![]() The subplot for the episode involved Marge and Lisa attempting to enjoy New York City’s “high culture at low prices.” As a current denizen of Gotham, I probably appreciated the ensuing gags for more than they were worth, but the episode did an admirable job at sending up the city. Otherwise, Bart sneaking Mary onto a train and telling her father, “She proves that girls can like me, and if I told you where she was headed, she wouldn’t,” was as surprisingly touching as it was trite.īart and Mary, the latter of whom is New York chic, as you can tell from her hat. Case in point, in the middle of the episode, Mary borrows a street musician’s guitar to play a song about Bart, and it felt like a pretty transparently shoe-horned attempt to give Zooey Deschanel, who moonlights for the band She & Him, a chance to show off her vocal chops. The writers managed to wring some genuine pathos out of Bart’s pining, and his interactions with Mary were legitimately sweet, if a bit forced at times. The mission then becomes to sneak Mary off before Cletus can steal her away back to Springfield.ĭespite the oddity of having to resolve Bart’s status as an elementary school student with his well-worn collection of lost loves, I actually enjoyed the central conflict of the episode. Bart and Mary manage to have a few tender moments before Cletus predictably arrives to throw a wrench into the works. She’s worried that if her father, Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel, finds out, she’ll be returned to his hillbilly home. She’s been getting by on her own in The Big Apple, but she’s also been hiding from any Springfieldians. That lady…er…girl is Mary from the Season 17 episode “Apocalypse Cow,” who’s voiced by Fox’s current It-Girl de jure, Zooey Deschanel.īart, with a typical well-meaning if boobish assist from Homer, is able to locate Mary. ![]() After asking his dad’s advice, he enlists The Simpson family on a trip to New York City to track down the one who actually did. Bart’s conclusion at the end of his little breakup retrospective is that maybe no girl could possibly like him. #Simpsons apocalypse cow something burrowed series#Thankfully, the episode manages to achieve a measure of focus on this front, an increasing rarity in the series these days. But it’s still a bit odd to watch Bart reminisce about his collection of old flames as a wee fourth-grader.Ī collection Bart's girlfriends over the years. Granted, the blink and you miss it cameos from Sarah Michelle Gellar (Gina from “The Wandering Juvie”), Natalie Portman (Darcy from “Little Big Girl”), Anne Hathaway (Jenny from “The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly”), and Sarah Silverman (Nikki from “Stealing First Base”) portend that this episode was not meant to be a particularly deep look back at Bart’s nascent yet prolific love life. Yet the status quo is supposed to be roughly the same as when the series started. ![]() We’ve seen the characters on The Simpsons have a sizable number of adventures and go through a healthy dose of character development in the 500+ episodes the show has aired so far. That’s why it’s a little strange that the premise of The Simpsons Season 24 premiere, “Moonshine River,” is a wistful look back at Bart’s halcyon, prepubescent loves. But when the audience has been watching a show’s adventures for more than two decades and yet the characters technically haven’t aged a day, a certain disconnect develops. Very few cartoon characters age, and for most animated shows, that’s not much of a problem. ![]() I’m not anything yet.” Bart Simpson’s nerdly friend Martin said those words in a Season 16 episode and reminded us that the children of Springfield have had a surprisingly robust romantic life for a pack of eight-to-ten year olds. ![]()
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