Bart The Lover has some of the most amazing stuff everhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESqrbf6HX7c
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:22 (ten years ago) link
o i thought bart the lover was the one with lovejoy's daughter, but that's bart's girlfriend. both gr8.
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:24 (ten years ago) link
OMG "five dollarsshss.. geddoudda here" BEST, use that one a lot.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:29 (ten years ago) link
And Lisa should be this bitchy more often:
Ms.H: Lisa, what nineteenth-century figure was named `Old Hickory'? Lisa: I don't know. You? [snickers from the class] Ms.H: Lisa, if you'd bothered to do the assignment, you'd know the answer is... [flips to answer key] The Battle of New Orleans. I mean... Andrew Jackson. Lisa: Well, you're earning <your> eighteen grand a year. [more snickers]
Nigel Tufnel twisting his hair in "The Otto Show."
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:39 (ten years ago) link
The one ep in this season that leaves me unmoved is Homer Alone. It doesnt rly go anywhere interesting.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
Vibrating Homertazoa. Homer scratching his nuts in the dugout. Skinner dribbling the basketball.
xpost :O
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
Well it doesnt! Marge freaks out, goes to rancho relaxo, maggie goes missing. Maybe it did something else ive forgotten but eh.
Now "black widower" on the other hand. Sideshow Bob: [rubbing Selma's feet] [quietly] Soon I will kill you... Selma: What? Sideshow Bob: Son pied sent il beau. French for ``Her foot smells lovely.''
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
Though tbh I ALWAYS confuse "Homer Alone" with "Marge in Chains."
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
Actually not a fan of Bouvier episodes! Except maybe the one with Jub Jub.
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:47 (ten years ago) link
''Homer Alone'' has their second-greatest hold music gag with ''Baby Come Back''...
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:56 (ten years ago) link
ha yeah and the best being the "everybody loves a clown" bit from one of the Treehouse Of Horrors?
Marge in Homer Alone = HOTT
http://www.wtsof.tv/images/i58_206517.jpg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, her ordering a bottle of tequila from room service to go with her hot fudge sundae is A+
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
I love the Bouvier subplot in Homer Alone. Tongue sandwiches, the blackhead gun... it's a brilliant use of contrast against the Marge scenes.
― lazulum, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
LOL yes the "everybody loves a clown, so why dont you?" kills me every damn time.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 04:09 (ten years ago) link
tbh 'black widower' lingers a bit too long on the idea of bob and selma actually having sex -- erg!!
love the MJ birthday song but i'm a sucker for moments between bart and lisa -- also always tear up at the end of 'lisa on ice.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 06:08 (ten years ago) link
"Homer at the Bat" by a country fucking mile
― chimped the keeper (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 06:10 (ten years ago) link
'bart the lover' has this incredible line from flanders, which i can't believe they got away with on network tv in the early '90s:
'homer, i have a bone to pick with you...i know all of us pull a few boners now and then, go off half-cocked, make asses of ourselves, i don't want to be hard on you...'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 06:16 (ten years ago) link
It was rare they did stuff that made me raise an eyebrow but Apu's "I salute you, you magnificent bastard!" was def one of those times.
Oh and stupid sexy flanders and his ASS *shudder*
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 06:25 (ten years ago) link
Flaming Moe, mostly because of the Cheers lampoon in the middle, mostly because Cheers is the only show I love more than The Simpsons.
― Defund Phil Collins (stevie), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 07:33 (ten years ago) link
Yes thats one of my picks for that reason. And also that it shows up Moe as the asshole he really is - why is Homer even friends with him, with all the times Moe's stolen his ideas/taken advantage of him!?
....which reminds me, whichever season the "moe and his girlfriend" ep is from, that one's getting my vote for "stealing, stealing, stealing a car for Moe ,du du du dunn duh duuuuhh duuuh, insurance fraud today!"
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 07:56 (ten years ago) link
"lisa its your birthday" is legit one of the most emotionally effecting pieces of music I've eve heard.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 09:33 (ten years ago) link
Got my choice narrowed down to Flaming Moe's ("HELLOOOOOOO ST LOUIS!") or Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk ("ve Germans aren't all smiles und sunshine").
― The Miracle of the Jimmy Smits (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 10:08 (ten years ago) link
Oh, alright, and Bart The Murder ("TV's Doogie Howser, Neil Patrick Harris as Bart Simpson").
― The Miracle of the Jimmy Smits (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 10:09 (ten years ago) link
I made a game of it - seeing how many times I could bounce it in an hour, and then trying to beat that record.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 11:19 (ten years ago) link
I always forget The Otto Show is season 3 (same wort Separate Vocations), which is to say I always think it's 4 because it's just so matured as an episode. Like, what a perfect episode.
― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link
Wort? I mean with
narrowed it down to these five:
bart the murdererhomer at the batbart the loverburns verkaufen der kraftwerkflaming moe's
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 11:28 (ten years ago) link
ugh, forgot about teh leftorium!!
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 11:29 (ten years ago) link
Bart: Uh, say, are you guys crooks? Tony: Bart, um, is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family? Bart: No. Tony: Well, suppose you got a large starving family. Is it wrong to steal a truckload of bread to feed them? Bart: Uh uh. Tony: And, what if your family don't like bread? They like... cigarettes? Bart: I guess that's okay. Tony: Now, what if instead of giving them away, you sold them at a price that was practically giving them away. Would that be a crime, Bart? Bart: Hell, no! Tony: Enjoy your gift.
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, October 22, 2013 7:19 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark
really great because it references this line earlier:
Bart: You're making me lick envelopes?P.S.: Oh, licking envelopes can be fun! All you have to do is make a game of it. Bart: What kind of game? P.S.: Well, for example, you could see how many you could lick in an hour, then try to break that record. Bart: Sounds like a pretty crappy game to me. P.S.: Yes, well... Get started.
