SIMPSONS season 5 poll

for reference: SIMPSONS season 7 poll

on a recent re-watch i found myself completely shocked at how amazing season 2 was...

but for this season it's "$pringfield" definitely. Homer's wildly indignant "STRIKE THREE MARGE!" always kills me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FZYLJNNJlo

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57mcaICRyTQ&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD-LB9z6nxg

season 2 is an interesting season you can tell the writers were really getting a sense of the show's own sensibility, theres lots of tonal inconsistency even within episodes

this season is just bonkers good tho... favorite weird small moment is homer singing this odd 50s lounge-y song about 'you have to play it cool' to grandpa, the way the animation gets so cold & angular

cape feare

i think that inconsistency was what i liked. like, there's these totally sweet moments within the family (bart and lisa especially) offset with homer completely raging about something or other wackiness.

this season is insane

'rosebud' is just about perfect, but 'homer goes to college,' 'sweet seymour skinner' and 'deep space homer' are all contenders. hell, they all are. even episodes i always forget about, like that boy scouts one, are packed with amazing stuff.

my least favorite is 'secrets of a successful marriage.' homer and marge 'marriage crisis' episodes are so depressing.

i rank the good seasons 4 > 5 > 7 > 3 > 2 > 6 > 1 > 8, i think.

Fuuuuck...impossible to choose. Have the Rolling Stones killed.

Just yesterday at work, after dealing with a client in the packaging design business, my co-workers and I went off on a long riff on all the box factory business from "Bart Gets Famous." I cannot tell you how often, IRL, I break out the box dude's indignant "I heard that!" (In response to Krusty's "One day you're on top of the world, the next you're some schmuck working in a box factory.") It may not be the next episode, but it's given me so much joy I can't not vote for it. Plus, it's the episode that gave us "Yoink!"

Also, that season's THOH is one of the greatest, especially the Dracula segment. "Well, if it isn't little … uh, boy!" and "Oh, Lisa, you and your stories. 'Bart is a vampire,' 'Beer kills brain cells. Now let's go back to that...building...thingy, where our beds and TV...is" are all-time quotable territory for me.

this season did seem to give us a huge percentage of quotables.

"you gotta improvise, lisa! cloves, tom collins mix, frozen pie crust..."

HAIL
ANTS

vs

DIE
BART,
DIE

voted Deep Space Homer.

"In a way,you're both winners. But in another, more accurate, way, Barney is the winner."

"where's homer simpson?"
"oh, i'm afraid he couldn't...BEE here today."

my least favorite is 'secrets of a successful marriage.' homer and marge 'marriage crisis' episodes are so depressing.

yeah honestly this is really the only marginal episode imo. theyd already done a bunch of episodes centered around marge & homer's marriage already and this one was just overkill, it doesnt say anything new about their relationship or reveal anything interesting abt the characters & the ending is p forced and unearned. it still has plenty of killer jokes but its p thin

the only other episode i cant really see as a best/favorite is 'homer & apu' which is just so slapdash. & yet that still has a bunch of killer jokes and a really good song. actually a lot of these have song good songs

is homer and apu where apu gets fired?

I instinctively wanted to vote for "Homer goes to college" purely for "I AM SO SMART, I AM SO SMART, S.M.R.T....I mean S.M.A.R.T"

Which apparently was Castellanata actually flubbing the line but they kept it in.

"Mrs Simpson, Gary spilt his ear medicine".

But yeah this season is impossible to choose from.

Skinner: "His brand of gum, Doublemint. Trying to double your fun, eh, Bart? Well, I'll double your detention... Heh. I wish someone was around to hear that."

Every episode here is perfect. It's frankly uncanny; I mean, really, there just aren't words for it.

Think I might go with the treehouse of horror, since I tend to favour those by default. Otherwise I think I'd say Cape Feare.

Wait, I mistook ToH 4 for ToH 5 (which is probably my favourite episode ever); so Cape Feare it is!

"No one must know I dropped them in the toilet; not I, the man who drafted the Paris Peace Accord."

(the reprisal of having Kissenger on Futurama was equally delightful: "We have already seen too many body bags und ballsacks"

Season 4 would genuinely be impossible, but season 5 has a lot to choose from based on different criteria. "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" is for the sentimentalist "heart" fans (as are "Last Temptation" and "Sweet Seymour Skinner"), but "Cape Feare" ("Sincerely, Little Girl," and the one and only awesome time-filling repetition gag) and "Rosebud" (Cybersmithers) and the THOH and "$pringfield," &c. Times like this I wish my Jay Batman puppet hadn't been banned.

