100 WORST Simpsons moments

List MOMENTS only, not entire seasons or "everything after so-and-so" or "last night's episode"

1. Writers update the timeline by 20 years so Homer was in a grunge band called Sadgasm after high school

2. Halloween episode where they all the most annoying celebrities get blasted into the sun and Spike Lee and Al Sharpton are on board.

3. Sideshow Bob now has a son who chants the catchphrase "VENDETTA! VENDETTA!" over and over.

4. When they made a Bart Simpson Macy's balloon and they were real cheeky about showing it off on the show.

5. Homer walks into a Subway, sees woman drowning at soda machine, doesn't offer to help her, eats 12 inch instead

6. introduction of "gil"

7. second appearance of disco stu

8. bleedin gums murphy smiling down at lisa from heaven or whatever happened in that one

9. - 100. simpsons threads on the internet

everything post-season eight is a good contender except LINGUO

9. that horrible song the navy boyband sings that makes me want to blow my brains out
10. homer's trip to NYC to pay off the parking tickets -- i think this was the first episode with some new animators, and it shows, and theyre terrible

LOL @ 6 and 8 jesus yes that jazzman song ugh

i thought people liked Gil?

Carl breaking the fifth wall: "See this is why I don't talk much"

not seen it but Grandpa and Selma dating can't have been good

Homer being able to compete with Tony Hawk at anti-gravity skateboarding

xpost. i like old Gil.

introduction of "gil"

― s1ocki, Friday, 23 January 2009 16:19 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

NO

7. second appearance of disco stu

― s1ocki, Friday, 23 January 2009 16:19 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

NO WAY

8. bleedin gums murphy smiling down at lisa from heaven or whatever happened in that one

― s1ocki, Friday, 23 January 2009 16:20 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah I'll give you that one

Tony Blair appearance

Ricky Gervais appearance

Maggie rescuing Homer from drowning

anything with lisa and homer, i.e. lisa and homer at the museum and they discover a magical Egyptian artifact/music box

14. The episode where Marge becomes a roided up body builder and... err... actually seems to force Homer into having sex with her in the most fucking awkward way.

15. the stupid weedsploitation ending of the laddie episode
16. "to alcohol -- the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" becoming every nimrod's favorite quote of all time

that wasn't so bad Que

10. homer's trip to NYC to pay off the parking tickets -- i think this was the first episode with some new animators, and it shows, and theyre terrible

dude this has the crab juice joke, homer driving with the boot on his car, etc etc

killing off Maude. so retarded.

The tune from that Egyptian music box is great.

xxp to que cheap. the only good joke in that ep is when homer throws his wallet in the fire

also i agree that music box tune is rad

Killing off Maude was cruel and unnecessary i.e. pretty funny, but it also paved the way for some decent Flanders storylines. And Maude and Helen Lovejoy were more or less indistinguishable anyway.

anything with lisa and homer,

fixed

I think the Maude death episode is the first one I never laughed once at. And not even in a 'oh its so emotional i won't laff' type way, it was just too boring.

18. Krusty's flashback to when he fought in the Gulf War. yeah whatever guys.

man that NYC episode is one of my favorites

19. Everyone loves the Obese Homer episode, but the moment he looked down from his computer after pressing the Tab key and asked, "Now where's my Tab?" that's when I realized the magic was fading a bit.

9. - 100. simpsons threads on the internet

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, January 23, 2009 4:21 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nice one - we all feel super-ashamed now

^ wow what a hardass xp

que -- go watch the one where milhouse takes barts soul!

oh that's an awesome one, yr right

20. N/A guest appearance

19. Everyone loves the Obese Homer episode, but the moment he looked down from his computer after pressing the Tab key and asked, "Now where's my Tab?" that's when I realized the magic was fading a bit.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, January 23, 2009 4:28 PM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark

bad joke, good ep

lisa it's your birthday
happy birthday lisa

21. That episode where it turns out racing jockeys are elves who inside a tree stump?!

*live inside

^^^ Yeah, even I thought this was iffy.

when they went to the Super Bowl, and Bart gets thrown a football from Dan Marino..."I'm about to catch a pass from Dan Marino...this is the greatest moment of my life!"...since when has Bart EVER expressed an interest in sports of any kind?

see i may not agree w mr que, but he's really going for big game, not sniping about post-season 10 BS

oh come on xp

22. Frank Grimes Jr. tries to kill Homer but fails

22. just saw this for the first time last night: the son of Frank Grimes comes back and tries to kill Homer (which, even if you're a fan of "Homer's Enemy," c'mon)

lol xpost

whenever they make fun of homeless people. The Simpsons writers really don't like the homeless.

or the poor. or working women. Actually wait a second, the Simpsons is really, really conservative.

a friend of mine always hated the "HELLOO? Human FLY here!" bit in the B Sharps episode

23. That Super Bowl episode is great if only for the Blur "Song #2" sequence and the bad dubbing at Moe's of Carl going "I hope that [DENVER] wins."

although i lolled at "Frank Grimes didn't have a son!" "He liked hookers, OK?"

