1990: BART SIMPSON
WHAT WE SAID THEN ''Bart has joked his way into the kind of celebrity of which mere humans can only dream. He has his own series. His own album. His own rock video. A lucrative gig in commercials.... And, naturally, scandals — from a TV nude scene in which Bart bolted from a bathtub to a cause celebre that flamed up with Orange County, Calif., school officials who had collective cows when kids wore Bart T-shirts with the slogan 'Underachiever — And Proud of It.' They may have had a point, albeit an ironic one. In 1990, underachieving seemed to be the only thing Bart didn't do.'' —Mark Harris
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