Dead Bart

You know how Fox has a weird way of counting Simpsons episodes?

They refuse to count a couple of them, making the amount of episodes inconsistent.

The reason for this is a lost episode from season one.

Finding details about this missing episode is difficult.

No one who was working on the show at the time likes to talk about it.

From what's been pieced together, the episode's production number was 7G-06, and the title was Dead Bart.

The episode labeled 7G-06, moaning Lisa, was made later and given Dead Bart's production code to hide the latter's existence.

It also was written entirely by Matt Graining.

During production of the first season, Matt started to act strangely.

He was very quiet and seemed nervous and morbid.

Mentioning this to anyone who was present around Matt at the time resulted in them getting

very angry and forbidding you to ever mention it to Matt himself.

I first heard of it at an event where David Silverman was speaking.

Someone in the crowd asked about the episode, and Silverman simply left the stage,

ending the presentation hours early.

In addition to getting angry, asking anyone who was on the show about Dad Bart would cause

them to do everything they could to stop you from directly communicating with Matt Grinning.

At a fan event, I managed to follow him after he spoke to the crowd, and eventually had a chance

to talk to him alone as he was leaving the building.

He didn't seem upset that had followed him.

He probably expected a typical encounter with an obsessive fan.

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