I just scored a promotion copy of do the bart man on vinyl that they sent to djs it has 4 different mixes on it. Maybe I’ll make this a tradition to play it
It’s remarkable to think that this was released in 1990, during Season 2. The show was barely a year old, and the majority of its most famous episodes didn’t exist yet.
Your comment leads me to believe someone else would have done it but she stepped in and took over for no other reason than she felt she had to? What a stupid comment.
Bart Simpson once was the king of all television. Today he isn't even the king of the Simpsons (that honor going to Homer). But, just for once, he was king.
I was in obsessed with Bart when I was a child. Had a Simpsons themed party for my 9th birthday. I am now 39- this song still holds and I still remember every word. (Nobody warned me then about the back pain though. Take care of your spines, kids!)
Sleeping on the floor might help. Theres a few videos on YT about that. Ive been sleeping on the floor since last summer and I dont have lower back pain anymore. The Japanese sleep that way and they dont have back pain like us in America. Hope you back heals up soon!
Somehow I acquired a Bart Simpson keychain that I liked to carry around in the early '90s even though I didn't really care for the show. Bart just seemed to be the epitome of early '90s pre-adolescent angst to me...
This is Max shit 1of my favorite songs just straight nostalgia still watch the Simpsons till this day & I'm 39 myself & also have shoulder pain, & my left side hurts & my left leg gets numb from me getting shot 😢 years ago not bragging or boasting life is no joke & I am grateful for being alive & well to still be here to see this stuff & hip the kids to what I grew up off & continue to be a big ass kid as i am anyway just the way I like it "GOD" is good life is beautiful have fun turn up 😂🎉
@Mackenzie Celtic Fraser FC It's unknown if he's really allowed to join the dance or not since Miss Krababel never said anything like that. However, I'm sure Bart doesn't care to join that dance where he only said "oh wow man" as a way of feeling terrible that he got caught not wanting to do what he wanted.
As a Brit growing up in the early 90s, I can tell you that this song was HUGE in '91- I think it was number 1 for like 4 weeks and renting Simpsons VHS cassettes from the local video store required you to book in advance.
I remember on June 28th 2009 the Sunday after Michael Jackson’s death , FOX re-aired this music video before the start of that night’s repeat of The Simpsons, followed by a In Loving Memory slide featuring a screen cap of Homer and Leon (the character Michael played)
@@invalidpersn4496 yeah but they removed the episode from television due to the allegations against Michael Jackson and everything so you can’t actually watch the best episode of the Simpsons ever
@@invalidpersn4496 Just his MJ impersonation. They brought in the soundalike Kipp Lennon to do the singing not only due to contractual obligations, but Michael needed to play a joke on his brothers onto thinking that impersonator was himself. Main cast member Hank Azaria did his normal voice as Leon.
Bart is one of my favorite characters just because he’s so easy to sympathize with. Sure he’s a loud annoying troublemaker but he does his best and secretly wishes he was as good as his sister. The episodes where he tries to bond with Homer but fails genuinely made me cry.
What makes it truly great is the bittersweet note at the end - that wild, exuberant, liberating free-for-all musical number, was all just in Bart's mind, and he's stuck in time-out the same as ever. It's that little touch of pathos that makes all the Simpsons characters so relatable.
its alot of little touches in this video i noticed that i love; my favorite little thing is at 1:33 where Skinner's fingers and hand moves on beat to Bart's flow. Makes sense tho, since old SImpsons was known to have insane attention-to-detail
I would say It's the exact opposite. Being safe enough to use on the Simpsons was a sign that this music was finally mainstream and safe enough to be rapped by a cartoon child on an extremely popular tv show
I doubt they edited it and lowered the pitch. Michael had a naturally deep voice he just had a very large vocal range and talked a lot in the high voice to maintain it for his falsetto singing @@vanilla5245
Fun fact about this music video, This was actually directed by Brad Bird (The Iron Giant) with choreography done by Micheal Chambers. It was also storyboarded in two days. Okay maybe that more than one fun fact but at least you got three fun facts :)
@@shanewilliams4818 no. He had some input. But most of the writing is by Bryan Loren (you can compare with his album from the early 90s). Michael Jackson was not the only guy who did new jack swing at the time, you know.