However, it's around this time that we see the shift into Jerkass Homer...

i never understood the 'jerkass homer' thing. homer's pretty consistently awful and selfish throughout the run of the series, and generally all the funnier for it.

that said, a couple of these episodes actually deepen his character in interesting ways -- the one where he considers having an affair with his co-worker is maybe the only time we see homer work out a moral dilemma entirely on his own, without some other character giving him a pleading expression, and 'rosebud' sees him willing to give up a fortune to make his daughter happy.

i think 'homer loves flanders' actually pulled off what 'homer's enemy' was trying to do -- demonstrating that what makes homer a hilarious character from a distance would make him an awful person to actually be around. it works better in the flanders episode because homer is clearly convinced that he's being a great friend and neighbor; he's not deliberately trying to annoy flanders the way he (sometimes) seemed to be with grimey.

freemasons rule the country.

Every episode here is perfect. It's frankly uncanny; I mean, really, there just aren't words for it.

Seriously. Could this be one of the greatest seasons in the history of television? Still haven't voted, but I'm starting to lean towards "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" for the Van Peebles reference and for "I know you can read MY thoughts, boy. Meow-meow-meow-meow, Meow-meow-meow-meow, Meow-meow-meow-meow, Meow-meow-meow." And for "Hurry up. My liver's failing," which I use in everyday conversation.

homer's pretty consistently awful and selfish throughout the run of the series, and generally all the funnier for it.

He wasn't so much selfish as well-meaning but bumbling, crass, and short-sighted. The whole jerkass argument is about how the oafishness no longer surrounded a core of magnanimity. In any event, "Rosebud" and "Last Temptation" reflect the older Simpsons-as-animated-sitcom moral center, and only one or two episodes (or a handful of moments in certain episodes) show him being abrasive and mean for the sake of being abrasive and mean.

Some homers, like elephants, are just jerks.

"Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" is the greatest Simpsons episode title ever!

little rudiger

"Homer's Barbershop Quartet"...just one of those perfect episodes

yeah thats a good pick, i like that ep a lot

honestly i still cant narrow it down to even a top five there are too many good jokes in all of them ://

I'm very fond of Deep Space Homer as it was the first episode I ever saw (lol UK) and I was frankly stunned by how funny it was.

this is tough....im going for the "homer loves flanders" episode....i love the T2 parody where homer runs after flanders` car with the 2 golf clubs

The problem with Simpsons polls, for me, is that I would literally have to watch the whole season to know which episode is best.

Otherwise my vote would weigh more heavily towards nostalgic plots instead of the amount of good gags. And really gags are more important. It's just impossible to remember all of them without having seen this season recently.

I do not approve of these Simpsons polls because too many votes are gonna be based on plot/nostalgia instead of gags.

I take polling seriously and maybe it's because I've taken college classes entirely dedicated to statistical things like surveys.

The Sideshow Bob episode, Cape Feare, gets the highest average rating (of season 5) on SimpsonsCrazy.com

No one who speaks German could be evil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GwRCbAvAqY

lol lorax sticking his neck out and saying what i wouldn't have the nerve to

Rosebud it is!

i actually just rewatched this whole season and was astounded by how good it is

bart gets an elephant, though, had me absolutely rolling. the homer in a tar pit scene is one of my favorites from the whole run of the simpsons.

Yeah, "have the Rolling Stones killed" + "I think I'm blind" + "Happy birthday, Mr. Smithers" = I'm voting Rosebud.

man, do all you guys own this box?

I own S1 thru 13 on dvd box actually.

i havent even watched an episode in years but s1 through s10 or so are laser-etched in my brain for all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8w2GcCUjBM

i own a 50mb internet connection.

For some reason every time I see Uter wield his bag of "Joy Joys" with the words "MIT IODINE!" on the bag, I crack up.

Don't think you're the only one, Trayce!

http://www.wtso.net/cat/11.html
^all the eps streaming online

i havent even watched an episode in years but s1 through s10 or so are laser-etched in my brain for all time.

