Bart After Dark

"Bart After Dark" is the fifth episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

Homer balks until Belle threatens to come back and speak with Marge if he won't discipline Bart.

Homer forces Bart to perform chores for Belle at the Maison Derrière, which the boy soon learns is a burlesque house.

As Homer crows that he has no problem with Bart working at a burlesque house, Marge returns home unexpectedly and is upset to learn this.

Marge presses the matter at a town meeting and shows slides of several prominent citizens leaving the Maison Derrière.

Homer tries to stop the mob's rampage by singing a musical number, accompanied by Belle and her burlesque dancers.

As she starts a song about her stance on the house, she accidentally puts the bulldozer in drive and destroys a wing of the Maison.

To pay for the damage, Marge performs a ventriloquist act at the house, where she is heckled by Homer — who is promptly removed by the bouncer, Bart.

Josh Weinstein has said that there are so many sleazy characters in The Simpsons that it was easy to find people for the scenes in the burlesque house.

[10] Ken Keeler and Alf Clausen won a Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Music and Lyrics" for "We Put the Spring in Springfield".

The episode's couch gag is a reference to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , featuring less popular characters such as the Tracey Ullman Show shorts variations of the Simpsons and Princess Kashmir. (L/R: Selma, Patty, a power plant worker, Karl, Apu, Barney Gumble, Radioactive Man, Reverend Lovejoy, Principal Skinner, Sideshow Bob, Otto, Smithers, Mr. Burns, Marvin Monroe, Herbert, Flanders, Jimbo, Kearney, Hans Moleman, Chief Wiggum, Kent Brockman, Mrs. Krabappel, Dr. Hibbert, Mayor Quimby, Itchy, Cletus, Brandine, Moe, Troy McClure, Dolph, Bleeding Gums Murphy, the Tracey Ullman Show Simpsons, Marge, Maggie, Homer, Lisa, Bart, Comic Book Guy, Krusty, Princess Kashmir, Eddie and Lou, Martin, Milhouse, and Nelson. Around the bottom are assorted Simpsons items, such as a Homer Buddha statue, Santa's Little Helper, Snowball II, the Head of Jedediah Springfield, the Simpsons TV, and Blinky the three-eyed fish.) [ 2 ]