Bart's Inner Child

Rating: 3.6 (157 votes)

Memorable quotes

Homer: Kids, kids: once you get hurt, move aside and let other people jump.

Snake: All right! I got me a bed.

Homer: Marge, I'm feeling a lot of shame right now.
Marge: I'm hearing that you feel a lot of shame.
Homer: And I feel that you hear my shame.
Marge: I'm feeling annoyance and frustration, but also tolerance.
Homer: I feel validated by that.

Brad Goodman: Let me hear what's troubling you. Don't be shy, yell it out. Everybody, go!
Quimby: I, er, can't commit to a relationship.
Mr. Burns: I'm too nice!
Apu: I have problems with--
Lenny: I'm always interrupting people!

Lisa: This is madness. He's just peddling a bunch of easy answers.
Carl: And how!

Bart: Lis, everyone in town is acting like me. So why does it suck?
Lisa: Simple, Bart: you've defined yourself as a rebel, and in the absence of a repressive milieu, your societal niche has been co-opted.
Bart: I see.

Lisa: This is your chance to develop a new and better identity. May I suggest "good-natured doormat"?
Bart: Sounds good, sis. Just tell me what to do.

Kent Brockman: A new mood is in the air in Springfield, as refreshing as a pre-moistened towlette. Folks are finally accepting their feelings and really communicating, with no holding back, and this reporter thinks it's about ****ing time.

Kent Brockman: Springfield will have its first annual "Do What You Feel" Festival this Saturday. Whenever you feel like throwing up, it'll be a welcome change from our annual "Do As We Say" Festival started by German settlers in 1946.

Skinner: Eat my shorts, young man!

Squeaky-Voiced Teen: Mister, I can't stand the sound of your voice!

Homer: Ooh! It's that new show about the policeman who solves crimes in his spare time!

Notes

• Krusty lives at 534 Center Street.
• Homer reads ''Owning Your Okayness.''
• Light beams shine through the clouds when Rod and Todd ask what they have done to make God mad.
• Maggie eats food with her pacifier.
• Admission to ''Homerland'' is $50.
• Marge wears a baseball cap backwards on top of her hair at the festival.
• The diseases in the Feel Bad Rainbow include ''Motor Mouth'' and ''Uncontrollable Falling Down.''
• When Homer and Marge are talking in bed and Marge sits up and says "thats not true" she is naked. However, the close-up uses recycled animation...and she is wearing a nightgown.

References

• The scene of the injured kids lined up in rows parodies the soldiers from ''Gone With The Wind''.
• Homer pushes the trampoline off the cliff a la Wile E Coyote from the ''Road Runner'' cartoons. It bounces back up and pummels Homer into the edge of the cliff. The cliff then breaks off.
• The run away Ferris Wheel is a reference to ''1941.''
• The women reveling on the statue of Brad Goodman parodies ''The Ten Commandments''.