HELLO, DEAN? YOU"RE A STUPIDHEAD: The Simpsons Season 5 Poll

Everything here is perfect, but for me, it's gotta be Cape Feare

Cape Feare / Homer Goes To College / $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) / Deep Space Homer / The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Beginning of the end for me, tbh.

IV was the best Treehouse of Horror.

Still ... BOY YOU WANT SOME BROWNIES BEFORE YOU GO TO BED?!?!?!?!

Barbershop - "By the many arms of Vishnu, I swear it is a lie."
Feare - "Sincerely, Little Girl"
Rosebud - "Have the Rolling Stones killed."
Last Temptation - "Kids, did anyone pray for giant shoes?"
Sweet Seymour Skinner's - Sentimental. <3
Heir - "But my mom says I'm cool..."

mmmm...forbidden douuuuughnuuuuuuttttt

HOmer Loves Flanders has one of my favorite Lovejoy bits:

"Before I get started on today's sermon entitled, "What Ned Did," I'd like to congratulate Homer Simpsons on his recent charity work."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKbFb6TPVEA

ooh, he card read good.

this is too hard :'(.

"Well, if it isn't the leader of the wiener patrol, boning up on his nerd lessons"

Yeah, this is gonna be tough though. Probably half of these could be my #1. A few months ago I got really into the gambling one, where Mr. Burns is losing his mind and turning into Howard Hughes.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpc3dbqEg01qzrq9po1_500.gif

13th Floor Elevators to thread

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

TRAMAMPOLINE! TRAMPAMPOLINE!

Not as consistent as 3 & 4, but the highs are higher imo.

lol Phil, I've been quoting that Homer Thompson thing for like the last year (mostly cuz me and my bro think it's funny). forgot that was this season!

"I THINK HE'S TALKING TO YOUUUUUUU"

"Now, at the risk of being unpopular, this reporter places the blame
squarely on you, the viewers!"

"I call him Gamblor!"

'Homer and Apu' amazing as well!

Anyone who has a single critical word to say about any of these is a monster

"It's the same exact joke. What gives, Leo?"

"homer and apu" always gets forgotten, probably bc of its title

if it were called "james woods takes over the kwik-e-mart and some other stuff" it might ring more bells

I still think it's funny how the Simpsons did the whole James Woods and Adam West thing prior ot Family Guy. also FG stole the "Hit me" scene almost verbatim.

This was the season that was running when my parents finally got Sky, so I have extraordinarily fond memories of it.

xposts: omg phil that whole exchange is gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CWK5Tzss8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKZ2sOMAGsw

so glad someone else said "beginning of the end" before i did.

no way

even s6 was awesome

Bart as Jerry Lewis was jaw-droppingly brilliant. Also, "Foul temptress! I bet she thinks 'Ziggy's gotten too preachy, too!"

Still, picking a favorite is absolutely impossible.

This season also has probably the best all-time Kent Brockman moments:

"-ockman here at the Springfield County courthouse"

Commentary on this is pretty funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKXdzuhT3Uc
Borgnine said to the producers, "But kids wouldn't have seen 'From Here To Eternity'!" "Um...sir, that's the joke."

Love Boy Scoutz 'n' The Hood just for giving me "Godspeed, little doodle," which I use IRL when friends leave the office to use the men's room.

lol

Kent's breakdown in Marge of the Lam is another classic: "IT'S IN REVELATIONS PEOPLE!"

Gone for that. Hutz as babysitter might be his finest turn.

"Mmm, engine-black eggs. If we can keep these down, we'll be sitting pretty"

"Quiet! I can't hear the eggs!"

I think this is the first season where my reactions were less ha-ha funny and more jaw-droppingly awestruck. When Homer started eating potato chips to "Blue Danube," I just said out loud, "No. Fucking. Way."

take that bitterman

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

Oh, god, the TV movie in Homer Goes to College! "As you know, Dean Bitterman, I AM the President of the United States."

