This TheSimpsons gem is from Season 2.
come into its own? It was a show that had only minor growing pains, and despite quick improvements in animation and some more solidified vocal performances over the course of the first season, emerged mostly fully formed. But it took a little bit to become complete. Which is why I’d like to present a case that, conveniently, ties into this week’s holiday. What a coincidence!
“Bart vs. Thanksgiving”—the seventh episode of the show’s second season—was conceived when the show’s writers realized they would have an episode airing precisely on Thanksgiving Day, 1990. It was the first episode to be helmed by writer George Meyer, a man whose influential virtues, and who is generally credited with perfecting the show’s comedic voice.
The episode centers around Lisa’s Thanksgiving diorama, which Bart accidentally destroys in the midst of a petty sibling argument. Refusing to apologize to the devastated Lisa, Bart opts to run away from home, taking him on an odyssey to the wrong side of the tracks before finally realizing his mistake and returning to apologize to his sister.
It’s an episode that exists most significantly in conversation with the show’s pilot, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” which introduced the show as not only comedically daring, but also uniquely attuned to working class anxieties. In that light, “Bart vs. Thanksgiving” re-engages more aggressively with the themes that defined the best years of.
“I have laryngitis, and it hurts to talk,” says Marge’s mother. “So I’ll just say one thing: you never do anything right.” Enough has been said about the Peter Griffin-ication in how
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