It marks the first use of Bart's catchphrase " Eat my shorts.

Adult Ralph in Bart to the Future, annoyed at Bart's lackadaisical behavior. In other episodes, he speaks in a perfectly normal tone and occasionally even displays taciturn behavior such as questioning a film production staff member over the use of a painted cow over a horse, seemingly playing straight man to Bart as an adult in one possible flashforward, or his overall behavior in the episode I Love Lisa, in which Ralph played a central role.

Bart and his friends use Bart's fake license to see the R-rated 1991 film Naked Lunch, an adaptation of William Burroughs's novel dealing with heroin addiction, homosexuality, and hallucinogens.

In order to regain Bart's coolness, the player must find a cool item that he can use.

* The violet door: A journey into Bart's blood stream, where Bart must use an air pump to inflate and destroy germs.

Bart's catchphrase " Eat My Shorts " was an ad-lib by Cartwright in one of the original table readings, referring to an incident from her high school days.

Bart's catchphrase " Eat My Shorts " was an ad-lib by Cartwright in one of the original table readings, harking back to an incident when she was at college.

Unable to come to an agreement, one side cries Bart's catchphrase " Eat my shorts ", the other cries " Cowabunga " and both sides engage in a bloody battle.

Bart looks exactly like Bert, and Ernie once mistook Bart for Bert ; but Bart wears a suit and fedora and is a salesman (" Bart's the name and selling's my game !").

Eventually, the censors forced the producers to remove one instance, so that Bart's line was changed to " bad influence, my butt.

" Bart's claim to film star and recurring character on The Simpsons Rainier Wolfcastle ( a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger ) that his " last movie really sucked " and Chief Wiggum's subsequent claim of " magic ticket, my ass " are in reference to Last Action Hero, a Schwarzenegger film featuring magic tickets that was panned by critics.

After he places the carrot in his shorts, the donkey takes it and rips off Bart's shorts.

Earlier in 1893, Professor McKendrick, of Glasgow, had examined subject and reported unfavourably on the scant knowledge of the special senses displayed by the candidates ; it was in reaction to this that Sir Michael Foster, who had seen the potential in this shy, retiring Bart's man, appointed Rivers as a lecturer and he became Fellow Commoner at St John's College forthwith.

In " Treehouse of Horror VIII ", Bart enters Frink's matter teleporter and it results in an accidental mix between Bart's genes and the genes of a housefly that was also present in the transporter at the same time.

He also worked with Dr. Hibbert as an anesthesiologist during Bart's appendectomy ( in ' Round Springfield ) but was of little help as he accidentally anesthetized himself instead.

He also wins a case for Bart Simpson, by proving that Itchy was created by an old man named Chester J. Lampwick — though the deciding factor of the case is mainly proven by Bart's footwork to collect the crucial piece of evidence, rather than Hutz's competency.

It is discovered eventually in the episode, however, that Bart's abduction was merely a hoax, distressing Wiggum greatly as he finally had done some great good but at merely the wrong time.

In a very brief appearance in the season 2 episode " Bart's Dog Gets an F ", Troy was voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

After remembering that he was told that it is wrong to kill birds, Santa's Little Helper ceases to aid Bart in the fight, confused at his own loyalty ( for Bart's sake or his orders ) leaving Bart to strangle the ostrich to death.

Bart's first professional musical was the 1959 Lock Up Your Daughters, based on the 18th century play Rape Upon Rape, by Henry Fielding.

A musical play based on Bart's life and using his songs, It's a Fine Life was staged at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch in 2006.

*" It's a Good Life " was parodied on the season three Simpsons episode " Treehouse of Horror II ", in the 1991 segment, " Bart's Nightmare.

The design of Bart's visualization of the math problem was partially inspired by the art of Saul Steinberg.

Bart's downfall was a botched robbery November 3, 1883, when in the commotion he lost a magnifying glass, fieldglass case and a handkerchief that would ultimately lead to his arrest.

Originally, Homer was supposed to blow Bart's money from his " Baby Stink Breath " commercials on a star that goes supernova, but the episode aired around the time that pop singer Michael Jackson caused controversy when he hung his son over a balcony in Germany and the reference was added at the last minute.

Corbett was in the West End, playing Will Scarlett in Lionel Bart's Robin Hood musical Twang !.

As a child actor he was cast in the role of Oliver Twist in the original run of Lionel Bart's musical Oliver !, but he is possibly best known for his role as Colin Russell in BBC TV's EastEnders – a character remembered for being a participant in the first gay kiss in a British soap opera.

One of the most successful shows to play the New Theatre opened 30 June 1960, it was Lionel Bart's musical retelling of Charles Dickens ' Oliver Twist, Oliver !.

" In 1964 he was a member of the original West End cast of Lionel Bart's musical Maggie May, playing the trade union leader.

In 1967, Gilbert was chosen to direct Lionel Bart's musical of Oliver!

The episode was directed by Michael Marcantel and written by Dan Greaney, who wanted to explore how Bart's life would end up like.

Carty made his first stage appearance at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, as the young Lionel in Lionel Bart's autobiographical musical Lionel ; however, his television career in his youth was mostly defined by his role as Tucker Jenkins in Phil Redmond's popular BBC drama Grange Hill ( 1978 – 1982 ), and the subsequent spin off series Tucker's Luck ( 1983 – 1985 ).

To make things worse, a tape was made of him cowering from the bear in the news, and his coworkers and Bart's friends make fun of him incessantly.

Over the summer of 1990, Bart's rebellious nature was characterized by some parents and conservatives as a poor role model for children < ref >

It was the first episode produced for season two and was intended to air as the season premiere, but was replaced with " Bart Gets an F " due to Bart's popularity in the early 1990s.

* The designers of the video game Fallout 3 originally intended to have a unique BB-gun called the Black Bart's Bane ( it can be acquired by using console commands ).

At Bart's, Rivers had been a physician to Dr. Samuel Gee.

In " Much Apu About Nothing " ( 1996 ), Moe is depicted taking his United States citizenship test ; previously, " Bart's Inner Child " ( 1995 ) had depicted Moe's own inner child chastising him for abandoning his native Italian accent.

Bart's voice came naturally to Cartwright, as she had previously used elements of it in My Little Pony, Snorks, and Pound Puppies.

Bart's drug dealer Handjob is beaten to death by Elvis for selling them cut drugs, and Dark, covered in blood from his proximity to it, returns home, where Montgomery, who claims that he escaped from aliens that had abducted him during the game of kick the can, comes to Dark's window and asks if he can come in.

Black Bart's end is in keeping with the way the romantics of his day would have had it.

He explains the lumps on his neck were actually boils caused by suppressed rage and would have otherwise overwhelmed his nervous system if Bart's prank had not set him off.

Audrey decides to clamp their desks together after Bart answers a trick question he had seen the previous year, as the teacher thinks Lisa needs Bart's help.

The animators had to come up with a special mouth chart to draw Bart's mouth with the joke teeth in.

Bart's voice actor, Nancy Cartwright, writes in her autobiography My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy that DeVito had to record his lines quickly because he had another appointment, so the staff focused on recording his scenes only instead of the whole episode at once.

" At the same show, Bart's right knee, which had both ligaments torn away in a sports injury, gave in completely and he supported his entire weight on his left knee for the rest of the show.