The Simpsons: Dark Knight Court


06:10 am - 06:35 am, Sunday, April 19 on Channel 4 +1 (15)

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Dark Knight Court
Season 24, Episode 16

Mr Burns attempts to fulfil his lifelong ambition of becoming a superhero and take down a rogues' gallery of familiar faces, but devoted sidekick Smithers secretly intervenes after noticing his boss isn't quite up to the challenge. Lisa steps in as Bart's attorney when he is falsely accused of pulling an Easter prank


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Animated Movie/Drama Comedy Movie/Drama Sitcom

Cast & Crew

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Yeardley Smith (Actor) .. Lisa Simpson
Nancy Cartwright (Actor) .. Bart Simpson
Harry Shearer (Actor) .. Mr Burns/Smithers

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Did You Know..

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Yeardley Smith (Actor) .. Lisa Simpson
Born: July 03, 1964 in Paris, France
Best Known For: Being the voice of Lisa Simpson.
Early-life: Born Martha Maria Yeardley Smith on July 3, 1964 in Paris, France. Yeardley and her family moved with her father's job to the United States in 1966. When she was a child, she was often teased for her high-pitched, nasal voice. Yeardley made her acting debut in a sixth grade play. After graduating from high school, she apprenticed at Arena Stage and then moved to New York.
Career: Smith appeared in a number of Broadway productions before landing her first film roles in Heaven Help Us (1985) and The Legend of Billie Jean (1985). She moved to Los Angeles in 1986 and landed a recurring role in the TV series Brothers. In 1987, she auditioned for The Simpsons shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. She has voiced Lisa Simpson ever since and the series was spun into a half-hour show in 1989. Away from The Simpsons, Smith played Louise in the sitcom Herman's Head. She has also appeared in such series as Dharma & Greg, Dead Like Me, Mad Men, The Big Bang Theory and The Mindy Project. Her film credits include City Slickers (1991), Jingle All the Way (1996) and As Good as It Gets (1997).
Quote: 'Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenised, and sold off piece by piece.'
Trivia: She won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992 for her work as Lisa Simpson.
Nancy Cartwright (Actor) .. Bart Simpson
Born: October 25, 1957 in Dayton, Ohio
Best Known For: Being the voice of Bart Simpson.
Early-life: Nancy Jean Cartwright was born on October 25, 1957 in Dayton, Ohio, United States and raised in Kettering, Ohio. She discovered her talent for voices at a young age and won a school-wide speech competition with her performance of Rudyard Kipling's How the Camel Got His Hump when she was in fourth grade. Nancy attended Fairmont West High School. She frequently entered public speaking competitions and judges often said she should do cartoon voices. Nancy studied at Ohio University and took a part-time job doing voiceovers on radio adverts. She began corresponding with Hanna-Barbera cartoons voice actor Daws Butler for feedback on her work while at university and transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles to be closer to him and Hollywood.
Career: Cartwright's first professional voice acting role was in the animated series Richie Rich. She went on to appear on-screen in the leading role in TV film Marian Rose White (1982) and her first feature film was Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). In 1987, she auditioned for a role on The Simpsons while it was a series of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. She voiced Bart Simpson for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show and has retained the role ever since The Simpsons became a half-hour show. Cartwright also voices other characters on The Simpsons, including Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum and Todd Flanders. Besides The Simpsons, Cartwright has voiced Chuckie Finster in Rugrats and All Grown Up!, Mindy in Animaniacs, Rufus in Kim Possible and many other characters. She has also appeared on-camera in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, 24, Empty Nest and Godzilla (1998).
Quote: On auditioning for The Simpsons: 'I went in, saw Lisa, and didn't really see anything I could sink my teeth into. But the audition piece for Bart was right there, and I'm like, ‘whoa, 10 years old, under-achiever and proud of it? Yeah, man - that's the one I want to do!'.'
Trivia: She published her autobiography, My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy, in 2000 and adapted it into a one-woman play in 2004.
Harry Shearer (Actor) .. Mr Burns/Smithers

Before / After

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The Simpsons
05:50 am
The Simpsons
06:35 am