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300 Episodes of the Simpsons
circletimessquare writes "As we approach 300 Episodes of the Simpsons, Entertainment Weekly tries to pick the 25 best episodes of The Simpsons (and the one episode they consider the worst). They do a pretty good job. But since "best of" lists like this one are always rife with debate and contention, I can't think of a better place than Slashdot to send up EW (pun partially intended)."
Homer's Phobia number 5? I wonder if they felt they had to throw in a later episode or two to make it more "balanced". While some of those aren't bad, I know I would have had more from seasons 2-6 or so.
Last Exit to Springfield, Marge v. Monorail, and Cape Feare all in the Top 5? I hate to say it, but EW actually seems to have gotten things right.
Homer: "OK, no more deer for a week"
Marge: " Homer, did you say deer or beer?"
Homer: "Deer."
"Want in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up first." - My Dad
That site crashes my Mozilla.
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
Oh dag. If they even try to put the Treehouse of Horrors on that list. The worst episode IS the bowling one with Marge and the french guy.
Life is short and hard, like a body building elf.
I've love the simpsons mostly due in part to their use of literary allusions, pop-culture, and stereotypes. But probably the funniest episode was the one where Troy McClure, aka Phil Hartman, explains the food chain, which shows a Shark jumping out of the water and eating a Gorilla hanging from a tree. Nearly peed my pants.
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
Anyone know what the cash register really says when they scan Maggie in the opening credits? It is not, I repeat not "NRA 4 EVER" as often rumored. (That was actually started by the creators in the first place... and we all know that cartoonists are shifty.) Anyway, someone with spare time and a DVD (or *cough* illegal *cough* copies on their computer) player might easily figure it out...
This chair be high, says I.
Other Classics:
Two Bad Neighbors (s7)
Bart vs. Australia (s6)
Deep Space Homer (s5)
Homers Enemy (s8)
2 dozen and 1 greyhounds -- best song ever (see my vest)
Brother From another Series -- "..those years at clown college" "I appreciate you not refer to Princeton that way"
$pringfield "I think we'll keep those jars of urine"
Colonel Homer "The don't call me Colonel Homer because I'm some dumbass army guy"
Anyway, I could do this all day but I think you get my point. (Quotes courtesy of The Simpsons Archive).
As for eps that shouldn't have been included in the top 25: THOH, Spin-Off Special & Homer's Phobia. But this is purely subjective, so no flames please.
I do agree with they're pick for worst ep though
The sole purpose of the Internet is to get porn and bomb making plans into the hands of children.
I haven't looked at their picks yet, but I know the best episode ever.
The halloween special with the shinning. It's got 3 super hilarious quotes and is overall the best episode ever.
"no beer no tv make homer something something"
"shhhh, you wanna get suuuued?"
"that's willy's time!"
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On a side note, I know that Conan O'Brian wrote several of them (like the monorail one, I think). Does anyone know/have a list of those? And did any other famous people (co)write them also?
Ralph (Wearing a sign taped to him saying "IDAHO"): I'm Idaho!
Ralph: Help! She's touching my special area!
Shells out when i click the link to page two. Version 1.2b with XFT.
Pathman, Free (as in GPL) 3D Pac Man
And of course, it wouldn't be complete without the top 50 Simpsons quotes:
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...do we get to see the first live episode?
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"It's a tarp!" -- Dyslexic Admiral Ackbar
I can't believe they left that one off. :P
I agree with the person above. It seems they felt obligated to include too many "newer" episodes.
Oh well. Their website, their list, I guess.
Okay, I got Linux installed. So where's the free beer everyone keeps talking about??
Every time one of these lists comes out, there are ommissions and arguments that the ranking are out of whack.
Nonetheless, why they failed to include the wonderfully poignant Lisa's Wedding is beyond me.
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Maybe is because I like a lot science fiction, but the two individual episodes that I most remember is the one where Homer go to the past and kill all dinosaurs (like in the sound of thunder, by Bradbury) and the one where Homer goes 4^H3D.
I like the one where Homer discovers that he's going to die and goes in for a father-son heart-to-heart with Bart.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Did anyone else click on the link just to find out which one was considered the worst?
There's a funny thing about the worst episode of the Simpsons I've seen...
:)
I actually thought to myself "This is the worst episode ever" only to hear the comic shop guy rumble the fourth wall with his words:
"Worst. Episode. Ever."
I'm just glad the writers acknowledged it as they were doing it
CBG: "Immediately after reading the 25 best episodes I was on the Internet registering my disgust and complaints."
Bart: "But they provide you with free and quality content!"
CBG: "Worst. Top 25 list. ever."
is not on the list? Insanity!
to quote Nate Patrin:
This episode kicked hairy yellow butt, right from the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida bit to the Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag bit...
-- Boycott Shell
Hows this? A scrawny kid that likes to roll around on a skateboard, has made it on an episode of the Simpsons. I betcha $10, he can jump the Springfield Gorge.
The Simpsons was one of the deepest shows on American TV. Now it's a Saturday morning cartoon starring Captain Wacky (aka Homer). I use to watch it religiously, participate in forums, even did some work and article writing for a Simpsons website. Now the show seems so geared towards an age group far younger than mine, I hardly bother trying to catch it anymore.
IMHO, Entertainment Weekly did a fine job of picking episodes - much better than most publications do. Now if only the writers would pick up on that and say, "Maybe we should start doing that sort of thing again."
What about the episode, a haloween ep I think, where Homer is traveling through alternate universes.
He lands in one, everything is perfect except no one has ever heard of doughnuts, so Homer flees. Moments after he leaves, it starts rainging outside. The rain is what Homer would have identified as doughnuts.
My favorites have been the Halloween Specials. I also liked the one with Aerosmith... that was very kewl.
So far left, I'm right.
How, Marge? How?
Besides, there were some real stinkers in the first season while they were still trying to find their voice and before the show went Homer-centric (in a fair world, Homer-centric should be a word).
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
My favourite line:
(Mr Burns to Homer): "You're the fattest thing I've ever seen. And I've been on safari."
Apu: "Mister Simpson, please do not offer my GOD a peanut."
Stupud tipo.
Ñ'
Real college or Clown college?
IMHO, the clown college was the better of the two, YMMV.
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It's interesting that out of the top 25 episodes picked in this article, only 2 episodes are from seasons after 1997. The vast majority of episodes listed in this article are from 1993-1994.
Have all of the creative juices stopped flowing into the Simpsons? Or have they just had a bad run of writers?
hmmm ... seen the list, and while I agree with some (Mr Plow, Monorail, Homer Badman) it misses out some of my all-time favourites
...
Deep Space Homer
the one where Homer gets fat to work from home
the episode where Bart wins the elephant
any episode where Barney is sober
and now for some classic simpsons quotes (all atributed to Homer of course - who else!):
"I'm a white male, aged 18 to 49. *Everybody* cares what I think!"
"Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."
"I know I'm not usually a praying man, but if you're up there, Please Superman help me!"
"Homer no function beer well without."
"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel."
"To alcohol - the cause of, and solution to all of life's problems."
and my all-time favourite
"Maybe for once, someone will call me 'sir' without adding 'You're making a scene'." - Homer J Simpson
"Because it's there." - George Mallory, when asked why he wanted to climb Mt Everest, March 18, 1923 (New York Times)
Homer the Great
Homer: I've always wondered if there was a god. And now I know there is -- and it's me.
Marge: You're not a god, Homer.
Lisa: Remember Dad, "All glory is fleeting."
Homer: So?
Lisa: "Beware the Ides of March."
Homer: No!
Lisa: Dad, I know you think you're happy now, but it's not going to last forever.
Homer: Everything lasts forever.
Homer Goes to College
Marge: [hearing modem noises] Ooh, what's wrong with this phone? it's making crazy noises.
Nerd 2: [contemptuously] Those "crazy noises" are computer signals.
Nerd 3: Yeah. Some guys at MIT are sending us reasons why Captain Picard is better than Captain Kirk.
Nerd 1: Hah! They're outta their minds.
"TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
Skinner: "Ok, now chew through my ball-sack"...
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This episode has the BEST Troy McClure line of them all. When he greets Selma for their second date, he says, "Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such dates as last night's dinner."
Has anyone else noticed that the Simpson plots have gotten more and more insane? I guess they are running out of ideas, but there are some that if you think about make you go huuuuh? Like the one where they won the trip to africa off of an old animal crackers box. Or the one where Homer gets a webpage and ends up being drugged and taken to this special sanctuary. I know those are from a couple seasons ago, but I haven't had tv to watch the recent ones. I would assume they follow the same random act pattern. The beginning of the episode is usually totally different from the end. Like they'll have one plot line for the first 10 minutes with an odd occurence that completely shifts the plot line to something else; a two episodes in one type of thing. I'm rambling, but the point is the plot lines seem to be more "drug-induced".
Admittedly, there is plenty of room for everyone to have a favorite episode. But two that I feel should be mentioned are Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire (the story of Santa's Little Helper) and Maggie Makes Three (the story of what happened just before Maggie was born). These two episodes epitomize the side of the Simpsons that celebrates the family, a quality that I feel is too often overlooked by critics.
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i cant even start to think what the best episodes are. i have saw so many sweet episodes that have left me laughing for days...how can one really choose the "best"? Their parodies are always good...i really enjoyed their lord of the flies parody show...but the BEST? i am not so decisive on which shows could be the BEST
and to those of you who say the simpsons still cant be funny...on the last show:
[ralph after being sprayed by pepper spray]:
Even my boogers are spicy!
[disco stu after getting hit by marge]:
Disco stu should have disco ducked!
come on. thats funny.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
One of the funnier episodes for me was when Homer et al went to New York. However, the prominent presence of the World Trade Center may, I suspect, have consigned this one to syndication-hell. Have folk seen it aired in recent months?
All the episodes they list are classics, and yes with only 25 out of 300 (MOST of which are brilliant, and 99.9% of the rest are just really really goodl, especially in the earlier seasons) on the list, there's going to be some left out. But leaving off "You Only Move Twice" (the Hank Scorpio episode and origin of my most persistent i-net handle) and "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" is criminal in my mind.
