Bart the Genius/References - Revision history

Solar Dragon at 17:23, April 11, 2026

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2025-01-27T22:03:56Z

replaced: == Cultural references == → == Cultural references == (4), replaced: → (8)

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SolarBot: /* Cultural references */typos fixed: Emile Zola → Émile Zola

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‎Cultural references: typos fixed: Emile Zola → Émile Zola

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 *After Bart comes home green, [[Homer]] washes him in turpentine.
 *Homer thinks it was Albert Einstein that invented the light bulb.
-*Bart at the end of the episode is the first character to be seen [[List of nudity|naked]] on ''The Simpsons'', excluding the [[Ullman shorts]].
+*Bart at the end of the episode is the first character to be seen naked on ''The Simpsons'', excluding the [[Ullman shorts]].
 *[[Maggie]] spells out EMCSQU (or E=MC²) on her building blocks.
 *This is the first (and so far, only) couch gag to visually continue into the TV scene.

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 *When Ian, Calvin and [[Ethan Foley]] talk about Bart in the lunchroom, Ian's voice changes instantly.
 *The absence note that Skinner pulls out of his filing cabinet is initially written in neat, clear handwriting, but then suddenly changes to a childish scrawl to match the check that Homer wrote out.
+*In a promo image:
 {{Season 1|R}}

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 *This is the first episode of the show to feature the [[Opening sequence|introduction sequence]].
 *This is also the first episode to have Bart's name somewhere in the title.
-*There is a picture of [[Bart]] on the wall opposite one of [[Albert Einstein]] in Dr. Pryor's office.
+*There is a picture of [[Bart]] on the wall opposite one of Albert Einstein in Dr. Pryor's office.
 *After Bart comes home green, [[Homer]] washes him in turpentine.
-*[[Homer]] thinks it was Albert Einstein that invented the light bulb.
+*Homer thinks it was Albert Einstein that invented the light bulb.
 *Bart at the end of the episode is the first character to be seen [[List of nudity|naked]] on ''The Simpsons'', excluding the [[Ullman shorts]].
 *[[Maggie]] spells out EMCSQU (or E=MC²) on her building blocks.
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 *The Simpsons attend the opera ''{{W|Carmen}}''. advertised as "Tonight Only in Russian".
 *On the opera poster, the conductor is identified as [[Boris Csupovski]], a play on the name of producer and supervising animation director [[Gabor Csupo]].
-*After he is dubbed a genius, Bart's [[Principal Skinner]] graffiti is framed and labeled as a work of art entitled "The Principal" by Bart Simpson.
+*After he is dubbed a genius, Bart's Principal Skinner graffiti is framed and labeled as a work of art entitled "The Principal" by Bart Simpson.
 *Martin and his parents were at the opera. [[Mr. Prince]] is the man commenting on Homer and Bart's boorish behavior.
 *In the smart class, there is an overweight student with glasses, character sketches on the Season 1 DVD reveal this was a preliminary design for Martin Prince.
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 *[[Ms. Melon]], teacher at The Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children is seen dancing with [[Jacques]] in the music video ''[[Do the Bartman]]''.
 *Homer comments to Bart that for generations Simpson men have dreamed of outsmarting someone. Homer does just that, by outsmarting [[Cooder]] in "[[Bart Carny]]".
-*[[Bart]] spray paints defamatory graffiti of [[Principal Skinner]] on a school wall in the comic ''[[The Kiss of Blecch!]]'', this time spelling "wiener" correctly.
+*Bart spray paints defamatory graffiti of Principal Skinner on a school wall in the comic ''[[The Kiss of Blecch!]]'', this time spelling "wiener" correctly.
 *This is the first episode where Bart uses his soon to be famous catch phrase "[[Eat My Shorts]]".
 *A ''{{ap|Radioactive Man|comic}}'' comic book is seen, though the {{Ch|Radioactive Man|title character's}} appearance is vastly different from his appearance is later episodes.
-*Bart's lab accident apparently closed The Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children since some of the students were later seen at Springfield Elementary. ''[[Do the Bartman]]'' and "[[Bart Gets an "F"]]".
+*Bart's lab accident apparently closed The Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children since some of the students were later seen at Springfield Elementary. ''Do the Bartman'' and "[[Bart Gets an "F"]]".
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 *After Bart comes home green, [[Homer]] washes him in turpentine.
 *[[Homer]] thinks it was Albert Einstein that invented the light bulb.
-*Bart at the end of the episode is the first a character to be seen [[List of nudity|naked]] on ''The Simpsons'', excluding the [[Ullman shorts]].
+*Bart at the end of the episode is the first character to be seen [[List of nudity|naked]] on ''The Simpsons'', excluding the [[Ullman shorts]].
 *[[Maggie]] spells out EMCSQU (or E=MC²) on her building blocks.
 *This is the first (and so far, only) couch gag to visually continue into the TV scene.

@@ Line 18: / Line 18: @@
 *After Bart comes home green, [[Homer]] washes him in turpentine.
 *[[Homer]] thinks it was Albert Einstein that invented the light bulb.
-*This is the first [[Bart]] is seen [[List of nudity|naked]] on ''The Simpsons'', excluding the [[shorts]].
+*Bart at the end of the episode is the first a character to be seen [[List of nudity|naked]] on ''The Simpsons'', excluding the [[Ullman shorts]].
 *[[Maggie]] spells out EMCSQU (or E=MC²) on her building blocks.
 *This is the first (and so far, only) couch gag to visually continue into the TV scene.

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 *Dr. Pryor compares Bart's proposed work among ordinary children to {{Ch|Jane Goodall}}'s study of chimpanzees. Goodall was pleased to be mentioned in the episode, sending the program a letter, and [[Jon Vitti|Vitti]] a signed book.
 *The opera attended by the family is ''{{ap|Carmen|opera}}'', by {{W|Georges Bizet}}; the song Bart mocks is a famous aria called the "{{W|Toreador Song}}".
-*Books on the shelf in Bart's new advanced school classroom include ''Quantum Mechanics'', ''[[Plato]]'', ''[[Alexander Pushkin|Puskin]]'', ''Life of [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]]'', ''Crime and Punishment'', ''Nana'' by Emile Zola, ''[[Shakespeare]] I-XV'', ''Dante's Inferno'', ''Babylonian Myths'', ''Design of Computers'', ''[[Moby Dick]]'', ''Paradise Lost'', ''Iliad'' by {{ap|Homer|author}}, ''Oddesy'' by {{ap|Homer|author}}, ''Candide'', ''Astrophysics'' and ''[[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]]''.
+*Books on the shelf in Bart's new advanced school classroom include ''Quantum Mechanics'', ''[[Plato]]'', ''[[Alexander Pushkin|Puskin]]'', ''Life of [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]]'', ''Crime and Punishment'', ''Nana'' by [[Émile Zola]], ''[[Shakespeare]] I-XV'', ''Dante's Inferno'', ''Babylonian Myths'', ''Design of Computers'', ''[[Moby Dick]]'', ''Paradise Lost'', ''Iliad'' by {{ap|Homer|author}}, ''Oddesy'' by {{ap|Homer|author}}, ''Candide'', ''Astrophysics'' and ''[[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]]''.
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