Best Simpsons episode ever

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.

I can't believe I'm meeting Milhouse!

Myonga OTM.

I hate the Party Posse episode.

serrrrrriously. the cognitive dissonance is killing me.

Love that this is on ILM for no good reason.

post season 8, the last half of season 12, season 13, and the first half of season 14 were ace, m8s. other than that, it's all handful of funny episodes in a pile of shit.

The one where Mr Burns decides to become charitable and throws his money around in the form of coins and one gets lodged in Lenny's skull. Also the one where Homer's car rolls down a hill: he gets thrown out the car, bounces around a bit and is thrown back in again!

the one where homer gets a gun
― ernest, Wednesday, June 6, 2001 8:00 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so glad this one was in the first few posts. saw this last night and was lmao nonstop

there's so much gold in that one. love the beatnik. zen new jersey nowhere!

That was Homer the Vigilante.

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

u_u

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.