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November 27, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
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In the episode artiocles on Memory Alpha, the Star trek Wiki, the bottom of the pages have links to the next episode and the previous episode. is it possible to do something like that here?

Minor edit, cleaning up grammar/contruction in the first synopsis paragraph. See my talk page for details.-- lowgenius -- My Talk Page 20:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

At lunch, a boy says "i'll trade you the weight of a bowling ball on the 8th moon of jupiter from my lunch for the weight of a feather on the 2nd moon of neptune from your lunch." interestingly enough, the gravity on callisto is more than 100x the gravity on thalassa, so this statement was actually backwards.

another boy wants to trade 1000 picoliters (or 1 nanoliter) of his milk for 4 gills - but pronounces gill wrong. Wikifried 18:03, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to The Shining

When Bart runs into his room and locks the door, Homer says if he opened up the door, he could hug Bart and they could spend time together. Bart said his intelligence was insulted. I really think this refers to The Shining. In that film, the main character's wife locks the main character, played by Jack Nicholson, into a food storage room. The main character says what he hoped his wife wanted to hear insincerely.

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Excellent. Some tips:

I can't remember why Bart is green. This could be added, though from the picture it clearly is just muck.
We could have a cite for Carmen being the opera they see, but I'll let it fly. Alientraveller 14:19, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Carmen needs a Ref??

Why do I need a ref to add that the opera is Carmen?? I'm pretty sure it says in the episode, either on a sign, or on a program. Why do you need a ref to add something that can be clearly read in the episode?? Doesn't make sense.

Also, If you need a ref to know that Bart is mocking the Toreador Song, you need to pull your head out of your ass and do something other than watch the Simpsons. Read a book. Watch a classic film. Listen to opera. If you did these things, you would gain some cultural knowledge to venture some obvious observations.

If I wrote that Marge's hair is blue, would you delete it and say I need a reference?? I think you need to understand that NOT EVERYTHING needs to be sourced. Even the toughest university professors understand this, and don't bust your balls over every unsourced statement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.186.60.95 (talk) 13:25, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

The fact that its obvious means nothing, I know it is as well. But I don't have a source to say it is, except the episode itself, which some people may not say is a good enough source. Whether you think something is obvious or not, doesn't mean other people will. See WP:V. Gran² 13:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

also, barts expirement is he mixes an acid and a base and they explode - this is wrong because in real life they would just nutralize —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.103.240.24 (talk) 20:30, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

Yes, they would neutralize, producing (as far as I know) water and a salt. But even just neutralizing there would be some heat - but not an explosion like in the episode. I think the writers just opted to take some creative liberties. When I have some time, I'll find a good chemistry reference and add it in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.186.40.181 (talk) 13:59, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

GA Sweeps (Pass)

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, MASEM 19:12, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plot section wiki markup problem

The markup in the Plot section is seriously borked. Unfortunately, I can't work out what the original author intended; could someone please clean it up? --Kay Dekker (talk) 02:02, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Korean animators unfamiliar with a banana?

There were a few problems with the finished animation for the episode. The banana in the opening scene was colored incorrectly, as the Korean animators were unfamiliar with the fruit,

This may well be written in the source cited, but the statement, to be charitable, stretches credibility. Here is a randomly chosen example of a Korean banana-flavored product: http://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=1054 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Casey J. Morris (talk • contribs) 04:36, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Plot idea was not original

The article's lengthy explanation of the genesis of the plot idea strikes me as absurd considering that it's actually an old recycled conceit, like the majority of television situation-comedy plots. Here, for example, is Wikipedia's own summary of an episode of Leave it to Beaver that first aired in very early 1958: "After Beaver takes an intelligence test at school, Miss Canfield informs Ward and June that he received the highest grade of all. Mrs. Rayburn arranges an interview at a school for geniuses. At home, Miss Canfield arrives with Beaver's new classmate, Charles Fredericks. Charles switched Beaver's test paper with his own because he always scores high on tests and his classmates shun him. Ward and June are glad Beaver is just Beaver." Notice that even the title of this episode, "Part-time Genius", is very similar to the title of the analogous Simpson's episode, "Bart the Genius".

69.115.212.71

Anonymous user 69.115.212.71 keeps on changing the order in which this episode was aired - I'd always called it the second episode as this was aired after the 'Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire' episode which is part of the Season 1 list of episodes and that is the second full-length episode within the entire list of episode they've made. Iggy (Swan) 08:49, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

so overlooked!!!

K w y j i b o were the letters(in order)that Bart "drew" from the pile while playing Scrabble.his "genius"(to him) was to win in one play (i had it tattooed on myself 30(give or take) years ago — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:8790:65E0:5531:88D9:A81D:BB76 (talk) 10:44, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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