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Talking Simpsons - Bart The General (Revisited) With Chris Cabin

🕑 Added 2020-02-12 00:59:33 +0000 UTC

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Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Great episode, as usual! As you guys have pointed out, the first season's focus on cupcakes that look like bran muffins is very bizarre and they struck gold much better when they pivoted to doughnuts (even if they're usually spelled the lazy way). -- All of the bullying stuff in this episode makes me wonder if physical bullying (i.e. being beaten up) really still occurs all that much. Even throughout my middle school & high school years (2008-2014), general & online bullying was certainly still a pretty big issue, but I don't think it ever really went violent. Any time there was a "meet me outside after school" kind of thing, it would be between two people with beef and be dealt with by a vice principal pretty quickly, not just a bully beating up prey. The closest I saw to that kind of thing would be when a jerk-ass in ninth grade gym pulled another guy's shirt over his head and started whacking him with his own shoes, but that kid was also an ass so it was still mutual antagonism (and the teacher walked in on it pretty fast) so maybe that form of bullying has just been replaced with less sinister but more pervasive forms of emotional terrorism.