![]() Bart jumps out the window with the joke book and diary, and gets chased by all the students in the school but after he wraps Snake's skateboard, he manages to escape. He begins to look into Homer's joke book and Marge's diary, only to be interrupted by Barney, who sees him snooping around. At naptime Bart is still in the classroom. Homer starts by asking Krusty how he can help him with the joke book that he has written, and begins to read it only to be interrupted by Bart showing his ass, and Krusty says that it is the future of comedy. He sees a younger Abe tell Jasper that he will going to move into a retirement home, then gets arrested for skipping school.īart introduces himself as "Homer" and ends up in Homer and Marge's class. Bart continues to trudge through Springfield and sees that Mr. He does not like to see children playing during school hours so he calls the truant officer. ![]() After that he meets Ned outside the current Moe's Tavern. Bart identifies a then-current comic book as a classic, which prompts Comic Book Guy to take an interest in comics. His first stop is at The Bard's Gallows, which has started selling comic books. Bart realizes that his mom and dad have to be his age, and leaves the machine and goes into Springfield. Frink asks Bart not to do anything while he gets "Aqua Shell" hairspray to fuel the machine. He begins to clean up his time machine and accidentally starts the machine, and they both go back in time. He goes to Professor Frink to collect money for a gift, and Frink hires him to clean up his lab. Bart remembers what she gave them last year and intends to beat her this year. Lisa tells Bart that in three days, it will be Mom and Dad's anniversary. The Time Bandit! is a Bart Simpson story first printed in Bart Simpson #14. But it's become harder to ignore in the decades since that the Civil War wasn't just about the noble pursuit of freedom but the specific freedom to deprive others of their freedom.The contents of this article are based on an issue of Simpsons Comics or another comic series and is considered to be non-canon and may not have actually happened/existed. In 1977, the Rebel flag could still plausibly serve as a neutral-to-positive symbol for rebellion. So it's more than a little ironic that Bandit expresses his commitment to the countercultural ideals that produced the Black Power movement with a license plate bearing the Georgia flag, which until 2001(!) proudly bore the stars 'n' bars of the Confederacy - not exactly a group known for their allegiance to Black Power. ![]() But after decades of seeing the forces of the status quo co-opt the imagery of rebellion to make society even more oppressive, viewers today are likely to be much more concerned about just what their heroes are rebelling against. That spirit of the '70s is still alive and well in the '20s. Beyond that, Needham used all the resources of a major studio to create the world's greatest demolition derby, with stunts so spectacular you may need a second viewing to believe what you're seeing. "Smokey and the Bandit" took a story that would have fit right in at a rural grindhouse theater - of a trucker racing across the country with the law in hot pursuit - and dressed it up with the star power of "Deliverance" lead Burt Reynolds, "The Honeymooners" icon Jackie Gleason, and former "The Flying Nun" star Sally Field. But instead of science fiction, director Hal Needham set his sights on the quick-and-dirty regional thrillers that lit up small American theaters, and especially the subgenre of "trucksploitation" that grew out of the '70s' brief but intense CB radio craze. Like "Star Wars," "Smokey and the Bandit" put a layer of Hollywood gloss on a disreputable genre. It may not be as universally remembered, but it's still just as much a classic in its own right. But there was another action blockbuster that held its own against "Star Wars" at the box office.
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