Quoting Acapelli (view post)
Pretty much all of seasons 3-10 are "my favorite episodes".
I don't know that there's one episode in the whole bunch that I dislike.
Pretty much all of seasons 3-10 are "my favorite episodes".
I don't know that there's one episode in the whole bunch that I dislike.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
The last Simpsons episode that I can say I loved was their trip to NYC, and that was despite the rest of the season, which I recall being the noticable beginning of the decline.
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That was the very last episode season 10.
I thought that season was still great. I am looking forward to picking up season 11 in a few weeks to see how that one is. I believe season 11 is when Maud Flanders dies.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Somewhere during seasons 11 through 13, Apu had all those children -- and the show immediately dropped off my "must watch" list. That was their shark-jumping moment as far as I was concerned. Then there were a few seasons that were god-awful, then one season that was okay, then god-awful again, then the movie came out, then the show got *kinda* good again, but not good enough for me to start watching it regularly.
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Season 10 features the awesome episode where Homer finds out what his middle initial "J" stands for - JAY!!
And he becomes a hippie!
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I think that you are thinking of the trip to Japan.
The NYC one was the first episode of season 9.
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Seasons 3 through 6 may be the best run of episodes in any series, ever.
I thought the shark-jumping moment was the Frank Grimes episode. Not that I disliked it. I thought it was brilliant. But it really broke the fourth wall by emphasizing how cartoonish its world was in the face of someone from our world. Before that, the show could still sell its emotion. After...it became more and more about the absurdity of its premises.
Frank Grimes! That shit was impeccable, son.
But yeah, should've closed it off there. Would've been perfect.
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The Principal and the Pauper is the jump shark moment in season 9.
Which I actually like.
I loathe the Frank Grimes episode. For completely different reasons why I hate current episodes.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
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I remember you saying it's probably the most loved/hated episode of the series. I love it.
Yes, you are very right.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
It's a clever plot, but ultimately I can't laugh at the cruelty onscreen because the Homer in this episode in a completely different character from the Homer before. I wouldn't mind the episode so much if Frank just went insane and ran away, but to kill him off without any weight outside of the show's cartoonish reality upsetted me. It's stupidity for the sake of cruelty.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
I didn't think Homer was cruel. He was his typical oblivious, idiotic self. He wanted to be friends with Frank Grimes, but everything kept getting more and more f'ed up for Grimes. It was Homer's fault, yes, but so is just about everything that goes wrong in the show. And again, he didn't screw things up intentionally.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I think Wats is saying that the episode is cruel, not Homer.
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I thought this sentence...
...was indicating he thought Homer was being cruel.
And yes, the episode is cruel. But it's also quite apt - there are tons of people out there with more money than we'll ever see in our lifetime and they don't deserve it at all. And there are just as many people who work hard every day and never get anything.
Hell, I feel like this sometimes. The two guys I work for have their own places, wives/girlfriends, and are doin' just dandy financially even though they work like 4 hours a day, while I'm barely making minimum wage and I do all the work.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I actually think the writers are looking objectively at Homer's situation as much as Grimes is. So when Homer responds to Grimes' stunned discovery that he was an astronaut with, "Yeah...you never been?" we're actually on Grimes's side, not Homer's. The story becomes progressively about how impossible Homer's life is, how dangerous it is, how little he truly understands. As I said, it's enormous fourth-wall-breakery: for the first time, we're completely on the outside, looking in, with a real-world character as our surrogate.
I adore it because I'm a sucker for such a conceptually bold idea. I just think it shoulda stopped there. Because how do you regain a show's reality after you've spent twenty-three minutes exposing, brick by brick, its complete surreality? I mean, you can't. Certainly not for the people who watched it for the characters as much as the whimsy and humor.
And "The Principal and the Pauper" is awful, awful, awful. I remember being stunned by how bad it was. Just taken aback.
"The Principal and the Pauper" is certainly not a shining moment for the show, but I can't say I hate it nearly as much as others seem to.
"Lisa the Skeptic" was just a few episodes later, and that one was fantastic and hilariously twisted.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
My mom bought me season 11 when she saw it on sale yesterday. I was so excited because I haven't been able to find it at a decent price, and there were several episodes I remember liking when they first aired (and I was 12).
But man...this season is...kind of...terrible...
What a letdown.
The "Treehouse of Horror" episode alone is painful to watch. What a mess.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Last night I continued my way through Season 4, which is simply fantastic. Hell even the Lisa episodes are great, and I find her to be the weakest character of the bunch. The last one I viewed was "Lisa's First Word"-I can't wait to get to "Marge v. the Monarail." Oh and "Mr. Plow" is hands down one of the greatest episodes in the show's history.
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Season 4 was utterly amazing. Season 5 was also great, although it had one merely good episode (the one where Bart becomes the "I didn't do it" kid). Regardless, a truly stunning two year run of brilliance. Too many great episodes to count, and many favorites.
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And everybody wants to be special here
They call your name out loud and clear
Here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one here today?
That was the season that Conan OBrien was part of the writing team. Some of my favorite episodes ever were written by him.
"Marge vs. the Monorail" one of my faves along with "Wacking Day"
Treehouse of Horror IV is also amazingly good and one of the best.
Bansky storyboarded the couch gag for yesterday's Simpsons.
It's probably the most noteworthy thing The Simpsons has done in 15 years.
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Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
Apparently some things from his original storyboard were cut by Standards and Practices. The producers said they agreed to cut them because they're kind of tasteless and even sadder.
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Had to have been in the supermarket since that part is gone.
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