" Bart to the Future " is the seventeenth-season episode of the American animated television sitcom The Simpsons . It was originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 19, 2000. In that episode, after their picnic in the park was cut short due to mosquito repellent, Simpsons dropped by at an Indian casino. There, Bart was prevented from entering because of his age. He managed to sneak in but was caught by the guards and sent to the casino manager's office. The Native American manager showed Bart his future vision as a washed wannabe rocker living with Ralph Wiggum, while Lisa has become President of the United States and is trying to get the country out of financial trouble. "Bart to the Future" is the second episode of The Simpsons to be set in the future, following "Lisa's Wedding."
The episode was directed by Michael Marcantel and written by Dan Greaney, who wanted to explore what Bart's life might be like. Some designs were created by animators for Bart's future, but Greaney did not think they matched the personality of the characters and had to give clearer instructions on how he wanted him to be seen. The acceptance of "Bart to the Future" by critics generally mixes with the negatives. In 2003, he was named the worst episode of the series by Entertainment Weekly writers who felt the "future-to-future premise" was done better at "Lisa's Wedding." Approximately 8.77 million homes in America are set to watch episodes during their original broadcast. In 2008, it was released on DVD along with the rest of the eleventh season episode. This episode drew new attention in the events leading up to the 2016 presidential election, due to a reference to president Donald Trump.
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Plot
The Simpsons drove to the park for a picnic but found that it had been overrun by mosquitoes. On the way home, the family found an Indian casino. Bart turns away because of his age but is able to sneak in by hiding in Arthur Crandall's artificial puppets. During Crandall's performance at the casino, Bart exploded from the case and was caught by the casino guard. He was sent to the casino manager's office, where the Genuine American manager showed him a vision of how his future would change if he did not change his way of life. Thirty years into the future, Bart is a 40-year-old beer-drink drinker trying to start his musical career after coming out of DeVry Institute, and has been trying to spy on his parents and their neighbor, Ned Flanders. The only show of Bart is at the beach bar owned by Nelson Muntz, and even then, Bart is only paid with popcorn shrimp. Bart lives with Ralph Wiggum at a beachside cottage, where Bart finds out that he has been evicted after his devastating concert at Nelson's bar. While Lisa, 38 years old is the first direct female President of the United States.
Bart screwed up one of Lisa's addresses to the state to promote his musical career, which made Lisa unpopular when Bart sang publicly on live television that Lisa would impose a tax to make the country debt-free. Lisa then meets with the leaders of American creditor countries, who demand that America pay them back. Bart walks in and uses his skills on the debt collectors to save the day, pleasing Lisa who had previously been angry at her brother. As a thank you, Bart asks Lisa to "legalize it", and Lisa says that she will do it. Meanwhile, Homer had heard about the gold buried by Abraham Lincoln in the White House yard and began looking for it. When he finally found "gold", it was actually a chest with a scroll in it that Lincoln wrote by explaining that his "gold" was in the hearts of every freedom-loving American. " Homer did not appreciate the metaphor and angrily cursed Lincoln. After the vision is over, Bart promises that he will change. Lisa finds Bart and tells him that the family has been expelled from the casino after Homer pushes a waiter and Marge loses $ 20,000. Bart tells Lisa about her vision of a future where she has rock bands and mopeds, while downplaying the future of Lisa's president as "government work."
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Production
"Bart to the Future" was written by Dan Greaney and directed by Michael Marcantel as part of the eleventh season of The Simpsons (1999-2000). This is the second episode of the series to show the lives of Simpson's family in the future, after the six-season episode of "Lisa's Wedding" which aired five years earlier in 1995. Three more episodes of the future have been released since "Bart to the Future", the first Future-Drama (season 16, 2005), the second is "Holidays of Future Passed" (season 23, 2011) and the third is "Days of Future Future" (season 25, 2014). Greaney's inspiration for "Bart to the Future" comes from "Lisa's Wedding". He and The Simpsons writer Matt Selman were sitting in Greaney's office one day, trying to come up with new episode stories, when they accepted the idea of ​​making a companion section for the episode. Greaney wanted to write a set of episodes in the future that focused on Bart, not Lisa. He thought it would be interesting to explore how the future works for "a man like Bart, who is not paying attention to schoolwork and all about being cool."
Selman commented in the audio commentary for "Bart to the Future" that "the thing that really makes authors [ Simpsons ] excited about this episode is a very specific version of Bart's future." Greaney identified this version as "someone who blames others and tells everyone they were cool, that it was someone else's fault that his life did not go the way he wanted it to." Mike Scully also notes that Bart's future is the kind of person who "always waits for some sort of massive cash payment that he feels he owes whether it's an insurance settlement, an inheritance, or something to come sooner or later. "Greaney says that everyone in the writing room recognizes these traits from people they know and therefore everyone contributes to the episode by suggesting a line for Bart to say and things for him to do.
