How truely smart is Barney Gumble????

  Yes I'm being serious this time. I've watched recent episodes of the Simpsons (not the new ones, just old ones over and over again) and noticed something interesting.

      Barney Gumble might be a Genius.

If he never tasted beer, he could have gone to Harvard University once placed in the episode "Mr. Plow" where Homer gave Barney his first beer and Barney changed drastically.
   However, I still feel that Barney is a genius in his own way. In a few episodes, he gave up drinking and went on to drinking coffee instead. Although hooked, it seemed he was showing more signs of intelligence until he went back to drinking beer again.

   Not every Simpson episode shows Barney as being stupid. Of course he's drunk but, he starts to take helicopter flying lessons and he even won a film award for showing his life on drinking and wanting to quit so badly.

   He a drunk, huggable teddy bear, who wants to stop and tell himself, "when will he become smart again"

In that particular episode where almost every Springfield character makes a movie to show the creative, artsy side of Springfield, Barney shows his side on why he wants to give up drinking and at the end, brings Springfield residence to tears.

     With the new episodes, not being great and all, we don't see much of Barney (unless he's at Moe's tying one over) But the smart side is somewhat there and it wasn't for that first beer Homer gave him when he was a kid, who knows what would have happened. He even had a chance to go into outer space with Buzz Aldrin, but sadly was unable too because of thinking champagne he was drinking was alcoholic when in reality, it wasn't.

   I don't find any intelligence left in Barney, but like I said before, you never know what could have happened, and he has tried, even the voice actor who is the complete opposite of bother Homer and Barney, to go through the 12 steps and quit drinking.

  But don't cry for him, he's already dead, and deep down, the past cannot comeback to save him of his alcoholism. Even if he is only a cartoon character. Barney will always be a lovable drunk from Springfield.

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