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Radio Bart

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Radio Bart

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Plot

It is Bart's birthday. Homer buys him a "Superstar Celebrity Microphone" that sends sound through an AM radio. Bart plays a prank on the town with the radio. He throws the radio down a well and talks on the microphone, acting like he is trapped in the well. A large crowd gathers to see the incident, they come to the conclusion that no adult could fit down the well to save "Timmy O' Toole" as it is to small. Soon a group of celebrities writes a song to raise money to save Timmy O' Toole. However, Bart realizes that he left a "Property of Bart Simpson" label on the radio, and climbs climbs down the well to get the microphone. The rope breaks and he plummets in the well. He is now stuck in the well for real and admits his joke. However, the townspeople don't like this and leave him down in the well. Homer starts digging to save Bart, and soon the whole town joins and rescues Bart.


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Notes

  • McBain wore his gun at the recording of ''We're Sending Our Love Down The Well.''
  • Video games at the arcade include ''Larry the Looter,'' ''Time Waster'' and ''Comic Shop.''
  • There is a dinosaur skeleton and a flying saucer buried deep in the soil alongside the well.
  • One of the names in Krusty's Birthday Buddies was J.P. Patches, a real life clown.
  • Several of the buddies also wrote for the ''Harvard Lampoon.''

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References

  • The Wall E. Weasel kids restaurant is based on the Chuck E. Cheese Pizza chain of restaurants.
  • The plot of this episode was inspired by the film Ace In A Hole. It also bears a resemblance to the real-life story of Jessica McClure, a girl who fell down a well.
  • The We're Sending Our Love Down The Well song was inspired by the celebrity recording We Are The World.
  • Homer's line, ''I've had all I can stands and I can't stands no more!'' is from Popeye.

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Vitals

PCode
8F11

Index
3×13

Aired
9 Jan, 1992

Airing (UK)
unknown

Written by
Jon Vitti

Directed by
Carlos Baeza

Starring
Dan Castellaneta
Julie Kavner
Nancy Cartwright
Yeardley Smith
Hank Azaria
Harry Shearer

Also Starring
Pamela Hayden
Maggie Roswell
Russi Taylor

Special Guest Voice
Sting as Himself

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Season 3

  1. Stark Raving Dad
  2. Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
  3. When Flanders Failed
  4. Bart the Murderer
  5. Homer Defined
  6. Like Father, Like Clown
  7. Treehouse of Horror II
  8. Lisa's Pony
  9. Saturdays of Thunder
  10. Flaming Moe's
  11. Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
  12. I Married Marge
  13. Radio Bart
  14. Lisa the Greek
  15. Homer Alone
  16. Bart the Lover
  17. Homer at the Bat
  18. Separate Vocations
  19. Dog of Death
  20. Colonel Homer
  21. Black Widower
  22. The Otto Show
  23. Bart's Friend Falls in Love
  24. Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?