Bart of Darkness/References - Revision history

Solar Dragon at 10:49, August 9, 2026

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‎Cultural references

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‎Cultural references

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‎Goofs: remove one, may have happened off-screen

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some changes (I have seen the telescope from the episode being used as a meme template a few times, but it is combined with another image)

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‎Trivia

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 *Part of the episode is a parody of the Alfred Hitchcock movie ''{{W|Rear Window}}'' starring [[Jimmy Stewart]]. A Jimmy Stewart look-alike also shown looking back at [[Bart]] through a telescope and later yells out for "Grace" and the other star of ''Rear Window'' is [[Grace Kelly]].
 *When the statues in the [[Springfield Wax Museum]] melt, among them are the original cast of ''[[M*A*S*H]]''.
 *When [[Ned]] walks upstairs carrying the axe, he is singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
 *The first Klassic Krusty episode is dated February 6, 1961. [[Krusty]]'s guest was {{W|AFL-CIO}} chairman [[George Meany]].
 *On the Krusty show, both the host and guest are smoking. This happened on interview shows in the 1960's.
 *The song [[Martin]] sings at the end of the episode is "{{W|Summer Wind}}" by [[Frank Sinatra]].
 == Trivia ==
 *[[Nelson]] says that the {{W2|epidermis|skin}} is the hair when actually, it's the outer layer of the skin. This could be put down to Nelson being uneducated about it.
 *An image of Bart spying people with the telescope became part of an internet meme template.
 == Goofs ==

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 *On the Krusty show, both the host and guest are smoking. This happened on interview shows in the 1960's.
 *The song [[Martin]] sings at the end of the episode is "{{W|Summer Wind}}" by [[Frank Sinatra]].
-*The scene where the Simpsons build a barn instead of a pool is a parody of a scene from the movie Witness (1985) starring Harrison Ford who living within an Amish community and helps them with building a barn.
+*The scene where the Simpsons build a barn instead of a pool is a parody of a scene from the movie Witness (1985).
 == Trivia ==

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 *On the Krusty show, both the host and guest are smoking. This happened on interview shows in the 1960's.
 *The song [[Martin]] sings at the end of the episode is "{{W|Summer Wind}}" by [[Frank Sinatra]].
 == Trivia ==

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 == Trivia ==
 *[[Nelson]] says that the {{W2|epidermis|skin}} is the hair when actually, it's the outer layer of the skin. This could be put down to Nelson being uneducated about it.
-*An image of Bart spying people with the telescope become part of an internet meme template.
+*An image of Bart spying people with the telescope became part of an internet meme template.
 == DVD information ==

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 == Goofs ==
 *[[Hans Moleman]]'s cane switches hands, and his cane disappears.
 *The treehouse ladder disappears in one scene, and switches sides a couple of times.
 *Bart's door is already wide open, yet when Lisa enters the room, we hear the sound of a door opening.

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 == Cultural references ==
 *The episode title is a pun on the novel ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' by {{W|Joseph Conrad}}.
 *When the statues in the [[Springfield Wax Museum]] melt, among them are the original cast of ''[[M*A*S*H]]''.
 *When [[Ned]] walks upstairs carrying the axe, he is singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb".