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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #175 on: December 07, 2011, 11:01:52 AM »
The situations definitely jump around way too much in the new ones. You could miss one scene and then have absolutely no idea what's happening, or why it's related to the previous scene.

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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #176 on: December 07, 2011, 11:34:41 AM »
I'm really in the minority here. The first season I was dissatisfied with was 19.

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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #177 on: December 08, 2011, 12:16:08 AM »
Saw the episode with Mr. Burns' stuffed bear tonight. I haven't seen this one in years, but it's still awesome.

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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #178 on: December 08, 2011, 05:19:39 AM »
I tried to pick my favorite from each season.

1: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
2: Three Men and a Comic Book
3: Radio Bart
4: Marge vs. the Monorail
5: Cape Feare
6: Homer Badman
7: Lisa's Wedding
8: A Milhouse Divided
9: Lisa's Sax
10: Mom and Pop Art
11: Last Tap Dance in Springfield
12: Hungry, Hungry Homer

13 to whatever season they're on now: who cares.
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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #179 on: December 08, 2011, 08:42:21 AM »
Interesting.

1  Krusty Gets Busted
2  Simpson and Delilah
3  Bart the Murderer*
4  Kamp Krusty
5  Cape Feare*
6  Homie the Clown
7  A Fish Called Selma*
8  You Only Move Twice
9  Natural Born kissers
10  Mayored to the Mob
11  E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
12  Trilogy of Error*
13  The Frying Game
14  C E (Annoyed Grunt)
15  My Big Fat Geek Wedding 
16  The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star
17  The Seemingly Never-Ending Story*


*top ten episode
Strangely,  season 13 was one of the hardest to pick.  There are 3 equally excellent episodes in there. 
I'd say the show finally tanked after 13,  but there are still one or two great episodes each season after that,  including a couple of classics.

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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #180 on: December 13, 2011, 10:14:17 AM »
Daym that 1023 rips on the Japanese culture pretty bad :lol
At one point Homer just screams at them"why are you so cruel?"
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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #181 on: December 13, 2011, 10:53:16 AM »
I haven't watched this show in years, but for a long time, it was one of my favorites.  The first 9 or 10 season are pure gold.

I don't know the name of the episode, but it has to be the one where Marge is laid up in the hospital with a broken leg, Lisa takes over the household chores, Bart and Homer act like pigs, and Lisa then tricks them into thinking they have leprosy. 

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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #182 on: December 13, 2011, 10:55:52 AM »
I don't know the name of the episode, but it has to be the one where Marge is laid up in the hospital with a broken leg, Lisa takes over the household chores, Bart and Homer act like pigs, and Lisa then tricks them into thinking they have leprosy.

That's Little Big Mom from Season 11. One of the better episodes from that season, I'd say.
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Re: The Simpsons
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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #184 on: December 13, 2011, 12:44:42 PM »
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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #185 on: December 13, 2011, 12:54:00 PM »
I don't know the name of the episode, but it has to be the one where Marge is laid up in the hospital with a broken leg, Lisa takes over the household chores, Bart and Homer act like pigs, and Lisa then tricks them into thinking they have leprosy.

That's Little Big Mom from Season 11. One of the better episodes from that season, I'd say.

It is probably my favorite.  Tons of great lines in that one.

Also, I always loved the slogan for selling fireworks for Independence Day:

Celebrate your country's independence by blowing up a small part of it.

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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #186 on: December 13, 2011, 01:13:05 PM »
Homer: trying to casually buy illegal fireworks: Let me have one of those porno magazines, large box of condoms, a bottle of Old Harper, a couple of those panty shields, and some illegal fireworks, and one of those disposable enemas... eh, make it two.

Later...
Marge seeing Homer's purchases: I don't know what you've got planned for tonight, Homer, but count me out.

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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #187 on: December 13, 2011, 01:16:16 PM »
This is one of my very favourite scenes:

Marge: "Why are you frosting that old throw pillow?"
Homer: "I could ask you the same question."
Marge: "Should I just back out of the room now?"
Homer: "Would you?"
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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #188 on: December 13, 2011, 01:21:17 PM »
One of my favorites:

Marge: Homer, when are you going to give up this stupid sugar scheme?

Homer: Never, Marge! Never! I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend some of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odors! Oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called City Fathers who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards and say, "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?"
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« Reply #189 on: December 13, 2011, 01:34:15 PM »
Damnit I have hundreds of pages of term papers to grade and now all I want to do is watch old episodes of The Simpsons, and since I'm working from home today I can indulge in that vice.
     

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« Reply #190 on: December 13, 2011, 02:34:54 PM »
I really can't pick my favorites from each season, except for season 3 where my clear favorite is Homer at the Bat.

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« Reply #191 on: December 14, 2011, 01:26:56 PM »
One of my favorites:

Marge: Homer, when are you going to give up this stupid sugar scheme?

Homer: Never, Marge! Never! I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend some of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odors! Oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called City Fathers who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards and say, "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?"

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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #192 on: December 14, 2011, 01:35:14 PM »
FOOTBALL IN THE GROIN!   FOOTBALL IN THE GROIN!

