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The rest of the family are used sparingly but effectively. Watching him torment Vindicators fanboys like Principal Skinner and Comic Book Guy is very entertaining, particularly with the Comic Book Guy scene drawing on Fellowship of the Ring's big Galadriel scene. This is actually one of the better Bart-driven episodes in recent memory. That allows the show to dust off one of the oldest tropes in the Simpsons playbook - Bart being torn between torn between good and evil as he pranks the town - and make it feel fresh again. Instead, 'Bart the Bad Guy' focuses less on superhero movies themselves than the spoiler culture that surrounds them.

The fact this episode spoofs Avengers: Infinity War more so than Endgame shows how long the lead time for these episodes is and how futile it would be to try and be as timely as something like South Park. Heck, The Simpsons isn't even the first animated sitcom to introduce an Avengers ripoff team dubbed The Vindicators ( Rick and Morty says hello). The writers seem to realize that they're hardly the first to lampoon the MCU and the current superhero monoculture. But that clearly wasn't the goal in this case. This episode doesn't really serve as the scathing takedown of the MCU and superhero genre fans might be expecting. 'Bart the Bad Guy' doesn't necessarily stand out in that regard. It's one of the rare areas where you don't immediately get hit with a feeling of 'been there, done that.' The first 10 minutes of 'Husbands and Knives' is among the best Simpsons content of the 21st Century exactly for this reason, giving us classic gags like 'Watchmen Babies in.

I always get a kick out of seeing The Simpsons make fun of superheroes and comic books, mostly because it's not a path the show treads all too often. And if that makes for an unusually strong installment of The Simpsons, so much the better.

The fact that many of the biggest names in the MCU are not only content to be spoofed, but willing to actively participate in said spoofing, suggests that maybe the House of Mouse isn't entirely un-receptive to constructive criticism. With that in mind, it's been refreshing to see the folks in charge of The Simpsons are unafraid to bite the hand that feeds them, making fun of their new corporate overlords at every opportunity. As nice as it is to know the X-Men and Fantastic Four can finally start appearing in the MCU, Disney's recent purchase of 21st Century Fox raises all sorts of concerns about a massive, monolithic corporation becoming that much larger.

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