No one ever seems to bring up the fact that Bart is also a natural born leader. Seriously the kid has got some mad leadership skills. He orchestrated a massive assault with fellow students to take down Nelson, took over Kamp Krusty, and has taken control of the school several times.
as well as lead the same students to get back Springfield's lemonade tree, managing to get Nelson to not only help but cooperate with Martin Prince and Rod Flanders(who isn't a big fan of Bart and tries to avoid him as much as possible) to join them.
Not to mention his skill with explosives. He once came up with a plan that would blow up the detention hall, but leave the rest of the school intact, which you have to admit takes some know-how.
To support Bart being a genius, in one episode he was diagnosed with ADHD. When he took the medication, he apparently acted irrationally paranoid but in the end he was right that the whole town was being spied. He then stopped taking his meds and therefore continued being too easily distracted to show his genius skills
There's plenty of episodes that contradict his ADHD diagnosis. That was mainly written to push the feminist narrative that boys need to be medicated for being boys.
I've been watching the Simpson's my whole life (I'm 42), and I thought that this was already an established fact. Hell, you guys forgot right mention Homer solved the God Particle, that's some genius level thinking right there. Bart has ADD which makes it difficult for him to concentrate and behave but he's actually wicked smart. Maggie is a prodigy, not only does she habitually play classical music on her xylophone but she has also recreated masterpiece artworks on her etch-a-sketch.
Don't forget both Homer and Bart are Polyglots, Marge has great social and emotional intelligence, and Maggie has a grasp on social and body language. Lisa is the suffering genius, she wants to PROVE she's a genius instead of just BEING a genius.
Too much of her grandmother's pride in her stunting her actual intellectual growth. Which intern make her just like Moana selfish ego driven damn near sociopath. when it comes her status in life.
There is actually a quote from Bart that supports this theory Bart specifically said that the only reason he doesn't put the same inventiveness as Lisa would put it into his school work is because he doesn't want to end up like Lisa a selfish know it all with no friends and several other bad things
Bart is a natural leader and he is good for scams and other stuff, as a matter of fact he can be a genius if he puts himself to it, but I think he is bipolar so sometimes he is smart and sometimes he is a moron.
@@bigo8647 Are you saying that you think Bart is bipolar because of his intelligence (and/or lack thereof)..?!? If so, you do know that bipolar disorder has nothing to do with one's intellect... I'm not trying to be a smart ass or be rude, I'm just sayin'... = -}
@@Maribeth0801 No, he's already intelligent, yet he jumps from intelligent to moron and from loving son to an I-don't-care rascal. Just think of it, one episode he can hardly write and the next episode he makes a super complicated scheme to achieve what he wants.
Big O well see it like this if someone is forced into something they will less likely want to do it or even try but if the person wants to do it and puts it on themselves to do it they will try harder look at Bart and school he hates school but in one episode he got extremely interested in chemistry or when he took the test that said he’d be a cop he did better in school and became a better person cause that was a thing that interested him till Lisa blew it for him though shows he’s a good brother as well
I miss the time when Lisa was _actually_ smart, not just _known_ to be smart. In the first season, she makes a lot of insightful remarks using a remarkable vocabulary. Nowadays her intelligence is assumed rather than demonstrated.
Lisa's not that smart. I remember one episode where they put her with children smart as her and she couldn't keep up . Then she chose to go back to Springfield elementary to be a big fish in a small pond . She likes being smarter than whoever she's around as when she's not she gets threatened and jealous.
that was going to the third grade, and in that case it wasn't that everyone was smarter than her as much as she and Bart couldn't coexist there the whole "big fish small pond" bit was just a line to do what the simpsons always does at the end of an episode- put everything back the way it was so it can start all over next week. But you're not completely wrong, Lisa does have a flaw of jealousy which was shown when Maggie's genius shone through or in the crossover episode with Family Guy when Meg proved to be musically talented. While that stayed as a natural character flaw in both cases she does get over it.... eventually. I'm not saying she's not a jealous person, she totally is and there's even several more episodes I can think of that support that- but it is a character flaw they all have flaws however you cannot say that Lisa is not smart just because she gets jealous.
issue is after season 8 the show took on a different writer so the overall theme changed including the charecter development bart homer and marge were elevated in there inteligence lisa was taken back a peg or 2 amongst other things in order to fit the depressing narative of reality based story telling the new seasons achived
alot of homers carrear moves in the plant were direct results of mr burns being senile hes recived multiple raises simply due to burns mis reading a situation such as homer sleeping all day at his post confused with putting in extra hours or homer leaving a crude decoy at his station for him being a foccused and comitted worker one episode i belive he got a promotion to sales exec just for getting some buisness guys drunk as mentioned by others he just turned up one day was given a job and no real training as refferenced by the burns buys a university episode where its demonstrated he doesent know anything about nuclear power also supported by the episode where homer stops a simulated meltdown by playing inny miny minie mo both situations wherte he activley monologues how he hasnt got a clue what hes doing theres potential he would be smart enough to do his job post crayon removal but he got the job before the crayon was removed where he was activley a moron
maggie Simpson doesn't talk because when she did for the first time no one notice or cared so her response when Maggie never talk again. I was a joke but that some time was the writer way of telling why she does talk.
Both Lisa and Bart would be prodigies if they ever actually focused on anything. I'm not sure if calling Bart lazy would be accurate. It's more that he is very easily distracted and cannot focus. I realize that individual episodes mostly exist in their own universes, but in an episode Homer called Bart hyperactive, and in other episodes there have been implications of ADHD. Bart cannot focus enough to study, watch him try to study in the history episode. Yet he manages to pick up competencies and languages with ease. I have no idea if Bart accurately represents a child with untreated ADHD, but it has been shown that he has difficulty focusing on academic texts. What I'm trying to say is that Bart has a great deal of potential, he just chooses to ignore it or he cannot realize it in his current state. LIsa's genius has always been on display. She can master competencies in a matter of minutes that would take others lifetimes. I cannot believe this, but beyond being academically brilliant she also has a great deal of emotional intelligence. Lisa and Marge are often forced to act as moral and social guides for the family. Oh god, I've just written a paragraph on the SImpsons. I must go and contemplate this in shame.