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
okay, bart the murderer it is.
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
this whole dream sequence was brillianthttp://www.springfieldfiles.com/albums/signs/0300.JPG
― gyac, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link
― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Tuesday, October 22, 2013 7:26 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My son's name is also Wort.
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link
I voted for Stark Raving Dad completely unironically, and actually I think it might be my favorite episode ever. It's just structured so great, everything builds from inside the family. Bart puts his red cap in the laundry, Homer doesn't want to do fill out his questions, Lisa's birthday is coming up, and all of a sudden the episode simply explodes. But what I really love about it is the darkness in it, the glimpses of Lisa singing to herself (Happy birthday, overlooked middle child) and obviously her incredible poem (I hat a cat named Snowball / he died, he died / mom said he was sleeping / she lied! she lied!) But also the darkness of what happens at the mental institution. And also, when it turns corny - and boy, does it turn corny - it only helps the episode, because it never undercuts the darkness of the earlier scenes. The song is still written by an insane person, and their final explanation of his behaviour only makes him more insane.
All in all, I love this episode, and I've obviously spent way too much time thinking about it. It just hits a sweet spot between cynicism and corniness, which I fall for every time. I would put money on the episode having suffered from the association with Michael Jackson, but it's really a marvel all the way through.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 12:26 (ten years ago) link
Oh god, I forgot Lisa's poem! Ugh, yeah, gotta rewatch that one. I do think the Jackson connection put me off, even originally, as I didn't really know his music and was just bothered that the Simpsons was getting derailed by this weird cameo for a big celebrity.
Best bit of the ''made a game of it'' is how Skinner gives Bart a knowing look, as if this is a little inside joke they share.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 12:35 (ten years ago) link
I was always partial to Bart's Allan Sherman-esque first pass at Lisa's birthday song:
Lisa, her teeth are big and green. Lisa, she smells like gasoline. Lisa, da da da Disa. She is my sister, her birthday, I missed-a.
Also:
- The One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest group therapy session where Homer can't stop mocking the agoraphobe.- "You mean there really is a Bart? Good lord!"- The asylum hold music being Patsy Cline's "Crazy."- This argument:
Marge: I told you kids you were going to send your father to the crazy house! Bart: No, Mom, you said poor house. Marge: I said crazy house. Bart: Poor house. Marge: Crazy house. Bart: Poor house. Marge: Crazy house!
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 12:42 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and "Careful, men, he wets his pants!"
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 12:43 (ten years ago) link
Man, they were LOVING those hold music gags for a couple of years there.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
''Do you really think your son could be the leader of an underworld criminal syndicate?''''Well, no....not the LEADER...''
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The clock's second hand going backwards was a genius touch.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
Also great delivery from Cartwright. ''Cad..I ..Gho... DOW.'' The whole opening sequence is a lovely link between the 'believable trials of a real life kid' and the absurdism of the 'Bart becomes a Mafia bartender' storyline.
Also: Homer walking into Bart's room, completely filled, to the ceiling, with cartons of cigarettes: ''have you started smoking? ..Don't lie to me, boy... A-HA!''
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
These weren't the conventional character patterns that had worked so well, and one could see why cast members Harry Shearer and Julie Kavner openly hated Swartzwelder's script.
looking at shearer's wiki it appears he does still care about the qualify of the simpsons - sad to see him continue, though getting paid $300k per episode seems like a 'cool deal'
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
love the shot immediately after this where homer imagines a tombstone reading 'r.i.p. ned flanders,' pauses for a long second, and then goes 'eh, too far.'
Great variation on this in "Lisa's Pony," when Homer is late with Lisa's saxomophone reed, and Marge is going through scenarios in her head.
[imagines Homer fixing a flat tire] Maybe.[imagines Homer chased up a tree by a bear] No.[imagines Homer abducted by aliens] That's a long shot.[imagines Homer at Moe's Tavern] Bingo.
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130915164231/simpsons/images/6/69/Lisa
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
Ended up voting for Bart The Murderer because this:
FlowersByIrene
― The Miracle of the Jimmy Smits (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 24 October 2013 08:33 (ten years ago) link
And also that it shows up Moe as the asshole he really is - why is Homer even friends with him, with all the times Moe's stolen his ideas/taken advantage of him!?
http://popdose.com/wp-content/uploads/homerbeer5.jpg
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Thursday, 24 October 2013 10:30 (ten years ago) link
Haha yes fair point :)
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Thursday, 24 October 2013 10:36 (ten years ago) link
STING!MOM!DAD!
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Thursday, 24 October 2013 10:39 (ten years ago) link
What's up with Homer recognizing Sting and never having heard of Michael Jackson?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
well, homer is also the guy who didn't seem to recognize george harrison and has a starland vocal band tattoo
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 24 October 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
Couldn't vote, paralyzed by goodness all around.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 1 November 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
So I saw on another forum that Fox won't be showing "Bart The Lover" tonight as an announced Marcia Wallace tribute after all, because they couldn't find a master that was "HD enough" or something, so they're showing a newer one about Krabappel & Flanders instead.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 November 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
D:
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 3 November 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
uuuugh
the HDness would be enough to drive me away from new simpsons even if it didn't suck.
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Sunday, 3 November 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
ffs
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
(at Fox, not Zachylon, obv)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
Do youuu come with the car?
― Øystein, Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
well shit, that was meant for the s4 thread. O well.
― Øystein, Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
oh, you! tee hee
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
http://media.avclub.com/images/441/441545/16x9/627.jpg?2138
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link