"Burns' Heir" (season 5, episode 18; originally aired 04/14/1994)
When controversial boy-evangelist-turned-hippie-badass Marjoe Gortner left preaching for a career as an actor and pop star, he named his debut LP Bad But Not Evil, an evocative phrase that conveyed that while Gortner realized he had strayed far from the spiritual path of his childhood there was still good in him. He was a charlatan and a charismatic con man and a false idol, but underneath the lies and flash he was a decent human being trying to make the best of the very strange deck life dealt him. Gortner was a bad boy, but he was not an evil man.
The "bad versus evil" distinction is similarly useful when considering the respective legacies of Bart Simpson and Montgomery J. Burns. As has been indelibly established, Bart is a quintessential bad boy, the self-styled Dennis The Menace of the ...
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