Bart's Comet

Season 6, Episode 14, Aired
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Principal Skinner releases a weather balloon, but Bart turns it into an anti-Skinner prank. Principal Skinner is upset, so Bart's punishment is to help him log amateur astronomy sky coordinates. Bart gets up at 4:30 AM to assist Skinner. When Skinner steps away, Bart discovers a comet, much to Skinner's dismay. The nerds of the school, super friends, soon embrace him. When they figure out that his comet is approaching Springfield and will annihilate the town, they warn the town. Professor Frink comes up with a plan to intercept the comet with a missile. Unfortunately the missile misses and destroys the only bridge out of town; the people of Springfield are doomed! The Flanders family let the Simpsons in their bomb shelter. The rest of the town asks Ned if they can come in as well. When the shelter is too full, one person has to leave, so they kick Ned Flanders out. Soon they feel guilty about it, so they all leave to die with him. The comet comes through the atmosphere and breaks apart due to all of Springfield's polluted clouds, destroying only the vandalized weather balloon and Flanders's bomb shelter.moreless
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  • Springfield's gonna die!

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    By Sami5118, Aug 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    In this ep, Bart vandalizes a weather balloon that Skinner released, and as a punishment, Bart has to log all the ameteur astronomy sky coordinates. Bart has to get up at 4:30am to assist Skinner, and when Skinner steps away, Bart discovers a comet. The nerds of the school soon embrace him and when they figure out that it is headed directly towards Sprinfield and that it will annihilate the town, Professor Frink comes up with a plan to intercept the comet with a missile. Unfortunately, the missile misses and takes out the only bridge in the city. The Flanders let the Simpsons in their bomb shelter and the rest of the town asks if they can come in too. When the shelter becomes too overcrowded, they have to kick one person out of the shelter. That person would be Ned Flanders. Soon, they feel guilty about it and they all decide to die with him. The comet enters the atmosphere and disintegrates due to all of the polluted clouds destroying only the vandalized balloon and the empty bomb shelter.moreless

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  • The Town of Springfield's Gonna Die

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    By futuramarama, Jul 02, 2010 Report Abuse
    Bart discovers a comet in the sky, but it turns out the comet is going to hit Springfield in a few hours, meaning all will die. Or will they? Turns out not, when the comet's size decreases right when it hits. All are spared.

    An OK episode, I was never a huge fan of it. It has some good humor, but I find some of it to be rather boring, to tell the truth. But, the funny and good outweighs the bad and boring. My overall grade for this episode is a B+ or so. It's good, but not greatmoreless

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  • this was a good simpsons ep

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    By cube2k8, May 20, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this ep of the simpsons bart plays a prank on the pricabl and for detention bart must calculate things in the sky for the princable and when bart wakes up at 430 am he sees there is a comet heading for earth. and its headed right for springfield.and the comet is named after bart and school neards are thinking he is cool but the flanders invite simpsons to stay in the shelter but everyone wants to stay and it gets to crowdy so they kick ned out and they feel so bad for what they did they go out and join him andcomet comes and only destroys the bobm shelter and the weather baloon this was a good epmoreless

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  • Day of the Comet

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    By sh811a, Nov 14, 2008 Report Abuse
    This is another one of those Simpsons episodes I love. This was really a satire on the ineffeicency of the goverment system and indeed when they try to help the people of Springfield with the comet problem it always a miserable failure from a faulty guidence system for a missle (aim away from face what idiot programed that missle) let alone a political meeting that went nowhere.

    But other than that this episode is just a laugh a minute there is almost not one dull moment. It's made up of a lot of jokes big and small that happen at the right times. Like the bigining where Bart spots the commet, Skinner's wait never pays off and life takes a crap on him. I can't help but feel it could be God and fate teaching Skinner a lesson for punishing Bart one time too many.

