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"Doctor, if you just talk to him for five minutes without mentioning our son Bart you'd see how sane he is." - Marge Simpson
"You mean there really is a Bart? Good Lord!" - New Bedlam Psychiatrist
In the before time, in the long long ago, Homer and Bart Simpson didn't like each other. Homer saw Bart as an ungrateful, undisciplined troublemaker who made his life harder than it needed to be; Bart saw Homer as a rather stern authority figure who was hypocritical, inattentive and downright mean. Homer was a bad father and Bart a bad son, but they were stuck with each other and whatever moments of genuine affection that occurred between them were fleeting and infrequent. They weren't outright adversaries, exactly, but they found themselves opposed to each other a lot more often than not.
Gradually that changed; they became fellow travelers out to make a buck or have some fun. Their relationship, which was once so recognizable to a lot of American fathers and American sons, became a television sketch that had no connection to reality: What wacky antics will the inseparable duo get up to this week?
The tension that once existed between them, a tremendously rich comedy vein, has completely dissolved.
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