Andrew J Lisa is more academically than emotionally intelligent I believe. She often flaunts her academic superiority and isn't very sensitive towards others, acting as though she is the paragon of success amongst a family of idiots. She fails to consider intelligence as a measure of anything beyond academic success and often focuses too much on its indicators (her grades.) she is unable to put her school life into perspective, she melts her brain when unable to process and accept the idea of receiving a B in one case. I would consider that Maggie is more emotionally intelligent because she looks outwards to consider other people's needs instead of striving to dominate them in stubborn argument/competition like Lisa!
Bart does have ADHD (or something similar) there was an episode were he was diagnosed and treated for it. This led to him (despite everyone thinking he had just become paranoid due to the drugs) uncovering that major league baseball was spying on Springfield, which Bart proved by shooting down a monitoring satellite.
The funny thing is is in the more modern episodes they tried to say Bart's pranks because of ADHD but in earlier Seasons it showed that he just doesn't care. I hate to say this but largely because of modern feminist politics being shoved in the Simpsons and one of the greatest ones is saying that boys need to be medicated for being boys.
Also relevant to Bart: He's solve multiple crimes (all involving Sideshow Bob). Actually, given his possible future as Chief Justice, Bart's Genius may be in law enforcement.
Maggie actually talked in one of the episodes, but the entire family was yelling at eachother, so Maggie realized nobody was listening to her, and vowed never to talk again.
Maggie can talk. I dont now which episode it was but in one you see her saying a word but no one listens so she puts her pacifier back in her mouth and decides not to talk anymore
I remember the first season when the whole family skewed more to the middle, Homer was a put upon decent average guy, Lisa was more angry-mean than just snob-mean, and Marge was implied to be a mean drunk. And they crammed all that into one episode.
There's also the instance where Bart was put on ADHD medication, the many times he outsmarted Sideshow Bob, and his surprising knack for chemistry, maths, physics, social/emotional intelligence, and art. He could do well in school, he just doesn't want to because it's boring and would make him miserable.
This idea of these smart members of the Simpsons family choosing lazy, care-free lives over embracing intelligence is very profound. But this also brings greater depth and a feeling of tragedy to this otherwise hilarious and beloved show. It makes me wonder how many of us shy from potential and intelligence because we want to remain in our current, comfortable lifestyles. “Both tragic and beautiful” is a good way to describe it.
I never seen lisa as THAT smart. I see her as studious and curious. She also has zero social smart. She is jealous, unrespectful of others, she think she is superior to anyone and want to see people fail if they show to give her a run for her money... she also impose her believe to all with zero respect to freedom.
@Frank Castle it's not necessarily that Lisa's accomplishments are driven by hard work. her Compliments are driven by her ego and her selfish sociopathic desire to be number one. While her family accomplishments are driven by genuine interest and talent normally.
Yeah I chose the lazy happy path too. As a child, I got top grades without even really trying. I was a teachers pet that pretty much became a substitute teacher since understood things so fast. Show me something once and I could teach it to the other students. Course this led to bullying and being taken advantage of. I went into homeschooling during my high school years and considering lessons were only for a few hours a few times a week, I did other activities in between such as gaming and watching anime. I enjoyed this stuff so much I started to become lazy with my education. My GCSE's were still good, but not as high as I could have gotten. I did a couple courses with college and did well, but I hated the stress towards the end of each. It also dug into my enjoyment of life. I have the intelligence to go far, I just don't have the dedication to suffer for so long to get there. I'd rather be happy.
I do believe the Simpsons are technically geniuses. the only thing with Lisa is her Foolish Pride that make sure the least intelligent member. Abe acts like a senile old fool because his high intelligence got him nothing a wife that didn't respect him enough or their child to think of them before being selfish with her criminal activism. Leaving him to deal with the consequences both illegal and the ones involved with homers abandonment issues as well as being a single father during that decade. Homer's intelligence partly has to do with the brain damage from the crayon and is on subconscious desire to maintain the childish fool as apart of coping mechanism because of his abandonment issues due to his mothers selfishness. Bart's intelligence is shown with his engineering skills where is overly elaborate plans for his pranks which he most likely hides. because only time Marge and Homer ever paid him any attention is when he got in trouble along with the attention he gets from the other students. Most likely a similar abandonment issue but a more childish version for Bart. Maggie's intelligence is shown theater her DX Machina abilities which is overlooked mainly because she's a baby. Marge is intelligent but what she probably eventually noticed the bigger picture with a lot of the causes is she was fighting for as a teenager weren't really going anywhere. And with homers influence learn to enjoy the simple things in life. while still being able to see their connection to the bigger picture. Lisa takes after her grandmother Mona with a high amount Foolish Pride and selfishness. With her constant belittling of her family members and their choice to enjoy simpler things. As well as trying to assert her academic record as a sign of maturity and force her way into more High Society areas. Unwilling to see the wisdom and her family's actions. that in the end academic intelligence does not go far in life. that sooner or later all that hard work will come crashing down in your face was very little to show for it. Most likely dying alone either in a gutter or in a nursing home if you're lucky.
Agreed there was even an episode that showed Bart having an extremely high aptitude for Chemistry beyond anything Lisa has ever shown. And I agree he was often neglected or rather seen as the problem child at an early age while lisa was the favorite garnering all of the praise. I don't if it is confirmed or not but I am pretty sure he probably has ADHD as well.
