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
MJ contractual stuff probably
how comes that when MJ appeared in the show they didn't use his real name in the credits, but they used his real *voice* but they used a soundalike for the songs he sang??
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
lol have you ever seen a licensing/performing contract
― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
i guess.. not.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
according to the commentary for that episode MJ asked that a soundalike be used because he wanted to play a joke on his brothers -- to see if they could tell if it was him singing, i guess.
kinda lol-worthy in itself that the very same episodes of the show that made it into The Show That Is Corrupting America's Youth and drew the ire of president bush would one day be dismissed as "emo bullshit."
episodes from this season that are as good as anything the simpsons ever did: simpsons roasting on an open fire, bart the general, krusty gets busted.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
adam you're probably thinking of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep,_Deep_Trouble
i remember watching this when it aired! kinda still prefer it to 'do the bartman.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
For some reason, I remembered "Do The Bartman" getting a similar post-show airing. But I guess I confused it with "Deep, Deep Trouble" and probably also this:
Following the death of Michael Jackson on June 25, 2009, the music video was broadcast by the Fox network on June 28, 2009—ahead of a rerun of the episode "Wedding for Disaster"—and featured a title card paying tribute to Jackson.[27]
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
There is an ep where Bart does a little riff of Do the Bartman on the bus, complete with hip thrusts, but that was way later on and presumably meant to be lame attention grabbing.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
That was in "Bart Gets Famous," yeah?
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
^^^That one opens with him whistling the theme song, to Marge's annoyance
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
Yes and revolves around his fame over a catchphrase of "I didnt do it" which was a nice self-mockery (along with the Bartman and whistling theme tune pisstaking)
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
Does "Bart the General" contain the series' first self-referential moment? I'm thinking of when Grandpa is writing his (hilarious) letter to a TV network in which, among other things, he lists a bunch of words that he requests never be mentioned on television again, including "family jewels" (referring back to earlier in the episode when Homer told Bart to "go for the family jewels" when fighting Nelson). Maybe not a proper self-referential moment in that its referencing something from the same episode, but the moment nevertheless feels conscious of the influence that the show was starting/about to have on the culture (definitely in retrospect, if not so much at the time).
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 00:52 (ten years ago) link
First self-referential moment I can recall (noticed it at the time, "Oh wow!") is in the season two episode where Burns runs for Governor - Bart gets his picture in the paper for catching a three-eyed fish, and cuts out the newspaper clipping to paste it in a scrapbook next to another clipping about the decapitation of the Jeremiah Springfield statue.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
Season One seems full of pokes at the show's supposed negative influence on kids - Krusty Gets Busted is basically all about it! I don't know how much lead time they had; they might have just been guessing that they'd get pushback from parent groups and such. But the 'family jewels' callback is a different kind of gag, I guess.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 03:06 (ten years ago) link
I'm amazed those are callbacks I never noticed before! And I watch my DVDs all the damn time.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 03:13 (ten years ago) link
Just watched "Bart the General." Not seeing why it's gotten so much attention here. A few good sight gags (Bart rolling home in the trash can) and a couple of moments of sparkle in the script, but overall a bit rote. Like a Dennis the Menace episode with a few attempts at real jokes. Herman really doesn't add much, either - easy to see why they didn't use him much again. A more intense, OTT version of that concept (like the 'Nam vet history teacher on Daria) could have taken them places. Abe, at least, has a little of what would later make him so great.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 04:32 (ten years ago) link
Telltale Head: pretty decent! Felt 'fuller' than some of these have, probably because of the (admittedly underdeveloped) B-story about Homer's football bet and the bowling ball catalogue. (Wondering, in fact, if I'm missing a resolution to that - some of my friend's collection is from syndicated reruns.) As elsewhere, certain scenes/gags play out too long, like Lovejoy unintentionally lip-synching the color commentary, but here it's charming rather than grating.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
Watched Season One not too long ago and it struck me how much heart these early episodes had. Bart actually, legitimately CRIES in three separate episodes! Anyway, "Homer's Night Out" is easily top ten all-time for me, so I'm voting for that one. Homer and the burlesque singer doing "I Could Love a Million Girls" (from Ragtime!) always makes me smile. "It's an honor to have a reeeeal swingin' cat with us tonight. Homer Simpson: Party Guy."
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
There's also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBTYri2KGEE
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
I've hardly caught any 'late, bad' Simpsons, but this was just on telly and it was awful. Most of it was watchable but not funny, but Nelson and Lisa acting out of character was just so painfully pointless and dreadful. Like, I'm not sure what they were even trying to do with it? Just so lacklustre.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
Thread for heaping derision (or sadness) on recent Simpsons probably belongs elsewhere, if at all, but I just caught a 2013 ep last night:
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Love_is_a_Many_Splintered_Thing
...and yeah, watchable but never funny describes it perfectly. There were a million sub-plots, wacky Family Guy-like references to other things, all this stuff happening to no apparent point.
― Low down bad refrigerator (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
Political biographer Robert A. Caro and former Conan O'Brien bandleader Max Weinberg guest starred as themselves.
Sold
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
Prefer Max's Futurama cameo tbh
http://theinfosphere.org/images/e/e4/Max_Weinberg.png
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
I've hardly caught any 'late, bad' Simpsons, but this was just on telly and it was awful
If I'm thinking of the right episode this is the one that has Skinner's eulogy for Martin Prince (who is worngly thought to have died) which begins 'Martin was an shy,awkward child who never had the chance to grow into a weird, unloved adult' which might be my all-time favourite line from the show. But it was pretty crappy by this point, occasional flashes of brilliance aside
― it was discovered that there's no rule that a dog cannot play basketball (bends), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that line was in it, and not bad. I think Wiggum had a line or two that worked as well. But maybe three lines in the whole thing? Come on, that's not enough.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
caught the first two episodes of the season. the 'homeland' parody or whatever it was was completely unfunny and kind of incomprehensible. might have been partly due to my low expectations but the halloween episode was actually kind of fun, laughed out loud a few times at the dr. seuss parody especially. but was also struck by the sort of casually mean-spirited tone of the whole thing, callous in a way that i don't remember the older halloween episodes being.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
gettin an itchy SB finger over here guys.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Thursday, 10 October 2013 02:00 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 11 October 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Crap!
So, I've seen all of these at some point in time, some more than once, but I'd hoped to rewatch most of them before the poll was up. As it is, I've just done "Bart the Genius," "Krusty Gets Busted," "Bart the General," and "The Telltale Head." Ugh. It sounds like "There's No Disgrace" and "Homer's Night Out" are the other big ones I'm missing - maybe "Crepes of Wrath" too (which I'm sort of curious about since I remember it being so strange).
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 October 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
Ended up voting "Life on the Fast Lane" simply because its the most consistently funny of these.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Friday, 11 October 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 12 October 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
haha I wonder if the thread title swung this since nobody can be arsed to actually revisit these
― swmp thing (wins), Saturday, 12 October 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
Wow, never seen a poll with so little curve
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 12 October 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
Tough but fair. Season 2 tomorrow!
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Saturday, 12 October 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link
I've been finding myself re-watching the early seasons of The Simpsons recently, and I was surprised by just how many of these episodes I remembered. There was quite a few of these episodes I hadn't really seen since the early '90s, and I was struck by how slower-paced, much less surreal and relatively undeveloped (character-wise) these episodes are in hindsight.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link