The Simpsons Episodes, Season 10 - Bart the Mother, Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo, Wild Barts Can't Be Broken, Treehouse of Horror IX, Sunday (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 122. Not illustrated. Chapters: Bart the Mother, Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo, Wild Barts Can't Be Broken, Treehouse of Horror Ix, Sunday, Cruddy Sunday, Mayored to the Mob, Lard of the Dance, When You Dish Upon a Star, They Saved Lisa's Brain, Homer to the Max, the Wizard of Evergreen Terrace, Marge Simpson In: "Screaming Yellow Honkers," Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa Gets an "A," Make Room for Lisa, Monty Can't Buy Me Love, Homer Simpson In: "Kidney Trouble," Viva Ned Flanders, I'm With Cupid, Mom and Pop Art, Maximum Homerdrive, D'oh-In in the Wind, the Old Man and the "C" Student. Excerpt: "Bart the Mother" is the third episode of the 10th season of The Simpsons, originally airing on September 27, 1998. The episode was written by David X. Cohen and directed by Steven Dean Moore. It was the last full-length episode Cohen wrote for The Simpsons before leaving to work on Futurama. The original idea for the episode was intended to be a B story, but because it was too difficult to work into other episodes, it eventually became a primary plot. "Bart the Mother" contains the final appearance of the character Troy McClure, and it is dedicated to his voice actor Phil Hartman, who was killed by his wife on May 28, 1998, four months before the episode aired. In the episode, Bart Simpson accidentally kills a mother bird with a BB gun, and decides to hatch and take care of the two eggs he found in the bird's nest. In its original American broadcast, "Bart the Mother" finished 58th in ratings for the week of September 2127, 1998, with a Nielsen rating of 7.4, translating to 7,355,600 households. Nancy Cartwright, the voice actor who portrayed Bart, described the episode as one of her favorites. Several reviewers, who called the tenth season of The Simpsons one of the series' less humorous seasons, chose "Bart the Mother" as one of its better e...