The Simpsons Theory: 'Dead Bart' Mystery Solved 

No mystery behind Dead Bart, it was just a misinterpretation of the working episode title “The Bart, The”

Every true Simpsons fan recognizes that the footage was a mix of random early episodes

Something I wonder about Bart's skeleton: did he even have any hair at all? Since his "hair spikes" are also on his skull

I've been a fan since the day the series debuted and somehow, I've never heard this urban legend. Thanks for going over it in detail. The Simpsons really has weaved itself into our cultural zeitgeist.

I wish A tree house a horror segment would do a full fledge version of this with no joke behind it.

"and here's my theory, a simpsons theory" insert the clip from The Avenger's of Tony saying, "thought we wouldnt notice but we did" I love when other theory channels make matpat references lol

I wish the creators could put it in a treehouse of horror. We could finally see it and it wouldn’t cause so many issues canonically. If only they could do that.

"Dead Bart" was my first ever introduction to Creepypastas. Just love this video. Great job covering it.

In my honest opinion, Dead Bart is the least impressive of the "Big 3" lost episode creepypastas. Suicidemouse and Squidward's Suicide at least have an air of plausibility that made them creepy to me. But I'm sorry, no matter how depressed Matt Groening was, there is no way, in the 1st season, that The Simpsons would kill off their most popular, merchandisable character. Let's not kid ourselves, The Simpsons has been a capitalist creation since the start, long before Disney bought them. The whole reason it exists is because Matt didn't want to sell out his Life In Hell Characters to a corporation. So... yeah, harsh truths about our media ruined my immersion in a creepypasta. :(

3:03 poor matt. No one should be harassed, stalked, cornered and pressured like that.

I do hope no one ever took this story seriously. It’s so obviously bogus.

I could imagine Groening writing such an episode in the early says before he realised how much of a merch machine Bart would be before scrapping the bart death idea.

Dead Bart - Suicide Mouse - Mad Silvester and Depressed Doug are some off the most famous Cartoon missing Episode creepypastas.

Creepypasta writers and the word "hyper realistic" - name a more iconic duo?

I wonder if the author of this creepy pasta has ever seen a treehouse of horror episode

I have loved the Simpsons since 2014 when I was a child and I remember always loving the Simpsons and I loved the older seasons the best, however as I got older I got less interested in the Simpsons until I saw this great channel and since I have watched the Simpsons more which is great and i really enjoy watching this channel it’s amazing. Also watching this channel makes me nostalgic from when I was a child.

Lisa: Mom! Dad! Bart's dead! *Both gasp* Bart: That's right! Dead serious about going to Itchy and Scratchy Land!

I will admit, that realistic Bart shot scared the living life out of me! LOL!

It's been two years since you started? Damn. It's been a good two years (at least for this channel)

Always loved these fan theories for classic shows. This one is up there with the Scooby Doo fan theory that the original cartoon takes place in a post-apocalyptic world.

Has anyone else had the dead bart dream as a child? I know a few folks who have. Discovering the creepypasta years after the fact was real spooky.

this scared the crap out of me

Me watching this knowing very well that I won’t sleep afterwards:

Dead Bart is one of the most iconic creepypasta’s Evers

you did a great job with the crime documentary intro and the VHS statics effects

And we’ve seen multiple Bart impostors during the series like Hugo in the Treehouse of Horror or the smart guy with whom Bart swaps lives for a bit.

Really good that you found something your passionate about. That's all a content creator wants just wake up and do something you love.

Never heard of this story at all but glad my fave Simpson Gal is covering it! ❤ Thank you so much!!!

Okay now that's some brilliant evidence you showed of The Simpsons.

I still find it really funny how often creepypastas end up being taken way too seriously. Creepypastas are basically just horror fiction, and in cases involving things like shows or games,ect its basically just a horror based fanfiction. I still remember as a writing exercise when I was still in school.. Making a horror story that I had later decided to post in segments and overtime in these, now gone forums for a Resident Evil based mod.. For the game Half-Life 1. Keep in mind this story was not an actual fanfiction for Resident Evil was still seen as one from a lot of the people who would read it. But it did seem like the majority of the people there liked it.. But they did not like the ending I gave it overall.. Since the main character dies in the end. Though I had planned on bringing said character back.. Probably in not a way they would have wanted but still would be back... The problem with that is. I simply ended up never coming back to the story I had written. Its something I both regret but also am kinda glad that said story remained in that small corner of the internet. Especially with how strange people tend to get with horror fiction, more so when it does, or at least people think it is part of a game,movie, or tv series they like.. Then for some reason confuse something that would basically be just a story for something really meant to be part of medium they really liked, created by the ones who make said game,movie or tv series they had liked... It just really does not make a lot of sense to me especially when there is no way it would have been made by the original creators.

I read this years ago as a kid with extreme end of the world anxiety and it traumatised me because it ended by saying all of the celebrities who are still alive had the same date listed on their gravestone. I kept panicking wondering when we were all going to die lmao

The more I hear different creepypasta I'm convinced they're all the exact same story but with names replaced

Mmmmmm love it when Screen Portal and Simpsons Theory post. Love seeing mysteries solved and stuff, makes my day better!