But I'm mostly happy with it.
Chris
something something.
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"Worst Episode Ever"
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"And come again."
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
But since "best of" lists like this one are always rife with debate and contention
I love conversations RIFE with debate and contention!
"Some fight for law. Some fight for justice. What will you fight for? One day, you will see."
....a "Best of simpsons" list with "Rosebud" somewhere near the top. Ah... my life is complete.
Don't you mean "The Shining"?
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Funniest part in a Simpsons episode EVER:
The 3 frogs sitting in the pond going "Bud... Weis... Er" over and over then the alligator eats them and goes "Coors!" I laughed for a very long time after that one.
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No discussion about the simpsons is complete without mention of www.snpp.com (for springfield nuclear power plant), which is the largest database on the simpsons. It has descriptions of each episode, lists of errors, lists of references, essays, everything the simpsons related that anyone could ever want.
Got to be my all time favourite.
It's the one where homer gets hair and suddenly becomes rich and successful. He has that assistant (Karl) who guides him to success.
It highlights some facets of society and life so well.
This is absolutely my favorite quote of all time. (Especially since I'm Indian :) But, no one I know can remember the episode it's from. Do you happen to remember?
I like the one where the Simpsons go to Japan and Homer walks through all the ricepaper walls.
That cracks me up ever time I think about it (tear).
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
There's a good reason for this: Seasons 7-9 was during the transition of the writing and production from one staff to another; the original staff had nearly all been there since the concept of the Simpson on the Trace Ullman show, while the new staff was much less versed with the humble beginnings of the show.
Most long-time Simpsons fans that were on the net prior to that change immediately saw the changes that the show had made, and over the course of a few seasons, the fans no longer cared for the show. (I know a few of these people well, including some long time alt.tv.simpsons posters that simply dropped the show like a hot potato). The show became more cartoon-y, and less of a animated family sit-com. (That is, these people saw OFF as a show that could have been done live action if they really tried, but worked better as a cartoon; nowadays, most episodes can't be done live action as they involve too many abuses of the cartoon laws of physics). Plus there were changes in the emotional tone of the stories; the early seasons (at least from 3-7) had a good mix of comedy and emotion, but nearly all of the last 5 or 6 seasons have been strictly out and out comedy. They also changed the characters somewhat, making Homer more of a doofus as opposed to a not-so-bright father trying to do his best for the family, and making Lisa a political busybody, and most recently, dumbing down Marge. Too much focus on the external characters as well, and giving Homer all these crazy antics to do. Sure, if that's the way the show started as, then maybe it would be funny, but it's not the same as what most of us long-time fans would consider to be the heart of the Simpsons.
What's amazing is that there's very few mainstream publications that mention how poor the Simpsons are *today* compared to a decade ago. They all praise the show, it constantly wins awards, etc. The problem is, the Simpsons is a cornerstone of FOX, and to remove it would cause significant problems for its ratings battle on Sunday nights.
I think this list is at least some nod to how the Simpsons had good quality shows to start, and that the last several season have been 'blah' since. There have been good episodes of the last few seasons, or ones that could have worked; I do think "Homer's Phobia" is a good one to be on the list though a bit too high, if nothing else for the classic steel mill scene, and "A Day In the Life" which showed the same events, but from Homer's, Bart's, and Lisa's POV, could have worked if the zany adventures were held back a bit. But really, just like TNG and DS9 and the rest of the Trek universe, the Simpsons need to be retired. To see even 2 more seasons come out of the current staff is going to pull down the overall quality of the show even more.
"Pinky, you've left the lens cap of your mind on again." - P&TB
"I can see my house from here!" - ST:
"I guess they're barking up the wrong bush!"
- 'there it is homer, the smartest thing you'll ever say and there's no one around to hear it.'
Seriously, that was my favourite episode. How they could not name it is beyond me. The gags were hilarious, and if you watch closely enough when his memoirs get trashed you see a mention of Dan Quayle.
Brilliant!
This is left as an exercise for the reader.
What irks me is that The Family Guy had some real spunk and great writing, until it was cancelled (along with Futurama, which had a longer run). But I don't think it's reasonable to cancel those shows when King of the Hill and The Simpsons are still on. Is there no justice in the world?!
There is actually a controversy which is the 300:th episode.
There at least three clip shows (Another Simpsons Clip show, All Singing, All Dancing, Gump Roast) that I can think of, so removing them from the count doesn't make sense either.
Easily my favorite, if for just some of the lines:
"In this house we obey they laws of thermodynamics"
"I'll have no more of your Vasser bashing young lady."
"I guess I'll just have to go hide in the crawl space"
"I hate it when he does that."
"There's just something so unwholesome about flying a kite at night."
I demand a million helicopters and a DOLLAR!
Here is a couple good ones too: Milhouse: "The Statue of Liberty? Where are we?" Milhouse: "Everything is coming up Milhouse!" Ralph: "Go Banana!" Ralph: "My cat's breath smells like cat food."
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Does anyone know which episode contains the following Do-Re-Mi parody?
Dough... the stuff that buys me beer
Ray..... the guy who sells the beer
Me...... the guy who drinks the beer
Far..... the distance to the beer
So...... I'll have another beer
La...... la la la la la beer
Tea..... No thanks I'm drinking beer
That will bring us back to....
I've heard it sung, I've seen it online, but I can't find the episode. Is it a genuine Homerism?
... is whot bwings os tugevza tsuzay.
Plotting the TOp 25 by year we see:
90 XXX
91 X
92 XXX
93 XXXXXXX
94 XXX
95 X
96 XX
97 XXXX
98
99
00
01
02 X
Looks like they peaked early in 93 and, despite a brief revival in 97, its been downhill ever since.
Or does anybody's best ever list contain items from 98 - 02 seasons?
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Dunno if I'm giving away a good secret here, but in my expeirence the most extensive clearing house of simpson's information is:
http://www.snpp.com
(Springfield Nuclear Power Plant)
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-Homer goes skiing ('Damn Sexy Flanders').
-Homer gets fat to collect unemployment.
-Homer tries to get Ned a date after Maude dies.
-'Behind the Laughter' spoof
I very seldom watch the new episodes on Sunday night anymore. Mostly it's reruns since my local FOX station has an hour of the Simpson from 6-7pm every weeknight.
I religiously watch the Simpsons and this episode stands out in my mind as the best. Ever 5 seconds there is an odd and funny joke. From Knifey spoony to booting, to the ever class: (some foreign guy): Speak again and I will translate for El Presidente. Bart: Which way does the water spin in your toilet? (sfg): He says the tide is turning! El presidente: The rebels will soon take the capital. I must flee! (and procedes to defenestrate himself) Though lets not forget the gun episode, and the brothel.
This anonymous clan of slack jawed trogdylytes cost me the election, but if I were to have them killed, *I* would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you!
Karma: Bad (mostly affected by being such an asshole)
Save me Jeebus! Save me!
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
The fact that The Simpsons is getting hype from Entertainment Weekly further proves this show lost its satrical bite (and relevance) a LONG time ago.
June: No, Homer. Very few cartoons are broadcast live, it's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.
from 4F12 (the Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show)
Me Fail English? Thats Umpossible - Ralph
My Favorite quote.
Adam Sane sanity is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F04
Half way down the page
Homer: Doh!
:-)
Lisa: A deer!
Marge: A female deer!
Perfect! Just perfect!
The Stonecutter episode was good if for no other reason than getting to hear Patrick Stewart describe the one initiation ritual.
"This one is 'the paddling of the swollen ass
No matter what they did, the list wouldn't be complete. It's hard to boil the series down to 25 best.
Damn you, Osama bin Laden and..er..whatever happened to Columbia.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
For those with BRAVO, Inside the Actor's Studio will be having the cast of the Simpsons on this Sunday, February 9th at 8 pm (7 central).
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The Simpsons was one of the deepest shows on American TV. Now it's a Saturday morning cartoon starring Captain Wacky (aka Homer). I use to watch it religiously, participate in forums, even did some work and article writing for a Simpsons website. Now the show seems so geared towards an age group far younger than mine, I hardly bother trying to catch it anymore.
So true! It seems to me that South Park and The SImpsons have swapped positions. South Park used to be all fart jokes and no real political humor, but now its so cutting edge I think Bill ("Im hipper than you, and Im EDGY!") Maher is probably offended by it on a regular basis. The Simpsons, however, is now just a bunch of fart jokes and catch phrases.
Did anyone else catch the South Park where Will Smith and Snoop moved into mansions, and the "poor" people were routing them? I had a really hard time believing that got past Comedy Central's censors.. their "politically incorrect" was usually anything but.. but this seasons SP have been really biting.
I rarely even watch The Simpsons anymore simply because its gotten so trite.
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Feminine Protection? What is that? A chartreuse flame thrower?
Just looking at the dates of the best Simpsons episodes it has just confirmed what I already suspected. The best time for the Simpsons was around about 92 -94 with the later episodes being of dubious quality, but still, in my opinion, quite watchable.
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Does anyone else think that RMS looks exactly like the Comic Book Guy? Especially in how annoyingly pedantic they both can get.
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It's sad to see so many on this list around the 1993-1997 range. These episodes are deserving of high praise, but it shows that on a best-of list, the modern Simpsons don't hold a candle to some of the former writers.
Oh, Conan, why'd you have to leave!!!
-Barkeep, a draft of your most hazardous brew, for the world is slowly stepping into focus, and I don't like what I see.
How bout this one Bart I can't belive all I got was a lousy quarter! Homer When I was young that was alot of money Bart Really? Homer Naah I find it just as funny every time :D
They just started to show new episodes here in Sweden and I must say that they get weirder for each episode...
I fought the corporate America, and the corporate America bought the law.
That was from Homer the Heretic where Homer skips church.
I read the internet for the articles.
