Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart

"Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.Season 23
Episode 15
Directed bySteven Dean Moore
Written byMarc Wilmore
Production codePABF09[1]
Original air dateMarch 4, 2012 (2012-03-04)
Guest appearances
Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf, Robbie Conal as themselves
Nicholas McKaig performs over the closing credits
Episode features
Couch gagA spoof of the Game of Thrones opening sequence.
Episode chronology
List of episodes

"Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" is the fifteenth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 501st episode overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 4, 2012. In the episode, Bart is punished by Homer after letting a rabbit loose in the house. He gets revenge on his father by spray-painting images of him with the word "dope" all over Springfield. Street artist Shepard Fairey encounters Bart one night and offers him a gallery show of Bart's artworks. However, Chief Wiggum suddenly appears during the show and arrests Bart for covering the town in graffiti. It turns out that Fairey is an undercover officer working for Wiggum.

The episode references the 2010 street art documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop by graffiti artist Banksy, and features guest appearances from street artists Ron English, Kenny Scharf, and Robbie Conal as themselves. Fairey, who is a long-time fan of The Simpsons, also guest starred in the episode as himself.

Around 5.09 million Americans tuned in to watch "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" during its original broadcast.

Since then, the episode has received praise from television critics for its opening sequence, which parodies the opening sequence of the medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones.


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