All of Bart's lingering questions are now answered, and Ned is cleared of any criminal suspicion. When Ned sees the police unearthing the dead plant from his backyard, he lets out a high-pitched scream which sounds like a woman's voice, and Bart recognizes this as the scream he originally heard. Bart presses Ned about the grave he dug in the backyard, forcing Ned to tearfully confess that the grave was for Maude's favorite ficus benjamina, which he had accidentally overwatered.
Ned confusedly asks Bart and Lisa what's going on, and when Bart accuses him of killing Maude, he faints from the shock.Īfter the police arrive to question Ned, they discover that Maude is alive and well, having just returned from her time "with God" at a Bible camp in the countryside. He follows Ned into the attic, where Lisa has hidden herself, and they both start screaming in terror, only to watch as Ned puts the axe away for safekeeping. Bart, afraid of what he thinks will happen to Lisa if Ned catches her, leaps out of his chair and struggles to chase after Ned in spite of his broken leg. The plan goes awry, however, when Ned unexpectedly comes home early and enters the house with an axe in his hands. Without the attention from the other kids, Lisa soon notices Bart's fears of what Ned might be up to, and she reluctantly agrees to help him investigate by sneaking into the Flanders house while Ned is away. Lisa's time as the popular kid also proves to be short-lived when the other children abandon her in favor of Martin Prince, whose family now has an even bigger pool than the Simpsons'. Homer and Marge also find some time to enjoy the pool by themselves, although Homer's botched attempt to chlorinate the pool water causes problems for the schoolkids when they come back the next day. Meanwhile, Lisa revels in her newfound popularity with the schoolkids as a direct result of the swimming pool. All of this leads Bart to believe that Ned has secretly murdered his wife Maude and is now planning to do the same to their children. The next day, Bart overhears Ned telling his sons Rod and Todd that their mother is "with God" and they will soon join her. That night, Bart grows concerned about his next door neighbor Ned Flanders after he hears a womanly scream from the Flanders house and then witnesses Ned digging a grave in the backyard while expressing remorse that he's become a "murderer". He soon retreats to his bedroom, where he begins spying on nearby houses using a telescope that he borrowed from Lisa.
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Hibbert orders Bart to spend the rest of the summer wearing a full cast over his broken leg, leaving him unable to swim in the pool or socialize with any of the other children. Bart gets dared to attempt an ambitious dive into the pool from his tree house, but Nelson Muntz distracts Bart to the point where he falls to the ground and breaks his left leg.ĭr. When word spreads that the Simpsons have built their own pool, a massive crowd of children from Springfield Elementary School show up at their house wanting to swim in it. Disappointed, Bart and Lisa persuade Homer to buy a swimming pool for their house. After the children of the neighborhood spend some brief time enjoying the pool, Otto declares that their time is up and admits to Bart that he doesn't have a big enough budget to operate the truck for more than one day. The episode was written by Dan McGrath, and directed by Jim Reardon.īart and Lisa are desperately trying to cool down while Springfield is in the midst of a heatwave, when Otto Mann suddenly arrives in their street driving a semi-trailer truck with a swimming pool on the back.
The episode was produced during the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which delayed production by a month, and is largely a parody of the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window.
He starts spying on neighbors with a telescope and begins to suspect that Ned Flanders has murdered his wife. In the episode, Bart breaks his leg and becomes increasingly isolated in his room. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 4, 1994.
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" Bart of Darkness" is the first episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. The Simpsons sit down in midair the couch builds itself on top of the family and makes them fall. 1st episode of the sixth season of The Simpsons " Bart of Darkness"
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