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 1.
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 has been pieced together, the lost episode was written entirely by Matt Groening. During production of the first season, Matt started to act strangely. He was very quiet, seemed nervous and morbid. Mentioning this to anyone who was present results in them getting very angry, and forbidding you to ever mention it to Matt. The episode’s production number was 7G44, the title was Dead Bart.
In addition to getting angry, asking anyone who was on the show about this will cause them to do everything they can to stop you from directly communicating with Matt Groening. 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 I had followed him, probably expected a typical encounter with an obsessive fan. When I mentioned the lost episode though, all color drained from his face and he started trembling. When I asked him if he could tell me any details, he sounded like he was on the verge of tears. He grabbed a piece of paper, wrote something on it, and handed it to me. He begged me never to mention the episode again.
The piece of paper had a website address on it, I would rather not say what it was, for reasons you’ll see in a second. I entered the address into my browser, and I came to a site that was completely black, except for a line of yellow text, a download link. I clicked on it, and a file started downloading. Once the file was downloaded, my computer went crazy, it was the worst virus I had ever seen. System restore didn’t work, the entire computer had to be rebooted. Before doing this though, I copied the file onto a CD. I tried to open it on my now empty computer, and as I suspected, there was an episode of The Simpsons on it.
The episode started off like any other episode, but had very poor quality animation. If you’ve seen the original animation for Some Enchanted Evening, it was similar, but less stable. The first act was fairly normal, but the way the characters acted was a little off. Homer seemed angrier, Marge seemed depressed, Lisa seemed anxious, Bart seemed to have genuine anger and hatred for his parents.
The episode was about the Simpsons going on a plane trip, near the end of the first act, the plane was taking off. Bart was fooling around, as you’d expect. However, as the plane was about 50 feet off the ground, Bart broke a window on the plane and was sucked out.
At the beginning of the series, Matt had an idea that the animated style of the Simpsons’ world represented life, and that death turned things more realistic. This was used in this episode. The picture of Bart’s corpse was barely recognizable, they took full advantage of it not having to move, and made an almost photo-realistic drawing of his dead body.
Act one ended with the shot of Bart’s corpse. When act two started, Homer, Marge, and Lisa were sitting at their table, crying. The crying went on and on, it got more pained, and sounded more realistic, better acting than you would think possible. The animation started to decay even more as they cried, and you could hear murmuring in the background. This crying went on for all of act two.
Act three opened with a title card saying one year had passed. Homer, Marge, and Lisa were skeletally thin, and still sitting at the table. There was no sign of Maggie or the pets.
They decided to visit Bart’s grave. Springfield was completely deserted, and as they walked to the cemetery the houses became more and more decrepit. They all looked abandoned. When they got to the grave, Bart’s body was just lying in front of his tombstone, looking just like it did at the end of act one.
The family started crying again. Eventually they stopped, and just stared at Bart’s body. The camera zoomed in on Homer’s face. According to summaries, Homer tells a joke at this part, but it isn’t audible in the version I saw, you can’t tell what Homer is saying.
The view zoomed out as the episode came to a close. The tombstones in the background had the names of every Simpsons guest star on them. Some that no one had heard of in 1989, some that haven’t been on the show yet. All of them had death dates on them. For guests who died since, like Michael Jackson and George Harrison, the dates were when they would die.
You can try to use the tombstones to predict the death of living Simpsons guest stars, but there’s something odd about most of the ones who haven’t died yet. All of their deaths are listed as the same date.
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Not gonna lie, I personally think this one’s not that great, but it’s been both submitted and searched for a ton, so apparently it needs to be archived. Only credit I can find is to someone calling themselves “KI Simpson”, so there you go.
THEN WHO WAS BART?
Then who was Maggie?!
Not so creepy, perhaps more weird but anyways a pretty tasty pasta. nomnom
Decent, but the Mickey Mouse-story it’s ripping off was better.
Pastas like this are only “creepy” because they prey on memories.
3/10
Reminds me of Suicide Mouse.
THEN WHO WAS VIRUS?
DORD BRAT
THEN WHO WAS WEBSITE?
I don’t get it. There was an episode of The Simpsons in which Bart died and everyone gets freaked out by it. Is that it?
5/10 …eh.
