Best Simpsons episode ever

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/

also in that episode, the bee keepers
"its quiet....yes a little TOO quiet..."
"how do you mean?"
"well, lots of bees usualy means lots of nooise.....NO NOISE!! means no bees"
"i see...there goes one now"
"TO THE BEE MOBILE!"
"you mean your chevvy?"
"yes...."

classic simpsons

"i'm calling about operation MUAVEN HAUIVEN!!!"
marge-"professr frink?"
"how did you know it was me? was it the muaven or the hauiven or was it just the hole MUHAVEN thing that i do?"

oh wait...

The audience is such a source of joy in this scene:

In the Springfield Elementary Auditorium, Ned Flanders stands at a
podium with Skinner and Edna on either side of him.

     Ned: Well, all right, I'd like to call this meeting of the PTA to

          or-diddely-order.  Let's see if we can't put an end to this

          strike fuss, huh?  Mrs. Krabappel, why don't you begin?

 Skinner: Boo!

    Edna: Oh, "boo" yourself.  Our demands are simple: a small cost-of-

          living increase and some better equipment and supplies for

          your children.

Audience: Yeah!  Give it to them! etc.

 Skinner: Yeah, in a dream world.  We have a very tight budget; to do

          what she's asking, we'd have to raise taxes.

Audience: Raise taxes?  They're too high as they are.  Taxes are bad.

          etc.

    Edna: It's your children's future.

Audience: That's right.  Children are important. etc.

 Skinner: It'll cost you.

Audience: No to taxes.  My God, they're going to raise taxes. etc.

    Edna: C'mon!

Audience: She makes a good case.  Good point. etc.

 Skinner: [rubs his fingertips together]

Audience: More taxes?  The finger thing means the taxes. etc.

     Ned: Well, I guess this is a case where we'll have to agree to

          disagree.

 Skinner: I don't agree to that.

    Edna: Neither do I!

The Simpsons Movie has its moments...

If by "Had its moments" you mean "Was fucking hilarious and had at least a laugh per minute" then, yeah, I agree.

Best episode is probably when Homer goes to Clown College

I stand by my top three: Frank Grimes, Hank Scorpio, and fat/disabled Homer.

The movie's great, btw.

hank scorpio is great. but being a fan of frank grimes is like saying that the best moment of JFK's presidency was getting shot in the head.

tonight's rerun... "HAW HAW THEY'RE IN A CORN MAZE LET'S PLAY A KORN SONG... ALSO STEPHEN HAWKING, GET HIM IN THERE SOMEHOW." that'd probably be more appropriate for a worst simpsons episode ever thread though.

The Frank Grimes episode is a masterpiece.

My top three are: The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase (esp. "The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour"), the garbage episode wth U2, and Armin Tanzarian (the most moving moment in television history is when the lie makes Armand and Agnes happier than the truth ever could have).

But Frank Grimes would probably be number four. The hatred for this episode astonishes me. Not since Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story (which give or take Jerry Lewis' The Ladies Man is the greatest comedy of the classical Hollywood era) did we get such a deep (and funny) understanding of the inequities of American capitalism. Somewhere up in heaven, Sturges is smiling.

The movie was good-not-great. But who cares? It's hands down the greatest television show of all-time.

P.S. Frank Grimes' son tried to avenge his father's death in a later episode.

yes, that was the episode that pretty much made me stop watching the simpsons for a couple of years.

Why???

The Frank Grimes episode is a masterpiece.

My top three are: The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase (esp. "The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour"), the garbage episode wth U2, and Armin Tanzarian (the most moving moment in television history is when the lie makes Armand and Agnes happier than the truth ever could have).

Wow...those would probably be the four episodes I'd list if you asked me to point out when the show began a steep decline in quality.

THE four, huh? My four favorite episodes happen to be the EXACT four episodes that you'd list if someone (not me) asked you to point out when the show began a steep decline in quality? Those exact four episodes out of 400?

Remarkable. Nay, downright miraculous. Doncha think?

Face it, dude, your taste sucks and people who describe episodes of The Simpsons as shit like a "deep (and funny) understanding of the inequities of American capitalism" make me want to barf and never watch teh show again.

So insightful. I love you.

Why???

WHY? well, seeing as i think the frank grimes episode is fucking awful*, bringing the character back as a sort of sideshow bob for homer wasn't really an improvement.

