# Dead Bart Dead Bart is a 2010 creepypasta that claims a lost Simpsons episode exists in which Bart Simpson dies after being sucked out of an airplane. The story was posted anonymously on GameFAQs and became one of the most recognized Simpsons-themed internet horror tales, spawning YouTube recreations and explainer videos. ## Overview Dead Bart is a creepypasta framed as a first-person account of watching a lost episode of The Simpsons in which Bart Simpson dies[1]. The narrator claims Matt Groening handed them the tape personally and grew visibly nervous when the episode was mentioned, a setup borrowed from the earlier Suicide Mouse lost-media format[2]. What sets Dead Bart apart from other Simpsons hoaxes is a specific chilling detail at the end of the supposed episode: a tombstone sequence listing real Simpsons guest stars, with accurate death dates for those who had already passed away and a single shared future date for the ones still alive[3]. That gimmick, part predictive-death list and part cursed-object trope, became the piece of the story fans quoted most often when Mashable and other outlets later cataloged the tale as a hoax[4]. ## How It Spread After the GameFAQs post, Dead Bart migrated onto the Creepypasta wiki and got its own entry on TV Tropes, giving it a permanent home outside the original forum thread[3]. A YouTube user called creepypaste uploaded a recreation on December 2, 2012 that pitched itself as leaked evidence and pulled in more than 62,000 views[1]. Explainer videos did most of the work carrying the story to a wider audience. ScareTheater's breakdown, posted May 21, 2015, gathered over 282,000 views, and ChannelFrederator's July 20, 2017 explainer passed 700,000 views[6]. Mainstream press covered the piece too: Mashable grouped it into a 2014 roundup of Simpsons fan theories and called it an absurd fan theory[4], while SyFy ran a piece asking whether a real long-lost episode where Bart dies could exist and concluded it could not[5]. The creepypasta was debunked repeatedly but stayed in circulation as one of the better-known Simpsons lost-episode hoaxes, alongside Squidward's Suicide and Suicide Mouse in the informal canon of animation creepypastas[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Dead Bart? Dead Bart is a 2010 creepypasta describing a fake lost episode of The Simpsons in which Bart is sucked out of an airplane and dies, with the credits showing tombstones for real Simpsons guest stars[1]. ### Where did Dead Bart come from? It was posted on the GameFAQs Cartoons and Animation board on January 19, 2010 by a user named KI Simpson, inside a thread about the Suicide Mouse creepypasta[3]. ### What does Dead Bart mean? The story functions as a lost-media horror tale that plays on Simpsons fandom, using a fake Matt Groening endorsement and a predictive tombstone gag to sell the idea of a cursed unaired episode[4]. ### How do you use Dead Bart? People share the original text, link the Creepypasta wiki entry, or point to explainer videos like ScareTheater and ChannelFrederator when discussing famous Simpsons hoaxes[6]. ### Is Dead Bart still popular? It is a classic lost-episode creepypasta rather than a currently trending meme, but the ChannelFrederator explainer alone has pulled over 700,000 views since 2017 and the story is still catalogued on the Creepypasta wiki and TV Tropes[3]. ## References 1. [https://mashable.com/2014/08/24/simpsons-fan-theories/]() 2. [https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Dead_Bart]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dead-bart]() 4. [https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/is-there-a-really-a-long-lost-simpsons-episode-where-bart-dies]() 5. [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebOriginal/DeadBart]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtt38rb1MhI]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/dead-bart Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library