The Simpsons

**transmogrifier** · 12-20-2007, 10:51 PM

Quoting Watashi (view post)

Any season that has the following:

Simpson and Delilah
Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
The Way We Was
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Brush with Greatness
Lisa's Substitute (which is Top 3 material)
Three Men and a Comic Book

Is not a season to be skipped on. The rest of the episodes are good to great also, but the ones above are 4 star episodes.

I'm not a big fan of many of those episodes. I find that the first two seasons are full of basically MOR sitcom episodes that happen to be animated. It wasn't until the third that the writers really began to establish The Simpsons as its own thing.

**MadMan** · 12-21-2007, 05:11 AM

Well its clear that the movie was better than the past 10 years of the show. How depressing. But hey at least the film adaption was really funny and awesome.

**jenniferofthejungle** · 01-01-2008, 04:32 AM

I'm enjoying this show. We started watching season 3 today (I have only seen a few of the first season and none of the second) but I loved the first two discs of season three.

**megladon8** · 01-01-2008, 05:33 AM

Yep, watching season 3 with Jen was a lovely, nostalgic experience.

All those old episode that I watched over and over and over as a kid. I still know a lot of the lines.

And Matt Groening's little written blurb inside the packaging of each season is great.

He says "Season 3 makes season 2 look like season 1"

**Rowland** · 01-01-2008, 06:16 AM

Season 3 is the shit. Makes the movie look like garbage.

**transmogrifier** · 01-01-2008, 09:21 AM

I saw an episode from the latest season, and there was one excellent, excellent scene that showed Homer growing up in a time lapse sequence. It was, dare I say it, quite emotional and well-played. The rest of the episode was kind of meh, though.

**megladon8** · 01-01-2008, 06:56 PM

Yeh, I've always found The Simpsons could do a good job of making things emotional without being hoaky.

Same with Futurama - "Jurassic Bark" still makes me cry, and I've seen it like 4 times.

**number8** · 01-02-2008, 05:15 AM

Quoting transmogrifier (view post)

I saw an episode from the latest season, and there was one excellent, excellent scene that showed Homer growing up in a time lapse sequence. It was, dare I say it, quite emotional and well-played. The rest of the episode was kind of meh, though.

Was it the parody of this video?

**transmogrifier** · 01-02-2008, 06:04 AM

Quoting number8 (view post)

Was it the parody of this video?

Yep. I think the spell is ruined in The Simpsons with the addition of the animated YouTube "Play this again" screenshot at the end, actually. Without it, it's kinda poignant.

**number8** · 01-09-2008, 07:58 PM

http://www.airdave.it/maniaco-dei-si...d-516/lang/en/

**Dead & Messed Up** · 01-11-2008, 11:57 PM

One day last week, work was slow, so we flipped on the TV in time to watch the second half of "Cape Feare." I pretty much laughed from beginning to end (the elephant march damn near made me cry).

I don't think it's necessarily a shift in the types of jokes that's made the new seasons so much worse, since a lot of the jokes in that episode alternate between broad physical humor and random moments (Homer barging in with a chainsaw and mask). It's just that they're done so much better. The episode really feels effortless.

**lovejuice** · 03-09-2009, 01:43 AM

i caught this simpsons episode starring michael jackson (john jay smith). it was before the time i came to the states. and i wonder, how wonderful it might have been to live in that period (1991?). when everything looks so innocent, and celebrities are there to be loved and inspire us. and mj was well, relatively sane. :cry:

**Mysterious Dude** · 03-09-2009, 02:54 AM

Recently, I read Bill Waterson's intro to the latest Calvin and Hobbes anthology, and he writes about why he decided to end it after ten years. Other comic strips have been around for decades and Waterson certainly could have continued doing Calvin and Hobbes, considering its popularity, but strips that last that long pretty much universally end up becoming stale, repetitive and unfunny. While we all miss Calvin and Hobbes, I think we can be grateful that it didn't have any bad years. Matt Groening should take a hint.

