Radio Bart/References - Revision history

Solar Dragon at 12:12, January 25, 2024

2024-01-25T12:12:55Z

Snowball II: /* Cultural references */

2024-01-25T11:22:23Z

‎Cultural references

Snowball II at 18:03, December 30, 2023

2023-12-30T18:03:39Z

69.255.225.138: /* Krusty's Birthday Buddies */

2022-09-18T21:19:09Z

‎Krusty's Birthday Buddies

SolarBot: /* Microphone pranks */replaced: Rod → Rod, Todd → Todd

2022-03-12T12:30:02Z

‎Microphone pranks: replaced: Rod → Rod, Todd → Todd

SolarBot: /* Continuity */replaced: Ian → {{ap|Ian|Bart the Genius}}

2021-11-10T14:49:04Z

‎Continuity: replaced: Ian → {{ap|Ian|Bart the Genius}}

SolarBot: replaced: {{w| → {{W| (16)

2021-10-16T03:48:27Z

replaced: {{w| → {{W| (16)

SolarBot: /* top */replaced: == Cultural references == → == Cultural references == (7), == → == (7), == → == (7), removed: |gags=yes

2021-08-04T20:10:11Z

‎top: replaced: == Cultural references == → == Cultural references == (7), == → == (7), == → == (7), removed: |gags=yes

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: {{w|Lassie}} → Lassie

2021-04-11T17:15:13Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: {{w|Lassie}} → Lassie

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: {{w|Popeye}} → {{ap|Popeye|comic strip}}

2021-01-29T14:38:14Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: {{w|Popeye}} → {{ap|Popeye|comic strip}}

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 *The [[Wall E. Weasel's]] pizza restaurant ("We cram fun down your throat") is a parody of the family pizza restaurant franchise {{W|Chuck E. Cheese's}}.
 *The song that plays as [[Bart]] descends the well (to retrieve the incriminating radio) is based on the theme song "{{W|Axel F}}" from ''{{W|Beverly Hills Cop}}''.
-*The Timmy O'Toole prank is obviously based upon the popular joke about the [[Lassie]] TV show where Lassie barks at someone and the person reply, "What's that, girl? Timmy's stuck down a well?!" {{W|Jon Provost}}, the former child actor who played [[Timmy Martin|Timmy]], titled his autobiography ''Timmy's in the Well!'' because a well was the one place Timmy never fell into—abandoned mine shafts, off cliffs, into rivers, lakes, and quicksand, but never a well.
+*The Timmy O'Toole prank is obviously based upon the popular joke about the [[Lassie]] TV show where Lassie barks at someone and the person reply, "What's that, girl? Timmy's stuck down a well?!" {{W|Jon Provost}}, the former child actor who played Timmy, titled his autobiography ''Timmy's in the Well!'' because a well was the one place Timmy never fell into—abandoned mine shafts, off cliffs, into rivers, lakes, and quicksand, but never a well.
 *The ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show|Itchy & Scratchy]]'' cartoon "[[Cat Splat Fever]]" puns the 1977 [[Ted Nugent]] song "{{W2|Cat Scratch Fever|song}}" (which was also the title of the {{W|Cat Scratch Fever|album}} on which it appeared).
 *Upon hearing Bart cry about being trapped in the well, Homer decides to dig Bart out himself, declaring "That's all I can stand, and I can't stands no more!" echoing a line that {{ap|Popeye|comic strip}} frequently used before getting into a fight.