I mean intelligence is great and all but devoting your life to being smart and successful will never make your life as happy as devoting your life to happiness. You should still try to be smart and successful but only as a means to an end for happiness, causing many geniuses to do the bare minimum work they need to make the money to do the things they want to do and they often take poorer paying jobs they enjoy more over jobs with better pay or a more significant impact on human advancement. The ones that focus on success or good causes are often miserable as a result.
actually its grandpas selfishness, grandpa said that his mother died when he was a child, so he didnt know that his mother was alive. also grandpa used to neglect him cough cough
Maggie can talk she talked once when marge and homer were fighting, she said, “i can talk, I will never talk again now,” I think the episode name was family therapist
I think Bart is more street-smart than school-smart but only sees school-smart as being valued and the other option taking after Homer, so doesn't focus his skills. And in a few episodes it was suggested Bart had ADHD, which would distract him from staying focused... And Marge was smart at school but stopped challenging her brain so much after marrying Homer and having kids, which obviously wouldn't help anyone get smarter. And maybe Maggie is mute or has another speech issue that wouldn't necessarily affect her intelligence...
his business falls apart then he rebuilds it again he got two episodes. And if anything that continues to prove the theory, he was a bum with nothing and rebuilt his career again off a very simple idea inventing a baby translator. So like the other Simpsons you have creativity, observational skills, intuitiveness and like Lisa determination to make it happen
If Simpson gene is true, why is Herbert smart and has hair and Abbie (Homer's half-sister from "The Regina Monologues") looks like Homer, sounds like Homer and possibly has the same interests as Homer?
You can add Grandpa past as a veteran and leader of a especial ops group in ww2, also Maggie is an skilled shooter being able to target multiple mob guys in seconds
the Simpsons are smart but Springfield isn't. I didn't fully understand everything Lisa was saying to her references and even vocabulary until I was 15 and she's 8. She's proven to be smarter than college students, arrange poetry in a way that impresses some of the best contemporary American authors and is a member of Mensa. I love your thoughts on how Homer still manages to do some genius things even with his genius cut off. Bart to me reminds me more of his grandfather in that he is a hellraiser, he does have a mind for strategy and he just uses it for fun. Like when Bart and Lisa are both in 3rd grade together he gets higher scores on tests because he already did it once but his memory retention kept the mark scheme, I don't know many 10 year olds who could do that. But then Maggie is clearly the most intelligent Simpson having both the hellraising qualities and strategy and musical ability that the others display and Marge's skills with construction and architecture and art. But I wouldn't be so quick to write Lisa off as a fool for taking pride in her brilliance. She finds genuine joy and happiness in what she does, and she does it even knowing that she gets ostracized she states numerous times that it can be lonely doing what she does and is aware that no one presents her with an academic challenge but she does it her way anyway. I think there's something beautiful and admirable in the rest of the family choosing happiness in laziness but I think there's something quite noble that Lisa finds her happiness fully aware of the consequences.
While we generally see a pet as a part of the family, a pet is never actually a family member. It's not married to them, its not birthed by any of them, nor a parent of any of them. It is in fact the wrong species to be a family member. Sorry, I will go be obvious somewhere else now. - And while we say we adopt animals, you are its keeper, not its mom or dad ( even if you think you are ).
Actually, (Do Not Misunderstand Me) but torbk is 100% correct though could be a bit more diplomatic. It has nothing to do with how much you love them (or perhaps exactly why); dogs are not humans & putting such on their shoulders is wholly unfair to the dog, a dog who may have been the greatest dog but instead fails at the impossible. You will be hard pressed to find someone who loves dogs more than I (I’ve chosen to be paired with dogs 24/7/365 for decades), I believe that dogs are the most closely linked species to humans & for as long as humans have been humans, dogs have been with us. My life has been saved literally countless times by my dog being himself & I believe that dogs can be taught to understand/communicate with us but still, lassie is not real & it’s cruel to expect any dog to be a lassie. It’s the same way that it is very bad bad to carry any dog around (apart from legit health issues), ALL dogs NEED to walk on their own 4 paws all the time. Indeed, it’s been shown the quickest way to get bit is to be in the dogs face that is being kept off their paws & ground, except maybe picking same dog up. It’s literally a recipe for disaster & certainly a horror to the dog. To say nothing of the damage to the dogs health! It’s very important to understand the difference between a dog being a member of your family unit & a dog actually being “family members”. I love my dogs with all my being but if 1 of them ever was say attacking another person (without appropriate justification), I will be the 1st to be doing whatever is needed to stop them, even hurting or killing them (if needed to stop them ). I would do that for a general adult, much moreso a kid or loved 1. Reality is I have massive powerful dogs that can be over 200lbs solid muscle; they can easily kill a capable adult or amputate limb or other very serious injuries. My current baby can chomp straight through any bone in any animal under 500lbs, he chews through frozen pig legs with ease. Obviously, it’s my job as the human to maintain control of them & to properly train them to not be dangerous. It’s like its equally my job to protect my dogs from any one or thing that will harm them. I don’t care if I have to seriously injure or even kill (if needed) any that tries to harm them. So I carry a couple pepper sprays, bear bangers, extendable baton, knives, leashes, etc. on my person to enable me to protect my dogs from any that try to harm them. I may be wrong but I think that this is what torbk is trying to say... not that they don’t love & appreciate dogs... Adam P.S. look for trainers that understand this & the need for a balanced approach... it’s beautiful what a good trainer can do with this & patience!
I think Bart a really quite smart not academically but he's got an aptitude for language and art and some of the pranks he pulls off are brilliant I think be a real good artist when he's older
What about that episode of the Simpsons where they overdose Bart on an adderal expy, and he became smart enough (not actually an effect of adderal) to be able to multitask and tutor very well a younger foreign exchange student...and become very paranoid?
I remember an episode one time of Homer inventing a Auto-Hammer device and a Safety Chair that keeps you from falling hard on your back. He was quite angry in the end of that episode knowing that he could've made a lot of money.
There is also one other thing that People overlook with Homer, despite all of his shortcomings he is still the lead Nuclear engineer at a power plant that reports directly to the owner, no one else does.