What are the dates on which the peoples die?
2012?!!?
COULD IT BE?
very suicide mouse esque.someone should really do this to the guy that it mentions, and tape the reaction secretly. who knows.
LOL DED BORT
Yeah, that was totally not very interesting until the last bit. All the same date? Intriguing. Too bad it had to be on an episode of the Simpsons >.>
meh……
….system restore didnt work, it had to be rebooted….if a system restore didnt work rebooting wouldnt, it would be otherwise rebooting didn’t work, I had to do a full systems restore
The fact that someone managed to create a creepypasta centred around The Simpsons makes this interesting enough to read. On its own it’s a pretty average story, but if somebody made an accompanying video like suicidemouse or Candle Cove, that’l elevate this to delicious.
Older than Arceus.
Suicide Mouse and Squidward’s Suicide are better “lost episode” pastas. This is just average.
suicide mouse at least had creepy video. wouldn’t you try to upload it to youtube if you supposedly had such a video?
though groening’s breakdown would make more sense nowadays, not around the first season when it was good.
It did remind me of Suicide Mouse as well. But I’m not gonna call it a rip-off.
The lost episode itself seems to have more “plot” than the Suicide Mouse cartoon, for one. Also, the focus quickly changes from the incredibly depressing cartoon to the ending.
And the vivid description of the episode sure is creepy, I’ll give you that(though, frankly: “almost photo-realistic drawing of his dead body”? Was anything ever nearly photo-realistic in the Simpsons, moving or not? That’s pretty pointless.) But, as with lots of other pastas, the ending can wither make it or break it. This one is broken by an ending paragraph that seems to have been coined in a hurry.
So, a 5/10.
I animated this episode for fox and the roumers are true
I have seen five stories exactly like this.
One with mickey mouse.
One with Spongebob.
One with the Rugrats.
One with I think it was Family Guy,
and now This.
I thought the spongebob one was the scariest…
It gave me nightmares.
This is about a 2/10
I was sick of this pasta already before I’d read it. I just got on /x/ one morning and it. Was. Everywhere.
I mean, Jesus Christ, what the fuck.
It would have been decent if not for its overused meme status over on /x/, I think…
Damnit moose, you beat me to a 2012 reference. *Evil eyes*
DERD BRIT
DED BORT
I’m surprised it took this long to reach this site, honestly.
its creepier when you’re a big fan of The Simpsons and you know about all the stuff the writers do with the show and know.
Don’t suppose The Grifter is on this site, too?
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WHAT THE HEEEEEEEEEEEELL. why was this about the simpsons? why was the body drawn so realistic….i dont get it :S
atleast it wasnt boring..but it had no ending.?
lol this was creepy.
Your Mum, it’s a bit like that + raping of childhood memories; however the main creepy part is that it lists when guest stars on the Simpsons dies, and all the ones who aren’t dead yet are listed as the same date.
It actually was inspired by Suicide Mouse. See, there was a thread on the Cartoons and Animation board of GameFAQs dedicated to the Suicide Mouse pasta, and later everyone was coming up with their own “lost episode” stories in response to it. That’s where pretty much all the Suicide Mouse derivatives were written.
Huh, the scourge of /x/ finally made it here.
THEN WHO WAS CARTOON?!
Not scary, but I was watching Simpsons when this came on :/.
This pasta could use some sauce.
good story.
What the fuck man.
You can’t run a CD without an operating system.
Horrific computer knowledge = shitty pasta.
0/10
This wasn’t bad, the Simpsons is good for this kind of pasta because it already is quite subversive and dark in many ways. I though the dead guest stars bit was needlessly shoehorned in, it could have a better ending in the vein of the rest of the story.
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That was retarded.
I will never sleep again.
Hah, dead bort. It took a while to get here, though.
Not gonna lie, the “lost episode” thing is an instant killer for me. The first paragraph had me writhing in agony.
That being said, it turned out okay. Some parts were a bit silly, like Bart’s body showing up everywhere, but it wasn’t actually painful to read and the ending was a little unnerving.
Considering the pastas that have been showing up recently, 7/10.
THEN WHO WAS PLANE?!
