Why do the writers love to shit on and humiliate Bart?
Why do the writers love to shit on and humiliate Bart?
Because not all the episodes can cater to your fetish
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Because he is straight white male.
Because he was always the rebel who didn't follow the rules but would get pushed around by life
New writers just think this means hes the hell raiser that deserves to be punched around
>white
They hate his voice actor for being a S*ientologist.
>episode aired in 2010
>10 year old Israeli girl in 2010 named Dorit
LOLno. Any Dorits you meet are in their 40s. Female baby names never stay in fashion long here.
Bart being white is wrong he's clearly crayon yellow. Bart being straight is dubious at best.
The boogeyman is real
This is better than when he was a sociopath around the teen seasons
Because the old writers that handled him better left ages ago and were replaced with new ones that didn't really care much for him
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Did anyone else started to get hard during that scene? And I'm not even into ballbusting.
Because America grew up with him.
No, seriously - Bart Simpson went from being a parent's worst nightmare (the rage of '90s parents groups over Bart's shenanigans was a thing to behold!) to being a character that modern parents remember fondly. Because of that emotional attachment to the old Bart, Zombie Simpsons!Bart is a buttmonkey more often than not so that whatever fans who watched the show growing up and are actually still watching the show will feel bad for him.
That, and it's easier to make people feel bad for Bart than it is to make people feel bad for Homer these days (the movie notwithstanding).
Because physical comedy is more enjoyed against dudes.
Most people don't like women getting hurt or best up so they're not used for physical comedy nearly as much.
>not shitting on and humiliating Lisa
>why live
I always felt bad for Bart. He's a brat sometimes yeah but I can't blame him for what is basically Marge and Homer's fault.
In the episode about explaining where Lisa's Saxophone came from we get a story about Bart as a kindergartner and essentially the entire storyline boils down to "Marge and Homer abandoned him emotionally because Lisa was gifted and he wasn't".
Every problem in Bart's life, from his behavioural problems to his struggling in school can all be directly tied to this flashback. To this point in his life where his parents essentially gave up on him and stopped even trying to give him a chance at a future.
It's because of this single episode that I can never hate Bart as a character, he's a kid who got completely screwed over by the most important people in his life. Parents who still don't even try to help him recover so he can have a decent shot at life.
It honestly really pisses me off and makes me really dislike Marge and Homer, we've had numerous episodes about them searching for ways to encourage Lisa to continue pursuing her dreams and aspirations but not even a single episode where they try to find something for Bart to aspire towards.
Bart is the forgotten child of the family. The kid that mom and dad gave up on before he even had a chance to prove himself. So I hate how often he gets screwed over in the show proper, it's like kicking someone who's been pinned to the ground and can't get up.
It also makes it extremely hard for me to accept all the episodes where Bart is portrayed as the 'bad guy'. Where his bratty behaviour and bad grades are blamed on him (you know, despite the fact that he's a ten year old child who literally can't be held accountable for their own decisions at that age).
That would mean the writers shitting on themselves
Someone's never seen the Itchy and Scratchy movie episode.
>straight
implying
Man, Flashback episodes are the LEAST appropriate when trying to build an actual canon for an episodic series like Simpsons.
Simpsons retcons it's history like every 5 years.
Homer and Marge met in the 90's now and even that will change in time
I have and I hardly believe that a single joke about fast forwarding into the future counts.
Don't forget that we've had two other 'future' episodes where Bart was a failure.
As for the content of the episode. It's an episode about Bart being punished, but at no point are any attempts made to positively reinforce any good behaviours he takes part in.
>Homer and Marge met in the 90's now and even that will change in time
user... the first marge and homer meeting episode was not set in the 90s...
I want to say it was set in the 70s.
You're way, way, way overthinking something that can be easily explained in these six words:
"Zombie Simpsons writing really fucking sucks."
I mean, you give the writers juuuust a little too much credit here.
You forgot, that even if he does find something he's good at Lisa or somebody else forcibly takes it away from him and you're expected to believe that he was somehow in the wrong for actually being good at ONE thing.
user, I'm telling you that then meeting in the 70's is no longer a thing thanks to a sliding timeline
Nancy Cartwright is a faggot, not because of her religion but because the quality of her voice acting went to shit after the classic seasons. Bart got increasingly whiny and lost all of that bratty intonation he used to have.
Isn't Homer's VA the only one who isn't crazy or retarded? Out of the main family I mean.
That's a lazy and uninteresting way to dismiss any sort of analysis. Complaining about the show has gotten lazier than the show itself nowadays
If the writers were really as clever as you assume them to be, the recent seasons wouldn't be a huge steaming pile of shit.
That's not the problem. It's that "That 90s Show" had nothing but cheap gags in place of the feelsy stuff in "The Way We Was". On the DVD commentary, James L. Brooks talks about how touching the episode was and how "We could never do this on a live action sitcom".
>the girls are stronger than boys meme
The different in physical strength isn't that substantial until puberty.
Besides, Dorit is an Israeli--they're a country of hardass fuckers who impale Palestinian babies on a bayonet and roast them over a campfire for breakfast. :^)
Well I'm pretty a lot of the flashback stuff for Bart are all the same.
Like that episode that he wanted to be a drummer and broke his hand because of status quo?
I don't get it. He used to date girls.
>that episode
>All those future episodes that show Bart as a depressed NEET
So, Bart is basically the Meg Griffin of the show at this point?
I wish the Simpsons had an advancing timeline. They probably wouldn't have lasted anywhere near as long, but it would have been a neat experiment.
Why not implement one now? It's not like they have anything else left to do.
I wasnt the first comment, but it was certainly a more interesting analysis than "I dont like it" which is meaningless.
Just throwing Zombie at everything is a boring replacement for having anything interesting to say
Flashbacks are actually a lot more consistent than anything else in the show. Lisa's First Word in Season 4 and the Kids Are All Fight in Season 26 are both based on the same time, for instance
Kicking a man in the balls is never unwelcome.
Girls develop faster. Males as a gender are hard carries.
Putting aside the obvious "show sucks now, duh" answer, it seems Bart got shit on in general even when the show was good. Usually not when the episode was about him though, but just one-off jokes.
Like when he had a stamp collection or something stolen and everyone in the family laughed at him for having one in the first place (think Lisa's even upset when her sax is stolen around the same time but says something about Bart's pain being funny), or when Lisa has a pleasant dream in which Bart is killed. That last one seems particularly fucked up to me but I don't have siblings so maybe that's actually normal? I dunno man
Think it's just because Lisa's supposed to be portrayed as sweet, innocent, more sensitive, etc., while Bart's a smartass brat who's seen as being able to take it. Same reason you don't really see jokes about Marge getting injured or anything; the male characters are used for comedy more than the female characters, and Simpsons comedy tends to involve someone getting shit on in some way. But I don't think that characterization of Lisa lasted too long or was ever especially consistent so it just means Bart gets most of the abuse.
> Bart
> straight
Yeah right.
Because of their Lisa God!
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