@@idontknowanymore2326 he had some input of course (the name of the song itself) but most of the song is a 100% Bryan Loren production (who, btw, was one of the guys Jackson was hiring for producing duties at the time of Dangerous before he switched to a more Terry Ridley sound). I still blame the pure credit to MJ to people thinking that he was the only guy doing that kind of rhythm or production att he time - when there were many many black guys in the late 80s early 90s doing the same
As a child this was my introduction to The Simpson's as music videos were often used as filler between TV shows back then and this was "family friendly".
You should definitely watch the early seasons of The Simpsons. Bart was the real star, and the whole reason is his character was based on Matt himself. Matt Groening named the other characters in the immediate family after his sisters and his parents. Homer has only been the main character for maybe the last 15 or 20 years.
I remember hearing this on Radio Disney ever so often. The Simpsons could even mess with Disney's radio station. They predicted the Disney buyout in 1998. Any prediction The Simpsons have is not one of psychic powers, but of clever pre-planning to rig the future.
@Olivia Carmody Even though they aren't even of Disney-style censorship. Mickey Mouse fan clubs even urged people as far back as the 1930 not to "swear. smoke, cheat or lie." The Simpson family and Marge's sisters have been accustomed to all four.
It's been long rumored that Michael Jackson wrote the Bart Simpson novelty song "Do the Bartman," the first single off the 1991 Simpsons album The Simpsons Sing the Blues. Perhaps it seemed like a legitimate fact, because it was none other than Simpsons creator Matt Groening who said at the 1998 World Animation Celebration that "it was always amazing to me that no one ever found out that Michael Jackson wrote that song."
@@jubilee2343 if you think how children have been treated throughout human history, and how toys have evolved, the 80s and 90s was peak originality, and there was so much new stuff constantly. Gen Z just get all our old stuff in a poor remake, and sit on tiktok all day. Sad.
@@Canthatcrazy I literally tell my son that same thing. Everything they do has already been done. It is so sad. So happy i was apart of the era that i grew up in.
I still have this premiere on VHS...during season 2. I actually have the original premiers for the first 5 seasons as I used to record them every week. I still prefer watching those over the DVDs...with commercials and all. Full of previews for Married With Children, In Living Color....brings me back.
This was released one year before I was born but I remember the impact Bart Simpson has throughout that decade. I played a lot of Bart Simpson themed games back then and wish we would get another modern adventure.
Back in the days when I saw as a child this episode the animation hits so damn hard for how well it was. Plus this song it's like a fine wine, it gets better with age. 😏👌
The fact that I’m watching The Simpson’s on Disney Plus, & Millhouse got his ear pierced; then Bart does the Bart man. That instantly bought me here, I haven’t seen this video since I was a kid. I vividly remember it airing on TV when I was kid, The Simpson’s really were the kings of animation in the 90s…
I love how Homer, Marge and Lisa are attending a simple fourth grade dance recital at the Elementary school, dressed like they're going out to dinner and everyone else is casually dressed xD
We NEED THIS Bart Simpson BACK in the world. The Simpsons has become stale focusing on Homer and too preachy focusing on Lisa and Marge. Bart had the perfect combination of ingredients to make for an iconic character everyone loved. I wish the creators would start focusing on Bart again and tune down the “Bart’s not too smart” bs and tune up the “Bart is clever and a badass” angle!
The Simpsons won’t be like it was ever again, it was countercultural in the 90s but nowadays it’s a sanitized corporate mascot. Even if they perfectly replicated everything that made the show what it was in the 90s down to the animation, it wouldn’t do much more than create a buzz before being forgotten again. It was a piece of its time but there’s plenty of shows doing what they did for a modern age. Bob’s Burgers feels like a great modern successor for example, at least from the seasons I’ve watched. You can’t recapture something from the past, but you can certainly let it guide you to new ideas which many have.
Honestly I'd reccomend at least Season 33 , i'm not big on high praise for new simpsons but season 33 had some episodes that actually make me think of the old simpsons. "Pixelated and Afraid" is the massive recommend if you are to only ever watch one new simpsons episode. For some good bart ones, marge the meanie and Boyz N the highland are both pretty fun.
