Dead Bart
Original Author: KI Simpson
Dead Bart | A Dead Bart Update
The Original Story
The story starts with some background on the episode, detailing how it was made in the early seasons of the show. It was written by creator Matt Groening himself, who was overcome with a sort of morbidity during the creation process. Those who worked with him on the episode avoid any discussion about it, and agressively urge people who are curious not to contact Groening about it. Even the studio wants nothing to do with the episode, as they gave its production number to Moaning Lisa in an attempt to erase its existance. Regardless, there are some people who are aware of the episode.
The main character finally manages to get Groening alone in order to discuss the episode with him. Groening, instead, gives the MC a website link in order to download the episode. Once the MC downloads the episode, their computer is infected with a virus and needs to be factory reset after they put the episode on a disc.
The episode is in poor quality, with an art style similar to the early animation for the partially released original pilot (an early version of Some Enchanted Evening.) The family acts out of character, with Homer being more angry, Marge being depressed, Lisa being anxious, and Bart holding a genuine hatred for his parents. The family goes on a plane trip to an unknown location, and as the plane is taking off Bart fools around too much, breaking a window and being sucked out. He falls to his death, with an intensely detailed image of his corpse. Following this, the episode shows the rest of the family sitting at their kitchen table, crying for an unbearably long segment until it fades out. It fades back in several months later, with Maggie, Snowball, and Santa's Little Helper nowhere to be found, and Marge, Lisa, and Homer still sitting at the table, now severely malnourished. It switches to them trekking through the town, which has become abandoned and dilapidated. They arrive at the cemetary at Bart's grave, with his detailed corpse sitting in front of it. Homer makes a joke, however the audio is too muffled to make out. The episode ends with a shot of Marge, Lisa, and Homer on their couch, now detailed corpses themselves.
Going back, the MC notices that the cemetary is filled with graves of celebrities that made guest appearances on the show. However, several of them had, at that point in time, either not appeared on the show yet or weren't even known at all. Many of them had dates that were accurate to when they passed away. For those who hadn't died yet, all of them had the same death date.
The Update
Later on, the author decided to post an update on the situation. Starting off by saying that the computer they downloaded the episode onto had to be destroyed, as the computer had gained supernatural properties. It never ran out of power, couldn't be muted, and even after several reformattings the episode stayed and would open randomly. The author would have nightmares about the episode, seeing himself at ten years old in the place of Bart.
However, despite all of this, the author still wanted to know more, and continued their research. Asking around on internet forums, he found several people who also knew about the episode, who told him that it did air once somewhere in Portland, Oregon. Thankfully, the author has a cousin who lives there and asked him about the episode. The cousin had remembered it as a nightmare, but once the author showed him proof that the episode was real, the cousin cut off all contact.
Still determined, the author keeps searching and eventually finds a taped recording of the episode for sale. He buys it, along with a burner tv and vcr to watch it with. He and a friend watch the tape, and find more than the episode on it. Commercials containing nightmares only the author knew about, news reports of tragidies that were yet to happen in that time, and CGI animation that was beyond even today's capabilities.
The cherry on top was a final news brodcast, about how millions of people all over the world had passed away in their sleep from unknown causes, with some of them waking up to ramble incoherently about nightmares before dropping dead. The brodcast was dated the same as the tombstones of the guest appearances who hadn't died yet.
The only peice of the episode that was different from the original story, was that Homer's final line was finally able to be heard.
"If only we were all that lucky."
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