^^ Guess I didn't need to number that. xp

whoa whoa yes frank grimes sucked so hard

whenever they bring back someone who's only been on one previous episode, i.e. Lurleen Lumpkin or Frank Grimes' son or whatever

Frank Grimes was great. The Simpsons espousing social values that would make William F. Buckley Jr. feel ashamed for them, that's the worst.

24. Manjula has octuplets

whatever shark is left to jump, this jumps it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNrn-7zjmYw

NXX1 19 seconds ago
SIMPSONS
WHAT R U DOING
STAHP

MrMakellos 1 minute ago
This is the gravestone.

BoredInfidel 3 minutes ago
Why the hell did you people think this was a good idea?

JarzZ0 4 minutes ago
How difficult is to say "Con los terroristas"?

whittyjd 4 minutes ago
The Simpsons 1989-1999 RIP

Conor Kennedy 5 minutes ago
Why can't this show just retire gracefully and stop trying to hang on.

the last two minutes of every Simpsons show in 2024 will be a live-action clip of Matt Groening going to the bank and cashing a check or something. Or we'll watch him buy a boat.

It's become the Jay Leno of sitcoms: no one who has only seen the new shit will believe you when you tell them it was once hilarious.

can't touch the ghostbusters dance they did at the end of one episode

tbf jay leno was never funny

He was funny on The Simpsons!

This season has been so bad. The last 3 episodes are all sitting unwatched in my Hulu queueueue.

Maybe it's just perspective, but when he was on Letterman in the 80s, he was on fire. He was never, ever funny on the Tonight Show, not when he guested for Carson, not ever. First time I saw him guest host, it was immediately apparent this wasn't the same Leno. His 80s shit seemed hilarious at the time (and most comedians hold this view, fwiw; cf. Patton Oswalt's appraisal/takedown), and it seems to hold up.

102. the sudden frequency of montages set to random pop music in recent seasons -- in particular one scene set to an Elvis Costello deep cut where I was just like wtf is this shit, the writers are now just shoe-horning in songs from their record collections? and it wasn't like this was the episode where EC guest starred or anything, it was just for no real reason.

the couple of seasons where this happened like every episode were the fucking worst.

This season has been so bad. The last 3 episodes are all sitting unwatched in my Hulu queueueue.

― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Saturday, March 2, 2013 3:45 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hardly Kirk-ing was pretty good

i think the subtext of that bill hicks routine where jay leno commits suicide on the air out of shame is that leno used to be funny, then sold out. anyone have any actual examples of JL being funny?

Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon has metastatic cancer, only months to live: http://www.examiner.com/article/sam-simon-has-metastasized-cancer

This is heartbreaking. He seems like a great guy in addition to being the co-creator the best show ever.

That is awful! Terrible news.

Um, as far as thread topic goes... that smug look the animators always draw the Simpsons having these days- whenever the characters are supposed to be doing something "cool" I guess. Usually eyelids are present to portray "confidence" in correlation with a shitty smirk. It isn't a specific moment as much as a recurring one. I'm wondering if anyone knows what I mean?

wow, that's awful. I remember the guy from "High Stakes Poker"!!

I caught a recent-ish rerun I had never seen last night (Homer buys an ice-cream truck, Marge becomes a popsicle-stick sculptress) that was not only completely unfunny but quite mean-spirited as well. Homer causing a man's heart attack by forcing him to count out change for $100 in coins belongs on this list if it isn't already.

10000000001: having an episode tonight titled "YOLO"

I find it so jarring when they have references to 21st century stuff in the Simpsons, in my head the show is always still set in the 90s

I can't accept the idea of Bart having been born in 2003.

The Simpsons is always at its worst when it's topical...enough with the Mapples already

ended up giving new Simpsons a chance on some season 28 episodes. the first was a two-parter where Mr. Burns gets into a feud with a hip hop mogul (which he fights with a blinged out rap-producing Homer complete with tracksuit and gold chains) and at one point they go to see Milhouse and he is now a hip hop expert who is flipping through vinyl records telling them the history of rap.

next watched "Kamp Krustier", a retro episode that is a sort of Rogue One-style play on nostalgia that ends up rubbing midichlorians in your face. taking place during season 4, this tells the tale of everything that happened at the end of that classic episode. you know the one where the Simpsons kids experience a harrowing Hell on Earth farce parody of 80s summer camp comedies and conclude by having Krusty take them all to a vacation to Tijuana, Mexico in a good faith gesture of ribaldry & redemption?

