The Simpsons

it's also the episode with

WELCOME
THRILLHO

It's a top to bottom classic. Bart holding up the voice balloon in the family picture, Homer commenting, "I don't remember saying that."

Or when the photographer tries to do the goofy voice for Maggie by inhaling the balloon and is just like "Hiiii, I'm...oh it's just filled with air"

Even the Bonestorm commercial was great, pretty much a picture-perfect send-up of the Macho Man Slim Jim commercials plus a pretty obvious Mortal Kombat reference

Hell it even had a nice emotional ending and all, no way modern Simpsons can pull that off

"Heh heh heh...GET 'IM, MAW."

"I though Krusty was Jewish?"

"Christmas is the time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ."

"catfiche?"

(I'm always saying that)

Homer drawing the robot grilling the hot dog

BUY BONESTORM OR GO TO HELLLLL

"I will now close the cash register as you are apparently unfamiliar with sarcasm."

This and the one where Bart accidentally burns down the Christmas tree are the unsung heroes of TV Xmas episodes.

i think doing a tribute to something as under-the-radar and recent as logorama is less an "homage" and more "an excuse to steal an idea" tbh

Well this eats

http://www.examiner.com/article/sam-simon-has-metastasized-cancer

sad sad news

by a lot of accounts he, more than groening, was the guy who really came up with the signature tone and style of the show in its classic days

v sad, he seems like a nice interesting guy. also when he was asked if they could refer to him in the 138th episode spectacular (at that point he had long departed the everyday running of the show after disagreements with groening and brooks, mostly the former it seems), he went one better than just give them permission and instead drew them this image himself

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121012092605/simpsons/images/3/32/TS1ES-Simon.jpg

i've been finding the best scoring avclub reviews of the past couple of years and watching just those episodes. some of them are not bad at all, even with a couple of quite touching and well executed moments. nowhere near the heyday obv.

was the season finale (last week, yes?) any good? Oldtime NatLamp / SNL / SCTV guy Brian McConnachie wrote it, apparently.

It was meh, but one or two jokes were surprisingly funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtJ28qOEG1g&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLVL8S3lUHf0TIbLusugli-_6OhbvqgMvD

you know...some of these ain't half bad

http://www.threadless.com/thesimpsons/

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Holy fuck, I am totally getting that Homer shirt.

it has to win first

Ah, yeah, just caught that. Stupid shirt. Be more available!

That muumuu shirt better come with a fat guy hat and a garbage bag full of popcorn or no deal.

Also, you should be able to feel three kinds of softness.

http://gawker.com/simpsons-to-kill-off-major-character-in-upcoming-episod-1433697932

Ugh.

Fat Tony got killed?

Fat Tony dies in the twenty-second season episode "Donnie Fatso", only to be replaced by his slimmer cousin "Fit Tony." By the end of that episode, Fit Tony's weight gain causes a change of nickname to "Fat Tony", essentially restoring the original character.

http://s1.e46fanatics.com/forum/images/smilies/jack.gif

That was news to me, too.

Oh. ok.

I finally stopped watching the show. I only saw two episodes last season and don't care if I see any this season. I think I'm pretty much on the Dead Homer Society train now, although I'm more generous in extending my goodwill through season 11.

Yeah, season 9 is pretty much my limit. I recently re-watched the Who episode from season 12; it's actually worse than I remember, and I remember it being the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked. But Roger Daltrey's DVD commentary is kind of funny. He's a huge fan of the show, and was completely star-struck on meeting Dan Castellenata ("Oh my god, it's Homer!!")

My DVD boxsets stop at Season 13, and that's about where my interest in watching new eps started to wane as well. (Although that was 2002, so my habit of watching on TV fizzled out in fits and starts for the next decade.)

Looking at the list, there are some halfway decent season 12 eps I'd rewatch, although at that point they'd definitely given up on good endings. That year's Treehouse of Horror was good, there's the rock and roll camp one, the one with Lisa trying to save the tree, the one with the kids snowed in at the school, and the one with Homer's hunger strike. The rest of that season was bad.

We should do a series of seasons 1-8 (the canonical "good" seasons) polls.

yeah! totally down with a peak period seasons poll.

it seems a bit underpolled in general, if someone wanted to put together a massive episodes poll then i would certainly be kind enough to contribute a list. and sit in the rollout thread being angry if any post-season 9 episodes appear.

i can't muster enough energy to care about this upcoming character death, for me the break between early simpsons and what's happening now is absolute. more annoyed that there's going to be a futurama crossover episode, somewhat soiling the nice note that futurama went out on.

the one with the kids snowed in at the school

Skinner's Sense of Snow. That one still had it. LOLing to myself right now thinking of "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But then Was Again."

duffman nooo

Can't believe ep poll hasn't been done. (Side poll should be best Treehouse of Horror vignette.)

"Skinner's Sense of Snow" has "now chew through my ball-sack" which still cracks me up then staggers me that they got away with it

kinda funny that matt groening flipped his lid over the 'critic' crossover (which now seems as classic and beloved as any other episode from that era) but is apparently ok with a 'futurama' crossover. are the 'futurama' characters going to get yellow skins?

and a family guy crossover

my reaction to that is a moe-esque "DEAR GOD NO"

Skinner's Sense of Snow" has "now chew through my ball-sack" which still cracks me up then staggers me that they got away with it

Haha, yes, and my other favorite, "What part of 'di di mau' don't you understand?"

So if I was to put together a poll, would people want one giant Top 25 Episodes poll, or a series of individual season polls where there's one clear winner from each season?

indiviual season polls! and then one big poll of the best of each season poll!

The families become fast friends with Stewie becoming obsessed with Bart and his pranks, while Lisa takes Meg under her wing, determined to find something at which she excels.

Meanwhile Marge and Lois ditch housework for a bonding session and Peter and Homer fight over whose town has the better beer: Quahog's Pawtucket or Springfield's Duff.

Christ they must have stayed up all night with pizzas in the writers room coming up with THAT complex plot.

Archer/Bobs Burgers show you how to do a proper fucking crossover.

Christ they must have stayed up all night with pizzas in the writers room coming up with THAT complex plot.

― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Wednesday, October 2, 2013 10:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kept waiting for it to turn into slash fiction tbh

Season polls it is! I'll get started on the Season 1 poll. What do you think for voting, a week? Two weeks?

A week sounds good.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgYY7dhTyE

del toro halloween intro