I don’t think choosing to embrace her intelligence makes Lisa unhappier, I think that she’s different from the rest of the Simpsons in that embracing her intelligence and openly using it for the benefit of the world is what makes her happy. Unlike Homer and Bart, she has strong ideals, and it would be harder on her to not act on them. And I also think that being silent isn’t Maggie being lazy, she just chooses to reserve her genius because she can get away with more that way! She’s really really underappreciated and she oftentimes seems to take advantage of that! (She’s my favorite character 😊) Anyway thank you for the video!!
I think Bart made the best choice for not posting up his info to the world so he doesn’t be claimed as a nerd,he wants to be a normal spring field elementary student and popular and his wishes are granted
and has almost destroyed Springfield several times as well as proved that he doesn't really know what he is doing. That being said when he did actually take the time to learn it(that time he had to go in early(see second Kamp Krusty episode) he was great and reverted back because of Marge), he was actually quite good, even getting promoted at one point.
As there's no real continuity I wonder why you didn't mention the episode which shows that only the female Simpsons are intelligent above a specific age.
Beyondfate132...... Well, seeing as how he created a successful car company, then created a machine that could translate baby speech, I would say that qualifies as intelligent.
Even though the Treehouse of Horror episodes are non-canon, but what about Bart's twin brother, Hugo? For a kid neglected and locked in an attic with little to no human interaction whatsoever, he is able to speak fluently and perform minor surgery. I am now convinced the Simpson family is at least above average intelligence.
Really good points, but most people don't consider anything after season 10 as canon so those episodes don't mean much. All in all I really enjoy the theory that the entire Simpson family is genius in their own way. It's kind of uplifting, in a way?
Bart could have become successful in so many things if Lisa wasn't ruining everything all the time. Bart always has to sacrifice everything to help Lisa while she never does anything for him.
Why would marge choose to have homer instead of being successful. If you’re successful then you’ll be wealthy and become a artist, mathematician, meteorologist, or a technician
If we're looking at Marge's intelligence, what about Patty, Selma and Jackie? They aren't directly Simpsons, but Marge at least shares her sisters' genes 🤷♀️
The episode where Bart was shown to be a genius at school was because he swapped papers with Martin, his grades didn't decline, he just cheated on that test
It's pretty clear to me that Bart inherited Mona's criminal mastermind. Some of the pranks he pulls off require more than a fair share of substance.
And a high intellect
No one ever seems to bring up the fact that Bart is also a natural born leader. Seriously the kid has got some mad leadership skills. He orchestrated a massive assault with fellow students to take down Nelson, took over Kamp Krusty, and has taken control of the school several times.
as well as lead the same students to get back Springfield's lemonade tree, managing to get Nelson to not only help but cooperate with Martin Prince and Rod Flanders(who isn't a big fan of Bart and tries to avoid him as much as possible) to join them.
There was also a time where Bart had a passion for science and use it for his school pranks!
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He may not be book smart like Lisa is, but he has strong leadership and inventive skills in things that do catch his interest.
Not to mention his skill with explosives. He once came up with a plan that would blow up the detention hall, but leave the rest of the school intact, which you have to admit takes some know-how.
To support Bart being a genius, in one episode he was diagnosed with ADHD. When he took the medication, he apparently acted irrationally paranoid but in the end he was right that the whole town was being spied. He then stopped taking his meds and therefore continued being too easily distracted to show his genius skills
There's plenty of episodes that contradict his ADHD diagnosis. That was mainly written to push the feminist narrative that boys need to be medicated for being boys.
I just hate Lisa
Shouldve mentioned Homers brother. The one who owned the EXTREMELY successful car company as well. But I do agree.
And he became rich again by creating a baby translator. Yeah, that's a genius.
Half brother, could've been something in the mother's genes.
Exactly
I always laugh at the scene were Abe goes "I kept the wrong one!"
if u watch that episode again, his company was failing even before approaching homer for help
I've been watching the Simpson's my whole life (I'm 42), and I thought that this was already an established fact.
Hell, you guys forgot right mention Homer solved the God Particle, that's some genius level thinking right there.
Bart has ADD which makes it difficult for him to concentrate and behave but he's actually wicked smart.
Maggie is a prodigy, not only does she habitually play classical music on her xylophone but she has also recreated masterpiece artworks on her etch-a-sketch.
Don't forget both Homer and Bart are Polyglots, Marge has great social and emotional intelligence, and Maggie has a grasp on social and body language. Lisa is the suffering genius, she wants to PROVE she's a genius instead of just BEING a genius.
Thas is because Lisa is not smart, she is a smartass, she needs that sweet, sweet external validation
Too much of her grandmother's pride in her stunting her actual intellectual growth. Which intern make her just like Moana selfish ego driven damn near sociopath. when it comes her status in life.
There is actually a quote from Bart that supports this theory Bart specifically said that the only reason he doesn't put the same inventiveness as Lisa would put it into his school work is because he doesn't want to end up like Lisa a selfish know it all with no friends and several other bad things
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Bart is a natural leader and he is good for scams and other stuff, as a matter of fact he can be a genius if he puts himself to it, but I think he is bipolar so sometimes he is smart and sometimes he is a moron.
@@bigo8647
Are you saying that you think Bart is bipolar because of his intelligence (and/or lack thereof)..?!? If so, you do know that bipolar disorder has nothing to do with one's intellect...
I'm not trying to be a smart ass or be rude, I'm just sayin'...
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@@Maribeth0801
No, he's already intelligent, yet he jumps from intelligent to moron and from loving son to an I-don't-care rascal.
Just think of it, one episode he can hardly write and the next episode he makes a super complicated scheme to achieve what he wants.
Big O well see it like this if someone is forced into something they will less likely want to do it or even try but if the person wants to do it and puts it on themselves to do it they will try harder look at Bart and school he hates school but in one episode he got extremely interested in chemistry or when he took the test that said he’d be a cop he did better in school and became a better person cause that was a thing that interested him till Lisa blew it for him though shows he’s a good brother as well
Choose happiness and laziness... i wiped a tear
Ny: Sounds like my life.
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I miss the time when Lisa was _actually_ smart, not just _known_ to be smart. In the first season, she makes a lot of insightful remarks using a remarkable vocabulary. Nowadays her intelligence is assumed rather than demonstrated.
