Bart Gets an "F" - S02E01

Season 2 of Donuts on the Couch: Growing Up on Evergreen Terrace begins with “Bart Gets an ‘F,’” an episode that finds Bart facing the unthinkable: actually having to study. Andrew and Thom revisit Bart’s increasingly desperate attempts to avoid failing the fourth grade, from bluffing his way through a book report to recruiting Martin Prince as a study partner—and getting thoroughly distracted along the way.They also look at the episode through adult and parental eyes, talking about school struggles, shame, the questionable wisdom of Springfield’s school psychiatrist, and what it means when kids are genuinely trying but still falling short. Plus: childhood arcade memories, “Big Gorilla Night,” soup skin, Bart’s refrigerator art, and one of the show’s earliest genuinely moving endings.