Love it when Mr Burns reminisces about "that crippled Irishman" and laughs and sniggers all night. Particularly the contented little sniffy-laugh in bed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTMn-dLVbU

The "I used to be the bass player for the Pretenders" joke always irrationally bugged me. So...you're Pete Farndon? Because he's dead.

it's "engine-block eggs" i thought, but google once again shows me that hearing is a variable

only an "engine-block" is a thing and an "engine-black" isn't so i don't get it otherwise

to be fair the pretenders have had a lot of bassists since farndon

let's not forget my favorite song

I AM SO SMART
I AM SO SMART
S M R T

PS when voting do not forget the whole box factory sequence in Bart Gets Famous.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5fw7yxhQ31qa0tl6o1_500.jpg

"engine-black" cos the engine has blackened them, hence they'll difficult to keep down. "Engine-block" totally makes sense but it had never occurred to me. My version is funnier though!

i just flipped cos i thought this was gonna be another "that's where i'm a viking!" moment. Google says you're not alone with your version

Kent's breakdown in Marge of the Lam is another classic: "IT'S IN REVELATIONS PEOPLE!"

http://www.mundosimpson.com.ar/imagenes/technical/1f03.jpg

let's not forget my favorite song

I AM SO SMART
I AM SO SMART
S M R T

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, November 10, 2013 5:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That was ad-libbed by Dan Castellaneta. He said that inhabiting Homer's character lowered his intelligence, hence the misspelling. The producers thought it hilarious, and left it in.

ha!

"water water everywhere so let's all have a drink"

I imagine coleridge was taught on one of the few days homer managed to stay half-awake.

Actually the story I heard wasnt that Castellanata ad libbed it so much as genuinely made the mistake! And so they left it that way.

Nothing will ever beat:

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GREASE ME UP WOMAN!

The last season where I look at the titles and have just nothing but warm feelings and memories of amazing moments, not to mention stuff I quote on virtually a weekly basis, e.g. "in another, more accurate way" as quoted above. Don't really know how to choose. Years ago I would have said "Cape Feare" in a heartbeat but I may have watched it one too many times. "$pringfield" is probably my front runner at the moment...hm.

Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?

Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that.

Kent: I see. Well, what do you say to the accusation that your group has been causing more crimes than it's been preventing?

Homer: [amused] Oh, Kent, I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes.

Kent: [pause] Well, touche'.

"It's not just a megaphone dad, it's the Rapmaster 2000"

'IT'S HAMMER!'

SAY IT FRENCHY! SAY CHOWDAH!

Can't decide. I am considering voting for Barbershop. "There was nothing in Al Capone's vault/But it wasn't Geraldo's fault!" Sweet Seymour Skinner is another favourite. It has the funniest Act 1 ever.

I think this time I might actually remember to vote, since I think I forgot in the last poll.

Marge: Homer, we've got to do something. Today, he's drinking people's blood.
Tomorrow, he could be smoking!

Lisa: The only way to get Bart back is to kill the head vampire: Mr.
Burns!
Homer: Kill my boss? Do I dare to live out the American dream?

might vote for barbershop on the strength of "baby on board" alone, my fav simpsons song

also best simpsons song should be a poll if it isn't already

"So isn't that what we're all asking in this world, 'Where's my elephant?' I know that's what I've been asking."

Voting for the Cat Burglar episode because of the It's a Mad Mad Mad World parody at the end.

"mmmm yes I would, Kent"

"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?"

Confession time: I hated this season when it first aired. The humor seemed so different to my eleven-year old brain. The Ramones telling Mr. Burns to go to hell? Bumblebee Man yelling about the snowstorm in Kuala Lumpur and fainting? Homer calling the dean a "stupid head" is funny? It just seemed so off to the Simpsons I had known and loved for four years. I had thought they were finally running out of ideas and were going with mediocre material. Ha! Little did I know that the humor was different because the entire writing staff had been replaced at the start of the season. Of course looking back I realize what a narrow-minded dipshit I was, this season was brilliant!

I cannot fathom even processing this show as a child. It didnt come into being til I was 18 or 19.

"Arr! This chair be high, says I."

Treehouse IV is the first episode I definitely remember seeing when it initially aired. My parents for some reason let me watch Bram Stoker's Dracula when I was really young, like 7, so I was psyched. I loved that movie.

