Bart vs. Thanksgiving

Season 2, Episode 7, Aired
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The Simpson family Thanksgiving is ruined after Bart feels he has been wrongly punished and decides to run away.
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  • Classic.

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    By jmbsonic555, Oct 17, 2011 Report Abuse
    he episode begins on Thanksgiving Day morning, with Marge in the kitchen preparing a turkey, while Homer diffuses an argument between Bart and Lisa. The two are fighting over a bottle of glue. Lisa claims that Bart only wants the glue because she does, and when she gives Bart the glue he doesn't want it anymore. While Homer and Bart watch a parade on TV, Maggie follows Lisa upstairs where she has taken the glue to work on a centerpiece for Thanksgiving dinner. Back downstairs Bart pesters a busy Marge in the kitchen and tries to make cranberry sauce. Meanwhile, in the living room Homer watches a football game with Maggie, Marge comes in from the kitchen and tells Homer to go pick up Grandpa. Homer says he will go get him at halftime of the game, the doorbell rings and it is Marge's sisters Patty and Selma. Marge is upset when she sees that her sisters have also brought food to eat, they cite that her turkey is usually a little dry as their reasons for bringing extra food. Homer greets the sisters and makes his exit to leave and pick up Grandpa. At the nursing home Homer quickly ushers Grandpa out to the car, meanwhile a taxi pulls up in front of the Simpson home and a much older looking version of Marge gets out. The old woman walks by the kitchen window just as Marge and her sisters are basting the turkey. They all see her, and Marge rushes to the door to greet her mother. Upstairs Lisa is still diligently working on her centerpiece. Back downstairs Homer tries and fails to light a fire in the fireplace when Marge calls everyone for dinner. Homer leaves the fireplace unattended with a giant log in the middle that is barely smoking.
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  • Lisa spends a lot of time preparing a centerpiece for the table at Thanksgiving. Bart tries to remove it from the table and in the process throws it into the fireplace. Bart is sent to his room but soon sneaks out and embarks on a Thanksgiving adventuremoreless

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    By meathead704, Oct 05, 2011 Report Abuse
    This is a good episode of the The Simpsons but it's not one of the best because it recycles a very old formula of Thanksgiving dinner being ruined. This has been done an infinite number of times on an infinite number of shows. Either it's family quarrels or a series of mishaps that ruin Thanksgiving dinner. I think it's time to put this tired old formula out to pasture. The second half of the episode, where Bart embarks on his journey with Santa's Little Helper, does improve this episode slightly.moreless

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  • The Simpsons are getting better and better.

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    By Tastes, Dec 20, 2010 Report Abuse
    The Simpsons are getting better on this season, and that is shown on this chapter.
    Some really funny and classic jokes are on this chapter, like the praying, and Marge's grandmother with faringitis, only speaking to complain.
    But even more interesting is the relationship in the family that the Simpson shows on this chapter... on a very big difference from newer chapters, where the family is just dumb, fights for nothing and repeat lame jokes that even the fiction characters should notice, here all seems real. Lisa and Bart fighting and then making peace is very touching, and the ending with the family eating in peace is one of the best endings in all the serie.
    So, a very good chapter that has everything, a total winner on a list of the best chapters in the serie.moreless

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  • a instant classic thanksgiven

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    By cube2k8, May 05, 2010 Report Abuse
    its thanksgiven time in the simpsons family home and marges sisters come over patty and selma and there celbrating and given thanks lisa makes a diagram to show how the first thanksgiven was celbrated bart was tring to put things on the the table and he and lisa were arguing and it went in the fire and burned and lisa cried and bart was sent to his room and he runs away and donates alot of his blood for a free cookie and passes out on the street coner and he ends up comeing home and apolgizes to lisa for what he did.moreless

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  • classic tale on thanksgiving

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    By futuramarama, Apr 05, 2010 Report Abuse
    bart ruins lisa's piece for thanksgiving dinner and instead of apologizing, he runs away from home. the rest of the episode is the simpsons trying to look for him. in the end he comes back home, apologizes to lisa, and all is forgiven as the simpsons enjoy a feast.

    a classic tale, I think. it has good humor, heart, and a decent plot. when this episode is on around thanksgiving time i usually watch. of course i also have it on DVD, but this is a great episode nonetheless. My overall grade, without a doubt, is an A+, simply classicalmoreless

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    • When Homer and Bart are watching the Macy's parade, Homer says "If the parade "turned every flash-in-pan cartoon character into a balloon, it will be a farce", immediately a Bart float passes by. The same year this episode premiered, the Bart float made it's debut in the real parade. Edit
    • A guard at Mr. Burns' mansion can be spotted reading Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. Edit
    • Everyone drinks wine with dinner except Homer, who sips from a can of Duff. Edit

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    • This is the first time that Mr. Burns released the hounds after Bart was intruding. Edit
    • Dallas Cowboys players Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarkey are actually the names of two producers of The Simpsons. Edit
    • This episode aired Thanksgiving night in 1990. Edit

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    • Homer: Hello, operator! Give me the number for 911! Edit
    • Homer: Alright Bart, that's it! Go to your room! Now! Bart: Okay, I'll take some white meat and some stuffing to go and send in the pumpkin pie in about twenty minutes. Homer: I said now! Bart: Mom, do I have too? Marge: Yes, you do! I hope your happy, Bart! You've ruined Thanksgiving! Edit
    • Bart: Alright! Twelve bucks and free grub to boot! Viva skid row! Edit

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    • Croesus and Mammon When Bart goes to the Burns mansion, we see that it is at the corner of Croesus and Mammon. Croesus was an ancient king of Lydia and became a symbol of great wealth to the ancient Greeks; now it is used as a term for a very rich, usually arrogant person. Mammon was an Aramaic term meaning riches, as in The New Testament: Matthew 6:24… "you cannot serve God and Mammon". Now it is used as a term for great material wealth, especially of a evil or debasing influence. Edit
    • Lisa: I saw the best meals of my generation destroyed by the madness of my brother. This line is a parody of the phrase, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..." The line is taken from the epic poem, "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg. Lisa calls her poem "Howl of the Unappreciated." Edit
    • Uncle Sam: It's your fault America has lost its way!
      Less than a year into its run, many conservative social activists (as well as President George H. W. Bush) had blamed The Simpsons, and particularly the character of Bart, for contributing to the decaying morals among American youth. Uncle Sam's taunt references this. Edit

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