The Simpsons (TV Series)

Bart the Genius (1990)

Yeardley Smith: Lisa Simpson, Cecile Shapiro

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Quotes 

• Lisa Simpson : Yeah mom, hurry up!

  Marge : Alright, hmm how about, he? Two points. Your turn dear.

  Homer : Hmmm, how could anyone make a word out of these lousy letters?

  [camera pans down to show the word oxidize] 

  Homer : Oh wait, here's a good one, do.

  Lisa Simpson : [Lisa places an I on top of the D in do]  Id triple word score!

  Homer : Hey, no abbreviations.

  Lisa Simpson : Not I.D. dad id! It's a word!

  Bart : As in this game is stupid.

  Homer : Hey, shut up boy.

  Lisa Simpson : Yeah Bart. You're supposed to be developing verbal abilities for your big aptitude test tomorrow.

  Marge : We could look this id thing up in the dictionary.

  Homer : We've got one?

  Marge : I think it's under the short leg of the couch.

  [Homer lifts up couch and gives the dictionary to Lisa] 

  Lisa Simpson : Id, along with the ego and the superego one of three components of the psyche.

  Homer : Get out of here!

  Bart : My turn. Kwyjibo. K-W-Y-J-I-B-O. 22 points, plus triple word score, plus 50 points for using all my letters! Game's over I'm outta here.

• Ms. Mellon : Bart, these are the students who will share your work area. This is Ethan Foley.

  Ethan Foley : O Memsahib, Bart. Rabbi has memo.

  Bart : What?

  Ms. Mellon : Ethan's very good with palindromes. You know, sentences spelled the same backwards and forwards. And this is Sidney Swift.

  Sidney Swift : Trabing norm doog.

  Bart : What's your problem?

  Ms. Mellon : Oh, don't mind Sidney. He's just speaking in backwards phonetics today. He said, "Good morning, Bart." And this is Cecile Shapiro.

  Cecile Shapiro : Hi, Bart.

  Bart : Cool hamsters. What are their names?

  Cecile Shapiro : Hamster Number One has been infected with a staphylococci virus. Hamster Number Two is the control hamster.

  Bart : Hi, little control hamster.

  Ms. Mellon : I wouldn't get too attached, Bart. We're dissecting him next week.

• Marge : Bart, I feel so bad for going so many years without... mmm, hmm... what's that word where you encourage something to grow?

  [Homer and Bart both groan I don't know] 

  Lisa Simpson : Nurturing.

  Marge : Nurturing your brilliant brain, so I got tickets to the opera tonight. Hurry up. Get dressed. It starts at 8:00.

  Bart : Oh, Mom, not tonight.

  Homer : Come on, Bart, your mother's only trying to help, so go ahead and enjoy the show.

  Marge : Homer, you're going, too.

  Homer : But I'm not a genius. Why should I suffer?

• Bart : Dad, I gotta tell you something. Hope you won't be too mad.

  Homer : What is it, son?

  Bart : I'm not a genius, Dad.

  Homer : What?

  Bart : I cheated on the intelligence test. I'm sorry. But I just want to say that the past few weeks have been great. Me and you have done stuff together. You've helped me out with things, and we're closer than we've ever been. I love you, Dad. And I think if something can bring us that close, it can't possibly be bad.

  Homer : [angrily]  Why, you little...!

  Bart : Uh-oh.

  Marge : [as she knits on the sofa, a naked Bart runs past, screaming]  What's going on out there?

  Lisa Simpson : [Homer chases after him]  I think Bart's stupid again, Mom.

• Lisa Simpson : I don't care what that stupid test says, Bart. You're a Dimwit.

  Bart : Maybe so, but from now on this Dimwit is on easy street.