Golden-Age Simpsons episodes bear repeated viewing like no other TV show before or since. It's like Richard Pryor's 70s albums: you think, "I've heard the jokes; why would they be funnier the second (or third, or fourth) time around?" And yet, they are. Sometimes exponentially so.

"We'll take the Spruce Goose!"

I guess it's the Spruce Moose. My memory is not the best these days.

Voted "Secrets Of A Successful Marriage" for this immortal scene.

Homer: Wait a minute...wait, that's it! I know now what I can offer you that no one else can: complete and utter dependence!

Marge: Homer, that's not a good thing.

Homer: Are you kidding? It's a wondrous, marvelous thing! Marge, I need you more than anyone else on this entire planet could possibly ever need you! I need you to take care of me, to put up with me, and most of all I need you to love me, 'cause I love you.

Marge: But how do I know I can trust you?

Homer: Marge, look at me: we've been separated for a day, and I'm as dirty as a Frenchman. In another few hours I'll be dead! I can't afford to lose your trust again.

That's just good writing.

OMG I also forgot about the scene in "Lisa v Malibu Stacey"

*computerised mr burns* "Hell-o smi-thers. You're ... quite good... at... tur-ning me on!"

I think the first act of Rosebud might be one of, perhaps the, best solitary act of the Simpsons.

hope i'm not the only vote for "homer and apu." i think people automatically gloss over it cause the title is bland and the episode is a low-key by S5 standards, but it's one of my favorites.

in fact a while ago i decided to transcribe every out-of-context reason it's great:

-"how much for your penny candy?" "surprisingly expensive!"
-BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK. Brought to you by BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK. (that dog can sell anything)
-Geezers in Freezers/The Case of the Cantankerous Old Geezer!
-and now a message from the church of latter-day saints: BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK
-No way man, no way man! Get yourself another patsy, man! No way am I wearing a wire!
-oversized novelty hat
-Homer, that hat's been with the station for twenty years. He had one day left til retirement.
-anonymous woman making her children run frantically from Apu because he sold bad meat
-And you can no longer tell people about our fried pickles.
-bums tickling each other. “Who needs money when we got feathers?”
-Homer laughing at standup comic making fun of white people: It's true! It's true! We're so lame!
-official pose of apology (many have died needlessly)
-Homer: You can't sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos.
-What? That's your job! If he starts doing Lisa's wood-chopping…
-JAMES WOODS
-james woods travels through time
-Attention Monster Mart shoppers: just a reminder that we love each and every one of you.
-barney killing the life-size Mrs. Butterworth (IT'S ALL HAPPENING AGAIN!)
-Jimbo: Actually, I thought it was a little labored. (and then james woods almost beating up jimbo)
-cholesterol moves from homer's stomach to his brain
-the song: “sorry 'bout that salmonella!” and "the kwik-e-mart is really—D'OH!"
-homer understands the length of a kilometer but not a mile
-homer and apu taking mules to the springfield airport
-FRICKIN NO-GOOD MOTHERFUCKING CHEESE
-Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart? Yes. Really? Yes. You? Yes.
-I've learned that life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.
-apu thinks he's a hummingbird
-James Woods: Hey pal. I assure you, if I tried any funny stuff, you'd be in hysterics.
-JAMES WOODS

So does someone who knows how to do those fancy ILX polls want to set up an all time simpsons poll?

-I've learned that life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.

Hahhaah yessss.

Please lets not "playoff" poll simpsons stuff :(

That line just made me, literally, laugh out loud.

It reminds me of "I think we hit something!" "I hope it's Flanders!"

Oh, shit, I forgot Secrets of a Successful Marriage has Homer living in the treehouse with the "replacement Marge" he makes out of a plant. And the immortal "Eat the pudding eat the pudding eat the pudding eat the pudding eat the pudding …"

Please lets not "playoff" poll simpsons stuff :(

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Sunday, June 26, 2011 6:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I didn't mean playoff polls, I meant as in these types of polls THE 1990s POLL RESULTS - THE ALBUMS

lol lorax sticking his neck out and saying what i wouldn't have the nerve to

this is p lol considering you posted a bunch on the other simpsons poll thread

anyways i have been rewatching these so my opinions are solid

3. wheel
2. tv
1. simpsons season 5

rosebud

Missed out "Are we in India yet?"

-Jimbo: Actually, I thought it was a little labored. (and then james woods almost beating up jimbo)

That sequence has another everyday-use line: "I'm me?"

