Bart

Bartholomew Jo-Jo Simpson, better known as Bart, is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is the oldest child and only son of Homer and Marge Simpson, and the brother of Lisa and Maggie. more...

Along with his father Homer, Bart is arguably the most well-known and recognizable character on the long running animated series. He is voiced by Nancy Cartwright.

According to The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album, his "birthday" is April Fool's Day. According to the show's chronology, Bart was born in 1982 as he is two years and 38 days older than Lisa, who was born during the 1984 Summer Olympics. However, in "I Married Marge", it was revealed that Bart was conceived in June 1980 (Homer and Marge had just seen The Empire Strikes Back), which would make his birthday April 1, 1981. The year is probably not consistent as Bart is always described as being 10 years old. Indeed, Krusty expresses surprise when Bart tells him he voted for him (twice) for Congress: "But you're only ten."

Bart's interests include skateboarding, comic books (especially Radioactive Man), terrorizing Lisa, video games, helping Lisa solve various problems (e.g, reuniting Krusty with his estranged father), mooning unsuspecting victims, and prank calling Moe Szyslak at his tavern. Bart may be left-handed or ambidextrous.

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He is a self-proclaimed underachiever who begins each show in detention writing lines on the blackboard. He is pretty much distracted by anything, even, strangely enough, algebraic equations. His penchant for shocking people began before he was born: Bart "mooned" Dr. Hibbert while he performed a sonogram on Marge. He is considerably undermotivated and takes great joy in disrupting the routine at Springfield Elementary, yet his pranks are often elaborately complex, while his actions and speech frequently show considerable mental agility, street-smarts, and understanding, so he cannot be called "stupid" per se. Despite this, however, he seems to have trouble understanding even the simplest things, such as the word "irony", what the equator is and that the logo on his globe isn't actually a country. The fact that he is the son of Homer and shares many of the same mannerisms and behaviors may account for his antics. Homer even described Bart as "a cooler, in-your-face version" of himself. There are other moments however, where it is hinted that Bart represses a startling intelligence. His inability to channel this hidden intellect at will is most-likely attributed to the Simpson gene. See below for details on this.

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