The Simpsons episode
"Barting Over"
Episode no.	302
Prod. code	EABF05
Orig. airdate	February 16, 2003
Show runner(s)	Al Jean
Written by	Andrew Kreisberg
Directed by	Matthew Nastuk
Chalkboard	"I will not" (Bart destroys the chalkboard with an axe)
Couch gag	The family and living room are made of gingerbread; Homer takes a bite out of Bart's head
Guest star(s)	Tony Hawk, Blink 182 and Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Constance Harm
Season 14 November 3, 2002 – May 18, 2003
Treehouse of Horror XIII How I Spent My Strummer Vacation Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade Large Marge Helter Shelter The Great Louse Detective Special Edna The Dad Who Knew Too Little Strong Arms of the Ma Pray Anything Barting Over I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can A Star Is Born-Again Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington C.E. D'oh 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky Three Gays of the Condo Dude, Where's My Ranch? Old Yeller Belly Brake My Wife, Please Bart of War Moe Baby Blues
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The episode was advertised as 300th because FOX do not count Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire in the episode count, and the episode was also held over so it could air on the same day as the Daytona 500, so eventually it went to air being hyped as the 300th. In the episode, Marge wonders how many times Homer did something crazy and Lisa says it's 300. Marge then says she thought it was 302, to which Lisa says 'Sssh!', referencing the fact that this episode was actually the 302nd. Simpsons 300th episode promo. ... Season 2episode list header}} {{Template:Infobox Simpsons season 1 Season 2episode list}} Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, also known as The Simpsons Christmas Special,[2] is the first episode of The Simpsons to air. ... The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, 500 mile (805 km) NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. ...

Plot

Looking through old video tapes, Bart and Lisa find a video featuring a commercial for a breath-freshening device for toddlers, starring a younger Bart as "Baby Stinkbreath." Bart confronts his parents about the ad and asks where all the money he must have made for it went. Homer tells him that he used it to buy back incriminating photos of Homer dropping Bart from a balcony. Bart is infuriated and claims he's sick of all of Homer's ill-treatments, but Homer taunts him that he can't do anything about them until he's eighteen. The next day, Bart goes to a law-firm named "Luvum and Burnham", Family Law. He meets the Blue-Haired Lawyer there, and tells him that he wants a "divorce' from his family. Bart and his sister Lisa as news anchors. ... 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. ... It has been suggested that Doh be merged into this article or section. ... Family Law was a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as a divorced lawyer who attempted to start her own law firm after her lawyer husband took all their old clients. ... This is a List of recurring characters from the animated television show The Simpsons. ...

The next day, after dinner, the Blue Haired Lawyer comes to the Simpson residence to serve Homer with a subpoena. When Homer and Marge see that Bart is suing them, they are shocked. Bart declares that he wants to be emancipated. At the trial, the Blue Haired Lawyer makes a strong case for Bart, by proving that Homer swindled Bart and that Homer has anger-management issues. Finally, Judge Constance Harm delivers the verdict: Bart is emancipated, and Homer has to pay him half his salary until he can pay off all the money he took from him. The next day, Bart prepares to leave and says tearful goodbyes to everyone but Homer, who angrily shouts at him to come back as his taxi drives away. Homer finally stops and starts crying in the middle of the street for the loss of his son. A subpoena is a command to appear at a certain time and place to give testimony upon a certain matter. ... Emancipation of minors is a legal mechanism by which a person below the age of majority (adulthood) gains certain rights, generally identical to those of adults. ...

