Bart Simpson
Bartholomew "Bart" Jo-Jo Simpson (voiced by Nancy Cartwright), is a fictional character featured in the television animated series; The Simpsons. He is the 10-year-old son of Homer and Marge Simpson and older brother of Lisa and Maggie. According to the now-defunct website, Mr. Showbiz, his "birthday" is December 29.
He is grandson to Abraham Simpson, Mona Simpson and Jacqueline Bouvier. He is also nephew to Herbert Powell, Patty Bouvier and Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Hutz McClure. His former uncles-by-marriage include Robert Underdunk "Sideshow Bob" Terwilliger, Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure.
Bart is a self-proclaimed underachiever who begins each show writing detention lines on the blackboard (see list of Bart Simpson's blackboard sentences). His interests include skateboarding, comic books (esp. Radioactive Man), terrorizing his sisters, Dickensian chimney sweeps, and prank calling Moe Szyslak at his tavern. Bart is distracted by pretty much anything; even, strangely enough, algebraic equations.
Bart has appeared in television commercials for Butterfinger candy bars, with the catch phrase "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger."
In an interview, Simpsons creator Matt Groening stated he chose the name as an anagram of brat.
In 1998, Time magazine selected Bart as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century—the only fictional character to make the list.
Episodes that feature Bart extensively include:
- "Bart the Genius" - Bart is mistaken for a genius.
- "Bart the General" - Bart takes on the class bully in a parody of Patton.
See also Characters from The Simpsons.
Quotes
- "Ay-carumba!"
- "Eat my shorts"
- "I didn't do it!"
- "Don't have a cow man!"