"Lisa!! In this house we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!" -- Homer :)
Here's some other random quotes:
Homer: "Kids, kids. I'm not going to die. That only happens to bad people."
Bart: "What about Abraham Lincoln?"
Homer: "Uh, he sold poison milk to school children."
Homer: "No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed."
How about more seasons? How about a collection of Treehouse of Horrors? Troy McClure episodes?
Syntax error: loose != lose, affect != effect, then!=than
What's amazing is that there's very few mainstream publications that mention how poor the Simpsons are *today* compared to a decade ago. They all praise the show, it constantly wins awards, etc.
Well, take a look around you...frankly, most entertainment-oriented TV (vs. edumacational stuff like Discovery) these days is shit. The Simpsons has definitely slid waaay downhill in the last decade (is the new staff the Family Guy crew perchance?), but it's still hands-down the best show on television today.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
The episode that nearly had me sneezing milk was the one with the badger that terrorised Homer until Lisa looked up 'What Badgers Eat' on the web. The link took her to the http://www.whatbadgerseat.com site, which the show really set up. It's still there.
The best one is from the episode where the kids are snowed in at the school.
Homer and Flanders are driving there to rescue them when they run over something in the road.
Flanders: "We just ran over something."
Homer: "Yeah, I hope it was Flanders."
I laughed my ass off for probably 5 straight minutes.
"Quick, protect the queen"
"Which one is the queen?"
"I am"
"No you're not!"
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*Runs around insanely.*
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The Worst Episode EVER was no doubt "All Singing, All Dancing!" All simpsons fans I know cringe at that one!
You strap yourself feel the "G"s!
Max Power, he's the man who's name you'd love to touch!
But you mustn't touch!
His name sounds good in your ear, but when you say it, you mustn't fear! 'Cause his name can be said by anyone!
Actually, a full scene, starting with the best quote ever... From Season 2, Two Cars in Every Garage, 3 Eyes on Every Fish:
MB: Amazing Smithers. This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
S: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.
MB: Simpson, I shall make it the focus of my remaining years that your dreams will go unfulfilled.
H: My dreams will go unfulfilled? Oh no! I don't like the sound of that one bit. That means I have nothing to hope for. Marge, make it better please, can't you make it better, huh?
M: Homer, when a man's biggest dreams include seconds on dessert, occassional snuggling and sleeping til noon on weekends, no one man can destroy them.
H: Hey! You did it!
[end of episode]
The best episode ever, which wasn't even on the list, is "Simpson Tide." While it is another one of those "Homer gets a new job" episodes, it was actually fresh at the time. There are so many great lines from the episode:
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"You're in the Naval Reserve. America's seventeenth line of defense, between the Mississippi National Guard, and the League of Women Voters. After basic training, you'll only have to work one weekend a month. And most of that time, you're drunk off your ass."
"My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star!"
"It's my first day."
And for you Linux fans, it is also the only episode to feature Penguins in a meaningful way. They have their own warship
But the best part of the episode was the string of great gags about the return of Communism: the Berlin Wall (complete with guards and dogs) popping out of the ground, the parade in Moscow turning floats into tanks, and a reanimated Lenin saying "must crush capitalism."
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The best episode of The Simpsons by far has got to be the episode where they killed Maude Flanders. It was the single most unexpected thing in the world, and how they killed her was funnier than hell. It also put Ned, the overly happy, overly Christian neighbor in an awkward position, reworking his character almost entirely. They hyped that episode to no end, and when Maude died, we were all sitting around looking at each other, saying "Maude? They killed Maude?"
The best twist ever in a Simpsons episode. Kudos to Greoning and Company on 300 Episodes of one of the funniest animated shows ever!
D'OH!
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My favorite Millhouse quote: "The 'house always wins!"
I read the internet for the articles.
IMHO, the clown college was the better of the two
I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way.
And of course, it wouldn't be complete without the top 50 Simpsons quotes:
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I've quoted this before, still think its one of the funnyest exchanges in Simpsons history:
Lenny: Hey Homer, that's four strikes in a row. You've got a perfect game going.
Homer: Really?
Carl: Careful what you say, Lenny; you'll jinx him.
Lenny: Oh, right, sorry.
[Homer steps up to the line, and gets ready to bowl]
Lenny: Miss! Miss! [Homer and Carl glare at him] Sorry, I was calling the waitress.
[to waitress] Ah, this split you sold me is making me choke.
Homer: Lenny!
Lenny: What? I paid 7.10 for this split.
Carl: Will you at least call it a banana split, you dumbwad?
Lenny: Hey, spare me your gutter-mouth. [Homer strikes Lenny by throwing a bowling ball at him]
When the 300th Episode of the Simpsons comes out, do you guys think that someone will collect them all put them in divx format, compress them, and then start sharing them over Kazaa or something like that? Wouldn't it be cool to have 300 episodes of the Simpsons in a single zip file.
Let me know what you think.
The laws of physics are on my side. YOU LOSE.
- Absolutely Classic Lines, like
- Self-Referencing Humor, e.g. Homer's wall of photographs of previous accomplishments.
- Commentary on itself. Frank Grimes provides the perfect foil for Homer by being an actual human being. He acts not like a character on the Simpsons, but like a responsible adult. In the process, he demonstrates that people from 'our world' have absolutely no place in the Simpsons universe.
- Most importantly, it's Damn Funny too.
Just my 2, but I think it's atrocious to have left Homer's Enemy off the list, especially since Homer the Clown didn't make it either. Utter blasphemy."He eats like a pig!"
"Nah, pigs tend to chew their food. I'd say he eats more like a duck."
"You were in space?"
"What, you've never been?"
I'll leave you with more of the genius that was Homer's Enemy....
"Then, I added some fins to lower wind resistance. And this racing stripe here I feel is pretty sharp."
Oh cruel fate, to be thusly boned! Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee. -Bender
I don't know about best episode ever, but the best scene ever was when Bart handed out the music for the opening hymn at church - In the Garden of Eden by I. Ron Butterfly. The poor organist had to play 28 minutes non-stop and then collapsed.
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Stupud tipo.
"Shut up brain or I'll stab you with a Q-tip!"
"As my breakfast burrito is rapidly congealing, I will make this blunt..." - CBG
D'oh! I don't get Bravo... I'd have to get digital cable to have it.
Why on earth did Bravo schedule an hour-long Simpsons special at the same time as two Simpsons episodes?
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I really like the George Bush episode.
It starts out with a parody of Dennis the Menace, which is probably not so relevant to the younger people here. But it was really well done. Bart was Dennis, Bush was Mr. Wilson, and Barbara Bush was Mrs. Wilson.
Who would think of that?
Then it goes into a very bizzare feud between Homer and Bush. I loved the rainbow wig, the cardboard cutouts of the bush boys, and Bush not being willing to back down in front of Gorbachov -- I can't show weakness in front of the Russians!
The Gerald Ford bit at the end was great, too. Do you like nachos? Do you like football? Maybe we could watch football and eat some nachos.
Worst article ever!
That aside, I'm not sure I agreed, but with 300 episodes (and everything being relative), I'm sure they have the right to their opinion...
It's just that their opinion is wrong...
Best episode ever? Homer in college, or Homer in space.
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Dietary fiber is like asynchronous IO-- Non-blocking!
The Consensus around the office is that the Beer Baron ep is the finest of the Simpsons. It features Bart and Homer working together, mayhem, and the best damn pet shop in town.
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Favorite episode has to be the one with guest voice Robert Stack as the FBI agent in charge of enforcing the prohibition laws in Springfiled and Homer becomes the mighty Beer Baron!
Also the medical marijuanna episode was hilarious and thats from last season.
Another of my favorite quotes: Homer to himsef: 'Dear Homer, I owe you one emergency donut, signed Homer'.....Bastard! He's always one step ahead!
"Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you. Cry, and they still think its funny." - Mr. Boffo
"Lower case t? 'Time to leave'?!?"
D'OH! i particularly liked the episode about the flaming moe...dont remember when it came out but its an old one...
From SNPP.com:
"It should be noted that while Fox is promoting "Barting Over" as the official 300th episode, this is not exactly correct. In fact, the 300th episode to be aired will be "Strong Arms of the Ma," on February 2nd. "Barting Over" isn't the 300th produced episode either, as that title goes to "Strong Arms of the Ma" as well."
We passed the 300th episode Milestone last Sunday! Anyone else celebrate?
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man"
The list definitely posts some classics, but where is the Frank Grimes episode? And Homer Vs. the 18th Amendment where Homer is the Beer Baron???
"Thank you for coming, I'll see you in hell!"
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In my opinion, no other episodes had so many jokes and gags smushed all together.
Homer: And you didn't think I'd make any money. I found a dollar while I was waiting for the bus.
Marge: While you were out 'earning' that dollar, you lost forty dollars by not going into work. The plant called and said if you don't come in tomorrow, don't bother coming in Monday.
Homer: Woohoo! Four day weekend!
My fav simpson skil of all time is when they find the real creator of Itchy and Scratchy. There is a remake of 'I'm just a bill' that is really funny.
My favorite line ever from young master Wiggum.
Have we forgotten Ms. Botsukowski. Definitely one of my (if not the) favorite episodes.
Who can forget Bart with the pacifier when the lights come on?
Article says that Homer once referred to a spoon as "the metal dealie...you use...to dig...food". I can't recall hearing this, and a google of the net (including snpp.com) yields nothing. Can anyone point out the episode?
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
...solving the one about hicups is the one I cared about the least. By far.
-- Contradictions only exist in thought - not in reality.
Abe: My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star!
Skinner: Defying orders, eh? Well, I see you Scotsmen are thrifty with courage, too.
Willie: Okay, Skinner, that's the last time you'll slap your Willie around. I quit!
Kent Brockman: Hordes of panicky people seem to be evacuating the town for some unknown reason. Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Professor: Mmm, yes I would, Kent.
...just my 2 gil.
Are they crazy?! Who can forget,
Mr. Sparkle - "I am disrespectful to dirt!" ?!
or Homer getting hair ?!
