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The absolute earliest golden-era episode I can think of that feels “off” to me is Lisa’s Rival, and I didn’t come to that conclusion until years after it aired. The subplot with Homer and the sugar definitely feels like something that would happen in season 10+, what with his actions of obtaining and guarding the sugar pile and the entire thing reeking of an unfamiliar wackiness in season 6 that wouldn’t slowly permeate the show until season 9 onward. It’s not terribly bad, but it definitely doesn’t fit season 6’s humor.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I didn’t even know it wasn’t an original Simpsons song until years later. I heard the Amadeus song on the radio one night and was like "oh that's where Troy McClure got it"
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The sugar is fantastic golden age B plot, the A plot with her rival is definitely a really weak and shallow script. The sugar reminds me a lot of the Willie's retirement grease and that's never a bad thing.
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I thought that the retirement grease was Lisa's Rival but then I remembered it was the similar 'Lisa is disrupted by a new girl showing up' Lard of the Dance.
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UP AND ADAM posted:I think we can all agree that the telltale signs were in Lemon of Troy and every episode since then was a hollow, spiteful drudgery This is generally a well-regarded episode, isn't it? I hated it.
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Toxic Mental posted:Roast me. I've said it before: I don't think Homer at the Bat is even in the top 25 and Homer The Vigilante is one of the worst golden age episodes. Post your top 25
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Mantis42 posted:I heard the Amadeus song on the radio one night and was like "oh that's where Troy McClure got it"  i heard it for the first time in that movie with the guy from the Social Network, but where he works at an amusement park or some poo poo Toxic Mental posted:Roast me. I've said it before: I don't think Homer at the Bat is even in the top 25 and Homer The Vigilante is one of the worst golden age episodes.
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My least favorite episode from the good seasons is Bart gets an Elephant. It’s just not very funny imo
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hatty posted:My least favorite episode from the good seasons is Bart gets an Elephant. It’s just not very funny imo is it cos stampy's a jerk?
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my favourite part of this thread is when goons start making GBS threads on random top 10 episodes
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Looks familiar
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Das Boo posted:This is generally a well-regarded episode, isn't it? I hated it. I was just loving around. It's one of my favorite episodes.
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I might be able to come up with 25 episodes I like more than Homer at the Bat but the joke density in that episode is insane, it's absolutely Simpsons at the top of its game.
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Yeah I'm not gonna do it but the best are Last Exit to Springfield because yeah it is just that good, Treehouse of Horror V, and probably my "weird" pick Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily and yes I had to google that one's name The best joke overall is "He was a zombie?" from THoH III though
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UP AND ADAM posted:I think we can all agree that the telltale signs were in Lemon of Troy and every episode since then was a hollow, spiteful drudgery Lemon of Troy I always felt is a really weird and unique episode. You see a kinda very different dynamic with the schoolboys all teaming up, involving characters that don't often get that kind of focus, and overall it feels almost like a different kind of show for a bit.
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Just the other day I watched Patrick H Willems' video dissecting Lemon of Troy as the perfect Simpsons episode. I prefer Flaming Moe's, personally.
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Sentient Data posted:Looks familiar What site is used for ratings? IMDB? And has anyone ever found the mean score of a Simpsons episode?
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I wonder how many people think the Flaming Moe's song was a pure Simpsons invention and have never heard of Cheers
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Who Shot Mister Burns Part 1 was really good too. They should make a whole show that's nothing but good episodes like that
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UP AND ADAM posted:I was just loving around. It's one of my favorite episodes. I wasn't. 
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https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1612570029182144527
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Well there's a clickbait article if I've seen one.
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Data Graham posted:I wonder how many people think the Flaming Moe's song was a pure Simpsons invention and have never heard of Cheers
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Data Graham posted:I wonder how many people think the Flaming Moe's song was a pure Simpsons invention and have never heard of Cheers I'm reminded of someone who genuinely couldn't understand that a young person watching (or featured in) Adventure Time could have never heard of Cheers.
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i'm willing to write a ragebait-y contrarian "re-evaluation" of any arbitrary classic simpsons episode, just cut me a check or something
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Who shot mr burns is the Simpsons equivalent of TNG's best of both worlds, please watch my ten hour video essay embroidering on this point
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Best joke of all time was "fiddle dee dee, that will require a tetanus shot."
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As a non-American the only baseball players I can name are Babe Ruth and the entire cast of Homer at the Bat
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and mark mcguire
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bitterandtwisted posted:As a non-American the only baseball players I can name are Babe Ruth and the entire cast of Homer at the Bat I still can't name them all, but I do know since that episode most of them haven't been doing that way. Poor that one dude last seen going into a mystery spot. 
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Sentient Data posted:Looks familiar Bob's Burgers started its decline with Season 5 in my opinion.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Best joke of all time was "fiddle dee dee, that will require a tetanus shot." you're mocking that but that whole scene had me laughing some of the hardest i've ever laughed at a simpsons joke when i was young
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Dead Goon posted:Bob's Burgers started its decline with Season 5 in my opinion. it started when they made every episode a musical
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Mr Interweb posted:you're mocking that but that whole scene had me laughing some of the hardest i've ever laughed at a simpsons joke when i was young I'm not. It's the line from the show I'm most likely to say at any given moment. I just about died laughing when I first heard that line. The delivery is sublime.
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Mantis42 posted:it started when they made every episode a musical I recently found out this has something to do with securing a bigger cut on royalties and while I support folks getting paid, I now have a little sour, cynical little note in the back of my head everytime a show breaks into song.
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Maybe not the best single JOKE ever but probably the best sustained uproarious hilarity being shared by the audience caught up in the moment was in Dead Putting Society, when Homer and Bart are reading Flanders' letter and shrieking with laughter over his "bosom" line. Marge furiously scolds them for making light of his opening his heart and goes stomping out of the kitchen, and as soon as she's around the corner goes *SNOOORT* Was watching that whole bit with my family and it took us a while to get our composure back. Just the way the show played the audience like a harp, keeping the comedic tension that high for that long e: lol this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtWWEMMKg0k Data Graham fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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Mantis42 posted:it started when they made every episode a musical It worked for Phineas and Ferb at least.
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Not sure if these is one for the meme thread or here, but what is the most recent episode/season to have generated a “Simpsons reference” that people get outside the context of the show? Are there any good lines, if not episodes, after the golden era?
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If you don't count season 8 or after as in the golden era there's still quite a few. I just checked Season nine and that had the famous Ralph "i'm a banana" and "were in danger" just before there bus crash off a bridge in the the Lord of the flies parody episode, there was the Simpsons go to New York episode that gets quoted a bit, and The Halloween episode had the Bart turning into the fly part in it. There was also the Trash collector episode, where homer becomes department head of trash collecting, which um was not good but Steve Martin guest stared and the election banter between him and homer is remembered pretty fondly by people (probably one of the last good guest stars actually). I quickly checked 10, and couldn't see any, but honestly couldn't remember most of the episodes from the descriptions so possibly missed something good here or there. ....after that I'd tentatively say no?
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Halisnacks posted:Not sure if these is one for the meme thread or here, but what is the most recent episode/season to have generated a “Simpsons reference” that people get outside the context of the show? Stupid Sexy Flanders was season 11
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