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Original air date: October nineteen, 1997

After Lisa's saxophone gets crushed in the street, Homer tells the story of how Lisa first discovered her musical talent — which coincides with the tragic tale of how Bart'due south get-go day of kindergarten turned him into the troublemaker he is today.

This is the third of four episodes produced by Al Jean and Mike Reiss instead of the electric current showrunner (in this case, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein). Jean would return as showrunner starting in flavour 13.

Tropes:

  • As Himself: Fyvush Finkel as himself playing Krusty the Clown in the Tv set movie The Krusty the Clown Story: Booze, Drugs, Guns, Lies, Blackmail, and Laughter!
  • Writer Avatar: Al Jean modeled the boy who eats worms on himself, as he ate worms as a child. He even looks like Jean.
  • Batman Parody: Bart sings a song called Buttman.
  • Because You Were Squeamish to Me: The episode shows the route of Bart and Milhouse's friendship surprisingly started with Bart feeling this mode towards Milhouse, before Bart became a troublemaker when he was just a depressed kid who Milhouse was willing to sit down with and gave him the confidence to joke around in front of the class.
  • Blatant Lies: Homer flashes back to having said to Barney as a kid "Allow's Never Potable Again!" Then in the present day he says, holding a beer, "And we never did!" as he proceeds to take a sip.
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Bart makes fun of Main Skinner, singing "Skinner is a nut, he has a safe barrel!". Skinner responds by proverb, "Beau, I can assure you my posterior is nil more than flesh, bone, and that metal plate I got in 'Nam."
  • The Bus Came Back: Dr. J. Loren Pryor, the Springfield Elementary Schoolhouse psychiatrist from the early on seasons comes dorsum during flashbacks discussing Bart's and Lisa'south potential.
    • Lunch Lady Doris, who was retired from the show after voice actor Doris Grau passed away, appears in the flashbacks. note This episode was originally produced during Season 7 as part of a special product line, with the program being that they would be aired beyond Seasons eight and nine to reduce the pressures of having to produce 25 episodes a season on the current staff without having to resort to a Prune Testify. Hence this episode was produced before Grau's expiry but aired several years after the fact. She'd permanently be back starting in season 18, voiced by Tress MacNeille.
  • Celebrity Paradox: The Tracey Ullman Prove was once America's leading source of musical comedy and "crudely-fatigued filler material".
  • Comic-Volume Time: This is the first episode to play with the established timeline of the Simpson family unit. Bart is entering kindergarten in 1990, when previously that was the yr Maggie was born and Bart would have already been ten in 1990 (if he were born in 1980, he would accept been kindergarten-anile in 1985, which was when Homer and his friends became a barbershop quartet). The writers have always been upfront about this since the characters never age; Al Jean even admitted that they knew they'd get into this the moment they get-go mentioned Homer and Marge'due south senior year. To add an extra level of defoliation, while produced 2 seasons earlier, the episode didn't air until 1997. As a consequence, the reference to the characters being five years younger in 1990 didn't make sense even when the episode kickoff aired.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Homer'southward tale about how Lisa got her saxophone initially ends with Bart's miserable get-go twenty-four hours of school.

    Homer: And that my children, is the story of Bart's first day of school.
    Bart: Very nice.
    Homer: Yeah.
    Lisa: Yeah. Except y'all were supposed to be telling the story of how I got my saxophone!
    Homer: (Beat) D'oh!

  • Burrow Gag: The family are Russian nesting dolls with Homer's top half sitting on the couch, then Marge, followed past Bart, Lisa, and Maggie staying in the lesser halves.
  • Crush Parade: Lisa'southward prized saxophone accidentally sailed out her bedroom window and into the street where information technology'southward run over past a car, a truck (driven past Hans Moleman), stamped on by Nelson (who then points at information technology and mocks, "Ha ha"), and concludes with a person on a tricycle who falls over to the side when his front tire hits what remains of the flattened saxophone. (And to height information technology all off, the sax produces a "Wah Wah" audio after all that.)
  • Wheel of Revenge: Seeing Lisa upset about her destroyed saxophone, Homer offers to break something of Bart'southward. When Bart protests, Homer says he'll pause something of Maggie's to make information technology up to him.
  • Fiction Isn't Fair: Main Skinner introduces some members of staff to the new students, including school bully Jimbo.

    Jimbo: (making a punching gesture) I wait frontwards to whaling on all of you lot.