Still it's gonna be great in the Third Season hits DVD - then the good stuff really starts.
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The Simpsons jumped the shark long ago... Really, The Simpsons used to be one of the best shows on television ever. I have been watching it since episode one. Now it is an embarrassment with new episodes that just don't generate many laughs (at least in our household.) I heard an interview with one of the shows producers awhile back when he said "we'll need to quit before the show gets stale" or something to that effect. EARTH TO TV EXEC. YOU'RE THERE ALREADY. Here are reasons the Simpons is waaaaay past it's prime. 1. Using celebrity guests as a crutch. (Hey, celebrity guests were funny at first but just about every freakin' week? Come ON!) 2. Plotlines that are way far out. (The Simpons was great in the early years because you could relate to it. Bart getting beat up by the bully, Homer joining the stonecutters etc. Jokes about Otto 'I like to get blotto' busdriver. But now, jeez, they're such a stretch.) 3. Almost every week the plotline involves someone getting into physical danger and then someone saving their butt. BORING! 4. Stupid un-funny things like Homer swordfighting with a motorcycle. Who thought THAT was a good idea. The Simpsons went out with a wimper. There was some point when I just stopped paying attention to whether this week's episode was new or a rerun and stopped caring what time it was on anymore. Apparently it's better to fade away (and milk the product tie-ins) that to burn out.
This is the ultimate. Be quick, it will get /.ed soon.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/l/jlw953/funny stuff/liedetector.avi
Highlights:
Aunt Gladys dies, they go to the funeral, and Selma wants a baby.
Lionel Hutz has a good, small part. (You'd be surprised how often that works, you really would)
Selma tries to find a man, including the pimply faced checkout boy.
Homer gets sick from eating a really old, 10-foot hoagie.
Because Homer is sick, the kids go to Duff Gardens with Selma. Classic stuff here, Lisa acid trips by drinking the water, Bart tries on Beer Goggles, the Seven Duffs, rapping Abe Lincoln, etc.
Homercles cares not for beans!
This episode kills me every single time I see it, and for some reason they don't run it very often in syndication. I literally watched for 2 years, 3 times a day trying to tape it. I finally downloaded it from the net. It is the 3rd season, so I am just waiting for the next DVD set to come out.
The thing is, there are sooooo many good episodes. Even recent ones have their "classic" moments that crack me up. Best Show Ever!
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So the Actor's Studio with the Simpsons is going up against an hour block of the Simpons (with one new episode)??
Nice scheduling! Jeez.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
In Bart's Comet, when the Bill to evacuate Sprintfield was shot down after Congress tried to tack on a pay raise:
Kent Brockman: I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work.
Now that I think about it...
Granted, nothing could be as good as the three year stretch from 92-94, but the last three years have been HORRIBLE. Please, get some decent writers again, or let the Simpsons die as graceful a death as it can still manage.
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"Remove the Stone of Shame!"
"Woo-hoo!"
"Attach the Stone of Triumph!"
"D'oh!"
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Which is lazy writing on the one hand, but on the other I think that episode is particularly amusing.
The Prisoner was undoubtedly drug-induced as is the majority of any culture worth having.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Man, that *is* a great episode, but where I lost bladder control was during the song, which I really think is the very best one:
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"It's like the square root of a million..." One would think this weren't slashdot...a call for simpsons' quotes and that isn't the first one. "yarr"
But I don't even believe in Jeebus!
I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.
Bring back Family Guy Damnit. Simpsons had its time, but Family guy was by far the greates animation ever to be on my television! Also, my fav episode is the treehouse of horrors when lisa makes her own race of people... hell it spawned a south park episode even... Simpsons did it!
Now it's a Saturday morning cartoon starring Captain Wacky (aka Homer).
I would LOVE a Saturday morning cartoon with a superhero named Captain Wacky!!!
By Day he is an ordinary accountant.
But when there is crime - when it is night - when the big April 15 crunchtime is over - then he patrols the street!
ALL FEAR CAPTAIN WACKY!
God is real unless declared integer
Ah! My Eyes! The goggles do nothing! - Rainer Wolfcastle as Radioactive Man. Up and at them! Up and atom! Up and at them!
when Proposition passes with a record 95% vote in favor.
... Democracy doesn't work!
When are people going to learn?
-- Homer J. Simpson, free-thinking anarchist, "Much Apu About Nothing"
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Thanks for pointing that out! There will be a reairing of it at midnight ET and a few more through the week.
I was at my mom's place when I saw that one for the first time. We were both in tears... For the record the line goes: "You did it nibbles! Now, chew through my ball-sack."
Even though the ending is pretty weak (Paul & Linda McCartney), I couldn't believe this one wasn't in the top 10. May have Homer's greatest conversation:
Lisa: No I can't! I can't eat any of them!
Homer: Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute. Lisa honey, are you saying you're *never* going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad! Those all come from the same animal!
Homer: [Chuckles] Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
Moe: Barney don't steal any bear while I'm gone.
Barney: What kind of a pathetic drunk do you take me for? -- *gasp* Somebody spilt beer in this ashtray -- *slurp*
"The words of the prophets are written on the Slashdot walls."
I was a "Life in Hell" fan before that, even.
funny how everyone here says that and then starts bitching, but I have to admit that when I watched a new episode a few months ago, I was amazed at the fact that they are still funny as hell.
You guys can whine all you want about the 'glory days'. And how milk used to cost a quarter...
The truth doesn't care what I think.
lol.. the simpsons didn't get less mature.. it's exactly as it was when it started... Remember.. the simpsons's don't age.. but you do... so ask yourself this... has the show changed, or have you?
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They got it wrong. Simple as that. How do you list the top 25, or even the top 5, Simpsons episodes without Hank "Ever see a guy say good-bye to a shoe?" Scorpio. EW has done a travesty to us all. I've written my congressman about this, seeking a Simpsons Fans Reparations From Entertainment World Act of 2003.
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Now the show seems so geared towards an age group far younger than mine, I hardly bother trying to catch it anymore.
Actually, my take on the show is that it went from being entertaining to bright college students who appreciate a good sitcom to being entertaining to insecure lower-tier college students that will laugh because it's supposed to be funny.
I felt bad when watching some of the newer episodes when I simply couldn't laugh at them. I sat and tried to think if there was something I missed...sadly, there didn't seem to be.
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While I agree that The Simpsons have been lacking lately, they are still much more entertaining than pretty much anything on primetime (IMHO, of course). Take for example this joke from an episode that I belive was new as of last month:
Bart is sitting on the couch and realizes that he has a paper on World War II due tomorrow. He takes out his note book and writes "WWII", then decides that much work warrants a break. So he says "Time to watch wrestling!"
The TV comes on and the wrestling announcer narrates: "Oh my God! Uncle Slam has just impaled Osama Bin Rotten with the American flag! But look out! Here comes The Secretary of Hate, Colin Ker-Pow!"
Maybe it is just because I was expecting much lamer material, but that joke literally made me fall off the couch and smack my knee on the coffee table. Certainly past its heyday, but certainly not ready to be "put out of its misery" as far as I'm conerned.
As for my favorite episode, I really have no idea, there are so many good ones. The short stories episode, the one were Ned's house gets destroyed and he flips out, and the episode where Selma (Patty is the lesbian one, right?) marries Troy McLure spring to mind.
Memorable quotes:
Bart: "Dad, why did you take me to a gay steel mill?"
Homer: "I don't know son, I don't know!"
Marge: "You know this isn't such a bad place once you get used to the druggings."
Homer: "Truly God's country."
Homer: "Look at this country! Hehe. YOU-ARE-GAY."
Homer: "What are you going to do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs that have bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you? Do your worst, Burns!"
Burns: "Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons."
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Well, they got Cape Feare, they got Treehouse of horror V, but they're blatantly missing some of the very best.
1. Homer vs. the 18th Amendment
2. Homer the Astronaut (thats not what its called, but you get the idea)
3. Simpson Tide
If you ask me, Homer vs the 18th Amendment is the best, period. The other two should have been on the list somewhere.
He gave a great talk, and clearly stated that the core audience of the Simpsons, the one that gets the sponsors and whatnot, is pre-teen kids. He claimed that the writers aimed to entertain that demograph, and all of the extra layers of humour stemmed from the writers attempt to entertain themselves.
Same goes for the guest stars - He said a lot of them came from writers on staff wanting to meet certain people (i.e. james taylor in homer goes to space episode)
Dave
My all time favorite is definitely, "Kentucky Fried Panda? But it's Finger Ling-Ling Good!"
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I love it when TV extends itself into reality.
Furthermore, {flame} Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment Season 8, Episode 818 is obviously the best episode ever. How it got left off the top 25 is a mystery to me{/flame}
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Mono means one, and rail means...rail.
Homer: "Your all human guinea pigs"
Guinea Pig: We prefer Italian Americans...
Best Halloween Special Ever....
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Did you notice that only one of the top 25 was from after 1997? The Simpsons have been on a steady downslide since then, and I blame the writers. They can't seem to tell a story anymore, and instead concentrate on filling the episodes with "wackiness." And it's usually not even clever anymore. Take for example the last "Treehouse of Horror." It really feels as if each episode is written hurridly, because the older episodes feel longer and fuller.
They aren't out of ideas, they're out of wit. If you want proof, watch the show. It's not coincidence that the worst episode was made in the last year or two.
--Stephen
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Homer: From now on, whenever people think of wood, they'll think of trojan [horse]
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...but the one on April fools where Bart puts Homer's beer in a paint shaker. Right as Bart jumps out to yell "April Foo..." --- BOOM!!! A mushroom (cloud?) of beer can be seen by Chief Wiggum on the other side of town.
The biggest security hole sits between the keyboard and chair.
-Andrew McAllister
There's nary an animal alive that can out run a greased scottsman. - Groundskeeper Willy
My favorite episode is actually one from the newer seasons - The Great Money Caper. A snippet:
Lawyer: Will you tell the court your whereabouts at the time of the
carjacking?
