Butterfinger

“Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!”

―Bart Simpson

Butterfinger is a popular peanut-butter and chocolate candy bar which was founded in 1923. 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.

Many of the commercials featured Homer trying to get Bart's Butterfinger, but would be one-upped by Bart each time. Each commercial closes with Bart saying the catchphrase, "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!". 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.

Most of these advertisements have been released on The Simpsons DVD sets as bonus features along with other commercials. All Butterfinger commercials were available on iTunes and Netflix. 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), The Shrink - Up a Tree (1992), Maggie's Party (1992), The Power-Cut (1993), Bart's Locker - Treasure Hunt (1993), Lisa's Sharing (NEW! Butterfinger Snackerz) (1993), Good vs. Evil (NEW variant, full version) (1994), One Less Sister (NEW variant) (1994), The Raid (1994), Aliens (1998, full version), and Hit a Homer (1998, full version). On April 1, 2013, Butterfinger announced on their Facebook page that Bart Simpson would again be their mascot. On September 25th of the same year, Butterfinger issued another "Who Stole Bart Simpson's Butterfinger" commercial/contest, this time on the web.

Although Butterfinger's ties with the Simpsons were largely phased out by the time of "Sweets and Sour Marge" due to their contract being cut, they later had Bart appear on some packaging for Butterfinger due to the company celebrating its centennial anniversary.

Other commercials[]

The Ullman Shorts
- Butterfinger "The Butterfinger Group"
- Butterfinger "No Teasing"
The Complete Second Season
- Butterfinger "The Bully"
- Butterfinger "Therapy"
- Butterfinger "The Shock"
- Butterfinger "Box"
- Butterfinger "Butterfinger On A Stick"
The Complete Third Season
- Butterfinger "The Pacifier"
- Butterfinger "The Last Butterfinger"
- Butterfinger "Butterfinger Break"
- Butterfinger "Good VS Evil"
- Butterfinger "Maggie's Party"
- Butterfinger "One Less Sister"
The Complete Fourth Season
- Butterfinger "Beach Crabs"
- Butterfinger "Bart's Locker"
- Butterfinger "Bart Robbed"
- Butterfinger "Thief Revealed"
The Complete Fifth Season
- Butterfinger "I've Been Robbed"
- Butterfinger "Crime of the Century"
- T.G.I. Friday's "Homer Simpson"
- Ramada Inn "Ramada's In"
- THX Trailer
The Complete Sixth Season
- Butterfinger "The Raid"
- Church's Chicken "Picnic"
- Church's Chicken "Piggy Bank"
- 1-800-Collect
The Complete Ninth Season
- Butterfinger "Aliens"
- Butterfinger "Hit a Homer"
- Butterfinger "Philosophy"
- CC's Chips Australia "Parachutist"
- CC's Chips Australia "Homedini"
The Complete Tenth Season
- CC's Chips Australia
  - Streaker
  - Cliff Diver
  - Homer Saw
  - Hot Foot
- Butterfinger
  - Carnival
  - Two of a Kind
  - 500 Easy Pieces
  - Bonecracking
  - ABC's
- Intel "Homer's Smarter Brain"
The Complete Twelfth Season
- Butterfinger "Butterfingeritis"
- Butterfinger "Bart's Nightmare"
- Burger King "Spaced Homer"
- Red Rooster "Loungearama"
The Complete Thirteenth Season
- Burger King "Lines Man"
- Burger King "Trick or Treat"
- Burger King "Springfield Hamburger"
- Burger King "Simpsons Watch"
- Sabritas
The Complete Fifteenth Season
- Ritz Bits "Smart Trade"
- Mastercard

List of commercials[]

So far, Bart appears in every Butterfinger commercial, except for Plastic Underwear.

