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An academically brilliant teacher's pet with the typical geek enthusiasms for science fiction, role playing games, and appalling dress sense. A perfect target, in other words, for Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, and Jimbo Jones, to pick on ruthlessly - and with Martin's fawning behaviour towards adults and condescension towards his peers many watchers of the show cheer his tormentors on. |
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Martin Prince (voiced by [Russi Taylor]?) is an academically brilliant teacher's pet with the typical geek enthusiasms for science fiction, role playing games, and appalling dress sense. A perfect target, in other words, for Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, and Jimbo Jones, to pick on ruthlessly--and with Martin's fawning behaviour towards adults and condescension towards his peers many watchers of the show cheer his tormentors on. |
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One of his more notable appearances is in an episode where Bart takes him on for the class presidency. Martin, of course, has a comprehensive (though not particularly politically well-judged) platform that Bart, with the aid of Homer, picks apart with populist nonsense. In a debate, Martin begins to speak of the high level of asbestos (a carcinogenic material used as insulation in many schools and other buildings before its dangers were known - its removal is tedious, expensive, but necessary) in the classrooms. Bart interrupts and says "We want . . . MORE ASBESTOS, MORE ASBESTOS" leaving the entire class chanting this arrant nonsense. |
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One of his more notable appearances is in an episode where Bart takes him on for the class presidency. Martin, of course, has a comprehensive (though not particularly politically well-judged) platform that Bart, with the aid of Homer, picks apart with populist nonsense. In a debate, Martin begins to speak of the high level of asbestos (a carcinogenic material used as insulation in many schools and other buildings before its dangers were known-its removal is tedious, expensive, but necessary) in the classrooms. Bart interrupts and says "We want . . . MORE ASBESTOS, MORE ASBESTOS" leaving the entire class chanting this arrant nonsense. |
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