Willie: I was alone in me Unabomber-style shack; I had nothing to do with
that carjacking.
Lawyer: Carjacking?! Who said anything about a carjacking?
[galley and jury murmurs]
Willie: But, didn't you just say--?
Lawyer: *I'll* ask the questions here, Carjacker Willie!
Lawyer 2: Objection!
Judge: I'm going to allow it -- it characterizes the defendant as a
carjacker.
Now the lawyer interrogates Homer.
Lawyer: Mr. Simpson, could you describe your assailant to the court?
Homer: I told you, my memory is fuzzy! Fuzzy!
Lawyer: Fuzzy like Willie's beard?!
[galley gasps]
Homer: Yes, exactly! No, no, I mean, the whole incident is hazy.
Lawyer: Hazy like the moors of Scotland?!
[galley gasps]
Homer: Yes, exactly! [groans and tries to chloroform himself again, but
only has Mountain Dew]
"I am so smart...S M R T..."
Why is there no wacking day?
Barry White guest stars
"Did you bring the pre-wacked snakes?"
"Should I wack fast or slow, Marge?"
"Oooh slow and then fast!"
"There's nothing I like more than the sexy slither of the lady snake."
"Wacking Day was originally started as an excuss to beat up the Irish"
Not to mention, the classic wacking day kung fu practice by Homer, Bart driving Willy's tractor into superintendent Chalmers. Come on people it deserves at least an honourable mention.
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
"The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."
Agreed. Any episode with a catapaulted kitty should have made the top 25 easily.
Incidentally, for those of you with Bravo on cable, Inside the Actor's Studio will be airing a special with the main voices from the Simpson's.
Sunday at 8/7pm. http://www.bravotv.com/
Must....ready....TiVo.....
-FC
was 1403 - #DABF20 - Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade, where Bart and Lisa are both demoted/promoted to the third grade.
Best moment might've been when Homer meets his mom in 0708 - #3F06 - Mother Simpson:
"Homer: Ma, there's something you should know about me: I almost always spoil the moment. [a pelican lands on his head and spits a fish into his pants] I'm sorry.
Grandma: That's OK, darling: it wasn't your fault."
Best quote might've been in 0522 - #1F20 - Secrets of a Successful Marriage:
"Homer: Oh, and how is "education" supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine- making course and I forgot how to drive?
Marge: That's because you were drunk!
Homer: And how."
I thought the Poochie Show, the Simpsons Spin-off episode, and the City of NY vs Homer should've been left off and replaced by the 0810 - #4F02 - Springfield Files, 0522 - #1F20 - Secrets of a Successful Marriage, and 0903 - #3G02 - Lisa's Sax .
According to SNPP, the 300th episode, both airing and production, was last week's Strong Arms of the Ma, but Fox is claiming Barting Over as the 300th episode for some reason. I don't think I've seen WHY though.
Their pick for "Worst Episode" was on last night in my hometown. It was just fine, and their comment about it probably having been the best thing on at the time is absolutely true.
But is that one REALLY worse than the episode with the grease? The one they weren't even going to SHOW, for God's sake (IIRC)?
"Strong Arms of the Ma," which aired last week, is the 300th episode of the series. For some bizarre reason Fox is advertising the 302nd episode as the 300th.
"I think so, Brain, but 'instant karma' always gets so lumpy." - Pinky
"Decepticons FOREVER!!!" - Ravage
My favorite episode of all time is the one where Bart is writing love letters to his teacher. It has the Yo-Yo kings, a swear jar, Homer's only love letter to Marge, and his lame attempt of building a dog house. The country music episode should have also been mentioned.
THE WORST EPISODE OF ALL TIME has to be the clip show where they only show music numbers from past shows. The filler in between clips was just horrible!
Phil died in 1998 and the show hasn't recoverted until very recently. Gronig pushing Futurama in '99 probably added to the slump.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
This story reminds me how much I love Homer
JS: Mr. Hutz, do you have any actual evidence to present?
LH: Well, I have lots of hearsay and conjecture, those are *kinds* of evidence.
LH: I lost the case, so your pizza's free.
MS: But we won the case.
LH: That's ok, the box is empty.
And of course the "No(,) money down" gag...
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If you don't remember, the PREMIERE issue of Entertainment Weekly, a dozen or so years ago, had a cover story on the making of the Simpsons.
I guess the show must have lost its relevance when it stopped being shorts on the Tracey Ullman show, then.
Have all of the creative juices stopped flowing into the Simpsons? Or have they just had a bad run of writers?
I'm not sure what the difference between these two choices is. But there has definitely been not only a change in writing talent but also in attitude. I couldn't believe my eyes that someone voted "Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie" as one of the best 25. As a long time Simpsons fan, I was actually offended by that. The episode seemed designed to be a big "fuck you" to all the fans who were complaining about how the newer episodes were nowhere near as good as the past ones. I think the writers and producers would have been wise to listen to the feedback they were getting from fans. In fact, I just made this comment the other day about Star Trek. In the Poochie episode, Lisa finally goes off on a siloquoy (I know I spelled that wrong) about how Itchy and Scratchy is just as good as it's always been and that the falling ratings are just a result of being too successful for too long. This speech is obviously directed at unhappy fans of the Simpsons and telling them to shut the hell up and that their opinions are wrong (that the Simpsons is as good as it was in Conan's day). I couldn't believe the audacity of the writers!
Also, I don't understand what the hell they were thinking about the episode anyhow. The whole plot is that Poochie is a terrible character and makes I&S even more unwatchable. So then the writers of the Simpsons force us to watch these lame I&S clips and this is supposed to be funny? This is kind of like those awful "annoying man" skits on Saturday Night Live. I guess writers seem to think that shoving annoying stuff at us is going to make us laugh out of nervousness or something. As I see it, the entire I&S&P episode was designed as a "fuck you" to the fans and nothing else. It wasn't even designed to be funny. Why it got voted in the top 25 is beyond me.
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You've got: Canyonero, Homer burning all of his cash, Krusty's bender to end all benders, Rod & Todd finding a drunken clown on their front lawn & poking him with a stick, and, of course, my sig (and favorite quote).
Don't you hate pants?
And of course:
Too many laughs to mention here. WTFS
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Deep Space Homer is, in my humble opinion, the best single Simpsons episode. From Barney's tumble across the hard roof of the Pillow Factory to Kent Brockman's welcoming of our new insect overlords, the jokes are unprecedented in their density and quality.
I can't believe this episode didn't even make their list...
"Have you always been chick? I am open minded you know" -Otto to Selma(or Patty?) can't remember the exact quote but it made me laugh the hardest this show has ever done
Mmmmmmm, Sacralicious
Homer, after finding out the image of God on the ceiling was realy just a stuck pancake, decides to eat the once-known diety.
Click here or here.
Bart: But girls don't melt in your hands like an Eskimo Pie.
Millhouse: Oh yes they do!
What about Behind The Laughter??? That was a great rip off of Behind The Music. I was rolling on the floor during that episode. I'm disappointed.
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
... one of my favourite short gags is:
Homer agreeing with Stephen Hawking
Larry Flynt is right!
I think the chili cookoff episode (El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer) is pretty darn good and was sadly overlooked for the list. Johnny Cash. Guatamalean Insanity Peppers. Space Coyote. Hot pants. Marge smokes. Homer dances and whines. Homer trips out. "I hope I didn't brain my damage"
Its Different. Cool. Funny. How could they overlook it?
-Sean
It's been a long, tried and true tradition with most TV shows: the episodes int he early years are better than those toward the end of it's 'lifespan'. On that list of the Top 25, only one was in 200x, and very few even after 1997! Most of the best episodes (both in numbers and in rank) were from 1993-ish and before.
How can ANY self-respecting "best of" Simpsons episode list not include the immortal "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" episode? It was from the LAND of chocolate! Horst: Guten Morgen. I am Horst. The new owners have elected me to speak with you because I am the most non-threatening. Perhaps I remind you of the loveable Sergeant Schultz on Hogan's Heroes. later ...
Horst: [threatingly] We Germans aren't all smiles und sunshine.
Burns: [recoils in mock horror]
Oooh, the Germans are mad at me. I'm so scared! Oooh, the Germans!
[hiding behind Smithers] Uh oh, the Germans are going to get me!
Horst: Stop it!
Man 2: Stop, sir.
Burns: Don't let the Germans come after me.
Oh no, the Germans are coming after me.
Man 2: Please stop the `pretending you are scared' game, please.
Horst: Stop it! Stop it!
Burns: [brief pause, then resumes]
No! They're so big and strong!
Man 2: Stop it.
Horst: Stop it, Mr. Burns.
Man 2: Please stop pretending you are scared of us, please, now.
Burns: Oh, protect me from the Germans! The Germans...
Horst: Burns, STOP IT!
(thanks to http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F09.html)
Homer, after seeing Lisa's perpetual motion machine: "Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
Dan
Shelbyville kid: YOU'RE named Milhouse? Milhouse is my name, too!
Milhouse: But I thought I was the only one.
(they hug)
Milhouse: This is what it souns like . . . when doves . . . cry!
Okay, I got Linux installed. So where's the free beer everyone keeps talking about??
And now I suddenly have an overwhelming urge to fire up Kazaa.
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Also Harry Shearer's (who plays Skinner) least favorite episode. He was livid with the writers for throwing out eight years of character development in one fell swoop. It had one truly great line, though: Skinner, having decided to return to his roots as a cheap hood, rides his motorcycle past several kids and yells "Up yours, children!"
His ass is going to blow!
Homer:
"Welcome to the Internet, my friend.
How can I help you ? "
customer:
" I am interested in upgrading my 28.8 KBaud
Internet connection to a 1.5 MBit fiber optic T1 line.
Will you be able to provide an IP router, that's
compatible with my TokenRing Ethernet LAN
configuration ? "
(pause)
Homer: Can i have some money now?
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Hey...They just aired that one today..Uh.. over here in India.Seriously.