Homer: [grabbing Marge] Yer gotta redda kid forrad yarrar!
Marge: Homer, what is it? Slow down!
Homer: [slowly] J'yer gedda ferda redderarrar.
Marge: Think before you say each word.
Homer: You broke a promise to your child.
Marge: What?
Homer: You promised Lisa to help her with her costume. You made her
cry. Then I cried. Then Maggie laughed -- she's such a little
trooper.

aside from the aforementioned homer in a tar pit scene, some other great moments of bart gets an elephant

Bart: Uh, it's hard for us to leave when you're standing there, Mom.
Homer: (cheery) Push her down, son.

"Pyle" "Shazam!" "Pyle" "Shazam!" "Pyle" "Shazam!"

Homer: Bart! With $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all
kinds of useful things like...love!

Don't praise the machine

Homer: I only have two questions: "How much", and "Give it to me".
Warden: Well, we really can't offer you any money, we're a non-profit
organization.
Homer: So your bid is zero.
Warden: Well, we like to think of it as --
Homer: Thank you.
Warden: You know I really think --
Homer: Thank you.

Like people, some of them are just jerks.

Here's the keys / Elephants don't have keys / I'll just keep these then.

I rewatched Bart Gets Famous last night to make sure I was secure in my vote, and oh, man, the gags.

-- Skinner trying to call Marge at home, and her missing the phone because she's in the shower. So he calls Homer at the plant, and he almost misses the call because he's also taking a shower.
-- Kent Brockman, practicing the news, being unable to pronounce "Kuala Lumpur" and replacing it with "France."
-- Homer's sudden contempt for the poor.
-- This:

Krusty: Aw, heck: now where am I gonna get a danish?
Bart: Here's a danish, Krusty!
Krusty: Gimme, gimme, gimme! [devours it] Now that's danish! Where'd
you get it?
Bart: I stole it from Kent Brockman.
Krusty: Great! [realizes] Uh, he didn't touch it, did he?
Bart: No.
Krusty: Good job, kid! What's your name?
Bart: I'm Bart Simpson. I saved you from jail.
Krusty: [not remembering] Er, I...
Bart: I reunited you with your estranged father.
Krusty: Er, uh, I don't know...
Bart: I saved your career, man! Remember your comeback special?
Krusty: Yeah, well, what have you done for me lately?
Bart: I got you that danish.
Krusty: [grateful] And I'll never forget it.

now i want a danish

and you're forgetting the best part of that bit - "yoink"

ALso:

Bart: Can I, Mom? Can I take the job?
Marge: Well --
Homer: Why not? I remember my first after school job. I was in a
band.
[Flashback to Homer wearing many instruments and holding a
guitar]
Hello, everybody. I'm Archie Bell, and I'm also the Drells.
I've got a new song called "Tighten Up," and this is the music
you tighten up with!
[starts playing; everyone leaves, and an organ grinder chides
him]
Giuseppe: Hey, what's-a matter you? You crazy kid, you chasing away my
business-a.
Homer: Buzz off, Giuseppe.
Giuseppe: [to his monkey] A-Pepe, go for the face-a!
[The monkey does so, and Homer falls over and screams]
Yes, son, you can have an electric guitar just like your old
man.
Bart: Dad, I'm asking if I can get a job.
Homer: [condescending] Gig, son. When you're a musician, a job is
called a "gig".

Lisa: Forget it, Dad. If I ever become famous, I want it to be for
something worthwhile, not because of some obnoxious fad.
Bart: Obnoxious fad?
Homer: Aw, don't worry, son. You know, they said the same thing about
Urkel, a -- that little snot boy! I'd like to smash that kid!

modern slang has changed that last joke a lot

Krusty: Bart, I need to get your fingerprints on a candlestick. Meet me
in the conservatory, chop-chop. Don't worry: everything's gonna
be aaaall right.

Voted for the rakes. Best gag the Simpsons ever did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmNObROcBOo

lol lorax sticking his neck out and saying what i wouldn't have the nerve to

this is p lol considering you posted a bunch on the other simpsons poll thread

― ice cold cræzy (Lamp), Sunday, June 26, 2011 9:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

not really, no, there's no particular irony or contradiction there.

All time.

