I Hate Me Too Haha Now We Can Be Friends Again

"The Isotopes lose the pennant!"

One day at the Springfield Piffling League Park, Bart catches the winning ball for the town's little league team, the Isotots, which sends them into the Piddling League Championships against Shelbyville. Because of this, the town celebrates the team as heroes and gives them the right to "conduct like arrogant oafs", assuasive Bart to moon them and happily get pelted with eggs by the team. Before the game, the Simpsons go shopping at Costington'southward and a tired Homer decides to residuum on one of the sale mattresses. When he is caught in the mattress, he tries to save face by complimenting its qualities, which convinces a customer to purchase the mattress. The possessor of the store goes to Homer to congratulate him for making the sale and hires him every bit a mattress salesman.

On the day of the big game, with Shelbyville loading the bases and Springfield on the verge of winning. Withal, Bart misses the pop fly and constantly fumbles ball trying to pick it up, allowing Shelbyville to score four runs win the game, and costing Springfield the championship. The spectators boo Bart for causing the team to lose and he runs to Chief Wiggum to escape the mob. However, the Chief drives Bart dorsum into and around the stadium and opens the auto's roof so the crowd can throw garbage and beer cans at him. Bart is totally humiliated and is now a pariah.

Meanwhile, while Homer is selling mattresses, Reverend Lovejoy comes to him to help him notice a mattress to put the spark back in his love life with his wife Helen. Homer suggests the "Snugglux" by Matrimonium and they purchase it. The next day, the Lovejoys come to the firm to tell Homer that their troubles haven't been solved, but every bit Homer is writing them a refund check, they begin making out on Homer and Marge'southward bed and bask their experience. They and Homer trade each other's mattresses; the side by side day, the Simpsons are stagnant and bored while the Lovejoys are interim dizzy in church building.

For the past few days, Bart has been getting harassed nonstop past Springfield's citizenry for his error. In fact, the KBBL radio station has Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney sing "Bart Stinks" as part of its "Bash Bart Block". Seeing Bart depressed from the abuse, Lisa tries to cheer him upwards by taking him to a baseball convention to meet Joe LaBoot, a veteran player who had a like feel as Bart's when his fumble ended up scarring the First Lady. Bart is at offset relieved that somebody sympathizes with him, until LaBoot discovers his identity and gets everyone in the room to boo him, making Bart feel even worse. The next morning, Bart is gone, and Lisa wakes upward to find that somebody had spray-painted the words "I HATE BART SIMPSON" over the front of the house. She and Marge explore the town to find that the phrase had been painted all over town (including on a passed out Barney), and find the citizens looking upwardly at the vandal writing the phrase on the watertower and discover that the vandal is none other than Bart himself, who has snapped into a state of cocky-loathing from the town'due south abiding harassment. At the boondocks's insistence, Bart jumps from the tower in a suicidal attempt to escape his ordeal.

Bart survives his fall and is knocked unconscious. While Marge visits him in the hospital, she hears a mob of townspeople exterior chanting "Bart sucks!". Finally having had enough of the town's constant bullying, she steps outside and chews them out on their extreme vindictive behavior, finer more than living up to their championship as the "meanest city in America". Feeling guilty, the townspeople apologize for hurting Bart and agree to restage the game to fix his self-esteem. Bart awakens in his baseball uniform on the field and, after 78 tries, Bart finally catches the brawl and "wins" the game.

In the meantime, Homer and Marge try to sneak back into the Lovejoys' business firm to reclaim their mattress, just they catch them in the act and, subsequently a cursory squabble, they settle on splitting the mattress in half "Solomon fashion". The Simpsons cease upward taking their half of the mattress and brand out on it backside a billboard, only like they did on their honeymoon.

The episode ends old in the future, where an elderly Bart and Milhouse living at the retirement home commenting on the events that transpired, while a ghostly Homer asks Marge for ghost sex activity despite her pleas that it's "worse than nothing".

