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4th episode of the seventh season of The Simpsons

"Bart Sells His Soul"
The Simpsons episode
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Promotional artwork for the episode
Episode no. Season 7
Episode iv
Directed past Wes Archer
Written past Greg Daniels
Production code 3F02
Original air date October 8, 1995 (1995-10-08) [1]
Episode features
Chalkboard gag "I am not a lean, mean, spitting machine"
Couch gag The Simpsons drive to the burrow in motorized clown carts.[two]
Commentary Matt Groening
Pecker Oakley
Josh Weinstein
Greg Daniels
Wes Archer
David Silverman
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"Bart Sells His Soul" is the quaternary episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. Information technology kickoff aired on the Play a joke on network in the Usa on Oct 8, 1995. In the episode, Bart scornfully dismisses the concept of the soul, and to testify he is serious in his skepticism he agrees to sell his soul to Milhouse. However, after several strange events make him remember he really has lost his soul, he desperately tries to regain it.

"Bart Sells His Soul" was written by Greg Daniels, who was inspired by an feel from his youth where he had purchased a keen's soul. Manager Wesley Archer and his team of animators visited Chili's for examples to use in Moe's family restaurant. The episode includes cultural references to the 1968 song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly, which is played during the evidence, and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, as well as a parody of Judy Blume's 1970 book Are Yous There God? It'due south Me, Margaret.

Writers from the fields of organized religion, philosophy, popular civilisation, and psychology cited the episode in books discussing The Simpsons and the show's approach to the nature of the soul.

The episode was positively received and is regarded as 1 of the serial' best. The artistic team of The Simpsons puts the episode amidst the superlative five all-time episodes of the series, and series creator Matt Groening cited "Bart Sells His Soul" as one of his favorite episodes. It has been used by secondary schools in religious educational activity courses equally a educational activity tool.

Plot [edit]

As penalisation for changing the church's opening hymn as a prank to "In the Garden of Eden" past Iron Butterfly, Reverend Lovejoy makes Bart make clean the organ pipes; Milhouse is made to help for snitching on Bart. Bart is furious with Milhouse (who claimed he didn't want his soul to go to hell), and afterwards proclaiming at that place is no such affair as a soul, he agrees to sell his to Milhouse for $5 on a piece of newspaper which reads "Bart Simpson'due south soul". Lisa warns Bart that he volition regret selling his soul, but he dismisses her fears.

Bart experiences several unusual phenomena, such as automated doors refusing to open for him and no longer finding any humour in Itchy and Scratchy. He begins to fear that he actually has lost his soul and tries to become it back from Milhouse, who refuses to render information technology for less than $50. Afterward having a nightmare and beingness taunted by Lisa, Bart once again desperately tries to persuade Milhouse to return his soul. Milhouse informs Bart that he traded the paper to Comic Book Guy at the Android's Dungeon.

The next morning, Comic Book Guy tells Bart that he sold the piece of paper but refuses to reveal its new owner. Saddened, Bart walks dwelling in the rain and prays to God for his soul in his bedroom. When a piece of paper with the words "Bart Simpson's soul" floats down from to a higher place, Bart discovers that Lisa bought his soul to return it to him. While she explains philosophers' views on the human soul, Bart eats the slice of paper, overjoyed at getting his soul back.

In the subplot, Moe tries to aggrandize his customer base of operations by turning his bar into a family unit theme restaurant. The stress of running the business by himself ultimately unnerves him, and he soon snaps at a little girl. The horrified customers abandon the restaurant, forcing Moe's to revert to a run-down tavern.

Product [edit]

"Bart Sells His Soul" was the 2nd episode to have Beak Oakley and Josh Weinstein every bit executive producers. Oakley and Weinstein wanted to commencement the season with episodes that had an emotional bias in an endeavor to center the Simpson family.[3] The episode was written by Greg Daniels, who originally had an thought for a plot that dealt with racism in Springfield. The writers did not think The Simpsons was the correct forum for it, so Daniels suggested the idea of selling someone's soul, which originated in his babyhood.[3] In loftier school, Daniels encouraged a bully to sell him his soul for 50 cents, and then convinced classmates to frighten the nifty into buying his soul back for an inflated price. Daniels repeated this ploy, merely stopped when he realized that the but other person in history who has profited off others' souls was Satan, and that "scared" him.[4] In the opening scene of the episode, the congregation of the First Church of Springfield are tricked into singing "In a Gadda Da Vida" past Iron Butterfly. Daniels had originally intended for the song to be "Jesus He Knows Me" by British rock band Genesis, simply the producers were unable to obtain the rights for it to be featured in the episode.[4]

