#bart the murderer

[jesusworesandals]

#the simpsons #bart the murderer #bart simpson #fat tony #gif #frinkiac #champagne

[scruffina]

(simpsons longpost) not to be like

like a ravenous little shipper hunting for skinner/edna crumbs, but the writing for them in season three seems to imply they have, at least, a tense but storied professional relationship. more likely a years-long friendship, marked — maybe flippantly, or maybe there's more resentment there — by their digressions into professional gripes/feuds with one another.

on a slimmer chance, they're supposed to be romantically involved, or at least have a history or have the tension/intentions that would lead to them becoming involved.

now where on earth is this remarkable bit of baseless reaching coming from?

i observed all this based off a clip from "bart's friend falls in love", timestamp ~4:15-25 in the episode. when skinner introduces samantha to the class:

and now longer and without captioning, to fully see their expressions:

really, it's as much in the wallace and shearer delivery as in the animation/staging, so you'd benefit from hearing the clip as well. (the whole show is on fmovies if you don't mind closing spam ads super-fast. you could make a game of it!)

but honestly, the direction here? the way skinner leans in to speak to edna but never looks at her, his intonation...

"i think we should talk about this later" is a couples-centric cliché, almost always delivered as this stern, low-voiced warning [which can imply a shitty power dynamic so that's no good! though i don't think that rings true for these characters. but why do men always have to tell women to shut up through gritted teeth? like calm down mister]...

edna's flat exasperation at the school's strained resources; her brief cycle through disapproving side-eye, to far-off contemplation, to a pasted-on smile, which says: it's fine, right? with a twinge of nervousness i find really compelling.

you see two adults wanting to have an adult conversation, but needing to save face in front of the children.

there's so many potential "laters" to this:

they exchange barbs over their coffee break: maybe half-hearted, if they're otherwise stressed and tired and kind of over it. or maybe it's a more lively argument; they're both kind of the type to let something small stew and get worked up about it. plus they love to battle intellectually, one-upping each another both in debates about school policies and in name-calling.

if you interpret this as implying they're more than friends, you might imagine seymour later trying to apologize and placate edna for the added stress, and edna being honest about her shitty day and seeking comfort, or not taking to seymour's weakshit efforts and acting cold. the 'we talk about this while driving home together after work, and it determines how the rest of the night goes' universe

neither of them is unafraid of a dour mood, i imagine. they're lonely and cynical and not trying to hide it. they're not trying to be popular among staff or students. if they really had this kind of dark-sided kindred-spirits, 'we just eat lunch together in companionable pissed-off silence' thing going with their friendship — which is kinda my favourite read of things at this 'time' canonically (i.e. early 90s, if they get together in spring '97 in accordance with "gsc") — then this samantha incident should hardly mean anything.

[subpoint but i can't indent further] it should almost be an inside joke that's only funny in the absurd sadness unique to their context: god isn't our school falling apart and we're so so messed up and burnt out we can't attend to the kids' education properly but don't we really owe it to them? but no they're little pains and didn't we have dreams once an—

anyway, there's just a lot of rich character stuff to be mined from a throwaway cliché 'disgruntled couple' moment if you're a tin-hatter like me. no real conclusion to these scattered thoughts yet again!!

as a side note, the other time off the top of my head season three plays up their bond is in "bart the murderer", where bart imagines krabappel inconsolably weeping over the skinner memorial fire hose: "he loved fire drills!" again, the writers make it seem like they're close friends.

bonus richard chamberlain of the day:

#principal skinner #seymour skinner #edna krabappel #skinner and krabappel #simpsons meta #the simpsons #simpsons #season three #bart's friend falls in love #bart the murderer #meta #character analysis

[ladyofdecember]

I think this is the first appearance of Chief Wiggum 🤔

#the simpsons #liveblogging #bart the murderer #chief wiggum

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 92

Clockwork is done. 

Screw the observants’ rules, screw the ‘you can’t enter the mortal realms’ demand they try. He is going to have words with the speedsters about timelines and travelling through timestreams. He is not missing his ghostling’s highschool graduation and if there’s even a chance of that horrible thing happening he will make it everyone else’s problem!