I wonder if you play The Simpsons Sing the Blues backwards you hear "Bart is Dead."

I wonder if later tree house of horrors took inspiration from this story because latley there's been a lot of Bart dying treehouse shorts over the years

Thanks for Covering this Lydia.

I love how you go into detail with every video you do I love the simpsons so much I’m proud of you hun, I love how passionate you are about animation shows on both of your channels xoxo

if this episode was meant for season 1, they could’ve used it for treehouse of horror in the season finale of it. it would fit great

Would love to see a Homer Coma Theory video, even if Al Jean did pour cold water on it!

This is one of the best creepypastas out there imo. Like ik it's not real just a creepypasta yet I genuinely feel uneasy from it

IIRC the reason for the numbering discrepancy is that they had to remake 'Some Enchanted Evening' as the first version wasn't done well, which saw it bumped to late in the season and replaced with 'Moaning Lisa' plus there are two versions of 'Homer's Night Out' with one that plays down the innuendo a bit.

I'm so high, i thought my eyes were broken for a second

Pretty sure the guy at my local flea market has a few "Dead Bart" CD DVdroms

One year after the death of Bart and the town goes to hell... Did.Homer just go nuts to this and black out the city and just refuse to turn the power on? After some riots, everyone just abandoned Springfield except Lisa, Homer and Marge.

The scene of Bart in a coffin is from season 1 episode 5 Bart the general where he is getting beat up by Nelson and he imagines himself dying but then Herman ( The man with one arm who has a military antique shop) And grandpa help him train an army of his friends and they throw water balloons at Nelson and tie him up

YESSS One of the only RU-vidrs I’m early for an have notes on for 💕

They should make a treehouse of horror segment about this theory.

I’m not big on creepy pastas, they’re obviously fake but this one is interest because of the story behind it. I am big on horror and creepy debunking/logical explanations and channels like Scaretheater, so I enjoyed this video. I enjoyed the story behind Suicide Mouse as well

Really great video man also a quick video idea that I would love for you to do is make a video on the complete simpson family tree as thier are so many members of the simpsons family outside of the main five and would love to know all of them keep it up bro

daammmn that cinematic intro was so good, it looked cleaan

I love your content keep it up

Another great vid

Really entertaining video. Thanks.

I've seen the episode with bart in the coffin it's in an episode in season 2 I think. The scene and episode exists but bart does not die it's barts exaggerated imagination because he was going to get into trouble or something.

A number of the "Dead Bart" Images are taken directly from Episode S04 E14, titled "Brother From the Same Planet", in which Homer forgets to pick Bart up at soccer practice. Firstly, after falling asleep, Homer's guilty conscience causes him to dream about finding Bart's Skeleton on the soccer field (Image shown at 0:51 and at 5:16). The image of Bart with his flesh melting off (shown at 8:58), is actually taken from the same Episode, but it's actually a scene where it's actually Bart who imagines Homer's skin is melting off (also shown at 1:00). It's completely obvious the someone simply photoshopped Homer's melting face over Bart's, which isn't very difficult, since they both have the exact same skin-tone. Therefore, no real photoshop blending work is required. Dead Bart Dream Scene: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cK45lg_oJrg.html Melting Homer Scene: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jvUaizb1INw.html

this channel is awesome :)

Think another reason why people were searching dead Bart could be because the last episode in season 29 was Barts Ladder which finished with everyone’s deaths. I also wonder whether the fall never happens in season 30 and he’s dreaming it all in his hospital bed before waking up 🤔 great videos as always 😊

I always thought it would be neat if they made fun of the entire creepypasta by making a Treehouse of Horror episode called "Dead Molemen" and in it, Hans Moleman goes on a hot air balloon ride and, before the balloon can even take off properly, he has a heart attack from the excitement and falls out of the balloon and dies (even though the hot air balloon will have barely lifted off the ground.) Unlike in most episodes, many of Springfield's residents actually start mourning his loss, saying how good he was as a elderly member of the community. It shifts over to the main Simpson family eating dinner, but then they hear on the news that there is an uprising of "Molemen" that are taking over Springfield. The rest of the episode will revolve around the Simpson family killing the Molemen in various ways. From guns to the most dumb and accidental kills from Homer. The King of the Molemen (Yes, that one from that episode) will have an epic fight with Homer on the roof of the Simpson house, explaining how that Moleman's death was the final straw (even though the death was completely no one's fault) and will eventually be defeated when Bart throws a rugby ball at the King that hits him right in the crotch where he falls off the roof and dies pathetically. Then it will reveal that Bart is just telling the story in his treehouse with Lisa, Milhouse, Nelson and even Homer. Marge comes out of the house and tells Bart to stop telling "silly stories" and come inside for dinner. But then, as the final gag, Hans Moleman will be shown hiding outside the window of Bart's treehouse, saying that he was "Enjoying that story!" angrily before he slips and falls off the treehouse in a very similar fashion to the hot air balloon and when the King of Molemen falls from the Simpson's roof, and then the episode will end. But, I know they probably won't do this as they've already made their reference to the legend and one is quite enough. So I suppose I'll just go write fanfiction.

