Bart Simpson

Bartholomew Jo-Jo "Bart" Simpson (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is the 10-year-old son of Homer and Marge Simpson and older brother of Lisa and Maggie.

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Nancy Cartwright - Fictional character - Animated - Television series - The Simpsons - Homer - Marge Simpson - Lisa - Maggie

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According to the book The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album (ISBN 0-06-096582-7), his "birthday" is April 1 or April Fool's Day. According to the show's chronology Bart was born in 1982 as he is two years and 38 days older than Lisa, who was born during the 1984 Summer Olympics. However, in the episode "I Married Marge", it was revealed that Bart was conceived in late-May 1980 (Homer and Marge had just seen The Empire Strikes Back), which would make his birthday April 1, 1981. The year is probably not consistent as Bart is always described as being 10 years old.

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The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album - April 1 - April Fool's Day - 1982 - 1984 Summer Olympics - I Married Marge - 1980 - The Empire Strikes Back - 1981

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Bart's interests include skateboarding, comic books (especially Radioactive Man), terrorizing his sisters, helping Lisa solve various problems (e.g, reuniting Krusty the Clown with his estranged father), Dickensian chimney sweeps, mooning unsuspecting victims, and prank calling Moe Szyslak at his tavern. Like many other characters on the show, Bart is also left-handed.

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Skateboarding - Comic book - Radioactive Man - Krusty the Clown - Dickensian - Mooning - Prank call - Moe Szyslak

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He is a self-proclaimed underachiever who begins each show in detention writing lines on the blackboard (see list of Bart Simpson's blackboard sentences), and pretty much distracted by anything; even, strangely enough, algebraic equations. While Bart is considerably undermotivated and takes great joy in disrupting the routine at Springfield Elementary, his actions and speech frequently show considerable mental agility and understanding, and so he cannot be called "stupid" per se. Various explinations for his behavior include genetics (the male-linked 'Simpson Stupidity' gene), environment (watching and emulating Homer's bad examples), disinterest of his school's faculty, and a general dim view of authority. Although he frequently takes advantage of Homer, they share many of the same mannerism and behaviors.

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Underachiever - Detention - List of Bart Simpson's blackboard sentences - Algebraic equation - Springfield Elementary

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Bart caused a fictional diplomatic incident between the United States and Australia in "Bart vs. Australia" when he placed a very long collect call to an Australian boy to find out in which direction toilets flush in the southern hemisphere. (This is an oversimplification of that phenomena, which amusingly popularized the legend even more.)

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United States - Australia - Bart vs. Australia - Collect call - Toilet - Southern hemisphere - That phenomena

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Many times, when Homer finds out that Bart has said or done something stupid or bad, he yells out, "Why you little—!" and strangles Bart in anger.

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Bart Simpson and other characters from The Simpsons appeared in numerous television commercials for Nestlé's Butterfinger candy bars from 1990 to 2001, with his catch-phrase and the slogan "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!". This was parodied when in an episode, Bart says that he doesn't remember being in a commercial, then he holds up a Butterfinger and eats it.

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The Simpsons - Television commercials - Nestlé - Butterfinger - 1990 - 2001

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Bart speaks French fluently. He also was able to speak Spanish briefly on a trip to Brazil; however, he forced himself to forget when he discovered that they speak Portuguese in Brazil. He also once made an exchange with Homer in Japanese. Also in "Bart on the Road," he makes a delivery to Hong Kong where he hauls a cooler labeled "HUMAN EYES" off the plane, and brings it to a man in a white lab coat where they converse in Chinese (specifically, the variety of Cantonese spoken in the city). This may be inherited from Homer, who has also demonstrated advanced language abilities, including penguin.

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French - Spanish - Brazil - Portuguese - Japanese - Hong Kong - Chinese - Cantonese - Penguin

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Bart is allergic to butterscotch, imitation butterscotch, and cauliflower.

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Allergic - Butterscotch - Cauliflower

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In a short scene set in the future Bart is shown to become a Supreme Court Justice. In another episode set entirely in the future he's a blue-collar worker like his father.

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Supreme Court Justice - Blue-collar

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In an interview, Simpsons creator Matt Groening stated he chose the name as an anagram of brat.

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Matt Groening - Anagram - Brat

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In 1998, Time magazine selected Bart as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century—the only fictional character to make the list.

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When he vandalizes property, Bart uses the alias El Barto, which is a Spanglish way of saying "Bart." However, no one in Springfield has made the connection and Bart still vandalizes property without getting caught. He is also known as Bartman.

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Spanglish - Bartman

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Bart's dress sense is fairly standard. His normal attire is an orange t-shirt, blue shorts, white socks and blue training shoes. His churchgoing outfit consists of a blue two-piece suit (with shorts rather than long pants), white shirt, blue tie and blue shoes (colour of socks, if any, is unknown). The only other clothing "scenario" that comes up regularly is his "bed outfit", which consists of a green pyjama set (although he has been known to wear white socks on his feet to bed, he more regularly goes barefoot to bed). Bart's underwear style is of white "underpants". The use of underpants over boxer shorts is commented on by the show's creators on the Series 4 DVD, where he says they were trying to be different as boxer shorts were the least taboo form of underwear on TV as they showed "less of a bulge".

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Training shoes - Pyjama - Underpants - Boxer shorts

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Episodes that feature Bart extensively include:

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• "Bart the Genius" - Bart is mistaken for a genius.
• "Bart the General" - Bart takes on the class bully in a parody of Patton.
• "The Wandering Juvie" - Bart gets sent to juvenile detention and escapes á la The Defiant Ones.
• "The Heartbroke Kid" - Bart puts on weight after gorging on junk food at school and suffers a heart attack.
 
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