Lisa's not that smart. I remember one episode where they put her with children smart as her and she couldn't keep up . Then she chose to go back to Springfield elementary to be a big fish in a small pond . She likes being smarter than whoever she's around as when she's not she gets threatened and jealous.
that was going to the third grade, and in that case it wasn't that everyone was smarter than her as much as she and Bart couldn't coexist there the whole "big fish small pond" bit was just a line to do what the simpsons always does at the end of an episode- put everything back the way it was so it can start all over next week. But you're not completely wrong, Lisa does have a flaw of jealousy which was shown when Maggie's genius shone through or in the crossover episode with Family Guy when Meg proved to be musically talented. While that stayed as a natural character flaw in both cases she does get over it.... eventually. I'm not saying she's not a jealous person, she totally is and there's even several more episodes I can think of that support that- but it is a character flaw they all have flaws however you cannot say that Lisa is not smart just because she gets jealous.
issue is after season 8 the show took on a different writer so the overall theme changed including the charecter development bart homer and marge were elevated in there inteligence lisa was taken back a peg or 2 amongst other things in order to fit the depressing narative of reality based story telling the new seasons achived
Sarge *their, not "there"; *achieved, not "achived"... You're clearly no Lisa Simpson.
TheBlackSage *pond.
sure, lisa is not smart, just smartass
Homer works at a nuclear power plant.
Job requirements...
They all are.
"Thank you President Ford(!)" -Mr. Burns
Sure everyone that works there has a PHD. Well except for Homer who just showed to turn in an application the day it opened.
Homer just happened to be there the day it opened.
and Mr Burns liked him. In the Frank Grimes episode they clearly state he only got the job due to his attitude not competence
alot of homers carrear moves in the plant were direct results of mr burns being senile
hes recived multiple raises simply due to burns mis reading a situation such as homer sleeping all day at his post confused with putting in extra hours
or homer leaving a crude decoy at his station for him being a foccused and comitted worker
one episode i belive he got a promotion to sales exec just for getting some buisness guys drunk
as mentioned by others he just turned up one day was given a job and no real training as refferenced by the burns buys a university episode where its demonstrated he doesent know anything about nuclear power also supported by the episode where homer stops a simulated meltdown by playing inny miny minie mo both situations wherte he activley monologues how he hasnt got a clue what hes doing
theres potential he would be smart enough to do his job post crayon removal but he got the job before the crayon was removed where he was activley a moron
We already know Maggie is smart but no-one pays attention to her.
I do, she’s very smart and my favourite character!
0:03 God I really thought it was the voice actor for a damn second.
Jaluxander lol mee tooo 😂😂
- "No, no. When I took your father's name, I took everything that came with it... _including_ DNA."
- "... Okay, mom."
Well....she did....into her vag....
maggie Simpson doesn't talk because when she did for the first time no one notice or cared so her response when Maggie never talk again. I was a joke but that some time was the writer way of telling why she does talk.
Both Lisa and Bart would be prodigies if they ever actually focused on anything. I'm not sure if calling Bart lazy would be accurate. It's more that he is very easily distracted and cannot focus. I realize that individual episodes mostly exist in their own universes, but in an episode Homer called Bart hyperactive, and in other episodes there have been implications of ADHD. Bart cannot focus enough to study, watch him try to study in the history episode. Yet he manages to pick up competencies and languages with ease. I have no idea if Bart accurately represents a child with untreated ADHD, but it has been shown that he has difficulty focusing on academic texts. What I'm trying to say is that Bart has a great deal of potential, he just chooses to ignore it or he cannot realize it in his current state. LIsa's genius has always been on display. She can master competencies in a matter of minutes that would take others lifetimes. I cannot believe this, but beyond being academically brilliant she also has a great deal of emotional intelligence. Lisa and Marge are often forced to act as moral and social guides for the family. Oh god, I've just written a paragraph on the SImpsons. I must go and contemplate this in shame.
Andrew J
Lisa is more academically than emotionally intelligent I believe. She often flaunts her academic superiority and isn't very sensitive towards others, acting as though she is the paragon of success amongst a family of idiots. She fails to consider intelligence as a measure of anything beyond academic success and often focuses too much on its indicators (her grades.) she is unable to put her school life into perspective, she melts her brain when unable to process and accept the idea of receiving a B in one case. I would consider that Maggie is more emotionally intelligent because she looks outwards to consider other people's needs instead of striving to dominate them in stubborn argument/competition like Lisa!
+Andrew J
After this vid, I say that Bart is a genius, he just simply acts the opposite for troublemaking purposes.
Bart does have ADHD (or something similar) there was an episode were he was diagnosed and treated for it. This led to him (despite everyone thinking he had just become paranoid due to the drugs) uncovering that major league baseball was spying on Springfield, which Bart proved by shooting down a monitoring satellite.
i think lisa has aspurgers sydrome
The funny thing is is in the more modern episodes they tried to say Bart's pranks because of ADHD but in earlier Seasons it showed that he just doesn't care. I hate to say this but largely because of modern feminist politics being shoved in the Simpsons and one of the greatest ones is saying that boys need to be medicated for being boys.
Also relevant to Bart: He's solve multiple crimes (all involving Sideshow Bob). Actually, given his possible future as Chief Justice, Bart's Genius may be in law enforcement.
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Which is wonderfully ironic lol
it takes a criminal mastermind to take one down
AustynSN because he's so mischievous that he can think like a criminal.
You know I could see Bart being a detective later in life.
don't forget Bart's career aptitude test which gave him a career as a police officer
Maggie actually talked in one of the episodes, but the entire family was yelling at eachother, so Maggie realized nobody was listening to her, and vowed never to talk again.
Maggie can talk. I dont now which episode it was but in one you see her saying a word but no one listens so she puts her pacifier back in her mouth and decides not to talk anymore
She says "Daddy" (or "Dada") at the end of an episode, after everyone left her room. Elizabeth Taylor was her voice.
