Bart fights a battle
| Episode of the series The Simpsons | |||
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| title | Bart fights a battle | ||
| Original title | Bart the General | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| length | approx. 22 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Season 1, episode 5 5th episode in total ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | February 4th, 1990 on FOX | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
September 27, 1991 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | David Silverman | ||
| script | John Swartzwelder | ||
| music | Alf Clausen | ||
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Bart fights a battle ( English original title: Bart the General ) is the fifth episode of the first season of the American cartoon series The Simpsons .
action
One morning Lisa bakes muffins for her teacher Mrs. Hoover and for several other classmates and Otto. Before school, however, one of Nelson's friends takes it from her . With this Bart immediately puts on, which is why Nelson comes running and wants to help his friend. When he grabs Bart, the latter hits Nelson on the nose, causing it to bleed. When lessons begin a few seconds later, Nelson promises him revenge after school. After class is over, Nelson and two of his friends await him behind the school building, where they beat him up together. In the end, they tell him that from now on they will beat him up at a quarter past three every day, put him in a garbage can and roll him down a street.
In the following years, Bart is very depressed. When his parents notice this, Marge first wants to tell him to talk to Nelson peacefully. But Homer thinks this is not correct and tells his son something about fighting. But since these tips are of no use the next day, Bart turns to his grandfather Grampa . He goes with him to his friend Herman , a one-armed war veteran who wants to help them.
Together, the three of them hold a meeting with some of the other students at the school, in which they discuss a plan to fight Nelson. Together they form a kind of army that prepares itself with numerous training units. Finally, they surprise Nelson and his friends and throw water balloons at them. Since this happens too suddenly, Nelson cannot defend himself. Herman then writes a peace agreement , which Bart and Nelson sign, whereupon they make up.
Cultural references
The music for this episode was taken directly from the film Patton: Rebel in Uniform . Since Fox owned the rights to this film, using the soundtrack was no problem. The episode refers to war films several times : The sequence in which Bart marches with his soldiers is a reference to the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket . Bart ends this episode with the ironic assertion that wars are not good, however the only "good wars" were the American Revolution , World War II and the " Star Wars " (from the Star Wars trilogy).
production
This episode was originally too long to use the normal opening sequence (see The Simpsons # opening sequence ). It was therefore produced without a couch gag and table gag ; instead, just a picture of the Simpsons house was cut into it. David Silverman was the director of this episode and says he was stressed during its production because he was busy drawing storyboards for this episode and directing Bart Becomes a Genius . Silvermanm originally planned to use the song " War " by Edwin Starr in this episode, but this did not happen because it was decided that the song did not fit the story of this episode. Also, this episode had issues with censors who didn't want the characters to pronounce the term "Crown Jewels" at prime time . The producers, however, ignored these references and left the term in the sequence.
The design of the character Herman was inspired by writer John Swartzwelder , with the exception of his missing arm . Herman's voice, spoken by Harry Shearer in the original version of the series , was partly inspired by George HW Bush . An original idea for Herman was to tell a different story about the loss of his arm each time he appeared.
reception
The first broadcast of this episode ended the Nielsen Ratings for the week from January 29 to February 4, 1990 in 31st place with a rating of 14.3 . It was the top rated show on Fox that week .
The episode has received mostly positive reviews since it first aired. The authors of I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide , Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, wrote, “Some good passages and fixed parts on the other hand - we love Bart's death fantasy in Nelson's hands - anyway the episode itself feels a bit unsafe, especially towards the end. "In a DVD review of the first season, David B. Grelck gave the episode a 3 out of 5 rating and added," Another episode that helped Pushing Bart's popularity into the stratosphere [...] “Colin Jacobson said in another review of the episode that it remains a primitive example of The Simpsons , but is quite an amusing and entertaining experience. He went on to say that the episode would be absent from Fineness and Clerverness unlike later episodes. Matt Groening pointed out in the audio commentary on this episode that he found it strange how controversial it looked at the time of its release. Today they would go much further and to Groening this episode looks harmless these days.
Scientific study
Bart Fights a Battle and the Seinfeld episode The Tape Affair were used in a Dartmouth College experiment to study brain activity in relation to humorous moments on television. The results of this study were published in a 2004 issue of the scientific journal NeuroImage . There the researchers wrote the following: "During the moments of detection of humor, significant activity was detected in the left, posterior, middle, temporal gyrus [...] and in the posterior, inferior, frontal gyrus."
Web links
- Bart the General in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bart the General on The Simpsons.com
- Bart's entry fights a battle on Simpsonspedia.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Bart fights a battle . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ A b c d e Matt Groening , James L. Brooks , David Silverman . (2001). DVD commentary for the episode "Bart Fights a Battle". In: The Simpsons: The Complete Season One [DVD]. 20th Century Fox .
- ^ A b Warren Martyn, Adrian Wood: Bart the General . BBC. 2000. Retrieved January 14, 2008.
- ↑ Scott Chernoff: I Bent My Wookiee! Celebrating the Star Wars / Simpsons Connection , Star Wars.com. July 24, 2007. Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved on August 28, 2011.
- ↑ Associated Press: ' ROSEANNE' GRABS EARLY SWEEPS LEAD , Orlando Sentinel. February 8, 1990, p. E8.
- ↑ David B. Grelck: The Complete First Season . WDBGProductions. September 25, 2001. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved on September 15, 2011.
- ^ Colin Jacobson: The Simpsons: The Complete First Season (1990) . DVD Movie Guide. Retrieved August 29, 2008.
- ↑ Keay Davidson. So these scientists go into a lab to see what's funny ... - They find gender differences in how humor affects brain. , San Francisco Chronicle . November 21, 2005. A1.
- ^ "Neural correlates of humor detection and appreciation" (PDF; 261 kB)