well, it turns out that when they got back from all that fun stuff we aren't going to see, the kids all had PTSD! doesn't that sound like a great episode? characters actively trying to suppress memories of their earlier exploits! bet you never knew that there was a third kid in that canoe! and that he died! but the kids forgot about it - until this episode! and then they find out he didn't die! so nothing was changed at all, and nothing of consequence happened! we just ruined a brilliant and fun ending to a classic episode and clogged it up with unnecessary backstory for nothing!

oh yeah in the hip hop Homer episode, there is a goose that is paired to Homer, cos i guess they couldn't think of anything to write for him to do, so most of the comedy is him chasing this goose around and getting bit by it. it's like they are writing these with Mad Libs or something.

http://i.imgur.com/oz8xIQk.jpg

28 seasons, jesus

imo from now on every new episode of the Simpsons should be "Kamp Krustier" flashback style thing where they set out to ruin a specific episode from seasons 2-8.

just really rub people's faces in it

I haven't seen a new episode of the Simpsons since I was about 11 so went to Wikipedia to look at the new episodes and this leap out at me:

In a parody of 30 for 30, Bart becomes a star basketball player, but things go awry when he gets involved with the mafia.

Why? Why would a sitcom parody a series of unconnected sports documentaries? What is the point of you?

Coming next season MAKING A MILDERER in which Milhouse is framed for a crime he didn't commit, featuring special guests Michelle Obama and Neymar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPUbeHr8BQ4

Strewth

I kinda assumed they'd be about 3/4 years behind the zeitgeist with their pop culture references, so in a weird way they're actually exceeding expectations with that

in one of the new episodes i saw there was a cutaway where Homer says something eerie to Marge and it cuts to him playing a theremin. on the one hand i was like, hell yes, a beloved cartoon character rocking a theremin! but it also felt so, so desperate to please.

I wonder what it's like to be a Simpsons writer in this day and age, like just wtf are your thought processes. do you sincerely believe this show is still great/funny or are you resigned to your hack-y fate, do you try really hard to write yr funniest gags or just not give a shit etc.

it was a perfect set of circumstances those first ten seasons. in terms of both humor style and intelligence. like during the Conan O'Brien era, his sensibility was on-point for that show. Now it's a bunch of Jimmy Fallons.

watching them imitate the Family Guy formula has been pretty sad

That clip is so weird because I can't even imagine how small the audience is for people who watch Netflix streaming dramas AND watch new episodes of Fox TV shows on cable and/or Hulu when they air? Like, I bet Making a Murderer is something all the Simpsons writers talk about with their friends, but those friends don't, like, go home and watch the Simpsons at 8pm EST on Sunday

Also, remember when everyone was like totally nauseated by the Kesha opening even though Kesha is good now

that could be the jimmy fallon-ization thing going on, making stuff to be circulated on youtube/social media after the fact. i've seen it here even, like when they let some lesser-known artist do the intro sequence etc

My problem with it is how indiscriminate the jokes are. They just wedge the lamest jokes absolutely everywhere, even the open has been redone to add a bunch of shitty extra gags and wacky signs. It's a change from the show's early '00s nadir, when the jokes were a bit more selective but the bad ones were outright awful/loud/grotesque. It got real distasteful for a while there; now it's just a barrage of straight down the middle PG stuff

I'm amazed they still do the Homer throttling Bart thing - and just as part of actual ads for the show.

yea the show definitely has the feel of a lousy script getting punched up by five separate writers on every episode. rather jarring to see the tone of the humor change mid-sentence sometimes

i feel that the simpsons is a show that used to be on television. like, a long time ago. i am confident that mine is the correct and only view.

24. Manjula has octuplets

― Bondzilla vs Mechaholmes (blueski), Friday, January 23, 2009

otm

think the last episode I saw was the Boyhood parody, that one was really awful. think Bart hooks up with one of the twins from school. it's really cringey.

I wonder if the Simpsons will still be around in some form in 50 years or so? some weird anachronism like the Blondie comic strip or something

seems inevitable

It's strange, Harry Shearer has been complaining about the quality of the show and treatment of cast and crew for a long time but he still bristled when Richard Herring said to him that the show wasn't as good anymore.

I wonder if the Simpsons will still be around in some form in 50 years or so? some weird anachronism like the Blondie comic strip or something

― soref, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:47

I hope not. I thought Fox were ready cancel as soon as the new episodes ratings equal the repeats.

not that strange given everything i've ever heard about harry shearer's personality

Harry Shearer may be having memory problems.

2. Halloween episode where they all the most annoying celebrities get blasted into the sun and Spike Lee and Al Sharpton are on board.

I have never really forgiven the show for this.