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 *The [[Wall E. Weasel's]] pizza restaurant ("We cram fun down your throat") is a parody of the family pizza restaurant franchise {{W|Chuck E. Cheese's}}.
 *The song that plays as [[Bart]] descends the well (to retrieve the incriminating radio) is based on the theme song "{{W|Axel F}}" from ''{{W|Beverly Hills Cop}}''.
-*The Timmy O'Toole prank is obviously based upon the popular joke from the [[Lassie]] films, in which when one cannot understand the messenger, usually a dog, the receiver will reply, "What's that, boy? Timmy's stuck down a well?!"
+*The Timmy O'Toole prank is obviously based upon the popular joke about the [[Lassie]] TV show where Lassie barks at someone and the person reply, "What's that, girl? Timmy's stuck down a well?!" {{W|Jon Provost}}, the former child actor who played [[Timmy Martin|Timmy]], titled his autobiography ''Timmy's in the Well!'' because a well was the one place Timmy never fell into—abandoned mine shafts, off cliffs, into rivers, lakes, and quicksand, but never a well.
 *The ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show|Itchy & Scratchy]]'' cartoon "[[Cat Splat Fever]]" puns the 1977 [[Ted Nugent]] song "{{W2|Cat Scratch Fever|song}}" (which was also the title of the {{W|Cat Scratch Fever|album}} on which it appeared).
 *Upon hearing Bart cry about being trapped in the well, Homer decides to dig Bart out himself, declaring "That's all I can stand, and I can't stands no more!" echoing a line that {{ap|Popeye|comic strip}} frequently used before getting into a fight.

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 *As the camera pans down the well after the excavation has begun, a [[UFO|flying saucer]] containing a skeleton of a [[Rigellian]] alien can be seen.
 *Two of the kids in [[Wall E. Weasel's]] look a bit like [[Waylon Smithers, Jr.]] and [[Moe Szyslak]].
 === Microphone pranks ===

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 *Loretta Kangas
 *Marylin Katz
-*Ken Keeler
+*[[Ken Keeler]]
 *John Lanzetta
 *Lorna Le Fever
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 *Patrick Semple
 *Emma Shannon
-*Bart Simpson
+*[[Bart Simpson]]
 *Larry Stone
 *Beth Summerlin
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 *John Travis
 *Eric Van Buerden
-*Patric Verrone
+*[[Patric Verrone]]
 *Lee Wallace
 *Jay Weinstein

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 *Eavesdropping on [[Lisa]]'s conversation with one of her friends by placing the microphone under her bed and listening to the radio in another room.
 *Placing a radio under [[Mrs. Krabappel]]'s chair and making farting noises when she sits down.
-*Posing as God for the benefit of [[Rod Flanders|Rod]] and [[Todd Flanders|Todd]] Flanders (Bart sees them listening to the radio and goes into action): Making Rod attempt to walk through the wall and making both of them take all the cookies from their kitchen and leave them on the Simpsons' porch.
+*Posing as God for the benefit of [[Rod]] and [[Todd]] (Bart sees them listening to the radio and goes into action): Making Rod attempt to walk through the wall and making both of them take all the cookies from their kitchen and leave them on the Simpsons' porch.
 *Placing a radio down an old well near [[Springfield Elementary School]] to make [[Groundskeeper Willie]] (and, as it turns out, the whole town) think that a little boy named [[Timmy O'Toole]] had fallen into the well.

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 *[[Bart]] uses the microphone to play a fart prank on [[Mrs. Krabappel]]. Later, in "[[On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister]]", he uses a pair of "borrowed" walkie-talkies to play a similar prank on [[Lisa]].
 *The video game ''[[Touch of Death]]'' is seen in the background at [[Wall E. Weasel's]]. It is more prominently featured in "[[When Flanders Failed]]".
-*[[Ian]] is seen at Wall E. Weasel's. ("[[Bart the Genius]]")
+*{{ap|Ian|Bart the Genius}} is seen at Wall E. Weasel's. ("[[Bart the Genius]]")
 *Some of Burns' campaign team from "[[Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish]]" are seen in the microphone commercial.
 *[[Bernard]] appears again. ("[[Flaming Moe's]]")