    • Heck, the entire episode uses this trope to justify why Bart hates school. He actually looked forrad to it, until everyone and everything on his offset day served to Pause the Cutie in ludicrous ways — like his kindergarten teacher declaring him "non college material" simply because he threw in an actress handclapping while singing "Bingo".
  • Freudian Excuse: This episode goes out of the style to explain that Bart is troublemaker today because his kindergarten teacher basically said he'd never amount to anything just considering he wasn't as quick every bit the other kids to catch on to things.
  • Freudian Skid: Chief Skinner accidentally introduces himself as "Principal Sinner". As the kindergartners laugh, Skinner mutters "That's it, I've lost them forever..."
  • Hate Sink: Bart'southward kindergarten instructor is cypher but a sadistic, mean spirited bully.
  • Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Lampshaded.

    Homer: (to young Bart) At present, son, on your first day of school, I'd like to pass along the words of advice my begetter gave me.
    (thought chimera with Abe and young Homer)
    Younger Abe: Homer, you're dumb every bit a mule and twice every bit ugly! And if a strange man offers yous a ride, I say accept it!
    Homer: (muttering) Lousy traumatic babyhood!

  • Hyperaffixation: When Homer and Lisa visit a music store:

    Homer: So, what do you similar, Lisa? Vio-ma-lin? Tuba-ma-ba? Oboe-mo-boe?
    Lisa: That i!
    Homer: Oh, saxo-ma-phone.

  • Hypocritical Humor:
    • This scene between Homer and young Bart.

      Homer: Bart, son? You want to play catch?
      Immature Bart: No.
      Homer: When a boy doesn't desire to play catch with his old man, something is seriously wrong!
      Abe: (wearing old-time baseball uniform) I'll play catch with you lot, son!
      Homer: Get the hell out!
      Abe: I'm gone.

    • After watching the Krusty Television set-Movie mentioned above, Homer calls him a bad father, equally Maggie walks by carrying an electric drill.
  • I Need a Freaking Drinkable: From the Michigan J. Frog parody:

    "We're proud to present on the WB, another bad testify that no-i volition see-ee-eee! Ugh, I need a beverage."

  • I Take Offense to That Last One!: When immature Bart get-go made fun of Principal Skinner:
  • Jerkass: Bart's kindergarten teacher and Skinner.
  • Karma Houdini: Bart's kindergarten teacher. The episode shows that the cruel treatment he received from his teacher contributed profoundly to shaping Bart's future behavior. Just put, she wrote downwardly Bart every bit a lost cause because he didn't grab on to things as rapidly equally the other kids, and has been emotionally and psychologically abusing him e'er since. He was only five years old and he was already considering suicide. Its likely that by at present this teacher is still putting down children that she deems slow, unwittingly turning them into Time to come Barts.
  • Kill It with Burn: Marge shows Homer a picture an upset Bart drew:

    Marge: Homer, I want y'all to look at this drawing Bart did.

    Homer: [watching Tv] Oh, it's beautiful! Oh, oh, let's put Bart's cute cartoon upwardly on the fridge!

    Marge: Homer, end. Will you delight wait at the drawing?

    Homer: Oh, all right. What...[looks at drawing]...aaah!! Burn information technology! Send it to hell!

  • Lampshade Hanging:

    Homer: Our family unit was suffering through its worst crisis ever: Bart was miserable at school and Lisa'due south gifts were going to waste material.
    Bart: Uh, Homer, it's five years after, and I'm yet miserable at school.
    Lisa: And my gifts are nonetheless going to waste matter.

  • Literal Metaphor: When Homer sees Lisa looking at the music shop, he says "A musical musical instrument? Could that be a way to encourage a gifted child? (looking upward) Just give me a sign!". That's when the shop owner puts a sign in the window saying "Musical instruments: the way to encourage a gifted child.", to which Homer says "Eh, works for me." and they go within and purchase Lisa's saxophone.
  • Logo Joke: The Gracie Films jingle is redone with—what else?—Lisa's saxophone.
  • Name One:

    Homer: Marge, proper noun one successful person in life who ever lived without air conditioning.

    Marge: Balzac!

    Homer: No need for potty oral fissure just because you lot can't think of i.

  • Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Bart did a "Sad" cartoon ◊ subsequently his first mean solar day at school.

    Marge: Homer, I desire yous to look at this cartoon Bart did.

    Homer: (takes drawing but without taking his optics off of the TV) Ohhh, it'due south cute! Oh! Oh let'due south put Bart'south cute cartoon up on the fridge—

    Marge: Homer, stop! Would you lot please look at the drawing?

    Marge: I think nosotros're going to have to get Bart some assist.

    Homer: Get it abroad!

  • Noodle Incident: Grandpa blurts out at one point "I realized I could make money selling my medication to deadheads." He chooses not to elaborate further.
  • Not Helping Your Case: After Lisa points out there's a cockroach in with the pickled eggs in front of the health inspector (run into Oh, Crap! beneath), Moe tries to shine things over by giving the guy a margarita... that has a syringe in the drinking glass. Moe weakly claims it's a parasol when the inspector glowers at him.
  • Oh, Crap!: After Lisa notices the pickled egg jar contains a cockroach.

