the simpsons' peak period - can we have some consensus please ?

it was run here last week

Season 4 is the best of the ones released on DVD thus far, but my fave episode comes from season 8 (Marge Be Not Proud). My 2nd fave ep is season 4 though (Last Exit Springfield).

I'll take well thought out flashbacks and fantasies over big plot concepts (Homer as an astronaut, monorials, etc).

Basically, if George Meyer ain't in the rewrite room, the new staff goes for the cheap shots.

snpp.com/episode guide

Except that's season 7.

season 10 has the last really classic episode (lisa cheats on a test, homer gets a pet lobster), at least.

D'oh!

Okay, for season 8, allow me this quote:

"like, we tried nothin' man and we're all out of ideas!"

http://us.tv1.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/images/he/photo/tv_pix/fox/the_simpsons/_group_photos/nancy_cartwright24.jpg

B-b-b-but he spelled Yale with a 7.

Welcome to ILX...I mean, the internet...I mean, human interaction.

FUCK SEASON 11 AND BEYOND.

Yeah, but 8 has great stuff. I'd happily watch any of the 9 ones again, but probably not again after that for a long time (Exception: the New York episode, which I've already seen too many times, though I'm not sure I saw it twice.)

Bart the Mother (#5F22 / SI-922) 27 Sep 1998
Bart accidentally kills a mother bird with Nelson Muntz's bee-bee gun, and tries his best to raise the mother's eggs on his own. But when the hatchlings turn out to be a pair of destructive lizards that harvest nests for their own survival, the town's bird population is placed at great risk. Guest voice Phil Hartman, in his final speaking role on The Simpsons.

The fall of Troy (McClure) = the fall of the Simpsons

-- Trayce (spamspanke...), September 13th, 2005.]

that is incredibly stupid

Some a.t.s. readers have attributed this quote to George Burns and Gracie Allen, as some kind of old vaudeville routine. Others have speculated that it is the type of thing you would hear an old gossipy housewife use on a 1950s sitcom and that Bart's use of it is the joke, much like his use of Cockney phrases or those of an 1890s prospector. Consarnit.

One fan reports to have also heard the phrase on a 1995 Monty Python CD-ROM game.

But the mystery of the actual reference has been revealed at last - or at least it seems - by a reader named Funkychuck: "It's actually from [the book] The Great Gatsby. The main character meets these two women who are already deep in conversation and the one says 'so I says to Mabel, I says' as he walks in. They have a short, pointless back and forth, the main character leaves, and the lady resumes the conversation with the same line over again. I'm not 100% on this, but I had just read the book when that episode aired and I remember feeling quite smart at having caught such an obscure reference. Unless I'm completely wrong, in which case I can resume feeling stupid. Hope this helps!"

Vacation episodes for cliche culture jokes = dud.

Overlooking nuances built into characters over 10 years = dud.

I'm done whining...sorry all, this subject is my lone sore spot, so I really should (and will) sign off now.

See this is why I hate these arguments. What is stupid? Why? Explain - and convince me.

thats the stupid part. hope I cleared things up! :o)

i was trying to think of a post-season 12 joke that i really loved and i remembered this one: "aww, i have three kids and no money. why can't i have no kids and three money?"

from episode 397 (season 18)

― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, May 3, 2021 3:44 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol this one stuck with me too.

I doubt it, because then he’d have to explain why the Critic crossover was unacceptable (he took his name off the credits) but had no issue with the later Family Guy crossover.

older, insanely richer, did not think the current show had enough integrity to bother defending

i could have sworn i saw an interview within the last five years with groening where he said the show was still good, he may have even said it was still on par with the 'classic' era

i could have sworn i saw an interview within the last five years with groening where he said the show was still good, he may have even said it was still on par with the 'classic' era