Looking back, I think I had the great fortune of being the perfect age for the show when it was new. Was 15 by the time Season 5 began, which means I pretty much went through adolescence with the "classic" Simpsons; old enough to have seen/know enough to get most of the satire, but young enough that it was a kind of education in culture and humour.

^^

Same

The vampire segment of THOH is definitely all-time great material.

"Well, if it isn't little . . . boy!"

"Mom, you're the head vampire?!" "I do have a life outside this house, you know."

"Oh, Lisa, you and your stories. Beer kills brain cells, Bart is a vampire. Now let's go back to that building . . . thingy . . . where our beds and TV . . . is."

Also, this is far and away my favorite Krusty moment ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_AQaJrGfa0

"dear life in these United States...."

Oh and when he's ticking off his shopping list in blood and passes out, and Snake scoffs "use a PEN, sideshow bob!"

Another hard one to decide, I'm tossing up betweem TOH and $pringfield.

"I *said*, HOP IN"

strong cases for $pringfield:

* I said, "HOP IN"
* the "think each word before you say it!" bit
* "It's a casino."
* "a boogeyman or boogymen"

and:

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SPRUCE MOOSE

"No one who speaks German could possibly be evil!"

That settles it, I'm voting "Cape Feare."

the buildup to sideshow bob's appearance in 'cape feare' is awesome -- they stretch out the suspense for the entire first act, and then there's that great shot panning across springfield to bob's prison cell. still feels like the only episode where bob is genuinely menacing.

plus grampa's advice:

"i say we call matlock! he'll find the culprit! it's probably that evil gavin macleod!"

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We should poll the best time-filling segments.

Homer Loves Flanders is great. Favorite bits:

extended sequence of Homer rocking out to "Two Tickets to Paradise"

Dr. Hibbert: "Cheers to Homer Simpson for all his recent charity work!"
Crowd: "Yay!"
Dr. Hibbert: "Jeers to this rusty tailgate!"

* post Homer walking through hedges weirdness *
Ned Flanders: "Sometimes to keep from hurting someone's feelings, you have to say things that aren't exactly --"
Rod Flanders: "Lies make baby Jesus cry."

Cheif Wiggum: "Yeah, where's your messiah now, Flanders? Myeah""

Cape Feare has another great time-filler-becomes-gag: Bart running back to the other end of the boat, looking over and seeing...the same crocodiles he saw a minute ago. "Oh yeah."

Highlight then and now is BARTWOULDYOULIKETOSEEMYNEWCHAINSAWANDHOCKEYMASK!?!?!? But "Hello, Mr. Thompson," the drive through the cactus patch, the houseboat neighbor gag... gold. Also always loved Wiggum and Marge on the "not technically illegal" angle.

Yep, Sideshow Bob, yakkin' it up on the old yak box!

Oh, SideSHOW Bob.

The rakes thing might be the most experimental, abstract, and brilliant bit in the entire Simpsons show. The musical just really drags it down after that.

'homer loves flanders' gets my vote as the single most underrated episode. pretty much every scene is glorious.

"there he is!" "ned flanders, the fallen one!" "the evil one!" "i bet he's the one who wrote 'homer' all over the bathroom."

"hey, look! homer's got one of those robot cars!"
(offscreen crash)
"one of those AMERICAN robot cars."

I can't find an image, but a shot I love is Lionel Hutz on the couch with one of his two permitted popsicles. "Marge on the Lam" is a masterpiece of Hutz gags.

http://youtu.be/z7IrLrQPCf8

"Terror Lake"
"Salutes"
"Hannibal"
"Crossing"
"The"
"Alps"

Haha a friend of mine had an email address of Miguel Sanchez thanks to that Hutz babysitting bit.

Always always hated the rake bit. Just plain annoying imo.

Nothing to see here, folks - goofballs.

DEEP SPACE HOMER

Oh shit, I missed Last Temptation of Homer!

''Hey, we're almost out of 'a new love will enter your life.'''
''Ehh, open up the 'stick with your wife' barrel.''