-xpost-

this season is all gold

I remember at the time when this season first aired I absolutely hated this season and I hated the box factory episode and I hated how bumblebee man would yell "Aye chihuahua! Woo woo woo!" and we all just felt "They're running out of ideas these are stupid unfunny wacky jokes". And I wasn't alone! If you go to snpp.com you can see reviews submitted by fans on usenet right after the episodes first aired, and you'd expect every episode to get an A, but they are HARSH! They're particularly nasty towards the "Skinner joins the Army" episode. I do remember that that particular received a lot of unnecessary hype because it was their 100th episode. But it's just weird that we were right in the middle of the greatest TV show ever at its pinnacle and we all just completely shrugged it off.

uh, not all of us

haha, SNPP reviews of 'last exit to springfield':

Overall, a very good episode.

A solid episode, though nothing spectacular. The return of Burns and Smithers was welcome, but the animation of them wasn't the best.

Not a classic, but a fine episode nonetheless.

moral: ppl who were on the internet in 1993 should be ignored

fans on usenet right after the episodes first aired

this was a very, VERY small subset of viewers

I don't recall hearing a lot of irl grumbling until like season 9 or so

people online bitching about perfectly quality television shocker

xposts

NEW BOARD DESCRI oh fuck it

Oh man, forgot about the box episode.

"My boy is a box! A box!!"

or some similar freakout by homer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II3Wt22rDE0

Watching 'Rosebud' and why on earth did i not vote for the episode with the Ramones in it?

Hah "That rare first draft of the constitution with the word 'suckers' in it"

They're particularly nasty towards the "Skinner joins the Army" episode.

That has one of the all-time best background/sight gags: the Kwik-E-Mart K landing behind Skinner and Bart.

Homer's voice breaking at the very end of that box clip makes it for me.

the best part of the box gag is when he's about to tell marge about bart being a box when bart walks in

cape feare

― buju danson (Princess TamTam), Saturday, June 25, 2011 10:10 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

xp not only that, Bart says, "Hey, that's my lucky red hat sitting on top of a double-corrugated, eight-fold, fourteen-gauge box1"

the end of Homer The Vigilante is puyfect.

The usenet comments (which are whats on SNPP) are basically where comic book guys "worst episode ever" and suchlike attitude comes from, that was the writers paying homage/having a poke at alt.simpsons (or whichever borad it was).

honestly can't wait til my kid is old enough to watch the Simpsons with her

Homer's brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how.
Homer's brain: Money can be exchanged for good and services.

^ which is preceded by the brilliant "Ew! Slimy! Ow! Pointy! Ah! Moving!"

"money can be exchanged for goods and services" is one of those lines that i use on a regular basis

great Marge line: "I know you think the Junior Campers are 'square' and 'uncool,' but they also do a lot of neat things, like singalongs and flag ceremonies!"

Weeeeellll, if it isn't the leader of the Wiener Patrol, boning up on his nerd lessons!

My favorite trivia about Deep Space Homer (from Wikipedia)

A copy of the episode is available for astronauts to watch at the International Space Station.

I still use "Egghead loves his booky-wool!" all the time.

Ugh, "booky-wook." Also, "Godspeed, little doodle, Godspeed."

isn't it booky-book anyways?

You are not my son.

semi-arbitrarily decided to vote for $pringfield based on this line which just popped into my head:

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!

Marge : What happened here?
Homer : Oh, nothing, Marge. Just a little incident involving the Boogie Man. Of course , none of this would've happened if you'd been here to keep me from acting stupid.

how many ilxors are there whose names are stolen from simpsons jokes? i'm sure there is more than myself and mr snrub

having rewatched a bunch of these since this poll started my top 5:

homer the vigilante - lots of good gags but the parody of its a mad mad mad mad world at the end puts it over the top
rosebud - expert construction non-stop lols
cape feare - ~rakes~
bart's inner child - 'we've made a false idol of this brad goodman'
lisa vs malib stacy - kinda sentimental nod to how seriously the show used to take lisa & her concerns

I wish they taught shopping in school

Aw a hoy hoy I always hoped you were just a big Graham Bell fan.

how many ilxors are there whose names are stolen from simpsons jokes? i'm sure there is more than myself and mr snrub

Mine is derived from:

Homer, answering the front door and seeing Ralph: "She's in the can, go away."
Ralph: "Yes sir! I'd do anything for Lisa!"
Homer: "Anything, eh?"
[cut to Ralph on the roof, spreading tar]
Ralph: "Mr. Simpson! The tar fumes are making me dizzy!"
Homer: "Yeah, they'll do that."