Bart was probably my first crush, along with Disney's Robin Hood He really was a badass, and I especially loved the episodes that focused on the sibling dynamic between him and Lisa (I have an older brother, and my name is Lisa xd) Sad to hear they lost it, I haven't watched anything past season 15...
i dunno but the aesthetic of 4:26 when the screen goes white and bart's head cranes up that is such a cool moment (also when berts classmates slide in at the beginning of the song)
I remember staying up til 9 (may not seem late but for a kid who’s bedtime was 8, it was) just to see if I could catch this song on the radio, memories….
I can't believe this is actually 31 years old! I can still rememeber when this actually came out and the kids in junior school singing it in the playground!
My dad had a vhs tape with recorded simpson episodes & this was included in it!! I used to watch it ALL THE TIME!! It even included commercials from the time.. 1990 (pretty woman in theaters) (kindergarten cop) & more!!
This is another Song that brings back Many Memories of My Youth. I remember My Mom Getting Me this Song from the Music Shop on Cassette. I think it was My first ever Song I ever owned. I was Born February 1986and My First ever CD was A East 17 Album. I Love Listening to My Youth. MUCH Love from Birmingham UK.
This song was written and produced by Micheal Jackson and the dance animation choreography was done by Micheal "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers. Boogaloo was found by Micheal and the Jackson's after he did the moonwalk on Channel 7 news on the steets of LA. He then taught MJ dances like the Moonwalk, robot, and worked on his dance solos. Boogaloo and Shaba Do, and many others used to practice at a place called Radio Tron who's MC was ICE-T. Which is how all of that crew got into Hollywood in the Breakin' Movie and went on from there.
According to Wikipedia: "In July 2015, when Bryan Loren was selling the publishing and songwriting rights for the song, Loren stated that "despite Matt Groening's repeated confessions, I am the sole writer of the song".[7] Loren stated that Jackson's contributions included backup vocals and providing the title "Do the Bartman" and that Jackson insisted his own name be mentioned in the lyrics.[7]". I THINK I can hear Michael doing back-up vocals but how clear would you all say that he is on this? Does this really count as a Michael Jackson song/single?
Lol My dad knows the lyrics of this song word for word. He learned it when he was a kid. Apparently he used to "Rap" it on the school bus to try to impress his friends. Its crazy, You would be looked at like a weirdo if you did that today lmao.
I was a baby when this song first released and I grew up to enjoy the song even to this day it brings back so many memories. The song and the video has aged like a fine wine
I have a cassette with a bunch of these Simpsons songs on somewhere at my mother’s place. I doubt I’ve listened to it in 30 years but still know the words. Thanks Matt and the rest of the crew for my childhood memories
From back when the Simpsons was the best thing on TV. It's hard to believe now, but the fact that he said "damn" in that video was controversial at the time.
Apparently Groening once said he wants the final episode of The Simpsons to end with how this video starts, with the family on the way to an xmas school dance show. So the entire series is on a loop.
Its hard to believe this was all animated in a span of like 12 minutes, something about the animators just having no time at all during the making of this.
It was story boarded in two days and Brad bird said it took a few weeks to animate. Normally an animation like this would take a normal team months to make. Animation, especially traditional hand drawn with painted cels, is extremely slow and expensive. Not sure where you got the 12 minute thing from. 12 minutes isn't enough to even do a rough sketch of a single frame.
I just love that Michael Jackson Song. So cool that he helped so much the Simpsons to get a global success just because he believed in that tv-series from the very beginning on.
My grandma owns a vinyl copy of The Simpsons Sing the Blues and it’s family tradition to play it at nearly every family gathering
I just scored a promotion copy of do the bart man on vinyl that they sent to djs it has 4 different mixes on it. Maybe I’ll make this a tradition to play it
She is my type of Grandma!
Cool
Would your grandma be in here 40s lol I still have this cd
@@youngkeys lol my granny is 81, she’s just cool 😎
I remember a boy on my bus giving a word for word rendition of this, and I thought, “wow, he’s so cool!” 😂
That is so 1991
Bruh he still is cool
That dude cool AF
@@bear5945 plot twist, he really wasn’t 😆
Everybody do the BARTMAN❤️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
It’s remarkable to think that this was released in 1990, during Season 2. The show was barely a year old, and the majority of its most famous episodes didn’t exist yet.
