Bart Carny
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| "Bart Carny" | |
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| Episode no. | 190 |
| Prod. code | 5F08 |
| Orig. Airdate | January 11, 1998 |
| Writer(s) | John Swartzwelder |
| Director | Mark Kirkland |
| Chalkboard | None |
| Couch gag | As the family wants to sit down, the couch gets pulled back. Then Nelson appears from behind the couch, doing his Ha-Ha. |
| Guest star(s) | Jim Varney as Cooder the carny. |
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| Season 9 September 21, 1997 – May 17, 1998 |
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Bart Carny is the twelfth episode of the ninth season of the animated series The Simpsons.
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[edit] Synopsis
When Marge unsuccessfully tries to get the kids to clean up the backyard, Homer runs into the house to exclaim to the family that the carnival is in town. Once after some fun and rides, Bart gets himself into trouble by driving the display of Hitler's limousine and wrecking it into a tree. Trying to repay the loss, Bart and Homer become carnies themselves and work at the carnival.
Here, they meet up with a carny, Cooder, and his son, Spud. They quickly befriend the carny and his son. When Cooder asks for a favor and has Homer run his fixed game, Homer fails to bribe Chief Wiggum, and Cooders game is shut down. Feeling badly, Homer invites Cooder and his son to stay at the Simpson residence.
To express their gratitude, the Cooders give the Simpsons tickets to a glass bottom boat ride. When the Simpsons return, something goes incredibly wrong. The keys don't turn, the windows are all boarded up, and the Simpsons name is crossed off the mailbox and replaced by the Cooders. The Cooders tricked them out of their own house, and forces the family to take up residence in Bart's treehouse.
But leave it up to Homer to outsmart the Cooders. Knocking on the front door, Homer proposes that if he can throw a hula-hoop onto the chimney, they'll get their house back, and if he misses, he'll sign the deed over to the carnies.
Cooder agrees and steps onto the lawn to watch Homer's attempt. Homer stretches and warms up as if he was about to throw it, and quickly he and the family escape into their house, leaving Cooder and Spud dumbfounded in the front lawn. Homer outwitted someone for possibly the first time in his life, and the Simpsons have their house back.
[edit] Trivia
- When Spud says "Seen any pigeons yet?", captions say " Seen any suckers yet?"
[edit] Cultural references
- Art Carney - The episode title is an obvious play on the legendary comic actor's name.
- Jaws - The white shark attack on Homer and Bart's boat is much in the same vein as the shark attacks in the 1975 thriller.
- Natural Born Killers - Bart's remark that he and Homer are "natural born carnies ... if only we weren't tied down to the family" is a reference to the 1994 movie starring Tommy Lee Jones.
- Volkswagen "Fahrvergnügen" advertisements - Colonel Tex's claim that Hitler's limousine was "the first to come with 'farficnoogen'" is a play on the Volkswagen advertising jingle. Incidentally, the car is a Mercedes-Benz.
[edit] Quotes
- Bart: Allowance day! DING DING DING DING DING.
Marge: You two don't deserve an allowance.
Lisa: Sure we do! DING DING DING DING DING DING. (Bart joins in on the dinging.)
Homer: ( running through the living room) Ice cream man! Ice cream man! - Homer: Look at them, Bart. If a carny can wind up homeless, it can happen to anyone.
- Marge: We can't just give up on our house. There's got to be a way to get these guys out of here.
Bart: I say we set fire to the house, kill em that way.
Marge: We don't want to kill them, Bart. We just want our home back.
Lisa: (thinking it over) Well, if we did set fire to the house...
Marge: No fires!
Homer: I've got it!
Marge: No fires!
Homer: Aw.
Marge: There must be a way to outsmart them.
Homer: Uh, you can't outsmart carnival folk. They're the cleverest folk in the world. Just look at the way they sucker regular folks with those crooked games. (gasping) That's it! Fire! - Rich Texan: Some say Hitler's skeleton is in the trunk. Others say a spare tire. I'm a busy man, so I haven't checked yet.
- Rich Texan: What in the name of high school football?!
- Homer: Cooder, Spud, get off that hog! You're gonna stay at our house!
(cut to the Simpsons' living room, just as Marge shudders)
Lisa: Why'd you shudder just now, Mom?
Marge: I don't know. - Bart (in Hitler's car): One of these must activate the flamethrower.
- Bart (driving Hitler's car): Outta my way! I'm Hitler!
- Nelson: You wrecked Hitler's car! What did he ever do to you? (Punches Bart)
- Homer: Look at them, watching my TV, sitting on my couch. YOU'D BETTER NOT BE IN MY ASS GROOVE!!!
- Cooder: Put some more photo albums on the fire son, it's freezin' in here!
Spud: Which one? 'Precious Moments' or 'Treasured Memories'? - Bart: (while he and Homer are exposing their butts to the glass-bottomed boat) Here Sharkie Sharkie!! Come get some! (the shark starts ramming on the bottom, cracking it)
Homer: You call yourself king of the jungle!! - Spud: see any pigeons yet dad?
(cooter & spud spot homer humming while walking with bart. they imagine him as a Rock Pigeon cooing the hums, then changes back to normal when he's bopping his head like a pigeon)
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