It Comes With A Slice Of Canteloupe At The End: THE SIMPSONS SEASON 1 POLL

Political biographer Robert A. Caro and former Conan O'Brien bandleader Max Weinberg guest starred as themselves.

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Prefer Max's Futurama cameo tbh

http://theinfosphere.org/images/e/e4/Max_Weinberg.png

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

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.

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.

gettin an itchy SB finger over here guys.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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).

Ended up voting "Life on the Fast Lane" simply because its the most consistently funny of these.

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haha I wonder if the thread title swung this since nobody can be arsed to actually revisit these

Wow, never seen a poll with so little curve

Tough but fair. Season 2 tomorrow!

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.

However, I still like this season, and I think its flaws only become apparent with hindsight - it was fine at the time!

The scene where Marge unplugs the TV just as Homer is finally going to defeat Bart at that boxing game is still as fucking funny to me as the first time I saw it. As is Bart receiving/testing out his spy camera, Homer screaming at Bart and Lisa "BE NORMAL! BE NORMAL!" at Burns' picnic while Marge gets drunk on punch (which now all seems strange to watch all these seasons later) - and, of course, "KWYJIBO" ...