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 *The episode's plotline is based on (and pokes fun at) the media coverage of an incident involving {{W|Jessica McClure}}, who fell into a well in Midland, Texas on October 14, 1987.
 **The media circus and carnival that result after the news breaks about "[[Timmy O'Toole]]" being trapped in the well mirror the plot of the 1951 movie ''{{W2|Ace in the Hole|film}}''.
-**The movie in turn was based on the real incident and media circus that resulted when cave explorer {{w|Floyd Collins}} was trapped and died in a cave in Kentucky in 1925.
+**The movie in turn was based on the real incident and media circus that resulted when cave explorer {{W|Floyd Collins}} was trapped and died in a cave in Kentucky in 1925.
-*The episode parodies charity singles. The song "[[We're Sending Our Love Down the Well]]" is a spoof of various 1980s charity songs, including "{{w|Do They Know It's Christmas?}}" (on which [[Sting]] was one of the vocalists) and "{{w|We Are the World}}".
+*The episode parodies charity singles. The song "[[We're Sending Our Love Down the Well]]" is a spoof of various 1980s charity songs, including "{{W|Do They Know It's Christmas?}}" (on which [[Sting]] was one of the vocalists) and "{{W|We Are the World}}".
 *The [[Superstar Celebrity Microphone]] is based on:
-**The late-1970s era toy Mr. Microphone by {{w|Ronco}}. The television ad pitching the microphone is also very similar to the Ronco ads.
+**The late-1970s era toy Mr. Microphone by {{W|Ronco}}. The television ad pitching the microphone is also very similar to the Ronco ads.
-**The children's electronics product line "{{w|My First Sony}}", which appeared in the late 1980s. One of the products strongly resembles Bart's microphone and amplifier.
+**The children's electronics product line "{{W|My First Sony}}", which appeared in the late 1980s. One of the products strongly resembles Bart's microphone and amplifier.
-*The song in the commercial (used to demonstrate the Superstar Celebrity Microphone)—and later "performed" by [[Homer]]—is the 1975 novelty song "{{W2|Convoy|song}}" by {{w|C. W. McCall}}.
+*The song in the commercial (used to demonstrate the Superstar Celebrity Microphone)—and later "performed" by [[Homer]]—is the 1975 novelty song "{{W2|Convoy|song}}" by {{W|C. W. McCall}}.
-*''[[The Soul Mass Transit System]]'', the TV dance show in the first act (on which [[Funky-See, Funky Do]] is guest performing) is a parody of the long-running syndicated program ''{{w|Soul Train}}''. Funky-See Funky Do's single, titled "I Do Believe We're Naked", is a parody of the song "{{w|I Think We're Alone Now}}".
+*''[[The Soul Mass Transit System]]'', the TV dance show in the first act (on which [[Funky-See, Funky Do]] is guest performing) is a parody of the long-running syndicated program ''{{W|Soul Train}}''. Funky-See Funky Do's single, titled "I Do Believe We're Naked", is a parody of the song "{{W|I Think We're Alone Now}}".
-*The [[Wall E. Weasel's]] pizza restaurant ("We cram fun down your throat") is a parody of the family pizza restaurant franchise {{w|Chuck E. Cheese's}}.
+*The [[Wall E. Weasel's]] pizza restaurant ("We cram fun down your throat") is a parody of the family pizza restaurant franchise {{W|Chuck E. Cheese's}}.
-*The song that plays as [[Bart]] descends the well (to retrieve the incriminating radio) is based on the theme song "{{w|Axel F}}" from ''{{w|Beverly Hills Cop}}''.
+*The song that plays as [[Bart]] descends the well (to retrieve the incriminating radio) is based on the theme song "{{W|Axel F}}" from ''{{W|Beverly Hills Cop}}''.
 *The Timmy O'Toole prank is obviously based upon the popular joke from the [[Lassie]] films, in which when one cannot understand the messenger, usually a dog, the receiver will reply, "What's that, boy? Timmy's stuck down a well?!"
-*The ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show|Itchy & Scratchy]]'' cartoon "[[Cat Splat Fever]]" puns the 1977 [[Ted Nugent]] song "{{W2|Cat Scratch Fever|song}}" (which was also the title of the {{w|Cat Scratch Fever|album}} on which it appeared).
