THIS SOUNDS LIKE "ROCK" AND/OR "ROLL": The Simpsons Season 7 Poll

Radioactive Man, Lisa the Vegetarian, Bart Sells his Soul, King-size Homer, Team Homer, 22 Short Films about Springfield, Homerpalooza

As a kid my second favorite ever was 22 Short Films so I'll vote for that

And it was a Pulp Fiction parody, right?

I think there was a real return to quality this season

Expecting the voting to be fractured

Before this one gets too many posts, you might want to start over, unless you really mean for it to end in 90 years.

"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (part two)" has the funniest ad-lib of the series:

Wiggum: This bullet matches the one we pulled out of Mr. Burns! Homer Simpson, you're under arrest for attempted murder.

Homer: [getting cuffed] D'oh!

Wiggum: Yeah, that's what they all say. They all say "D'oh".

"Bart on the Road" hits that sweet spot right between whimsical and absurd that makes me smile just explaining the plot to someone. love marge's credulity about the "grammar rodeo," bart's competence in driving a car, the idea of driving to the world's fair and it being close many years before. so many low key jokes that become hilarious when you reflect on them and so its kind of a perfect Simpson's episode for me.

And on the plus side, they knocked over the Sunsphere.

Phil did you miss the part about this poll closing in 90 years

If only you could combine the Who Shot Mr. Burnses... That said, as much as I love the second half, the Treehouse of Horror here is really something special. At this point I was old enough that I remember watching these episodes as they premiered, and I remember Homer3 blowing my mind.

Enough of your borax, poindexter.

This is when a lot of people think the show started getting "bad."

Not I. This season has many classic episodes/lines, including:

Wiggum: Yeah, that's what they all say. They all say "D'oh".

Since "D'oh" years ago became a daily utterance for me, my 5 year old has started responding with this, in his best Edward G. Robinson voice.

I'm voting 138th, to dismiss it as a mere clip show is ruffianism and inauthenticity at its worst, and anyway, no one will care/be alive once this poll closes.

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Tempted to vote for "Radioactive Man" for "Strange, I shouldn't have been able to hear that" and the recurring air conditioner suction joke.

And my favorite sign gag of the series:

http://springfieldfiles.com/albums/signs/0924.JPG

Shit, wait, "Team Homer"...maybe the best Burns-as-frail-weakling joke of the series, when he puts his hand over the bowling lane fan, only for it to flap in the breeze.

Also, "You want to join his what?" "You want to what his team?"

Best Burns moment in this ep is the whole "bowling"/"boweling" bit, I think.

Are we gonna redo this poll then? Really don't want to vote in something I won't live to see the results of.

"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" kind of feels like the last of imperial phase Simpsons. It's still good after that, but there's something different.

Some real solid genuine heart-tugging this season in "Bart Sells His Soul", "Marge Be Not Proud", "Mother Simpson", "Home Sweet Homediddlyetc", "Summer of 4 ft 2". Sometimes, when I grow weary of some of the outlandishness of the previous couple of years, I think Season 7 may be the finest of all.

Yeah, I think the drop-off definitely occurs after this season, at the very earliest.

yeah i also consider this season firmly part of the canon, and even superior to a few of the earlier seasons.

Are we gonna redo this poll then? Really don't want to vote in something I won't live to see the results of.

C'mon, where's your faith in the Singularity.

The shot of Homer sitting on the car looking at the stars that closes "Mother Simpson" is an absolute heartbreaker.

"Bart Sells His Soul" easily one of the best of the season if only for Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag.

the whole 'bear tax' sequence in the immigration episode is one of the high points of the entire series. plus:

lisa: you know, apu, in a way we're all immigrants, except for the native americans.
homer: yes, sir! good old native americans like me.
lisa: no, dad, i mean the american indians.
apu: like me!
lisa: no, i mean...(trails off)

"It's good good good good, good-good good!"

"Mmm! Sounds good!"

I nominate we redo the poll with the thread title: WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER, WE DON'T WANT ANYMORE BEARS

Moustache Parade!

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"my eyes! the goggles do nothing!"

and "FLIM SPRINGFIELD"

also
"What do you do if you want something that looks like a horse?"
"usually we just tape a bunch of cats together"

kinda bm but: SIMPSONS season 5 poll

also: SIMPSONS season 7 poll

I hate the ending to Lisa the Iconoclast.

pivotal season. the first and last episodes feel like a world of difference.

bart the fink is my least favorite.
two bad neighbors wins.

xxpost: simultaneously always too early and always too late.

What are people's opinions on the flying hellfish episode? I really love it, but wonder if others don't find it cheesy, given the sort of adventure narrative. Anyhow, as a 9 year old it was very exciting, and remains so, whereas my childhood excitement re lemon of Troy has tapered.

Ps: hey funboys, get a room!

I actually kind of hate that one. In fact, in looking at the list of episodes, I'm surprised to see a bunch that I thought were from the later, more crapulent seasons: Homerpalooza, Lisa the Iconoclast, Bart the Fink...

King-Sized Homer is pretty perfect. "All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body".

Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag is all-time lols

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"Allow me to summarize the proposed transaction: you wish to purchase Bonestorm for 99 cents. Net profit to me, negative $59. Oh, oh please, take my $59. I don't want it. It's yours.

Oh, it seems we are unfamiliar with sarcasm. I shall close the register at this point."

"Hmm, a Krusty Burger. Well that doesn't sound too appetizing. What stews do you have?"

pivotal season. the first and last episodes feel like a world of difference.

Right. "Who Shot Mr. Burns" is the moment the show came perilously close to jumping the shark, and "Summer of 4 ft. 2" assured it still had some life left to live.

Surely you mean to say that "Who Shot Mr. Burns" marks the echoing resonance of the show's last breath of True Greatness before using season 7 to ease into its subsequent rapid decline.

Surely you mean it would be the season's worst episode were it not for the presence of "Marge Be Not Proud."

Now park your keister, meester.

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"What advantages does this motor car have over, say, a train, which I could also afford."

"No we shan't. Yoink!"

Stupid babies need the most attention.

'marge be not proud' is a perfect episode.

Perfectly boring.

BALL IS IN
PARKING LOT!
WOULD YOU LIKE
TO PLAY
AGAIN?

YOU HAVE SELECTED "NO"

Season 7 > Season 6

both patchier than previous seasons though. 8 is where it falls off the cliff

I don't get this "falling off a cliff" line. It didn't suddenly flip from great to dreck, it just became less consistent. Season 8 has more of the strained references and guest stars that took the show downhill but it also has Burns Baby Burns, You Only move Twice, Hurricane Neddy, El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer, Poochie and Homer's Enemy.

But I guess the first rule of Simpsons polls is that it must be 50% jpegs/quotes and 50% arguing over the precise point when it jumped the shark.

Anyway, I'm not voting in this one until 2102. Why rush?

Looking at the episode guide on wikipedia I was surprised how quickly it went bad, having been shaky on when certain episodes were first broadcast. I'd still put Season 8 comfortably in the classic period, though, with Season 9 as a transitional phase and then season 10 as the first 'crap Simpsons' era series.

It didn't suddenly flip from great to dreck, it just became less consistent.

^^^^^ this

I read the synopsis for some of the more recent episodes on wikipedia and these sound so much like spoofs, but I guess they're real?

Bart's interest in piano lessons surges when he sees the instructor is a beautiful young woman, while Homer tries to keep Marge from finding out he has lost the final two original hairs on his head, and Marge helps a Russian man pass his driver's test.
Guest stars: Justin Bieber, Bill Hader, Jane Krakowski and Patrick Stewart

Homer takes a page from 50 Shades of Grey and decides that a sadomasochistic relationship with Marge is the way to go. Meanwhile, Milhouse uses Marlon Brando's ghost to get advice on how to impress Lisa.
Guest stars: Wanda Sykes and George Takei

Marge stumbles upon a website for married women to arrange affairs (after mistaking it for a cupcake delivery website) and meets a man named Ben, who falls for Marge after the two bond over a Downton Abbey-esque period drama. Meanwhile, Homer takes home a steam train that used to belong to Springfield's high-end, outside mall and recruits Reverend Lovejoy, Moe, Lenny, Carl, and Larry the Lush to fix it for his wedding anniversary.
Guest stars: Lisa Lampanelli and Seth MacFarlane

I kind of want to compose my own terrible late period Simpsons episode synopses now.

I've grown to hate the guest stars. I liked it when they cropped up randomly (Jasper Johns!) - now they're compulsory and obvious. Even the non-celebs are badly handled. I saw a season 19 episode the other day with Alan Moore, Daniel Clowes and Art Spiegelman and it was excruciating.

Are there may people who've turned down a guest spot? They still seem able to attract big names no matter how poor the quality gets (kind of like Woody Allen? I've enjoyed most of Allen's recent films, though)

who the fuck is larry the lush

i know Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood did

Larry the Lush apparently the guy in the orange jacket here-

http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/c/cd/Lenny_loking_carld.png

Cruise and Eastwood turned it down during the classic period, though. For Eastwood, it was "What? That kiddie cartoon show?" (although other older stars, like Ernest Borgnine, had kids or grandkids that talked them into doing the show). Cruise I think was just being a dick, but I'm surprised Nancy Cartwright didn't use her Scientology powers to convince him otherwise.

(kind of like Woody Allen? I've enjoyed most of Allen's recent films, though)

Did Allen ever do a guest spot? I know they've gone after him pretty mercilessly ("What did I do to deserve this? Oh, right...that.")

voted "Bart sells his soul" entirely for the dream sequence & "I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda"

Harvey Fierstein quite nobly turned down a later-series return of Carl. Allegedly in an episode where Homer moves in with a gay couple, Carl was supposed to introduce them; HF objected to the fact they were just using the character (and hence, him) for his gay credibility, rather than having any real, sustained reason for it.

I re-did the poll over here, so we can move on to season 8 before December 2103: UH, THE MOVIE OR THE PLANET? The Simpsons Season 7 Poll (That Lasts Less Than Nine Decades)

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