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #Clockwork #Clockwork is making it to Danny's graduation no matter what #He's going to murder these speedsters if they don't Quit It #the flash family #Except for Bart #He likes Bart he finds him funny #The lone flash who hasn't caused him problems #He's going to gently set Bart & his team in his living room with some cookies & with Danny #And then he's going to make the other flashes & heroes who Didn't Stop them Regret It #“Should we stop him???” #“Nah let peepaw get it out of his system it could be way worse” #The timeline fuckery keeps giving him migraines and those ReALLY suck

[hijinxinprogress]

YJ playing never have I ever 

Cissie goes never have I ever been experimented on by the government so Greta, Kon, and Bart put a finger down “Bart?? Hello??” “The futures fucked” “Called it” “Are you good?” “I mean I like pizza and not being stuck in a simulation sooo” “the future doesn’t have pizza??” “I know! Not having pizza is the absolute worst” 

Kon goes never have I ever had a mentor disregard my safety and everyone except Anita, Cassie, and Greta put a finger down “The joys of not having a mentor” “Hal lost it when he found out about last christmas” “Every time Diana realizes we’ve gone off planet she goes nuclear” “middle child, no one’s looking for me in the first place”

Cassie says never have I ever been betrayed by family members (biological or otherwise) so there’s a small argument over whether or not you should have to put a finger down for each betrayal “I’m just saying there’s a lot of speedsters” “I have like nine siblings on a technicality” “Do alternate versions of alleged biological relations count??” “🤓👆🏾AlLeGEd BiOlOgicAl ReLaTIoNs ” “stfu” “Can I add someone else’s alt to my list if they killed me?? Wait, Thad tried to kill me again last week” “Are we counting each person or each betrayal??” “I don’t have enough fingers for that” “fuck, me either” “I don’t have enough fingers for each person much less each time I was betrayed” 

Anita goes never have I ever had a family member attempt or succeed in killing me and everyone puts a finger down “so fuck me ig” “does prime count for us??” “yeah?? we’re family, stupid” “I feel targeted” “me too” “what if it was an accident??” “It still counts”

Tim goes never have I ever had to screw with time to meet family member(s) so Anita and Bart put down a finger “technically I didn’t-“ “you’re a speedster put your mf finger down” “fair” “they were babies, I didn’t meet shit” “they were your parents put your fucking-”

Greta goes never have I ever befriended people that tried to kill me multiple times and Tim and Bart put down a finger “it’s how we bond! This is slander” “Bart we’ve been to like six other timelines and dimensions where Thad kills you” “wait you said friend do I-“ “Pru” “listen that’s different” “Anarky??” “Klarion” “Azrael” “Lynx” “I also tried to kill you” “My fucking finger is down are you happy?” 

Bart goes never have I ever had a family that doesn’t want me around and everyone puts a finger down “look at us! Bonding” “I don’t think I was invited to thanksgiving last year” “ngl they have no idea how old I am” “I was accidentally added to the family group chat” “dude they added you??” 

Tim goes never have I ever had mommy issues resulting in everyone putting a finger down “??” “You do know you’re targeting yourself right??” “Bart put your finger down” “wtf why my mom loves me” “Emotional turmoil bc you can never see her again ergo mommy issues” “eRgO” “stfu” “Kon?? You don’t have a mom??” “My choices are Superman or Lex” “Yikes…” “Put another finger down”

[No one wins especially not the jl that walked in halfway through the game bc yj was having game night in a briefing room and gave absolutely zero notice]

#Bart 🤝🏾 Tim bonding over having murderous younger brothers that seem to barely tolerate them #young just us #young justice #anita fite #dc empress #cassie sandsmark #gnc!cassie sandsmark #wonder girl #bart allen #dc impulse #greta hayes #dc secret #cissie king jones #dc arrowette #kon el #kon el superboy #tim drake #dc red robin #yj98 #dc comics

[nerdpoe]

Jason goes to beat the crap out of the newest Robin, but...that's a baby. And that's a baby. And that's a baby...oh look, another baby.

All of Young Justice got turned into babies, and Jason just walked in on the immediate aftereffect.

Now he's surrounded by a bunch of babies.

He may be enough of a jackass to beat up a 15 year old, but he draws the line at hurting literal babies.

