The Simpsons (TV Series)

Bart the Genius (1990)

Marcia Wallace: Edna Krabappel, Ms. Melon

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• Edna Krabappel : These tests will have no effect on your grades. They merely determine your future social status and financial success.

  [She looks at Bart] 

  Edna Krabappel : If any.

• Ms. Mellon : Well don't you get it Bart? Derivative DY equals 3R squared, DR over three or R squared, DR or RDRR.

  [Ms. Melon does a jig dance] 

  Ms. Mellon : Hardy-har-har. Get it?

• 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.

• Ms. Mellon : I'm still trying to get you a lab partner, Bart. If we don't get any volunteers soon, I'll assign somebody. Say, what's that? It looks dangerous.

  Bart : Well, it's really pretty top-secret, ma'am.

  Ms. Mellon : All right, keep going. But you do know what happens when you mix acids and bases, right?

  Bart : 'Course I do.

  [as he mixes the two, a mini-explosion occurs and a green goo spatters the windows] 

  Bart : [covered in it with the rest of the class]  Sorry.

• Ms. Mellon : You must be Bart Simpson. I'm Ms. Mellon, your learning coordinator. Let me say right at the start that we have one rule here: make your own rules. If you feel sleepy, take a nap. If you get bored, feel free to take out a book and start reading.

  Bart : What should I read, ma'am?

  Ms. Mellon : Why, anything you want, Bart.

  Bart : [going through what's on the shelf, he takes out a Radioactive Man comic]  Oh!

  Ms. Mellon : [taking it away]  A comic book? How did this get mixed in here?

  [throwing it in the trash] 

  Ms. Mellon : We used it last week as a prop in a film we made about illiteracy.