seasons 2-8/10 are going to be ROOOOOOOUGH choosing
― The Dance Twerking Was MADE So (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 4 October 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Went w/ telltale head bc of story structure w/ call of the simpsons a close 2
xp yeah, might need to include an "ALL OF THEM" option so nobody has to Sophie's Choice
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Friday, 4 October 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Went w/ telltale head bc of story structure
Man Simpsons used to be so good at structure, one of the saddest things about the newer ones is they are mostly just a bunch of unconnected wacky shit happening.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 4 October 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
tbf, they've lost around 2-3 minutes per episode since 1990, which writers have said has messed with the plotting and structure significantly.
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 4 October 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
So, given the 3 minutes they gave Del Toro, how are they going to shoehorn 3 stories into the 14 minutes they have left for this year's Treehouse?
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 4 October 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
Del Toro is directing a Treehouse segment? Interesting...
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 4 October 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
I'm another who rewatched this recently and was surprised by how good it was, there's a slight dissonance because it's quite far from the show it had become even by the middle of season 2, but from a very early point they'd constructed something very consistent and distinct. It presents its subversiveness and its cleverness in a different way than it would later, but still goes impressively far in both respects. 'There's No Disgrace Like Home' stands out in my memory as a dud in a way that none of the others are, a couple of others are a bit weak, but overall this was already great TV. Gonna struggle to make my decision between five or six of them...
― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Friday, 4 October 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
Don't get the "Disgrace" hate. There's some great stuff at the picnic and it ends with the family willingly shocking each other silly.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 4 October 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
'there's no disgrace like home' - come on, the electric shock therapy bit is one of the best gags of season 1
― 乒乓, Friday, 4 October 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
xp!
― 乒乓, Friday, 4 October 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
Jeez what's ILE come to when we can't do a bit of hatin'. Actually 'No Disgrace...' isn't as clear in my memory as the others, maybe I forgot about it in my most recent season rewatch. Don't remember much besides drunk Marge and the shock therapy. More than the others I think it has the external problem of being hard to reconcile with where the show would later go, what with the inverted Homer-Marge dynamic.
― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Friday, 4 October 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
babysitter bandit episode by far the shittiest of season 1
― papa smango (fadanuf4erybody), Friday, 4 October 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
yea even my 7 year old self didn't like that episode
― marcos, Friday, 4 October 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
Shocked they didn't cancel the show right then and there.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 4 October 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
Can you imagine if that HAD aired as the first ep, as planned? Even after being sent back for re-animation?
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Friday, 4 October 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
I think that's the only pre-crapulence Simpsons episode I've only seen twice. And I don't mind if I never see it again.
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 4 October 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
I think one of my favorite quotes when I first started watching these is from There's No Disgrace Like Home:
Homer: I'm sorry, Marge, but sometimes I think we're the worst family in town.Marge: Maybe we should move to a larger community.
Kind of weird how different the characters were back in season 1.
― silverfish, Friday, 4 October 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
i watched these episodes then they originally aired, i was 7 years old!!
jesus fuck I'm old
― smang culture (DJP), Friday, 4 October 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
Yup. I was 20 when these first aired.
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Friday, 4 October 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
10, and I feel old now too.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 4 October 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
(I mean, given we're on season 25.)
I was 17. I loved Life In Hell, but somehow missed the Ullman shorts.
Fortunately, my high school did not ban the "Bart Simpson: Underachiever And Proud Of It" t-shirts, and man, those things were fucking everywhere.
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 4 October 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
Ever see any of those bootleg "Simpsons Go Funky Reggae" shirts? With them all rasta-fied?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 4 October 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
everyone saw those everywhere, they were more prevalent than licensed merchandise
― smang culture (DJP), Friday, 4 October 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
^^^ GIS reveals dozens of variations.
I'm having such a hard time choosing in this poll. I don't love any of them, haven't rewatched any in ages, and I tend to think of Season 1 primarily as the era of writers retooling standard ancient sitcom plots, and actors not quite finding the voices yet. (And Moe's hair color changing!)
― Low down bad refrigerator (Dan Peterson), Friday, 4 October 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
season premiere of bob's burgers seemed like a bit of an homage to 'call of the simpsons.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 5 October 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
okay fine I watched 'There's No Disgrace Like Home' again and it was very enjoyable.
― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 5 October 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, October 4, 2013 2:41 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This happened other places too?! My grade 6 teacher, also the school's VP, made kids wear them inside out for the rest of the day if he saw 'em.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Monday, 7 October 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
yeah I saw a still of that on the BB's facebook page recently and had the same thought.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 00:08 (ten years ago) link
tempted to vote Bart the Genius cuz of the two characters in the history of The Simpsons to share my name one is one of Bart's gifted classmates and one... is one of Cletus' children, but I think I'm now leaning towards Bart the General. Bonus points for iirc being my childhood fave.
― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 00:14 (ten years ago) link
No love for "Moaning Lisa" here? Marge's climactic pep talk to Lisa still gets me choked up like very few of genuinely poignant moments from the series (and there are many).
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 04:19 (ten years ago) link
Have been enjoying taking a peek at some of these, though I don't see myself getting to all of them before the poll's up. "Bart the Genius" was tough going in places - some long scenes with few jokes, but also so much heart (the game of catch! what the heck?!). What's amazing is how many things are already basically fully formed - the voices of Krabappel and Skinner, for example.
Just watched "Krusty Gets Busted" and was outright impressed. The "kids solve a mystery" plot is way funnier now that I get that it's a deliberately ridiculous version of that trope, rather than a straight-faced series of clues being discovered. And Sideshow Bob is pure genius - the idea of the villain being the guy who wants to turn kids' programming highbrow is just funny all by itself, even without the notion that it's actually a wildly successful venture. Also Kelsey Grammer's acting is perfect. And Homer's scene looking at the lineup of the clowns is totally classic Homer, paced and acted almost exactly like you'd expect the same scene to be in Season 4.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 04:52 (ten years ago) link
i polled two or three of the classic simpsons seasons like three years ago fwiw
anyway the only joke i can really remember from any of these is 'bart, youre just like chilly, the elf who cannot love' which makes me smile even typing it out. actually that and the rd/rr one in 'bart the genius' so i dont really have any opinion abt the thread qn. just wanted to reminisce about the simpsons smurfs parody and stake my claim
― Lamp, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 06:08 (ten years ago) link
loved Moaning Lisa bitd. first ep i ever saw.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 06:17 (ten years ago) link
jesus "Moaning Lisa" is the worst
series 1 too shit to vote for tbh, sort Homer's voice out, stop trying to make me feel shit
― Bap & Ounge (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 06:24 (ten years ago) link
last 2 or 3 eps aren't terrible, i guess
― Bap & Ounge (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 06:26 (ten years ago) link
good lord this season is the fucken worst
Has to be Crepes of Wrath for the Adil b-story mostly and because French-bashing in The Simpsons is never not funny in the first ten seasons.
― hipster racist (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 08:45 (ten years ago) link
Actually, I just realised the best scene in Season One is the clown line-up in Krusty Gets Busted.
really can't understand people saying this season sucks when the Simpsons: Season 26 exists
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
it's possible for more than one thing to suck
also i prefer lol-free cheap wisecrackery to lol-free emo bullshit
― Bap & Ounge (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 11:45 (ten years ago) link
what season has the sexual harassment episode? because that's the all time best simpsons episode ever IMO
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
6.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Badman
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 12:18 (ten years ago) link
Telltale Head for Jebediah killing the bear. "We've recently uncovered evidence that the bear probably killed him."
― lazulum, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
The show really should have been retitled ''The New Simpsons Adventures'' some time in the late 90s, so you could more cleanly say ''every episode of the simpsons is at least PRETTY funny'' as well as ''...except the ones with Bleeding Gums Murphy.''
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 12:29 (ten years ago) link
xxp I'll save my Jebediah love for a future episode. You know the one I mean.
"I did not tame the wild buffalo. It was already tamed! I merely shot it!"
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
NV you're just like Chili, the elf who cannot love
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Which is the one that ended with the premiere of "Do the Bartman"?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
I think that was somewhere in the first half of season 2. The Simpsons Sing The Blues was released in December of 1990.
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
this was never in the show
― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link