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Bart Gets Hit by a Car
The Simpsons Season 02 Episode 10
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
"Just give him a nickel and let's get going!" Burns yells after hitting Bart with his car. Bart seems to take being dead pretty great until he ends up in hell. The Devil has a pretty decent office set up, however wouldn't you have a secretary or twenty if you were Satan? Although, he kind of reminds me of my accountant, really enjoys his job, (ie taking money from me). WTF is going on in the scene Bart lands in in Hell! It's pretty freaky. A dude with tree legs bending over with people in his butt? A chef's knife with giant ears? Some one being eaten by a frog? Remember, lie, cheat, steal and listen to heavy metal music! Ah Lionel Hutz the ambulance chaser. Note to self, next business cards get made up on sponges. "Doctors, doctors are idiots!". His secretary Della is great "Oh yes, the Supreme Court called again, they need your help on some freedom thing". Love how Hutz has a degree from the Louvre.
Doctor Nick has 'Female Body Inspector' as part of his credentials as well as Mayo clinic correspondence school and Club Med School. "Yeah but what is truth?... if you follow me". "I should be able to run over as many kids as I want!" Burns exclaims on the stand. Is Bart's middle name the same as Homer's? Nice touch that in Bart's version of the story the hood ornament serves as a targeting recticle. In Burns' version he screams "Take me, I'm old!" Hutz isn't totally incompetent as a sheister actually, too bad Marge blows it.
This is the first time Homer's greed stops The Simpsons from becoming wealthy though certainly not the last. Dr. Hibbert's seen them through everything from clothes to empawhat? Empatygel? $5 a week Marge? What about the medical bills!?!? "Well that's it, guess this is the glass I'm gonna die in" declares Homer. He also thinks to himself, "She's been your wife for ten years, you've had three children together, well, time to be honest with her!". Moe's generosity is at it's height at the end of the show when he offers 1/3 off domestic beer pitchers for the next 15 minutes.
CONCLUSION
Solid episode - second sign of marital problems between Homer and Marge? First time we actually deal with death? (Although I think the next episode does a pretty good job covering that topic) Two of the funniest characters in the show are introduced here, Dr. Nick and Lionel Hutz. What's not to like?
THIS EPISODE'S RATINGS
  4/5 donuts from Statler
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PLOT SUMMARY FROM WIKIPEDIA
Mr. Burns' car hits Bart when he is skateboarding. Bart has an out-of-body experience, and rides a gold escalator and visits Heaven. A public address message tells Bart to hold onto the handrail and not to spit over the side; he ignores both instructions and is sent to Hell, where he meets the Devil. He floats back into his body, waking up in Dr. Hibbert's room with only minor injuries. In the room, an attorney named Lionel Hutz has arrived (after chasing Bart's ambulance) and suggests that Homer sue Mr. Burns. Burns offers Homer $100, but he refuses, and he goes to see Hutz. Hutz promises Homer a cash settlement of $1,000,000 (of which Hutz gets 50% as his 'fee'). They see Dr. Nick Riviera, a quack doctor who claims that Bart has extensive injuries; he diagnoses a fingerprint on Bart's x-ray as "trauma". Marge, however, is skeptical of Riviera's real medical qualifications and decries him for exaggerating Bart's condition.
Homer sues Burns. On the witness stand, a wheelchair-bound Bart offers the implausible testimony that he was playing innocently, until the "Luxury Car of Death" hit him. Burns' testimony is even more outrageous, claiming that he had been driving to the orphanage to pass out toys until Bart darted in front of him. The jury does not believe Mr. Burns's testimony, who yells at his lawyers and orders them to bring Homer and Marge to his house. At his mansion, Burns offers Homer a $500,000 settlement. Homer and Marge discuss the matter, but Homer objects to the settlement, insisting that Burns knows he will lose the trial and will have to pay the family $1 million. Burns cancels the settlement after overhearing Marge saying the lawsuit is based on false evidence.
At the trial, Marge is called to the stand. In her testimony, she denounces Dr. Riviera as a phony doctor and outlines how limited Bart's injuries actually were. She also gives the hardships resulting from the accident a dollar value of $5, the sum they would have paid Bart for taking out the trash, had he been able to. Marge's honest testimony destroys Hutz's case and the Simpsons get nothing. That night, a downbeat Homer is angry that Marge cost him $1,000,000. Marge visits him at Moe's and asks Homer to forgive her for her testimony, but he says that he is not sure he loves her anymore, until he looks her in the eyes and realises he still loves her as much as ever.
Accessed from Wikipedia on Mar. 01, 2010