The Simpsons

The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 7

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Summary

The episode introduced a new character, Jessica Lovejoy, who became a potential love interest for Bart Simpson. At church, Bart spotted Jessica and tried to impress her by being on his best behaviour around her but she paid him no attention. Left feeling upset, he decided to do a prank on starts off on Groundskeeper Willie but is caught by Principal Skinner and was put into detention. Jessica witnessed this and was impressed that Bart is a “bad boy”. They get into mischief in the town and Bart realised that she is more mischievous than him. Bart confided in Lisa about his concerns that Jessica was bad news but she can get away with it because she was beautiful so Lisa encouraged him to avoid seeing her for three months. However at church, Jessica decided to steal from the money collection plate, hand over the empty plate to Bart and fled the scene. Bart was assumed by the church community to be a thief and there was mistrust directed towards him. Lisa read out a passage for church the following week and announced for the true money collection plate thief to reveal themself. When Jessica remained quiet, Lisa named and shamed her in front of everyone. The church community searched for the money in Jessica’s room and found out that she stole it because she was crying out for attention from her father. She had to clean the floor of the church as punishment for her crime but was able to trick Bart into cleaning for her while she rode off with another boy.

Humour

It was entertaining to see a different side of Bart Simpson where he is usually the troublemaker in the show but in this episode he tried to behave to gain the attention of a pretty girl. Surprisingly he got manipulated by a pretty girl who caused more problems for him.

Score

6/10

-          Angela