Creepy - Dead Bart

Episode Date: April 3, 2017

There's a missing Simpson's episode...***Presented and edited by Owen McCuen***"Day of Chaos" by Kevin Macleod, "Funeral March of a Marionette" by the O'Neill Brothers Group, "Wu Dang Mountain" by Gus... Cuervo-Rubio. Additional effects by 99 Sounds Cinematic Sound Effects and Freesound.org***Intro music by Alex Aldea***Intro/Outro Narrated by Joe Stofko Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:03 This is creepy. A podcast dedicated to sharing the most famous chilling and disturbing creepy pastures and urban legends in the world. Whether these stories truly happened, or our simply fabrications is for you to decide. These stories may contain graphic depictions of violence and explicit language. Listener discretion is advised. Dead Bart. You know how Fox is a weird way at conning Simpsons episodes? They refuse to count a couple of them,
Starting point is 00:00:47 making me one episodes inconsistent. The reason for this is a lost episode from season one. Finding details about this missing episode's difficult. No one who's working on the show at the time likes to talk about it. From what's been pieced together, of the lost episode was written entirely by Matt Graning. During the production of the first season, Matt started to act strangely. It was very quiet, seemed nervous, morbid.
Starting point is 00:01:18 Mentioning this to anyone who was present results in them getting very angry and forbidding you to ever mention it to Matt. I first heard of it at an event where David Silverman was speaking. Someone in the crowd asked about the episode, Silverman simply left the stage. ending the presentation hours early. The episode's production number was 7G-06. The title was Dead Bart. The episode labeled 7G-0-6, moaning Lisa, was made later and given Dead Bart's production code
Starting point is 00:01:55 to hide the latter's existence. In addition to getting angry, asking anyone who was on the show about this will cause them to do everything they can to stop you from directly communicating with Matt Graining. At a fan event, I managed to follow him after he spoke to the crowd, and eventually I had a chance to talk to him alone as he was leaving the building.
Starting point is 00:02:22 He didn't seem upset that I followed him. Probably expected a typical encounter with an obsessive fan. Excuse me, Mr. Graney. Hi, it's an honor, sir, a big fan. Listen, I have a question about a specific episode. Oh, sure, how can I help? Yeah, I'm looking for some information about an episode 7. G-06?
Starting point is 00:02:46 You mean moaning Lisa? No, no, actually. I was referring to I was referring to the episode called Dead Bart. When I mentioned the lost episode, though,
Starting point is 00:03:02 all color drained from his face and he started trembling. When I asked him if he could tell me any details, he sounded like he was on the verge of tears. He grabbed a piece of paper, wrote something on it, and handed it.
Starting point is 00:03:18 to me. Here, take it. He begged me never to mention the episode again. I gotta go. The piece of paper had a website address on it. I would rather not say what it was for reasons you'll see in a second. I entered the address into my browser and I came to a site that was completely black, except for a line of yellow text.
Starting point is 00:03:46 A download link. I clicked on it and a file started downloading. Once a file was downloaded, I computed. my computer went crazy. It was the worst virus I'd ever seen. System Restore didn't work. The entire computer had to be rebooted. Before doing this, though, I copied the file onto a CD.
Starting point is 00:04:09 I tried to open it on my now empty computer, and as I suspected, there was an episode of The Simpsons on it. The episode started off like any other episode. That very poor quality animation. If you've seen the early animation from some enchanted evening, it was similar, but less stable. The first act was fairly normal, but the way the characters acted was a little off. Homer seemed angrier.
Starting point is 00:04:47 Marge seemed depressed. He seemed anxious. Bart seemed to have genuine anger and hatred for his parents. The episode was about the Simpsons going on a plane trip. Near the end of the first act, the plane was taking off. Bart was fooling around, as you'd expect. However, as the plane was about 50 feet off the ground, part broke a window on the plane and was sucked out.
Starting point is 00:05:28 At the beginning of the series, Matt had an idea that the animated style of the Simpsons world represented life and that death turned things more realistic. That was used in this episode. The picture of Bart's corpse was barely recognizable. They took full advantage of it not having to move and made an almost photorealistic drawing of his dead body. Act one ended with a shot of Bart's corpse.
Starting point is 00:06:02 When Act 2 started, Homer Marginlea were sitting at their table. The crying went on and on. It got more pain and sounded more realistic. Better acting than you would think possible. The animation started to decay even more as they cried, and you could hear murmuring in the background. The characters could barely be made out. They were stretching and blurring. They looked like to form shadows with random bright colors thrown on them.
Starting point is 00:06:41 There were faces looking in the window, flashing in and out so you were never sure what they looked like. This crime went on for All of Act 2, with a title card saying one year it passed. Marge Homer and Lisa were skeletally thin and still sitting at the table. There was no sign of Magy or the pets. They decided to visit Bart's grave. Springfield was completely deserted, and as they walked to the cemetery, the houses became more and more decrepit. They all looked abandoned. When they got to the grave, Bart's body was just lying in front of his tombstone,
Starting point is 00:07:33 looking like it did at the end of Act 1. The family started crying again. Eventually they stopped and just stared at Bart's body. The camera zoomed down on Homer's face. According to the summaries, Homer tells a joke at this point, but it isn't audible in the version I saw. You can't tell what Homer is saying. The zoom viewed out as the episode came to a close.
Starting point is 00:08:08 The tombstones in the background had the names of every Simpsons guest star on them. some that no one had heard of in 1989, some that haven't even been on the show yet, all of them had death dates on them. For guests who died since, like Michael Jackson and George Harrison, the dates were when they would die. The credits were completely silent and seemed handwritten. The final image was the Simpson family on their couch,
Starting point is 00:08:40 like in the intros, but all drawn in high. hyper-realistic, lifeless style of Bart's corpse. A thought occurred to me after seeing the episode for the first time. You could try to use a tombstone to predict the death of Living Simpsons guest stars. But there's something odd about most of the ones who haven't died yet. All of their deaths are listed as the same day. This episode of Creepy is presented by Owen McCune.
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