Bart to the Future - Revision history

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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|While visiting a [[Caesar's Pow-Wow Casino|Indian casino]] with his family, [[Bart]] encounters a [[Tribal Chief]] who foretells his future. Bart learns that in the future he is a struggling musician with [[Ralph Wiggum]] as a roommate, and [[Lisa]] is the newly elected President of the [[United States]].}}
+{{Synopsis|While visiting a [[Caesar's Pow-Wow Casino|Indian casino]] with his family, [[Bart]] encounters a [[Tribal Chief]] who foretells his future. Bart learns that in the future he is a struggling musician with [[Ralph Wiggum]] as a roommate, and [[Lisa]] is the newly elected President of the [[United States]].}}
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 == Reception ==
 This episode, like "[[Kill the Alligator and Run]]", is often considered one of the worst episodes in the show's long history, receiving almost universally negative reviews from critics and fans alike. [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,417748_5,00.html Entertainment Weekly] named it the worst Simpsons episode of all time, stating that, "while ''Bart to the Future'' was likely better than anything else on TV the week it first aired, even [[Mojo]] the monkey could've banged out a more inventive script," and that, "We didn't know it was physically possible for something to both Rot ''and'' blow." The episode pokes fun at its own writing with the B-plot about Lincoln's gold, where the sachem says "I guess the spirits felt the main plot was too thin".
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-"'''Bart to the Future'''" is the seventeenth episode of [[season 11]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two hundred forty-third episode overall. It originally aired on March 19, [[2000]]. The episode was written by [[Dan Greaney]] and directed by [[Michael Marcantel]].
+"'''Bart to the Future'''" is the seventeenth episode of [[Season 11|broadcast season 11]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two hundred forty-third episode overall. It originally aired on March 19, [[2000]]. The episode was written by [[Dan Greaney]] and directed by [[Michael Marcantel]].
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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|While visiting an Indian casino with his family, [[Bart]] encounters an Indian who foretells of his future. Bart learns that in the future he is a ne'er-do-well musician with [[Ralph Wiggum]] as a roommate. He goes to see [[Lisa]] to borrow money, but Lisa has her own problems, being the newly-elected President of the United States and facing a tax crisis.}}
+{{Desc|While visiting a [[Caesar's Pow-Wow Casino|Indian casino]] with his family, [[Bart]] encounters a [[Tribal Chief]] who foretells his future. Bart learns that in the future he is a struggling musician with [[Ralph Wiggum]] as a roommate, and [[Lisa]] is the newly elected President of the [[United States]].}}
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-"'''Bart to the Future'''" is the seventeenth episode of [[season 11]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two-hundred and forty-third episode overall. It originally aired on March 19, [[2000]]. The episode was written by [[Dan Greaney]] and directed by [[Michael Marcantel]].
+"'''Bart to the Future'''" is the seventeenth episode of [[season 11]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two hundred forty-third episode overall. It originally aired on March 19, [[2000]]. The episode was written by [[Dan Greaney]] and directed by [[Michael Marcantel]].
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 In the year 2030, Bart (now at 40) is apparently going through an awkward period of his life. Having dropped out of {{W|DeVry University}} and with no stable job he is very much adrift. He lives with [[Ralph Wiggum]], and they have an unsuccessful band, [[Captain Bart and the Tequila Mockingbirds]], although Ralph is less adrift as he has sufficient money to pay the rent and bills, but grouses that he is getting sick of Bart's laziness.The two stick together through much tension, pondering the success of [[Nelson Muntz]], who now owns a nightclub, as well as having his term "smell 'ya later" replace the word good-bye. When a band gig flops when Bart shamelessly plagarizes a {{W|Jimmy Buffett}} song, Ralph has had enough of Bart's freeloading, telling Bart it is high time for him to start pulling his own weight. However, rather than taking the scolding as motivation to find his own source of income, namely a job, Bart sees Lisa's move to the [[White House]] as a chance to freeload off of Lisa (and by extension, the American taxpayers), instead of Ralph.
-Meanwhile, [[Lisa Simpson]] (Now at 38) has the honor of being the first straight female president of the United States, although it is presumed she is unmarried, as there is no mention of a First Gentleman. [[Milhouse]] is a Cabinet member and still in love with Lisa. [[Kearney]] works for the Secret Service, and is [[Lisa]]'s bodyguard. {{W|Alan Greenspan}} is in Lisa's cabinet and {{W|Helen Thomas}} is still in the presidential press corps.
+Meanwhile, [[Lisa Simpson]] (Now at 38) has the honor of being the first straight female president of the United States, although it is presumed she is unmarried, as there is no mention of a First Gentleman. [[Milhouse]] is a Cabinet member and still in love with Lisa. [[Kearney]] works for the Secret Service, and is [[Lisa]]'s bodyguard. [[Alan Greenspan]] is in Lisa's cabinet and [[Helen Thomas]] is still in the presidential press corps.
 A previous administration made the catastrophic choice to invest in the nation's children. Thanks to them, [[USA|America]] is in the midst of a massive crime wave. Well-balanced taxpayer-subsidized breakfast programs for children has created a generation of ultra-strong super-criminals; midnight basketball taught them how to function without sleep. The U.S. is also completely bankrupt - They've sold the "purple mountain majesties and amber waves of grain", among other properties that they do not even own, but still rely on foreign aid from Europe and [[China]]. Lisa and her advisors decide to impose a massive tax hike, agreeing to call it a "temporary refund adjustment" so the public don't catch on.

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 == Production ==
 [[Maggie]] (now 31) does not appear in this episode's future, though we see her baby daughter, named Maggie Junior. The DVD commentary mentions a deleted scene where we learn that she's an astronaut, which was shown on TV commercials advertising the episode, but not in the actual episode itself. It is included as an easter egg.
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