Bring Me the Head of El Barto

Bring Me the Head of El Barto is a comic story featured in Simpsons Comics and Stories.
== Full Story ==
Ned Flanders appears at the door of the Simpson house with a petition to call for the arrest of El Barto for his vandalism. Homer, for once agrees with Ned, as he shows him a bowling ball tagged with "El Barto." While Ned and Homer have a conversation, Bart puts a "Kick Me" sign on Ned's butt. 600 signatures later, Mayor Quimby runs a campaign ad saying if he is re-elected as mayor, he will get rid of El Barto. After Quimby comes out of the green room, Chief Wiggum jokes about catching El Barto to him, but Quimby threatens to take Wiggum down with him if he isn't re-elected.
The next day, Wiggum forces the officers to begin searching for El Barto using whatever means necessary. First, the Springfield police set up a roadblock on Main Street, stopping any suspicious vehicles (including Marge for underinflated tires). Although several "suspects" were brought in for questioning, no one turned out to be El Barto. Next, the Springfield police set up stakeouts to catch El Barto in the act, but the stakeout officers aren't paying attention and El Barto tags the police car outside the donut shop. Then, the officers set up an undercover sting operation in the park with people wearing costumes painted in bronze paint posing as statues. However, it backfires when the "statues" end up going to the hospital. Lastly, officers went door-to-door with a picture of El Barto (which looks like an adult version of Bart); Marge offers them coffee and snickerdoodles and run past a pile of spray paint cans in the garage without even seeing them. Meanwhile, Mayor Quimby is putting more pressure on Chief Wiggum to get El Barto captured by tomorrow. At the Simpsons house, Bart asks Lisa for some more money to buy some more spray paint. He heads to the Springfield Hardware store, but several police officers go by, causing Bart to change his plans. He goes inside a Krusty Burger restaurant and orders a Triple Beef Krusty Burger with Extra Ketchup. While eating the burger, some of the ketchup comes out and lands on Bart's shirt. Bart comes out only to get caught by Chief Wiggum near El Barto graffiti, who suspects the ketchup is spray paint. At police headquarters, the results from the forensics lab are in, and the stain on Bart's shirt matches the color of the paint used by El Barto, causing Bart to be arrested. 
Bart's arrest results in Quimby winning re-election; Marge says she can't stand Bart being in jail and Homer is working on a plan...which would be Homer in his underwear eating potato chips and drinking beer on the couch in front of the TV. Later that week, more El Barto graffiti is appearing around Springfield while Bart is in jail, so Bart is released. When Bart arrives home, he realizes Lisa sprayed the El Barto graffiti while in jail as the spray paint cans were by her bike and were a different brand than the ones Bart used. Both Bart and Lisa put "Kick Me" signs on each others' backs.
== Appearances ==
* Bart Simpson
* Homer Simpson
* Lisa Simpson
* Marge Simpson
* Ned Flanders
* Mayor Quimby
* Chief Wiggum
* Eddie
* Lou
* Kent Brockman
* Selma Bouvier
* Grampa Simpson
* Reverend Lovejoy
* Barney Gumble
* Moe Szyslak
* Several unnamed Policemen
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