First Aired	Title	Length	Description
December 1988	No Teasing	30 seconds	Bart teases Lisa about having the last Butterfinger in the house. Watch this video on YouTube
December 1988	The Butterfinger Group	30 seconds	Milhouse and Bart explain about the existence of The Butterfinger Group. Watch this video on YouTube
January 1, 1991	The Bully	30 seconds	Nelson Muntz tries to take Bart's Butterfinger. Watch this video on YouTube or Vimeo
April 5, 1991	The Bully - Maggie's Stick	30 seconds	A shorter version of The Bully is shown, then followed by a short commercial for the Butterfinger Ice Cream Bars, with Maggie eating Bart's Butterfinger Ice Cream Bar. Watch this video on YouTube.
April 6, 1991	The Shock	15 seconds	Homer tries to take Bart's Butterfinger; which is wired to an electrical current, in which Homer gets electrocuted, causing Bart to wake up. Watch this video on YouTube
April 7, 1991	The Shrink	30 seconds	Dr. Marvin Monroe diagnoses inkblots for a Butterfinger obsession with Bart, who refuses to share with Dr. Marvin Monroe. Watch this video on YouTube
June 6, 1991	The Shrink - Maggie's Stick	30 seconds	A shorter version of The Shrink is shown, then followed by a short commercial for the Butterfinger Ice Cream Bars, with Maggie eating Bart's Butterfinger Ice Cream Bar. Watch this video on YouTube
November 2, 1991	Butterfinger Ice Cream Bars	15 seconds	Bart has gotten to Apu's shipment of Butterfinger Ice Cream Bars before everyone else. Apu then throws him out for it. Watch this video on YouTube.
April 3, 1992	The Big Surprise	15 seconds	Homer wants Bart to give him his Butterfinger, but instead he gets Maggie's pacifier. Watch this video on YouTube
June 6, 1992	Maggie's Party	15 seconds	Maggie is having a party and as Homer goes to bring out the Butterfinger Ice Cream Nuggets he finds they are gone because Bart ate them. Watch this video on YouTube
November 2, 1992	The Last Butterfinger	30 seconds	Bart and Homer race to get the last Butterfinger in the supermarket. Homer almost had it, but tripped on a cart, giving Bart enough time to catch it.
November 3, 1992	The Karate Lesson - Best Friend	30 seconds	A shorter version of The Karate Lesson is shown, then followed by a short commercial for the Butterfinger Ice Cream Nuggets, where Bart stops Milhouse from eating a Butterfinger Ice Cream Nugget.
November 3, 1992	Angel Bart, Devil Bart	15 seconds	Bart's conscience decides whether he should share or eat his Butterfinger BB's.
November 30, 1992	The Last Butterfinger - Best Friend	30 seconds	A shorter version of The Last Butterfinger is shown, then followed by a short commercial for the Butterfinger Ice Cream Nuggets, where Bart stops Milhouse from eating a Butterfinger Ice Cream Nugget.
December 1, 1992	The Karate Lesson	30 seconds	Akira teaches karate Bart some karate skills, in which he takes Bart's Butterfinger by trying to stop Bart.
December 18, 1992	One Less Sister	15 seconds	Lisa helps Bart with his math homework. He says the answer is "one less sister".
January 29, 1993	The Beach	15 seconds	Bart takes Homer's Butterfinger while he's buried under sand.
April 1, 1993	Bart's Locker	30 seconds	At school, Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel try to get Bart's Butterfingers in his locker, but Bart locks them in there. Watch video on Vimeo
September 30, 1993	I've Been Robbed Part One	30 seconds	Someone steals Bart's Butterfingers. Note: The suspects were Otto, Lisa, Krusty, Nelson, Mr. Burns, and Homer.
October 30, 1993	I've Been Robbed Part Two	30 seconds	The thief is revealed to be Krusty the Clown.
December 31, 1993	The Dog Biscuit	30 seconds	Bart tricks Homer about eating a dog biscuit during a power outage.
November 30, 1994	The Raid	30 seconds	Bart has a nightmare, in which the rest of the family steals his Butterfinger BB's.
January 1, 1998	Aliens	30 seconds	Bart has been abducted by Kang and Kodos who are confused about his Butterfinger. Bart then takes them to his leader, Homer, who gets abducted while Bart is set free.
May 31, 1998	Hit a Homer	15 seconds	Bart plays baseball in which Homer steals Bart's Butterfinger.
November 30, 1998	Philosophy	15 seconds	Martin Prince tells Bart to share his Butterfinger BB's with him.
December 30, 1998	Carnival	30 seconds	Homer wants to trade Bart's Butterfinger for a stuffed poodle.
January 1, 1999	Smell Your Breath	15 seconds	Bart is sitting in a tree holding a Butterfinger. Homer tries to get it, but Bart keeps moving it just out of reach while a dog barks and an alarm blares offscreen. Bart finishes the Butterfinger and tosses the empty wrapper on Homer. Watch this video on YouTube
July 28, 1999	A to Z	30 seconds	Bart and Lisa tease Homer with Butterfinger BB's while reading an alphabet book to Maggie. Watch this video on YouTube
December 30, 1999	500 Easy Pieces	15 seconds	Bart watches an Itchy and Scratchy skit entitled "500 Easy Pieces" featuring a Butterfinger bar.
December 31, 1999	Plastic Underwear	15 seconds	Grampa gets annoyed by the crunching sound of a Butterfinger eaten by Lisa, in which he is woken. This is the only time in the Butterfinger commercial that Bart doesn't appear in. However, Lisa fills in for Bart in this commercial. Watch this video on YouTube
February 5, 2001	Bart's Nightmare	15 seconds	Bart has a nightmare that the Kwik-E-Mart is out of Butterfingers, in which Bart woke up screaming.
May 1, 2001	Butterfingeritis	15 seconds	Bart discovers that he has a disease called Butterfingeritis.

