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Sideshow Bob to kill Bart Simpson in next Halloween Special
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Zeyphersan
Banned
Bart Simpson will die and be replaced by a shell of his former self, only repeating the phrase "Eat my shorts" mindlessly in an attempt to stay relevant
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
They're killing him by extending the show for another 10 years?
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Gotta keep this Franken thing alive somehow.
Soodanim
Member
I know it's correct, but the use of "literally" makes the writer seem like a young 20-something female with bad grades (seems to be the group that does it where I live, before GAF jumps on me) that uses the word to mean "not literally".
As for the Halloween special... well done, I guess? It's inconsequential.
As for the Halloween special... well done, I guess? It's inconsequential.
timetokill
Banned
It's too late, Bob.
Bart along with the rest of The Simpsons have been dead for years.
Bart along with the rest of The Simpsons have been dead for years.
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Laieon
Member
Banjotanooki
Member
Why are they announcing who's dying?
Lord British
Member
Just to get this out of the way.
You know how Fox has a weird way of counting Simpsons episodes?
They refuse to count a couple of them, making the amount of episodes inconsistent.
The reason for this is a lost episode from season 1.
Finding details about this missing episode is difficult, no one who was working on the show at the time likes to talk about it. From what has been pieced together, the lost episode was written entirely by Matt Groening. During production of the first season, Matt started to act strangely. He was very quiet, seemed nervous and morbid. Mentioning this to anyone who was present results in them getting very angry, and forbidding you to ever mention it to Matt.
I first heard of it at an event where David Silverman was speaking. Someone in the crowd asked about the episode, and Silverman simply left the stage, ending the presentation hours early. The episode's production number was 7G06, the title was Dead Bart. The episode labeled 7G06, Moaning Lisa, was made later and given Dead Bart's production code to hide the latter's existence.
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. At a fan event, I managed to follow him after he spoke to the crowd, and eventually had a chance to talk to him alone as he was leaving the building. He didn't seem upset that I had followed him, probably expected a typical encounter with an obsessive fan. When I mentioned the lost episode though, all color drained from his face and he started trembling. When I asked him if he could tell me any details, he sounded like he was on the verge of tears. He grabbed a piece of paper, wrote something on it, and handed it to me. He begged me never to mention the episode again.
The piece of paper had a website address on it, I would rather not say what it was, for reasons you'll see in a second. I entered the address into my browser, and I came to a site that was completely black, except for a line of yellow text, a download link. I clicked on it, and a file started downloading. Once the file was downloaded, my computer went crazy, it was the worst virus I had ever seen. System restore didn't work, the entire computer had to be rebooted. Before doing this though, I copied the file onto a CD. I tried to open it on my now empty computer, and as I suspected, there was an episode of The Simpsons on it.
The episode started off like any other episode, but had very poor quality animation. If you've seen the original animation for Some Enchanted Evening, it was similar, but less stable. The first act was fairly normal, but the way the characters acted was a little off. Homer seemed angrier, Marge seemed depressed, Lisa seemed anxious, Bart seemed to have genuine anger and hatred for his parents.
The episode was about the Simpsons going on a plane trip, near the end of the first act, the plane was taking off. Bart was fooling around, as you'd expect. However, as the plane was about 50 feet off the ground, Bart broke a window on the plane and was sucked out.
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. This was used in this episode. The picture of Bart's corpse was barely recognizable, they took full advantage of it not having to move, and made an almost photo-realistic drawing of his dead body.
Act one ended with the shot of Bart's corpse. When act two started, Homer, Marge, and Lisa were sitting at their table, crying. The crying went on and on, it got more pained, and sounded more realistic, better acting than you would think possible. The animation started to decay even more as they cried, and you could hear murmuring in the background. The characters could barely be made out, they were stretching and blurring, they looked like deformed shadows with random bright colors thrown on them.
There were faces looking in the window, flashing in and out so you were never sure what they looked like.
This crying went on for all of act two.
Act three opened with a title card saying one year had passed. Homer, Marge, and Lisa were skeletally thin, and still sitting at the table. There was no sign of Maggie or the pets.
They decided to visit Bart's grave. Springfield was completely deserted, and as they walked to the cemetery the houses became more and more decrepit. They all looked abandoned. When they got to the grave, Bart's body was just lying in front of his tombstone, looking just like it did at the end of act one.
The family started crying again. Eventually they stopped, and just stared at Bart's body. The camera zoomed in on Homer's face. According to summaries, Homer tells a joke at this part, but it isn't audible in the version I saw, you can't tell what Homer is saying.
The view zoomed out as the episode came to a close. The tombstones in the background had the names of every Simpsons guest star on them. Some that no one had heard of in 1989, some that haven't been on the show yet. All of them had death dates on them.
For guests who died since, like Michael Jackson and George Harrison, the dates were when they would die. The credits were completely silent, and seemed handwritten. The final image was the Simpson family on their couch, like in the intros, but all drawn in hyper realistic, lifeless style of Bart's corpse.