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"The Boys Of Bummer" contains examples of :

• Developed Fear: Having your immature kid exist ruthlessly tortured by the entire city to the point of attempted suicide is a really night thought. And even worse when, fifty-fifty after said child is resuscitated from the attempted suicide, the metropolis continues to torture him. This thankfully brings out Marge's Mama Bear instincts to phone call out Springfield for their cruelty.
• An Aesop:
  • Publicly shaming someone over something modest can have an agin consequence on their psychological beingness, and you'll stop upward regretting it.
  • In sports, if an athlete is unhappy with their situation, has concerns on their mind or get too cocky, they won't exist able to play well.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: Coach Flemish region points at his black armband and tells the kids to play for Groundskeeper Willie... who made the armband.
• Allurement the Dog:
  • Master Wiggum seemingly offers to move Bart away from the jeering oversupply, only to transport him back into stadium so the crowd can throw beer cans at him.
  • Joe LaBoot initially appears to exist sympathetic towards Bart for his situation, but the moment he learns his name, he callously drives him to tears.
• Baseball Episode: The plot hinges on Bart's snafu making his squad lose.
• Break the Haughty: Bart was pretty haughty well-nigh his worthiness to the team until he missed the brawl and the bullying started. This gets to the bespeak where he gets Driven to Suicide.
• The Bang-up: Practically everyone in Springfield ^note excluding his own family unit (although Homer was persuaded to go with the others, and Patty, his aunt, can be seen shaming him alongside the rest of the boondocks) is one towards Bart, going every bit far as to encourage Bart to kill himself. And they still bully him after he's hospitalized, forcing Marge to condemn their evil acts on him. It'southward honestly a miracle they didn't target her next for daring to telephone call them out, as they did with Homer.
• Buried Live: "Bart, Cottontail died. Dad buried him in the backyard — but not in that society."
• Butt-Monkey: Bart really gets it in this episode. And information technology'due south not played for laughs, either.
• Helm Obvious: The cover of 1 of Lenny's mystery novels has the phrase "The Murderer Did It".
• Card-Carrying Jerkass: The whole town quite proudly (literally, as in has it on billboards advertizing the identify) labels itself "The Meanest Metropolis In America".
• Cerebus Retcon: Many previous episodes had showcased that Springfield is a town total of sore losers that will seek revenge on whoever fabricated them lose with extreme prejudice (at 1 point arriving to the airport when their losing football game team arrived to scream insults at them and toss rocks and even effort to lynch them). This episode shows that they are perfectly willing and able to bring this insane amount of cruelty down upon a fiddling kid without any hesitation and that they are really proud of this existence one of the facts the residual of the country knows best about the city. Past the fourth dimension Marge manages to shame the mob, this has long since stopped existence funny.
• Champions on the Inside: As the rest of this page shows, this trope is averted to high sky.
• Crapsack World: During her speech, Marge addresses a nearby billboard citing Springfield as the "Meanest City in America". Later the townspeople's actions in this episode, she couldn't agree more.
• Despair Event Horizon: Bart comes very shut to this when he tries to kill himself thanks to beingness hated and bullied by everyone in town.
• Muddy Cop: Chief Wiggum is among those who bully Bart for his mistake and is willing to encourage the latter to kill himself.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Played near to the bespeak of deconstruction. The fashion the townspeople treated Bart, who did a simple mistake at a sport that is unimportant, would exist absurdly cruel if he was a grown man. Doing that to a kid just paints the boondocks as a horde of complete psychos.
• Distant Finale: Showcasing 3 things: Bart and Milhouse will live in the Retirement Castle, Bart will continue to gloat nearly the win the town provided him out of compassion (and will continue to fall into suicidal despair if someone brings out the truth, forcing them to lie that they were just joking) well into his former historic period, and that Marge and Homer have a lousy sex life every bit ghosts.
• Double Standard: The town turns confronting Bart to such an farthermost degree that Moe vilifies Homer for not using a safe to preclude Bart'due south conception, and when Homer stands upwardly for Bart the crowd turns on him until he takes their side (which he does almost immediately, calling him a "asphyxiate artist"). All the same, none make a similar accusation regarding Marge not taking the pill and when she confronts the mob, none attack her and she single-handedly convinces them to stand downwards. Some see this as a gender-based Double Standard, adding to the sour reception of the episode since Marge is spared vilification from doing the same things that Homer gets attacked for.
  • Marge is shown to exist respected by almost people in Springfield, so a lecture from her means more and then one from Homer, who is shown to be widely disliked by many people in Springfield in many previous episodes.
  • Similarly, the boondocks did show humbleness when Lisa fabricated information technology to a national spelling bee in "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can", fifty-fifty giving her a bust in a nearby cliff even though she high-strung. Bart gets nothing of the sort.
• Down to the Terminal Play: Bart was supposed to catch a elementary fly ball and his team would accept won... except that he didn't, leading to the plot.
• Driven to Suicide: Springfield'south cruelty results in Bart jumping from a water belfry. Thankfully, he survives, though is knocked unconscious.
• Easily Forgiven: After driving Bart to kill himself, he and his family forgave the whole town later 1 little amends. Homer moreso as they quickly forget him defending Bart as soon as the mattress subplot starts.
• Epic Fail:
  • For the sake of trying to help Bart feel okay, the whole town makes a new game and they try to make Bart the hero of the day. Emphasis on "effort". An cool avalanche of failures brand it and so Bart tin't catch a single brawl or do anything else correct (not to mention add another bunch of humiliations), and by the time he finally makes the play, it's nighttime and most everybody who was watching had gone abode or was falling asleep (and the umpire had to order the play to be redone so many times that it was probably illegal).
  • LaBoot's effort to endeavor to catch a suicidal Bart ends with the latter getting hospitalized and the former jeered by a passing Abe.
• Everyone Has Standards: LaBoot may be willing to make fun of Bart for making an error he himself made decades agone, but he still tries (accent on "tries") to save Bart when he jumps off the h2o tower.

• Fan Disservice: Moe running onto the baseball field naked.
• Felony Misdemeanor: Bart losing the game results in almost everyone hating him and wanting him expressionless.
• Hidden Depths: Lenny is revealed to be the writer of a successful series of mystery novels that are praised by Stephen King.
• Hope Spot: Lisa brings Bart to meet Joe LaBoot, one of the best-selling worst baseball players of all fourth dimension and who still has made some fame and a privileged life out of information technology (even if people like Gramps keep hating him for his mistake), and who gives Bart a spoken language about not letting a single bad moment in his life elevate him down. The moment LaBoot finds out that he'south talking to Bart Simpson, he starts to attack Bart, heartlessly shoving him to the Despair Result Horizon.
• Hypocrite: LaBoot chides Bart for his fumble despite not merely doing the same thing himself years agone, but doing it much worse when he supposedly disfigured the first lady.
• I Have This Friend: Reverend Lovejoy when he comes to Homer almost his bed problems.

  Lovejoy: I have a friend. Well, a friend of a friend.

  Homer: (loudly) Sex problem, eh?

• Jerkass Ball: Everyone in Springfield, other than the Simpsons, holds the brawl when they torment Bart simply for missing a game-winning take hold of in a baseball game, even going so far every bit to goad him into committing suicide.
• Judgment of Solomon: The Simpsons and Lovejoys decide who gets the mattress past splitting the mattress diagonally, making it await like a grilled cheese sandwich.
• Boot the Domestic dog: Driving a 10 yr old boy to suicide is one the nastiest things anyone in the show has pulled.
• Kicking Them While They Are Down: Bart jumps off the boondocks'south water tower and is knocked into a coma. The boondocks decides to stand exterior his hospital window and continue ragging on him, even if he'due south completely unable to hear or react to them. This is what hits Marge'south Rage Breaking Signal and makes her tell off the whole town.
• Boot the Son of a Bowwow: Grampa Simpson belittling LaBoot.

  Grampa: You lot stink, LaBoot!

• Lack of Empathy:
  • Even after Bart is hospitalized from his attempted suicide, the citizens still harass him. Thankfully, Marge sets them straight afterwards.
  • Despite himself going through similar circumstances equally Bart in his youth, LaBoot is shown to be merely as unsympathetic to Bart's misery as the townsfolk, even encouraging the townsfolk to chastise him into the Despair Outcome Horizon. That being said, he was withal willing to relieve Bart from falling off the water tower, albeit unsuccessfully.

    LaBoot: Boo. Boo, indeed.

• Left the Groundwork Music On: When Marge and Homer sneak into the Lovejoys' house to call back their mattress, Homer imitates a sneaky high-summit cymbal like in a spy movie until Marge tells him to cut it out.
• Madness Mantra: Bart showcases he'south finally snapped from the bullying when he spray-paints "I Detest BART SIMPSON" all over boondocks. And it's the last thing he says before jumping off the tower.

  Bart (manic, on top of the water tower): Look, people! I detest Bart Simpson, too! Now we tin be friends again!

• Mama Bear: After finding out the difficult way that the people of Springfield volition not be satisfied in their hatred of Bart until he'south dead (perhaps), Marge finally has enough and marches out of the hospital to give them a Shaming the Mob speech, which thankfully works.
• Mistakes Are Not the End of the World: Lisa tries to cheer up Bart by having him run across Joe LaBoot, the worst baseball game player of all fourth dimension, who tells him this. This trope is then cruelly defied when LaBoot finds out who he's talking to and bullies him about missing that damned pop fly besides.
• Mooning: "Behold, my naked butt! Each cheek is a god to you!"
• Naked People Are Funny: Moe streaking on the field.
• Never My Mistake: As soon as Moe shifts the hate onto Homer, the latter immediately passes the buck back to Bart to avert farther hazing.