**Thirdmango** · 03-09-2009, 04:00 AM

Though I agree that The Simpsons should have ended a long time ago, at this point however since it has gone on this long I think it's already passed the decent end. At this point I'd keep it on as long as possible and give it to people who can take it and try to make it funny. Having someone like Bill Odenkirk over it is a good move right now because then The Simpsons can become one of those stepping blocks for people trying to get into the industry and try different things.

**number8** · 03-09-2009, 05:37 AM

Quoting Thirdmango (view post)

Though I agree that The Simpsons should have ended a long time ago, at this point however since it has gone on this long I think it's already passed the decent end. At this point I'd keep it on as long as possible and give it to people who can take it and try to make it funny. Having someone like Bill Odenkirk over it is a good move right now because then The Simpsons can become one of those stepping blocks for people trying to get into the industry and try different things.

Yeah, Simpsons is the animated SNL. It's not gonna go away, it's just going to go through cycles and you're just going to see ups and downs. It'll be more interesting to stop looking at it as a continuous show and more like a generational thing.

Winston* · 02-09-2010, 04:56 AM

What the fuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnUKurl7Fog

**Derek** · 02-09-2010, 04:59 AM

Quoting Winston* (view post)

What the fuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnUKurl7Fog

"As Mr. Burns faces the loss of his fortune and worldly belongings, he learns to appreciate lifes simple pleasures like friends and family."

Seriously, what the fuck?

**ledfloyd** · 02-09-2010, 09:00 AM

hahaha. yeah, that made me embarassed to be a simpsons fan. aside from burns selling smithers and millhouse saying 'sorry coke' it was awful.

**number8** · 02-09-2010, 01:52 PM

Matt Groening has become what he hated most.

**MadMan** · 02-09-2010, 02:45 PM

Right now I'm trying to work though Season 4. My friend owns many of the seasons out on DVD-I think he has up to Season 8 or 10, I don't really remember. Its interesting to watch the older episodes and marvel at how fresh and original the writing and the jokes truly were back then.

**Henry Gale** · 02-09-2010, 04:46 PM

Even though the show is almost always a waste to watch now, there was one I did see recently ("Million Dollar Maybe") that wasn't half bad. The story was pretty standard, and it didn't change up the sort of structure the show has settled into over the years, but it still almost had the feel of a classic episode. The laugh ratio was down a fair bit from that era, but Homer seems to actually have something of a brain again, there were a lot of memorable lines from side-characters, and the ending was very, very sweet.

It shows a lack of originality when this isn't even the first episode title in the last few years to play off of Million Dollar Baby, and if you see any of the alternate lines pitched at Chris Martin in his behind-the-scenes promo, all of the exchanged they didn't go with were shockingly funnier and may just show that something's wrong with the writing overall; but still, the episode held together better than anything I'd seen from them in years.

Edited: some of this didn't make no senses before.

**Dukefrukem** · 02-09-2010, 04:52 PM

Quoting Winston* (view post)

What the fuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnUKurl7Fog

did no one watch this during the super bowl? I don't understand what the big deal is.

**number8** · 02-09-2010, 05:00 PM

Quoting Henry Gale (view post)

Even though the show is almost always a waste to watch now, there was one I did see recently ("Million Dollar Maybe") that wasn't half bad. The story was pretty standard, and it didn't change up the sort of structure the show has settled into over the years, but it still almost felt like almost like a classic episode. The laugh ratio down a fair bit, but Homer seems to actually have something of a brain again, there were a lot of memorable lines from side-characters, and the ending was very, very sweet.

It shows a lack of originality when this isn't even the first episode in the last few years to play off of Million Dollar Baby, and if you see any of the alternate lines pitched at Chris Martin in his behind-the-scenes promo, all of the ones they didn't go with were shockingly funnier; but still, the episode held together better than anything I'd seen from them in years.

Hey, I liked that episode too. I completely agree. Not that funny, but a really classic Simpsons plot with a decent Homer/Marge "awww" ending.

**megladon8** · 02-18-2010, 01:19 AM

I think season 8 may be my favorite season of any show ever.

**Acapelli** · 02-18-2010, 01:27 AM

i'm going through season's 3-9

i'm halfway through season 3 and i'm surprised by how many of my favorite episodes i've seen already and this early

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