I've been a casual Simpsons fan for years. I don't watch it religiously. There are plenty of episodes I've never seen. But whenever I happen to have the TV on and it starts, I put aside all other plans I may have had for the upcoming half hour and laugh my silly ass off. I love The Simpsons.
As a result, I tend to see reruns more often than new shows, so I don't get to see them "in order", just randomly chosen from throughout the history. I think it's better that way. I haven't truly noticed a decline. Obviously there are some episodes that are funnier than others, but even the one that the article ranked as the worst episode is one that I recall finding quite funny -- although I agree that it was a bad knock-up of the older "Lisa's Wedding" episode, which is a classic in my mind.
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
I have always considered that episode to be the best episode ever, since fourth grade even... Dental plan! Lisa need's braces! Dental plan! Lisa need's braces!
This page was generated by a Barrel of Circus Midgets, and that is the way I like it!!!
I have seen very few Family Guys, but someone showed me this one, in which the father dispatches Hanson via about 8 shotgun blasts, and I spent the next 15 min on the floor laughing. Fortunately the guy who recorded it did so on TiVo, and I was able to repeat the scene.
Homer: I can't find the sugar for my coffee.
Scorpio [reaching into his pants pocket and pulling out a handful of sugar]: Here you go!
The rest was cut:
Scorpio: Do you want some cream?
Homer: uhhhh...no.....
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Lisa: You killed zombie Flanders!
Homer: He was a zombie?
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No he is entirely correct: The Simpsons actually started off as a very serious almost dramatic cartoon (some of the very early ones verged on depressing. Recall the one where Homer was going to kill himself by tossing a rock off the bridge. There was a whole series of moralistic episodes like that particularly in the first year), to going quite a few years with biting satire and commentary with a plethora of "inside jokes", to now being really a low-rent in-your-face kind of cheap humor (especially sexual humor, such as Marge's breast implants, or even Apu cheating on his wife). I am not one to write something off (I feel that many of the people who do so do it because they literally want to retain it as "theirs"), however I do think that the Simpsons writing team needs an enema. We knew there was a problem when one of the writing staff actually proudly boasted that he had never watched a Simpsons episode in his life. It is that sort of self-loathing that puts the writing on the wall.
"Competitive violent! That's why you're here!!!"
He gave a great talk, and clearly stated that the core audience of the Simpsons, the one that gets the sponsors and whatnot, is pre-teen kids
I would say that he is poorly misinformed, regardless of his association with the Simpsons. Proof? Watch an episode of the Simpsons and pay attention to the ads you see: Are they ads for toys and cheese strings? No almost universally they are ads for sports cars, underarm deoderant, etc. The trappings of an adult. Perhaps it's just here in Canada, but it is tremendously clear that advertisers seek the adult audience of the Simpsons.
Note: Although Fox is promoting Feb. 16th's celebration as the night the 300th episode is airing, it is in fact THIS episode that is the 300th by count.
Which is referring to last week's episode when Marge pumped some iron.
Trying is the first step towards failure.
At a conservative 50MB/episode, that's 15 gigabytes...
Any episode with a hotdog in it.
PI IS EXACTLY THREE!
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we have just lost the picture. But what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over, conquered if you will, by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. Would like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar cave"
Ants:
Ant 1: Protect the queen!
Ant 2: Which one's the queen?
Ant 3: I'm the queen!
Ant 1: No you're not!
Homer: Nooo! [his head smashed the colony, and the ants float free]
Ant 1: Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!
-Deep Space Homer
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"Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't go on strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed, thats the American way."
pork is not a verb
'Q' is for Dr. Tran
LH: Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film "The Never Ending Story".
I need a lawyer like that.
The cave fish would like to inform you that they are not webmasters and have not been deprived of their site.
They are little blind fish who have lst their sight
Thank You.
Dan
my nick says it all :)
Duly noted; that's what I get for blindly cutting and pasting. :-)
Babar
To my my mind, the Hank Scorpio episode ("You Only Move Twice"), where Homer goes to work for a supervillan, has to rank as one of the best, right up there with "Cape Feare". (It's also one of the few episodes were Homer is actually successful at his job.) And I also love The Prisoner parody episode ("The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"). I suppose you have to be a fan of The Prisoner to really apprecaite it, but really, what self-respecting geek isn't? ;-)
Worst episode: Homer and Burns go up a mountain on a team-bulding exercise, which is almost completely devoid of laughs. It was so bad I suspected had it in the can for years and only used it as an "emergency" episode when the Korean animators were unable to complete the latest one on time. Runner up: The episode where Bart shoots a bird and feels all bad about it, which is totally false to his character.
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man, my favorite line was from willie...
" i 'ate the dog.."
" and i 'ate the mess he left on the floor..."
i was roollin on the floor after that line..
I totally agree. The Simpsons has not been funny for at least 3 years. And I can get into low-brow stuff sometimes, but their low-brow is not funny either.
Question: When will season 3 be coming out on dvd? I'll buy it in a SECOND...
And the one where Lisa drinks the water at the Duff Gardens "It's a small world" ride and hallucinates madly. The writers definitely knew what they were talking about there, with those tracers...
The system has failed you, don't fail yourself. --Billy Bragg
Take out ITCHY & SCRATCHY LAND and THE ITCHY & SCRATCHY AND POOCHIE SHOW.
Insert the episode (sorry I don't know the show titles) where Lisa & Bart go to Duff World with Patty & Selma and the episode with the Itchy & Scratchy Movie. These were both better and funnier than the imitator episodes above that followed.
...but there may be a boogie man or boogie men in the house right now!
Bart: AAAIIIHH!!!
Cut to scene of Marge coming home in the late hours with a hole from a shotgun bast in the front door and the rest of the family hiding in the living room under a propped up mattress.
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I wouldn't mind downloading for a good week or so to get that file. Plus, you could cut out commericals, the opening scene, etc. 20 mins an epidsode. Or how about just zipping each season. 15 one gigabyte files wouldn't be all that bad. I would take the time to download them.
The laws of physics are on my side. YOU LOSE.
The Simpsons has definitely slid waaay downhill in the last decade (is the new staff the Family Guy crew perchance?)
I myself have long suspected this...does anyone know?
Liberal (adj.): Free from bigotry; open to progress; tolerant of others.
Krusty bets AGAINST the harlem globetrotters, Fat Tony tries to collect, and it ends with "Speak Softly Love" from "The Godfather..." it brings tears to my eyes.
the bit at the end makes it all worthwhile.
you can read all the dialoghere.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
(Homer finds $20 while looking for a peanut under the couch)
:)
Homer: "20 dollars? Oh, I wanted a peanut!"
Homer's brain: "With that $20 you can get lots of peanuts"
Homer: "Explain."
Homer's brain: "Money can be exchanged for goods and services."
Homer: "Woo-hoo!"
Classic.
Liberal (adj.): Free from bigotry; open to progress; tolerant of others.
Please. I've seen wurs spelling.
"I bent my Wookie!"
-Ralph Wiggum
There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat was dead. -V. Marchetti, CIA
I was amazed at how often the writers used monkeys, apes, etc. in the Simpsons, whether it was showing Homer's ape-like leanings, to MoJo, Homer's helper monkey. Some of the best feature Mr. Teeny, Krusty's cigarette-smoking pet. Mr. Teeny did a strip tease in "Day of the Jackanapes" (Krusty says, "Our Chimpendale's dancer's gonna give you the full monkey!") that was hilarious. I find it disturbing I can still remember that. Perhaps it was the lime-green speedos Mr. Teeny was wearing. For a list of Simpsons Simian references, check out: http://www.snpp.com/guides/simian.refs.html
I was surprised that "Lisa's Rival" didn't make the top 25 list...but more surprised that nobody on /. had mentioned it yet.
"You know what this is, boy? White gold! Texas tea....sweetener."
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H: All right brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you, so let's just get through this so I can get back to killing you with beer.
Brain: Deal!
H: Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-Tip!
and from a more recent episode
H: Bacon that sausage boy! Bacon it...
(After homer opens a beer that Bart had placed in a paint shaker causing an enormous explosion)
Lou: Looks like an explosion at the old Simpson's place. Should we check it out?
Chief Wiggum: You kidding me? That's three blocks away.
Lou: Looks like there's beer coming out of the chimney.
Chief Wiggum: I'm proceeding in on foot, call for backup.
Lou (on the radio): This is a code eight. We need pretzels. I repeat, we need pretzels.
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
Why was this worst?
Well, first, Jon Lovitz isn't funny. He destroyed the wonderful "News Radio" when he filled in for the dearly departed Troy McClure, umm, Phil Hartmann. "Opera Man" was funny for about 3 minutes.
This was a show to introduce us to "The Critic". This falls into the "Mork and Mindy" school of spin-off artistry. Take a massively popular show (in the case of "Mork" it was "Happy Days"), and throw a new character in simply to plug a new show that has nothing to do with the original show. These shouldn't even be called "spin-offs". Legitimate spin-offs, like the troublingly-still-popular "Frasier", "Trapper John, MD", "Lou Grant", or "Joanie Loves Chachi", show full fledged characters moving on with their lives after outgrowing their role on a previous show.
...Nothing interesting here. Just move along...
The one where Bart is looking at licence plates trying to find his name and only finds BORT.
"Who names their kid "Bort"?"
Then the other kid's name is Bort. The guy standing next to them is named Bort. Then, later there's a message over the intercom about how they're all out of BORT licence plates.
I don't remember exactly how it went but god it was funny.
Now if only the writers would pick up on that and say, "Maybe we should start doing that sort of thing again."
Krusty: Ah, nothing like a meal in a fine restaurant. Ah,
here comes the waitress.
[a waitress walks to Krusty's table. But this
"waitress" is really Lindsey Neagle]
Lindsey: [aside to Krusty] We're losing male teens. Can you
get jiggy with something?
Krusty: You're giving me notes while I'm on the air? That
tears it! [to audience] Folks, I've been in show
biz for 61 years, but now these jerks have sucked
all the fun out. I don't need twelve suits telling
me which way to pee.
