UH, THE MOVIE OR THE PLANET? The Simpsons Season 7 Poll (That Lasts Less Than Nine Decades)

"Real Acid?!"

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.

Yeah, I pretty much hate that aspect of it (probably would've liked it at age 9, like you did.) The whole tone is more like, I dunno, Duck Tales or something. But the scene with Abe speaking to Bart's class is all-time.

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.

Hey, I saw this bit, and it was... uh, well, it wasn't the utter pits, just, you know, mildly excruciating.

But the scene with Abe speaking to Bart's class is all-time.

Haha, yes. "We had to say 'dickety' because the Kaiser had stolen our word 'twenty.'"

Hated Flying Hellfish for the sentiment, there are some cracking lines in it still.

Voting Radioactive Man.

"congratulations bart simpson, YOU'RE OUR NEW FALLOUT BOY! ... is what i would be saying to you if you weren't an inch too short. next!"

not big on the hellfish episode either, or the sideshow bob one, but there's so much great stuff here. think i'll probably go with 'bart sells his soul,' which is kind of genuinely eerie and touching.

'summer of 4 ft. 2' seems like a good, satisfying end to the 'classic' simpsons era.

Donald Sutherland's part in Lisa the Iconoclast quite possibly my favorite Simpsons guest role. Every line is absolute gold.

"Mr. Simpson, I have nothing but respect for the office of town crier, but this is outside your jurisdiction!"
"You are banned from this historical society! You, and your children, and your children's children! For three months!"

Plus the great sign gag:

http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/1/10/Springfield_historical_society.png

Jeff Goldblum is also great in A Fish Called Selma, and he's funny on the DVD commentary as well.

Lisa The Iconoclast isn't one of my favorites, but I do say "You suck-diddly-uck!" pretty much daily.

"I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?"
voting Scenes From the Class Struggle. don't expect anyone else to though

"Scenes" is my favorite "Marge has had enough of Lisa's crap" episode, though.

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That scene also highlights some of the differences between early and late Simpsons - Lisa's crap is the crap of an annoying little kid. In later years her portrayal seems to be some kind of malevolent 'straw feminist' type.

That's one of my favourite Margecentric episodes! I liked the Dorothy Parker-inspired character who has a different drink in every scene she appears in.

yeah that's a fun episode. The name 'Sorny' has had a big influence on my life.

'Homerpalooza' is a bit of a dud but that aside I think the drop in quality here compared to previous seasons is miniscule. Tonally a lot of it seems a kind of swing back to season 4 - many episodes with quite simple premises that they manage to wring a lot out of. Though the way those contrast with the crazier things make it even harder to choose between episodes here.

I hope we can all agree that, whichever episode wins, this is the greatest two and a half minutes in the entire season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_0fmoHaBi4

lots of classics here, very few lows, gr8 season fuck haters

"hey funboys! Get a room!"

I would have loved Homerpalooza if I was 15 when it came out because I woulda been all SQUEEEEEEE OMG ITS SONIC YOUTH AS A CARTOOOOOON.

...its still kinda bemusing anyway.

My immediate instinct answer was "Radioactive Man", if only because it has spawned one of the whole internet's most enuring and useful catchphrases in "my eyes! ze goggles do nothink!".

...and "Up and at them!"

"Mother Simpson"
"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
"Two Bad Neighbors"
"Lisa the Iconoclast"
"Homer the Smithers"
"Raging Abe Simpson"
"Summer of 4 Ft. 2"

^^^ I need to rewatch this season to see if these episodes are as terrible as I remember.

at least two of those rank among the best ever imo

burns answering the phone in 'homer the smithers' is all-time:

'ahoy hoy? no, you have the wrong number, my friend. i suspect you need more practice working your telephone machine.'

My favorite part of that episode is Mr. Burns trying to break up Homer and Smithers' fight by splashing water on them, popping a paper bag, and trying to separate them with a ruler. Also, Smithers pausing between whacks on Homer's head with the phone receiver saying "It's for you!"

I like "curse of the flying hellfish"! (for the german "must get back in time to lizen to kraftverk/hey funboys get a room!" thing aforementioned, if nothing else).

2 bad neighbours is a bit crap. Rather flat Dennis the Menace pastiche. Was last gleaming the "bob steals a bomb" one? That wasnt that bad.

Summer of 4 ft 2 was great! "like, you know... whatever"

"Mother Simpson" gets maybe a tad overrated owing to the power of its last image, but terrible? GTFO.

Last image? Oh, homer sitting on the car bonnet yeah.

Christ, I know way too much about this show without having to look it up.

I don't think you need to worry about that on this thread ILX.

This is the point at which I stopped watching regularly - didn't see a lot of them the first time (or ever) and ''Summer of 4 Ft. 2'' is the last one I remember watching as a new thing. Must have also been dialing back on the reruns, because even the ones I did see are really hazy and unfamiliar. Dunno if it was the show or me. This was the year I started 8th grade at a new school, maybe things were different....dunno. I'd love to be pleasantly surprised, though.

no mention of Bart on the Road yet?

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Ep ranks up there with Lemon of Troy in line-for-line greatness

'Mother Simpson' is remembered for the emotional punch but there are so many great lines and bits surrounding that - the entirety of Homer's faked death, "LEAVES OF GRASS MY ASS", the APB on Uosdwis R. Dewoh, etc etc etc.

