On April 19, 1987, Fox aired the first of several animated shorts featuring a dysfunctional family of five. Bart, Homer, Lisa, Marge and Maggie made their debut on "The Tracey Ullman Show" and would ...

The Quote: “Bart, with $10,000, we’d be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like…love!” Why We Love It: He’s such a loveable doof, despite being way off the mark on both counts you ...

The long-running popular show The Simpsons has many fan-favorite characters, but Bart Simpson is one of the most beloved. Even though he isn't as smart as his sister Lisa, Bart has a lot of other ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

When thinking back on the history of The Simpsons, there aren’t many characters who have become popular icons in the same way that Bart was. “Bartmania” took over popular culture in the 1990s, as the ...

Bart (Nancy Cartwright) is widely known as the ultimate prankster of Springfield. Without this ne'er-do-well's ability to tap into the spirit of youth, Bartmania (and, by extension, The Simpsons' ...