Much props to Nancy Cartwright for rapping as Bart.
I was going to post this! It really shows how talented she is.
She’s one of the best voice actress’s .
@@Outlawgurl24 real.
Your comment leads me to believe someone else would have done it but she stepped in and took over for no other reason than she felt she had to? What a stupid comment.
Scientology powers.
Bart Simpson once was the king of all television. Today he isn't even the king of the Simpsons (that honor going to Homer). But, just for once, he was king.
That’s why they need to bring back the Classic Simpsons like make Homer A grump again.
Exactly
Bart is the DJ
In my opinion Bart is still the king of the Simpsons
Yeah
I was in obsessed with Bart when I was a child. Had a Simpsons themed party for my 9th birthday. I am now 39- this song still holds and I still remember every word. (Nobody warned me then about the back pain though. Take care of your spines, kids!)
Exactly the same as me ! 1991 memories
Sleeping on the floor might help. Theres a few videos on YT about that. Ive been sleeping on the floor since last summer and I dont have lower back pain anymore. The Japanese sleep that way and they dont have back pain like us in America. Hope you back heals up soon!
Somehow I acquired a Bart Simpson keychain that I liked to carry around in the early '90s even though I didn't really care for the show. Bart just seemed to be the epitome of early '90s pre-adolescent angst to me...
☝🏻Yes I can definitely vouch for that Lmao😂
This is Max shit 1of my favorite songs just straight nostalgia still watch the Simpsons till this day & I'm 39 myself & also have shoulder pain, & my left side hurts & my left leg gets numb from me getting shot 😢 years ago not bragging or boasting life is no joke & I am grateful for being alive & well to still be here to see this stuff & hip the kids to what I grew up off & continue to be a big ass kid as i am anyway just the way I like it "GOD" is good life is beautiful have fun turn up 😂🎉
Poor Bart the end he isn’t allowed to join the dance 😭
I know right?! Unfair on his part
@@MateusGowen, not as unfair as 0:23, just 4 goofin around with the curtains!
Well, @Angel, goofin around with the curtains is NOT like conquerin the show! Krabappel just hates him the way me mother hates drunks!
How true that is, @Angel.
@Mackenzie Celtic Fraser FC It's unknown if he's really allowed to join the dance or not since Miss Krababel never said anything like that. However, I'm sure Bart doesn't care to join that dance where he only said "oh wow man" as a way of feeling terrible that he got caught not wanting to do what he wanted.
Thank you Nancy for doing all these year barts voice.
Some people may think this song is cheesy, but holy moly this song is still catchy 31 years later.
Bart is a pretty decent old school rapper.
its only cheesy if ur not from this time frame. this was dope. And we had WAYY more fun back in the day lol
Bart really is.
A classic I watch every year and my baby relatives bop their heads to this too XD
The hook is actually dope
shit was wrote by micheal jackson of course its gonna be catchy
Shout out to Michael Jackson for the back up vocals
As a Brit growing up in the early 90s, I can tell you that this song was HUGE in '91- I think it was number 1 for like 4 weeks and renting Simpsons VHS cassettes from the local video store required you to book in advance.
well of course! this song was written by the King of Pop Michael Jackson, 1991 was a huge year for MJ with his Dangerous album!
It was, the Simpsons also had another top 10 it in the uk Deep Deep Trouble
@@hxmiii bryan loren wrote it not MJ
Remember the bart simpson tshirts that were all the rage amongst kids? I had a bartman one.
The sheer 90s energy is strong with this song by Springfield's resident prankster. Like, REAL strong.
I remember on June 28th 2009 the Sunday after Michael Jackson’s death , FOX re-aired this music video before the start of that night’s repeat of The Simpsons, followed by a In Loving Memory slide featuring a screen cap of Homer and Leon (the character Michael played)
Wait he seriously played Leon!?!?
