Literature Analysis: Bart Simpson, Bloody Sire, I Do, I Will, I Have

One of my favorite Simpsons episodes, Bart Sells His Soul, originally aired in season seven of the long-running hit animation series. This episode is structured in three acts. In act one, Milhouse tells on Bart for replacing Sunday's church music "In The Garden of Eden" with "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." While they are engaged in cleaning the organ pipes, their punishment, Bart tells Milhouse he does not believe in a soul and sells Milhouse his soul for $5.00. Bart plays a trick on Lisa with the magic dinosaur sponges he buys with his $5.00. When he tells Lisa where he got the money, she is horrified and warns him that Milhouse owns him now. When Bart goes to his room after ignoring her concerns, SLH growls at him and Snowball hisses and meows at him, the first signs of his lack of soul. Other signs are when Bart runs into the glass door of the Kwik-E-Mart and when he tries to fog the glass with his breath but it does not fog up. In the meantime, Moe considers changing his dank bar into a family restaurant. When Bart does not laugh during an Itchy and Scratchy show, Lisa tells him Pablo Neruda maintained, "Laughter is the language of the soul" (Archer, 1995). When Bart doesn't laugh at Homer slipping on a skateboard, Lisa tells him she believes he really did lose his soul.

In act two, Bart goes to Milhouse's place. Bart tries to get Milhouse to sell him back his soul, but Milhouse wants $50.00. Homer watches a commercial that features Moe singing

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l continue to do so. In the poem we see that Nash plays with a number of concepts related to marriage that serve to reinforce his theme that he prefers the tension in marriage to the peace of bachelorhood. As he tells us, "This is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce...Because I believe incompatibility is the spice of life" (Nash, 2009, p. 1). Despite this view, Nash seems to believe innate gender differences are what keep tension in a marriage. We see this when he seems to maintain that women desire money and men desire physicality in the opposite sex, "I believe incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly as he has the income and she is pattable" (Nash, 2009, p. 1). Despite the gender stereotypes, Nash's tone is tongue-and-cheek and meant to be sarcastic and humorous more than seriously negative. He lampoons the differences between the sexes in lines like, "I am quite sure that marriage is the alliance of two people one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgetsam" (Nash, 2009, p. 1). In this way, Nash's poem gently skewers marriage and the differences between the sexes in a humorous manner meant to reinforce the spice between partners in a marriage. Four On its surf

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