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"Hmmmm.... a dollar. And it only transports *matter*?"

― Tim Baier, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Homer worked in the word 'glory hole' on a recent episode.

Btw I really like Futurama. Lots'o people don't.

― Steven James, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like Futurama. I would say it has improved quite a lot in the past season, and can be a lot funnier than current season Simpsons. Still, it doesn't have the emotional resonance that the Simpsons once had.

I still do like Zap Branigan and Kif.

― Nicole, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am Kif.

Barney's winning entry for the Springfield Film Festival is the great art-movie ever made: "Don't cry for me _ I'm already dead."

*Sigh*

― mark s, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Streetcar!" the musical has the great ending tune "you can always rely on the kindness of strangers". And the Ramones moment. And the Spinal Tap intro: "Hello, Springton!".

Futurama has it's moments, too. Certainly Bender the booze-swilling, pornography-consuming, cigar-smoking robot who dreams of destroying the human race is a wonderful, heart-warming creation.

― paul, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

nicole is on the money about futurama. it's great, but i don't really care about the characters (except for embarassing identification with fry). zap branigan is hilarious but i wish he was voiced by phil hartman as was obviously intended.

― ethan, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the one with the "the cat burglar" on it

― queen fernando, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Futurama more suited for the big screen, maybe?

I think fav. characters are Ralph and Dr. Nick. Oh, poor Ralph.

Dr. Nick walks up with syringe. "Now this medicine will make the entire operation seem like a beautiful dream." Shoots into own arm. "Ahhhh...."

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The one where Homer became a clown was also very good, notable for the piteous whine, "Stop! Stop! He's already dead...."

― Tim, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"hi supernintendo chaumers" -ralph wiggum

― ernest, Saturday, 9 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

-I loved one scene from the fairly recent "boy band" episode. N SYNC shows up, and justin walks up to the newest pop sensations and goes "whoa, i cant believe im meeting MILHOUSE!"

-The Run Lola Run spoof was great, just for the parts where Lisa was running

-"Each leap brings us closer to God! Catch me Lord, Catch me!" "Tramampoline! Trombopoline!"

― Alexis Dicks, Sunday, 10 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, oh, and - Hello.. Smithers. You're. Quite. Good. At Turning. Me On. - Smithers' computer start up screen with naked Mr Burns

― Alexis Dicks, Sunday, 10 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Best Simpsons episode ever is a toss-up between the one where Homer quits his job to work at the bowling alley and virtually all the rest of them from the first eight years. Hard to choose. Best music, consistently, was the Shari Bobbins episode. ("They're not perfect, but the Lord says love thy neighbor!" "Shut up, Flanders!" "Okilee dokilee do!" etc.)

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The one with Homer trying for the Dental Plan. At the end he whooops and does the "on his side" walk in a circle. The whole episode went mad with bizarre exclamations, loops, insanity and MR BURNS!

― Kodanshi, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the one where lisa and bart battling and asking maggie to join the one she loves more, in their living room. maggie runs and hugs the tv, old episode i think.

― gonÃ§alo, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

I think we're all forgetting Mr Burns' son;

Rodney Dangerfield is easily the best guest voice the show has had besides Johnny Cash. The Mel Gibson episode also had it's moments Remember the moonshine part: "I know the guy on the right is Mel but who are the other two guys???"

― Benjamin Crow, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

No doubt: "Lisa's Rival" is the best

― Dirk Geuens, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The "Go" inspired episode in which Homer keeps talking about how the Blue Man Group ripped off the smurfs, gets his thumb cut off, Lisa falls in love with a geek in the wrong school and realizes it when she walks into French class (the children laugh, "Ha ha" until the French teacher reprimands them, "En Français!" and then they laugh in a nastier, nasally manner, "a-honh, hohn hohn!")... Bart and his little blue-haired friend stumble onto Fat Tony's fireworks smuggling operation and almost get killed when they agree to wear a wire to bust Fat Tony's illegal operation and Chief Wiggum's voice comes out of Bart's shirt, "Hey, is that you, Fat Tony?" This was also the episode that started with Marge calling 911 and telling them she cut off her husband's finger and then thinks better of admitting to such a thing and gives them the address "123 Fake Street". The rest of the episode Chief Wiggum are looking for 123 Fake Street... and eventually they find it! Hilarious episode.

