Bart's Dog Gets An "F"

Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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After Shows, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

The Four Finger Discount family recently lost our beloved pooch Jet, so to pay tribute we've gone back and revisited one of the more heartfelt episodes from the earlier seasons, Bart's Dog Gets An F.

We discuss how revisiting the episode helped Dando grieve the loss of Jet, the history of Tracey Ullman's turbulent relationship with the series, the simplistic but effective use of Marge's quilt to drive the story and more.

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CHAPTERS:

05:52 - The potential of Mrs. Winfield

07:42- The importance of emotion-driven episodes

09:41 - Helping Dando grieve the loss of Jet

12:26 - Living with anxiety

17:16 - The effective role of the quilt

18:44 - The potential buyer raised the stakes of the story

20:46 - Homer and Marge don't WANT to sell Santa's Little Helper

22:38 - Santa's Little Helper was particularly naughty this episode

23:09 - Emily Winthrop

25:32 - The history of The Tracey Ulman Show

33:08 - Emily Winthrop is so unlikeable

35:09 - "pull the bloody chain, boy!" haunts us

37:08 - The use of "son of a bitch"

41:48 - Marge and Lisa's bonding story

45:47 - The best version of Lisa

48:51 - The various parodies (E.T., Predator, etc)

49:47 - Loving the Assassins

59:07 - FAVOURITE MOMENTS

01:00:00 - The birth of "Wise Guy"?

01:00:59 - Daytime television

01:02:40 - TRIVIA

01:07:46 - STONECUTTER SHOUT-OUTS

01:11:00 - FULL EPISODE REVIEW BEGINS

01:12:50 - Frank Welker

01:16:17 - How to draw the mumps

01:19:05 - Guy ruins Louise's lawn

01:15:54 - Faking sick to get out of school

01:22:02 - Mrs. Winfield calls Homer (clip)

01:23:40 - Flanders is odd in the earlier seasons

01:25:20 - Sometimes you've got to spoil yourself

01:35:08 - Homer gets caught (clip)

01:36:08 - The dangers of Afterpay

01:40:28 - Homer handled the Assassins situation well

01:44:18 - Guy returns a used shirt

01:51:10 - Marge's devastation

01:55:06 - Someone eating your leftovers

02:00:09 - Emily's choice was justified

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm gonna miss you, boy.
0:02.0	I thought we were gonna be pals forever.
0:05.0	But...
0:07.0	We're gonna have to say goodbye.
0:09.0	Because you don't understand a single word I say.
0:12.0	If you just knew how important it was to learn blah blah, blah, sit!
0:17.0	Wait a minute, you did it.
0:20.0	Blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah. Lay down. Wait a minute, you did it.
0:24.9	Lay down.
0:27.9	Shake hands?
0:30.1	Stay?
0:32.3	Speak.
0:35.5	All right, good boy.
0:38.8	Four finger discount, dude.
1:01.9	Welcome to Four-finger discount, where this week we're going all the way back to Season 2 to review an episode that I will discussing off the air.
1:08.2	It's more emotion-driven than humour, but it's an episode to pay tribute to my lovable dog Jet, who we lost a couple of weeks ago.
1:09.8	He was a mascot here at Four Finger Discount.
1:14.8	We are, of course, reviewing Bart's Dog Gets an F. I'm Dando. And I am Guy. You may have seen me on the cover of teen Steam Magazine. Yeah, lots of teen magazines. Yeah, took me back to reading magazines, but we'll
1:19.9	get into that, though. But Bart's Dog Gets an F. Your first thoughts on this episode, because for me, I'm watching this going, I wouldn't really call this a funny episode. It's got its funny moments, but I don't think it really needed to be. I think it really wanted to be a funny episode this one. I think it was more about the emotional story of a boy and his dog. Don't you, frankly? I think so. Well, a family in their dog, absolutely. Yeah, true. Yeah, yeah. Not really a joke delivery system in this particular episode. A nice vein of
1:49.0	humour running through a humor born of frustration, I think, and I think anyone who's ever had a pet
1:55.4	can relate to that frustration because, you know, we all love our four-legged friends or our friends
2:01.3	who have wings or gills.
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