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The episode begins in medias res, in which Bart Simpson appears to be mannerly. Bart breaks the fourth wall by offering to tell the show's audience why he has changed. Two months earlier at Grandparents' Day, Bart changes the lyrics of a song for the grandparents visiting, and Principal Skinner takes him to detention, and also punishes Grampa for trying to intervene.
Skinner and Bart set out to find the answer keys and punish the person who stole them. However, when Bart finds out that Lisa is the culprit, he takes the blame for the theft because he does not want her to ruin her promising future. Skinner sentences Bart with detention for the rest of the school year.
Romani ite domum on a reconstruction of a Roman settlement in Britain, in the Hull and East Riding Museum. Writing lines is frequently satirised in popular culture as "a symbol of futile, old-fashioned, one-size-fits-all schoolhouse discipline", as in the chalkboard gag seen at the beginning of many episodes of The Simpsons, where Bart Simpson writes lines on a chalkboard as a punishment.
The Simpsons employs a floating timeline, where characters either do not age or age minimally.As such, the show is always presumed to take place in the present year. [1] [2] At ten years old, [3] Bartholomew, [4] best known by his short-form name Bart, is the eldest child and only son of Homer and Marge Simpson; [5] [6] he has two younger sisters, Lisa and Maggie. [7]
The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, praised the episode for containing "a memorable guest character in the French waiter Monsieur Lacosse, two great slapstick sequences involving the same, and displays Principal Skinner — pursuing Bart across the ...
When the Simpson family is at the Costington's department store, Bart uses the wedding gift registry as a prank to register himself and his bride, "Lotta Cooties", for wedding presents. Bart invites many people to his so-called "wedding" and plans to take all the unused gifts back for store credit, but he is stopped by Chief Wiggum , who ...
Homer Simpson became the coach of the team, and Bart started disrespecting Homer, leading to ugly clashes between them. Fat Tony noticed this and came up with a plan to enrich both himself and Bart via Bart's unwitting point shaving practices (the mobsters would tell Bart how much they wanted the SES team to win by, and Bart didn't know this ...
Chalkboard gag "I will not" (Bart destroys the chalkboard with an axe) Couch gag: The living room is made of gingerbread and candy. The Simpsons are gingerbread people who rush to the couch. Homer takes a bite out of Bart's head. Commentary: Matt Groening Al Jean Matt Selman Kevin Curran J. Stewart Burns Tom Gammill Max Pross Dan Castellaneta ...