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.

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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

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

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[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

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

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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.

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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.

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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