"My dad says it's like Vegas -- if it were run by Ned Flanders."

Moe? Wasn't that the problem in the first place? That you were going broke? Moe? Moe?

Send it care of... Langdon Alger. [denouement music]

No, that's a terrier. They're dogs.

I'm always mentally poking the "cutarl" button next to my any key.

Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing.

Doris Grau, script supervisor for the show and voice of Lunchlady Doris died on December 30, 1995. The episode "Team Homer", which aired eight days later, was one of the last episodes to feature her voice and featured a dedication to her.[9] After that, Lunchlady Doris had speaking parts in "Lisa's Sax", which Grau had recorded before her death.

How did I never know this!??

Oh god this is a season I love *so many* episodes from.

"He came to life! ....good for him!"
The "just dont look" jingle, which always reminds me of Jinglesmith :D
3D homer!
"real" Matt Groenig shooting at the camera
All of Troy McClures bits in that show, tbh
Knoxville wig outlet (lol: once, Roxy or Nijoli sent me a postcard with the sunsphere on it for lols bcz of that!)
" I must get back to the Dance Centrum in Stuttgart in time to see Kraftwerk"
"homer simpson, smiling politely!"
"to start press any key. Where's the any key?"

Push out the jive...bring in the love

When a friend of mine took his grandmother to see Paul Anka a year or two back, I couldn't help asking him if Anka played "Just Don't Look."

"real" Matt Groenig shooting at the camera

As his cousin, I can confirm the accuracy of this depiction.

Love the law firm from "Bart the Fink": Dewey, Cheatham, Howe & Weissmann

no mention of Bart on the Road yet?

ANDY WILLIAMS???!!!!!!!!!!!

leee, are you really matt groening's cousin or is that just a running gag?

Yes.

lool

Or, to paraphrase, "A little from column A, a little from column B."

I only recently realized how much recycling was going in the Treehouse of Horror lines:
1. "Dad You Shot the Zombie Flanders" "He was a Zombie" 2. "We have the kill the boy" "How do you know he's a vampire?" "He's a vampire!?" and 3. "uhh chief, that wasn't a monster it was the captain of the high school basketball team" "well, he was turning into a monster"

Whoever transcribed "King-Size Homer" on snpp was on the side of right

Lenny: Yeah, he got injured on the job and they sent him home with pay.
(scoffs) It's like a lottery that awards stupidity.
Homer: Stupidity, eh?
-- At that, Homer's a viking, "King-Size Homer"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Argh I cant decide between Radioactive man and Fish called Selma.

as an actual 9-year-old boy at this point in the series' run, "Bart Sells His Soul" was the episode that connected with me the most—altho "Radioactive Man" came close, it loses points for being waaaayyy too disillusioning

I remember when I thought ze goggles, zhey do someseeng.

omg wait I forgot which one "Lisa the Iconoclast" was! could've easily voted for that on the right day. for some reason ('history' theme?) I remembered it being earlier than S.7...

For me the best things about "Lisa the Iconoclast" are:

a) Donald Sutherland
b) the educational film about Jebediah
c) "'I want to help you, George Washington?' Even in your dreams you're a nerd."
d) Homer's tenure as town crier. (Encouraged by Bart's, "You're a big, fat loudmouth and you can walk if you have to.")

Bart on the Road, to be a benign contrarian.

"You got GREEDY, Martin!"

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

huh, I think 'Bart on the Road' is good but I'm not really sure what elevates it above other solid classic-period Simpsons episodes. Those bottom two 0s, ILX you disappoint me terribly.

What the! I voted for "138th," I call shenanigans!

Perhaps you voted in the other poll. Let's wait and find out

lol you know you're probably right. *sits down and waits*

Of course, you mustn't KILL time.

Huh, yeah, I think a lot of people voted in the 90 year poll and not this one. Otherwise I wouldn't have been the only Radioactive Man vote.

Top two results OTM, though.

Season 8 tomorrow, and if you could kill someone on your way out, it would help me out a lot.

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I have GOT to stop forgetting to vote >:|

Put me down as a write in for Fish called Selma. Sigh.

And yeah hahaha there is no fuckin way Im not voting for "you only move twice" next poll.

Agreed, let's not even have the poll.

Was gonna say, is my favorite episode of all time

*reads thread back* ... wait. how did I miss the fact Mcarthur Park the agent was Jeff goldbloom!!

See, I think I'm going to vote for Mr. Scorpion as well, but people are going to start talking about "Hurricane Neddy" and "A Milhouse Divided" and Guatemalan insanity peppers and Shari Bobbins, and, well, who knows?

As a direct result of this series of polls, last night I ordered Seasons 4, 5 & 6 on DVD from Amazon for $11.99 each. My wife has agreed to give them to me for xmas.

Aw! Return the favor! Buy her a bowling ball!

"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson? This is detective Don Brodka from Try-N-Save security. That's right, Don Brodka. Your son Bart has been caught shoplifting. Uh huh. Yeah, it's a shame, I know, but...well, try and have a merry Christmas. (hangs up) They weren't home, uh huh. But I left a message on their answering machine, that's right."

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