A thought occurred to me after seeing the episode for the first time, you could try to use the tombstones to predict the death of living Simpsons guest stars, but there's something odd about most of the ones who haven't died yet.
All of their deaths are listed as the same date.
You know how Fox has a weird way of counting Simpsons episodes?
They refuse to count a couple of them, making the amount of episodes inconsistent.
The reason for this is a lost episode from season 1.
Finding details about this missing episode is difficult, no one who was working on the show at the time likes to talk about it. From what has been pieced together, the lost episode was written entirely by Matt Groening. During production of the first season, Matt started to act strangely. He was very quiet, seemed nervous and morbid. Mentioning this to anyone who was present results in them getting very angry, and forbidding you to ever mention it to Matt.
I first heard of it at an event where David Silverman was speaking. Someone in the crowd asked about the episode, and Silverman simply left the stage, ending the presentation hours early. The episode's production number was 7G06, the title was Dead Bart. The episode labeled 7G06, Moaning Lisa, was made later and given Dead Bart's production code to hide the latter's existence.
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. At a fan event, I managed to follow him after he spoke to the crowd, and eventually had a chance to talk to him alone as he was leaving the building. He didn't seem upset that I had followed him, probably expected a typical encounter with an obsessive fan. When I mentioned the lost episode though, all color drained from his face and he started trembling. When I asked him if he could tell me any details, he sounded like he was on the verge of tears. He grabbed a piece of paper, wrote something on it, and handed it to me. He begged me never to mention the episode again.
The piece of paper had a website address on it, I would rather not say what it was, for reasons you'll see in a second. I entered the address into my browser, and I came to a site that was completely black, except for a line of yellow text, a download link. I clicked on it, and a file started downloading. Once the file was downloaded, my computer went crazy, it was the worst virus I had ever seen. System restore didn't work, the entire computer had to be rebooted. Before doing this though, I copied the file onto a CD. I tried to open it on my now empty computer, and as I suspected, there was an episode of The Simpsons on it.
The episode started off like any other episode, but had very poor quality animation. If you've seen the original animation for Some Enchanted Evening, it was similar, but less stable. The first act was fairly normal, but the way the characters acted was a little off. Homer seemed angrier, Marge seemed depressed, Lisa seemed anxious, Bart seemed to have genuine anger and hatred for his parents.
The episode was about the Simpsons going on a plane trip, near the end of the first act, the plane was taking off. Bart was fooling around, as you'd expect. However, as the plane was about 50 feet off the ground, Bart broke a window on the plane and was sucked out.
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. This was used in this episode. The picture of Bart's corpse was barely recognizable, they took full advantage of it not having to move, and made an almost photo-realistic drawing of his dead body.
Act one ended with the shot of Bart's corpse. When act two started, Homer, Marge, and Lisa were sitting at their table, crying. The crying went on and on, it got more pained, and sounded more realistic, better acting than you would think possible. The animation started to decay even more as they cried, and you could hear murmuring in the background. The characters could barely be made out, they were stretching and blurring, they looked like deformed shadows with random bright colors thrown on them.
There were faces looking in the window, flashing in and out so you were never sure what they looked like.
This crying went on for all of act two.
Act three opened with a title card saying one year had passed. Homer, Marge, and Lisa were skeletally thin, and still sitting at the table. There was no sign of Maggie or the pets.
They decided to visit Bart's grave. Springfield was completely deserted, and as they walked to the cemetery the houses became more and more decrepit. They all looked abandoned. When they got to the grave, Bart's body was just lying in front of his tombstone, looking just like it did at the end of act one.
The family started crying again. Eventually they stopped, and just stared at Bart's body. The camera zoomed in on Homer's face. According to summaries, Homer tells a joke at this part, but it isn't audible in the version I saw, you can't tell what Homer is saying.
The view zoomed out as the episode came to a close. The tombstones in the background had the names of every Simpsons guest star on them. Some that no one had heard of in 1989, some that haven't been on the show yet. All of them had death dates on them.
For guests who died since, like Michael Jackson and George Harrison, the dates were when they would die. The credits were completely silent, and seemed handwritten. The final image was the Simpson family on their couch, like in the intros, but all drawn in hyper realistic, lifeless style of Bart's corpse.
A thought occurred to me after seeing the episode for the first time, you could try to use the tombstones to predict the death of living Simpsons guest stars, but there's something odd about most of the ones who haven't died yet.
All of their deaths are listed as the same date.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Halloween special, they die in those all the time.
I bet you the method Sideshow Bob manages to kill him will be something comically simple. Since his methods are always a bit... Complex, and those always fail, probably some unintended oversight in his scheme or something he does out of frustration of not being able to kill him actually is what managed to kill him.
Probably.
