Bart's Inner Child

The first part involves Krustie giving Homer a free trampoline. He nearly commits genocide, injuring hundreds of kids. When Marge points out that she was against it, she is seen as a nag. She watches a guy named Goodman, a self-help guru whose advice is to listen to our inner child. He takes Bart out of the audience and Bart becomes the role model for this child. Soon all of Springfield is running amok. Good premise. Lots of great humor including a homage to Wile E. Coyote.

Marge takes the family to see self help guru Brad Goodman.

This is a strong episode with great humour and satire.

I love the early part of the episode with the trampoline related humour, particularly as I have a child who suffered a broken bone as a result us jumping on it together. This is all very relatable to me and full of great sight gags.

The story moves on to become an excellent send up of the phenomenon of self-help workshop, particularly the gullibility of the followers, which is captured so well by the portrayal of Springfield's usual mob mentality.

Albert Brooks is excellent as always in his guest appearance and James Brown has a fun cameo too.