"I, For One, Welcome Our New Insect Overlords"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKbFb6TPVEA

Bart: Wow, my father an astronaut. I feel so full of...what's the
opposite of shame?
Marge: Pride?
Bart: No, not _that_ far from shame.
Homer: Less shame?
Bart: Yeah...

Tom: Uh, how'd you solve the door dilemma?
Buzz: Homer Simpson was the real hero here. He jury-rigged the door
closed using this.
Man 1: Hey, what is that?
Man 2: It's an inanimate carbon rod!
Everyone: Yay!
(Time magazine cover: "In Rod We Trust")

A parade is organized in honor of the rod. It gets to ride in its own
limousine. The family watch the parade, but Homer turns the TV off
angrily.

(Homer shuts off the TV)
Bart: Aw, they were just about to show some close-ups of the rod!
Homer: Oh, stupid rod! I got gypped.
Marge: Oh, Homey, you should be proud! Only a handful of people have
done what you've done.
Lisa: Yeah, Dad! How many people have seen the icecaps and the deserts
all at once, or the majesty of the Northern Lights from one
hundred miles above?
Homer: Yeah, maybe I do have the right...what's that stuff?
-- Uh, stuff?,

The rakes thing might be the most experimental, abstract, and brilliant bit in the entire Simpsons show.

Man, I remember seeing that for the first time on a rerun and just being so thrilled by it, and then I never caught it again for years and years, and it always stayed in my mind as this almost-mythical scene that I wasn't quite sure had really happened. So great.

Keeping in mind that this is a great show that (I think) was still great at this time, damn you people scare me.

uh, wallet inspector!

Knifepoint robber tells homeowner: "I'm the wallet inspector, give me your wallet."

Is the "You mustn't kill time boys, you must cherish it! Seize the day...can I have some change to go get loaded?" bit from "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood"?

All you people who are voting/advocating episodes based on single lines are crazy. It's the gestalt that counts!

Have the Rolling Stones killed.

My Spidey-sense is tingling! Anyone call for a web-slinger?

Yes, soref, yes it is.

ed. b, I agree, but the lines do help to bring an episode back into one's mind. Also at this point, a lot of the time you can forget that a particular gestalt contains a particular line...

I wish they taught shopping school

In school

argh

http://www.pbh2.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/best-simpsons-gifs-chainsaw-hockey-mask.gif

Damn, link is broken. Was an animated version of:

http://i.qkme.me/35bjbj.jpg

Thinking about it this was another standout season for Brockman: Hail Ants, agreeing to devote part of the news to the Lisa Lionheart doll, "It's in Revelations!", lots of Shearer's best work here.

agreeing to devote part of the news to the Lisa Lionheart doll

I just remembered the 'well, you were right about that Berlin Wall thing' line for the first time in years.

http://i.imgur.com/HbTS3o4.gif

wtf is this Lisa Lionheart stuff? Have I missed an episode!?
Woohoo!

agreeing to devote part of the news to the Lisa Lionheart doll

Is this the bit followed by "In other news, the President has been arrested for murder"?

Yes!

"Though it was unusual to spend 28 minutes reporting on a doll, this
reporter found it impossible to stop talking. It's just really
fascinating news, folks. Good night!
[Music starts playing and credits roll]
Oh, and the President was arrested for murder. More on that tomorrow
night, or you can turn to another channel.
[Looks off to the side]
Oh. Do not turn to another channel."

Also, this:

Lisa: All right. Now all we need is a name.

Bart: How about Blabbermouth, the jerky doll for jerks?

Lisa: How about Minerva, after the Roman goddess of wisdom?

Stacy: Ehh, not enough commercial appeal.

Bart: Wendy Windbag? Ugly Doris? Hortense the mule-faced doll!

Stacy: I think we should name her after Lisa. We'll call her Lisa Lionheart.

Bart: No, Loudmouth Lisa! Stupid Lisa Garbage Face! [no one pays attention] I can't stand this any longer. Somebody please pay attention to me! Hello, pay attention to me! Look at me! I'm Bart, I'm Bart! Look at me, look at me, look at me!