Tony Hawk guest staring

Bart moves into his loft, which seems quite dark and scary, considering it is in downtown. However, he soon finds Tony Hawk living in the same building, who has a massive apartment with a skateboard rink and blink-182 performing. He and Hawk become friends, and Bart is content with his new life. Back at the Simpson house, Marge convinces Homer to apologize to Bart, and the family goes to meet him at his loft. Homer apologizes and requests Bart come home. Bart accepts the apology, but tells them that he is going on Tony Hawk's Skewed Tour. At the event, Homer meets up with Hawk and pleads with him to pretend to lose to him so that he can make Bart proud of him again. Tony reluctantly agrees and gives Homer a modified skateboard, which does all the stuntwork. Later, Homer challenges Tony to a skateboard match and does a good job, thanks to the skateboard. Tony, unhappy about being showed up by Homer, decides to "take out the thrash". They duel with their skateboards in mid-air, and Tony falls to the ground. Homer speaks to Bart and finally promises Bart that he will never ill-treat him again. Lindsay Naegle approaches Homer and asks him to star in a commercial. Homer accepts so that he can give the money to Bart. Now Homer is embarrassed when he watched the final product, an ad for an impotence drug, but Bart told him that nobody will remember after fifty years. Fifty years later, Homer is dead, and an older Nelson laughs at his grave. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Tony Hawk and Lhotse Merriam This article is about the American skateboarder. ... Tony Hawk and Lhotse Merriam This article is about the American skateboarder. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Lindsey Naegle is a fictional character from The Simpsons, whose first appearance was on episode AABF18 They Saved Lisas Brain, as a member of the Springfield MENSA Society. ...

Notes

This episode aired originally in the UK back in April 2003, but terrestrial rights mean that it could not be shown until May 2007. The episode was shown on August 12 at 4.25pm and is thought to be the last "new" episode on Channel 4 until Big Brother finishes. The first possible date that I'm spelling as fast as I can will air is September 7 at 9.00pm as it contains some post-Watershed material. Presumably it will start in this timeslot as it did for a few months in 2006 whilst they find a replacement for Big Brother. This will presumably be like this until December 2007 or early January 2008 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Channel 4 is a public-service British television station, broadcast to all areas of the United Kingdom (and also the Republic of Ireland), which began transmissions in 1982. ... For the current series, see Big Brother 2007 (UK). ... is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Watershed has more than one meaning: Look up watershed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... December 2007 is the twelfth month of that year and has yet to occur. ... January 2008 is the first month of the year and has yet to occur. ...

Trivia

• It was really The Offspring that was supporting Tony Hawk on the Huck Jam tour, but the writers of the episode would rather have blink-182 in the episode because they were more popular at the time.^{[citation needed]}
• The song that blink-182 is playing is All The Small Things.
• This episode marks the second time that Nelson has laughed at Homer's grave, the first instance being in "Homer vs. Dignity".
• In the San Francisco Bay Area, the public train system is called BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), and thus "Barting Over" is a local colloquialism meaning "to go (usually to the city) on the Bart train."
• Tony Hawk has stated that guest-staring on The Simpsons was one of his biggest achievements as "it's such a measure of pop culture status, especially when you play as yourself."^{[citation needed]}
• Mark Hoppus of blink-182 has stated that being on The Simpsons was "...one of the best things that has happened in my life," [1]
• One of the wall of the loft which Bart moves appears a billboard with the image of a bottle of Absolut with the slogan Absolut Krusty.

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Cultural references

• The scene in which Tony Hawk falls to earth from his skateboard at the end of the episode could possibly be a homage to the James Bond film GoldenEye, as it is remarkably similar to the way Alec Trevelyan falls to his death at the end of the movie.
• Bart's ad was preceded by a fictional excerpt from the 1980s sitcom Perfect Strangers.
• When Bart is watching his commercial, he comments on the fact he has never been in a commercial before. He then pulls out a Butterfinger bar and eats it. This relates to the fact that he and other Simpsons characters have been in Butterfingers commercials in the past.
• After Bart has made a food sculpture that looks like Homer, he starts stabbing it. The music in the background reminds a lot of the one from Psycho.
• The way that Homer and Tony Hawk fought with their skateboards is a parody of the fights in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon-type martial arts movies, and is also reminiscient of Dragonball Z.
• The line "Of all the sites on all the web, I had to click onto his." is a reference to Casablanca.
• The scene with Abe Simpson getting his Intravenous and catheter switched is similar to what happened to Joseph Heller's Catch 22 character Soldier in white.
• In one of the scenes, a group of Furbys in the Simpsons' garage have turned feral and menacingly surround Maggie.
• At the start of the Baby Stinkbreath advertisement the old lady leans over and says 'What a beautiful baby.' Possibly a reference to one of Terry Gilliam's Gilliamations on Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• The pictures that Homer uses Bart's earnings to buy back are a play of the infamous pictures of Michael Jackson dangling his son over a balcony for the crowd to see him.

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