The Complete History of El Barto – The Simpsons

Today's complete history revolves around the mysterious EL Barto. Springfield's most notorious vandal. We will explore his beginnings, his favorite spray painting targets and the cat and mouse game between Bart Simpson and Police Chief Wiggum. And we will examine how it affected his future. Lets have some fun, this is the complete history of El Barto!

Hello YouTube, I can't quite recall where the idea for this Complete Simpsons History came from, but I think it turned out quite well. Before I began researching for the video, I had no idea that El Barto was such an essential part of Bart's identity. One thing that really surprised me was that there wasn't more grafitti hidden amongst the episodes! Though I'm sure I've missed lots, they aren't exactly easy to find when there are 700+ episodes to comb through lol. Anyways this was a lot of fun putting together, what complete history would you like to see next?

List of Episodes Used (Video + Audio)(43):
S01E02 - Bart the Genius
S01E03 - Homer's Odyssey
S01E06 - Moaning Lisa
S02E02 - Simpson and Delilah
S02E07 - Bart vs. Thanksgiving
S02E14 - Principal Charming
S02E18 - Brush with Greatness
S03E06 - Like Father, Like Clown
S04E06 - Itchy & Scratchy The Movie
S04E12 - Marge vs. the Monorail
S04E18 - So It's Come to This A Simpsons Clip Show
S05E01 - Homer's Barbershop Quartet
S05E02 - Cape Feare
S06E06 - Treehouse of Horror V
S06E24 - Lemon of Troy
S08E06 - A Milhouse Divided
S08E10 - The Springfield Files
S08E18 - Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment
S08E24 - The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase
S09E07 - The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons
S12E07 - The Great Money Caper
S13E22 - Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge
S14E04 - Large Marge
S14E11 - Barting Over
S14E14 - Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington
S16E09 - Pranksta Rap
S18E03 - Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em
S20E17 - The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly
S21E01 - Homer the Whopper
S23E15 - Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart
S24E10 - A Test Before Trying
S26E07 - Blazed and Confused
S26E11 - Bart's New Friend
S27E09 - Barthood
S27E14 - Gal of Constant Sorrow
S28E07 - Havana Wild Weekend
S28E09 - The Last Traction Hero
S28E11 - Pork and Burns
S30E18 - Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy
S30E21 - D'oh Canada
S32E03 - Now Museum, Now You Don't
S34E01 - Habeas Tortoise
S34E06 - Treehouse of Horror XXXIII
+ Lots of screenshots and photoshop work not mentioned

Thank you and as always, please enjoy!

[James_D.]

I still don’t believe that Bart is El Barto. Next, you gonna say Bart is Bartman. 😂

[LeoDamascusVG]

Hold on... Chief Wiggum took 23 years to catch El Barto, an artist who's been tagging the streets of Springfield for that entire time, and his culprit is a 10 year old boy? I think maybe Bart has a pretty strong alibi to get out of this

[jacobaobert]

I'm still waiting for all the times Poochy appeared after he died on his say back to his home planet, even though Krusty presented a signed affidavit stating he would never EVER return.

[BlackCover]

0:13 I see what you did there.
2:36 And there.

[KaitaoftheFourze]

How about Mona Simpson for the future video?

[deskish]

your editing skills with all the character inserts are just excellent

[Porpolhot]

I think my favorite is where bart became L.lawliet in the death note parody

[troperhghar]

Skinner: you burned your name into the grass
Bart: maybe it was one of the other barts
Skinner: THERE ARENT ANY OTHER BARTS


And thus El Barto was born

[usermcskull]

There was one Simpsons comic where Bart framed Snake for being El Barto

[pinkgirl]

I'd like a video about the mystery on how the Springfield citizens remained the same age for years. Based on the fact that in the crossover with Family Guy, Stewie asks Bart how long Nelson has been bullying him, to which Bart responds with "24 years". If that's the case, then how are Bart and his classmates all still in elementary school for over 700 episodes?

[borntoclimb]

El Barto is a true legendy tag. Nice Video.

[SlyFrye]

6:39 there is no way he could have stored his gun there. lol

[Made_In_Heaven]

I liked the comic where Bart and Grampa team up and started tagging the whole town together that should have been an actual episode

[ranchosdelnorte]

Am I the only who noticed the little skinhead with a knife behind Skinner at 2:59

[lhfirex]

I enjoyed this history. Fun and reminds me that El Barto is something they haven't screwed up, not even in the zombie era.
If there's enough material for it, a history of Capital City would be interesting. It was presented as this big deal in the early seasons, then it kinda vanished until season 9's The Principal and the Pauper, and I'm not sure if there are more mentions of it in later years.

[machoman]

2:07 looks like Chief Wiggum started using the same hair dye that Marge uses after this.

[i.m.]

1:12 Wait a second, didn't Marge paint that for Homer?

That boat painting is maybe another Simpsons mystery which needs to be solved 🤔

[DanBen]

It's also on some DVD season box sets if you go to language and audio features then a menu comes up with different options than if you click one you get another menu you get different menus one of them bart spray paints in different languages.

[shanecharrette]

What about a video about Ralph Wiggum Jr. and his smart intelligence history?

[ADTribalChild]

The legend of *El Barto* lives on! But seriously, from someone who grew up on The Simpsons I must say this video is brilliant! Even though I've stopped watching in the not too distant past, you really put allot of care into this video (and bonus points pointing out a continuity loophole that is Homer's brain damage). Well done!