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

most simpsons are much funnier for the first half then the last, but the beer baron episode had no dullness at all

― Chris Watson, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"

"We salute oh half inflated dark lord!"

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Like others have said, the Simpsons' are so good it's hard to pick just one. But if I did it might well be the divorce episode. The Simpsons have remarkably few quotable quotes, because so much of the humor is in the animation and the delivery, but in the divorce episode there's a moment when Milhouse and Nelson are on the bus, actually bonding about their broken homes, when Nelson's shaven-headed friend said "Relax, guys, my son is from a broken home and he's doing fine," leaning back to reveal a smiling miniature of himself, who chirps out "I live in a drawer." It doesn't translate to print well, but I nearly bust a gut laughing at this point. As for the decline in quality -- yeah, I'll go for it. In the first eight or nine years, the Simpsons could do no wrong -- nearly every episode was a winner, and even the weaker ones had a few big laughs. Nowadays there are a lot of really weak episodes -- like the N'Sync one, which was totally dull -- I don't think I laughed once. Or the Comic Book Guy one, that was pretty bad too. But when the episodes are actually good, their still nearly as funny as the early days, though the constant cameo appearances are pretty lame.

― Jack Redelfs, Sunday, 7 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

It has to be the "Flameing Moe" episode. Either that, or "Homer Boxing"

"You have what I like to call 'Homer syndrome'" "Ohhh" "No, that's good. See you have a 1/4 inch of liquid surrounding your skull. It's like you're wearing a helmet all the time." "Whoo Hooo"

Fav. musical moment is also 'Flaming Moe'

― Mike Short, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The one with "tomaccoes"

― benjamin, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I always love episodes with Dr. Nick.
Frostillicus... "Hello, frozen body!"

Or Mel Gibson:
Mel: "Hi everybody!"
Dr. Nick: "Hello Mr. Gibson!"

― Dave225, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think one of the coolest epsiodes is "Burns verkaufen der Kraftwerk". It's the best of the intercultural episodes! The Germans are really like they are (beside, I'm German).

― Sebastian Goebel, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The one where Dr.Strangelove elopes with the naked parrot trapper fishing for steak sandwiches with John Leguizamo in Tibet.

― Dr. Ming Vauze, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Might as well chip in while I still have the energy:
(these are episode descriptions, not titles):

Springfield Monorail
Mr. Plow
Itchy & Scratchy Land
Homer goes back to college
Nuclear Plant softball team
Kamp Krusty
Gabbo
Homer becomes an astronaught

I lied, I don't have the energy. There's too many great ones.

― dleone, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Might as well chip in while I still have the energy:
(these are episode descriptions, not titles):

Springfield Monorail
Mr. Plow
Itchy & Scratchy Land
Homer goes back to college
Nuclear Plant softball team
Kamp Krusty
Gabbo
Homer becomes an astronaut

I lied, I don't have the energy. Too many great ones.

― dleone, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

just because they're yellow it doesn't make them funny

― bob snoom, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I have an analysis about the simpsons recent decline - homer's become too smart! he actually makes sense. that's not the homer we know and love. our homer *tries* to be smart, and miserably fails ("riiiiight, some mystical, magical animal"). he doesn't say that kinds of things anymore.

― Angry Mutant, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

BRING BACK THE STUPID HOMER!!!

― Angry Mutant, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

hey didn't anyone see the episode where Homer goes to clown college? I think that was by far one of the bestest episode. also good was the lord of the flies where the UN club is stranded on an island I've been impersonating Ralph ever since. I hope they have more episodes related to Ralph , He's so stupid he reminds me of my brother (hehe)

― Morning Glory, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

come on everbody, i've read through the whole list, and you missed the best one completely -> the one with Scorpio "love to talk, but i'm in the middle of a fun-run!" "here's some sugar, sorry it's not in packets." "ok, everyone take out their safety-scissors and circle of paper..." the list goes on and on. it's probably, to me at least, the best episode ever

― tripwire, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Marge becomes a cop.

― Nitsuh, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

Oh COME ON!!! Everyone knows that Futarama is way better than the Simpsons, and how can you possibly have a favourite episode of the Simpsons, when any episode of Futarama is 100 X better. I mean, I used to like it, but I now realize that it was all just a waste of time caused by the lack of anything funnier.

