History YMMV / TheSimpsonsS3E4BartTheMurderer

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Skinner refuse Bart's bribe as [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules a matter of principle]] or was it because he'd knew of the serious trouble he'd be in if discovered?

** At one point, while Skinner is missing, Richard, one of Bart's friends, assumed that Skinner was ground up into meat for hamburgers and [[ImAHumanitarian served in the school cafeteria]]. Three years later, that ended up being the premise of the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV Treehouse of Horror V]]" segment "Nightmare Cafeteria", except the ones who ended up getting ground up into meat and ending up on the school's menu are the schoolchildren themselves, being served for Skinner and other school faculty.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Skinner refuse Bart's bribe as [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules a matter of principle]] or was it because he'd knew of the serious trouble he'd be in if discovered?

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Did Skinner refuse Bart's bribe as [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules a matter of principle]] or was it because he'd knew of the serious trouble he'd be in if discovered?

** At one point, while Skinner is missing, Richard, one of Bart's friends, assumed that Skinner was ground up into meat for hamburgers and [[ImAHumanitarian served in the school cafeteria]]. Three years later, that ended up being the premise of the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV Treehouse of Horror V]]" segment, "Nightmare Cafeteria", except the ones who ended up getting ground up into meat and ending up on the school cafeteria are the schoolchildren themselves, being served for Skinner and other school faculty.
** Skinner's aesop of telling the courtroom to recycle your newspapers due to him being pinned underneath a large pile of them and being left undiscovered for a whole week becomes this in regards to the many stories about hoarders and others who ended up being killed due to their own piles toppling on them.
** The ending has Bart vindicated but still demonized by the media within legal limits (largely because it makes for much better entertainment), not that Bart seems to mind at all being a fictional gangster. The later episode "Homer Badman" would look into the media getting away with slandering the Simpsons for the sake of entertainment with much more dramatic effect.

** The [[PhonyPsychic psychic]] that was hired to search for Skinner's body predicted that Creator/DeltaBurke and Major Dad (Creator/GeraldMcRaney) would break up. 25+ years after the episode aired, they're still happily married.
** A broken wheel or vehicle part causes a character to meet the Mafia and do various jobs for them. Are we talking about Bart or [[Film/TheIrishman Frank Sherman]]?

* TheWoobie: It's hard not to feel sorry for Bart in this episode. [[ButtMonkey NOTHING goes right for him in the first act]], with even the ''weather'' being out to get him (it starts raining when the bus leaves without him, clears up when he gets to school, then starts raining again when he leaves), not to mention him being framed for a murder in the third act. Some of it is his own fault, but being framed for murder at ten years old? Even for someone like Bart, that warrants sympathy. His only solace is that he enjoys the media still conveying him as a murderous crimelord for pure entertainment value (though they still pull LoopholeAbuse to avoid paying him a dime for their liberties).

** The [[PhonyPsychic psychic]] that was hired to search for Skinner's body predicted that Delta Burke and Major Dad (Gerald [=McRaney=]) would break up. 25+ years after the episode aired, they're still married.

** The ending has Bart vindicated but still demonised by the media within legal limits (largely because it makes for much better entertainment), not that Bart seems to mind at all being a fictional gangster. The later episode "Homer Badman" would look into the media getting away with slandering the Simpsons for the sake of entertainment with much more dramatic effect.

* HilariousInHindsight: The [[PhonyPsychic psychic]] that was hired to search for Skinner's body predicted that Delta Burke and Major Dad (Gerald [=McRaney=]) would break up. 25+ years after the episode aired, they're still married.

** A quick ContinuityNod gag shows that Bart's cellmate is Sideshow Bob. While this sounds uncomfortable under the best of circumstances, it was before later episodes established him as a homicidal maniac who WouldHurtAChild and has it in for Bart specifically; at this point in the show his only crime was framing Krusty for armed robbery.

** A quick ContinuityNod gag shows that Bart's cellmate is Sideshow Bob. While this sounds uncomfortable under the best of circumstances, it was before later episodes established him as a homicidal maniac who WouldHurtAChild and has it in for Bart specifically; at this point in the show his only crime was framing Krusty.

** A quick ContinuityNod gag shows that Bart's cellmate is Sideshow Bob. While this sounds uncomfortable under the best of circumstances, it was before later episodes established that he WouldHurtAChild and has it in for Bart specifically.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: At one point, while Skinner is missing, Richard, one of Bart's friends, assumed that Skinner was ground up into meat for hamburgers and [[ImAHumanitarian served in the school cafeteria]]. Three years later, that ended up being the premise of the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV Treehouse of Horror V]]" segment, "Nightmare Cafeteria", except the ones who ended up getting ground up into meat and ending up on the school cafeteria are the schoolchildren themselves, being served for Skinner and other school faculty.