+*The ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show|Itchy & Scratchy]]'' cartoon "[[Cat Splat Fever]]" puns the 1977 [[Ted Nugent]] song "{{W2|Cat Scratch Fever|song}}" (which was also the title of the {{W|Cat Scratch Fever|album}} on which it appeared).
 *Upon hearing Bart cry about being trapped in the well, Homer decides to dig Bart out himself, declaring "That's all I can stand, and I can't stands no more!" echoing a line that {{ap|Popeye|comic strip}} frequently used before getting into a fight.
 *Homer stating that [[Sting]] is a good digger while he is helping dig Bart out of the well is appropriate and somewhat ironic due to the fact that Sting worked as a ditch digger (as well as a few other professions) before he became a full-time musician.
-*The music session to record "[[We're Sending Our Love Down the Well]]" is meant to parody the recording session for the song "{{w|We Are The World}}". [[Krusty]]'s vocalizations during parts of the song seem to be parodying how [[Huey Lewis]] sang during the "We Are The World" recording session.
+*The music session to record "[[We're Sending Our Love Down the Well]]" is meant to parody the recording session for the song "{{W|We Are The World}}". [[Krusty]]'s vocalizations during parts of the song seem to be parodying how [[Huey Lewis]] sang during the "We Are The World" recording session.
-*The DJ reporting the ratings fall of "We're Sending Our Love Down the Well" looks and sounds like {{w|Casey Kasem}}.
+*The DJ reporting the ratings fall of "We're Sending Our Love Down the Well" looks and sounds like {{W|Casey Kasem}}.
 *When Homer says "That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more", he is quoting what [[Popeye]] says before he leaps into action.
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 *This is the first episode in which [[Sideshow Mel]] speaks.
 *Two of the names on ''[[The Krusty the Clown Show]]'' birthday list are the names of people who would later become part of the Simpsons staff: [[Ken Keeler]] and [[Patric Verrone]].
-*[[Homer]] demonstrates the [[Superstar Celebrity Microphone]] for [[Bart]] by serenading [[Marge]] with "{{W2|Convoy|song}}". Originally the idea was for Homer to sing "{{W|The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald}}" by {{w|Gordon Lightfoot}}. However, Lightfoot told the ''Simpsons'' producers that he did not own the rights to the song, as he divided all royalties among the surviving families of the 29 men who perished aboard the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''. Any displays of that song, such as on ''The Simpsons'', would require permission from all 29 families. Since obtaining such permission was deemed too much trouble just to have Homer to sing a couple of lines from the song, the producers decided to have Homer sing "Convoy" instead.
+*[[Homer]] demonstrates the [[Superstar Celebrity Microphone]] for [[Bart]] by serenading [[Marge]] with "{{W2|Convoy|song}}". Originally the idea was for Homer to sing "{{W|The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald}}" by {{W|Gordon Lightfoot}}. However, Lightfoot told the ''Simpsons'' producers that he did not own the rights to the song, as he divided all royalties among the surviving families of the 29 men who perished aboard the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''. Any displays of that song, such as on ''The Simpsons'', would require permission from all 29 families. Since obtaining such permission was deemed too much trouble just to have Homer to sing a couple of lines from the song, the producers decided to have Homer sing "Convoy" instead.
 *As the camera pans down the well after the excavation has begun, a [[UFO|flying saucer]] containing a skeleton of a [[Rigellian]] alien can be seen.
 *Two of the kids in [[Wall E. Weasel's]] look a bit like [[Waylon Smithers, Jr.]] and [[Moe Szyslak]].
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 *[[Bernard]] appears again. ("[[Flaming Moe's]]")
 *"Convoy" is also sung in the comic story ''[[Happy Non-Specific Semi-Festive Winter Gathering]]''.
-*The "{{w|Axel F}}"-esque music is also heard in "[[Separate Vocations]]".
+*The "{{W|Axel F}}"-esque music is also heard in "[[Separate Vocations]]".

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