― Mike Cool, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the kids get taken into care, homer sits on lisa's bed, picks up her sax, tearfully puts his lips to the reed and sings: saxomophone

― dbini, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Everyone knows that Futarama is way better than the Simpsons

I believe *you* believe that.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The hands-down winner as far as laughs is the "Homer goes to clown college" episode. Although the lemon tree one kicks ass too...

"You've stood in my way long enough - I'm going to clown college! Wow, I didn't think anyone thought he was going to say that..."

The weirdest one is probably the Grimey episode which still freaks me out.

As for the most personally affecting - I've always loved the one where Ralph falls in love with Lisa, just because it's like poking an old wound with a sharp stick. Runner-up, for the same reason, is the one where Milhouse's parents divorce. Can you lend me a feeling?

― dave k, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"The Beatles???? Oh yes I seem to remember their off pitch warble"

― Ronan, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Which is, of course, the best musical moment too. What song is playing in the flashback scene where, under the strobe light, we see shots of young Homer goes up to the van of cool kids and getting lauged at? is it "slowride?"

― dave k, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well I have some fave's that aren't usually remembered as the best, but my group of friends and I have reached consensus on these being among the creme de creme of episodes:

Homer's enemy (the frank grimes episode) Marge vs. the monorail Two bad neighbors (the george bush ep) Tree house of horror VII, I know that special episodes don't count but I can't resist the cheap gags and one liners, "I bet you've never seen you're own face in a mirror.", follwed by a punch. And "Bob dole doesn't need this." (a personal fave) Finally all of season four, pure gold.

― thekief4, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

AHHHH, finally a forum to say just how deplorably predictable "Future World" is. Please just one unpredictable unclever moronic sophmoric joke....though I will never see it, still for the brainless masses that support it, surely even they deserve a drop of water in a barren desert. BTW "Ronan" you can bite my Norweigan Woody" The Beatles , despite their humaness in certain moments still paved the way for no nothing shallow critics unaware of their own roots, to have bands who listened to the Beatles for inspiration. Learn where the things you do appreciate came from. Oops, did I get something on the carpet with all that spewing?....Sorry I'll clean up the mess, it was well worth it.

― Ean Kiel, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Homer wraps a half cooked waffle around a stick of butter and says "mmm...fattening..." and also one of the recent ones where Homer forces Bart to butter his bacon and bacon his sausage and Bart replies "my heart hurts..." absolutely hilarious. gosh I LOVE the simpsons!

― Judee, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

A few of the best in no real order:

"Who Shot Mr. Burns" parts 1 and 2 Homers flashback about birth of Maggie Bart kills bird, eggs turn out to be lizards World's Biggest Cubic Zirconium Camp Krusty The real Seymore Skinner

― Ben Kennedy, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Halloween eposide 12

― aaaaa, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

People, people, people. The Cape Fear one with Sideshow Bob. C'mon, now. The intentional stepping-on of the multiple rakes. The drive through the desert. The singing of the Gilbert and Sullivan. Sideshow Bob, people, Sideshow Bob.

― John Darnielle, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The one where Jay Sherman meets Homer. Ya gotta love it.

― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The singing of the Gilbert and Sullivan.

And who know Kelsey Grammer had such a great voice for that?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

― Graham, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The one where Jay Sherman meets Homer. Ya gotta love it.

You gotta love it, unless yr name is Matt Groening!

― Vic Funk, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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

― lolvezula (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 June 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Friday, 18 June 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Saturday, 19 June 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link

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

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 19 June 2010 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link

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

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― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 19 June 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Last Exit, followed by Bart Sells His Soul

― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 19 June 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

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

― Lamp, Monday, 30 August 2010 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link

nelson smoking is a+

― dayo, Monday, 30 August 2010 08:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Monorail

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 August 2010 08:10 (thirteen years ago) link

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

― ajd, Monday, 30 August 2010 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm goin' I'm goin'!

― EDB, Monday, 30 August 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link

The "Pulp Fiction" episode with Linguo was great.

― glutinous maximus (corey), Monday, 30 August 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link

And the one where he becomes a missionary.

"I'm not NOT licking toads!"

― glutinous maximus (corey), Monday, 30 August 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Didn't like the missionary one at all.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 30 August 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link

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