WE'RE SENDING OUR LOVE DOWN THE WELL: The Simpsons Season 3 Poll

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Doh, thought "Bart the Lover" was the one with Sarah Gilbert. It's a lovely sendoff, though one that, when I first watched, completely confused me with all the Gordie Howe stuff.

xpost hah!

Gordie Howe = Kayser Soze

Oooh, I'm so afraid of the Geeermans!

Weird to realize just how uneven my familiarity with these seasons are. Whenever I got hold of a VHS tape, I'd fill it with episodes, then watch the tape over and over and over. We never saw the US titles, so I always know the episodes by whatever shorthand I wrote on the label, so, uh, "Bart joins the mob" would be one I've seen tens of times.

I've sometimes wondered if growing up with a lot of US entertainment like the Simpsons made it easier for me to get into supposedly difficult fiction, cuz I had no problems following stuff that was full of allusions I didn't get.

Incidentally, it was a mild disappointment for me to see the Wizard of Oz a few years ago and realize how many wonderful absurdities of The Simpsons were pretty straight references. Mr Burns' winged monkeys! That used to be one of my favorite gags! Goddammit.
The baseball episode is one I haven't seen a lot of times -- I found it kinda uncomfortable somehow. I don't think I got that the players were *real* players and I just wondered at the really dull line deliveries. I don't think I ever enjoyed a sports episode of the Simpsons, tbh.
I think the first two Simpsons episodes where I felt something was *off* and I didn't like it was the baseball one, plus one that must've been much later, where they had a Pulp Fiction parody + the Skinner "steamed hams" bit, which I just haaaated (and am thoroughly amazed to have found to be one of the favorites of a lot of people)

Dinosaurs was on in Norway too, fwiw. Vaguely recall hating it.

On the topic of references, a few weeks ago I realized that 'The B-Sharps' are the opposite of 'The B-Dulls'... Actually, I think I realized it some years ago, but then I forgot it.

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something something Burt Ward

That sounds vaguely like Krusty and Better Midler's race horse, Krudler (as opposed to calling it Misty).

I think the first two Simpsons episodes where I felt something was *off* and I didn't like it was the baseball one, plus one that must've been much later, where they had a Pulp Fiction parody + the Skinner "steamed hams" bit, which I just haaaated (and am thoroughly amazed to have found to be one of the favorites of a lot of people)

Including me!

Yeah that whole skit is genius.

Not allowed to comment in Simpsons threads if you don't love the steamed hams gag though you qualify for the Norway exception so proceed

the steamed hams bit is funny but that episode on the whole is kind of a mess

Perhaps the whole problem is that I'm not a big fan of skits in general. Tbh, I'm not sure I'm generally fond of the whole Skinner/Supernintendo Chalmers dynamic. Reminds me too much of Norway's old days under tyrannical Swedish rule, obv.
(better shut up before my exceptional privileges are revoked)

"seymour, for once i am impressed. i'm going to give this school a perfect 10! let me just make the 'zero' first..."

Chalmers: Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? A this time of day?
In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your
kitchen?
Skinner: Yes.
Chalmers: May I see it?
Skinner: Oh, erm... No.

He does the running and the thing with the ... person.

sadly, the simpsons wikia seems to have displaced SNPP in google search results for looking up episodes.

SNPP hasn't been updated in years, though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMPT09lJjcE

i always assumed they just sort of gave up after the show's decline got too depressing to keep up with. i read through a bunch of those av club classic simpsons reviews a while back and i was kind of amazed at how lame they were -- they're basically just long episode recaps. has anyone written really well about the simpsons?

I still rely on SNPP for all my quotes and whatnots.

The Usenet reviews that are archived on SNPP are so, so great. The greatest TV show of all time at its absolute pinnacle... and they just get these middling-to-passable reviews, and they are an absolute joy to read 20 years later. Parody of It's a Wonderful Life gets dismissed as "Too sappy"! One reviewer chides the Itchy and Scratchy Movie episodes because Bart's the "Chief Justice of the Supreme Court" and not the correct "Chief Justice of the United States"! Fun fact: if you look really hard you'll recognize the name of a future ILXor!

And yeah SNPP is still the only place that has the entire scripts. So, for example, last week I had to know the exact words that Count Homer says to the Bentley car salesman, and I found it at SNPP

Ever since it became common knowledge how horrible Jose Canseco was making that episode, it's intriguing to me that (if Wikipedia is to be believed) he's since then never apologized or given his side of the story or really given any details. I can't imagine how many times he gets accosted by irate Simpsons fans, like "Heeeey! Why were you such a dick to the people on The Simpsons?!?!" I know that's the first thing I would say if I ever saw him.

I don't remember this

Real World Affect

The episode has been credited with helping to save several lives. During the scene in which Homer chokes on a donut, a poster explaining how the Heimlich maneuver works is on the wall behind him. In May 1992, Chris Bencze was able to save his brother's life by performing the Heimlich Maneuver on him, having seen it in the episode,[26] and in December 2007 Aiden Bateman was able to save his friend Alex Hardy's life by recalling the same.[27]

When asked in 2007 about his part by the San Jose Mercury News, he responded, "that was 100 years ago," hung up the phone and did not answer any of the paper's subsequent calls for an interview about his guest spot.

Dick.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

And yeah SNPP is still the only place that has the entire scripts.

Wait, actual scripts, or just transcripts? And they don't have every line of dialogue, I thought?

Five votes for Stark Raving Dad! I'm happy. Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk is the surprise for me, but yeah, it's a really good episode.

we need more voters so we don't get all of those sad zeroes :'(.

i often think treehouse of horror ii is the best one.

The Otto Show, Colonel Homer, Mr Lisa Goes to Washington, Homer Alone and I Married Marge are all A+ episodes in spite of receiving no votes.

Otto Show has some interesting DVD commentary; apparently, one of the Spinal Tap actors was a dick. One of the writers on the commentary said, "We can't name names, but he was one of the GUEST voices."

So that's either McKean or Christopher Guest.

iirc they also note that aside from the dickish one one of the other spinal tap actors was very mcKEEN to please. and the other was harry shearer. (they weren't subtle about it.)

Wait, I could swear I voted for TOH in this poll so either I forgot, or... gah.

xp similar to the homer at the bat commentary where they say that all the guest stars were very nice apart from the one whose name rhymes with 'blo-se blanseco', or something like that.

iirc they also note that aside from the dickish one one of the other spinal tap actors was very mcKEEN to please. and the other was harry shearer. (they weren't subtle about it.)

Could you dumb it down a little? (Sorry, that belongs to the season 4 poll.)

I agree with Homer at Bat and Burns Verkaufen leading this poll, but 0 votes for The Otto Show makes me ;_;

Couldn't vote, paralyzed by goodness all around.

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.

D:

uuuugh

the HDness would be enough to drive me away from new simpsons even if it didn't suck.

ffs

(at Fox, not Zachylon, obv)

Do youuu come with the car?

well shit, that was meant for the s4 thread. O well.

oh, you! tee hee

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