#bart the lover

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

[springfieldusa]

[sapphireluna96]

(The Madrigals are at church. Agustin puts twenty pesos in the donation dish without looking)

Luisa: Papa, that was a twenty.

Agustin: DA--

(He puts money in the Madrigal family swear jar. Agustin is now out bowling with Felix and Bruno. The last pin tips over but doesn't fall.)

Agustin: Oh, YOU SON OF A--

(Swear jar. Agustin is now in the village running errands when Osvaldo with a clean-shaven face sees him.)

Osvaldo: Hey, Gus! You know, I owe you one, buddy! No sooner had I shaved off the old cookie duster than a lady cast me in a commercial. I tell ya, the way these checks keep coming in, it's almost criminal!

Agustin: YOU DIRTY BAS--

(Swear jar. Agustin is now helping Antonio build a playhouse for Parce)

Agustin: What do you think, Tonito?

Antonio: How's Parce supposed to get in?

Agustin: Well, he just goes... (realizes he forgot the door) AH--

(Swear jar. Agustin is asleep in the backyard. A beehive lands on top of him and he screams. Swear jar. Agustin is now finishing the last touches for Parce's playhouse. He hits his thumb with the hammer.)

Agustin: Oh... fudge... that's... broken. (He steps on a nail) Fiddle dee dee... that will require a tetanus shot. I'm not going to swear. But I am going to KICK THIS PLAYHOUSE DOWN!

(He begins kicking Parce's playhouse)

[jesusworesandals]

"Fiddle-dee-dee! That will require a tetanus shot."

[heliphantie]

"Bart The Lover" (season 3), aired February 13, 1992.

This episode, probably, didn’t age well in our time(?), yet it’s one of my favorites about relationships between Bart and Mrs K. Bart is being as heinous as he is naïve about ramifications of his scam, close enough to destroy his teacher morally beyond his calculations if she’d found out his plotting. Thankfully, Marge is being as merciful as she is sensitive about the harm of playing with woman’s heart, willing to help him to make amends and avoiding further wound. (I’d like to draw her for that, but after two homages to Marge in a row Mrs K deserved her spotlight.)

This is not the last chapter of Edna’s perilous pursuit for happiness, with or without Bart’s involvement, for better or worse, but the most bitter-sweet of all.

[classic-simpsons]

[flyinghellfish]

[nine-frames]

s03e16 “Bart the Lover”