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'Barting Over' is the eleventh episode of the fourteenth season of The Simpsons, advertised by Fox, and indicated on-screen to be the 300th episode of the show (though in broadcast order, it is the 302nd episode, as noted in the episode proper). It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 16, 2003. In this episode, Bart discovers that he used to be a child star in commercials—and that Homer spent all the money he earned. In retaliation, Bart petitions the court to be legally emancipated, and he moves out of the house.

The Simpsons Skateboarding by The Simpsons Skateboarding PS2. Platform: PlayStation2 Available from these sellers. Your question may be answered by sellers, manufacturers, or customers who purchased this item, who are all part of the Amazon community. Please make sure that you are posting in the form of a question. Grab your board and a nice piece of asphalt and get ready to shred Springfield. A Skate Tour has come to Springfield, and the entire town has gone skate crazy on the half-pipes, ramps and rails.

Plot[edit]

While Bart and Lisa are cleaning out the garage, they stumble across old home movies. One of the tapes they found has an old episode of the sitcom Perfect Strangers on it, followed by a commercial for a product called 'Baby Stink-Breath'— with Bart as a baby with bad breath. Bart confronts Homer and Marge about the advertisement, and is told that his part in the commercial made him a lot of money. Although Marge attempts to comfort him by stating she had it put away in a trust fund, Homer rudely interrupts and confesses that he spent it all to buy back incriminating photos to avoid a scandal. The next day, a furious Bart goes to a law firm named 'Luvum and Burnham' Family Law, at Milhouse's suggestion. He meets the Blue Haired Lawyer there, and tells him that he wants a 'divorce' from his family.

The next day, during dinner, the Blue Haired Lawyer comes to the house to serve Homer with a subpoena and a side of bacon to open the door. When the family discovers that Bart is suing them and declaring that he wants to be emancipated, they are horrified. An angry Homer defends himself by telling Bart that his father was terrible to him and rather than sue Abe, Homer got his revenge by dropping him off at a cheap nursing home.

At the trial, Bart's case is made clear in various ways, such as using a doll and Homer's anger management issues. Homer tries to deny it, claiming he is a calm and collected father who has minor anger problems when his son does something to make him mad. Judge Harm does not believe him and asks the stenographer to repeat the very same threatening words he spoke, much to both his embarrassment and Bart's lawyer's joy. She begins to mention that Bart is too young for emancipation, Homer is rude in interrupting her. He is happy and believes he's won the case. When Homer attempts to exert his control in his plans to punish Bart, Judge Harm is angered and rudely interrupts him. She mentions that she will make an exception for Bart's case. This makes Homer even more nervous than before knowing the capabilities of her ruling. Judge Harm cites that his sociopathic behavior and extreme anger management issues towards Bart are sufficient reasons that is unsafe for him to continue living at home. She declares him legally emancipated and is allowed to live on his own. As a result, Judge Harm orders Homer to give up half his salary as his punishment for stealing Bart's money. He tries to plead his case to her against giving up his paycheck, claiming he's already paying for alimony to his Vegas ex-wife and thinks the punishment is unfair. When Harm ignores him, Marge tries to get him to be reasonable and behave himself. Furious, Homer tries to attack Judge Harm, but the bailiff stops him and drags him away for contempt of court.

The next day, Bart rents a loft near downtown and says tearful goodbyes to everyone except Homer. Marge tries to convince him to stay, promising that she will let him swear in the house more. Bart refuses and tells Marge that she, Lisa, and Maggie have done nothing wrong. His problem has always been with Homer and now that Bart is emancipated, he is free from his father's abuse. Bart leaves in a taxi and Homer breaks down sobbing in the middle of the road. Despite an early and scary experience in the loft to its dangerous location, Bart discovers that Tony Hawk is also living in the building and throwing a party with punk band Blink-182. He and Hawk become friends, and he is content with his new life. Back at the Simpson house, Marge is still depressed about Bart being gone and convinces Homer to apologize to him. The family goes to meet him at his loft and Homer apologizes. Despite accepting the apology and promise of better treatment, Bart tells them that he is going on Tony Hawk's Skewed Tour.

At the event, Homer meets up with Hawk and pleads with him to pretend to lose to him so that he can make Bart proud of him again. Hawk reluctantly agrees and gives Homer a modified skateboard, which does all the stunt work. Later on, Hawk decides to teach Homer a lesson in humility for the way he has hurt Bart. After a skateboard match, Tony falls to the ground and Homer finally promises that he will never mistreat Bart again. Lindsey Naegle approaches Homer and asks him to star in a commercial. Homer accepts so that he can get Bart fully repaid. At the Simpson house, Homer is embarrassed when he watches the final product, an advertisement for an impotence drug, but Bart tells him that nobody will remember it in 50 years. Fifty years later, Homer is dead, and an elderly Nelson Muntz visits his grave to laugh at him.

Cultural References[edit]

Homer and Tony Hawk's aerial skateboard duel resembles the kung fu air combat in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Homer's holding an infant Bart off a balcony awning is a reference to Michael Jackson.

The episode title is a reference to the movie Starting Over (1979).