Needless to say, when Dick arrives completely and fully ready to commit murder because of Robin's emergency beacon going off, he wasn't expecting the Big Bad Red Hood to be juggling four babies.

Or to have two of them shoved into his arms along with a shopping list for baby food and diapers.

"...I wanna hold Robin, though-"

"Get the fuck out, Golden Boy, and go get the goods."

#batman au #tim drake #conner kent #kon-el #bart allen #cassie sandsmark #dick grayson #jason todd #story prompt #babies babies eveyrwhere au #robin au #titans tower au #dick was fully ready to do a murder but then was ambushed by cute tiny baby faces

[sepia-stained-sunset]

Shoutout to Tim Drake for teaming up with the only other teenagers with messier family dynamics than the Bats

#fucking hysterical how Anita is raising her parents Kon is a clone of Lex fucking Luthor and Superman #Cassie is literally a descendant of the Greek gods so that's a whole other thing #Bart is a time traveller so that's a whole thing and Greta was literally murdered by her brother as a sacrifice #Cissie's dynamic with her mom is fucked as well and Tim is a Bat so like. Dude. #young justice #tim drake

[ineffectualdemon]

Eleanor Shellstrop may be one of my favourite characters of all times

She's one of the few female characters who is truly allowed to be gross and morally questionable but also likeable and charming which is my favourite type of character

AND she has a great character arc!

Like her journey as a character is so well written and satisfying

Damn I need to watch the Good Place again because she was such a fun character and really well played

#Another woman character that I really love is Bart from Dirk Gently. Gotta love a murder gremlin #eleanor shellstrop #the good place

[biterflies]

batfam being cryptids: boring, over done, theyre just some people in masks if you shot them theyre done-zo

flash fam being cryptids: new, exiciting, they are intrinsically tied to an eldritch multiversal force that gives them the power to change the very fabric of time *by Accident* and that when not harnessed properly will Kill them and possibly destroy entire universes 

#that thing they do where they blur their faces and vibrate their vocal cords #has the potential to be Terrifying #phasing is well known to be scary if the speedster using it is feeling Murderous #that thing wally did to inertia where he turned him into a living statue? #(living in the most bare bones he is not dead kinda way) #Super Fucked Up! #fucking FLASHPOINT? #theres a reason MULTIPLE SOCIETIES WORSHIP THEM AS LITERAL GODS #We're Only Alive Cause Speedsters Want Us To Be #Its their multiverse we're just living in it #Flashfam #The Flash #flash family #flash fam #Jay Garrick #Barry Allen #Wally West #bart allen #the speed force #speed force #BatFam #batman #bat family #bat fam #bruce wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #Tim Drake #damian wayne #duke thomas

[mamawasatesttube]

i wanna put core four in a murder on the orient express situation except it's hard because like. none of these guys would willingly get on a train. three out of four can just go nyoom! and the fourth would absolutely spend the entire time he's on a train griping that he's not driving the redbird to wherever they're going instead. he's got his hand on the glass gazing longingly out the window at a highway overpass by the train tracks. he's grumbling watching cars on the highway go faster than the train goes. he's scuffing his feet on the floor and muttering darkly about how he doesn't need to be here because he has a car. he's not pouting okay he's brooding. stop saying he's pouting bart he's BROODING. there's a difference okay :(

#rimi talks #someone gets murdered and cassie is like hey tim can you stop pouting about your car and be useful for FIVE MINUTES-- #youre a detective arent you. start detecting or whatever :/ #but again like what are kon cassie and bart even doing on a train. putting bart on a train is like cruel and inhumane #unless they have really good train snacks i guess #core four #tim #kon #cassie #bart

[nikrei]

Presenting day 3, Thad!

For this one i wanted to draw Thad and Bart doing some of the terrible shenanigans that my sister and I got into when we were kids.