Haven't seen the whole "inner child" episode lately but all the Brad Goodman scenes are so great. I have trouble not breaking down just from reading the words "little Rudiger."

"There's no trick to it; it's just a simple trick!"

"Stay the course, big Ned, you're doing super!"

"Treehouse of Horror" reached its apex here.

"There's no trick to it; it's just a simple trick!"

quotes you have incorporated into your everday speech etc

"Bogeyman - or Bogeymen!"

Went to look up a quote from the Malibu Stacy episode and nearly spat out my coffee at "Malibu Stacy: America's favourite eight-and-one-half-incher!" As well as the forgotten detail that she was originally made out of dried onion meal. It used to be so easy...

cape feare - ~rakes~

the first time this was on, i was 13, and i honestly could just not control my laughter -- i seriously remember the night this was on SO CLEARLY.

if ilx allowed avatars mine would be Disgruntled Goat

Old Man Yelling At Cloud

which episode is that from? i have watched 100s since i once saw it and never seen it since ;_; its like it doesn't really exist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Key

thankg u!

from possibly the worst ever season of the simpsons!

more like "worst yet" I'd guess

ugh they were already re-treading plots by then

Season 13 had some good eps. I'll rep for "The Frying Game" at the very least, for the screamapillar and Homer's meals on wheels. ("Now, let's not get into who smells like what...")

the first time this was on, i was 13, and i honestly could just not control my laughter -- i seriously remember the night this was on SO CLEARLY.

That was my first big Simpsons moment too. First time I saw it it seemed like he was stepping on those rakes for five minutes.

rakes wasn't an instant classic moment for me. i do love when they cut to homer inside the boat and you can hear one more thwack and bob's groan in the background.

quotes you have incorporated into your everday speech etc

i didn't realise i was so sad and annoying until in reading through these threads i realised how many of these i have. :'(

(my switch from the simpsons-ref display name was evidently untimely.)

its merdy i think everyone in the western world does it now

simpsons can't hold a candle to tom n jerry in rakes dept

nor racist stereotypes for that matter

That has one of the all-time best background/sight gags: the Kwik-E-Mart K landing behind Skinner and Bart.

That right there is one of my alltime, most loved gags in the show ever. So perfectly timed and understated.

Rewatching Homer's Barbershop Quartet. Not as funny as last time I watched it... lotta the jokes don't have much depth beyond "Beatles reference." But I love this one:

Skinner: Gentlemen, Us Magazine just came out with its "What's Hot and What's Not" issue.
Homer: Are we hot?
Skinner: We are not.

and hell if "Baby On Board" isn't a great song.

it's the banjo that really makes it

Baby on board
something something
Burt Ward

Because of this thread, I've just spent the past hour compulsively zooming through the wiki summaries of Simpson episodes.

Damn you, people!

snpp.com is a much more insanely comprehensive resource. Tho sadly it kind of stops after season 14. I think thats about when Usenet fell over into a hole.

barbershop episode features the amazing plate of infinite brownies (would love a list of similar corner-cutting moments including roger myers jr, bart and lisa and walking past the same cleaner 3 times)

That second one was intentional though.

But yeah I love noticing animation goofs and crappiness. In "$pringfield" when theyre having the town meeting theres this one old man on the left, who keeps turning his head round (to look back at marge when she speaks) and turns his entire head round while his body faces forward. Ive seen that episode a jillion times and only noticed that last night.

Nerd 2: Come! You must be tired from the chase. Oliver! [claps]
Bring our friend a hard-boiled egg and some prune juice.
Martin: Finally, Bart's one of us!
Everyone: Excelsior!

Thank you, Mr. Medical Science-Type Person!

(Bart as Jerry was jaw-droppingly brilliant on first viewing...hell, it still is)

Was there a season 4 poll yet?

I guess Yo La Tengo must be fans of the The Simpsons, because they have a song called Let's Save Tony Orlando's House, and in the episode Marge on the Lam there's a reference to a telethon with the same name. Weird coincidence, since I was just listening to that album earlier and am watching that episode now.

how many ilxors are there whose names are stolen from simpsons jokes?

Ahem.

