. In possibly one of the best episodes I\u2019ve ever seen, the summer heat wave is so bad in Springfield that a guitarist singing \u201cSunshine on my Shoulders\u201d gets knocked cold by a passerby, and the ice cream man drives around the neighborhood announcing that he’s all out of Ice Cream.<\/p>\n

The Simpsons inevitably get a taste for pools after the Pool Mobile drives by for the day to give the neighborhood some relief. It’s too bad we never had pool mobiles growing up, but then again I wouldn’t want to be in the same water with my neighbors, anyway. The family becomes the neighborhood celebrities after buying their own pool, but showman Bart breaks his leg after being distracted by Nelson Muntz. While Bart is left with a broken leg, isolated in his room out of protest and boredom, Lisa becomes the sensation of the now public pool. Bound to a cast, with Krusty playing old repeats of his series, Bart\u2019s sanity deteriorates and in \u201cRear Window\u201d fashion, he spots a murder from Ned Flanders out the eye of his new telescope.<\/p>\n

This brings about more usual hilarity from the writers who pull great gags from a tired premise. The last person suspected of murder is Ned, and he\u2019s a likely candidate after Lisa (playing the role of Grace Kelly) goes inspecting his house after being guilted into it by Bart. The inevitable reveal in the finale is funnier than most comedies as we learn what happened to Ned\u2019s wife, what the bag reading \u201cHuman Head\u201d is, and where the female scream from Ned\u2019s house came from. In its prime, “The Simpsons” could not only satirize a famous piece of cinema, but add a new dimension to it, while also re-inventing what made it so brilliant. “Bart of Darkness” is consistently funny, and infinitely quotable. All in all, it’s a hilarious hall of famer for the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5. Bart of Darkness Season Six 1994 \u201cFlanders is going to kill Rod and Tod, that\u2019s horrible\u2026! In principle.\u201d This episode drew a little bit of a connection for yours truly, as I could pretty much sympathize with Bart\u2019s situation, sans the lunacy. Breaking my arm years ago, I was excluded from many summer activities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[99,219,640,947,1075],"class_list":["post-18034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-list-junkies","category-tv-tomb","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-matt-groening","tag-sitcom","tag-the-simpsons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18036,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034\/revisions\/18036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}