Best Simpsons episode ever

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

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Oh wow, how have I never noticed that!!

I remember when I was very young, watching the episode with the comet, seeing barney and nelson walk out together and thinking that Barney was Nelson's father. Of course I don't know why I inferred this, but, who knows...

^^^haha the REAL Simpson nerds saw that, inferred the same as you, and immediately remembered the Barney-as-sperm-bank-donor gag (babies belching all over town) a coupla seasons prior to that!

does Barney smoke?

smoke... what?

Didn't Nelson's dad pop out for a pack of smokes and never return?

Nelson's dad was present in season 4 at the football game in the episode with the big brothers, and in the the later "Bart Star" football episode.

There's no continuity to the existence/prescence of Nelson's dad. He's walked out and never come back, he's been in jail, he's been the soccer coach, they never stuck with a story, but meh, they never do.

I saw a later season episode where Nelson's actual dad came back. It was rubbish.

I saw a later season episode where Nelson's actual dad came back. It was rubbish.

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Last Exit, followed by Bart Sells His Soul

season 3 has some killer episodes - didnt remember them being so jam-packed w/subtle callbacks that early in the shows run but they totally are - but the soapbox derby racer episode is a+ classic

nelson smoking is a+

Monorail

Another vote for Bart of Darkness (Rear Window parody). One that I always liked but have probably settled on it as a favourite in the years of not watching the show. There are so many good lines and the feeling of a hot suburban summer is well pitched, from all the childish excitement of the pool truck, to watching black & white 'Classic Krusty' because there's nothing else to do but watch television.

I also love Bart's affinity with Victorian England which crops up in a few episodes. Thinking of his play gives me actual LOLs.

"Kippers for breakfast Aunt Helga? Is it St. Swithin's day already?"

"Tis!" replied Aunt Helga

I'm goin' I'm goin'!

The "Pulp Fiction" episode with Linguo was great.

And the one where he becomes a missionary.

"I'm not NOT licking toads!"

Didn't like the missionary one at all.