I'm Bart Simpson, Who the Hell are You!?

Ah yes, Bart Simpson. I'm going to give this post a whirl and see what happens. The reason for this post is due in large part to a radio show on Sirius (Covino and Rich on the Maxim channel), in which they brought up a Simpsons t-shirt one of them wore back in the day.

THE Simpsons t-shirt to owne when I was growing up was the "I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you!?" shirt. You could wear it to school, but if you did, you had to have the 'hell' portion of it covered with masking tape or duct tape (duct tape, yes. Makes you wonder, on a side note, what the school was doing with a large supply of duct tape.). So, the local shop in my town that was making these shirts had an edited version that omitted the 'hell' from the catch phrase. Ah censorship. It started.

Bart was so bad back then. Dennis the Menace had a slingshot, but so did Bart, and BArt was evil. "Underachiever and proud of it, dude!" was the coolest poster because it had Bart on a skateboard and depicted such a disprespect for homework. But it was evil. "East my shorts!" started to get evil looks when said. This is a cartoon for chirst sakes. Bart Simpson.

Bart Simpson started censorship.

Then Bart became a role model. I have no idea how, but he did. I am struggling to come up with when he became a role model of sorts, but I know he did, to an extent. Maybe because the show brought families together.

It all started with a t-shirt, a sling shot and censorship was born.