This idea got kind of dull after the Suicide Mouse and Squidward’s Suicide stories (which in my opinion were better). I mean, it was ok, but it’s just another ‘Oh, let’s write a story about a freaky missing episode from a popular cartoon series!’.
6/10 for effort.
Decent idea, but not that amazing.
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let me parrot what everyone else was saying, this is just like suicide mouse. Except I thought suicide mouse was generally creepy and disturbing (if obviously fake) and if I saw some animation for this story I don’t think I could take it seriously enough. I mean… it’s the simpsons.
All lost episode pasta is lame and overdone at this point, especially since this one in particular has been forced to hell and back.
Not Bad.
It was alright.Not overly interesting.
What is this crap doing here? It’s not even scary! Boring.
there’s a real scene in Bomber Mouse, an old black and white UK toon that’s pretty hard to find. In episode 12: Base Rat, the main character Albert the Mouse is stationed on a war base in Africa. He’s terrified of the German army, so he runs when he hears thunder thinking it’s germany guns or tanks. He stumbles down the beach holding on to his helmet, and stumbles over a genie bottle. He rubs it, poof, genie comes out. Anyhow, they talk about how he can make one wish, and he keeps thinking out loud about wanting the war to be over. Then the genie finally shouts “MAKE YOUR WISH!” Of course, Albert wishes for all the cheese he can eat. However, when the genie shouts “Make your wish,” he’s not looking at Albert. He’s “looking” toward the screen, the viewer. They say if you make a wish just at that moment, whatever you wish for will come true, with twisted results (just like in the book the Monkey’s Paw). I saw the cartoon once when I was a boy, but never caught on and didn’t make a wish or anything of the sort. However, since hearing the story, I’ve always wanted to see it again. It’s hard to find.
I GUESS MAT GROENING HAD
A
PSYCHOTIC EPISODE
THERE
HUH
Hmm, I haven’t even heard of “Suicide Mouse” or “Squidward’s Suicide” before. So this pasta gets a 8/10.
Then who was end of the world?
Meh, old concept, but a pretty good execution.
Okay, as much as these Lost Episode pastas are overdone, I sort of like them for some odd reason.
I’ve read mostly all of them, but a Family Guy one? Somebody tell me where to find that one. And the one about Spongebob other than Squidward’s Suicide.
Having grown up watching The Simpsons this is pretty creepy.
Much better than the average creepypasta.
Not gonna try to lie, I was slightly creeped. Probably because I’ve never seen an episode of The Simpsons. And I’m a huge Beatles fan. Sors.
I’ve read this so many times on /b/ and /x/ that’s its not even funny. Shame on you for posting this PHONE. >.<
I agree, this is failpasta.
1.) Virus is the “worst ever,” included in the file, but mysteriously disappears with a simple reboot? That’s not that bad, really.
2.) Photorealistic cliche.
3.) Nothing really happens. Just crying and blah blah. There’s no hook.
4.) Apocalypse implication cliche.
Old pasta is old. Srsly. I read this on /x/ like 2 years ago.
Seen the Dead Bart ‘clip’ before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy-4wUhIocA
It’s just a poorly re-acted skit from a Spanish show, Cruz y Raya, hence the lack of sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJzE8SWWGoA
Who knew a whole Pasta could be written regarding it?
And the vivid description of the episode sure is creepy, I’ll give you that(though, frankly: “almost photo-realistic drawing of his dead body”? Was anything ever nearly photo-realistic in the Simpsons, moving or not? That’s pretty pointless.) But, as with lots of other pastas, the ending can wither make it or break it. This one is broken by an ending paragraph that seems to have been coined in a hurry.
+1
I would say this is only creepy if you have a vivid imagination
ded bort
A few gripes.
First off, I didn’t really think that a Simpsons based pasta was going to be all that good in the first place, and I happened to be right, based on what Ahmenthi said about it being overdone and forced to hell and back, and this:
How do you play a movie file on a crashed computer that is wiped completely blank? Wouldn’t that rid you of any means to play the movie?
Please try something different next time.
–Char Mander
First, I have to say I’m honored that my story got officially posted on this site. While I certainly don’t mind criticism, I do feel a need to clarify that this story was written in January, when, as far as I’m aware, Suicide Mouse was the only similar lost episode Creepypasta (Candle Cove was also a direct inspiration, but people don’t seem to connect it to the lost episode genre like I do), so it’s not really fair to call the story a tired cliche of the lost episode sub-genre.
all the ppl whining about how there are better stories on the forums are giving me visions of butthurt
maybe your stories arent as good as u think they are???
