7G05 - Bart the General (February 4, 1990)

Summary: Bart wages war against Nelson Muntz after getting routinely beat up by him.

References to Time:
- Lisa makes cupcakes for Miss Hoover's birthday
- Bart meets Nelson's weasel friend
- Fight after school at 3:15
- Nelson's in all the same special classes as Bart
- Lisa remembers the fight Grampa put up when they put him in the home
- Bart meets Herman
- Herman lost his arm after sticking it out the bus window as a kid
- Grampa reminisices about the war
- The weasels betray Nelson
- Some sailor-hatted kid kisses Lisa (her first kiss?)
- Treaty: Nelson is never to raise his fist in anger, Nelson recognizes Bart's right to exist, Nelson remains a figurehead of menace

References to Other Episodes: None

SLH Presence:
- SLH is not present.
- The retirement home looks nice (Grampa spruces it up in Old Money)

Minimum Time Spanned: 4 days (my guess is Wednesday - Saturday)

Canon: All canon, except for Bart's epilogue about war

Favorite Moment: I found a lot of my favorite lines came from Bart's fantasy about his funeral, especially Milhouse's joy that they got to miss school for the funeral followed by Homer's joy that he got to miss work. It's a shame they cut this part out in syndication.

Review: Usually when I think about this episode, I remember a lot of the moments that fall flat. But rewatching it, I found a lot of cute touches, like one of the kid's water balloons popping right before the war starts, or Bart coughing his hat out in the treehouse, or Herman shouting "You'll need more!" after Bart tells him he has no soldiers. Moments like these boost this one up a few notches from my original score. A-