    Then there was that business of Kent Broakman showing the list of people that are gay (why that's important beats me) and then Homer is writing a few names down as the list is scrolling. Though my favorate moment and the one that made me laugh me head off is seeing the bridge out of town destroyed and everyone is making stupid attempts to jump over that bridge but the result is always the same they all die. Why the hell no one in Springfield has thought about going to the airport or train station to get out is beyond me.

    But as usual Homer steals the show, what I like is Homer is for once right about a lot of things and does a lot of the right things intenional or unintenionally. The funniest moment with him was seeing him give reasuring advice to the kids but then get a little lost at doing what one shouldn't do even though the adviced against it which is twidling thumbs. Love how he made that do do do tone doing it and then Bart looks as though he's about to hit him when he stops him, I don't blame him.

    Homer was you can say prolific when he was right about the atmosphere protecting them and what he does at the shelter. So, Homer isn't so dumb after all, who'd of thought.moreless

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  • A very good episode, and Homer was right dun dun dun

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    By Iverson82094, Jan 27, 2008 Report Abuse
    When Bart is forced to assist Principal Skinner during a long night of astronomy, he discovers what appears to be a giant comet heading towards Springfield. A call to the astronomers at the observatory confirms that a comet is indeed hurtling towards Springfield at an alarming rate, and will more than likely kill all of the town's residents when it crashes. Scientists fail in their efforts to throw the comet off course and the entire town goes hysterical as the flaming ball continues along its course of destruction. Luckily for everyone, Ned Flanders has enough room in his family's bomb shelter for most of the town, but when the quarters become too cramped, one person must be expelled and risk being killed by the comet. Who will it be and what will happen to him or her once the comet crashes?moreless

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    • When Kent Brockman says "The following people are gay", these names appear on the screen, most off them work on The Simpsons: Matt Groening, Ken Tsumura, George Meyer, Joel Kuwahara, Bill Oakley, Elizabeth Jacobs, Josh Weinstein, Jane O'Brien, Annette Anderson, Jennifer Crittenden, Mike Scully, Dominique Braud-Stiger, Greg Daniels, Joesph Boucher, Al Jean, Ping Warner, Mike Reiss, Craig Feeney, Richard Raynis, Don Gilbert, David Mirkin, Jacqueline Atkins, Chris Ledesma, Mark McJimsey, David Silverman Edit
    • When the rocket misses the comet and hits the "Only Bridge Out of Town" sign, what's left of the sign reads: "Bridge Out." Edit
    • A sign on the side of the rocket reads: ''Caution! Aim Away From Face.'' Edit

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    • Blackboard Joke: Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does. Couch Gag: The family comes in as black and white Disney style cartoon characters, complete with Mickey Mouse gloves. Edit

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    • (as the air raid siren sounds, warning about the comet) Grampa: (sitting in front of a general store) Sounds like the doomsday whistle! Ain't been blown for nigh onto three years. Jasper: Tsk, tsk, tsk... trouble a'brewing. Edit
    • Lisa: I can't believe that extra-thick layer of pollution that I've picketed against is what burned up the comet. Bart: But what's really amazing, is that this is exactly what Dad said would happen. Lisa: Yeah, Dad was right ... Homer: I know, kids. I'm scared too! Edit
    • Homer: Okay, if you're that worried about it, let's go down to the bomb shelter. Lisa: We have a bomb shelter? Homer: Homer Simpson takes care of his family. (cut to Homer banging on a door) Flanders! Open up! Edit

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    • The Three Stooges Principal Skinner points out the constellation "The Three Wise Men" who look like suspiciously like Larry, Moe, and Curly from The Three Stooges. Edit
    • Michael Fay Caning Principal Skinner mentions that Bart's punishment "won't be a simple caning". This is a reference to the highly controversial 1994 caning of American teenager Michael Fay in Singapore. The case was also the basis of "Bart vs. Australia." Edit
    • Comet Kohoutek Principal Skinner tells Bart he once discovered a comet but it was reported first by Principal Kohoutek. This is a reference to comet C/1973 E1, also known as Kohoutek. Relentlessly hyped as the "comet of the century", it was a notorious disappointment. Edit

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