Wild Barts Can't Be Broken

] The musical argument between kids, adults and seniors is a parody of "Kids" from the play "Bye Bye Birdie". When Lisa is flipping through the radio channels, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech speech can be heard. In the Springfield Elementary School shower-room Homer, Moe, Lenny, and Carl sing Queen's hit song "We Are The Champions". When Cyndi Lauper sings The Star Spangled Banner it is to the tune of her hit song Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. When Lisa changes the frequency of the radio, one of the radio stations plays a speech by Franklin Roosevelt about the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Reception

"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" finished tied for 40th in the weekly ratings for the week of January 11-17, 1998 with a Nielsen rating of 8.9. [cite news|title=60 Minutes II Keeps CBS Ticking in Ratings|date=1999-01-20|accessdate=2008-08-30|page=A2|publisher=Sentinel Communications Co|author=Associated Press|work=Orlando Sentinel] In his review of "The Simpsons"' tenth season, James Plath of Dvdtown.com noted "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" as "pretty decent".cite web|url=http://www.dvdtown.com/reviews/simpsons-the-the-complete-10th-season/5056|title=Simpsons, The: The Complete 10th Season Special Edition|accessdate=2008-08-23|last=Plath|first=James|publisher=Dvdtown.com|date=August 17, 2007] Peter Brown of "If" regards "Lard of the Dance", "", "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", and "" as "some of the best episodes of the season."cite web|url=http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=2288|title=DVDs: What iF Picks: 'ROME THE SECOND SEASON' ONE OF THE TOP 5 DVDs TO OWN FOR AUG. 7, 2007|accessdate=2008-08-23|last=Brown|first=Peter|publisher="If"|date=August 7, 2007] The authors of the book "I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide", Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, wrote that the episode was "a curious unmemorable episode with a good chunk in the middle. Neither the opening with The Isotopes nor the finale with the rather dire song help this one at all, and frankly, if it wasn't for the superb parody of "Village of the Damned", and the kids' revenge by revealing their family's secrets, it'd sink without trace."cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/episodeguide/season10/page10.shtml|title=Secrets of Springfield uncovered.|accessdate=2008-08-23|author=Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation]

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*imdb episode|id=0701296|episode=Wild Barts Can't Be Broken