MaGgIe TaLk! MaGgIe TaLk!
No OnE lIsTeN? mAgGiE nEvEr TaLk AgAiN?
honestly yea i think lisa is smart asf but the baby gots 2 be the genious in this family.
Hassan Otban make your grammar better
Hassan Otban xD
Hassan how can I make something bigger thats already so big atleast I have one not a skin flap like you
Maggie’s smart in like everyday things, Lisa’s science smart ykwim
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I remember the first season when the whole family skewed more to the middle, Homer was a put upon decent average guy, Lisa was more angry-mean than just snob-mean, and Marge was implied to be a mean drunk. And they crammed all that into one episode.
There's also the instance where Bart was put on ADHD medication, the many times he outsmarted Sideshow Bob, and his surprising knack for chemistry, maths, physics, social/emotional intelligence, and art. He could do well in school, he just doesn't want to because it's boring and would make him miserable.
Bart is great with music bc he gets it from his grandfather.
He was even better than John Bonham for an episode.
Sorry drummers for the blasphemy
This idea of these smart members of the Simpsons family choosing lazy, care-free lives over embracing intelligence is very profound. But this also brings greater depth and a feeling of tragedy to this otherwise hilarious and beloved show.
It makes me wonder how many of us shy from potential and intelligence because we want to remain in our current, comfortable lifestyles.
“Both tragic and beautiful” is a good way to describe it.
If Homer was a democratic congressman in Ohio, he would be... Homer Simpson, D OH
lol Nice.
I never seen lisa as THAT smart. I see her as studious and curious. She also has zero social smart. She is jealous, unrespectful of others, she think she is superior to anyone and want to see people fail if they show to give her a run for her money... she also impose her believe to all with zero respect to freedom.
Dental plan. Lisa needs braces.
Flintstones chewable morphine...
I genuinely do believe Bart will become a Supreme Court Justice once the show ends.
I honestly take this as fact. Also you forget that within a week Bart managed to create a new chemical formula to fill the whole school with pink foam
Maggie's intelligence was the focus of an episode at one point in season 15
Maggie is smarter than lisa to be honest
@Frank Castle it's not necessarily that Lisa's accomplishments are driven by hard work. her Compliments are driven by her ego and her selfish sociopathic desire to be number one. While her family accomplishments are driven by genuine interest and talent normally.
Why he say crayon like that
You cant say “no pun intended” and then proceed to explain the pun
I'm sad about all the Lisa hate over here. it's ridiculous saying she is not smart.
Wasn't there an episode where Maggie got tested and was a major genius and Lisa got super jealous? Maggie is the true genius of the family.
Yeah I chose the lazy happy path too. As a child, I got top grades without even really trying. I was a teachers pet that pretty much became a substitute teacher since understood things so fast. Show me something once and I could teach it to the other students. Course this led to bullying and being taken advantage of. I went into homeschooling during my high school years and considering lessons were only for a few hours a few times a week, I did other activities in between such as gaming and watching anime. I enjoyed this stuff so much I started to become lazy with my education. My GCSE's were still good, but not as high as I could have gotten.
I did a couple courses with college and did well, but I hated the stress towards the end of each. It also dug into my enjoyment of life. I have the intelligence to go far, I just don't have the dedication to suffer for so long to get there. I'd rather be happy.
Now I wish I could say this to Lisa and see the reaction when she realises she is not the only smart simpson.
the proof is in the episode when they went to japan, where homer and bart speak in japanese about enlightment, bart tells homer no.
I do believe the Simpsons are technically geniuses. the only thing with Lisa is her Foolish Pride that make sure the least intelligent member.
Abe acts like a senile old fool because his high intelligence got him nothing a wife that didn't respect him enough or their child to think of them before being selfish with her criminal activism. Leaving him to deal with the consequences both illegal and the ones involved with homers abandonment issues as well as being a single father during that decade.
Homer's intelligence partly has to do with the brain damage from the crayon and is on subconscious desire to maintain the childish fool as apart of coping mechanism because of his abandonment issues due to his mothers selfishness.
Bart's intelligence is shown with his engineering skills where is overly elaborate plans for his pranks which he most likely hides. because only time Marge and Homer ever paid him any attention is when he got in trouble along with the attention he gets from the other students. Most likely a similar abandonment issue but a more childish version for Bart.
Maggie's intelligence is shown theater her DX Machina abilities which is overlooked mainly because she's a baby.
Marge is intelligent but what she probably eventually noticed the bigger picture with a lot of the causes is she was fighting for as a teenager weren't really going anywhere. And with homers influence learn to enjoy the simple things in life. while still being able to see their connection to the bigger picture.
Lisa takes after her grandmother Mona with a high amount Foolish Pride and selfishness. With her constant belittling of her family members and their choice to enjoy simpler things. As well as trying to assert her academic record as a sign of maturity and force her way into more High Society areas. Unwilling to see the wisdom and her family's actions. that in the end academic intelligence does not go far in life. that sooner or later all that hard work will come crashing down in your face was very little to show for it. Most likely dying alone either in a gutter or in a nursing home if you're lucky.
Agreed there was even an episode that showed Bart having an extremely high aptitude for Chemistry beyond anything Lisa has ever shown. And I agree he was often neglected or rather seen as the problem child at an early age while lisa was the favorite garnering all of the praise. I don't if it is confirmed or not but I am pretty sure he probably has ADHD as well.
That's some hardcore anti-intellectualism right there bud.
Amen to that
I mean intelligence is great and all but devoting your life to being smart and successful will never make your life as happy as devoting your life to happiness. You should still try to be smart and successful but only as a means to an end for happiness, causing many geniuses to do the bare minimum work they need to make the money to do the things they want to do and they often take poorer paying jobs they enjoy more over jobs with better pay or a more significant impact on human advancement.
