From: I Am Furious Yellow (Season 13, Episode 18) Bart isn't just a mischief-maker, however, as on numerous occasions, he has shown talent in a variety of areas. One of these is seen when he creates the Angry Dad cartoon series, based on, you guessed it, Homer (so no, the image above is not taken from the most cheaply-made episode of The Simpsons ever). Originally, a comic that he drew, Bart's Angry Dad character was made into a hit web series - with Homer not realising that it is based on him. Once he finds out, feeling humiliated, Homer decrees to stop being angry, meaning that Bart dries up of ideas for his cartoon. It seems some excessive pranking is in order... While Bart's short-lived success with Angry Dad ends at the close of the episode, a much later episode in Season 22 follows this one up with Angry Dad being turned into a feature-length film, which goes onto be nominated for a Golden Globe. Hmm, maybe Bart should focus on being creative more often than he is destructive. Wow, we're starting to sound like Marge...
20. Bart's Evil Twin?
From: Treehouse of Horror VII (Season 8, Episode 1) In one of the show's strongest Halloween mini-episodes, The Thing and I, Bart discovers that he is not the only Simpson son - hidden in the attic all his life and fed one bucket of fish heads per week has been Hugo, Bart's once-conjoined twin who was declared 'the evil one' by Dr Hibbert. As Hugo plans for a grisly family reunion, involving sewing himself and Bart back together ('it's easy, look I made a pigeon-rat.'), it is revealed that Bart was the evil twin all along. As Bart himself says, 'oh, don't look so shocked.' So how do the Simpsons make up for this injustice? Put Bart in the attic, instead. Seems fair enough. Such an entertaining twist on the usual dynamic of the Simpsons family is this that you have to wish that Hugo existed in the ordinary episodes of the series. Or at least that he would make a return in the annual Halloween specials. His presence is one that proves two Barts are better than one.
19. Bart To The Future
From: Holidays of Future Passed (Season 23, Episode 9) An episode originally conceived as a series finale for The Simpsons as a whole, this recent classic gives closure to the futures of all of the main characters (even an adult Maggie, who's become a successful singer) - including a deadbeat middle-aged Bart. Divorced from ex-wife Jenda (who previously appeared in a previous future-set episode as a teenage Bart's girlfriend) and living in the converted apartments of Springfield Elementary, Bart is an estranged father to his two sons and, at a big Christmas family get-together, discovers that they don't respect him. Thankfully, Homer (who, it turns out, is a much better grandfather than father) takes Bart's boys to a cryogenic freezing facility where Grampa Simpson is being held until a cure can be found for his disease (or so he thinks, it's actually because Homer can't afford a retirement home). Homer teaches his grandchildren that, though all fathers aren't the greatest, you appreciate their positives. Taking on board Homer's advice, the two young Simpsons bond with their father, just in time for Christmas. While The Simpsons rolls on with Bart forever stuck as a ten year old boy, it's nice to think that, if he ever decides to start growing up, he has something decent in the future ahead of him.
