Bart Simpson
Bartholomew «Bart» J. Simpson (Bartolomeo «Bart» J. Simpson in Latin America) is one of the fictional protagonists of the television series cartoon The Simpsons. Bart is ten years old and is the firstborn and only son of Homer and Marge Simpson. He is the older brother of Lisa and Maggie.
This character was created on the fly by Matt Groening and debuted in the The Tracey Ullman Show short Good Night on April 19, 1987, originally voiced by by Nancy Cartwright. In Latin America, Bart has always been voiced by Marina Huerta, except for a lapse between the ninth and fifteenth seasons, which was played by Claudia Motta, who partially reprized the character in a song from the episode "Krusty the Clown".; from the thirtieth season and she reprized the character in her entirety from the thirty-second season onwards, while in Spain Sara Vivas has regularly voiced her.
Bart is one of the main characters of the series and has turned out to be one of the best-known in the history of animation on American television. Time magazine considered Bart as the fortieth 6th most influential person (out of 100) of the XX century; the American magazine TV Guide awarded him eleventh place (along with Lisa) in the list of the "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" and the Entertainment Weekly named Bart "Entertainer of the Year" in 1990. Cartwright has received several awards for voicing Bart, including the Emmy Award for Outstanding Prime Time Voice Over in 1992 and the Annie Award for "Performance in the field of animation» in 1995.
Role in The Simpsons
Bart is the troublemaker of the family. His main role is to make mischief, in addition to getting himself or others into trouble, and thus generate plots for the episodes. His presence in the family also raises the typical problems associated with the coexistence of two brothers of little age difference who tend to contrast in their personal interests. Bart reflects the typical rebellious preteen who is starting to feel older and wants to get rid of his parental surveillance, which he rarely manages. The writers of the series treat him as the protagonist of the series, so he is rarely punished for the bad deeds he commits, especially defending him under the protection of an excessively affectionate mother.
His role at school is to become the most popular through mischief, oppression, rebellion, and mockery of the smartest and most diligent students, embodying the American stereotype of the "cool" guy from the school. school, intolerant, disrespectful and with few ambitions.
Bart is the character who has said the most catchphrases (famous quotes) in the series, but their pronunciations have been reduced due to their exploitation in the marketing of the series. His most famous phrase is "Eat my shorts", the result of an improvisation by the original dubbing actress. Another expression that he also used a lot was "Don't have a cow", which throughout the series has been recycled in many ways. He also has the habit of seasoning his interventions with the informal vocative " man " (uncle -Spain; old-Mexico) especially after the two previous phrases, in imitation of North American suburban slang. He also uses an expression of surprise of Hispanic origin: "Ay, caramba!". He has ever shouted "Cowabunga" as a sign that he is going to perform some reckless or extremely funny action. One of the expressions he uses the most is & # 34; Multiply yourself by zero! & # 34;, used mainly to mock his father or Principal Skinner. Another filler that has exploded a lot, which catapulted him to fame on one occasion, was "I didn't do it".
In an episode of the series it is explained that her ignorance and tendency to do mischief are due to the fact that, during her pregnancy, Marge, being present at the inauguration of a ship, accidentally drank a drop of champagne that, through from its stomach, it had effects on the embryo, causing its characteristic phrase "Oh, my gosh!" to be recorded in its brain. and she would wake up seeing where she could get into mischief.
Biography
Marge got pregnant by Bart when she was dating Homer and was still single. She fathered him inside a miniature golf castle where Homer worked. With this fact Homer asks Marge to marry him and they get married; However, due to the unemployment crisis and even worse with the arrival of her son, Homer saves money for her and her future son. With a tight budget, they both went to live in a flat in the center of Springfield.
In the chapter "I Married Marge" where all of the above happens, the story of Bart's impregnation takes place in 1980 and Marge's nine months of pregnancy indicate that Bart was born on December 13, 1981, so He is three years older than his sister Lisa, who was born in 1984 (although in the series both are always shown with a two-year age difference). From his birth he turned out to be a very restless and playful child; his first prank was pulled right after he was born, burning Homer's tie with a lighter. He soon developed hyperactivity and kept his parents excessively busy and stressed. So much so, that he demanded that his parents be constantly aware of him, even leaving newborn Lisa aside.
When they moved into their current house, Bart was jealous of his sister; he believed that his parents loved Lisa more than him. Bart tried several times to get rid of Lisa without success, or to make her more unpleasant to look at, which ended with the corresponding punishment from her, until he came to consider running away from home. But Lisa's first word, her name, kept him at home and from then on he began to protect her. On his first day of school, Bart committed an antics, thus scarring him for life, and began to develop antagonism between him and Principal Skinner. During his school years, Bart got good grades, but as he progressed through elementary school his grades got progressively worse, due to his inattention and his "Simpson gene" (a gene that affected Simpson boys by making them dumb, useless, and idiotic). On the other hand, the women of the Simpson family were geniuses or people highly recognized for their knowledge and great achievements for the benefit of humanity, since because they were women the Simpson gene did not affect them except Homer's half-sister, whom the gene was passed on by Grandpa Simpson).
