![]() ![]() ![]() But they still have him go through with it, thinking it’ll work. So they’re aware that this is not one of Bart’s masterpieces. To be fair to Zombie Simpsons, upon seeing Bart’s hapless skeleton trick, Milhouse says that it’s only kinda scary. For proof, look no further than “Bart Carney”, which did the exact same thing as an example of something that was indefensibly lame. Unless the person involved was very high strung or this was being done late at night on Halloween or something, it probably wouldn’t frighten anyone so much as briefly puzzle them. It wouldn’t be all that hard to set up in real life. This is, to put it mildly, a very pedestrian prank. His plan is to bump the car into the door a couple of times to get the teacher to investigate when the door is opened, the skeleton drops from the ceiling, presumably frightening the teacher. In “Blazed and Confused”, Bart has hidden a remote control car and a skeleton in the closet at the back of the room. ![]() Also in each, Bart has prepared an elaborate booby trap to welcome the newly unfortunate teacher. In each one, the kids have a new teacher about whom they know basically nothing other than, as Bart says, “They’re trying to teach”. While the backstories differ considerably, the immediate situation in both episodes is remarkably similar. Specifically, the way that Bart’s closet/skeleton “prank” fails as both a prank, a joke, and as a part of the rest of the episode, especially when compared with Bart’s similar actions in “The PTA Disbands”. Rather than get into the nonsensical pageant of the transmundane that was the last third of “Blazed and Confused”, I’d like to take a look at a small moment from the beginning that illustrates the general shallowness of this episode. “Kids have been doing that one since my day.” – Marge Simpson ![]()
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