Bart Gets Famous

Rating: 3.9 (165 votes)

Memorable quotes

Bart: Damn TV, you've ruined my imagination, just like you've ruined my ability to... uh...

Tour guide: That's just a TV studio where they film Krusty the Clown and other non-box-related programs.

Homer: You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel.

Homer: Whaddaya mean, you lost him? He might have fallen into one of these machines! (sees Bart's hat on a box) Oh, my God, that's his lucky red hat. He's a box! My boy's a box! Damn you, a box!

Lisa: I've got a weekend job helping the poor and I'm only eight.
Homer: That's not a job, it's a waste of time. What can poor people pay you? Nothing! What satisfaction you get from helping them? None! Who wants to help poor people anyway? Nobody!

Krusty: Don't listen to him, kid. This is a dream factory, the birthplace of magic, an enchantment! Now I need you to go clean out my toilet.

Lisa: If I ever become famous, I want it to be for something worthwhile, not because of some obnoxious fad.
Bart: Obnoxious fad?
Homer: Aw, don't worry, son. You know, they said the same thing about Urkel -- that little snot! Boy, I'd like to smash that kid!

Lisa: If anyone wants me, I'll be in my room.
Homer: What kind of catchphrase is that?

Krusty: Bart, I need your fingerprints on a candlestick. Meet me in the conservatory, chop-chop.

Bart: I know! I'll just do like Lisa and escape into fantasy.
Skinner: Class instead of going to the Box Factory today we'll be going to the.... Box Factory!

Notes

• The tune Bart whistles, which Marge finds annoying, is The Simpsons' theme tune.
• Lisa's dream house has a saxophone shaped fountain outside.
• A box calendar hangs on the wall of the tour guide's office.
• Bart opens the door to Channel Six studios the wrong way - it looks like a fire escape and so should open outwards, not inwards.
• A Bleeding Gums Murphy album can be seen in the recording studio (where Bart records his rap).
• ''I didn't do it'' was originally Krusty's catchphrase (see 7G12 Krusty Gets Busted).
• The taxi that Bart passes at the end of the episode charges $4.50 a mile.

References

• Krusty phones Bart in the middle of school to get his fingerprints on a candlestick in the conservatory, referencing the popular board game, Cluedo.
• Bart raps to Rick James/ Hammer's "You Can't Touch This".