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« Reply #193 on: December 14, 2011, 02:43:25 PM »
A part in an episode I saw recently that made me guffaw:

(Brainstorming things to do to save money)
Bart: I'll take up smoking and give that up.
Homer: Good for you son, Giving up smoking is one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do. Have a dollar.
Lisa: But he didn't actually do anything!
Homer: Didn't he, Lis? Didn't he?


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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #194 on: December 14, 2011, 02:59:08 PM »
FOOTBALL IN THE GROIN!   FOOTBALL IN THE GROIN!

The original:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQf23EAyOI

and life imitating art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLqH2iNh6VY

and, one my favorite Simpson lines that most of my friends have adopted for use (especially when they were making cell phones real small): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DtbPOXFk00
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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #195 on: December 14, 2011, 05:38:35 PM »
My favorite Simpsons moment still has to be when Grampa collaborated with Metallica;
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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #196 on: December 14, 2011, 11:54:19 PM »
A part in an episode I saw recently that made me guffaw:

(Brainstorming things to do to save money)
Bart: I'll take up smoking and give that up.
Homer: Good for you son, Giving up smoking is one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do. Have a dollar.
Lisa: But he didn't actually do anything!
Homer: Didn't he, Lis? Didn't he?



:lol A classic Simpsons moment.

I saw another new-ish episode the other day (may have been new, or no more than a year or two old, as it was in widescreen).
You know you're in for another shitty episode when the couch gag is Avatar. Nothing quite says cutting edge originality like the millionth direct copy of Avatar that doesn't actually contain a joke other than "we're copying something topical, so thus we think we're funny".
Then the originality continued by mocking Fox, then having every network come up with a fake news story by spreading a virus for reasons that aren't actually explained other than some vague empty idea of "media is evil lololol".
Then it turns into a Mr Burns episode, where he takes all of the vaccine, boiling down his character down to the one dimensional attributes of "I'm old and selfish" yet again. Then he gets amnesia in one of the most ridiculous sequences ever of flying into the sky and getting hit by a plane and bouncing off some trees. My mind was already sort of wandering by that point.
Then Smithers goes and works for Dick Cheney, with a series of fresh, original political jokes.
Then some more super cartoony crap that made no sense and I barely remember.
Then Mr Burns realizes that hate keeps him alive or some shit. Then he plans to take revenge on the town by covering it with a giant dome, in a reference to the movie. Note: reminding me that the Simpsons movie was ever made is not a good decision.
The episode should have finished at that point, but then they kept going with something else I can't remember.

Give up, guys. You've already destroyed your legacy with more bad seasons than good ones.
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« Reply #197 on: December 14, 2011, 11:58:57 PM »
Nothing can beat the badness of "Once Upon a Time in Springfield". Once you see that, all the episodes you're talking about now will look like comedy gold. (my opinion of course. Maybe some like it, but it's my most hated episode).

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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #198 on: December 15, 2011, 12:40:20 AM »
I haven't seen it, although I dare to think of any episode that could beat the horror of the shitpile of an episode where Homer apparently invents grunge. That episode is offensive to me on every single level of decency.
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« Reply #199 on: December 15, 2011, 12:43:54 AM »
I heard about that one and have sworn to never watch it. Everything about it screams that it can only be a milestone crock of shit in the dire history of crocks of shit.

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« Reply #200 on: December 15, 2011, 05:27:31 AM »
The Springfield Film festifal is a top 5 episode for me.  Barney kills me in that one.
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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #201 on: December 15, 2011, 09:55:35 AM »
The Springfield Film festifal is a top 5 episode for me.  Barney kills me in that one.

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« Reply #202 on: December 15, 2011, 10:32:28 AM »
The one where Bart accidently gets Principal Skinner fired is great.  Superintendent Chalmers rant:

"I've had it, Skinner!  The low test scores.  Classrooms filled with ugly, ugly children."

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« Reply #203 on: December 15, 2011, 12:12:59 PM »
"I don't like being outdoors Smithers, for one thing, there's too many fat children."
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Re: The Simpsons
« Reply #204 on: December 15, 2011, 04:32:33 PM »
" From now on - we're going to spell everything with letters ".

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« Reply #205 on: December 16, 2011, 12:56:48 PM »
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« Reply #206 on: December 16, 2011, 02:05:09 PM »
One funny scene pops into my mind. Bart vs. Lisa (the Hockey episode). The kids are wrestling in the bedroom and Homer is switching the lights on and off while shouting: FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

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« Reply #207 on: December 17, 2011, 10:00:53 AM »
Aw man, reading some of these posts makes me want to watch old Simpsons episodes.

I wish they were streaming on Netflix. :(

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« Reply #208 on: December 17, 2011, 12:31:22 PM »
FOOTBALL IN THE GROIN!   FOOTBALL IN THE GROIN!

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Hmmm... I think a couple of my favourites:

Fat Tony: "Now, who wants to sleep with fish?"
Children: *gasp*
Fat Tony: "I brought the Finding Nemo towel."

Homer: "Relax, we're in a electric car"

Homer: "Mmmm... Something...."

That is also great, when in episode that Simpsons visit Brazil, Homer is terrified by a phone bill and tries to get some cable into a power line (bad explanation, hope you get it).

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« Reply #209 on: December 17, 2011, 12:33:35 PM »
Homer (to Lisa):  "Honey, wanna open the window for me?  The cops have Daddy's fingerprints on file."