#the time she shot me in the eye with a toy arrow seemed too... arrowfam #that time she tried to smother me with a pillow seemed like it would cover up too much of Bart #so i went with that time when her driving threw me off the back of the golf cart and I landed on my neck! #(it was fine-i walked it off. we did Not tell the parents) #despite all the murder attempts when we were kids se and i are besties now no worries #also two out of three of those things were not actually murder attempts they were just us having v bad ideas #remember when i said i was trying to be restrained for this week??? #absolutely i traced that golf cart tho #if u ever catch me freehanding a vehicle no u didn't that's not me #gotta post this before I find five more things to do on it #thad thawne #bart allen #bartallenweek #arting with nik

[scruffina]

(skinner rant incoming) okay so,

in “bart the murderer” (8f03; s3e4), the tv movie blood on the blackboard: the bart simpson story starring tv’s doogie howser, neil patrick harris.

they cast richard chamberlain as skinner.

richard. chamberlain.

take a gander at this guy!!

and a little bit older:

holy handsome white guy batman!!

the other thing is, chamberlain came out as gay in 2003. but rumours of his sexuality had circulated in tabloids for decades prior (which is obviously trash - it's not revolutionary to say but tabloids and paparazzi shouldn't exist!).

i think it's reasonable to assume the writers would select this kind of genteel, dignified, yet past his prime, and - unknowingly, then - gay actor for skinner to say something about his character. because hours upon hours of rewrites went into classic simpsons scripts, trying to get the maximum funny out of even the quickest tv-announcer gags, like this one.

we know the simpsons writers consider skinner bisexual ("SSS'sBS" s5e19 commentary). and we know he is almost excessively well-mannered and self-controlled, a result of agnes' interpretation of 'parenting' (i.e. strict and oddly insular as a most generous read, outright abuse at worst) and his military service. he is incredibly repressed, and yet in the small sphere of things in which he feels comfortable exerting control, he can be capable. or he can be petty, angry, nervous, fumbling, cowering, courageous...he can have complex reactions to situations that affect his school and the town (see: the scene where he faces mr. burns in "WSMB? p.1", which is one of my all-time favourites). so i think the casting alludes to him having these hidden sides, as would a man who was closeted in hollywood for over forty years. (obviously, there could have been a real danger to skinner being outed in the nineties or at any earlier time, especially during his service.)

this choice also means the writers canonically interpret skinner as hot.

[[(I don't think this is a stretch coloured by my own attraction to chamberlain, who gained notoriety as a heartthrob in the sixties and had this kind of sophisticated, rugged thing goin' on in the 70s-90s.)

(i also would like to note to me he doesn't look like skinner, exactly. he's too 'all-american popular boy' as a young man for the mousey, sheltered square skinner would be. and he's a little too sweet and relaxed-looking in his forties/fifties. skinner's features i imagine are heavier and more pinched, less symmetrical; his face shape less square; his smile nowhere near as natural. chamberlain, though beautiful, is a little too floaty/wispy slash outdoorsy/manly-looking for skinner: it's a wonderful contrast, but too far in either direction.)

(also not to be crazy but we kinda already knew he was intended to be hot given the way they drew young skinner in the valentine's da nang 1969 flashback in "i love lisa".)]]

why, right?

the reason i favour is that when a character doesn't known they're attractive, they must have

a) poor/warped self-image;

b) have been sheltered, especially from beauty standards and formative social interactions;

c) be generally oblivious/clueless/struggle socially;

d) have some aversion to interacting with the groups they might be attracted to, and/or the groups that might be attracted to them (i.e. avoid seeking potential partners).

(though this of course isn't a list of requisites, nor an exhaustive one.)

skinner fits all these. there's also the question of neurodivergency here - skinner potentially being autistic is something i half-accept as someone who is questioning myself (there's a great post about this out there). it's canon that he suffers ptsd, though naturally it's unclear to an outsider exactly how that affects his thought process. without really needing to get into either of these considerations, or his dynamic with agnes (that is a freakin' dissertation for another time), since you can probably extrapolate for yourself, you can see why he might disallow himself from forming/pursuing an attraction to anybody, or receiving that kind of attention. it could be partially out of fear of his mother.

or he could just be uncomfortable: though we see a not-quite-complete characterization of skinner fall hard for patty in "principal charming" (s2e14), that relationship is very limited physically and more about shared bitterness, wasted time, and companionship. patty isn't fawning over him at all (not that he expects her to) because, as we later learn, she's gay (i also always liked the read that she's asexual too). he takes a big, romantic, hopeful, emotional swing in that episode, but he's still understanding through their breakup. he's humble, self-effacing: patty's the catch to him, she didn't miss out on much. (plus he lets bart walk all over him since he's so enamoured of her.) (plus he shouts his love from a clock tower and sobs on the school steps and uses phrases like "be still my foolish heart" - it was a real romance to him, but he treats it in such a dramatic fashion as to suggest he's unaccustomed to judging what romance - what a real, adult relationship - really is.)