Production[edit]

According to the Complete Fourteenth Season commentary, the FOX network insisted that the 300th episode be scheduled specifically on February 16, 2003 so that there was time to plan a huge promotion for the episode. However, the actual 300th episode would have already aired two weeks prior. This was referenced in this episode during a joke where Lisa tallies the number of Homer's schemes at 300; Marge comments 'I could've sworn it was 302.'

Blink-182 recorded their lines for the episode on April 24, 2002; Hawk recorded his a week later on April 29.^[1]Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 has stated that being on The Simpsons was 'truly one of those “wow, this is unreal” moments that I’ve been lucky enough to experience. It still makes my day every time I think about it.'^[2]Tony Hawk also said, 'Being on The Simpsons, let alone a milestone episode, really made me think to myself that I've actually, completely made it.'^{[citation needed]}

Reception[edit]

In 2007, Simon Crerar of The Times listed Tony Hawk's performance as one of the thirty-three funniest cameos in the history of the show.^[3]

References[edit]

1. ^D’Angelo, Joe (2002-04-26). 'Blink-182, Tony Hawk To Appear On 'The Simpsons''. MTV (MTV.com). Retrieved 2010-06-01.
2. ^Hoppus, Mark (November 12, 2010). 'This Happened'. HiMyNameisMark. Archived from the original on April 27, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
3. ^Crerar, Simon (2007-07-05). 'The 33 funniest Simpsons cameos ever'. The Times. Retrieved 2010-08-09.

External links[edit]

• 'Barting Over' at The Simpsons.com
• 'Barting Over' on IMDb
• 'Barting Over' at TV.com

The Simpsons Skateboarding is an extreme sports video game based on the animated sitcom The Simpsons. It was released for the PlayStation 2 in North America on 11 November 2002 and Europe on 6 December 2002. The game was developed by The Code Monkeys and published by Fox Interactive and Electronic Arts. The story and dialogue were crafted by writers from The Simpsons, with all character voices supplied by the actual cast.

This game has been given largely negative reviews and is considered one of the worst games ever made.

Gameplay

Springfield has been converted into a skate park for the Annual Skate Tour, full of skate-able objects and landmarks from the television series. Players are able to choose one of the nine characters available to compete for the grand prize. All of the characters' voices were recorded by the actual voice actors from The Simpsons. Each character has over forty unique moves. Players can test their skills in either a two-player head-to-head skate off, or in one of the fast and furious modes: Freeskate, Skate Fest, Trick Contest, and a game of skateboard H-O-R-S-E, unlocking additional characters, locations, and skateboards. Players can also choose to learn all the skateboard moves and tricks before they begin the actual game in the Skillz School mode.

Why it Sucks

1. Extremely weak plot; the prize for winning the skateboarding contest is $99. Which is a small amount of money when you think about it, because how are you supposed to buy a Ferrari? Or pay for a month's rent? Even the easiest objective in THPS2 pays more than this!
2. Every time you pick a character, you have to wait for that character to finish talking to show his/her stats.
3. With almost every challenge, you get rewarded with only $0.10 initially.
4. Clumsy controls don't fully copy what Tony Hawk's Pro Skater does, making the game extremely frustrating to players used to the controls in that series.
   • The worst offenders are the left analog stick used for forwarding movement which just doesn't feel natural nor even comfortable, and the L1/R1 buttons used for spinning which doesn't even work most of the time. Instead of being tight and responsive, the controls just feel slow and sluggish. The physics also don't help the least bit.
5. Poor level design that does not take combo potential into consideration. Going back to Tony Hawk, the levels had set pieces that were subtly integrated into their designs and they felt natural as a result; here though, rails and ramps are randomly plastered throughout the map with very few combo opportunities.
6. Only a handful of tricks that you can perform; there's no wallride or reverts here to extend your trick combos in any way, for example.
7. Grinding is far too easy as the balance meter will stay at the dead center as long as you don't move to the left or right while you're actually on the rail.
8. The ollie height is very inconsistent, making even simple flatland tricks hard to pull off.
9. Lengthy load times that almost veer into Sonic 06 levels (no pun intended) of long.
10. Many unoriginal goals. Like getting Ralph's golf ball out of the water.
11. Many bugs and glitches such as passing through rails.
12. The game's overall tone tries way too hard to be hip and cool, including pluralizing everything with a Z (as Caddicarus said: 'Make it more hip')
13. Kent Brockman never stops talking. For example, he constantly says the name of every trick you do. Some of his other lines are unfunny (ex. 'Somebody get a really big band-aid!')
14. Very poor graphics, comparable to an early Dreamcast game. Jet Set Radio looked better than this!
15. Poor lip-syncing.
16. No GameCube, Xbox, or PC versions exist despite the other 6th gen Simpsons games being multi-platform, not that they are missing anything from this game!
17. Recycled voice clips from Road Rage.

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Redeeming Qualities

1. The voice acting is good, backed up by the actual Simpsons cast.
2. Good soundtrack.
3. You can turn Kent Brockman's voice off.
4. You can upgrade your character's stats from the Pause menu, something that even Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and 3 didn't allow you to do.
5. Easily the best out of all of The Code Monkeys games, as at least this, along with Shrek: Treasure Hunt, is at least playable (even if it's broken) and slightly enjoyable compared to theirlater'games'.

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