And now that episode has been removed from all streaming and future releases... :(
@@invalidpersn4496 yeah but they removed the episode from television due to the allegations against Michael Jackson and everything so you can’t actually watch the best episode of the Simpsons ever
And then they cancelled him from the show completely like the deranged sjws they are
@@invalidpersn4496 Just his MJ impersonation. They brought in the soundalike Kipp Lennon to do the singing not only due to contractual obligations, but Michael needed to play a joke on his brothers onto thinking that impersonator was himself. Main cast member Hank Azaria did his normal voice as Leon.
Kids today will never know how much of a phenomenon The Simpsons was in the early 90s
It was? Tell me about it.
Why do you think I'm here? I'm 14 and I love this show 😂(the old version, not the new version)
15 at that time, it was ok, but no nostalgia here.
@@MF-dz7cp good taste then!!
I do now I love this show
Skinner's little shiver after drinking from the flask was my dad's favorite scene from this whole video
Bart is one of my favorite characters just because he’s so easy to sympathize with. Sure he’s a loud annoying troublemaker but he does his best and secretly wishes he was as good as his sister. The episodes where he tries to bond with Homer but fails genuinely made me cry.
3 decades later and it still makes you wanna dance
I love the fact that the principal and the teacher hated it at the the start but they eventually got into it.
I couldn't believe MJ was one of the writers of this song but this does actually sound quite MJ now that I think about it
The vocals is actually MJ himself too. But as you can hear, he distorted his voice on purpose.
@@elijahhill6602 Make Disney+ stream the MJ episode. If they have to put a disclaimer at the beginning... whatever.
What makes it truly great is the bittersweet note at the end - that wild, exuberant, liberating free-for-all musical number, was all just in Bart's mind, and he's stuck in time-out the same as ever. It's that little touch of pathos that makes all the Simpsons characters so relatable.
its alot of little touches in this video i noticed that i love; my favorite little thing is at 1:33 where Skinner's fingers and hand moves on beat to Bart's flow. Makes sense tho, since old SImpsons was known to have insane attention-to-detail
Remember when this music genre was considered rebellious and fresh enough to be linked to a character like Bart?
Yeah....time flies...
I would say It's the exact opposite. Being safe enough to use on the Simpsons was a sign that this music was finally mainstream and safe enough to be rapped by a cartoon child on an extremely popular tv show
Millhouse had black hair !
@@garcia9242 yea the changed some stuff later on mr.Smithers use to be black with blue hair
@@royalcrumble2384 You are both kinda right.
This was very much safe lol
It's hard to believe that this dance was an actual phenomenon back in the day.
I haven't seen this in 25 yrs, at least!
Like a fine wine, it's just gotten better with age. 😂
hi granny
This video definitely feels like a Michael Jackson video along with the rhythm.
Well he did write it! And he singing the backup vocals but they lowered the pitch so he's not recognizable
@@vanilla5245 Along With Bryan Loren. Him & MJ Wrote a Lot of Demos 4 the Dangerous Album, Which None of Them Made the Cut.
Bryan Loren is a beast too.
I doubt they edited it and lowered the pitch. Michael had a naturally deep voice he just had a very large vocal range and talked a lot in the high voice to maintain it for his falsetto singing @@vanilla5245
Despite being born way out of the 90's (Born in Mid 2000's), this song is still catchy as hell, and awesome nearly 32 years later!
The Fresh Prince Of Springfield.
I remember this being Aired at the end of Bart The Daredevil when it first came out . Anyone else recall the same ??
It originally aired on 6 December 1990, following Bart The Daredevil airing in the United States! 😊
@@lucylocket4740 same here in the UK. One of my favourite episodes.
Yes I remember watching it after an episode of the Simpson’s and on mtv.
@@TheGraduate702 Aaah 1990, when Pretty Woman was released, and we officially attacked Iraq! 😊
@@TheGraduate702 yeah here they also blended it into the episode I must find my VHS Tapes to find the episode as aired .
Fun fact about this music video, This was actually directed by Brad Bird (The Iron Giant) with choreography done by Micheal Chambers. It was also storyboarded in two days.
Okay maybe that more than one fun fact but at least you got three fun facts :)
And it was written by Michael Jackson
@@shanewilliams4818 no. He had some input. But most of the writing is by Bryan Loren (you can compare with his album from the early 90s). Michael Jackson was not the only guy who did new jack swing at the time, you know.
