Best Simpsons episode ever

One more year and that show's been as bad as long as it's been good

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, April 3, 2006 3:04 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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The one where Millhouse gets a girlfriend way back in S3 is nothing special plot-wise, but is crammed with incredible jokes. It has the subplot of Homer using the sleep-hypnosis tape which increases his vocabulary as well: "In the bedroom, the gourmand becomes the voluptuary!"

huh, I was thinking that was a season or two later than that, It has that balance of the sincere & grounded and the crazy that seasons 4 and 5 got perfect. I love that subplot. My gastronomic rapacity knows no satieties. :'(

the thing that still bugs me in that episode is where milhouse's girlfriend at the end goes "it's pretty nice but they won't let me oot". what the hell is oot-ing?

"Homer Goes To College" has been my fave since high school and still is.

xpost they're Canadian nuns, she's saying 'out' in an allegedly Canadian accent!

the thing that still bugs me in that episode is where milhouse's girlfriend at the end goes "it's pretty nice but they won't let me oot". what the hell is oot-ing?

― hobbes, Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:20 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

They're French-Canadian nuns and Canadian ppl pronounce "out" as "oot." The joke is that she's so indoctrinated by them that she's picking up their mannerisms

In recent times, the one where Homer blacks out and thinks he clobbered Marge was uncomfortable territory in a good way, and makes me think the show could get a fifth wind if it goes Todd Solondzylvania.

my childtime favorite is the one where homer goes to work for hank scorpio, not sure if it'd hold up now.

My childhood favorite was the teacher's strike episode. "There's very little meat in these gym mats."

k i wasn't exposed to canadians until college. disappointed the joke itself is so crappy. no shit they won't let you out, you're in a boarding school or whatever

Saw the Scorpio one relatively recently, it's still a cracker.

xpost - did you think 'oot' was an entirely different verb of which you were unaware?

ban hobbes

timmy o'toole

Hank Grimes, people. Funniest episode ever, and just a fantastic piece of satire no matter what you compare it to.

"Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy." - Michael O'Donoghue

hank grimes?

"Homer Goes To College" has been my fave since high school and still is.

"Hello, Dean? You're a stupidhead!"
"Homer?"
"Aaaah!!"

gotta go with "Last Exit to Springfield". dental plan! lisa needs braces.

Last Exit won some, I think it was Entertainment Weekly? poll, seems like a totally fair choice.

Homer Badman is satire at its best, perhaps.

But the best? I'm going to have to say Treehouse of Horror 4, with the Shinning, Time and Punishment, and whatever the one where they eat kids is called.

Wow a Simpsons thread I haven't posted in, what are the odds.

k i wasn't exposed to canadians until college. disappointed the joke itself is so crappy. no shit they won't let you out, you're in a boarding school or whatever

WTH, way to overthink a pretty simple lol.

And yeah, the "Shinning" bit of ToH4 is also one of my fave ever eps.

"all work and no play make Homer something something"
"...go crazy?"
"Don't mind if I do! BLEEIRTYERTEUEEEGHEGH!"

WTH, way to overthink a pretty simple lol.

wth, milhouse's girlfriend is canadian all of a sudden?

oh for fu

fuck it. i'm out

There was this hilarious episode where Ralph was a Viking I think but I am still little sketchy on the details

the spring break ep where they steala car and go to the worlds fair in knoxville, tn was my favorite for a while.

I forgot about that one, that's top quality. Kind of less humor-oriented, iirc.

i was reminded of that one the other day when i saw there was a band called langdon auger

For the benefit of Hobbes:

Samantha: That's all right, Bart. I love Saint Sebastian.
It's run by a group of French-Canadian nuns. They're very nice, except they never let me oot.

... I think thats faaairly self explanatory.

(interestingly its spelt "ewt" on SNPP tho)

i remember the episode where Homer intentionally gains weight so he can work from home being really funny, but i saw it recently and was disappointed. i think just the Obese Homer in Mumu, Cape, and Hat image was the center of the lols.

http://blondehurricanewarning.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/homer_mumu1.jpg

first GIS for "mumu" btw.

"the fingers you have used to dial... are too fat. To obtain a special dialling wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now"

haw that episode had several funny bits - play doh doughnut, greased fast food joint wall kills bird, mash nymberpad for dialing wand, ten hyiyiyih... xp

ass has own congressman

definitely some great stuff there, but wasn't the level i remember it being. of course i'd probably feel that way if i went through a lot of the old Simpsons episodes that i loved. it's been a while!

GOd not for me it hasnt, I watch my dvds constantly!

/utter saddo

Bart of Darkness is a contender.

I'm such a saddo that most nights I sleep to DVD commentaries to drown out the tinnitus / wandering thoughts. I should probably find something else though, give myself a while away so I can return to them fresh in a couple of years.

hank grimes?

Whoops. I blame Signal to Noise, which has a big article on bassist Henry Grimes in the new issue.

my second favorite episode, or perhaps tied with the hank scorpio episode, from my childhood is twenty two short films about springfield. bart and milhouse squirting ketchup and mustard off the overpass, gum in lisa's hair, steamed hams, aurora borealis in skinner's kitchen, "this was the largest car I could afford"... <3

also I had no idea why I said 'childtime' upthread makes me sound like a disgusting paedo.

Yeah I love 22 short stories as well, great Tarantino pastiche :D

Also, Bart of Darkness is grebt (thats the "rear window" one, right?)

radiation man movie is a sentimental fave for me

ie the one where they're filming the movie in Springfield

radiation man

"radioACTIVE man!"
"...I shouldn't have been able to hear that"

I actually watched King Sized Homer very recently (where he gets fat) and was surprised how good it was.

I'm always surprised at how varied my taste in simpsons is from other people's, in that I reserve myself to seasons 2-6 pretty much entirely, but have been watching some season 7 episodes lately, and am surprising myself at how much I'm enjoying them.

King Sized Homer is great. "All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body."

all my simpsons dvds were lost in the fire u_u