Trivia[]

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. 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. The same is true of most other post-1996 Simpsons 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. This is an obvious reference to the commercials.
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". 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.
In the Season 13 episode "Half-Decent Proposal", Bart writes "I will not bite the hand that feeds me Butterfingers." on the chalkboard in the opening, referencing the Butterfinger joke two episodes earlier in "Sweets and Sour Marge".
On a Season 8 DVD commentary, Matt Groening says that Milhouse was created for and first appeared in the commercials.
The Simpsons "Stolen Butterfinger" in one minute length commercial in "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" on DVD in December 30, 2008.
In a deleted scene in "I Am Furious (Yellow)", on Bart's trap for Homer, Homer grabs a Butterfinger bar but tosses it after realizing it's a Butterfinger.
The Butterfinger catchphrase, "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger", was also referenced in a cutaway gag in the Family Guy episode "Mother Tucker", where Brian compares Stewie selling out to when the latter starred in Butterfinger commercials. The scene cuts away to Stewie mimicking the Butterfinger catchphrase while sitting on a park bench and holding a Butterfinger, adding a forced "D'oh" at the end.
In the episode ¨Treehouse of Horror XXVIII¨, In the CGI opening, ¨The Sweets Hereafter¨, Many characters from the show are in a bowl of candy on Halloween night. Nearly all of the names of the candy them are references to real-life candies. This includes Bart, who is a ¨Barterfinger¨ a clear reference to Butterfingers. Homer even accidentally calls Bart Butterfinger in the short, but quickly corrects himself.
Marge Simpson is the only Simpson family member (sans Maggie) who does not speak once in any of the commercials.
The slogan "It's Neato!," used in "No Teasing" and "The Butterfinger Group" would be replaced sometime in 1990, with subsequent airings of both commercials replacing it with "Nobody Better Lay a Finger on My Butterfinger."^[1] ^[2] ^[3]^[4]
"The Butterfinger Group" marks the first appearances of Milhouse Van Houten and Springfield Elementary School, which would officially debut in "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire." As such, this is only time either of them are present when the Tracey Ullman shorts were premiering.

Bart's Sayings[]

"It's Neato!" (1988 - 1990)
"Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!" (1990 - 1994; 1998 - 1999^[5])
"Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger BBs!" (1994, 1998 - 1999^[6]; Butterfinger BB's variant)
"Bite my Butterfinger!" (1999 - 2001)
"Nothin' like a Butterfinger!" (2001 - 2010)
''Nobody's gonna lay a finger on my Butterfinger'' (2010-present)

Gallery of Slogans[]

References[]

[1] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTrXmrOEPfg

[2] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z79tuVXXl2M

[3] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbpBdUJDz0c

[4] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rSrAu2AsJE

[5] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDJwZleuas0

[6] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-WO-_2--UM

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