Best Simpsons episode ever?

[XemaSab]

Certainly among my favorites are Bart selling his soul, flag day, tomacco, and Krusty's daughter.

Any others?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I'm not familiar with Simsons.

And they have characters with names suspiciously similar to The Simpsons. Perhaps a lawsuit is in order?

[XemaSab]

6. Yes, there's Omar, Madge, Bert, Ilsa, and Maise Simson...

You've never seen the show?

[Richard Steele]

2. I could never pick just one. Soooo many good ones.

[LeftyMom]

3. Treehouse of Horror VI

:D

[XemaSab]

7. Refresh my memory...

:shrug:

[LeftyMom]

8. Okay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_VI

[Mutley]

4. I could never narrow it down.

There are So many good ones.

[BrotherBuzz]

5. George and Barbara Bush move next door.

The relationship between Bart and George Bush is a homage to Dennis the Menace, in which a young scamp terrorised an older neighbour.


The ending still cracks me up. The Bushes are history and Gerald Ford moves in:

Gerald Ford: Say, Homer, do you like football?
Homer: Do I ever!
Gerald Ford: Do you like nachos?
Homer: Yes, Mr. Ford.
Gerald Ford: Well, why don't you come over and watch the game and we'll have nachos, and then some beer.
(Homer and Ford cross the street together.)
Homer: Jerry, I think you and I are going to get along just---
(They both trip in Ford's driveway)
Homer & Ford: D'oh!

[Roon]

48. .paraphrasing

Bush:These pajamas are for presidents only and you are not president.
Bart:Yes I am!
Bush:No you're not!! BAR!!!

[BrotherBuzz]

50. George H.W. Bush: I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet!

[everythingsxen]

9. Easy

(sort of)

The episode where Homer goes to work for Mr. Scorpio. (Call me Hank!)

The episode where Sideshow Bob becomes Mayor. (The dead have risen and are voting Republican!)

and

The episode where Homer and company join the Navy. (Russian Ambassador: The Soviet Union will be happy to take in your wayward submarine. US Ambassador: Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up? Russian Ambassador: Yes... that's just what we wanted you to think! *evil laugh* *presses button*, sign flips over saying USSR, "peace" flag has Soviet flag draped over, parade float has tank pop out of it, Berlin Wall pops up out of the ground and Lenin smashes out of his glass coffin yelling "MUST... CRUSH... CAPITALISM!)

[Richard Steele]

10. "No one ever picks Italy..."

[deucemagnet]

11. "And Homer, it would really help me if you could kill a few people...

...on your way out."

Albert Brooks was great in that one. :thumbsup:

[mark414]

12. the lemon tree

[ComerPerro]

41. That's a good one.

"Stop talking bad about my town"

"Make me"

"I don't make trash, I burn it"

"I guess that makes you a garbage man"

"I know you are but what am I?"

"A garbageman"

"I know you are but what am I?"

"A garbageman"

"Takes one to know one"

[gr8dane_daddy]

13. I have two favs...

First when Homer explains why there were no pictures of Maggie (quit his job to pursue his dream of being a pin monkey before having to beg for his job after finding out Marge was pregnant w/ Maggie).

Second, when Homer went to live in the gay district of Springfield.

[ComerPerro]

42. The one about Maggie was one of those episodes

that had a really touching ending.

The pictures covered up the "Don't forget, you're here forever" to make it say "Do it for her"

[fishwax]

59. it really is a touching ending

I've always liked that episode :)

[Fenris]

14. The Monorail

[AlienGirl]

15. "I call the big one Bitey."

[Twillig]

38. Donuts--Is there nothing they can't do?

I've never understood the popularity of the 'bitey' quote.

[AlienGirl]

63. Because every time I've rescued an opossum, I have named it Bitey.

That's why I like the quote, anyway.

Tucker

[MnFats]

70. It is supposed to be Matt Groening's favorite line.

Conan wrote it.
It's perfect.

[bicentennial_baby]

16. Either Hank Scorpio or...

Bart goes to France :)

[ComerPerro]

43. the life of a frog. That's the life for me

Bart! How would you like to live a year in France?

[flygal]

17. Little Miss Springfield

She's bringing out the big guns

Eyelash implants - I thought those were illegal

Not.in.Paraguay


My favorite line ever!!

also love Streetcar and the whole Great Escape scene.