Everyday life
Bart is a boy who doesn't like to study, but he attends school regularly. He prefers to spend his free time away from home, neglecting his schoolwork, socializing with his friends, skateboarding, and planning pranks with his best friend Milhouse or with boys much older than him. He likes to spray paint very skillfully, so he likes to go graffiti on the walls of the city. Springfield is plagued with graffiti made by him, which he even signs with the name "El Barto", his Spanishized name.
He likes to go to the comic book store and collect comics about Radioactive Man, his favorite superhero. His favorite show is The Krusty the Clown Show, which airs his favorite cartoon series, Itchy & amp; Scratchy and is a heavy user of the products derived from both programs. In any case, he also spends time with his relatives going out with them, listening to his parents' stories or participating in domestic activities.
Character
Bart is a mischievous, cute, slightly selfish and spoiled ten-year-old boy with great energy. At school, he discriminates against children who are smarter than him and hangs out with the most hooligans, which causes him numerous punishments. This often causes him dilemmas when he is forced to defend his "brain" sister in public and everyone laughs at him.
Also, as a young man he thinks that "girls are disgusting" and, although he is not disdainful of looking for love, he prefers not to be seen associating with them. Bart is also reluctant to show affection and affection to her sister, although he loves her unconditionally, and Lisa often grudgingly coaxes it out of him as part of blackmail or deals. Bart's most prominent character traits are his mischief, rebelliousness, disrespect for authority, sharp wit, and his leadership skills. For this reason, his best friend is Milhouse, the typical spoiled and easily controlled child, which makes Bart feel much more popular.
His relationship with his parents seems to be constantly at the start of his confidential breakup to show that he doesn't need a lot of adult attention and prove that he's older. For this reason, he is quite reserved with them and prefers to seek advice or support from his sister or Milhouse, rather than from his parents. But Marge, as an attentive and observant mother, knows when Bart needs adult help, and if it's not her, she sends Homer to talk to the boy. However, Bart has shown affection and attention to his parents and it is with Homer that he connects with the most on a psychic level, since they both share their taste for television, laziness and really stupid actions. However, Homer often takes his anger out on Bart when he runs out of patience and strangles him. Apart from this, Homer and Marge do not believe that violence is part of the proper upbringing of a child, so they have never laid a hand on him, despite all his pranks and practical jokes (also counting that Homer has the brutal habit of strangling him). His most common methods of correction are punishments or transfers to places that try to rectify bad behavior (generally it is his father who punishes him by sending him to his room, although in one chapter his mother also did the same after destroying a centerpiece that his sister Lisa had elaborated).
However, Bart has also shown to be a tender and sensitive child, for example, with his love for animals, or when he has had to help or defend his younger sister.
Bart has the appearance of a healthy and energetic ten-year-old boy. His spiky hair gives him the appearance of a rebel and a hooligan, as well as sometimes wearing a red cap with the bill behind it and a slingshot sticking out of a pocket. He usually wears an orange shirt, blue pants and Converse of the same color. He has a navy blue suit for Sundays and his pajamas are green with a print of Krusty the Clown faces, his biggest TV idol.
Creation
Matt Groening had been hired to create a series of animated shorts and, thinking that submitting his Life in Hell comic strip would lose the copyright to it, he thought he should come up with another one. concept, as the experiences of a dysfunctional family. Thus, Groening improvised a sketch of the Simpson clan in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office and named the characters after his own relatives. In the case of the eldest son, so as not to name him after him and for the reference to be evident, he opted for Bart, an anagram of "brat", which in English means "brat". In addition, this name in the mouth of Homer and repeated in a furious manner helped make the characterization of the patriarch resemble that of a dog (the onomatopoeia for a dog's bark in English is "barf," which bears a strong resemblance to Bart's name). The family was conceived in such a way that each member would have unique silhouettes and features. Bart's spiky hair, with nine spikes, coming straight out of his head became a distinctive feature of Bart's, as they were phased out over the years. early seasons the children in the background designed with the same hair.
Groening envisioned Bart as an exaggerated version of the famously mischievous, rebellious boy stereotype, fusing all the extreme traits of characters like Tom Sawyer and Huckelberry Finn into a single character. Mark Groening, Matt's older brother, provided the much of the inspiration for the character of Bart. Originally, Bart was envisioned as a "much more subdued young man, afflicted with an existential angst that would serve as his conscience", but this was discarded in favor of more aggressive acting. by Cartwright. Groening also pointed out that the premise of Dennis the Menace (literally, "Dennis the Menace", translated into Spanish as Daniel the Naughty) tremendously disappointing, for what that he decided to give Bart the characteristics that would make him a genuine threat, with the slingshot being an item inspired by this toned-down version of the hooligan.
