According to Al Jean in the DVD commentary, this joke was made only because the contract between the 2 companies ended, otherwise they would not have made the joke. Butterfingers are again referenced in the Season 13 episode Sweets and Sour Marge where Chief Wiggum attempts to burn them, but as he puts it 'Even the fire won't take them'.This is an obvious reference to the commercials. In ' Barting Over', after watching the Baby Stinkbreath commercial, Bart says 'I was in a commercial?' and then pulls out a Butterfinger and starts eating it.The same is true of most other post-1996 Simpsons commercials. Moreover, every Butterfinger commercial from the beginning of 1998 onward uses digital ink and paint, whereas the main series wouldn't switch to this method until late 2002. A few commercials aired in 1992 (namely Good VS Evil and One Less Sister) were colored using digital ink and paint instead of cel animation, a rarity for the time.So far, Bart appears in every Butterfinger commercial excluding Plastic Underwear.īart discovers that he has a disease called Butterfingeritis. Butterfinger ' Butterfinger On A Stick'.On September 25th of the same year, Butterfinger issued another 'Who Stole Bart Simpson's Butterfinger' commercial/contest, this time on the web. On April 1, 2013, Butterfinger announced on their Facebook page that Bart Simpson would again be their mascot. The following is high-quality than the VHS versions of these commercials: The Butterfinger Group (1988), Bully - Maggie's Stick (1991), The Karate Lesson (1992), Butterfinger Ice-Cream Bars (1991), Maggie's Party (1992), Bart's Locker (1993), The Raid (1994), The Shrink, Bart's Homework (1994), and Bart's Nightmare (2001). Most of these advertisements have been released on The Simpsons DVD sets as bonus features along with other commercials.Īll Butterfinger commercials were available on iTunes and Netflix. In 1999, this was changed to “Bite My Butterfinger!”, then in 2001, it was changed to 'Nothing Like a Butterfinger!', beginning in 2009, a slightly rewritten version of the 'Nobody better lay a finger' slogan, 'Nobody's gonna lay a finger on my Butterfinger!', was introduced. Each commercial closes with Bart saying the catchphrase, 'Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!'. Many of the commercials featured Homer trying to get Bart's Butterfinger, but would be one-upped by Bart each time. There have been 150 commercials for Butterfinger that aired on Fox, FX and Fox News Channel, which featured The Simpsons beginning in 1988, when America's Most Wanted first aired on Fox before moving to Lifetime in 2011.

“ Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!” ―Bart Simpsonīutterfinger is a popular peanut-butter and chocolate candy bar which was founded in 1923. A typical Butterfinger bar used on commercials from 1991-1998.

Butterfingers! by Malcolm Carrick