Exec: Uh, for "pee," could you substitute, "whiz?"
Lindsey: Ah, I don't know; that could upset the Cheez Whiz(tm)
people.
Exec: I was just thinking that.
Krusty: I can't take it any more! Folks, don't miss this
Friday's show -- it'll be my last.
[audience gasps]
Exec: Quitting show biz. Uh, yeah, I like the area, but
where does it go?
Krusty: Get away from me! [runs off the set]
Exec: Wait! [chases him]
Lindsey: We have more notes!
*SNIP*
Exec: We have notes. Have you thought about Dave Chappelle? Destroy!
Supporting quotes: ." while doing cartwheels. Where WAS he going with that?. . .
Homer "I'll show HIM inanimate. Grr....."
Homer "There once was a man from nantucket. .
"In Rod we trust" on cover of Time
Kent Brockman "I for one would like to welcome our new ant masters and remind them that I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar mines" (complete with graphic of a big ant whipping someone in the background.)
and from the St. Patrick's day episode: Moe "OK, this is the busiest drinking day of the year, where are the designated drivers? BEAT IT! I've got no time for cheapskates."
I loved that episode, but where I saw it there was no Michael Jackson video. Instead it was the TV premiere (?) of the "Do the Bartman" video.
One of the things I used to enjoy about The Simpsons was how much they seemed to pack into each episode, and Bart the Daredevil seemed to pack more than anything I'd seen before or since - especially considering it ran significantly undertime to make space for the video.
Unfortunately it really did foreshadow more shark-jumping to come.
The other thing I used to love was that everyone would come running to the TV (I watched it in a campus den) to catch the beginning of the show (chalkboard etc) - apparently oblivious to the fact that they were being parodied every time by the family doing the same thing on their own couch. The show used to regularly deliver subtle insults to its own viewers for sitting and watching a silly cartoon. When it become too lucrative a franchise to be able to do that anymore, the shark was jumped.
"Who robs the cave fish of their site?"
Isn't that censorship? Let them have a presence on the internet. Quit censoring the cave fish. Remember, they are people too.
I have to disagree with one thing you said. I think "Homer's Phobia" is in my Simpson's top-5 all-time list. It's funny from start to finish (ok, the reindeer part sort of drags), has some classic lines, and was one of the first Simpson's episodes that handled a somewhat controversial real-world subject so frankly (homophobia). That episode is worth it just for the gay steel mill.
"Hot stuff coming through!"
"We work hard, and we play hard." [cue C&C Music Factory as the steel mill turns into a gay dance club]
and of course Homer's classic line to Bart:
"He didn't give you gay did he?"
I regret that they didn't mention one of my other all-time favorites, "In Marge We Trust". It's the one where Homer finds the box of Mr. Sparkle dishwashing detergent:
Mr. Sparkle: I'm disrespectful to dirt. Can you see that I am serious? Out of my way, all of you. This is no place for loafers! Join me or die! Can you do any less?
I think worst episode ever goes to the one with Mel Gibson. That episode is just painful to watch. The same goes for most Simpsons episodes with celebrities who play themselves.
The DVD with all eps is released here in the US April 15th.
Some sample dialogues:
andI guess you have to know India to appreciate these jokes!!!
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"Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. They're all lies, but they're entertaining lies, and in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer, is no."
How can you guys not pick "Bart the Lover"? Or as I like to refer to it, the swear jar episode?
stolen from www.snpp.com
Maude: Todd, would you like some mixed vegetables?
Todd: Hell, no!
Ned+Maude+Rod: [gasp!]
Maude: What did you say?
Todd: I said I didn't want any damn vegetables.
Ned: All right, that's it, young man. No Bible stories for you tonight!
Todd: [leaves, crying]
Maude: [to Ned] Weren't you a little hard on him?
Ned: Well, you knew I had a temper when you married me.
a classic...
Slashdot is proof that Sturgeon's Law applies to mankind.
Even though EW rated it as the worst episode *ever* of the Simpsons (a fact a lot of Slashdotters seem to question), it contains one of the best lines.
When all of the various representatives are gathered in the Whitehouse and the German rep. says:
(spoken in a bad "kaiser" accent)
"We Germans are a peaceful people..."
[K]
Leader: Detach the stone of shame!
Homer: Woohoo!
Leader: Attach the stone of triumph!
Homer: D'oh!
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For those with BRAVO, Inside the Actor's Studio will be having the cast of the Simpsons on this Sunday, February 9th at 8 pm (7 central)
For those planning on watching the Simpsons at 8pm Sunday, Bravo will be re-running it at midnight.
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
Favorite Simpsons dialogue:
[in the future, Lisa is being sworn in]
Man: I now pronounce you President of these United --
Reporter: Stop the inauguration! I just discovered our President Elect got an F in second grade gym class! [crows gasps; Lisa is handcuffed]
Man: In that case I sentence you to a lifetime of horror on Monster Island. [to Lisa] Don't worry, it's just a name.
[Lisa and others are chased by fire-breathing monsters]
Lisa: He said it was just a name!
Man: What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
Breakfast served all day!
I can't agree with the reviewer here. The show was MORE satiric at the start - it satirised everything about television and popular culture, which necessarily meant it was mocking itself and its viewers. At the beginning it was clear that Marge and Homer were bad parents, and Homer in particular was a bad person. As the series became popular (and a cash cow) they lost the ability to do that. No satire can survive its own success.
How many Simpsons fans really are the embodiment of Comic Book Guy? Think about it - if they weren't, would all those geeky in-jokes and references succeed? When the show was at its sharpest early on, every time you laughed you were laughing at yourself. Nowadays they just don't do that, mostly because they're too afraid to kill the golden goose. In this respect it's become just like any other show, helmed by fearful TV execs.
I also disagree that the show got "zanier". Zaniness works when it's imposed on a crazy kind of order - sorting that out is where the humour lies. After a while the attempt to be any was simply producing nonsensical scenes with no rhyme nor reason. Not funny, and most of all not satirical - just pointless slapstick and a lot of WTF.
The other way in which the show devolved was to become much outwardly meanspirited, and this is another reason the satire isn't self-directed at the show and its viewers any more. It requires a careful balance to coax people into laughing at themselves, and you can't be too mean. A lot of the stunts in the past five years or so have been basically Itchy and Scratchy for "real". It's like some sort of sick circular progression - now the show really is a dark parody of what it used to be.
The funniest (me thinks) is in the episode when the whole town (it seems) goes to a ski trip and Ned is wearing a tight (red) skiing suit:
Homer (Picturing Flanders): "Stupid, sexy Flanders..."
Esta es una firma en Espanol.
Now that episode really sucked. Not only did it represent absolutely nothing of The Simpsons, and not only were the characters totally different to their normal selves, but the whole concept blew, it was totally unfunny, and a waste of 30 minutes. That's the moment The Simpsons jumped the shark for me, I'm afraid.
South Park has done a good job of picking up the slack though, even though it's fallen on its ass in recent times.
mogorific carpentry experiments
...on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine!
Any, and I mean ANY, episode of family guy is about 10 times better than every episode of the simpsons shown since 1999, and most since 1997.
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It's hard to choose a "best" episode, so I won't try. But if asked to name the episode which made me laugh the hardest, it would be episode 3G03, titled "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala-D'oh-cious" :)
This is the Shary Bobbins episode, which is a great parody of the Disney version of "Mary Poppins." Those who haven't seen the Disney movie probably won't appreciate just how funny this episode is. (Based on the comments at the snpp.com episode guide I'd say that a number of people didn't get it for that reason.) This episode certainly has some weak moments (which probably keep it off a lot of "best episodes" lists) but it also has some of the funniest moments.. it's probably my favorite episode for the 1997 season, and it's probably better than some entire seasons.
And then of course there was the song "Cut Every Corner" which almost killed me. o/~ It's the American Way
-- Tim Buchheim
"There's so much I don't know about astrophysics, I wish I would have read that book by that wheelchair guy." or "Lisa's perputual motion machine is such a joke, it just keeps going faster and faster"
MegaMaid is CowboyNeal's mom!?
What about the one where Homer is flown off in a plane to do missionary work. I love that one.
:-)
"But I don't even BELIEVE in Jeebus!"
"Help me Jeebus!!"
And later it cuts to a Fox phone-a-thon to phone in and pledge money to keep the show on the air, lol
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Especially notable in the 1980's, where every damned sitcom family suddenly had a baby (already having several teenaged children), television is notorious for introducing new characters just to prop up sagging ratings. Often, the new character is somehow considered 'hip' or 'with it', or, in the case of the 80's, just oh so gosh-darned cute.
Seeing as how virtually every other Simpsons episode is a complete satire of modern pop culture, I'm amazed someone could miss that entirely.
Notice the 'Roy' character they suddenly introduced into the Simpson household (Yo, Mr. S!)?
As about the only longtime Simpsons fan left who doesn't seem to want to do nothing but bitch about the new episodes, it still surprises me how people will completely misinterpret the jokes in an attempt to find fault with the show.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
I don't remember the episode name, but that episode marked when I stopped taping all Simpsons, hence putting a stop to my collection which I started during the 3rd season (though I had watched season's 1 and 2, it was only during the genius 3rd season that I realized that these things had to be recorded and rewatched repeatedly).
So why was said episode so terrible? I'm not sure, really, it just was too random for random's sake (cf. Family Guy) and is it me or was the Simpson's starting to get more raunchy and puerile in their humor? Then there was the business about "the Simpson's get a horse?" blah blah comic book guy comes out with Worst Episode Ever t-shirt on and that was funny but it would have been funnier if the saying on the t-shirt wasn't true. My theory: the writers realized that the episode was so terrible that they threw that in there so fans like me would look like idiots when they pointed out that it was indeed the worst episode ever. Good thinking on their part.
Three other terrible episodes off the top of my head: Maude's Death, Homer becomes a missionary, the family goes to florida (the dueling part was all right), any episode in the last 4 or 5 years featuring celebrities, any moment in the last 4 years where they make a self-referential joke about the Simpsons.