I bet you the method Sideshow Bob manages to kill him will be something comically simple. Since his methods are always a bit... Complex, and those always fail, probably some unintended oversight in his scheme or something he does out of frustration of not being able to kill him actually is what managed to kill him.
Probably.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Yes, this appears to be a creepypasta. Not bad. The whole Matt Groening shaking though lol.
"It's cursed! Cursed I say!"
excelsiorlef
Member
no it is not.
Soodanim
Member
Lol at Dead Bart. I've never read that before. I'm disappointed at the video, I expected someone to at least try and make it look like the video in parts.
As the page says, it's common hyperbole. And/or people are ignorant of the definition pre-inclusion.
excelsiorlef
Member
They totally did, Bart falls, you see his corpse, the family cries, you see a graveyard with gravestones, even hyper realistic animation (guy in a bart suit on a real beach lol), degradation of animation towards the end (the usage of original old school Tracy Ulman footage). Given that all they had to work with was pre-existing footage I thought it was a solid B+ attempt, with bonus marks for just being overtly creepy.
Prophet Steve
Member
He mentions that he knows it is correct. Although I don't consider it proper usage for some who writes for a living. Besides that, this doesn't seem to be used hyperbolic either and seems to be a completely meaningless word in this context.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
Death will be by Bob dressing up as a clown and eating Bart in his sleep in a mix of the Simpson's clinging to former memetic glory.
Also, in a second half to the episode, Bart will give birth to a bovine-human cow hybrid thus literally 'having a cow man'
Soodanim
Member
I got bored with the intentional "poor quality VHS" effect and skipped through it, and it seemed like random clips to me. Maybe I'll try and sit through it after work.
Steve gets it.
Robot Pants
Member
I didn't do it.
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
I like it, it actually kind of clever I hope they use the episode to parody scary serial killer movies.
Azure Dream
Member
I thought Sideshow Bob gave that up years ago. Is it still a thing, or are they bringing it back just for this special?
Hot Coldman
Banned
...Why would you actually have Coyote catch the Road Runner
HIS FAILURE IS WHY IT'S FUNNY
morons
HIS FAILURE IS WHY IT'S FUNNY
morons
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
Can't really fault them when they've already done literally everything else.
What else is left for the Simpsons to do?
What else is left for the Simpsons to do?
timetokill
Banned
He loves doing the voice, they even managed to get him for The Simpsons Ride at Universal. They couldn't get Harry Shearer for that. They do have to work around his busy schedule, they couldn't get him for the Cheers parody.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I think he likes the role and makes an exception, partially due to how big the Simpsons is recognized and also to enjoyment for it. They got him to voice Side Show Bob in the Simpsons: Video Game where he only appears for 20 seconds in a cutscene, then amply gets thwarted. He even makes the comment, "I bet you didn't expect to see me here!", and such things.
Yeah, I get the impression he gives more lenience on the role due to enjoyment playing the role and the name recognition The Simpsons has.
Yeah it's like the person who wrote this episode has never seen a Simpsons Halloween special.
Gambit 1138
Banned
That's been the problem with Simpsons for a decade now
It's not authentic Simpsons it's like a weird attempt at emulation/imitation of the Simpsons
I have a vein hope that this might actually be something they could pull off well, though they should get someone like Lee Hardcastle to handle it,
The exaggerated meaning of the word is now included in some dictionaries so it's acceptable now.
Chuckie
Member
But it is literally decades. Bob tries to kill Bart for the first time in 93, that is 22 years ago.
Prophet Steve
Member
Well, I don't think that necessary means it is acceptable, but aside of that it seems to come with a footnote for it being a special case of usage.
In this case it doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't clarify anything, it does not intensify anything. I don't mind people using it when exaggerating, but I don't think that's correct here.
Chuckie
Member
Well like I said, I think the writer is actually trying to convey the fact Bob has been trying to kill Bart for more than twenty years. Which is literally decades.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
It's Halloween. And Bart's died before. I see no big deal. If he actually died for real in a non-Halloween episode then it'd be a big deal.
I think they should set it up and just before Bart is killed, the video should go briefly to static then immediately to black for about 30 seconds. Then when it comes back on, the credits should be running.
Then Krusty comes out and says "OH MY GOD! THEY WILL NEVER LET US SHOW THAT ONE AGAIN!"
The end.
I think they should set it up and just before Bart is killed, the video should go briefly to static then immediately to black for about 30 seconds. Then when it comes back on, the credits should be running.
Then Krusty comes out and says "OH MY GOD! THEY WILL NEVER LET US SHOW THAT ONE AGAIN!"
The end.
John Bender
Banned
Please watch our show. Look what will happen in the next episode:
Kinda reminds me of last year (I believe?) when they tried hyping up that they'd kill off a 'major' character, but it ended up being one of the minor characters that nobody cared about
It feels a bit desperate, lol
Messypandas
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GoutPatrol
Forgotten in his cell
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