Bart's Comet. Bart ends up losing his entire summer due to the high of a newfound popularity, but he’s wise to his “friends”’ true intentions by the time they’re written all over his leg cast. Homer the Great. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Lisa loans Bart her telescope, which he uses to spy on the neighbors. (Though cases have been made for certain landmark series that aired even fewer installments, with cable outlets like IFC and Bravo ponying up for shows like Freaks And Geeks and Twin Peaks following abbreviated network runs. Watch The Simpsons - Bart of Darkness (s6 e1) Online - Watch online anytime: Buy, Rent The Simpsons, Season 6 Episode 1, is available to watch and stream on FOX. When Bart is portrayed as an unresponsive silhouette in a bedroom window, you just might feel foolish for missing the pile of Hitchcockian cues that’s piled up under your nose. [3] As a result, the staff was given a month more than they would usually have had to work on the episode, which Reardon described as "greatly benefiting" it. After Martin's pool collapses due to overcrowding, his new friends angrily abandon him and Nelson snatches his swim trunks as a final insult. Later seasons would see the show devolve into less elegant forms of pop-culture parody; “Bart Of Darkness”’ riff on Rear Window, however, is the type of parody that makes the enterprise seems so simple, even hacks like Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer can do it. Bart of Darkness (The Book of Bart 2) - Kindle edition by Hill, Ryan. So far, that hasn’t gone according to plan. By the time of its sixth season, The Simpsons  had been around long enough to institute its own tropes, traits, and conventions, but the première episode of that sixth-season still displays a rebel streak. Bart, I'm here for you, but I'm not gonna break into somebody's house. Lisa on Ice. “Bart of Darkness” is its own creation, one which uses Rear Window extensively, but which has so many other things going on (Krusty re-runs, Bart’s play, Lisa becoming popular, etcetera) that the movie it’s parodying is only a small part of a much larger whole. After trying to dive into the pool from their treehouse, Bart breaks his leg. The show doesn’t blanch in the face of adolescent pain, and “Bart Of Darkness”’ opening acts acknowledge that kids can be just as cruel and conniving as grown-ups. Did such a thing really happen? [1] In the episode, Bart breaks his leg and becomes increasingly isolated in his room. That will be the case when Parks And Recreation returns with new episodes in the fall of 2013, and it was the case when The Simpsons debuted “Bart Of Darkness” 19 years prior. How does Milhouse sign Bart's cast? It’s not an intricately constructed puzzle box like Arrested Development’s most highwire farces, but “Heart Of Darkness” is a prime example of The Simpsons dropping its characters into familiar scenarios and rhythms without losing its distinctive creative voice. He looks out, sees the kids playing, then Busby Berkeley music begins as all the kids dive in in a synchronized way. Bart of Darkness. Did … The episode is candid in its inspirations, but it doesn’t reach out for the viewer’s hand. On a dare, Bart attempts an ambitious dive into the pool from his tree house, but falls to the ground and breaks his left leg after getting distracted by Nelson. All the kids in the Welcome back to TV Club Classic’s coverage of. Is it Saint Swivvens Day already? In a Rear Window parody, the Simpsons buy a swimming pool and everybody in the neighborhood joins in the enjoyment--except for Bart, whose broken leg prevents him from swimming. Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, found that the "eventual explanation for [Flanders'] murderous behavior is hilarious". A heatwave strikes Springfield, so Bart and Lisa persuade Homer to buy a swimming pool. You're right. The earthquake damaged much of the Film Roman building in which The Simpsons writing and animation staff worked, forcing them to move out for three months and continue production in a temporary building. ... you seek out your half-dozen plus one samurais and you watch death play board games and you hunt down Jack Lemmon in drag and take all those offers you can’t refuse and, of course, you get into some creepy peepin’ with ya … Dan McGrath was chosen to write the episode, while Jim Reardon directed. Covering everything from games news and reviews to movies and technology launches, to general news impacting our fellow Nerds. I hardly think it's fair to be charged full price. [3], For season six, Fox moved The Simpsons back to its original Sunday night time of 8 pm, having aired on Thursdays for the previous four seasons. "Bart of Darkness" is the first episode of The Simpsons' sixth season, which originally aired September 4, 1994. You can also buy, rent The Simpsons on demand at Disney+, Amazon, Vudu, Microsoft Movies & TV, Google Play, iTunes online. And here we have the world-famous Beatles... exactly as they looked performing on The Ed Sullivan Show. For years, there was a concrete milestone of TV success in the 100-episode barrier to syndication, but an increasing number of channels with a greater amount of airtime to fill has brought that count down nearer to the the 80-episode mark. Bart finds that staying in his room is boring, that is before he thinks of witnessing Ned Flanders murdering Maude. The barn building scene with the onlooking, The pool dance scene sees Lisa in a role like those of, In the final scene, Martin begins to sing, This page was last edited on 29 December 2020, at 04:13. Otto drives by with a traveling swimming pool. First Aired - 9/4/1994 A summer heat wave hits Springfield, so the Simpsons build a pool to beat the heat. [3] This was because, along with "Lisa's Rival", the episode was in production at the time of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. “Bart Of Darkness” starts The Simpsons’ sixth season off on the right foot with a full-bodied embrace of its source material and a comedic core that challenges traditional TV logic. Bart overhears Ned tell Rod and Todd their mother is "with God" and they will soon join her, making Bart think he plans to murder them too. Even while Lisa is basking in the newly uncovered admiration of her classmates, that admiration is insincere—its emptiness expertly illustrated by the falling water levels caused by her fairweather friends’ escape to Martin’s backyard. Standing naked and alone amid the wreckage, Martin sings the first line of "Summer Wind" as the sun sets. Once Lisa gifts Bart with the telescope she picked up at the optic festival (prompting one of the episode’s endlessly quotable one-liners: “There was an optic festival and I wasn’t informed?”), Bart’s A-plot hews closely to Rear Window’s most well-known beats: The hobbled hero witnesses what he thinks is a murder; he dispatches a female accomplice (Lisa, standing in for Grace Kelly) to investigate; then the suspense ratchets as our window-peeping protagonist watches, powerless, as the suspected baddie closes in. Bart Vs Australia. I'm goin'! Treehouse of Horror V. Bart's girlfriend. Suddenly aware Bart and Lisa are in his attic, Ned merely returns the axe to its proper place and faints when he learns they suspect him of murder. I'm up to my knees in the original cast of M*A*S*H. Homer, my hat goes off to you. [6] The Springfield Pool-Mobile was based on a similar vehicle from David Mirkin's childhood, where a truck with a "spinning cars" fairground ride on the back would often come around his neighborhood. “Bart Of Darkness” (season six, episode one; originally aired 9/4/1994), In which no one seems to pull their blinds—or restrict access to their pool—during a hot spell like this…, There’s no established number of seasons to determine whether or not a TV show has “made it.” Plenty of crappy shows have run for close to a decade; some of the television medium’s finest offerings only got a handful of episodes to air. But the episode actually borrows more from Hitchcock’s classic, Rear Window. 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