Radio Bart

Rating: 3.9 (182 votes)

Memorable quotes

Bart: Digital audio tape, my butt! When I was a kid, we had compact disks, and I don't recall no one complaining.
Barber: Damn right.

Homer: Oh, there's only one can of beer left, and it's Bart's.

Bart: (over radio) Rod, Todd, this is God!
Rod: How did you get on the radio?
Bart: Whaddya mean, how did I get on the radio? I created the universe! Stupid kid.
Todd: Forgive my brother. We believe you.
Bart: Talk is cheap. Perhaps I'll test a guy's faith. Walk through the wall! I will remove it for you... (he walks into the wall) Later.

Homer: That Timmy is a real hero!
Lisa: How do you mean, Dad?
Homer: Well, he fell down a well, and... he can't get out.
Lisa: How does that make him a hero?
Homer: Well, that's more than you did!

Wiggum: Your boy picked a bad time to fall down a well. If he'd done it at the start of the fiscal year, no problemo.

Marge: Bart honey, I made you an extra-warm sweater you can wear while you're down in the well.
Bart: Mom, it's too big.
Homer: Don't worry, you'll grow into it.

Marge: Sting, you look tired. Maybe you should take a rest.
Sting: Not while one of my fans needs me.
Marge: Actually, I don't know if I've ever heard Bart play one of your albums.
Homer: Shhhh. Marge, he's a good digger!

Notes

• McBain wore his gun at the recording of ''We're Sending Our Love Down The Well.''
• Video games at the arcade include ''Larry the Looter,'' ''Time Waster'' and ''Comic Shop.''
• There is a dinosaur skeleton and a flying saucer buried deep in the soil alongside the well.
• One of the names in Krusty's Birthday Buddies was J.P. Patches, a real life clown.
• Several of the buddies also wrote for the ''Harvard Lampoon.''

References

• The Wall E. Weasel kids restaurant is based on the Chuck E. Cheese Pizza chain of restaurants.
• The plot of this episode was inspired by the film Ace In A Hole. It also bears a resemblance to the real-life story of Jessica McClure, a girl who fell down a well.
• The We're Sending Our Love Down The Well song was inspired by the celebrity recording We Are The World.
• Homer's line, ''I've had all I can stands and I can't stands no more!'' is from Popeye.