The ones that focus on success or good causes are often miserable as a result.
actually its grandpas selfishness, grandpa said that his mother died when he was a child, so he didnt know that his mother was alive. also grandpa used to neglect him cough cough
Maggie can talk she talked once when marge and homer were fighting, she said, “i can talk, I will never talk again now,” I think the episode name was family therapist
"Grandpa" a fighter pilot? Looked more like Infantry to me.
Abe served in the Air Force and Navy as well as in the Army. Just different periods.
I think Bart is more street-smart than school-smart but only sees school-smart as being valued and the other option taking after Homer, so doesn't focus his skills. And in a few episodes it was suggested Bart had ADHD, which would distract him from staying focused... And Marge was smart at school but stopped challenging her brain so much after marrying Homer and having kids, which obviously wouldn't help anyone get smarter. And maybe Maggie is mute or has another speech issue that wouldn't necessarily affect her intelligence...
What about Homer's brother?
vince ng wasn't he an engineer or owned a car company? But then that business fell apart? Maybe that'll happen to Lisa?
The company fell apart coz of Homer if i remember right
his business falls apart then he rebuilds it again he got two episodes. And if anything that continues to prove the theory, he was a bum with nothing and rebuilt his career again off a very simple idea inventing a baby translator. So like the other Simpsons you have creativity, observational skills, intuitiveness and like Lisa determination to make it happen
If Simpson gene is true, why is Herbert smart and has hair and Abbie (Homer's half-sister from "The Regina Monologues") looks like Homer, sounds like Homer and possibly has the same interests as Homer?
I heard somewhere that Homer says "D'oh" as a substitute for "Damn" when he gets frustrated
My theory is that Marge is sleeping with Lenny
No! Not Lenny!!!
she did have a pic of him in her hair so ..................
Legs from here to YAYA
I’ll Kill Lenny For U
don't tell carl about this
*_CRAN_* *Crayon
Let's not forget, Bart was once fluent in French and spanish
Bart's not the only one. Homer has proven to be a polyglot.
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But he was too short sighted to realise that they didn't speak Spanish in Brazil lol
and Japanese, both he and Homer learned Japanese in a matter of hours, which is pretty super human.
Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, are also Bouviers.
It makes sense given Lisa's extremely fragile ego. If anyone in her peer group outshines her she loses her mind.
Einstein didn't talk till like age 3. Stuff like that happens. Maggie never saying a word is a sign of genius IMO
😐 Maggie does talk.. There was a episode but she stopped cuz they never listen to her
You can add Grandpa past as a veteran and leader of a especial ops group in ww2, also Maggie is an skilled shooter being able to target multiple mob guys in seconds
How is this even a theory? It is pretty much cannon.
in other words a genius who understands the existential balance of existence and creates there own happiness is a true genius indeed.
Remember when Marge taught Homer how to speak French in one night in "The Way We Was"?
Just sayin', Homer is a genius.
Abe wasn't a fighter pilot, but was a sergeant.
I like Lisa because I learnt history at a young age and we both try to embrace intelligence
the Simpsons are smart but Springfield isn't. I didn't fully understand everything Lisa was saying to her references and even vocabulary until I was 15 and she's 8. She's proven to be smarter than college students, arrange poetry in a way that impresses some of the best contemporary American authors and is a member of Mensa. I love your thoughts on how Homer still manages to do some genius things even with his genius cut off. Bart to me reminds me more of his grandfather in that he is a hellraiser, he does have a mind for strategy and he just uses it for fun. Like when Bart and Lisa are both in 3rd grade together he gets higher scores on tests because he already did it once but his memory retention kept the mark scheme, I don't know many 10 year olds who could do that. But then Maggie is clearly the most intelligent Simpson having both the hellraising qualities and strategy and musical ability that the others display and Marge's skills with construction and architecture and art. But I wouldn't be so quick to write Lisa off as a fool for taking pride in her brilliance. She finds genuine joy and happiness in what she does, and she does it even knowing that she gets ostracized she states numerous times that it can be lonely doing what she does and is aware that no one presents her with an academic challenge but she does it her way anyway. I think there's something beautiful and admirable in the rest of the family choosing happiness in laziness but I think there's something quite noble that Lisa finds her happiness fully aware of the consequences.
the dog is part of the simpsons and you forgot him
Queper Ger Not a Simpson by blood or marriage
tigerbread78 adoption
While we generally see a pet as a part of the family, a pet is never actually a family member. It's not married to them, its not birthed by any of them, nor a parent of any of them. It is in fact the wrong species to be a family member. Sorry, I will go be obvious somewhere else now.
- And while we say we adopt animals, you are its keeper, not its mom or dad ( even if you think you are ).
You obviously never had a pet. Dogs are loved just like part of the family of should be. If something happened to my dog I would be very sad.
Actually, (Do Not Misunderstand Me) but torbk is 100% correct though could be a bit more diplomatic. It has nothing to do with how much you love them (or perhaps exactly why); dogs are not humans & putting such on their shoulders is wholly unfair to the dog, a dog who may have been the greatest dog but instead fails at the impossible.
You will be hard pressed to find someone who loves dogs more than I (I’ve chosen to be paired with dogs 24/7/365 for decades), I believe that dogs are the most closely linked species to humans & for as long as humans have been humans, dogs have been with us. My life has been saved literally countless times by my dog being himself & I believe that dogs can be taught to understand/communicate with us but still, lassie is not real & it’s cruel to expect any dog to be a lassie.
It’s the same way that it is very bad bad to carry any dog around (apart from legit health issues), ALL dogs NEED to walk on their own 4 paws all the time. Indeed, it’s been shown the quickest way to get bit is to be in the dogs face that is being kept off their paws & ground, except maybe picking same dog up. It’s literally a recipe for disaster & certainly a horror to the dog. To say nothing of the damage to the dogs health!
It’s very important to understand the difference between a dog being a member of your family unit & a dog actually being “family members”. I love my dogs with all my being but if 1 of them ever was say attacking another person (without appropriate justification), I will be the 1st to be doing whatever is needed to stop them, even hurting or killing them (if needed to stop them ). I would do that for a general adult, much moreso a kid or loved 1. Reality is I have massive powerful dogs that can be over 200lbs solid muscle; they can easily kill a capable adult or amputate limb or other very serious injuries. My current baby can chomp straight through any bone in any animal under 500lbs, he chews through frozen pig legs with ease.
