Review -- The Simpsons: "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"

Ariel Ponywether has been a fan of The Simpsons since the first time Bart was ten.

Kredit Kookies: Chalkboard: “It’s not too early to start speculate about the 2016 election.”  Couch Gag: The couch gag was animated by Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi, in which Bart plays a prank on Homer.

Bart finally falls in love with the educational system when Superintendent Chalmers takes charge of him after he wrecks the school’s charity auction. Chalmers ends up inspiring Milhouse, Nelson, Kearny and Jimbo as well, leading to a disastrous field trip that turns the four boys into vigilantes.

After that creative, vibrant couch gag of Kricfalusi’s, it’s quite a shift in mood to return to Springfield business as usual.This one’s slightly more uneven in comparison to last week’s excellent premier.Chalmers shines in his first outing as a central character, and the use of President Roosevelt’s achieved audio clips was somewhat inventive (as were the headlines on the archived news clippings Bart read – ‘fathered a hottie’ was a fun nod to the cult of press that formed around the President’s teenage daughter, Alice, during the family’s time in the White House.

); hopefully, they’ll encourage the curious to seek out some of the Roosevelt biographies the show featured.Most of the laughs stem from Nelson this time around.

Yet I detected a faint whiff of gender exclusionism within the plot.Chalmers draws Bart and the bully squad to the bosom of Roosevelt’s teachings by emphasizing his manhood, directly saying that the school has cut out risk-taking and a sort of masculine lifeblood and replaced it with a more feminine élan.Somehow it’s implied that this sort of education is faulty and unworthy.Quite an odd point of view for the show to take, as previous episodes have railed at SE for trying to teach classes along gender lines.It’s worth noting that Lisa’s been fighting for years within the canon for a quality education; her quick throwaway line about having gone through her TR Phase when she was much younger than Bart doesn’t cutwhen the ultimate theme of the night is masculine education good, feminine education bad – a theme that would be just as offensive if the pronouns were reversed.Ultimately, the conflict between Bart and the educational system provides a funny, if not perfect, experience.

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