* the "inequities of modern capitalism" point is interesting. i don't agree with it and i think for it to really stand homer would've had to return to being himself in the next episode instead of the braying jerkass he's been ever since. since that presupposes his character being drastically changed just to make a point.

I don't know why, but my 3 favorite Simpsons episodes are probably:

New Kids on the Blecch (When Bart becomes part of the boy band Party Posse)
Grift of the Magi (When Kid First Industries takes over the school and tricks the kids into creating Funzo, a Furby rip off)
Skinner's Sense of Snow (When the kids get trapped in the school during a blizzard)

glancing over the last few feet of this thread here's a top 5:

bart sells his soul (great plot, great subplot)
frank grimes(why would anyone not like this ep? extremely meta but also extremely fucking good)
pta disbands
gabbo
duff gardens

bringing the character back as a sort of sideshow bob for homer wasn't really an improvement.

Oh sorry. I was asking about why you didn't like the Frank Grimes episode which you answered anyway. Sorta:

i think for it to really stand homer would've had to return to being himself in the next episode instead of the braying jerkass he's been ever since.

But he's always been a braying jerkass. He was in the Frank Grimes episode and he was in the episode(s) before/after that. More importantly, he's a lazy, stupid braying jerkass. He's gotten ahead of Frank Grimes (and many others) in life through sheer luck. Basically, this episode is telling us that hard work does NOT get you everything in lfie and there aren't many American cultural products willing to wrestle with that reality.

I still don't know why you don't like this episode. But you're definitely not alone. It's well-hated.

Aja, I love all those episodes, esp. The Party Posse one (the greatest band since music's birth). Best line in that one is Milhouse's: "The Statue of Liberty? Where are we???"

Smile-Time Variety Hour is really funny I think but did sort of open the door for later spinoff episodes that were nowhere near as good. Similarly, Frank Grimes episode is great but sort of proto-Family Guy (a lot of people will consider this more problematic than I do, I guess)

My personal favourites have always been the following (not in order of preference):

Homer the Heretic
Last Exit to Springfield
Simpson and Delilah
You Only Move Twice
Homer Bad Man
King Size Homer
Homie the Clown
The Mysterious Voyage of Our Homer
Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment
Lemon of Troy

I've always felt season 13 was a very slight return to form but seasons 2-8 are the peak obviously.

I hate the Party Posse episode.

Aja, I love all those episodes, esp. The Party Posse one (the greatest band since music's birth). Best line in that one is Milhouse's: "The Statue of Liberty? Where are we???"

-- Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, July 30, 2007 8:12 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I think the best line is the one by that crazy VJ.."And that was the add for the new Stridex Pads! (I think that's what she says...or is it Tampax??) Whoo!!...And up next we have the new video from P squared! Whoo"

Or something like that...that character had too much energy...

I hate the Party Posse episode.

-- Curt1s Stephens, Monday, July 30, 2007 4:23 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Ok...what episodes do you like???

most of them! I just don't like the Party Posse one.

ok...

I also like the one with John Waters...you???

Love it. Camp = when a clown dies.

Two Bad Neighbors (I like singing "Table 5" over "stayin alive")

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ki12mWpq8

Oh, I almost forgot about that episode!

that reminds me I really like the one where Ned opens the leftorium.

All good. There aren't many crappy ones.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ki_dEXCIDZ4&mode=related&search=

But he's always been a braying jerkass. He was in the Frank Grimes episode and he was in the episode(s) before/after that. More importantly, he's a lazy, stupid braying jerkass

No, no, no that is so not true! The writers who took over around this time apparently felt that he'd "always" been a braying jerkass, when he was actually nothing more than a well-meaning if occasionally selfish/immature goofball. Slow-witted but not downright insane. An average Joe Schlub, not the worst father/husband in town! The utter INFLATION of Homer Simpson is emblematic of that once-fine series' way-protracted decline - "Best show ever" might've been true in 1995 or even '97, but not today.

(Having said all that, I have to admit that the Grimey episode is indeed pretty funny in and of itself. But that Party Posse one was gawdawful.)

But even if all that is true (which I find debatable), I still don't see how it applies to the Frank Grimes episode.

And I'm perfectly willing to concede that my critical faculties are null and void when it comes to this show because it still makes me laugh and think to this day. Come on, that Statue of Liberty line from the Party Posse episode is fuckin' hardcore comedy.