I don't even know, anymore.
Let's be fair, "classic" Family Guy isn't really all that good. I mean, have you watched the pilot recently? WOOF!
Lisa is your favorite character and you don't like some of her best episodes??Lisa on Ice? Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy? I Love Lisa? Lisa's Rival? Lisa's Wedding? I know Summer of 4 ft 2 was named but come on y'all. And yes, she is my favorite character followed by pre-Jerkass Homer.
Sorry, those epsiodes were meant for the anti-Lisa faction to counter their point about her episodes being weak. I can see where that may be misconstrued.Lisa is your favorite character and you don't like some of her best episodes??
Lisa's Rival is objectively the best episode and anyone who disagrees is primed for the most traumatic hose soaking of their life.
Whattt?! I've only ever seen praise for Summer of 4ft 2. It's a top-10 episode for meSeason 7 is where things start to fall apart. It's still got some classic episodes, but it gets a bit shaky and ends with two of my least favorite episodes from the era, Homerpalooza, and Summer of 4 ft 2 (this episode does have some moments though).
Yeah, while I do like some Lisa episodes, there's definitely a good chance that if it's Lisa focused it's not the best.
Untrue statementLet's be fair, "classic" Family Guy isn't really all that good. I mean, have you watched the pilot recently? WOOF!
This one for me, I didn't like watching Lisa go through what she did.My sister the sitter is where it began to really lose me. really don't like that episode
I thought I was hardcore. Something tells me you aren't into the Conan O Brien style of jokes. I can identify, as much as I like them, they took the show down a very different road.Golden age is 1-2, 3-4 are the decline and 5 onward is unwatchable trash.
Homer's Enemy constantly gets raved about as one of the best episodes ever, and I've never much cared for it. It's needlessly cruel and the focus on how Homer fails upward in everything he does makes him incredibly unlikable.
This is spot on. I mean, what S-Wind said could have been directed lifted from things I've said in the past, it is so on point. Homers Enemy is far and away my least favorite episode of a show I used to absolutely adore.Homer's Enemy from season 8.
Apparently, it's a very highly rated episode that a lot of fans like...
It's the Simpson's episode that I hate the most - I stopped watching the show when it was no longer good.
I empathized with the character of Frank Grimes, a guy who was dealt a shitty deal from the start but persevered and fought for everything he got, only to have life continue to screw him over until he had enough, vented it all out, and died.
And even at his funeral the show disrespected him.
So... I don't get the love for this episode at all.
Good comedy punches up, not down, and this episode was all about punching down a guy who got repeatedly screwed over his whole life.
What am I missing?
I mean it, go back and watch the pilot and compare it to a modern episode. Or hell, go watch the Return to the Pilot episode to showcase how creative they can get.
Ahhh gotcha.Sorry, those epsiodes were meant for the anti-Lisa faction to counter their point about her episodes being weak. I can see where that may be misconstrued.
That's a very interesting take, thanks for sharing that story. I had kinda forgotten about that episode, and I do mostly agree with you on it. It starts out great with what's seems to be a very serious self-reflection Lisa story, but then we get to the ending and everything is just too silly for me to take seriously. Not only is the whole "Simpsons Gene that only affects men" weird enough, but were did all these relatives come from?Pretty much anything from season 3-9 is worth watching for me, so it is hard to pick an episode I trly hatr
I suppose were I to take an ep from that era I would say Lisa the Simpson.
That's the one where Lisa believes she is losing her intelligence and is doomed by simpson genetics to become stupider as she gets older. Now interestingly enough it has some amazing gags and jokes, especially since this was when the simpsons were starting to decline. Homer and bart jousting with pots and pans will never not be funny.
It's the resolution that makes he hate the episode. As i sad before, lisa fears that she has some kind of simpson specific alzheimers that makes one lose intelligence rapidly as their childhood goes on, dooming them to a life of mediocrity and failure. Then we find out it only affect the men in the simpson family. So only homer, bart and the literally dozens of simpson men we meet in the episode are doomed to failure for reasons entirely beyond their control. But precious lisa is safe.
I saw my grandfather lose a fight to parkinsons. I watched him lose his faculties over a period of years through no fault of his own. That shit ain't funny. Suggesting I should be happy because only one gender is affected? Fuck whoever wrote that ending with the space needle. That Lisa is overjoyed to find out that only her father and brother's lives will be ruined by genetics and not hers also cements my hating her as a character, because say what you want about homer and bart's nearly nonexistence family skills, they never in a million years would have pulled that shit. It's essentially the momet where lisa completed her metamorphosis form the moral center of the show to Wesley Crusher (and to be clear, not First duty or The Game Wesley, who was actually tolerable. I mean full on, Journey's End wesley)
i'll probably get crucified for this but I always skip the monorail episode, I don't hate it but for some reason I don't enjoy it.
What have I unleashed!
NNEEEEEERRRRRRDDDDDD!!!I never liked Homer Goes To College. It has some good jokes but Homer is by far the most boorish, annoying and unlikeable he had ever been up to that point in the series and it signifies what he would later become.
Funny, as I push closer to 40 I find myself relating to Marge more.Amen, as I grew older she became my fave. Bart as a kid, Homer as a teenager, Lisa as an adult. Will I like marge when I'm an old man?
That's, like, the entire point of the episode. Homer's acting like a character in those 80s teen movies that he's seen.I never liked Homer Goes To College. It has some good jokes but Homer is by far the most boorish, annoying and unlikeable he had ever been up to that point in the series and it signifies what he would later become.
I love Homer the Heretic, specifically for this line at the end:"Homer the Heretic" never sat right with me. Neither did the one with Lisa and "Thou Shalt Not Steal." Basically any of the ones that were pro-religious.
Rev Lovejoy: Homer, God didn't Set your house on fire. No, but he was working in the hearts Of your friends and neighbors... when they went to your aid... be they Christian, Jew or... miscellaneous.
Apu: Hindu. There are 700 million of us.
Funny, as I push closer to 40 I find myself relating to Marge more.
Show's got layers man.
I love Homer the Heretic, specifically for this line at the end:
It's a message that God is YOUR God, however you picture him/her, or choose to worship (or not).
Plus...
I think it's my favorite. I love how everyone never misses a chance to shit on Milhouse.Also Summer of 4 ft 2 is a top 10 episode. Fight me Lisa haters!
I hate Marge Be Not Proud.
Like, it's my least favourite episode by far.
Bart Vs Australia. Some hilarious bits but that attempt at our accent hurts the ear haha