Dead putting society is the sixth episode of season 2. The episode was about the simpsons going on a plane trip, near the end of the first act, the plane was taking off. They both enter, and they place a bet on who will win the loser having to mow the lawn in his wifes sunday dress. The episodes production number was 7g06, the title was dead bart. So if matt groening and the staff of the simpsons produced a special oneoff episode of the series where bart simpson died, it wouldnt be that shocking.
Homer is confident bart will win and bets that the father of the boy who does not win must mow the others lawn in his. Though proven false, the story claims that unseen footage of the series was given to the witness by matt groening himself, who immediately became nervous upon the mentioning of the mystery episode. I have a cousin who was watching the simpsons during the first season and lives around there, so i asked him if he remembered the episode. Homer almost immediately starts asking to be paid back. The unsolved mystery of the simpsons infamous dead bart. When homer and bart bump into ned and todd flanders at the miniature golf course, homer is convinced that his son could beat todd in the upcoming miniature golf tournament. Bart ends up at the hospital after a dare goes awry and claims to have met jesus in heaven, but bart struggles with the guilt of lying. The story later got a sequel a dead bart update by the same author, and a spinoff called not long enough, which revolves around a lost episode of futurama. Bart s not dead is the first episode of season 30 and the season premiere. The dark cloud of secrecy overhanging dead bart became most evident at a convention during which simpsons writeranimator david silverman was giving a talk. Here is the muchcirculated description of how dead bart was discovered. The writer of the creepypasta confronts matt groening about a lost episode that everybody affiliated with the show refuses to acknowledge.
Bart ends up in the hospital after taking a dare and lies about going to heaven to cover it up, but homer takes a deal with christian producers to make a movie about it. In the episode, homer and ned quarrel and bet which of their sons, bart or todd, will win a miniature golf tournament. You know how fox has a weird way of counting simpsons episodes. It originally aired on the fox network in the united states on november 15, 1990. The episode labeled 7g06, moaning lisa, was made later and given dead barts production code to hide the latters existence. The reason for this is a lost episode from season 1. The dead bart theory explained the simpsons channel. However, as the plane was about 50 feet off the ground, bart broke a window on the plane and was sucked out. These segments usually involve the family in some horror, science fiction, or supernatural setting and always take place outside the normal continuity of the show and. Its like every other simpsons episode, except considering the fact that its a lost episode, it was made entirely by matt groening, its from season 1, and its on vhs, the quality is a little crappy. In this episode, the son bart simpson fakes a miracle cure and is then approached by a christian filmmaker who wants to make an adaptation of the event and bart is wracked with guilt at having lied. In the first segment, they have that old trope where a dead person in this one homer comes back as a ghost. With dan castellaneta, julie kavner, nancy cartwright, yeardley smith. Dead bart is, at its heart, symbolic of the fear of learning something we werent meant to know, something that upends everything we thought we knew.
The conspiracy states that an episode of the show is lost and was never to be seen by the public. They refuse to count a couple of them, making the amount of episodes inconsistent. Is there a really a long lost simpsons episode where bart. Bart and lisa encounter a witch in a gingerbread house. The episodes production number was supposedly 7g06, the number used for the episode moaning lisa. Dead putting society is the sixth episode of the simpsons second season. Dead bart is a creepy pasta about a supposed lost episode of the simpsons where bart is killed by getting sucked out of a passenger plane. Squidwards suicide edit the full story is told from the perspective of a person who interned at nickelodeon studios during 2005.
Creepypasta dead bart the simpsons lost episode i first heard of it at an event where david silverman was speaking. This is a list of treehouse of horror episodes produced by the animated television series the simpsons. Treehouse of horror episodes have aired annually since the second season 1990 and each episode has three separate segments. Fans are invited to take a behindthescenes look at the simpsons. At the beginning of the series, matt had an idea that the animated style of the simpsons world represented life, and that death turned things more realistic. Its contents were realistically gory and disturbing, dealing with the character bart s death in a plane crash. I have a tape of it, and most of the stuff about it is fake, like the gravestones having the names of dead celebrities and their actual death dates. The story of dead bart is a long and confusing one. Cartoonists and animators produce rrated and bizarre versions of their own characters in. To cover for himself and homer, he says he went to heaven and met jesus.
To summarize, dead bart was a production by matt groening, and one of the first episodes in the simpsons series. A tale of bart s journey from youth to adulthood, where he is constantly in search of approval from his father and in the shadow of his moresuccessful younger sister. One of the oldest and most notorious simpsons conspiracies is the mystery of dead bart. But bart cant deal with the guilt and comes clean to marge after the movie is finished. Homer and bart s antics get her so worked up she conspires to teach them a lesson. This is the first episode of the thirtieth season and 640th episode of the series. The trope is good, bur it was handled abysmally in this episode. Today, not much footage from dead bart exists, since most copies have. List of the simpsons treehouse of horror episodes wikipedia. Season 30 bart s not dead on directv bart takes a dare and ends up in the hospital. In addition to getting angry, asking anyone who was on the show about this will cause them to do everything they can to stop you from directly communicating with matt groening. The episode was described as having an animation quality equivalent to the original workprint some enchanted evening episode but less stable and creepy. The episode labeled 7g06, moaning lisa, was made later and given dead bart s production code to hide the latters existence.
Someone in the crowd asked about the episode, and silverman simply left the stage, ending the presentation hours early. Bart s not dead is an episode of the animated television series the simpsons. Christian producers offer the simpsons a movie deal, which homer takes. Dead bart is a lost episode creepypasta about a missing episode of the simpsons. When a visiting reverend from another country pleads springfield churchgoers for a donation to help the sick children, bart sympathizes with a boy his own age. Christian producers offer the simpsons a movie deal, but bart struggles with guilt about lying. Is the unaired simpsons episode featuring bart s gruesome death a real thing, or just an urban legend for some time now, word around the web has been that an episode called dead bart exists somewhere in a simpsons related vault, but that it will never air and was probably never intended to air.
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