Leaning a bit towards "Burns' Heir." This never, ever fails to crack me up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW7cfcqmF_8

Oh god that's right, Rosebud has this gag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UQUzP3Mkpw

"my old man can't get a beer because his old man won't give a bear to another old man! let's get him!"
"wait! uh, why are we getting him?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCZjw2FXPE

god the bullies were so much better before they were all given complex backstories and bullshit

Soon, you'll have a mighty hump!

OTM re the bullies, I forgot how many good jokes they get in these seasons.

now my shirt's chafin me

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.

I still quote this one often.

god the bullies characters were so much better before they were all given complex backstories and bullshit

I was going to put this on the 'worst Simpsons moments' thread, but I don't think I understand the Jimbo being bald under his hat thing? Is he meant to be older than you would have thought, or is he meant to be a prematurely bald 15 year old or what?

you don't want to know

i mean

ugh

wrong link but you get the idea

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Jimbo_Jones

oh wow, simpsons wiki is funnier than any episode of the show's been for about ten years.

The "AMERICAN robot cars" joke is one of my favorites ever. Not only does he accept the existence of consumer robot cars, but he has so internalized this reality that he casually dismisses the workmanship of the American version.

that joke taught me american cars were shoddy

there was another joke somewhere that taught me american appliances were shoddy

i put a lot of trust in the simpsons as a child

there was another joke somewhere that taught me american appliances were shoddy

The malfunctioning "GATE CONTROL - made with pride in the U.S.A." in "Bart vs. Australia"?

feare by a distance

xp no, it was one that started where they were in a store or mall or something and marge sees an appliance she likes and then goes "made in america, well nevermind!" or something like that, i think it was a later season cause it wasn't a very good joke

rewatching homer's barbershop quartet cause i love this song so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pURFU3pL93o

I always loved when in that episode, Lisa kind of breaks the fourth wall in questioning the continuity issues of Homer being in the B Sharps...

yeah he was in a grunge band now or something

lol I mean how she starts questioning at the end of the episode why she doesn't remember any of the events of Homer's story even though she was in it at times.

I also loved the concept of a barbershop quartet being HUGE POP SUPERSTARS

around what season was it when somebody else started voicing Nelson?

i thought it was always bart? martin was the one that seemed to get squeakier

xp no, it was one that started where they were in a store or mall or something and marge sees an appliance she likes and then goes "made in america, well nevermind!" or something like that, i think it was a later season cause it wasn't a very good joke

its a melonballer, its in the john waters episode, and its a great joke

aw darn, i love that one duh

but nah it's not a good joke esp after the (much more complex) robot car joke

Bart: OK, we're young, rich, and full of sugar.
What do we do?
Milhouse: (yelling) Let's go crazy, Broadway style!
Both: (singing)
Springfield, Springfield, it's a hell of a town:
The schoolyard's up and the shopping mall's down.
The stray dogs go to the animal pound,
Bart: Springfield, Springfield!
Milhouse: Springfield, Springfield!
Sailor: New York, New York!
Bart: New York is that-a-way, man!
Sailor: Thanks, kid!
Both: (singing) It's a hell of a...toooown!

also love the bit before this where they are getting ultra-sugar-high off of the super squishy

http://i.imgur.com/2OtJjNa.jpg

"good afternoon!"
"HOW do you DO, sir!"

that joke is an all-timer.

That screenshot alone just gave me a fit of the giggles.

Heh heh heh...sucker.

The beginning of Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood is all-time, but I feel like it loses it a bit when it gets into the main plot.

http://i.imgur.com/AALgm.jpg

"Oh, I'm taking a bath on this!"

"We tried to tell you, these oil rigs are unmanned."

It does lose a bit of steam, but I love this so much:
http://static4.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/season+8+was+my+favorite+season+and+boy-scoutz+n+the+_2dd1009e7b7ec3b50d7768facf3543f5.gif

D'arrr, this here be a fine boat.