    Man at bar: No, just I am.

  • Overly Literal Transcription: Equally Homer dictates a dedication for Lisa'due south saxophone, he tells the clerk to write "To Lisa, never forget your Daddy loves-", when he drops the sax on his feet and says "D'oh!", which is transcribed as "To Lisa, never forget your Daddy loves D'OH!" In the end of the episode, Lisa gets a new sax with the dedication "To Lisa, may your new saxophone bring you years of D'OH!".
  • Parental Favoritism: When Dr. Pryor tells Homer and Marge that Lisa is gifted, Homer suggests that he and Marge brush Bart's problems aside, challenge that his life is over (despite him only being 5) and that Lisa's the moving ridge of the futurity.
  • Playing Take hold of with the Sometime Human being: Bart rejects Homer'south offer to play catch. Homer says that in that location's something wrong when a male child doesn't desire to play grab with his male parent; Abe (wearing an old-fashioned baseball compatible) then offers to play catch with Homer, just Homer tells him to go away.
  • Racial Face Blindness: In the Krusty TV motion-picture show, "Krusty" is shown telling his Chinese stepson Chan-Ho he's breaking upwardly with his mother Mia Farrow, only the boy actually tells him Chan-Ho is elsewhere, and he himself is Chin-Ho.
  • Actually Dead Montage: Towards the end, as Lisa plays her new saxophone, we see a montage of Lisa playing her original saxophone set to Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street".
  • Sadist Teacher: Bart's kindergarten teacher.

    Teacher: And the ugly duckling was amazed to realize it had grown into a cute swan. So you see children, there is hope for anyone.
    Bart: Even me?
    Teacher: No.

  • Shout-Out: Homer finds Twin Peaks to be brilliant, even though he has no idea what's going on.
  • Song Parody: Homer and Marge sing their ain version of "Those Were the Days", spoofing the opening sequence of All in the Family, consummate with narrator proverb "The Simpsons is filmed in front of a alive studio audience" and Homer calling Bart "Meathead" afterwards.
  • Minor Role, Big Touch on: The Preschool Instructor'due south treatment of Bart, is the reason Bart is Bart today. What makes it worse is that Bart was just v years old and her actions made Bart actually consider suicide. To specify, the teacher basically wrote off Bart as a lost cause because he didn't catch on to things as quickly as the other kids:

    Bart: (singing) B-I-*clap*-*clap*-*clap*-O and Bingo was his name-o.

    Teacher: (writing on a prune board) Actress clap; non higher material.

  • Kickoff of Darkness: The flashback of how Lisa got her saxophone also contains the tragi-comic story of how Bart became a bad kid at school (his kindergarten teacher openly told him he had no future whatever and he was bullied past Jimbo Jones).
  • Stepford Smiler: Marge reveals that sometimes she feels and then smothered by being a mother that she wants to scream until her caput explodes. Sadly, no one shows whatever business for her about it and she continues repressing her feelings.
  • Stylistic Suck: Marge's loud, loftier-pitched, out of melody delivery of the line "and yous knew where you were so" cemented the All in the Family parody.
  • Take That!: To The WB network.

    Michigan J. Frog: (singing) We're proud to present on the WB, another bad evidence that no one volition see! (disgustedly walking off) Ah, I need a beverage...

    • The blackboard gag for this episode is "I no longer desire my MTV," which is what a lot of people have said about MTV thanks to its infamous Network Decay (airing shows that have nothing to do with music or music videos).
  • Tempting Fate: "Schoolhouse volition exist fun!" Sure it will, Bart...
  • The Thing That Would Non Leave: Apu, who lampshades this with "For no reason, hither's Apu..." equally he joins in the reprise of "Those Were The Days", and periodically makes wisecracks.

    Homer: Aww, but Marge, am I doomed to spend the rest of my life sweating like a sus scrofa?

    Bart: Yeah, not to mention looking like a pig, eating like a pig...

    Apu: (through window) Don't forget the olfactory property!

    Homer: Will y'all get off my front lawn?

    Apu: Why don't you make me?

    Abe: (roofing his eyes) Where'south Maggie? Where's Maggie? I'm not kidding, I can't run across! My retinas have discrete once again!

    (Homer and Marge laugh)

    Apu: (walking in, laughing) He is bullheaded as a bat!

  • Two Roads Earlier Yous: Afterward witnessing his antics, Skinner tells Bart he can either continue being a class clown or apologize correct now and be well-behaved.

    Skinner: At present, what practice y'all say?
    [Beat]
    Bart: Swallow my shorts.

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