YLT also did a version of the theme tune one episode. Um... I forget which one now, but it was all psychedelic.

Possibly the Homer hangs out with the hippies ep?

'Leee' is stolen from a simpsons joke?

Leee Carvalhoo.

wait that's not how you spell his name. I guess that scuppers my Leee CarvalHOOS add-on.

leee was making a joke about being matt groening's cousin

Robert Goulet: Are you sure this is the Casino? Mr. Burns' Casino? I think I should call my manager...
Nelson: Your manager says for you to shut up!
Robert Goulet: Vera said that?

YLT also did a version of the theme tune one episode. Um... I forget which one now, but it was all psychedelic.

It was the one where Homer worked on a farm with George Carlin and Martin Mull. Totally forgettable episode. But YLT were (are?) huge Simpsons fans. Their newsletters in the early 90s were lousy with Simpsons references, and they gushed about Australia (on their first tour there) being "the most Simpsons-aware place on earth."

Other musicians who dig the Simpsons: in his commentary for "A Tale Of Two Springfields," Roger Daltrey talks about being completely starstruck on meeting Dan Castellaneta. "It's the guy who does Homer, standing right here!"

It was the one where Homer worked on a farm with George Carlin and Martin Mull. Totally forgettable episode.\

No way. The whole opening bit with Mr. Burns trying to make the recruitment film is like all-time for me.

OTM. So many good bits in that episode: "In a way the 60s ended the day we sold that van: December 31st, 1969." Also, the hippies' reaction to Grandpa Simpson at Woodstock: "Get a load of Captain Bringdown."

leee was making a joke about being matt groening's cousin

what's the extra e for?

Yeah I love the hippies episode! Sure it's not pinnacle canon material but it's good fun. Especially the bit where everyone's drank the peyote fruit juice and grandpa and Jasper are sitting on a park bench, giggling for ages, and then Abe says "We are soooo old". Cracks me up.

In retrospect (and with the 10 years of crappy episodes that followed), I guess it doesn't seem so bad, but the show had been on an insane roll just a year or two earlier. This was one of the episodes that felt like they'd dropped off a cliff.

Somebody please explain to me the "Freemasons run the country!" joke.

he is paranoid about lots of stuff and paranoid people think that freemasons run the country

/ he's being howard hughes

From the Wikipedia synopsis for Cape Feare: "...Sideshow Bob comes out from under the car. In doing so, he steps on the teeth of a number of rakes repeatedly, causing the rakes' handles to swing up and hit him in the face. At this point, Bob develops a hatred toward rakes."

Love the inclusion of the last line, as though it's a vital character development moment.

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Didn't vote for "Marge On The Lam," but Bart's lunch -- "pack of sugar and peanut butter smeared on a playing card" -- is one of my favorite lines of the whole series.

"Oh Margie, you came and you gave me a turkey
On my vacation away, from worky"

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first among equals?

Man, these results seem crazily unbalanced to me for what is a top-to-bottom great season.

LUV
HĀT

ooh ice cream ville

Suprised "secrets" got so many votes when it was reasonably heavily panned in this thread.

Oh wait lol 2 is not "so many". Its early. NM.

on the commentary track for "Cape Feare" they mention that a lot of the funniest parts were added to the animatic after the script was officially finished. the rakes and the hms pinafore particularly.

"Burns' Heir," while not the best of the season, is loaded with great gags. This has entered my Jell-O vernacular:

Burns: Oh, this day, you can have anything you want to eat. Even...some sort of gelatin dish. It's made from hooves, you know.

Somehow I had completely forgotten this gag from $pringfield and it's been making me laugh whenever I think about it for the last couple days.

Homer's photographic memory

And then I said to the President, "Get this!" https://t.co/u0wo9OVVmA pic.twitter.com/QiewUL7Qes

— Brioche 🛬💥🏝️🥥 (@BriocheWindows) August 14, 2021

“SHH! i’m trying to teach the baby to gamble!”

the way homer says this line is just amazing

$pringfield is my favorite simpsons episode probably

How have I completely forgotten this exchange in the cat burglar episode:

“Any sign of the burglar yet?”
“He’ll show.”
“How’s that?”
“It’s his job.”
“How’s that?”
“He’s a burglar.”

DUN, DUH-DUN DUN!!!

“It smells funny in there.”
“No it doesn’t.”