The episode was directed by Wesley Archer. Archer and his team of animators went to the eatery chain Chili's to get inspiration for the background designs of Moe's family restaurant. He said it was "quite a task" to transform Moe'south Tavern into a family-oriented establishment. Archer added that he was not "quite happy" with the outcome, and that they could accept designed information technology "a little better".[v] Weinstein recalled that in that location was contention between the animators most the fashion Moe looked in the episode. Moe's original design includes a missing molar, merely Weinstein and Oakley felt that it did not "await right" considering Moe was such a prominent character in the episode.[3] Archer showed the original pattern of Moe from the get-go flavor to the bear witness runners, and said: "Here, look. He'south got a missing tooth!", but the scenes that had Moe with a missing tooth in them were nonetheless reanimated.[6] Archer was disappointed with the dream sequence in which Bart sees his friends playing with their souls. Archer said that he had forgotten to tell the animators to make the souls transparent, so they were painted blue instead.[5] George Meyer pitched the joke restaurant title "The Texas Cheesecake Depository."[7]

Themes [edit]

Kurt Thou. Koenigsberger comments in his 2003 book Leaving Springfield that "a good deal of enjoyment" is to be had from the episode, due to "the exposure of the hypocrisy behind 'the finance of salvation' and the clashing operations of the commercial world".[viii] Don Cupitt, a swain of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, believes that when Lisa lectures Bart about the soul, she "shows a degree of theological composure which is simply not tolerated in Britain."[9] Paul Flower and David Pizarro wrote in the 2006 book The Psychology of The Simpsons that although Lisa does bear witness "healthy religious skepticism" she still believes in an eternal soul.[ten] However, Lisa tells Bart at the cease of the episode, "some philosophers believe that no one is born with a soul, you have to earn 1 through suffering, and thought, and prayer".[10] Bloom and Pizarro acknowledge: "Indeed, some philosophers and theologians say that without belief in a soul, ane cannot brand sense of the social concepts on which we rely, such equally personal responsibility and freedom of the volition."[10]

M. Keith Booker cites the episode in his 2006 book Fatigued to Tv set, while discussing The Simpsons ' treatment of faith.[11] Booker cites a scene from the episode where Milhouse asks Bart what religions have to gain by lying about concepts such as the existence of a soul – and then the scene cuts to Reverend Lovejoy counting his coin; Booker believes that this implies that religions create mythologies then that they can gain money from followers. He juxtaposes this with Bart's realization later in the episode that "life all of a sudden feels empty and incomplete" without a soul, which suggests "either that the soul is real or information technology is at least a useful fiction".[eleven] Marker I. Pinsky and Samuel F. Parvin discuss the episode in their book The Gospel According to the Simpsons: Leader's Guide for Group Study, and use examples from information technology to stimulate give-and-take among youth about the nature of the soul.[12] Pinsky and Parvin notation Bart's statement to Milhouse from the beginning of the episode: "Soul — come on, Milhouse, at that place's no such thing as a soul. It'south just something they made up to scare kids, similar the Boogie Homo or Michael Jackson", and then propose questions to enquire students, including whether they know individuals that agree with Bart, and their views on the being of a soul.[thirteen]

In the 2004 book Planet Simpson, Chris Turner quotes Bart's revelation to Lisa that he sold his soul to Milhouse for five dollars and used the coin to purchase sponges shaped like dinosaurs.[14] Later Lisa criticizes Bart for selling his soul, Bart responds: "Poor gullible Lisa. I'll go along my crappy sponges, thanks."[14] Turner comments: "Here Bart is the epitome of the earth-weary hipster, using the degraded linguistic communication of modernistic marketing to sell off the about sacred parts of himself because he knows that some inexpensive sponge is more than existent, hence more valuable, than even the loftiest of abstruse principles."[14]

Cultural references [edit]