And the bit with the Swiss army knife with every single blade open bouncing down the side of the raft to repeated gasps from Bart, Homer, Ned and Rod/Todd, only to finally settle without puncturing anything until the sunlight burns a hole in the raft through the magnifying glass. Such a masterwork of timing.

The final episode of this season is pretty lousy, kind of points towards the downfall of the series.

homer and marge 'marriage crisis' episodes are almost always awful because the plausibility of marge continuing to stay married to someone like homer doesn't really reward scrutiny.

also love the bit before this where they are getting ultra-sugar-high off of the super squishy

"An all-syrup Super Squishy? Oh, s-such a thing has never been done"

"Just make it happen."

The final episode of this season is pretty lousy, kind of points towards the downfall of the series.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:30 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Something said...not good...

"Homer, you ruined a perfectly good jacket!"

"Correction, TWO perfectly good jackets!"

I say "Gah! Chokin' on my own rage here!" almost daily.

"I didn't know we could do that!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCCU7V7Oep0

[Removed Illegal Image]

Lisa: Here Dad, I brought you some nice -- aah!
[sees Homer with a potted plant]
Homer: Good news, Lisa: I don't need your mother any more! I've created
a replacement for her that's superior in almost every way.
[clips some branches]
Lisa: Dad, that's just a plant.
Homer: [aghast] Lisa! You will respect your new mother. Now give her a
kiss. Kiss her!
[drops plant; it smashes on the ground]
Homer: Omigod omigod omigod! [pants] All right, let's get out story
straight: she tripped, right?

Anyway, don't make me post the 10-minute "Eat the pudding" YouTube.

It was definitely a slightly disturbing episode; Homer seemed beyond redemption, in Marge's eyes, for the first time. But still just as classic as the others.

Creepy Moe was super weird too.

I dunno, I'll take posie-brandishing Moe over heavy-breathing knife-brandishing Moe ("New Kid On The Block") any day.

But he wasn't gonna kill Jimbo, just cut him a little

i thought it was always bart? martin was the one that seemed to get squeakier

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, November 12, 2013 8:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

huh. you're right. his voice seems deeper though. guess that's an aesthetic choice?

xp Whatever the case, he'd better check up on Barney.

Can't remember whether I proposed polling enough seasons to get us to "Pygmoelian." If so, that should be interesting.

Moe's a shitheel, that's never not been the character. It's why he's great.

suicidal Moe has made me guilty lol on several occasions

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2582/4103747017_7b76164d27_m.jpg

[Homer drives to Flanders' house; rings doorbell]
Ned: Well, Homer, what a pleasant..
Homer: Can't talk now, Flanders. I've got a class to teach.
Ned: Heh, but you rang my..
[Homer speeds away]

:D

"if we can keep these down, we'll be sitting pretty" is something I sometimes say to my mates after we take pills, because I am a saddo. Another thing I often quote is "ahhh, there's nothing like moonshine from your own still!" while drinking

"keep these down" = yes which i guess is why they ripped it off Withnail & I?

are they talking about engine block eggs in withnail tho

no in W&I they specifically reference "Genghis Bjork eggs" which is a joke about a proposed Lars von Trier film slated for shooting in Khobd last week

http://wpmedia.blogs.theprovince.com/2011/06/8231.weather-station-young.jpg

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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God, the syndicated versions chop so much - from "Last Temptation of Homer" alone, you lose the flying monkeys gag, the corrective shoes landing in the Flanders' house, the Hans Moleman bit at the convention...

Wow, those are brutal cuts.

My favorite Homerisms from that:

"I knew I shouldn't have eaten that packet of gravy I found in the parking lot" and "Mindy, you are a elf . . ."

OMFG how could I have overlooked what is, quite simply, my favorite wordless site gag on the entirety of the Simpsons ever.

http://memorygongs.com/gasngulp.jpg

I cry laughing every time that K lands behind them.

Err SIGHT gag. geesh. I have the flu.

Cape Feare for "Three Little Maids"

Doctor Casino OTM. Looks like that episode's gonna get my vote...wait, "Homer Loves Flanders" has "Can't talk, see Flanders, later sex."

