The Simpsons: Classic Or Dud?

Season 11 (Mike Scully ran) is when it sucks utter shit and represents how bad the series remains today (Al Jean's bloated solo running).

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Season 9 has some goodies though - The Last Temptation of Krusty, the one where Homer and Marge start having sex in public and a couple of others.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF05

Announcer: And now, back to your Tuesday morning movie.
[a boy who resembles James Dean in a leather jacket
runs out of a modest house, gets on a motorcycle,
and rides away]
Mother: Oh, I don't know what's the matter with Jimmy. He
won't do his homework, he only salutes the flag with
one finger, and he comes home every night with other
peoples' blood on his shirt.
Father: He's a rebel, I tell you, a rebel without a cause --
just like that boy in that popular movie we saw.
[Jimmy and his gang ride through a store, raising
havoc]
Homer: Yeah, that's the life for me, Marge. Cruising and
hassling shopkeepers.
Cop: [arresting Jimmy] When will you teens learn to be
uncool like everyone else?
Jimmy: Never, pops.
Homer: That's right -- never!
Jimmy: You can arrest me, but you'll never defeat the
Cobras. Nothing can defeat a motorcycle gang!
[close up on Jimmy's face as he's put behind bars.
A gang of bikers riding in a cloud of dust, and the
words "The End," is superimposed on the screen]
Homer: A gang -- that's the answer!
Lisa: Answer to what?
Homer: Hey, don't make me hassle you, Lisa.

Homer gets his gang together, the but the effect is less than
menacing. Moe has a motorcycle from the 20s, which sparks and
breaks down. At least he's better off than Carl and Lenny, who
don't have motorcycles at all. Even so, Ned is interested in
joining up, offering the use of his den (with bumper pool table) as
the gang lair. That's too good to turn down, so Ned's in.

After some beers and a game of pool, the club gets down to business.

Homer: The first meeting of Hell's Satans is called to order.
Ned: I move we reconsider our club name. Make it something a
little less blasphemous. After all, [chuckles] we don't
want to go to Hell.
Lenny: How about the Devil's Pals?
Ned: No.
Moe: The Christ Punchers.
Ned: The Christ ... I, I don't think you understand my
objection.
Homer: I'm the president the decision is mine. We're Hell's
Satans! Besides, I already made our club jackets. [holds
up a light blue windbreaker with "Hell's Satans" crudely
written on it, then passes them out to the gang]
The newly-christened gang rides around town. Homer is on his red
Harley, while Moe has finally resurrected his old motorcycle. (Or
maybe not -- it still trails a cloud of black smoke.) Carl has a
yellow scooter he rented from Hertz. Flanders is on a child's
bicycle. Lenny brings up the rear in a riding mower.

They pull up alongside Chief Wiggum, and taunt him by making oinking
noises. Wiggum vows he will put them in juvenile detention someday.
In retaliation, Homer quotes a line from the movie he saw Tuesday,
but gets the name of his gang wrong. Embarrassed, he make a few
quick "oinks" then makes a hasty exit.

H: you'll never defeat the Cobras pig.
W: hey I thought you guys were the Hell's Satans
H: Uhhh, oink oink oink

The gang loiters around the Kwik-E-Mart (gambling for pennies), until Apu chases them away with his mighty broom (although the broom upsets Manjula)

M: You said no more brooms
A: you knew I had a temper when you married me

Homer is pleasantly surprised to find his picture of Hell's Satans
in "Outlaw Biker" magazine. Marge is also surprised, but by a
different photo -- one of her in a nightgown, sound asleep. She's
been named "Cycle Slut of the Month," but that doesn't impress her.

Marge: You took a picture of me when I was asleep?
Homer: If you'd been awake you would have said, "no." You can
see the bind I was in.
Marge: [reading from the magazine] Her turn-ons include thievery
and liquor. Her turns-offs include underpants,
pedestrians, and justice -- [disgusted] Ohhh.

