"The Simpsons" Bart's Inner Child (1993)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Bob Anderson

Writers:

Matt Groening (creator)
James L. Brooks (developer) ...

TV Series:

"The Simpsons" (1989)

Original Air Date:

11 November 1993 (Season 5, Episode 7)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy

Plot:

Brad Goodman, a self-help guru, identifies Bart as a role model for personal happiness, because he is in touch with his inner child. Soon the entire town begins to behave like Bart. |

Plot Keywords:

Self Help Guru | Bleeped Dialogue | Actress Playing Multiple Roles | Brother In Law Sister In Law Relationship | Cartoon

Cast

Dan Castellaneta	...	Homer Simpson (voice)
Julie Kavner	...	Marge Simpson (voice)
Nancy Cartwright	...	Bart Simpson (voice)
Yeardley Smith	...	Lisa Simpson (voice)
Hank Azaria	...	Moe Szyslak / Chief Wiggum / Apu / Comic Book Guy / Cletus / Prof. Frink / Others (voice)
Harry Shearer	...	Montgomery Burns / Waylon Smithers / Ned Flanders / Kent Brockman / Rev. Lovejoy / Principal Skinner / Dr. Hibbert / Rainer Wolfcastle / Others (voice)
James Brown	...	Himself (voice)
Phil Hartman	...	Troy McClure (voice)
Marcia Wallace	...	Mrs. Krabappel (voice)
Albert Brooks	...	Brad Goodman (voice) (as A. Brooks)
Pamela Hayden	...	Milhouse Van Houten / Rod Flanders / Others (voice)
Russi Taylor	...	Martin Prince / Others (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maggie Roswell	...	Maude Flanders / Helen Lovejoy / Others (voice)

Series Cast

These people are regular cast members. Were they in this episode?

Doris Grau

...

Lunchlady Doris (voice)

Runtime:

Argentina:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Quotes:

Milhouse: [Milouse crawls out from a tunnel of mattresses, his hand over his nose] It smells funny in there.
Homer: No, it doesn't.

Movie Connections:

Features "The Simpsons: Dog of Death (#3.19)" (1992)

Soundtrack:

I Got You (I Feel Good

Similar to "Conversations with God"

After recently watching the film, "Conversations with God", I thought this episode of The Simpson's might be lampooning Neale Walsch' series of books. Not necessarily connected at all, but Walsch spent time in Portland, which is ostensibly where The Simpson's is set, close to where Groening grew up, etc. Haven't read the books, but the trite lines from the movie are reminiscent of Brad Goodman. From the movie we have goodies like, "Anything you want, you can't have," and "What would love do?"

Wim Wenders film often used an actor named Rudiger Vogler, so every time I think of this Simpson's ep., and the phony name Bart used when Brad called him onto stage, I think of Wender's series of road movies.