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Best Simpsons episode
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Marge vs the monorail
but my personal favorite is between "king size homer" "team homer" and "homie the clown". Can't decide which, but "homie the clown" is pretty damn close.
Favorite joke- "gym? What's a gym? Ohhhh, gym." Gets me every damn time.
but my personal favorite is between "king size homer" "team homer" and "homie the clown". Can't decide which, but "homie the clown" is pretty damn close.
Favorite joke- "gym? What's a gym? Ohhhh, gym." Gets me every damn time.
In no universe is the episode that features Homer being raped by a panda "the best Simpsons episode".
My vote for best episode remains Last Exit to Springfield.
Whereas my favourite episode is Summer of 4 Ft. 2.
My vote for best episode remains Last Exit to Springfield.
Whereas my favourite episode is Summer of 4 Ft. 2.
There are so many. (No offence intended, but the one in the OP wouldn't be one of mine as I consider it to be part of the era where the show turned to shit.) Off the top of my head... You Only Move Twice. It has what I consider to be a staple of the latter classics: an opening so strong, so funny, so chock full of memorable quotes and moments that when the ad break hit I'd be so shocked as to exclaim "Wait, that was all in the first half of the ep?!"
22 Tales from Springfield, I can quote almost the whole episode so I'd say it is pretty special to me. It was on this compilation DVD I bought when I was in the UK many many years ago.
Saya Barn, remember when I told you a I had to send away to NASA to calculate your bar tab?
Aha, oh yeah, we all had a great laugh, Moe.
The results came in today
*puts an immense stack of paper on the bar table*
You owe me 17 billion dollars
Hmm?!
No, no wait, that's for the Voyager spacecraft. Your tab is 14 billion dollars
Well all I have is 2000 bucks
Well that's halfway there.
Love it.
Saya Barn, remember when I told you a I had to send away to NASA to calculate your bar tab?
Aha, oh yeah, we all had a great laugh, Moe.
The results came in today
*puts an immense stack of paper on the bar table*
You owe me 17 billion dollars
Hmm?!
No, no wait, that's for the Voyager spacecraft. Your tab is 14 billion dollars
Well all I have is 2000 bucks
Well that's halfway there.
Love it.
Hehehe, clowns are funny.Marge vs the monorail
but my personal favorite is between "king size homer" "team homer" and "homie the clown". Can't decide which, but "homie the clown" is pretty damn close.
Favorite joke- "gym? What's a gym? Ohhhh, gym." Gets me every damn time.
Thinking about it, I think The Simpsons was the first show to break and eventually turn my heart cold against it :'( Though at its best it made me laugh so loud and so hard that I'd have stitches, and my mum and dad demanding I shut up.
I'm going through them for the first time in order (right now at S06e02) and my favorite is Bart working in the mafia bar.
I have a massive soft spot for Marge on the Lam. Sh*tkickers, ballet, ghost car, the chase music... so many laughs.
I couldn't think of any off the top of my head, but this sticks out to me of the posts so far.
I saw it as a kid and kind of got the vibe of what it was trying to say, but thought Grimes was a bit of a dick.
But now reflecting back as an Adult, I realise I can relate to Grimes a lot.
And that's the key. Any Simpsons episode that you watched as a kid, and then rewatched as an adult and have it hit you deeply will be the best episodes.
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This is a good one.It is "You Only Move Twice" of course.
The episodes with Flanders and Homer together are always great too.
But still... I love the dignity episode so much. It always makes me laugh.
Maybe Treehouse of Horror 3 from Season 4 (features the evil Krusty doll segment with the immortal frozen yoghurt scene, the Homer as King Kong parody and the Night of the Living Dead spoof).
Just... Too many good jokes:
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Carl: Hey, I heard we're goin' to Ape Island.
Lenny: Yeah, to capture a giant ape. I wished we were going to Candy Apple Island.
Charlie: Candy Apple Island? What do they got there?
Carl: Apes. But they're not so big.
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Mr. Burns: What do you think, Smithers?
Smithers: I think women and sea men don't mix.
Mr. Burns: Yes we know what you think.
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Lisa: Dad, we did something very bad!
Homer: Did you wreck the car?
Bart: No
Homer: Did you raise the dead?
Lisa: Yes!
Homer: But the car's okay?
Lisa and Bart: Uh-huh.
Homer: All right then.
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Treehouse of Horror V (The Shinning, Time and Punishment and Nightmare Cafeteria) and Treehouse of Horror IV (The Devil and Homer Simpson, Terror at 5 1⁄2 Feet and Bart Simpson's Dracula) are also near perfect. The bit at the end of V with the dance number set to the gas that turns peoples skin inside out is so bizarrely memorable:
Just... Too many good jokes:
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Carl: Hey, I heard we're goin' to Ape Island.
Lenny: Yeah, to capture a giant ape. I wished we were going to Candy Apple Island.
Charlie: Candy Apple Island? What do they got there?
Carl: Apes. But they're not so big.
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Mr. Burns: What do you think, Smithers?
Smithers: I think women and sea men don't mix.
Mr. Burns: Yes we know what you think.
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Lisa: Dad, we did something very bad!
Homer: Did you wreck the car?
Bart: No
Homer: Did you raise the dead?
Lisa: Yes!
Homer: But the car's okay?
Lisa and Bart: Uh-huh.
Homer: All right then.
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Treehouse of Horror V (The Shinning, Time and Punishment and Nightmare Cafeteria) and Treehouse of Horror IV (The Devil and Homer Simpson, Terror at 5 1⁄2 Feet and Bart Simpson's Dracula) are also near perfect. The bit at the end of V with the dance number set to the gas that turns peoples skin inside out is so bizarrely memorable:
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There is absolutely no way for me to choose.
There are easily ~20 episodes I would instantly agree are the best ones.
Cape Fear is the first one that came to mind but man, depending on the hour you could convince me so many others are the best
There are easily ~20 episodes I would instantly agree are the best ones.
Cape Fear is the first one that came to mind but man, depending on the hour you could convince me so many others are the best
This popped into my mind but I can't tell whether the episode itself was top tier or if the memorable ending screenshot manipulates us :P
And Maggie Makes Three, has heart and laughs.
Nah, that episode is hilarious too. It has the god-tier joke where Homer studies marketing in an attempt to attract business to the bowling alley, and somehow settles on going out front and firing a shotgun:
Haha I remember it vividly. Ol' school marketing right there, just like bell ringers and hawkers.
That episode is such an underrated gem.
Boasts what was, at the time, some of the best supporting work from both Lionel Hutz and Chief Wiggum.
This one might be it. I crack up every time Mr. Burns lists his dream team. "Three finger mordecai brown!"
It'll always be Homer Badman for me
Yeah, it's Homer Badman.
Ewwww! Dog water!
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"if you touch me, I'll scream so loud the entire country will hear"
"With a man in the white house?! Hahahaha"
:(
This is a very divisive episode, with some people saying the show had become too self-aware and self-indulgent.
I'm in the camp that thinks it's great.
I jump around quite a bit depending on my viewing. Cape Feare, Deep Space Homer, Duffless, Homer at the Bat, Last Exit to Springfield. Those are probably at the top of my list.
I'm actually watching season five as we speak.
I'm actually watching season five as we speak.