@@Risingson2 Co-written and co-produced by Michael Jackson. He wasn't allowed to be credited because of his contract with Sony.
@@idontknowanymore2326 he had some input of course (the name of the song itself) but most of the song is a 100% Bryan Loren production (who, btw, was one of the guys Jackson was hiring for producing duties at the time of Dangerous before he switched to a more Terry Ridley sound). I still blame the pure credit to MJ to people thinking that he was the only guy doing that kind of rhythm or production att he time - when there were many many black guys in the late 80s early 90s doing the same
Brad Bird also made Ratatouille and The Incredibles.
As a child this was my introduction to The Simpson's as music videos were often used as filler between TV shows back then and this was "family friendly".
God damn this is good, I might've only discovered it in 2013 or so but being 12-13 at the time, it does make 20-year old me feel nostalgic as hell
You should definitely watch the early seasons of The Simpsons. Bart was the real star, and the whole reason is his character was based on Matt himself. Matt Groening named the other characters in the immediate family after his sisters and his parents.
Homer has only been the main character for maybe the last 15 or 20 years.
I found it at the same time, but I was 14 and already loved the show
I remember hearing this on Radio Disney ever so often. The Simpsons could even mess with Disney's radio station. They predicted the Disney buyout in 1998. Any prediction The Simpsons have is not one of psychic powers, but of clever pre-planning to rig the future.
@Olivia Carmody Even though they aren't even of Disney-style censorship. Mickey Mouse fan clubs even urged people as far back as the 1930 not to "swear. smoke, cheat or lie." The Simpson family and Marge's sisters have been accustomed to all four.
It's been long rumored that Michael Jackson wrote the Bart Simpson novelty song "Do the Bartman," the first single off the 1991 Simpsons album The Simpsons Sing the Blues. Perhaps it seemed like a legitimate fact, because it was none other than Simpsons creator Matt Groening who said at the 1998 World Animation Celebration that "it was always amazing to me that no one ever found out that Michael Jackson wrote that song."
Our childhood was the best era to be a kid/teen. 80s and 90s will never be beaten for original and new ideas.
Amen. You can't beat it
@@MikeD-bu6hr it is but 90's were really the best. TV matured but wasn't as constrained. Fact.
Absolutely nothing like it
@@jubilee2343 if you think how children have been treated throughout human history, and how toys have evolved, the 80s and 90s was peak originality, and there was so much new stuff constantly.
Gen Z just get all our old stuff in a poor remake, and sit on tiktok all day. Sad.
@@Canthatcrazy I literally tell my son that same thing. Everything they do has already been done. It is so sad. So happy i was apart of the era that i grew up in.
I still have this premiere on VHS...during season 2. I actually have the original premiers for the first 5 seasons as I used to record them every week. I still prefer watching those over the DVDs...with commercials and all. Full of previews for Married With Children, In Living Color....brings me back.
I have Stark Raving Dad on VHS
same here.
Make some copies and start selling them. Give me a free copy of the collection for suggesting the idea. 👍🏻
I remembr it came on right after the scene with Homer in hospital next to captain lance murdoch after falling down Springfield gorge.
Are you able to digitize those?
This was released one year before I was born but I remember the impact Bart Simpson has throughout that decade. I played a lot of Bart Simpson themed games back then and wish we would get another modern adventure.
Back in the days when I saw as a child this episode the animation hits so damn hard for how well it was. Plus this song it's like a fine wine, it gets better with age. 😏👌
The fact that I’m watching The Simpson’s on Disney Plus, & Millhouse got his ear pierced; then Bart does the Bart man. That instantly bought me here, I haven’t seen this video since I was a kid. I vividly remember it airing on TV when I was kid, The Simpson’s really were the kings of animation in the 90s…
#1 in New Zealand & Australia in 1991. Had this on a clear cassette tape on repeat on my walkman 💀😂
I feel happy to see Bleeding Gums Murphy again :)
Rest In Peace
After all this years, this song is still my favourite.
Love the sequence at 4:42 Jacques dancing with various women then he ends up dancing with Karl, who is one of my favorite one-episode characters.
