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(paraphrasing here) "Broken... or made BETTER?"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

(also paraphrasing) "I just wish you could transform yourself into someone who could leave my store."

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:56 (twenty years ago) link

Two of my faves that I don't think anyone has mentioned:

Homer gains 60 lbs to get on disability. That's probably my #2.

My #1 has GOT to be the one where Homer stays home from church. Someone mentioned the moon waffles upthread.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

can't forget Marge Vs The Monorail or Marge On The Lam of course - altogether now..."sunshine, lollipops and rainbows..."

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

god, has anyone watched the first couple of seasons of this show? though my brother thinks "lisa on ice" is the best, marge getting rid of cartoon violence is clearly the best, closely followed by krusty getting framed and homer becoming the country singer's manager.

in fact he gets her booked on yaa-hoo!, an amazing parody of hee-haw. took me three times watching the episode to appreciate this joke: "yaa-hoo, starring in alphabetical order, yodeling zeke"

;-)

sean
groovesmag.com

― seanp (seanp), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

Season 3 should be out on DVD by now dagnabbit

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

It's out August 26; the second season of Futurama is August 12. The slow pace of the Simpsons reissues is frustrating; by the time they get to the tenth season it'll be 2007. Is anyone really really REALLY that interested in hearing Groening and co giggling at their own jokes in the commentary?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

i'm interested, cuz i'm a dork and like commentary tracks.

also, the early Marge vs Itchy & Scratchy ep was grebt since it was the first time a younger me had ever heard the opening phrase of Beethoven's 6th, which has since become my _other_ fave classical piece.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

You're all forgetting Mother Simpson! Burns' expression when his tape starts playing "Waterloo" = CLASSIC

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 4 July 2003 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

duff gardens!

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 4 July 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

Burns' expression when his tape starts playing "Waterloo" = CLASSIC

it certainly is, i just think i saw that particular episode too much and got a bit sick of it - so many classic bits all the same tho...

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 July 2003 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

Duffless, where Homer gives up beer for 30 days

the one where Bart meets Jessica...

the one where Marge has a gambling problem (oh my god, the REAL best episode ever)

but this tossing out of episodes at random just highlights the futility of this thread ever further

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 July 2003 21:29 (twenty years ago) link

ohhh, two more - Whacking Day and Krusty's Komeback Special, because they have Barry White (RIP) in them amongst other things...

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 July 2003 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

I guess this thread is now officially dedicated to this man:

http://www.omelete.com.br/imagens/musica/news/diversos/barry_white.jpg

(even though my favourite episode is probably the one with Lisa and the fortune-teller, or when Homer sues the Church and gets, er, the church - "awww, he thinks he's papal!" - best in-joke EVAH!)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 4 July 2003 22:09 (twenty years ago) link

Who is that, Larry White?

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 4 July 2003 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

I guess this thread is now officially dedicated to this man:

shit, you beat me to it.

anyhoo, rest in peace, Lover of the Lady Snake.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 4 July 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link

nine months pass...

the softball song is hilarious..and gummi de milo has got to be the best episode. or maybe it was the one where homer is screaming through out the whole thing because of the dead body he found when he was a teenager

― Joeyjojoshabadoo, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

all the simpsons episodes rock ass...every single one..its to hard to pick a "best one"...<3...

― joeyjojoshabadoo, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

The one where Homer Gains all the weight so he can work at home is one of the funniest things i've ever seen

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

That ep rocks, for sure. My personal favorite is "Homer's Barbershop Quartet".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link

the Scorpio Episode:

Scorpio: "Which do you prefer Homer, Italy or France?"

Homer: "Italy"

Scorpio: [laughs wryly and activates doomseday device] No one EVER picks France.

also the Loch Ness Monster episode:

Professor Frink: [reading data from his Monster Detector]OHMYGOD! An enormous amphibious lifeform is coming right at us... it's.. it's.. it's on my shoe!

[looks down, and see's frog on his shoe]

Wait a minute.. this isn't the Monster Detector.. it's the Frog Exaggarator."

fucking cracks me up

― don, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

or maybe it was the one where homer is screaming through out the whole thing because of the dead body he found when he was a teenager

This is so totally NOT the best Simpsons episode ever

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

that was on the other night. i agree, it's actually pretty sucky, although the screaming bit is funny for a while

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link

speaking of screams, although it was in a sucky episode, the screampillar (it's sexually attracted to fire) was one of the best simpson's moments ever.

