Top 5 Times in The Simpsons and Beyond Gave Out Penancing Repercussions “Morally Strict and Disciplining”

Nathaniel Rego
4 min readDec 6, 2023

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5: Marge Stalks Bart Via Hidden Cam Built Into Actor’s Cellphone and GPS — The Simpsons: Marge Knows Best

Finding about Milhouse and Bart having gotten their hands actor Dennis Leary’s cell phone by accident somehow that they use em to prank him until busted by Marge personally, she is advised by Leary (voice dby himself) over the phone to secretly stalk and eye Bart remotely out of “morally reaosnble cause” for very good parenting or so they think. She does just this after giving Bart back his phone via the actor’s then-former’s built in GPS tracking chip and software, allowing Marge to do more harm for him than good by intercepting Bart every step of the way, from Bart playing at a construction site to him seeing R-rated horror films to Bart seeing a horse race while feeding on booze despite being a minor. In a way, minus, gender-related spying, Marge is alternately enacting voyeurism on her own child out of overprotective oppression and unjust “parental guidance.” It serves her right when Bart finding this out from Lisa attaches the phone chip to the ankle of a foreign bird to drive them away for a few days. AND, with very good reason at this.

4: Sent to Boot Camp by Her Putridly Betraying Parent(s) — The Proud Family

In the episode, Diary of a Gross Gal, Penny Proud goes undercover as the newcoming bully at her school allied with the Gross Sisters for moral journalism-based reasons but it lands her almost in hot water with her friends and family when she nearly takes it too far. After fruitlessly amending her friends after being somehow found out by the Gross Sisters, Penny returns home to amend her parents. But to make matters worse for her only, unlike Trudy, Oscar, and Suga Mama at the last minute insist on sending her unjustly to Boot Camp regardless of her then-instant reformation and Trudy’s protests. The wicked ole warden of the said death camp for juvenile offenders ambushes Penny at the time and sends her coldly there with him per Oscar and Suga Mama’s oppressive and discaring request. Tortured mentally and physically at the camp, Penny escapes shortly after (despite priorly entertaining the watch tower security guard via shadow puppets projected by her in his central spotlight). If Oscar and Suga Mama had at least accepted and reconciled with Penny, as Trudy has, she would not have been that oppressive situation.

3: Unfairly Penalized for a Clown-Themed Prank — random episode

After Bart is in court for clown-pranking bypassing citizens and defiling Crusty’s well-known rep blindly in the putrid process, the judge declares leniency but Marge then protests that he is to be “disciplined” for his actions. That means sending him to a rancidly corrupt reformation center per her resulting oppressive order(s) to the judge and Bart ends up indicted at the facility for all the wrong reasons.

2: Unjustly Barring, Disowning, and Disinviting Josh and Drake from his Birthday — Drake and Josh

In the infamous episode, Happy Bar Day, Morgan, Drake and Josh’s friend, invite the guys to his birthday gathering on MTV. But it does not last when Drake unknowingly makes out with his girl soon afterward. Seeing this as a foul betrayal from him and his gal, while seeing Josh as guilty of it as Drake, not only does he unfairly dump her but also, he unjustly bars and disinvites Drake form his birthday, right before wrongfully doing so to Josh, despite his intent on not getting wrongfully involved and with such very good reason (whether or not it intended morally defending Drake). The guys try amend and have Morgan reinvite them on the evening of the event on MTV via a photo of the Beatles for his birthday but he sternly and stubbornly refuses to reconcile with and un-disinvite them to his event to their common dismay.

1: Falsely Penalizing Dustin Brooks Through Vile Voicemail — Zoey 101

In the episode, Anger Management, while Dustin struggles to uphold his loyalty as both Logan’s friend and personal aid, Logan yet betrays his trust viciously by leaving a very vile voicemail message to the poor and innocent adolescent boy. He even ends with calling em an idiot. In his sickening and angrily deluded mind, it is his way of unjustly punishing Dustin secretly for his so-called laziness and supposed disobedience at the cost of his rep at PCA. Dustin reports it to Zoey and others and they turn the tables on Logan by throwing him under the bus via a loudly expanded audible version of that dreadful voicemail that Logan has left Dustin in the first place. Although Logan did not want anyone else, not even Dustin, to hear it, Principal/Dean Rivers scolds and confronts him for it as most/all of PCA and the rest of the US has heard it since. It is even all over the internet. Rivers enacts fair penance upon Logan by sentencing and enrolling him in a 10-week therapy class specializing in anger management despite Logan’s foul protests. It surely serves Logan for foully leaving such a viciously vile voicemail to an innocent juvie like Dustin.

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Nathaniel Rego

I have autism. I am majoring in media and comm at Bridgewater State U. I also work part-time at Walgreens on Wednesdays and Thursdays.