but it adds another layer to him to think, 'he might be one of the most desirable middle-aged men (or men, period, i can't think of any 'in-universe hot' younger men) in springfield if only everyone weren't almost instantly fed up with how excessively straight-laced and boring he is - and also with his co-dependence on his mother.' his hotness does not override his status as a social outcast.

all of this to basically have no real conclusion! just super interesting to me that they chose this very handsome, and coincidentally gay, actor for a real-life skinner in the throwaway tv movie episode coda. and there's so much work one can do to parse skinner's character - work i want to do, slowly, but am honestly not sure i'm up for. this was just one tiny observation that spiralled into a post it took me hours to finally be satisfied with.

no matter though! enjoy richard chamberlain, there's many more photos of him in looks i love that i might post. he seems like a quite wonderful guy.

#seymour skinner #principal skinner #simpsons meta #meta #character analysis #the simpsons #bart the murderer #simpsons #my ramblings

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

HOLY SHIT

I'm just... WOW

Jay taunted the General into breaking his tooth.

"Pain? Pal, this is nothing compared to the last time I was captured. They hit me so hard my molars came out. You... You're a lightweight."

God, speedsters are so good at pissing people off on purpose. It's a skill and a talent and they use it well.

Jay got what he wanted from the interaction. The General lost his cool and knocked one of Jay's teeth out. Which he apparently wanted because his plan was to spit that tooth with the force and velocity of a gunshot.

God.

Damn.

Jay's molar pierced the Doctor's metal plated, armored vest and shattered the speedforce connector inside. He then used the Doctor's frozen body to escape his restraints.

Jay is going full Die Hard on an alien ship right now. Jay is Sigourney Weaver in Alien. When they took the 'old guy', I don't think they were prepared for the war vet who was a prisoner of war in World War II, regularly fought against Nazis and forged the way for modern superheroes as we know it. Jay is a friendly guy but you better hope to hell and back that you don't piss him off because he is an absolute beast when he's in war mode.

I'm so excited to watch this Grandfather tear some aliens apart.

#dc #dc comics #the flash #jay garrick #you guys ever read that one comic where Rival threatened to kill Joan #and Jay was like 'Huh. I'm going to murder you now. Bart run home.' #and Bart was like 'Wait what' and had to pry Jay off of Rival??? cause i do! #Newsflash. Jay is totally fine with killing people lmao. and hes very bloodthirsty when he wants to be #you wouldn't think it cause he's also the sweetest grandfather #but Jay has layers. hes a complex character #one minute war

[mrsthunderkin]

A teensie shading practice with Bart post workout/class

#bart the bard #Bartemus Bagiery #Fae #unseelie fae #tales of alor #it was a fun part of the story where he wears his slutty little tank top and gets objectified by a lot of other characters #i dont draw him shirtless enough #because his clothes PURPOSELY cover up his figure lines #because he feels it makes him seem “softer” #he strives constantly to seem approachable and friendly #because theres a lot of stigma against his whole family being mindless tyrants and murderous shadow monsters #which he teeeeechnically is but hes really trying to break those family cycles #literally

[oifaaa]

Jason basically got over Joker when he took the name Red Hood.

Basically yeah considering Jason even said that beating Joker with a crowbar was more for fun Jason really was like oh you killed me? Okay well I'm gonna steal your old name and make it my own to the point people forget it ever was your name just to show you how forgettable you are that makes us even now im gonna go torture Bruce

#ask #anon #bc like its one thing to die in dc #its another thing for your family to do absolutely nothing about it #you ever hear what wally did to the speedster who killed bart bruce #have you #be for real Bruce #theres ways to get revenge without murder bruce

[rumfrogx]

"you better not be wearing a cunty yellow jacket"

me af:

#he served (time for murder) #columbo #robert culp #double exposure #Bart Kepple