“Yo, Dad, can I have a sip of your beer?” – Bart Simpson
“Now, son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddys and kids with fake I.D.s.” – Homer Simpson
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“Daddies”.
So, another Friday is upon us. What’ll you be doing, Charlie? Something alcohol related, no doubt.
You know, light-hearted, fancy free. Mothers lock up your gin bottles! Charlie is on a bender.
Mmm, gin…
“Daddies”.
Went back and forth on that a couple of times. Just liked the look of the -y version better.
I love how everything there is ‘borrowed :D
Ha.
I was surprised that for a such anti-authority show they didn’t have Bart getting the beer in some way. Even if they used his line just as a setup for Homer’s punch line.
BTW, I don’t remember any instance of Bart drinking alcoholic beverages beside in “The Crepes of Wrath” and “Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment”. I’m referring to scenes where Bart explicitly drinks an alcoholic beverage, not examples showing that Bart has easy access to them like in “Bart the Murderer”,”Flaming Moe’s”, or “Radio Bart” just to say a few of them.
Well, you can add The Simpsons Movie to that list too *shudder*
Pretty sure he was only counting Classic Simpsons, not Zombie Simpsons, but I’d have to say that Bart drinking at all even in those circumstances was probably already pushing the envelope.
I think the best scene with kids and booze was when Bart got a fake ID and they saw the drunks at the bar, then decided not to have the beers after all.
On commentaries and in John Ortved’s book, Bart’s behavior is often recalled as a specific point of focus for the censors. The thinking was that the more outrageous and less practical his pranks were, the less likely real kids would be to imitate it.
Anti-authoritarian as the show was in its heyday, it still had to answer to Broadcast Standards and Practices. Depicting minors drinking on network television during prime time is a pretty big no-no. I think they only got away with it in those two episodes because Bart either got in trouble for it or was clearly shown not enjoying it. Even in “Bart the Murderer”, they couldn’t actually show Bart mixing a Manhattan and had to keep the action off-screen.