Development
Bart's character has evolved in a way equivalent to Homer's. His development has been based simply on exaggerating his behavior and his antics as a way of looking for new ideas in the same vein. His antics first affected the family or even local level, but his spread ended up encompassing the entire United States and even other nations. In the early seasons, Bart has no psychological charge for the pranks he performs, but as the series progresses, episodes begin to appear where Bart develops some conscience, guilt or remorse. It is also worth mentioning that in the first two seasons, the producers of the series were in charge of making Bart the most important and outstanding character in the series, focusing many of the plots on his problems and mischief. But as the series progressed, Homer earned the spotlight, while lately the producers claim that they focus the attention of the series on the whole family.
Voice and dubbing
While the roles of the adult characters were cast to actors already collaborating on the Tracey Ullman Show, an audition was held to find actresses to play the children. Initially, Yeardley Smith was asked to audition for Bart, but audition director Bonita Pietila believed she had too high a range. Smith recognized that she sounded more like a girl just by saying the phrase "Thanks for coming!", so she was cast as Lisa. On March 13, 1987, Nancy Cartwright auditioned for the role of Lisa, who had been described as a "quiet kid" who didn't have much of a personality. Cartwright was interested in the role of Bart, which she found much more interesting in her, Groening let her try out on that record and, having heard her, awarded her the job.
Of the entire cast of original voice actors, Cartwright is the only one who has trained professionally. In 2007, the actress noted that Bart's voice "is one of the easiest he does", since he also dubs other secondary young characters. She described Bart as "deeply depressed" but "a good guy" nonetheless. "He's just naughty. He is not bad, like characters that have appeared after him. [...] Bart can do nasty things, but they seem so tame, even by today's standards." Cartwright traditionally does five or six readings of each sentence to give producers more material to work with..
The tag line "Eat my shorts" was improvised by Cartwright at an early reading, recalling an incident he witnessed in high school. Cartwright was in the Fairmont High School band, and one day while rehearsing, the group began to sing "Eat my shorts" instead of "Fairmont West! Fairmont West!"
In Spain, Bart is voiced by Sara Vivas and in Latin America until the ninth season (inclusive) he was voiced by Marina Huerta, later he was replaced until the fifteenth season (inclusive) by Claudia Motta and the role was taken up again by Marina Huerta until the thirty-first season when the role was taken up again by Claudia Motta.
Reception
In 1998, Time magazine ranked Bart 46th of the 100 most influential people of the century XX, being the only fictional character on the list. He had previously appeared on the cover of the December 31, 1990 issue. Both Bart and Lisa ranked eleventh on the list. the "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time". In 1990, Entertainment Weekly magazine named Bart its "entertainer of the year", noting that "Bart has proven to be a rebel and a good guy., a danger that can be easily scared and a moron who surprises both us and himself with serious displays of courage".
At the 44th Primetime Emmy Awards, Cartwright won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Over Prime Time Voiceover for his portrayal of Bart in the episode Separate Vocations from the third season. She shared the award with the five other lead actors working with her on the series. In 1995, Cartwright won an Annie Award for "Performance in the Field of Animation" for her portrayal of Bart in one episode. In 2000, Bart and the rest of the family were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.
In 1991, Bill Cosby described Bart as a poor role model for children, who was "angry, confused and frustrated." In a wry response, Matt Groening confirmed that "this perfectly describes Bart. A lot of people try hard to be normal and he thinks that being normal is too boring, so he does things that other people don't dare to do."
Cultural influence
Bart's most famous and recurring phrases, "Ay, caramba!", "Don't have a cow, man!" and "Eat my shorts!", appeared on numerous T-shirts early in the series' run. The latter two expressions have rarely been heard on the series since they became so famous with the commercialization of the series, and the use of all of them in general have decreased considerably in recent seasons. Humor based on the use of comic tag lines has been a subject of derision in the episode Bart Gets Famous in which Bart becomes famous on the Krusty show for saying the phrase "I didn& #39;t do it" which had hardly been heard before or after the episode.
During the early seasons, Bart was the rebellious main character who usually escaped punishment for his antics, leading parents and conservatives to describe him as a poor role model for children., incumbent President George H. W. Bush said that he would "continue to try to reinforce the American family model, making it much more like the Waltons and much less like the Simpsons". Some American schools went so far as to prohibit children from wearing The Simpsons especially one in which Bart appeared accompanied by a headline that proclaimed «Underachiever... And proud of it, man!» («Person who does not pay up... and proud of it, man!"). Despite the ban, commercial products from The Simpsons sold very well generating up to two billion dollars Americans during the first fourteen months that they went on the market.
Bart is the most fashionable character on The Simpsons on items like T-shirts, car stickers and even street art. Bart, along with other characters, has appeared in numerous television advertisements for Nestlé's Butterfinger chocolate bars from 1990 to 2001, with the slogan "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger! " ("Nobody better put a finger on my Butterfinger", a couplet that cannot be maintained in the Spanish translation). This association was parodied in the episode Barting Over, where Bart discovers that as a baby, he had participated in a television commercial, and ironically the boy exclaims that he does not remember making any commercials while eating a Butterfinger (a joke that, in countries where this product had not been marketed, could only be understood with the arrival of the collections of the Simpsons seasons on DVD that contained these advertising spots as extras). In 2001, Kelloggs launched a brand of cereal called "Bart Simpson Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch", which was available for a limited time.
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