  Homer: Hey become off my instance! He's the asphyxiate artist!

• Dainty Job Breaking It, Hero: Arguably, the fact that the town celebrated their championship game advent with all the pomp and circumstance as though they already won did indeed requite the team a "swelled head" simply as Flanders was warning them.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The journalist is a sound-alike of Vin Scully.
• No Longer with Us: Flemish region, while wearing a black armband, tells the team to do it for Groundskeeper Willie — not considering he'due south dead, merely because he made the armband.
• Once Washed, Never Forgotten: Bart misses a fly ball, losing his team the game, and is bullied until he attempts suicide. The professional baseball player Joe LaBoot is some other instance, as he is still bullied for being a terrible role player despite having retired decades ago.
• Only Sane Woman: Marge is the only ane to stand by Bart's side (excluding Lisa and Maggie, who didn't get involved at all).
• Overly Long Gag:
  • Bart attempting 78 times to take hold of the ball during the restaging of the game. In fact, by the time Bart finally caught it, most of the spectators had left.
  • Played for Drama with the town's treatment to Bart. Springfield being a country of extreme (and that is lynch-causing violent) sore losers had appeared on quick gags earlier, but this is an entire episode that showcased nigh the whole town as villainous.
• Pet the Canis familiaris: Despite his actions towards Bart earlier in the episode, LaBoot tries to catch him after he jumps from a water tower. Unfortunately, he misses.
• Police force Are Useless: Chief Wiggum doesn't go far to the water belfry to endeavor to talk Bart out of plain attempting suicide, but to encourage him to spring. Before on, Bart asked Wiggum to drive him away from the oversupply, just for the latter to bulldoze him back into the stadium so the crowd can continue to terrorize him.

  Wiggum: He's back! Go basics, everyone!

• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Marge calls out the entire town for their harassment towards her son.
• Serious Business: Exaggerated regarding Minor League Baseball game. Lose a game, and the town volition slap-up someone to death. It likewise works the other style around as Bart could inquire people to worship his butt with no consequences since the team was winning.
• Shaming the Mob: Marge finally gets sick of the town's harassment of Bart and furiously chews them out for it after they drive him to a Bungled Suicide and nonetheless won't let up on their bullying, pointing out the sign that labels Springfield the "Meanest City in America" and how their deportment prove it right. At that, the entire town gets the bulletin and make up for their jerkassery by restaging the game so Bart can win.
• Sore Loser: The unabridged boondocks are this. Bart fumbles the ball in the Niggling League Championships which causes Springfield to lose to Shelbyville. Springfield doesn't react well to this.
• Suicide Dare: Chief Wiggum tells Bart to jump off the h2o tower.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: A campaign of bullying as thoroughly (and absurdly) vicious as the 1 directed at Bart would brand everyone snap or seek death in real life — just similar information technology happened to Bart.
• To the Tune of...: "Bart Stinks" to "Love Stinks", courtesy of Dolph, Jimbo and Kearney.
• Ungrateful Bounder: Up until the last play Bart had effectively carried the squad all season and was the reason they'd fabricated it to the championships in the starting time place. If Bart hadn't been there they wouldn't have gotten nearly as far, simply all that's thrown out the window with the last play.
• Ungrateful Townsfolk: The citizens of Springfield becomes these for the whole episode when they swell Bart into suicide but because of a screw-up on a ball game. Lampshaded with a billboard fifty-fifty citing information technology equally the "Meanest City in America".
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Bart is an incredibly bad winner, at one indicate declaring himself a literal god the all-time of his team must worship because he'due south brought them this far in the title. The Distant Finale of the episode besides showcases that he will keep upwardly bringing his win long into his old age. Could be worse, though: the scene also shows that the trauma of the original loss and everything that came afterwards makes him also fall into suicidal despair whenever he doubts himself long into his former historic period.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The boondocks themselves are so desperate for attention, they were willing to throw a pep rally for the team and essentially give them free reign; as Flanders was trying to indicate out, this would likely work better after the title game. As it were, it did indeed crusade the entire team to get a swelled head, instead of focusing on the task at hand, and thus but made the backlash when they did asphyxiate that much worse.
• Would Hurt a Child: Most of Springfield is willing to drive Bart to suicide.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Almost of Springfield appears to be this. When Homer calls them out on bullying Bart, he is peer pressured into joining in, but when Marge does the same, everyone of a sudden turns nice.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: When Bart meets LaBoot and sees that he had a like ordeal similar him, Bart feels happy knowing that there's one person who's not mad at him... until Lisa says his proper noun.

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