This is one of the best episode I loved it thx for making all these theory's keep it up

@The Simpsons Theory love the video, new sub here 😊

Well your story is very compelling Mr Jackass (I mean Creepypasta) so I'll just type this up on my invisible typewriter... Fabulous video Lydia, love the use of the spooky music!

I refuse to believe such an episode would resist having a joke title: Dearly DeBarted.

I think you should do what is mark did aand rank every Simpson episode but instead of a 6 hour long video you do 1 video for 1 season and every episode you talk about it and then do a season ranking and then for your final video you rank every epsiode

Hi I love your videos! Can you make a mr burns timeline? If so they would be great!

Hi simpsons theory I love ur vids and keep up the great work

I have an actual creepy Simpsons mystery I remember looking at either S20 or S21 on the Simpsons wiki at the time and it had an episode listed with Bart and Lisa meeting a depressed Rogers Myers Jr. who was stuck in a rut in regards to the Itchy and Scratchy show and then Myers Jr. then tells the story of Snr. but then the episode just disappeared.

Great video

"The pc was going wild and had to be rebooted but before doing so he copied the episode on a cd" Anyone who has ever burned content onto cds will tell you the process is so easy to disrupt or interrupt that a pc requiring an emergency shutdown would NOT succeed in doing so.

I think I’d have a lot of fun just going through Simpsons episodes and trying to mash stories up, I feel like so many of the locations stay the same it’d be easy to make some fun short stories

Tbh "dead bart" doesn't seem any darker or more graphic than the odd treehouse of horror episode.

"He's not dead he's very much alive" that's just what someone covering up the truth would say maybe the show is all happening in Bart's purgatory

04:26 this image really scares the hell out of me! This will definitely be haunting my nightmares!! 😱😰

Man this was an amazing urban legend you explain it very well

Sideshow Bob would love this.

I didn't know you started in 2020. I've been watching you since 2020

The dead giveaway of every made-up creepypasta: mention of Hyper- or Photo- realistic artworks in a cartoon (or Sonic game.)

This has always scared me since i was a young child watching the simpsons, im even scared today!

Nice vid lasses

That was pretty scary even though most of the remakes on youtube were pretty bad quality

I'm not a fan of Creepypasta's normally, but this one definitely raises an eyebrow because: Klasky Csupo did some animation work on early Simpsons, AND the legendary 'Rugrats Storyboard Jam' does infact exist - If the creators of The Simpsons deny Dead Bart & the story was confirmed to be a fictional Creepypasta, then I'm glad we can lay this one to rest - but with 'Life in Hell' and 'Storyboard Jam' emerging from Groening & KC, that would have made one wild and possible story

I'd love it if they actually made this to mess with the fans. Like, had it as a hidden feature or something.

I can't stand creepypasta. It's usually written so terribly... Like "Dead Bart" 😆 It's just so dumb, I can't imagine someone being creeped out by reading it.

I think that creepypasta episode "Dead Bart" is way scary. ☠

I just discovered this channel, I love the way you present these videos and the way you narrated the story of Dead Bart was downright chilling, despite the story not being real lol

I can't even imagine something this big would even be "hidden" since there are more people involved in making a show than just a writer/creator lol I absolutely love creepypasta though so this is still very entertaining

What about Bart's good twin Hugo? In a Treehouse of Terror Episode. Where they made fun of the movie where there is a set of "Twins" One is normal and his brother is a lump of living something. They found by the laughing Doctor that the twin from the left is always thew bad twin. Yes, it turned out to be that Bart was the evil twin and then stated. "Come on its like you shouldn't be surprised by this."

Creepy theories are always the best ones

Do a video about The Dark Side of Marge Simpson. She have a skeleton in her closet, or this this case hair.

Maybe this was the first Simpsons holloween special but it was too dark so they decided to leave it alone until season two

A bit late, but great video Lydia!

Well made video Hopefully they release that Season 1 episode soon to the public Imagine that?

Didn’t the episode where he’s hit by a car, the devil say that he would die in about a century? But then again the devil joked that it would be when the Yankees would win the pennant, they did win irl like 5 years after the episode aired lol

You know that you have solved the greatest mystery in the Simpsons right?

Its not bart , it is hugo 😂

can you do a timeline on the crazy cat lady

Good video

Maude should be brought-back somehow, Ned Flanders is kinda the best guy in Springfield and should not have his wif die

peter once got sucked out of a plane in a cut away but it was more funny then dark.

Hey, do you take requests? Because I’d love to see a timeline of Fat Tony or Selma Bouvier!

When she said "ever since I started this channel back in 2020" I was thinking "Your saying that like 2020 was a long time ag- OH MY GOD ITs 2022"