One thing that would have made this story better is if it didn’t have the whole “It even had the dates for the celebrities who have died later” crap. If it would of just stayed for the same date, it would seem more scary, like a serial killer that would’ve killed them if they had not died before, and he was just planning something for the rest of them. I dunno, that’s just my opinion.
I enjoyed it. I think that the way the fake episode is described could have been a little more credible, however.
I also agree with the whole “I DLed it and it destroyed my computer BUT i made a CD first” thing not being very believable. There are some extra details there which make the story less credible not more – might as well just remove them.
With some edits, this story could be pretty solid.
This is so fake, why would Matt Groening want to kill of Bart anyway?!
I don’t much like this one, and I don’t have a particularly good reason. It’s mostly just that linking this with The Simpsons of all things doesn’t really sit right with me.
@Waave: No, that wouldn’t make it better. Even more than it featuring graves for guest stars that hadn’t yet appeared or were unknown at the time, what really sells it as “something unnatural”, rather than a weird coincidence… at least from my perspective.
That was disturbing.
I LOVE IT!
Well thank God I’ve never guest starred on the Simpsons.
yo man, youtube this shit, its realll
Herp Durp, implying anyone ever thought it was real.
yea this is almost the exact plot of a movie. They think this woman is crasy and then they realize her “insane” writting predicted all the major desasters and # or deths for like a long time and the last one said sometyhing that they later realize means everyone else and the world ends on that day
Hey Jax, I haven’t seen any of your stories on the forums, let alone the main site. What’s the proverb? If you’ve got nothing to say, go shove your hand up your ass until it comes out your mouth? Something like that.
EDIT Nothing POSITIVE to say
wait, r all these stories real? or fake?
btw this is my first time on this website
@emma – oh man, have you seen the crazy conspiracy theories about “Knowing”?? Ever since someone noticed that one of the news reports in the background of one of the scenes is talking about an oil rig catching fire in the Gulf of Mexico, the crazies have been all over it. It’s awesome.
What is it about “lost episode” pastas that compels the author to say that the particular episode had poor animation or art? I can’t imagine bad animation actually being scary in real life.
If your computer was empty, what software did you use to watch the Simpsons episode?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Sigh, people that know anything about computers can pick that story apart within seconds.
‘Once the file was downloaded, my computer went crazy, it was the worst virus I had ever seen. System restore didn’t work, the entire computer had to be rebooted. Before doing this though, I copied the file onto a CD. I tried to open it on my now empty computer’
After reading the rest of the CP, I assume the file was a video file, I’ve never heard of an eg. .wmv somehow giving you a virus…
How would the computer go ‘crazy’ without you actually opening it?
It was the worst virus you’d ever seen, and yet you managed to copy it to a CD?
System restore didn’t work, you had to turn the computer off and on… Wait, what?
And how did you open this video on an ‘empty computer’?
Alright, I digress.
i just wanked over that
I found this pretty good up until the third act.
Not very well constructed. I’ve met Matt and asked about a lost episode type thing before and got no reaction. He just said that to his knowledge, there were no missing episodes. So … 1.5/10
This was one of the first pastas i read and it was quite nice, really felt creepy but there area few points that ruin it at least a bit.
The ending of course or the mysterious super computer virus was quite overblown. It’s actually nice if such stories try to remain OFF the supernatural and are just plain “wrong” so to say.
This is aimed more towards sadness and hopelessness then horror imo, atleast that’s what I got from reading it, I liked this pasta for it’s general “all hope is lost” feeling rather then horror, honestly when it came to the part where springfield is completely deserted it felt kind of dark and bleak, good read tough but not what I call creepy.
I dont get it. You should give the browser so we can say if its true lmao.Jk. i would give the browser because i wanted to freak peepz out HAH.
I actually fully dont understand this story at all can someone please explain it to me…
A variation of this story would make a great Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episode.
A variation of this story would make a great Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episode.
Wait if it has the dates that the guest stars died on then how do they all have the same date?
