3x04 Bart the Murderer - The Simpsons Episode Guide

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- Episode 03x04

Episode: 03x04
Title: Bart the Murderer
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 8F03
First Aired: Oct. 10, 1991

Season 3 » Episode #04 - Bart the Murderer

Summary: When he crashes his skateboard into the stairwell of the Legitimate Businessman's Social Club, Bart falls in with a particularly bad crowd: the Springfield Mafia. Soon, he befriends Fat Tony, Louie, Joey and other goodfellas, who take him on as their bartender and errand boy. As Bart adopts more and more gangster-like traits, Marge grows anxious. Meanwhile, Principal Skinner disappears and the police strongly suspect that Bart and his new friends are responsible. During the sensational trial, Fat Tony turns stool pigeon and rats out Bart as Skinner's killer. Nobody can save Bart but Skinner himself, who emerges from his hiding place to explain that neither Bart nor the Mob did anything to him.

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Bart's Gift (01:00)

Who appeared in this episode?

Groundskeeper Willy	voiced by Dan Castellaneta
Others	voiced by Dan Castellaneta
Lou	voiced by Hank Azaria
Chief Clancy Wiggum	voiced by Hank Azaria
Charles Montgomery Burns	voiced by Harry Shearer
Reverend Timothy Lovejoy	voiced by Harry Shearer
Principal Seymour Skinner	voiced by Harry Shearer
Others	voiced by Harry Shearer
Secretary	voiced by Jo Ann Harris

	Season 3 / Episode 4: - Bart the Murderer Fat Tony: It's funny because it's true.
	Season 3 / Episode 4: - Bart the Murderer Lionel Hutz: Lionel Hutz, court-appointed attorney. I'll be defending you on the charge of... Murder One! Wow! Even if I lose, I'll be famous!

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TRIVIA

The TV movies at the end announces that Joe Mantegna will play Fat Tony. Mantegna does, in fact, voice Fat Tony.
The courtroom chart showing Bart as the head of the gang is a direct copy of the one used in Scarface (1983).
This episode is a parody of "A Bronx Tale".
The "Chinese guy with a mustache" that Fat Tony implies that he killed was Charlie Chan.
The 'Itchy and Scratchy' episode watched by Bart and the mobsters ('The Sound of Silencers') was probably inspired by the real life events of the Saint Valentine's Day massacre, where seven people (most of them belonging to a mob group) were gunned down by rival gang members dressed as police officers, probably under orders from Al Capone, a world famous gangster and mob leader.