According to Greaney, the animators originally designed Bart as "cool and fun" and made several designs where he was "slim, attractive, and hip." Greaney did not think that all of these designs fit the personality that he and others had authored the author to Bart in the future, so he told the animator to draw a character with a distended belly, a horse tail, sagging under his eyes, and an earring. Scully said in an audio commentary that he thought Bart's design looked "great", although he added that it was "a bit annoying" to see old versions of Homer and Marge in the episode, and joked that it was "a bit sad to see the age of cartoon characters."
Greaney needed a setpiece for the episode that allowed him to get into the vision of the character in the future, and the author of The George George George Meyer came up with the idea of ​​an Indian casino. When Homer and Bart first entered the casino, Homer told Bart that "Although they seem odd to us, we must respect the ways of the Indians." He goes on to greet everyone at the casino by saying "Hi, how are you?" in the rhythm of native American singing stereotypes. The joke was triggered by Tom Gammill, and there was a debate amongst the event staff about whether or not to include it in the episode as Native Americans could consider it offensive. However, according to Scully, Dan Castellaneta (who voiced Homer) "did [jokes] so funny when we were at the reading desk so we decided to include it and took the offending risks."
Release and acceptance
The episode originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 19, 2000. It was seen in about 8.77 million households that night. With Nielsen 8.7 rating, the episode finished 28th in the rankings for the week of March 13-19, 2000. It was the second highest broadcast on Fox that week, after the episode of Malcolm in the Middle (rated 10.0 and watched on 10.1 million homes). On October 7, 2008, "Bart to the Future" was released on DVD as part of the The SimpsonsÃ,-The Complete Eleventh Season box set. Staff members Mike Scully, Dan Greaney, Matt Selman, and George Meyer participated in DVD audio comments for the episode. Scene removed from the episode is also included in the box set.
"Bart to the Future" has received negative criticism from critics compared to "Lisa's Wedding" which received a positive response. Nancy Basile from About.com listed him as one episode that he felt "shine in the season eleven". While reviewing the eleventh season of The Simpsons , Colin Jacobson of the DVD Movie Guide commented on "Bart to the Future", writes: "This kind of fantasy episode can be beaten or missed, and this trend applies here." However, more than 'The future' succeeds than the flops. Despite some bombing jokes, most of them proved pretty good. There's no point in it being a classic, but it's entertaining a lot of time. "Hayden Childs of The AV Club wrote in 2011 that the episode" is not so good, although it is better than many drinkers who actually have not arrived at the moment that. However, it completely fails to rise to the challenge of 'Lisa's Wedding.' "
In the 2003 article, Entertainment Weekly writers include "Bart to the Future" as the worst episode of Simpsons of all time. They elaborate that "Choosing the most episode of Simpsons is like choosing a Shasta McNasty crown installment - all relative, so while 'Bart to the Future' is probably better than anything else on TV in the first week of the show, even Mojo the monkey could have issued a more inventive script [...] Plus, the whole premise of looking for the future is just reviving the past glory, doing much more successfully in 1995's 'Lisa's Wedding.' "Also in 2003, Ben Rayner of Toronto Star was referred to" Bart to the Future "as" 2000 outing lame "and noted that" Entertainment Weekly "was properly dubbed [it] 'the worst episode ever' ". Winnipeg Free Press columnist Randall King writes in his review of season 11 that the episode "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" (which features the death of Maude Flanders characters) is "proof that a very brilliant series can - and do - go seriously wrong when it turns out 11. Killing off Maude is a sin compounded by Bart into the future episode [...] ".
In his 2006 Watch with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality , Jonathan Gray analyzed many of the ad parodies featured in The Simpsons . He commented on "Bart to the Future", writing: "It is as if advertising in children's toys or in church is not enough, in 'Bart to the Future,' an episode in which an Indian shaman at a casino treats Bart with his future vision , even his eyesight is disturbed when the future-Bart says, 'I guess I'm embarrassed,' and the ghost replied, 'You're sure, but hey, there's shame wealth in the Pow-Wow Caesar Indian casino. bet on here [...] The Simpsons uses parody very effectively, not only to illustrate how annoying and disrespectful advertising is breaking any territory, but also to mock their logic and rhetoric. "
References to Donald Trump presidency
The episode mentions that real estate mogul Donald Trump became president, and caused a budget crisis inherited from Lisa. In 2015, the news media called the episode a shadow of Trump's future for the president; This episode was produced during the 2000-third party Trump party run. And Greaney told The Hollywood Reporter in a 2016 interview that Trump's presidency thought at the time "just looked like a logical final stop before reaching the bottom," because it is consistent with the American vision of being mad. interview with TMZ in May 2016, Matt Groening said he thought that it was impossible Donald Trump would become president of the United States. Meanwhile, the scene from the brief 2015 "Trumptastic Voyage" (which refers to the real-life scene of Donald Trump around that time) has been mistakenly identified as those of "Bart to the Future".
On November 8, 2016, Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States. Four days later, at the credit opening of the "Havana Wild Weekend" episode, which aired on November 13, 2016, Bart wrote "Being the real sucks" as a whiteboard joke referring to Trump's victory in the election.
References
External links
- "Bart to the Future" at The Simpsons.com
- "Bart to the Future episode capsule". Simpsons Archive .
- "Bart to the Future" in IMDb
- "Bart to the Future" on TV.com
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