That was actually pretty creepy. The guest stars dying on the same date maybe suggests some kind of apocalypse or something, or maybe it’s just a lazy ending. I’d rather watch this than any Simpsons episode from the last decade anyway.
what the fuck is this shit. the start wa s good and i actually thought the ending would ~creep me out~ butyou just made we wanna baw when you mentioned george harrison’s death. why. ;____;
I find this pasta fucked up and derranged and i am not going to sleep tonight! 0_0 thanks alot ass hole
i agree with GOSSIPS. this was all bullshit and it seems so fucking fake.
I can confirm that this is from GameFAQs like a previous commentor. Though I wasn’t on the Cartoon board when this was posted, I recognized the “KI Simpson” screen name from GameFAQs. He used to troll the GameCube boards in like 2004 and still posts on scattered boards today. Had no idea that his screen name actually pertained to The Simpsons.
DOD BERT
I agree with previous replies… if you don\’t know much about computers, please don\’t try to write about them. That bit ruined the pasta for me. I\’m pretty sure you meant \"reformat\" when you said \"reboot\". A reboot is just turning the computer on and off again. It works okay for minor errors. A reformat is completely wiping the system and starting from scratch.
It would have been cool if the \"virus\" possessed the PC, maybe made the monitor go haywire and flip through all sorts of colors and patterns (and maybe you see some creepy things in the randomness) or maybe if the screen went completely black and just started printing seemingly random numbers (which turn out to be the dated carved into the tombstones).If the \"virus\" is supernatural, you can go nuts with symptoms.
As for the animation, if the entire thing was created by just Groening that would explain the low-quality animation. Look at the early episodes from the Tracy Ulman show, that\’s what I pictured. Also, when he described the \"photo-realistic\" shot of Bart, I pictured the way they used to do it on the old Ren & Stimpy show, where all of a sudden they\’d cut to a brief shot of like a big fat guy and it was so detailed you could see the pores on his hairy belly and the boogers coming out of his nose.
Anyway, pasta had a lot of potential, but overall ruined by the poor writing. 4/10
I don’t get this website? Are these stories all made up, or are they claimed to be true?
To the guy above me: LURK MOAR
and watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koBdTGu58Wc
BORT DED.
Lol, whaaaat.
It seems like it was written by a Simpsons obsessed person… as though a character in a cartoon dying is really horrifying. I think they care too much about fictional characters and seem to think we all do too.
My reaction just keeps coming back to just… Whaaat?
this was OKAY, at best. i thought it was pretty creppy until they got to the stupid cemetary, where barts body is there. the other thing that killed it is the celebrity tombstones. spongebob one was better. 6/10
If this is real I would like the link. I don’t care what it’s like and as the saying goes I’ll only believe it when I see it. I love the simpsons and I can guess it was one of the really old episodes. So I would appreciate it if I had the official link. I WILL do a system restore too and basically i’ll burn it on a disk myself. So please send me a link if it’s true.
DRORD BRORP
holy shit this is crazy!
A very enjoyable creepy pasta since I grew up watching The Simpsons.
9/10
This story was stupid. 0/10
You people need to get out of the house more often.
DED BWORT
I will never look at the simpsons in the same way ever again.
For those looking for the other spongebob one; it’s called spongecry.avi
¡Ay, caramba!
I kinda liked this one… But I feel like the whole ‘suicide mouse’ thing was a bit more powerful, if only because it was accompanied by a video to go with it ;3
GET OUT BART IM GHOST!
Haunting U
Ok so im confused. Is the horror or twist part of this whole pasta that there all dying the same date? Why is Matt Groening all sad? Is it, because he plans On killing them all? Or somehow knows the Date of the apocalypse. Im confused Explain!!!!!
I Think the Creepy Part of the Story is that at the Cemetery, They had the Dates of Famous People on the Tombstones of when they Died, SO Pretty Much Matt Predicted Deaths :/
5/10
Uh. Yeah. This is quite obviously a very poor rip off of Squidward’s Suicide. Realistic-looking death? Non-stop, progressive crying? Please for the love of God learn how to be original. Not to mention this just wasn’t very realistic at all. Squidward’s Suicide at least was well written enough to make it sound like it could have been true.
I liked it..
I liked it…