But on the other hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzBkYsN8MHI‎

"I know you can read MY thoughts boy: meow meow meow meow,meow meow meow meow,meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow"

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Wow...really? I mean, sure, "Cape Feare" is a classic, but in another, more accurate way, "The Last Temptation Of Homer" is a classic.

obligatory post expressing disgust at all of those 0s.

surprising runaway victory. i think i forgot to vote.

Fuck I forgot to vote.

You know, if we get through to just those three little voters, it'll all be worth it!

"dont blame ME, I voted for Kodos!"

...wait, wrong season.

Controversial!

Season 6 tomorrow . . . smell ya then!

I'd better not see a single other ToH episode get more than 1 vote.

"I know you can read MY thoughts boy: meow meow meow meow,meow meow meow meow,meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow"

OTM

xpost: for one, I'm voting for it next round.

Interesting to see two I didn't like much up top: "Deep Space Homer" and "Homer Goes to College." Both have some *great* jokes though. I don't think I'm a big fan of TV show episodes that go far from the usual settings in general. Also, college humor might not work as well on a Norwegian? (I don't know anyone who's expressed love of _Animal House_, for instance. Then again, _Saved by the Bell_ seemed popular back in the day.)

But I'm totally with _Cape Feare_ and _$pringfield_. Didn't vote, but it would likely have gone to one of those.

Anyways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3doOAwyzyTI

Saved By The Bell wasn't set in a college you fool

unless you're referring to Saved By The Bell: The College Years, in which case I apologise

I know -- I had a train of thought I followed and didn't write out. Though I'd removed the SBTB reference before posting. Blah!
Also, my theory is probably total crap; I'm likely just the wrong generation for Animal House.

"...vera said that?" from the casino ep is top-5 simpsons lines for me

only 2 votes for 'rosebud'? smithers, have these poll results killed.

Goulet line seconded. Also love him singing, "Jingle bells, Batman smells..."

only 2 votes for 'rosebud'? smithers, have these poll results killed.

OTM

Homer to angry mob at his door: "Well well, look who's come to apologize!"

only 2 votes for 'rosebud'? smithers, have these poll results killed.

In a world where "Cape Feare" does not have the "Who wants to drive through the cactus patch?" gag, "Rosebud" could have been my choice.

Season 6 poll up now btw: THIS IS INDEED A DISTURBING UNIVERSE: The Simpsons Season 6 Poll

"The rock tumbler or the TV?"

Hello Mr Thompson

"I think he's talking to you" is suuuuch an incredible punchline to that bit. Incredible timing.

https://i.redd.it/ihqa7k7hyfob1.png

funny thing about this season is all the problems that people say wrecked the show in it's post-S9 years really did seem to originate here. Homer being a giant asshole for no reason, a heavy reliance on meta-humor, increasingly wild and fantastical plots...and yet its still amazing front to back because the writing and voice acting is just that good

"The Boy Who Knew Too Much" deserved a vote.

Jasper: Why bother voting? He's guilty.
Flanders: Well, we might as well make it official.
Homer: What does "sequestered" mean?
Principal Skinner: If the jury is deadlocked, they're put up in a hotel together so they can't communicate with the outside world.
Homer: What does "deadlocked" mean?
Principal Skinner: It's when the jury can't agree on a verdict.
Homer: Uh huh. And "if"?
Principal Skinner: A conjunction meaning "in the event that" or "on condition that".
Homer: So if we don't all vote the same way, we'll be deadlocked and have to be sequestered in the Springfield Palace Hotel...
Patty: That's not going to happen, Homer.
Jasper: Let's vote. My liver is failing.
Homer: Where we'll get a free room, free food, free swimming pool, free HBO… ooh! Free Willy!
Principal Skinner: Justice is not a frivolous thing, Simpson. It has little if anything to do with a disobedient whale. Now let's vote!
Homer: Uh, how are the rest of you voting?
Everyone: Guilty.
Homer: OK, fine. How many S's in "innocent"?
Everyone: Aw.
Homer: I'm only doing what I think is right. I believe Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel.

NOW WHO'S THE DEAN?!

that episode also includes maybe the best Lionel Hutz line:

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