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Plot

After crashing his skateboard down the stairwell of the Legitimate Businessman's Social Club during a bad day (being disallowed from attending a school trip to the chocolate factory and instead spending his entire day licking envelopes), Bart falls in with a particularly bad crowd - the Springfield Mafia. He befriends mobster Fat Tony, Louie, Joey and other gangsters, who take him on as their bartender and errand boy. As Bart adopts more and more gangster-like traits, a worried Marge grows anxious and tells Homer to go and meet the Mafia, but he actually approves of them. Once Principal Skinner catches Bart spraying graffiti at school, Bart tucks some money into his pocket and dismisses him. The Springfield Mafia is a fictional Italian Organized Crime Group based in Springfield in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... This article is about the fictional local Mafia Don in the animated television series The Simpsons. ...

Skinner naturally refuses to go quietly and sentences Bart to detention, making him late for a meeting with the Mob and he frustratedly tells Fat Tony that Skinner is responsible for his tardiness. Fat Tony and his friends leave to confront Skinner who, soon after their 'meeting', disappears from the public. After nearly a week, Skinner is presumed to have been murdered. Rumors spread fast and Bart is psychologically tortured by his nightmares after overhearing his friends' theories about Bart's crooked employers and how they could easily be murderers. The police soon suspect that Bart and his new friends are responsible and charge them with first degree murder. During the sensational trial, Fat Tony turns stool pigeon and tells the court that Bart is the kingpin of his organization and Skinner's insane killer. Murder is both a legal and a moral term, that are not always coincident. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Judge Snyder is about to convict Bart when Skinner bursts through the doors, disheveled, and explains that neither Bart nor the Mob assaulted him. After talking with the Mob, he became trapped beneath tons of old newspapers in his garage. He explains how he survived for weeks by living off his mother's "delicious preserves" before he was able to escape. As a result, Bart and the Mob are cleared from all charges. Afterwards, Fat Tony explains that he didn't want Bart to get into any trouble on his behalf, but Bart decides to resign after learning that "crime doesn't pay" and that gangsters make lousy friends. In the end, the Simpsons settle down at home and watch a new show called "Blood on the Blackboard: The Bart Simpson Story", starring Neil Patrick Harris as Bart and Joey Mantegna as Fat Tony. Bart seems to like it, but Homer wonders when the producers will send a check to the family for the show. Marge explains that due to the artistic license taken, they will be able to avoid paying them. Homer concludes that Hollywood producers are the real criminals. Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an Emmy-nominated American actor. ... The Artistic License is a software license used for certain free software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation, most of CPAN modules and Parrot, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License (GPL). ...

Debut Apperances

Characters making a first appearance are:

• Fat Tony

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Cultural references

All of the horses in the race are named after a famous animated character's catchphrase: A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ...

• "Ain't I a Stinker?" (Bugs Bunny)
• "Yabba Dabba Doo" (Fred Flintstone)
• "Sufferin' Succotash" (Sylvester)
• "That's All Folks" (Porky Pig)
• "I Yam What I Yam" (Popeye)

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After Bart suffers a nightmare, he wakes up screaming. The camera shots during Bart's scream match those in a scene from The Godfather, when Jack Woltz wakes up with a horse's head in his bed and screams. The Itchy and Scratchy Episode portrayed in this episode starts with Itchy dressed up as a policeman as a variety of cats including Scratchy line up along a brick wall. Itchy then pulls out a Tommy Gun and kills all the cats. Laughing at the show, Fat Tony remarks that "It's funny because it's true", a reference to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre This article is about the 1972 film. ... Jack Woltz is a fictional character from the novel The Godfather and the 1972 film adaptation. ... Tommy Gun redirects here. ... Picture of The St. ...

The scene at the chocolate factory where the kids are watching an old film narrated by Troy McClure, the Aztec who smokes the cocoa bean, mimics the Cleveland Indians' mascot, Chief Wahoo. Troy McClure is a recurring fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, who was voiced by Phil Hartman, and first appeared in the episode Homer vs. ... For other uses, see Aztec (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Cleveland Indians (disambiguation). ... Chief Wahoo was a mascot for the Cleveland Indians until the 1998 season. ...

The basis of Bart starting a mafia career by becoming a mob task boy parallels that of Henry Hill from the film Goodfellas.^[1][2] FBI mugshot of Henry Hill taken in 1980. ... Goodfellas (also spelled GoodFellas) is an Academy Award winning 1990 crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the true story of mob informer Henry Hill. ...

When Bart is running beside the bus, Lisa smiles and waves at him in a way similar to Fernando Rey in The French Connection Fernando Rey Fernando Casado DArambillet, known as Fernando Rey, (September 20, 1917 - March 9, 1994) was born in A Coruña, Spain, then known as La Coruña, the son of Colonel Casado Veiga. ... The French Connection is a 1971 Hollywood crime film directed by William Friedkin. ...

The scene at the chocolate factory where the kids are slurping up the chocolate from the vat refers to Augustus Gloop from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Fat Tony's business associate who gives Tony the "kiss of death" is a parody of Don Vito Corleone, Marlon Brando's character in The Godfather. This article is about the 1972 film. ...

Reception

Vanity Fair called "Bart the Murderer" the eighth best episode of The Simpsons in 2007. John Orvted said, "This episode makes the cut because of the inspired Mafia satire and because it goes deeper into Bart's ongoing conflict with authority figures."^[3] American actress Demi Moore, on a typical Vanity Fair cover (August, 1991) Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles based on sensational exaggerations, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and lies. ...

External links

• "Bart the Murderer" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive

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