The Simpsons

it is dan

the albanian exchange student was definitely not season 1

no, it totally is

s1 isnt really that good but i kinda think it & s2 get a strangely bad rep - there are some really good moments in most of those episodes

Exch student one was def S1. I am looking at the DVD.

their bad rep is mostly just the contrast w/ what comes next

if the show had only lasted 2 seasons it'd still be classic, just some cool cult cartoon

oooh - the albanian student episode is the same as bart goes to france

best part of last exit to springfield is when he does the chicken dance on the floor

woooooooooooooooooop woopwoopwoopwoopwoopwoop. I have laughed embarrassingly hard at that many times. Also at Homer's yelp when Kent Brockman calls organised labour a 'lumbering dinosaur'.

Last Exit to Springfield is utterly flawless. Anyone who disagrees is headed straight for the disgusting savage thread.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 11 February 2011 15:21 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That and Marge v the Monorail are a stark reminder of just how far this show has fallen.

May I clarify I did not say I think "Last Exit to Springfield" is a bad episode - its not, its great, and so is the monorail episode. I just dont get much out of jokes of extreme repetition.

(cf Peter Griffin whacking his knee)

This is perhaps rather lolworthy irony seeing as I watch my Simpsons DVDs so regularly I have probably seen every single episode of S1-13 about 15-20 times each.

When everyone's in the bunker waiting for the comet, and Moe suggests playing a game where you make an animal sound and people try to guess that sound, and he leads off with some bizarre, unidentifiable yelp/bleat/garble.

And then from Lionel Hutz, when Marge suggests they should tell the truth, "Yeah, but what is truth? If you follow me."

Both season 2. Golden, delicious season 2.

That first one is from Season 6, actually.

That line from Lionel Hutz "if you lived here, you'd be home by now!" was used on a billboard once, which is funny because I thought the point of the line was to prove how ridiculous real estate agents get in their advertising

i think the best gag in last exit is where a squeaky, unctuous keeps voting 'nay' @ the union meeting until homer, exasperated, finally asks 'who keeps saying that' & it pans to a pair of guys at the back of the room. one of them is a shrimpy dude in a willy loman sack suit the other this buff germanic dude. the small guy in the same squeaky voice points at the larger, blaming him, exhorts everyone to beat the other dude up & laughs

i like to claim that bob dylan provided the 'nay', uncredited

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd9Yibf_UXE

That line from Lionel Hutz "if you lived here, you'd be home by now!" was used on a billboard once, which is funny because I thought the point of the line was to prove how ridiculous real estate agents get in their advertising

― frogbs, Friday, February 11, 2011 9:42 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this line existed as a real estate slogan loooooong before the simpsons was even an idea

"Lenny, can you get this sugar daddy off my back?!"

xp Had no idea; I always assumed that Simpsons did it first...more power to 'em I guess

1.1 - it starts

i'm excited! followed you. sixredfeet.

"What did he say?"
"I dunno, something about being gay."

That line from Lionel Hutz "if you lived here, you'd be home by now!" was used on a billboard once, which is funny because I thought the point of the line was to prove how ridiculous real estate agents get in their advertising

There is a real estate sign in my town that says this – even more confusingly, it is in front of an office plaza.

It's a good thing, a hoy hoy, but you need an icon.

oh ok, give me a minute. not used to this "twitter" thing.

you've been gallivanting around with that floooooozy of a bigger brother of yours, havenchoo? HAVENCHOO?

^ I have had this circulating in my head all day.

lol i followed u as well, this could be amusing =)

Grandpa Simpson's story in Last Exit To Springfield is their finest hour imo

give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say

http://www.oldmansimpson.com/frames/full/9F15/cap002.jpg

Man, tonight's episode is full of utterly insane metajokes.

that wasn't even the first time they've done a Jessica Simpson gag, was it?

favorite 'monorail' moment:

lyle lanley: i'm here to answer your questions about the monorail!
milhouse: can it outrun the FLASH?
lyle lanley: you bet!
other kid: can superman outrun the flash?
lyle lanley: uh...sure, why not.

also homer's "we MONORAIL CONDUCTORS are a CRAZY breed..." speech.

True or false: Riding the monorail can give you mono...

"the know it all of the protocol of the booty call" was a nice line

xpost "False!...No wait, true!"

"And so, 'mono' means 'one', and 'rail' means 'rail'. And that concludes our intensive three-week course."

I really liked the Valentine's ep last night. "A bottomless pitcher of beer and a circumferenceless plate of nachos..." was another nice line.

watching the first season i have to say Homer is a TOTALLY different character. He has just started an episode watering the plants and telling Bart not to be jealous of the Flanders!

don't have a twitter but iirc, a hoy hoy, the nelson HA HA was only introduced in the episode where grampa is left watching the children while homer and marge go to the marriage retreat?

(x-post) It's interesting how the voice actors took a while to find their footing, too. The first year Dan Castellaneta was kinda doing Walter Matthau for Homer. Moe and Burns also sound pretty different in the early eps.

so in watching some of the episodes from the really good seasons i've come across a couple of episodes that i have little or no memory of-- the one in which burns loses his fortune and has to live like a regular joe ("i'm riding the bus!" ... "i'm shopping!") and the one in which the neighbors re-build the flanders'es house after it gets destroyed by a hurricane and via flashback we see ned as a child and his beatnik parents

the one in which burns loses his fortune and has to live like a regular joe ("i'm riding the bus!" ... "i'm shopping!")

oh man this one is so great. Catsup? Ketchup?

basically if it's a Mr. Burns episode from the golden age, it's gonna be awesome

the one in which the neighbors re-build the flanders'es house after it gets destroyed by a hurricane

Hurricane Neddy, one of my very favorites. I still occasionally use the phrase "hostility-iddily-diddily."

"Wadded beef? CORN nog??"

That whole shopping thing is one of my favorite bits. Krusty coming in to buy "Krusty-O's," Burns asking where the Burns-O's are and Krusty telling him they don't put nobodies on cereal boxes. Then Burns deciding that Count Chocula looks enough like him to count.

Like, his only understanding of cereal is that you buy the one with your picture on the box. Amazing.

we see ned as a child and his beatnik parents

Doc, you gotta help us! Like, we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

Is there a greater 10 or so clip of the show than the "Booo-urns" one?

*10 second

oh yeah, and the Bort license plates. that scene is hilarious even in Spanish.

Doc, you gotta help us! Like, we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

love this line so much.

That whole hurricane episode is a treasure trove of great jokes. So far as I can tell this is the only episode credited to writer Steve Young, but it's simply amazing. Everything from Rev. Lovejoy in that episode is golden, all the stuff in the psychiatric hospital is great, Rod and Todd in the "Butthole Surfers" and "I'm With Stupid" t-shirts . . . that so much is packed into one 22-minute episode is almost beyond belief.