The Simpsons

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

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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.

I'm a surfer!

Lookin' good, Rod, lookin' good.

i also love when they're touring the upstairs of the house...the electrical room, etc.

Apu: This is the room with electricity. But it has too much electricity. So, I don't know, you might want to wear a hat.

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Almost literally every line in this episode is an A+ joke.

Ned: I just attacked all my friends and neighbors just for trying to help me. I'd like to commit myself.
Nurse: Very well. Shall I show you to your room, or would you prefer to be dragged off kicking and screaming?
Ned: Ooh, kicking and screaming, please.
Nurse: As you wish.
[two men in white grab hold of him and drag him away]
Ned: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Dr. Foster: Yes, Dr. Foster here. ... Ned Flanders? You're sure? No, no, no, I'll come right over. And may God have mercy on us all.
[hangs up]
Darling, there's an emergency at the hospital, uh, where are my shoes?
Mrs. Foster: [sleepily] I think they're in the den.
Dr. Foster: The den? May God have mercy on us all.

he screams but he doesn't kick. :(

"may god have mercy on us all" is something that gets in my head a lot. also i am blaming homer's richard burton thing in the bigger brother episode for my (documented elsewhere) incident of getting flummoxed when trying to think of a word to use instead of 'gallivanting' in a job interview yesterday.

I like the hallway they built that gets really small.

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i was literally just thinking about the nacho hat.

it was tailing off even at Series 7 i think. peak was pretty much series 3-6. imo.

Yeah Hurricaine Neddy is def a brilliant episode. "You folks are free to roam the grounds. Uh, just remember, one of our patients is a cannibal. Try to guess which one! I think you'll be pleasantly surprised."

And the stuff Homer has to infuritate Ned with!

Homer: Ned Flanders, I mock your value system. You also appear foolish
to the eyes of others.
Ned: Well howdy, Homer! [partition slides up] Ooh, thanks for
dropping by!
Foster: Hmm. He's not responding. [into microphone] Proceed to level 2
antagonism.
[slides down partition]
Homer: Past instances in which I professed to like you were fraudulent.
Ned: Oh, well, I'll just have to try harder. Heh heh. [partition
slides up] Ooh! Thanks for dropping by!
Foster: Ah, he's still repressing. [into microphone] Maximum hostility
factor.
[slide down partition]
Homer: I engaged in intercourse with your spouse or significant other.
Now that's psychiatry! Eh? Eh?

ALso the two psychiatrists!

"He just said he hates his parents! Do you realize what that means?"

"Uhhh . . . what do YOU think it means?"

Dr. Foster: I can't find what Homer's saying. Did you write that?
Doctor: Um, did you like it?

One line from that ep that's entered my own personal repertory is when Ned yells at Moe.

Ned Flanders: You ugly, hate-filled man!
Moe: Hey, hey! I may ugly and hate-filled, but I... uh... what was the third thing you said?

For some reason, I always find myself saying, "There! You found a floor!" to, say, drivers who finally pass me on the left after a mile or so of tailgating me in the right lane (when the left lane is completely clear).

(Homer to Santa's Little Helper in "King-Size Homer")

Thanks to this I've just watched "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" which is also a fucking brilliant episode. The Johnny Cash as coyote bit is just special and all the chilli acid-trip art work is icredibly awesome.

"I hope I didnt brain my damage"

at first i thought the space coyote was laurence fishburne :/

"I'm just your memory, Homer. I can't give you any new information."

That episode also has:

Marge: It's like I'm from Venus and you're from Mars.
Homer: Fine, give me the one with all the monsters.

um hello werner herzog

johnny cash coyote might be my fave simpsons.

'i said woof'

Mentioned this to N the other night, he looks at me and goes "THATS JOHNNY CASH?!". We've only seen the episode 8766453453 times...

I've seen this ep a million times but this was the first time I noticed the Janis Ian reference in the opening bit. They're watching the pageant on television and all the girls break out into a showtuney version of "Seventeen." which is pretty lol + subtle

Oh, it's Streetcar Named Marge ep btw

"You look like Grandma when we saw her sleeping in her forever box" made me kinda sad

I always crack up thinking about Skinner fooling Lisa with a fake state comptroller and then going "and now...the REAL comptroller!" to the comptroller's confusion. If it wasn't totally lame and Fall Out Boy-ish to name a band after a Simpsons reference I'd start a band called The Real Comptroller.