MoneyBart (10 Oct. 2010)

Lisa takes over as manager of Bart's baseball team and uses statistical analysis to build a winner, but she takes all of the fun out of it and causes Bart to quit the team.

Director:

Nancy Kruse

Writers:

Matt Groening (creator), James L. Brooks (developer),

Stars:

Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright

Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
Dan Castellaneta	...	Homer Simpson (voice)
Julie Kavner	...	Marge Simpson (voice)
Nancy Cartwright	...	Bart Simpson / Nelson Muntz / Ralph Wiggum (voice)
Yeardley Smith	...	Lisa Simpson (voice)
Hank Azaria	...	Moe Szyslak / Professor Frink / Superintendant Chalmers (voice)
Harry Shearer	...	Ned Flanders / Principal Skinner / Baseball Announcer (voice)
Bill James	...	Himself (voice)
Mike Scioscia	...	Himself (voice)
Pamela Hayden	...	Milhouse Van Houten (voice)
Tress MacNeille	...	Dalia Brinkley (voice)
Karl Wiedergott	...	Additional voices (voice)

Storyline

A visit by a Springfield Elementary alum-turned-Ivy-League student pushes Lisa to question her own go-getter attitude and reevaluate the scope of her extracurricular activities. Convinced that there is no such thing as having too many clubs or activities listed on her resume, Lisa jumps at the opportunity to coach Bart's little league team. Despite having little understanding of baseball, Lisa coaches the team to a record winning streak by putting her book smarts in statistics and probability into play. But when Bart questions Lisa's coaching tactics and confronts her for taking the fun out of baseball, Lisa benches him from the championship game. Hoping to lift his spirits, Marge spends the day with Bart at an amusement park where MLB manager and former catcher Mike Scioscia gives Bart sound advice and reminds him of his genuine love of the sport. Meanwhile, with one last chance to win the game, Lisa makes an unexpected call and learns that there is more to sports than winning.

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Plot Keywords:

2d animation

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 October 2010 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox Television, Akom Production Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Dolby (Dolby Surround)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The episode's title is based upon the book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" by Michael Lewis. The book is about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and the team's modernized, analytical, saber-metric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team.

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Goofs

Professor Frink argued that Zack Greinke is better than Cliff Lee in a certain situation: before the fourth inning, after a road loss, in a domed stadium. In reality, Greinke has a 6.00 ERA in six such games between 2008 and 2010. Cliff Lee's ERA in six such games is 0.00.

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Quotes

Nelson Muntz: She can do the kind of math that has letters. Watch. What's X, Lisa?
Lisa Simpson: Well, that depends...
Nelson Muntz: Sorry. She did it yesterday.

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Connections

References The Matrix (1999)

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Soundtracks

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
(uncredited)
Music by Albert von Tilzer

User Reviews

Good episode and a lot of people are exaggerating over Bankskys opening,

MoneyBart is a great Simpsons episode and its a good example for sibling rivalry,I also think that everyone is exaggerating over Bankskys opening couch gag in the sweat shop,its just a cartoon people.

When Lisa meets a past pupil of Springfield Elementary who is the only person to attend that school that got into Yale,Principal Skinner assumes that the reason she got into Yale was because of all the clubs she was in so Lisa does the same thing,but her and Bart get into some sibling rivalry when she becomes the coach for Barts baseball team.

9/10

-DILLON HARRIS