Renewed for another 2 years? I hate to sound like a pretentious jerk, but the more popular the Simspons have got among the mainstream, the worse the show has become (admittedly, it was popular in the early years but in an ignorant this-show-is-so-edgy sort of way - it was only when the mainstream realized that the show was such a cutting satire of american culture (and how it bugs me to hear this tripe now) that it became hip instead of normal to love the show).
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The best epsiode is the one where Bart answers Mrs Krabbappel's (sp?) lonely hearts ad. The worst is the one with the racehorse and the jockeys.
Is everyone clear on that now?
Homer: "Quick someone, what's the number for 911"
My favorite quote
Jebus, Allah, Buddha I love you all! - Simpson, Homer
Capt. Lance Murdoch:...I will death-defy both nature and gravity by leaping over this tank of water, filled with man-eating great white sharks, deadly electric eels, ravenous piranha, bone-crushing alligators, and perhaps most frightening of all, the king of the jungle, one ferocious lion!
I personally love 'em. The episode where Marge got implants was hilarious. And the Hallowe'en episode is the best, next to where Homer dies from eating broccoli! Who didn't laugh when Homer is asking which clones know the way home, and then shoots them? That's one of the classic scenes, along with Sideshow Bob and the Rakes, and Football in the Groin (which is MY personal favourite scene, ever). And any line that Willy says, is the best.
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I'm not not licking toads...
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I'm going through the Season Two Dvds, and this is really where the show was classic. Bart the Daredevil should've been nearer the top. It's the quintessential Simpsons episode: great multi-branched plot, great family dynamic, great non-sequiturs and side-gags, and one of the best visual gags ever. Oh, and Truckasaurus.
Of course, that was also when the Simpsons still had real heart. Nowadays, it's just Homer's (often mean-spirited) buffoonery with some strained celbrity cameos and/or travel to exotic places as a plot device. If one more episode starts with, "The Simpsons are going to..."
The last season had some truly great episodes, such as the Prisoner and Run Lola Run parodies, but this season, I have yet to watch a single episode twice. I hate to hear myself say it, but I think the show's just run out.
Still, they had an incredible run, and for over ten years, they were the only TV that I kept up with besides the news. That's saying alot.
THE GOOD HUMOR MAN CAN ONLY BE PUSHED SO FAR
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 2F18
Ahhh... embiggens. A perfectly cromulent word.
Never fight naked, unless you're in prison...
is that Bart does all his own stunts.
Anybody want a peanut?
Apu cooks dinner:
Marge: "Ooh, Lisa is that too spicy for you?"
Lisa: "I can see through time!"
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Marge: Where are you going, Bart?
Bart: Mom, you won't believe this, but something you said the other day really got through to me.
Marge: Mmm!
Bart: And now, I am going to teach some kids a lesson.
Marge: I choose to take that literally.
Bart: [outside] Death to Shelbyville!
Homer:Yes, Bart's a tutor now. Tute on, son! Tute on.
Later in that episode
Marge: It's almost lunch time. Do you know where your brother is tutoring?
Lisa: Pfft. Tutoring? The only thing Bart's teaching is guerilla combat in Shelbyville.
Marge: Well, do you have a number where we can reach him?
Lisa: No, Mom, Bart and some kids ran off to wage war on Shelbyville!
Marge: [gasps] Homer! Come quick! Bart's quit his tutoring job and joined a violence gang!
My personal fav. The best one-liners and such. I don't even need to go into detail to describe it.
Ding dong, the witch is dead.
Legend of the Dog-faced woman.
Two more feet and I can fit it in the fridge.
Suggestion noted.
Marge, I want to be alone with the sandwich.
You're not going to eat it, are you?
[pause] Yes.
Aww, how can I stay mad at you?
Thank you, doctor.
Oh, I'm not a doctor.
Homercles cares not for beans.
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you must have ingested some crack at some point before that post!!!!!!
smoke more crack
Who'll save the wee turtles?
---several seconds later---
Help! Help! Save me from the wee turtles!!
"...I felt this incredible surge of power...like God must feel when he's holding a gun."
I drank what? -- Socrates
Homer: Twenty dollars? But I wanted a peanut.
Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: <very excited> Explain how!
Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
Homer: Woo hoo!
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The best one is from the episode where the kids are snowed in at the school.
Homer and Flanders are driving there to rescue them when they run over something in the road.
Flanders: "We just ran over something."
Homer: "Yeah, I hope it was Flanders."
I laughed my ass off for probably 5 straight minutes.
From the same episode, I spewed Dew through my nose when Skinner said (to the hamster/girbil/whatever): Quick, now chew through my ball sack!
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Am I the only one that enjoyed this episode.
There are so many funny bits.
Homer : No burning leaves without a permit
Guy burning leaves : But I've got a permit
Homer : Too late
The bit where the guns go off
Lenny: Someone Else
Abe : See old people arent useless after all
ha haha
Mo : Shut Up
Abe : Ive had my moment
Homer : I need to go home now to sleep
Wiggum : I too wil go home now for sleep also
Nelson (phone call):Stamp collection ha ha
Wiggum : Dig Up stupid!
I have always thought the vegetarian episode with the Paul & Linda Mccartney Cameo at the end (Don't know title) was the funniest episode ever, and was suprised not to see it in the list. The flying pig and Apu singing "Maybe I'm amazed" were classic.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
I think some of the newer episodes have gotten a bum rap they don't deserve just because most people think the show has passed its golden age. Some of the more recent ones I've really enjoyed (sorry, I don't keep up with episode titles):
The spring break ep. where they go to Florida. The waitress at the diner they hide out in is great. Also, in the non-syndicated version of the show the part where their car is stuck on the front of the train is a lot longer.
Homer: "Why isn't my baby gaining weight?"
Shrink: "Because it's made of plastic."
Homer: "I see..."
(I don't know why that exchange makes me laugh so hard, but it does)
The ep. with The Who and the changing area codes. Homer's got written on his hand "Lenny = White, Carl = Black" and he consults it before talking to them. Plus there's the whole exchange with the badger, which is sadly somewhat shortened in the syndicated version of the show but has to be one of the funnier moments on TV period.
Phoney McRingRing: "You're not stupider than a monkey, are you?"
Chief Wiggum: "Um.. how big of a monkey?"
Bart: "Dad, use the chlorophorm...!"
Homer (to bodyguard): "I'll give you this bottle of chlorophorm if you take us to see The Who."
There have been a few other gems in the past couple years I can't recall at the moment. While it's true the show isn't the guaranteed winner that it used to be it's still far and away the best show on television. I'll be parked on the couch every Sunday evening for as long as they keep making it.
Game... blouses.
Can't beat
'Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie, and one to listen.'
That's a pretty good pick for #1. I'm not sure I agree with it, but Homer falling to the floor and running in a circle (yes, lying on the floor) going "Who hoo !" is priceless.
...So many babies"
And where's "A Streetcar Named Marge" ? Homer is used to almost surgical effect in the main story, and Maggie in the Ayn Rand School for Tots is the best sequence in the entire series. The Great Escape bit is fantastic and...
Homer: "Maggie ! We've come to get YAHHHHHHH !!!!!!....
And I liked "Bart to the Future". the wedding episode was better, sure, but it wasn't the worst episode.
Other than a few I'm tired of, and KTVU, home of the technical difficulty, shows 'em 3-4 times a month for a whole quarter, -- the dipshits, I don't really have a worst episode per se. Some of them are lame, but even those rate higher than average for much else on TV these days.
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That's got to be one of the best episode (#166)... especially for those who grew up to Mary Poppins and the Sound of Music.
They originally wanted Julie Andrews to do the voice... that would've made it even more interesting.
Homer: Hey, they have the internet on computers now!
Or
(Bart falls out of a tree)
Bart: I think I broke my leg.
Nelson: Ha-ha!
Bart: No really. I think it's broken.
Nelson: I SAID Ha-ha.
I have to say that this isn't really true...in the early years especially Bart was portrayed as a bad kid with a good heart...episodes Bart Gets and F and Bart vs. Thanksgiving are good examples of this.
You're exactly right about both SP and the Simpsons. Many of the recent South Parks have been amazing. Crative, interesting, funny, provokative... and it makes you feel like there are other sane people in the world.
Maggie in the Ayn Rand School for Tots is the best sequence in the entire series. The Great Escape bit is fantastic and...
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Don't forget The Birds reference when Homer goes to pick up Maggie and has to walk through all the babies, then Alfred Hitchcock walking the 2 dogs in front of the school as Homer et al are walking to the car, the same 2 dogs he is walking onto a bus in The Birds
Sorry to geek out on the trivia, but it's another example of the type of stuff that is not present in current episodes.
And, to show just how much I love the Simpsons, my
He painted a unicorn in outer space. I'm askin' ya, what's it breathin'?
... That's the American way!"
Meh.
"What is that?"
M. E. H. Meh.
One of us...one of us...
hehe
(Surly biker dude): We both knew it would come to this...you and me, in the circle of death!
Marge: Grrrr....I just *swept* the circle of death
"I expected to get the bums rush" "Homer we don't have any bums around here, and if we did they'd be allowed to leave at thier own speed"
That's very perceptive of you Mr Stapleton and rather unexpected in a G Major
...but I cant resist. How could they leave out the Frank Grimes episode? Oh man that had me laughing from start to finish. Some articles have pointed to this episode as the "beginning of the end". The point in time that Homer officially becomes a total boob. Today's survey has a reference to Grimey. That one was a gem.
Sorry folks, just needed to get your attention.
Aha ! I didn't get the Birds reference, I haven't seen that for decades (drove through Bodega Bay 6 weeks ago :-).
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Professor Frink...this guy should get more apperances in the future! The best episode is where he is analyzing the secret ingredient to a flaming moe.... Frink: Brace yourselves gentlemen. According to the gas chromatograph, the secret ingredient is... Love!? Who's been screwing with the machine!?