The Simpsons Bart Sells His Soul (1989– ) watch online HD

Following this story, young people across the country began selling scraps of paper to each other upon which they had inscribed their names and souls.

When the church congregation is singing along with "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", as time passes a subtitle appears reading "seventeen minutes later." That song actually does run just over seventeen minutes long.

The scene where Milhouse buys Bart's soul is very similar to the scene in Faust, where Mephistopheles buys Faust's soul. Milhouse even has the same joviality that Mephistopheles had during the same transaction.

Itchy dropping the penny from the Seattle Space Needle refers to a Matt Groening "Life in Hell" cartoon, where he got lambasted for incorrectly stating that a penny dropped from the Empire State Building would embed itself into the pavement.

The manual that Moe is reading on operating a restaurant has the name "Fuddrucker" as one of the authors. Fuddruckers is a popular chain of family restaurants, which also has many if the same decorating schemes that Moe uses in his bar.

Another similarity to Faust is that Bart, like Dr. Faust, is convinced that he got the best of the bargain.

Greg Daniels originally had an idea for a plot that dealt with racism in Springfield. The writers did not think the show was the right forum for it, so Daniels suggested the idea of selling someone's soul, which originated in his childhood.

In high school, Greg Daniels encouraged a bully to sell him his soul for 50 cents, and then convinced classmates to frighten the bully into buying his soul back for an inflated price. Daniels repeated this ploy, but stopped when he realized that the only other person in history who has profited off others' souls was Satan, and that "scared" him.

In the opening scene of the episode, the congregation of the First Church of Springfield are tricked into singing "In a Gadda Da Vida" by Iron Butterfly. Greg Daniels had originally intended for the song to be "Jesus He Knows Me" by Genesis, but the producers were unable to obtain the rights for it to be featured in the episode.

Josh Weinstein recalled that there was contention between the animators about the way Moe looked in the episode. Moe's original design includes a missing tooth, but Weinstein and Bill Oakley felt that it did not "look right" because Moe was such a prominent character in the episode. Wesley Archer showed the original design of Moe from the first season to the show runners, and said: "Here, look. He's got a missing tooth!", but the scenes that had Moe with a missing tooth in them were still reanimated.

The episode has been used in church courses about the nature of a soul in Connecticut, and in the United Kingdom, and was shown by a minister in Scotland in one of his sermons. A 2005 report on religious education in secondary schools, by the United Kingdom education regulator Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted), noted that the episode was being used as a teaching tool.

The shot of Bart screaming after his nightmare is stock footage taken from Die Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror II (1991) with Lisa removed.

Bart's prayer, "Are you there, God? It's me, Bart Simpson," is a reference to the young adult novel, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume.

When Ned Flanders says, "Well, I expect that type of language at Denny's, but not here!", it is a reference to Denny's racial discrimination lawsuit in the early 1990s, in which African-American customers were refused service, forced to wait longer, or charged more for their meals than white customers.

This was the second episode to have Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein as executive producers. Oakley and Weinstein wanted to start the season with episodes that had an emotional bias in an effort to center the Simpson family.

This episode is notable for featuring the Seven Deadly Sins:

• Lust: Homer and Marge remember making out to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (In the Garden of Eden) and everyone in church looking sweaty and disheveled as if they just had sex.
• Gluttony: When Moe is converting his bar into a restaurant, he acquires a gigantic deep-fat fryer, claiming it can deep-fry a buffalo in forty seconds, to which Homer grouses, "Oh, I want it now!" Later, Homer gets Bart's meal at Moe's Tavern.
• Greed: Reverend Lovejoy counting church collection money, Milhouse avariciously celebrates owning Bart's soul, saying, "Who's stupid now?" Moe starting a restaurant because restaurants make more money than bars, Homer's brain telling him, "Quiet, you fool! It can be ours!" when Bart leaves his dinner sitting out (see also Gluttony).
• Sloth: Bart and Milhouse slacking off cleaning the organ.
• Wrath: Reverend Lovejoy gets angry at being fooled; Moe screams at a little girl who says her "sodie" is too cold; Bart gets angry at Lisa when she starts praying for everyone's soul.
• Envy: Moe envies the profits of family restaurants. Lisa wants five dollars after Bart tells her he had five dollars. Bart envies the kids in his dream for their souls.
• Pride: Bart being too proud to believe he has a soul - until all of the strange things happen that make him believe that he really did lose it.

Wesley Archer and his team of animators went to the restaurant chain Chili's to get inspiration for the background designs of Moe's family restaurant. He said it was "quite a task" to transform Moe's Tavern into a family-oriented establishment. Archer added that he was not "quite happy" with the result, and that they could have designed it "a little better".

Wesley Archer was disappointed with the dream sequence in which Bart sees his friends playing with their souls. Archer said that he had forgotten to tell the animators to make the souls transparent, so they were painted blue instead.

In a 2005 interview Matt Groening commented "I don't have a single favorite. There's a bunch I really like", but cited this and Die Simpsons: Homer's Enemy (1997) as among episodes he loves.

Nancy Cartwright stated this as one of her top three episodes together with Die Simpsons: Lisa's Substitute (1991) and Die Simpsons: Bart the Mother (1998).

Yeardley Smith stated in an interview that this is one of her favorite episodes along with Die Simpsons: Girly Edition (1998).

The Raving Derelict acts and screams gibberish very similar to a character to be introduced two seasons later, Eleanor Abernathy, aka the Crazy Cat Lady.

Comic Book Guy learns Bart Simpson's name in this episode.

Bart wears blue pajamas in this episode instead of his usual green pajamas.

Notably absent from the opening when the congregation is singing "In the Garden of Eden" is the Flanders family. Neither Ned, Maude, Rod, nor Todd can be seen in the congregation, despite the fact that the Flanders family religiously attends church every Sunday. However, Rod and Todd can be seen in the subsequent scene when Reverend Lovejoy is questioning the children about the hymn prank.