I remember this video. It shot straight to #1 on the MTV Top 20 Video Countdown in 1990 or 1991.
Back when both Bart Simpson and Michael Jackson were on top of the world.
I love how Homer, Marge and Lisa are attending a simple fourth grade dance recital at the Elementary school, dressed like they're going out to dinner and everyone else is casually dressed xD
Never knew this existed
You’re young it’s cool
30 years later this still kicks
RIP Michael Jackson, the eternal King of pop!
One of my favorites from my childhood. Thanks for posting.
You're welcome!
My favourite still. 😀👍
I love it
6 minutes of pure joy🙂
long live the 90's
Best decade.
Radical
Kinda crazy how the animation for 1990 is crazy good. The song though is fire.
Makes me feel like a kid again watching this I never grow up when I see this stuff and makes you feel good and warm inside.
We NEED THIS Bart Simpson BACK in the world. The Simpsons has become stale focusing on Homer and too preachy focusing on Lisa and Marge. Bart had the perfect combination of ingredients to make for an iconic character everyone loved. I wish the creators would start focusing on Bart again and tune down the “Bart’s not too smart” bs and tune up the “Bart is clever and a badass” angle!
It'd be good for one last hurray
The Simpsons won’t be like it was ever again, it was countercultural in the 90s but nowadays it’s a sanitized corporate mascot. Even if they perfectly replicated everything that made the show what it was in the 90s down to the animation, it wouldn’t do much more than create a buzz before being forgotten again.
It was a piece of its time but there’s plenty of shows doing what they did for a modern age. Bob’s Burgers feels like a great modern successor for example, at least from the seasons I’ve watched. You can’t recapture something from the past, but you can certainly let it guide you to new ideas which many have.
Its because of Disney I'm afraid.
Honestly I'd reccomend at least Season 33 , i'm not big on high praise for new simpsons but season 33 had some episodes that actually make me think of the old simpsons. "Pixelated and Afraid" is the massive recommend if you are to only ever watch one new simpsons episode.
For some good bart ones, marge the meanie and Boyz N the highland are both pretty fun.
Bart was probably my first crush, along with Disney's Robin Hood
He really was a badass, and I especially loved the episodes that focused on the sibling dynamic between him and Lisa (I have an older brother, and my name is Lisa xd)
Sad to hear they lost it, I haven't watched anything past season 15...
i dunno but the aesthetic of 4:26 when the screen goes white and bart's head cranes up
that is such a cool moment (also when berts classmates slide in at the beginning of the song)
Straight up this slaps and you can't deny it
They use to play this on radio Disney back in 1998. I learned this and the Poke'rap at the same time
Remember hearing this Song on a New Years Eve on the Radio back on the 90's Definitely was perfect for the Occasion
How awfully nostalgic! Great childhood memories.
funny how this song went platinum and even dropped a bart album 😂 the 90s was great
I remember staying up til 9 (may not seem late but for a kid who’s bedtime was 8, it was) just to see if I could catch this song on the radio, memories….
I love it when Lisa plays the Sax 🎷❤️
To future generations DONT LET THIS DIE
You know this is and will always be our infernal racket
True Story
I’m at work today & this came in to my head. I had it on cassette when I was about 4/5
This ones for everyone's "inner Bart"...everyone needs a bit of Bart and the Simpsons to shake up the neighbourhood every so often!.
I can't believe this is actually 31 years old! I can still rememeber when this actually came out and the kids in junior school singing it in the playground!
I was born like 13 or 14 years after this came out yet this is how I discovered the Simpsons and I haven’t looked back since
My dad had a vhs tape with recorded simpson episodes & this was included in it!! I used to watch it ALL THE TIME!! It even included commercials from the time.. 1990 (pretty woman in theaters) (kindergarten cop) & more!!
The animation of Bart doing the running man looks so damn smooth. I miss when the Simpsons animation was much more active like this.
