The popular entertainment establishment
| Episode of the series The Simpsons | |
|---|---|
| title | The popular entertainment establishment |
| Original title | Beard After Dark |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| length | approx. 22 minutes |
| classification | Season 8, episode 5 158th episode overall ( list ) |
| First broadcast | November 24th, 1996 on FOX |
| German-language first broadcast |
November 2, 1997 on ProSieben |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominic Polcino |
| script | Richard Appel |
| music | Alf Clausen |
| synchronization | |
► Main article: Dubbing The Simpsons | |
The popular entertainment business ( English original title: Bart After Dark ) is the fifth episode of the eighth season of the American cartoon series The Simpsons . It was first broadcast on November 24, 1996 on Fox , and the German-language first broadcast on ProSieben on November 2, 1997 . For the song "We Put the Spring in Springfield" in this episode, Ken Keeler and Alf Clausen won a Primetime Emmy Award .
action
It's summer and the children are on vacation. Marge , Lisa and Maggie drove to a beach to help oil- spilled baby seals after a tanker disaster and leave Homer and Bart at home alone. Bart, Milhouse , Nelson , Ralph and Martin play with a toy airplane for several days until it gets stuck on the roof of a scary-looking old house. Bart is the only one who dares to enter the property and climb the roof. In doing so, however, he accidentally knocks a gargoyle off the roof. The owner of the house, a stern-looking old lady named Belle, who the children rumored to be a witch, comes out of the house. She wants to speak to Bart's parents and with Bart on her bed, she goes to the Simpsons house. She agrees with Homer not to report Bart if Homer is effectively punishing him. He has a hard time at first, but then punishes him by saying that he should help Belle in her household until the damage has been paid for her.
When Bart arrives there the next day, he is delighted to find that the lady's house is a secret entertainment establishment called Maison Derrière . He has a lot of fun at work, assists the dancers with the cloakroom and makes himself very useful. When Homer picks up Bart that evening, although he notices the operation, he is not worried that Bart is working there, as Belle is happy with him.
A few days later, however, Seymour Skinner wants to visit the Maison Derrière and is ashamed and dismayed when he recognizes Bart in the doorkeeper. With Ned and Maude Flanders , Timothy and Helen Lovejoy , he confronts Homer: he shouldn't let Bart work in the entertainment business anymore. However, this does not give in when Marge, Lisa and Maggie come back from the beach. Apparently only celebrities were allowed to help the animals, they were only allowed to scrub oil-stained rocks.
When Marge found out about Bart's work there, she asked the owner to close the immoral entertainment business. When the latter refuses, Marge starts a campaign against the Maison Derrière , she photographs several prominent citizens of the city leaving the house and thus demonstrates the alleged moral danger posed by the operation at a city meeting. A mob forms immediately and moves to Belle's house to destroy the building and chase her out of town.
When the residents start demolishing the house, Homer takes the floor. His defense of Maison Derrière spills over into the song “We Put the Spring in Springfield,” in which he gradually convinces everyone that it is an important part of city culture. Only when the song is over does Marge arrive late with a bulldozer . She is being held up by the locals because they now disagree. When Marge tries to stop the bulldozer, she accidentally releases the brake and partially destroys the house. To make up for this, Marge has to work in the entertainment business. She chooses to go on with a very tame ventriloquist act .
Allusions
Within the couch gag of the episode, in which dozens of Springfield residents can be seen in front of and behind the Simpsons sofa, the following references to earlier episodes can be seen:
- Behind the Simpsons couch are the current characters from the series as well as the earlier versions of the five Simpsons from the short films that were shown in the Tracey Ullman Show (see also the story of The Simpsons ).
- Directly in front of the couch is the head of the statue of Jebediah Springfield , whom Bart stole in the episode Beard Heads Head (from season 1 ).
- At the bottom of the picture you can see the bowling ball Marge played with in the episode The Beautiful Jacques .
- The fish Blinky from the series Fresh Fish with Three Eyes swims in a goldfish bowl.
- The record "Bigger Than Jesus" of the vocal quartet Die Überspitzen (in the original Be Sharps ), which consisted of Homer Simpson, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon , Seymour Skinner and Clancy Wiggum (later replaced by Barney Gumble ), from the episode Homer and the Sangesbrüder ( season 5 ) is at the bottom right of the picture.
- There is also a bottle of the Simpson & Sohn revitalization elixir from the episode Grandpa Against Sexual Failure (from season 6 ) in the lower left of the picture .
reception
The first broadcast of Bart After Dark ended the Nielsen ratings for the week of November 18-24, 1996 with a rating of 8.5 on the 57th place of all US television programs, which corresponds to approximately 8.2 million television households. It had the fourth highest rating of any show on Fox that week after the X-Files , Melrose Place and Beverly Hills, 90210 .
For the song "We Put the Spring in Springfield", which is part of the album Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons , Ken Keeler and Alf Clausen won a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music and Lyrics category .
Individual evidence
- ^ "The Simpsons" Bart After Dark (1996) - Release dates. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved August 4, 2012 .
- ↑ The Simpsons - TV Series Info. In: tvsi.de. Archived from the original on August 29, 2006 ; Retrieved February 4, 2012 .
- ^ A b Emmy Awards (1997). In: IMDb.com. Retrieved February 4, 2012 .
- ↑ cf. Episodes Related to Other Episodes - Simpsonspedia, the Simpsons Wiki. In: simpsonspedia.net. Retrieved February 4, 2012 .
- ↑ Associated Press: NBC sweeps its way to a hat trick . In: Sun-Sentinel , November 29, 1996, p. 4D.
Web links
- Bart After Dark in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bart After Dark on TheSimpsons.com
- Entry from The popular entertainment company on Simpsonspedia.net