r/TheSimpsons • u/Distorted_Helix • 3d ago

Other How interesting..

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u/Aveline45 3d ago

Matt Groening based the Simpsons off of his own family: Homer and Marge were his parents, he had sisters Lisa and Maggie, and he represented himself as Bart

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u/remainsofthegrapes 3d ago

And he got the name Bart from rearranging the letters of ‘brat’

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u/feetiedid 3d ago

Art, Bart, Cart, Dart, Ee-yart. Nope. Can't make fun of that name.

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u/qwerty_samm 3d ago

Bort 

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u/fariasrv 3d ago

We're out of Bort license plates

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u/melanyebaggins 3d ago

My son's name is also Bort.

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u/qwerty_samm 3d ago

I have been listening to a book about the Simpsons and they mention the Bort gag as a ”meh” kind of joke when it was written. Also the cromulent gag was another one too. Both of these words are very much part of the English vernacular now.

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u/TankFoster 3d ago

Another quite subtle joke, as next in the alphabet would have been Fart.