Classic Classic Classic, loved this then, love it now
working at universal studio, hearing this song over and over and over
pls as a pass holder it’s one my fave funny songs lmao can’t imagine having to hear it as often as you 💀
This is another Song that brings back Many Memories of My Youth. I remember My Mom Getting Me this Song from the Music Shop on Cassette. I think it was My first ever Song I ever owned. I was Born February 1986and My First ever CD was A East 17 Album. I Love Listening to My Youth. MUCH Love from Birmingham UK.
I remember when this was a radio hit
This song was written and produced by Micheal Jackson and the dance animation choreography was done by Micheal "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers. Boogaloo was found by Micheal and the Jackson's after he did the moonwalk on Channel 7 news on the steets of LA. He then taught MJ dances like the Moonwalk, robot, and worked on his dance solos. Boogaloo and Shaba Do, and many others used to practice at a place called Radio Tron who's MC was ICE-T. Which is how all of that crew got into Hollywood in the Breakin' Movie and went on from there.
According to Wikipedia: "In July 2015, when Bryan Loren was selling the publishing and songwriting rights for the song, Loren stated that "despite Matt Groening's repeated confessions, I am the sole writer of the song".[7] Loren stated that Jackson's contributions included backup vocals and providing the title "Do the Bartman" and that Jackson insisted his own name be mentioned in the lyrics.[7]". I THINK I can hear Michael doing back-up vocals but how clear would you all say that he is on this? Does this really count as a Michael Jackson song/single?
Lol My dad knows the lyrics of this song word for word. He learned it when he was a kid. Apparently he used to "Rap" it on the school bus to try to impress his friends. Its crazy, You would be looked at like a weirdo if you did that today lmao.
That is sooooo 1991!
it's comments like this that make me feel old.
How old are you?
I was a baby when this song first released and I grew up to enjoy the song even to this day it brings back so many memories. The song and the video has aged like a fine wine
Nostalgia madness! When SIMPSONS was phenomenal. One of my favourite animations alongside DEXTER'S LABORATORY and JOHNNY BRAVO.
I have a cassette with a bunch of these Simpsons songs on somewhere at my mother’s place. I doubt I’ve listened to it in 30 years but still know the words. Thanks Matt and the rest of the crew for my childhood memories
Rip michael jackson king of pop (1958-2009) you will be missed
I was like ten years old when this came out and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now at 44 I must admit I still kinda do.
All wow I remember listening to these songs growing up
Fun fact: this was directed by Brad Bird, who wrote and directed the Incredibles
Cannot believe this song was no.1 in Australia for weeks...
the power of Michael Jackson lmao
Like how the Mambo No.5: Bob the Builder rendition was no.1 in the UK for some time.
From back when the Simpsons was the best thing on TV. It's hard to believe now, but the fact that he said "damn" in that video was controversial at the time.
How could you not love the Simpsons
Written by the king of pop himself
Apparently Groening once said he wants the final episode of The Simpsons to end with how this video starts, with the family on the way to an xmas school dance show. So the entire series is on a loop.
That would be a nice idea.
This is so adorable I still love Bart and Bart Man!
Its hard to believe this was all animated in a span of like 12 minutes, something about the animators just having no time at all during the making of this.
It was story boarded in two days and Brad bird said it took a few weeks to animate. Normally an animation like this would take a normal team months to make. Animation, especially traditional hand drawn with painted cels, is extremely slow and expensive. Not sure where you got the 12 minute thing from. 12 minutes isn't enough to even do a rough sketch of a single frame.
Michael Jackson composed this song, I just recently discovered this.
No wonder it became a classic track and a hit.
Dammmmmn this song is still so good after all these years!
Omg, this is so 1991. I love it. 😂❤
I grew up in Springfield, Oregon in the 80s, Where the Simpsons show takes place!
This was so dope. My friends sister let me borrow this DVD set. I loved it. My mother had to take it away from me
1:29 He threw it at Skinner on purpose!
I actually heard this song on a Retro radio station in my town last Sunday before church.
2:51 gets me all the time
Grooving to this at 43 like I was 9 years old again!!!😂😂😂😂
I just love that Michael Jackson Song.
So cool that he helped so much the Simpsons to get a global success just because he believed in that tv-series from the very beginning on.
Bart was the “Fresh Prince” of cartoons!! HUGE in the 90s.
With all of this smooth music, I would say Bart is caught in a riptide.