Obviously, it’s my job as the human to maintain control of them & to properly train them to not be dangerous. It’s like its equally my job to protect my dogs from any one or thing that will harm them. I don’t care if I have to seriously injure or even kill (if needed) any that tries to harm them. So I carry a couple pepper sprays, bear bangers, extendable baton, knives, leashes, etc. on my person to enable me to protect my dogs from any that try to harm them.
I may be wrong but I think that this is what torbk is trying to say... not that they don’t love & appreciate dogs...
Adam
P.S. look for trainers that understand this & the need for a balanced approach... it’s beautiful what a good trainer can do with this & patience!
I think Bart a really quite smart not academically but he's got an aptitude for language and art and some of the pranks he pulls off are brilliant I think be a real good artist when he's older
A theory I thought was far fetched when I heard it I gotta say I'm convinced
What about that episode of the Simpsons where they overdose Bart on an adderal expy, and he became smart enough (not actually an effect of adderal) to be able to multitask and tutor very well a younger foreign exchange student...and become very paranoid?
I remember an episode one time of Homer inventing a Auto-Hammer device and a Safety Chair that keeps you from falling hard on your back. He was quite angry in the end of that episode knowing that he could've made a lot of money.
There is also one other thing that People overlook with Homer, despite all of his shortcomings he is still the lead Nuclear engineer at a power plant that reports directly to the owner, no one else does.
No mention of Bart's gift with Inorganic Chemistry? There was an entire episode with that as a plot point.
dragonson04 What was the episode called?
I can't believe small you later replaced goodbye.
I don’t think choosing to embrace her intelligence makes Lisa unhappier, I think that she’s different from the rest of the Simpsons in that embracing her intelligence and openly using it for the benefit of the world is what makes her happy. Unlike Homer and Bart, she has strong ideals, and it would be harder on her to not act on them.
And I also think that being silent isn’t Maggie being lazy, she just chooses to reserve her genius because she can get away with more that way! She’s really really underappreciated and she oftentimes seems to take advantage of that! (She’s my favorite character 😊)
Anyway thank you for the video!!
The Simpsons are so funny!
Bart also easily became a chemical engineering savant when an adult actually took a genuine interest in him and didn’t just try to get him to behave.
In one episode Marge at Springfield Elementary was a wonderful Student
If watched the episode where bart got put in the smart school he actually just took the smartest kids paper and put his name on it
I think Bart made the best choice for not posting up his info to the world so he doesn’t be claimed as a nerd,he wants to be a normal spring field elementary student and popular and his wishes are granted
In case anyone didn't notice, the first Homer quote is actually a reference to the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz.
I am currently procrastinating a 5000 assignment so I know waffle when I hear it. Skip to 1:25 to escape the waffle
Awesome video. Thanks for explaining :)
You forgot to mention how Homer was a bootlegger and was able to avoid the law for weeks and that he is actually a great bbq chef.
ive been saying this for years..
to see it on screen as an argument..
priceless..
Love your videos
There is an episode where Maggie performs better than Lisa in many tests.
Just wanted to say this video was super entertaining, thanks for the smile
Lisa can't master bus timetables, apparently.
Homer also works at a nuclear power plant
and has almost destroyed Springfield several times as well as proved that he doesn't really know what he is doing. That being said when he did actually take the time to learn it(that time he had to go in early(see second Kamp Krusty episode) he was great and reverted back because of Marge), he was actually quite good, even getting promoted at one point.
Nick Fraver never picked up on that!
and meltdowns have increased a hell of a lot since he took the job
As there's no real continuity I wonder why you didn't mention the episode which shows that only the female Simpsons are intelligent above a specific age.
Alias Anybody that contradicts homers brother that was rich.
4:56 he did
Daragh O'kane Herbert was only a half brother and not necessarily smart.
Beyondfate132...... Well, seeing as how he created a successful car company, then created a machine that could translate baby speech, I would say that qualifies as intelligent.
It could be that most male Simpsons CHOOSE to act as morons since it's less stressful and funnier.
Even though the Treehouse of Horror episodes are non-canon, but what about Bart's twin brother, Hugo? For a kid neglected and locked in an attic with little to no human interaction whatsoever, he is able to speak fluently and perform minor surgery. I am now convinced the Simpson family is at least above average intelligence.
"Kraan lodged in his brain"
“Is there no place in this world for the man with 105 IQ?!”
Really good points, but most people don't consider anything after season 10 as canon so those episodes don't mean much. All in all I really enjoy the theory that the entire Simpson family is genius in their own way. It's kind of uplifting, in a way?
Bart could have become successful in so many things if Lisa wasn't ruining everything all the time. Bart always has to sacrifice everything to help Lisa while she never does anything for him.
I think everyone in Lisa's immediately family except Homer is.
episode "Papa's Got a Brand New Badge" - Maggie has sniper skills.
Grandpa Simpson could see the future too.
Wasn't there an episode that just outright said that Marge was as smart, if not smarter than, Lisa at her age?
Brian is not the only Animal that Talks
this is my new head canon.
I just want to add to this theory that Mona and Marge don't have Simpson DNA in them, they simply married someone who did.
Why would marge choose to have homer instead of being successful. If you’re successful then you’ll be wealthy and become a artist, mathematician, meteorologist, or a technician
Yay great video
Which episode was principle Skinner caught by Bart's robot arm?
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If we're looking at Marge's intelligence, what about Patty, Selma and Jackie? They aren't directly Simpsons, but Marge at least shares her sisters' genes 🤷♀️
The only thing that comes to mind is that Bart appears to learn languages fairly quickly.
The episode where Bart was shown to be a genius at school was because he swapped papers with Martin, his grades didn't decline, he just cheated on that test