"Bart vs. Australia" is the 16th episode of The Simpsons' sixth season. The episode marks the first time the family has visited another country, as well as the first time the show could be perceived as poking fun at foreign cultures. Comedic aspects derived from overtly stereotypical views have since become a common theme in episodes where the Simpsons visit other countries.^[1]. Simpsons redirects here. ... Promo card for Bart vs. ... [[Media:Italic text]]{| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Al Jean (left) and David Mirkin (right), have both been writers for The Simpsons for more than ten years. ... Bill Oakley (born in 1966) is an American televison writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. ... This article is about The Simpsons writer Josh Weinstein. ... 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Plot

The episode begins with a "bathroom products race" between Bart and Lisa at the bathroom sink, whereby Bart and Lisa each pour a liquid bathroom product into a draining sink to see which gets to the drain first. Lisa wins and Bart complains that she only won because her shampoo was in the "inner lane" to his toothpaste, and that if the water were draining in the opposite direction, he would've won. Lisa explains that the water never drains the other way except in the southern hemisphere, due to the Coriolis Effect (which in actuality is not accurate, see Cultural references below), but Bart does not believe her. For the comic book series of the same name, see Bart Simpson comics. ... Lisa Marie Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Yeardley Smith; Lisa is the only character Smith voices on a regular basis. ... In the inertial frame of reference (upper part of the picture), the black object moves in a straight line. ...

Bart proceeds to make phone calls to locations in the southern hemisphere in order to prove Lisa wrong. Then Lisa points out that international calls are expensive, so Bart decides to make a collect call instead. He calls Australia, where a little boy picks up. Bart asks him which way the water drains in their toilets, and the line ends up being kept open for six hours. Because it was a collect call, the boy's father is billed AUD$900.00 ("Nine hundred dollaridoos?!"). The man wants Bart to pay, but Bart mocks him. Bart subsequently receives dozens of collection letters in the mail, but does nothing about them until Lisa finally notices the envelopes piling up, and encourages Bart to tell their parents. A collect call in the USA or reverse charge in the UK and other countries (or calling collect) is a telephone call in which the calling party wants to place a call at the called partys expense. ... ISO 4217 Code AUD User(s) Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island Inflation 2. ...

Eventually, Australia indicts Bart for fraud. The United States State Department wants to send him to prison, but settles upon having Bart publicly apologize in Australia. The family is sent to Australia, where they start exploring Australian culture. In the common law legal system, an indictment (IPA: ) is a formal accusation of having committed a criminal offense. ... “Department of State” redirects here. ...

After Bart makes his apology, parliament wants to give him the additional punishment of a boot to his buttocks, using a giant boot (a parody of the Michael P. Fay caning incident in Singapore). Bart and Homer escape the booting and they try to run back to the embassy. Bart agrees to have them do the booting anyway, which is reduced to one kick from the Prime Minister, with a normal shoe. Just as he is about to receive his punishment, he moons the Australians, with the words "don't tread on me" written on his butt. The Simpson family leaves the outraged country in a helicopter in a scene similar to the Fall of Saigon. Michael Peter Fay (born May 30, 1975) is an American who was caned in Singapore on May 5, 1994, for theft and vandalism despite pleas from the United States government and press for clemency. ... Caning in the city-state of Singapore is used as a form of judicial corporal punishment of men and boys for criminal offences. ... Homer Simpson is also a character in the book and film The Day of the Locust. ... Mooning, or giving the browneye is the act of displaying ones bare buttocks by removing clothing, e. ... Dont Tread on Me is the eighth studio album by 311, which was released on August 16, 2005. ... Combatants Democratic Republic of Vietnam National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Republic of Vietnam Commanders Van Tien Dung Nguyen Van Toan Strength ~130,000 ~50,000 Casualties Trivial Unknown The Fall of Saigon (in Vietnamese: Sự kiện 30 tháng 4, or April 30 Incident) was the...

In a subplot, Bart brings his pet bullfrog past Customs into Australia where it reproduces and spreads rapidly throughout the country eventually ruining its ecology (a reference to actual events in Australia, see Cultural references below). As the family is being flown home they happily remark upon the destruction that can be caused by introducing a foreign species into a new environment ... as the camera pans out to reveal a koala hanging from one of the helicopter's struts. Binomial name (Shaw, 1802) Bullfrog range Synonyms Rana catesbeiana The American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus,[1][2] previously Rana catesbeiana[3]) is an aquatic frog, a member of the family Ranidae, or true frogs, native to much of North America. ... For the drawing program, see KoalaPad/Painter. ...

Goofs

• Despite the fact that Homer uses the giant boot to break the window, and jumps out of it, he and Bart are shown fleeing from the mob out of the front doors of the building in the very next scene.

Cultural references

• When Bart phones Argentina, his call goes to a car with the license plate ADOLF 1, and the person who answers the phone (and misses) is greeted with "Buenas noches, mein Führer," indicating that it is Hitler. This is a reference to the many Germans emigrating to South America after World War II, but more particularly, to the movie The Boys from Brazil.

• When the little Australian boy's father complains to Bart over the phone, Bart eventually hangs up on him with the final comment, "Hey, I think I hear a dingo eating your baby." This is a reference to a real-life incident in which a human baby is actually believed to have been eaten by a dingo, which is a type of wild dog commonly associated with Australia.

• When Marge tells Squeaky Voiced Teen what bullfrogs are called in America, he says that he would've called them "chazwazzers", stereotyping the Australian language and how it is used. "Chas" and "Wazza" are common shortened nicknames for "Charles" and "Warren" respectively in Australia.

• The toad overpopulation is a parody of two actual Australian animal infestations: the cane toad and rabbit outbreaks.

• In the souvenir shop, a clerk refers to "the lorry" as one of the places where the bullfrogs have infested. "Lorry" (Gaelic: leoraí) is an English term used to describe a truck or semi-trailer.

• Foster's Lager, which advertises itself as an Australian beer, features prominently in the episode.

• The keg-sized can of beer that Homer receives in the bar is a parody of an actual Foster's beer size. However in reality the largest can made is of 750ml capacity (.75 liter), and nowhere near the keg-sized portrayal in the cartoon.

• The scene where Bart apologizes in the Parliamentary chamber appears to be modeled after the Legislative Assembly chamber of New South Wales, and not the actual Federal Parliament in Canberra.

• The "knifey-spooney" scene is a reference to a famous scene from Crocodile Dundee. When Mick Dundee is threatened by a man with a small pocketknife, he takes out a machete and says, "That's not a knife. This is a knife."

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Trivia

• The supposedly-scientific fact that drains flow differently in the Southern Hemisphere because of the Coriolis effect is actually a myth. The Coriolis effect actually has to do with weather patterns. It does influence the direction of water flow to some degree, but other factors have a much greater impact.

southern hemisphere highlighted in yellow (Antarctica not depicted). ... In the inertial frame of reference (upper part of the picture), the black object moves in a straight line. ... In the inertial frame of reference (upper part of the picture), the black object moves in a straight line. ...

Reception

Vanity Fair named "Bart vs. Australia" as the second best episode of The Simpsons in 2007.^[2] Title-page to Vanity Fair, drawn by Thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his earlier editions Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. ...

References

1. ^ The Age, Simpsons' secret is eternal youth (Interview with writer Mike Reiss). Retrieved on 2007-03-07.
2. ^ John Orvted. "Springfield's Best", Vanity Fair, 2007-07-05. Retrieved on 2007-07-13. 

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