On the DVD audio commentary for the episode, author Greg Daniels cited Martin Scorsese's 1985 film Later on Hours as an influence on Bart's night-time trek to retrieve his soul from Milhouse, merely to experience a series of unusual encounters.[4] Reverend Lovejoy leads his congregation in a hymnal version of the song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", past Iron Butterfly,[15] titled "In the Garden of Eden", by "I. Ron Butterfly".[16] [17]

During an statement between Lisa and Bart, while discussing the relationship between laughter and the soul, Lisa quotes Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, and Bart responds "I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda."[8] Kurt Chiliad. Koenigsberger comments in Leaving Springfield: "While Bart may be familiar with the catechism of Chilean poetry, the joke takes its forcefulness in part from the probability that The Simpsons' viewers are not."[8] Bart begins a prayer to God with "Are you at that place, God? It'southward me, Bart Simpson". This is an allusion to the 1970 book Are Y'all In that location God? It'south Me, Margaret., by Judy Blume.[eight] During a piggyback fight with Dolph Starbeam, Jimbo Jones exclaims, "I'thou Master Blaster," referencing the fearsome Thunderdome athlete from the 1985 movie Mad Max Across Thunderdome. The chalkboard gag is a reference to the ad slogan of the lean mean grilling machine by George Foreman. The title of the Itchy and Scratchy Show episode "Skinless in Seattle" is a reference to the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle.

Reception [edit]

In its original broadcast, "Bart Sells His Soul" finished 43rd in the ratings for the week of October 2–8, 1995, with a Nielsen rating of viii.8, equivalent to approximately viii.4 one thousand thousand viewing households. It was the fourth highest-rated show on the Fox network that week after The X-Files, Melrose Identify, and Beverly Hills, 90210.[18]

In July 2007, an article in the San Mateo County Times notes that "Bart Sells His Soul" is seen as 1 of "the most pop episodes in 'Simpsons' history".[nineteen] Noel Holston of the Star Tribune highlighted the episode in the paper's "Critic's option" section.[xx] The Intelligencer Journal described "Bart Sells His Soul" equally "a particularly good episode" of The Simpsons.[21] The Lansing Land Periodical highlighted the episode in the season seven DVD release, forth with the decision of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" and "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular".[22] The Sunday Herald Sun called it one of the "show's most memorable episodes",[23] as did The Courier Mail.[24]

The Aberdeen Press & Journal described the episode as "i of the darkest episodes of the Simpsons".[25]

In their section on the episode in the book I Tin't Believe It's a Bigger and Improve Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood comment: "Undoubtedly the most disturbing episode of the series, with Bart's nightmare of losing his soul — illustrated by a macabre playground where all the souls of his playmates are visible, and his is tagging along with Milhouse — more frightening than funny. ... An analogy of just how far the serial could go past this point."[2]

In April 2003, the episode was listed by The Simpsons creative team as amidst the top five best episodes of the serial, including "Last Leave to Springfield", "Cape Feare", "22 Curt Films Most Springfield", and "Homer at the Bat".[26] [27]

In a 2005 interview The Simpsons creator Matt Groening commented "I don't take a single favorite. There's a agglomeration I really like", simply cited "Bart Sells His Soul" and "Homer's Enemy" as amidst episodes he loves.[28]

Bart's voice actress Nancy Cartwright stated "Bart Sells His Soul" is ane of her meridian iii episodes together with "Lisa's Substitute" and "Bart the Mother".[29] Lisa's vocalization actress Yeardley Smith stated in an interview that "Bart Sells His Soul" is ane of her favorite episodes forth with "Girly Edition".[30]

The episode has been used in church courses in Connecticut and in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland about the nature of a soul,[31] [32] and was shown past a government minister in Scotland in ane of his sermons.[33] A 2005 report on religious didactics in secondary schools, by the United Kingdom didactics regulator Office for Standards in Teaching, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted), noted that the episode was being used as a instruction tool.[34]

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Bibliography

  • Turner, Chris (2005). Planet Simpson: How a Drawing Masterpiece Defined a Generation (1st revised ed.). Cambridge: Da Capo Press. ISBN978-0-306-81448-eight. OCLC 670978714.

External links [edit]

  • "Bart Sells His Soul episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.
  • Bart Sells His Soul at AllMovie
  • Bart Sells His Soul at IMDb

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