"Fat Man and Little Boy" is the fifth episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season and the last new episode of 2004. The episode is named after the two nuclear bombs that were dropped on Japan during World War II, codenamed Fat Man and Little Boy.
Episode details
Production Number: FABF21
Original Air Date: December 12, 2004
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Couch Gag: The family sits on the couch, which turns out to be the lure of an anglerfish
Guest Voice: Eric Idle as Declan Desmond
Synopsis
After attacking Lisa with spitballs, Bart founds out his last baby tooth is loose. After a failed attempt in getting it out, Bart's tooth comes out when Marge forces a drawer open. Bart puts his tooth under his pillow for the Tooth Fairy and in the morning, he finds the Tooth Fairy made a donation in his name to the United Way. He soon begins to realize that he is not a kid anymore. Bart puts his toys into a small boat and sets it on fire, a proper "Viking funeral".
Lisa tells Bart that she writes things when she feels depressed. Bart does so and begins writing things on his T-Shirts. When Milhouse wants one of his shirts, Bart decides to go into business. When the police confiscate his shirts, Bart takes his shirts to a retailer show. However, his stand is destroyed by Krusty the Clown's massive stand. While leaving, Bart is run over by Goose Gladwell. He looks at Bart's shirts and decides to sell them in most of his 20 stores which are in 30 states. The shirts are fast sellers and Goose gives Bart enough money to support the Simpson family. The family structure is soon reversed when Homer asks Bart for money. Homer later quits his job at the power plant when he says he will never have to work again.
While watching a documentary about lions by Declan Desmond (voiced by Eric Idle), Homer decides to nuture Lisa after thinking Bart has replaced him. They quickly bond as Homer play Mailbu Stacey with her and plays Stacey's car. In Lisa's room, Homer sees her entry for the science fair, which is a history of nuclear physics and a scale model of the first nuclear reactor. However, Martin shows them his project, a child-like robot. With Lisa sure to lose, Homer decides to help her by building a small working Class II plutonium fissure reactor. At Goose's store, Bart learns that Goose sold rights to make his shirts into movies, but Bart will get nothing. He runs into Homer after leaving and this angers Homer. In Goose's shop, Homer threatens to detonate his nulcear reactor if he does not give Bart what he deserves. Goose does so and Homer uses his leverage to get himself some novelty items as well.
Soundtrack
Trivia
- Among the items in Goose's store are a 8-ball fortune teller and a Star Destroyer model.
Quotes
- (Bart has written "Adults suck, then you are one" on his T-shirt)
Marge: Bart! Someone wrote something cynical on your shirt. Let me wash it off.
Bart: Leave me alone. This expresses my rage at the machine.
Marge: Well I like t-shirts with a nice joke, like "Support our troops".
- Homer: I can see you need your dad more than ever!
Grampa: And Homer, I can see you need me more than ever.
Homer: Get back in the garage, old man!
Grampa: But, there's spiders in the boxes.
Homer: Stay out of my boxes!
- Marge: Homer, use your inside voice.
Homer: I DON'T HAVE AN INSIDE VOICE!
- Lisa: Dad?
Homer: Bub, bub, bub. Don't look.
(Homer covers his reactor. The glow shows his skeleton)
Lisa: Dad, what did you do?
Homer: I wanted to help you. You know that non-functioning nuclear reactor you built?
Lisa: (uneasy) Yes?
Homer: (getting out his reactor) I juiced it up a little.
Lisa: Dad, that could explode!
Homer: Oh, that's ridiculous.
(Lisa gets out her Krusty-Brand geiger counter, which begins ticking like crazy)
Krusty: That thing's gonna blow! Drop this toy and run!
Lisa: Mom! Dad built a device that would be deadly in the wrong hands...and he's holding it!
- Bart shirt phrases: Sucking sucks, everything sucks, America's least wanted, bored in the USA, (add the rest of the phrases)
Last updated: 10-29-2005 02:13:46