Then the guest stars come in (ugh) and the writers use the 'but we're scum only because we don't know any better' joke for the remainder of the show...that is, until they fence with the motorcycles themselves...and I'm quickly reminded that this is season 11

My guess is this script was a holdover from season 10 that got finished and aired in 11

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Meathook: Take off that jacket, man.
Homer: Okay. [takes off his club jacket]
Meathook: [pulls out a switchblade knife, then a switchblade
fork]
Now, eat it.
Homer: [meekly] All right. [cut to some time later, as
Homer finishes the jacket]
Ramrod: Hey, hey! Chew with your mouth closed, please.
Homer: [sucks down a sleeve] Done.
Marge: Okay, Meathook, I think he learned his lesson.
[maybe not, since Homer is putting on a sweater with
"Hell's Satans" embroidered on it]
Meathook: Aw, man, now you gotta eat that, too!
Homer: Ohhh.
Ramrod: You got anything else with our logo on it?
Homer: Caps and Frisbees, sir.
Meathook: You gotta eat them, too!
Homer: ... and some pogs.

gambling for pennies
grown men thinking they're invincible against going to juvie
motorcycle gang with only 1 1/2 motorcycles
printing up frisbess and pogs for your gang

Not Funny:
Fencing with motorcycles
running "resume" joke
any other "we don't know better" joke
john goodman's overall reading

http://www.abcarcade.com/the-simpsons-maker.html

and it's the same joke as the south park movie teaser

But who doesn't want to eat at The Zesty Fork?

I do not understand why we need a film of this.

I think he was referring to the fact that the whole wrecking-ball sequence was done using cell-shaded 3d graphics (like Futurama).

I love the Simpsons, but in all honesty I could care less about the movie.

What I am looking forwards to is the new Futurama movie/short series, where Bender is abducted by the (robot?) mafia and used by them for evil deeds.

it would've made more sense if they had come to their senses and cancelled the show, then made the movie.

Sadly, my fantasy world rarely meets up with reality, which is why y'all aren't busy building a massive statue of me right now.

last night fox BLEEPED OUT homer saying "masturbate"

and then i watch 2 minutes of the Cleveland Show and a 12 year old said "Dad, when do I get hair on my prick"

WTF?!

out-of-this-world moon waffles

Is it my imagination, or was tonight's episode closer to the series' peak (seasons 2-7) than any episode since...well, since seasons 2-7?

does anyone have any idea why the tracey ullman shorts have never been released on dvd? are there rights issues, or does matt groening just hate them that much?

You can find quite a few of them on youtube. Really nothing special, to be honest.

And some of them are on that 138th episode spectacular, bits of, anyway.

based on the handful i've seen i'd rather sit through an entire disc of them than any season since 1998.

Marge was having trouble to sleep. Late at night, she woke up. It was 4 AM. She was extremely uneasy, now. She knew she wouldn't be able to hold it for too long. She sat up, and glanced at Homer. He was absolutely silent.

She patted on his shoulder, quietly calling his name. He didn't answer. He didn't move. In fact, he wasn't even breathing. She pushed him, turning upside down, only to see that his body was completely slashed and cut.

She belted out a scream, and jumped from the bed, looking at that scene, in absolute terror. Without thinking, she left the room, supporting herself at the wall and breathing heavily, almost crying. She looked at the door to Bart's room, and walked in. Bart was lying away from him, and Marge knew that he could be dead, too. And he was. As she turned him to face her, she saw that his face was transformed into a red goo.

Marge ran out of the room, crying in despair... Lisa... She entered Lisa's room, sobbing violently. She saw Lisa, lying peacefully on her bed. Should I check her? She knew she was dead, but she was too curious. She slowly approached her, and looked at her. She was absolutely normal. Dead. There was nothing wrong with her. Marge cried, and that's when she was something at the corner of the room, something glittering - a pair of eyeballs.

All of a sudden, Marge felt all of her energies evaporating, as she realised there was nothing left for her, that she had nothing... nothing but fear. That night was only giving her more and more horrible surprises, and she felt completely helpless, unable to change the situation. And what was worse, it was all her fault. She left that happen, she caused it all. She stumbled across the corridor and stopped by Maggie's room. She slowly walked in, and looked at the crib... There was Maggie, completely motionless. She just didn't have the courage to go there. No, absolutely not. Marge ran outside the house, and looked around. She saw the Flanderses' house, and ran to their front door. She banged on the door, screaming for help.

There was no response. No matter how she tried, they just wouldn't respond.

In terror, she ran around the streets, looking for help. She saw a taxi cab parked on a corner, and rushed to it and cried for help to the driver. Only to find out he was dead.

Suddenly, Marge began to think that the entire situation was just pathetic, ridiculous. But that didn't help. Her family was what mattered, even if the entire town was, indeed, dead. And she knew who was the only one she could look for.

this show is getting pretty dark, god damn

Is it Flanderses' or Flanders' ? or Flanders's ?

flandereses.

stupid flanderses

I think officially it's "stupid sexy Flanderses."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtJ28qOEG1g

This is amazing. Stories about the monorail episode, Michael Jackson, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, etc.