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The Bart Wants What It Wants
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"The Bart Wants What it Wants" is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons' thirteenth season. The episode aired on February 17, 2002.
Contents
- 1 Synopsis
- 2 Trivia
- 3 Cultural references
- 4 External links
- 5 See also
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Synopsis
The episode opens with a car/helicopter chase. The Simpsons are fleeing olympic officials after Homer has stolen the Olympic torch. After being talked to by Marge, she snatches it from Homer, then throwing it out the window. The torch is then grabbed by the helicopter guys, and they admire the beautiful flame, forgetting to steer, causing it to crash. After the whole ordeal, the family visits a private school-held carnival. A girl, Greta (Rainier Wolfcastle's daughter), is being bullied, and Bart saves her. She likes Bart so much that she invites him to the Wolfcastle family house. Later, the Wolfcastles come to the Simpson house. Bart comes with Milhouse to visit Greta, who tells Bart he is invited to her school dance. However, Bart is looking very forward to seeing Principal Skinner perform stand-up comedy, a la Jerry Seinfeld at a local club. Since the events occur on the same night, Bart chooses to go to the club. Bart is impressed that Skinner's "comedy" act is a bomb.
Later, Bart breaks up with Greta after he thinks that women are easy to deal with. After Bart attempts to apologize to Greta, she dates Milhouse as revenge. Bart is shocked. It only gets worse when she says she and Milhouse will join her dad in the city of
Toronto, Ontario to shoot a movie. Apparently, Bart thinks Toronto is in
Spain. Bart asks the family to join him in going to Toronto. Bart finds Greta at a movie studio named Paramountie Studios (a parody of
Paramount Pictures), but Greta, after Bart and Milhouse get in a big fight that ends up interrupting a
curling match, declares she has no interest whatsoever in either Bart or Milhouse. The boys then reconcile and become part of
Canada's basketball team.
Trivia
- This is the first Simpsons episode where a character goes to Canada, which was greatly hyped in advertising for this episode on Canadian stations[citation needed], although some American stations were more focused on Reese Witherspoon as a guest voice.[citation needed]
- This is the second episode to feature some sort of parody of Paramount Pictures, after "Beyond Blunderdome."
- Rainier Wolfcastle saying "Remember when I said I would eat you last? I lied!" to the sausage on the dinner table, is a parody of the movie Commando when Arnold Schwarzenegger says "Remember when I said I would kill you last? I lied!"
- Rainier Wolfcastle's SUV (which looks a lot like the a Hummer) does not pass through the gate at his house. It climbs over it.
- Lisa is determination not to be a "Gamecock" indicates her unwillingness to attend the University of South Carolina, whose mascot is the Gamecocks.
Cultural references
- Maggie can be seen playing with a plush toy of Bongo, the one-eared rabbit from Matt Groening's Life in Hell comic strip.
- Paramountie pictures is a fictional Canadian equivalent of Paramount Pictures with a Campaign hat in the place of the mountain.
- Milhouse yells WASSUP!!! twice which comes from various Budweiser commercials.
- One of the studios Bart passes by is filming "Canadian Graffiti" which is a parody of the George Lucas Movie "American Graffiti"
- The first time Principal Skinner performs at the comedy club, a bass line plays much like many episodes of Seinfeld
- The second time Skinner performs, a slightly modified version of the exact Seinfeld theme plays.