― minolta (minolta), Thursday, 15 April 2004 04:45 (twenty years ago) link

God they suck now.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 15 April 2004 04:46 (twenty years ago) link

what, no one's mentioned Lisa's "nerd sweat attracts bullies" episode?

sorry, thought this was the "least episode ever" thread.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 15 April 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link

PS it's Joey Jojo JUNIOR Shabadoo.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Thursday, 15 April 2004 06:02 (twenty years ago) link

the power plant strike is awesome.

"now play classical gas!"

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:16 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

"Have the Rolling Stones killed!"
"Mmmm...64 slices of American cheese!"
"I must harness his fractured take on modern life!"
"Two plus two is four! Two plus two is four! Two plus two is four!"
"Well, well...look who's come to apologize!"
"We've given the word "mob" a bad name!"
"I gotta call Burns! Maybe I can still get that drink!"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link

(...all from "Rosebud", of course.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link

i just got season 4 on dvd (not out till 20th)!!!!!!!!

― chaki_burger (chaki), Thursday, 3 June 2004 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link

22 short stories from springfield (no one else has mentioned this?)
Lisa's Wedding
Lemon Tree of Troy
Hank Scorpio

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Thursday, 3 June 2004 05:45 (nineteen years ago) link

whacking day is really good (I am evil homer! i am evil Ho-mer!)

hank scorpio (would you like some cream with that? uh...no thanks.)

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 3 June 2004 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

The one where homer is the voice of Poochie. One of my favorites.

The lord of the flies spoof. Ralph W. eats "oozing" berries and exclaims "tastes like burning" while clutching his stomach.

One of the worst episodes was when we find out that principal skinner is not the reall principle skinner. Who came up with that idea?

― cw28 (cw28), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

My three favorites are "Homer's Enemy," because it's so bleak and bitter, the one with Hank Scorpio, and the one where Homer gains all the weight.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

zepellin rules!

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

and of course, homer loves flanders.

old nedward.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

"One of the worst episodes was when we find out that principal skinner is not the reall principle skinner. Who came up with that idea?"

i like the way they ahndled that at the end of teh episode though: "let us never speak of this again".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

The best episode is when the Simpsons go to Brazil or when the Simpsons get a social worker and then Homer's Las Vegas wife turns up & ends up marrying grandpa Simpson.

― BleachYourSpeech, Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

any episode with sideshow bob trying to kill bart is an instant classic.

― cw28 (cw28), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

What about the one where they go to Japan?

Or the gay steel mill one?

(Last few in this season were pretty bad)

― southern lights (southern lights), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Off the top of my head, I'd say my favorite three are the Monorail episode, the Beer Baron episode, and the Homer-Emulates-Thomas-Edison episode ("The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"). (Re the last two, I like whenever Homer is enterprising, esp. if it means he gets to wear his thinking glasses.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, I like his glasses too.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I am watching the Bear Tax/Immigration episode right now.

"Let the bears pay the bear tax, I pay the Homer tax"

"thats the homeowener's tax"

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

How 'bout Grimey?

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

ken taylrr: the thread title says "Best"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

GRIMEY NO NO NO NO NONONONONONONONONONONONONONO.

xpost (thanks JMC)

Similarly, "The Principal and the Pauper" aka the "real" Skinner is kclassikc. While its ironized self-parodying may have been a jumping off point for sharks, it's hard to overlook the fact that this particular episode is FUNNY.

― Leee's a Groening (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

C'mon! Bart buys the factory? Tell me that isn't classic!

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

(can't believe I screwed up my handle)(annoyed grunt)

I also can't believe no one answered my Larry White question!

xpost - the factory bits are charming JUNIOR vice president ken, but the a-story is SO HORRENDOUSLY MALIGNANTLY WRETCHED that it washes away any affection to be had for the whole episode.

― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

the "fake principal skinner" episode was funny up until homer thinks "look shocked and move slowly towards the cake." but it should have ended there.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:20 (nineteen years ago) link

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