[reformedrepub]

18. Marges affair with the bowling alley stud....

[sakabatou]

19. Who Shot Montgomery Burns (Part 1)

[radfringe]

20. Commander Cuckoo Bananas

[tk2kewl]

29. I 2nd that monkey fruit

[peekaloo]

21. Sideshow Bob Roberts.

classic.

[ComerPerro]

44. someone mentioned it upthread, but not by title

for others reading, its the one where Sideshow Bob runs for mayor.

The Rush Limbaugh character is dead on...

[vi5]

22. Either the vegetarian one, or the gun one...

The one where lisa decides to become a vegetarian is great and has some classic lines:

But the one where Homer gets a gun after the riots at the soccer game is also great especially because of the juxtaposition of the american soccer announcer vs. the brazillian one.

American(in droll, bored voice): Halfback....passes to center....back to halfback....holds it....holds it....holds it.

Brazillian (shouting and barely able to sit down): HALFBACK!!!!! PASSES TO CENTER!!!! BACK TO HALFBACK!!!!! HOLDS IT!.....HOLDS IT! HOOOOOOOOLLLLDDSSS IIIIIT!!!!!!!"

[terrya]

23. Homer becomes a food critic is one of the best.

[Mad_Dem_X]

55. I love the scene with Homer and the dog

When the he's trying to think of an adjective.

DOG: Ruff!
HOMER: I already used that one.
DOG: Chewy?

[underpants]

24. Kamp Krusty or Bart the Mother -which has two classic Skinner quotes

Skinner: Now, there has been some confusion over our bird watching rules. You cannot count birds you have seen at the zoo, on stamps, or in dreams.
Moe: Well, I'm back to square one.



Principal Skinner: (referring to the Bolivian tree lizard) It's already wiped out the dodo, the cuckoo, and the ne-ne, and it has nasty plans for the booby, the titmouse, the woodcock, and the titpecker.
Marge: How vile!
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Mother"




Skinner: Well, I was wrong; the lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

[ComerPerro]

45. LMAO

[CBGLuthier]

25. You Only Move Twice

The Hank Scorpio episode mentioned above. Saw it again just last night and thought if this isn't the best episode it is certainly in the top ten.

Just perfect.

[Coventina]

26. My personal fav: Bart After Dark

The one where Bart works in a burlesque house.
It has my all-time favorite line:

Bart: Ma'm, I have been GROSSLY misinformed about witches!

Runner up: Selma's Choice.

The one where Selma takes Bart & Lisa to Duff Gardens because Homer got food poisoning from the sandwich.

[seemunkee]

27. Blinky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Cars_in_Every_Garage_and_Three_Eyes_on_Every_Fish

[Tyrone Slothrop]

28. Lisa's Rival, Homer vs. The 18th Amendment, You Only Move Twice

The Springfield Files , the one where Homer "molests" the babysitter, Deep Space Homer and the monorail episode.

[freethought]

30. Krusty's Comeback! Without a doubt! n/t

[azmouse]

31. Any episode from the first 5 yrs

After that The Simpsons has sucked!!!

[mvd]

33. I still love The Simpsons

Even an average Simpsons makes me laugh. And they've had more great shows of late. I can't really choose a favorite show, though.

[azmouse]

34. I've tried watching some of the newer episodes

and just didn't think they were funny. I prefer to remember the show as it was in the beginning and not as it is now. Sometime around the 6th season The Simpsons got new writers. I think the earlier writers left to do King of the Hill and Futurama. KOTH has been more consistantly funny with better stories over the years and is now a much better cartoon than The Simpsons.... IMHO

[mvd]

35. Well, I do think they are funny

They still have great, witty lines and nice takes on current events. IMO.

[Coventina]

36. I agree with you, mvd, I think the quality has improved lately.

The Simpsons sort of bottomed out a few seasons ago, when it was just painful to watch.

But lately I think it has rebounded.

My nominee for "all-time worst" episode has to be the one with Mel Gibson, several seasons ago.

It was around that time that I think the show hit bottom.

But lately they seem to be getting their groove back.

[Marie26]

52. Me either

Maybe I've just gotten too old. KOTH is much funnier to me now - the new Simpsons episodes just seem over the top.

[Sequoia]

32. Chili Cook-off with J. Cash, Left Handed Store.

Pappa Bush and his manuscript cut up by boat motar. That was sure funny!

[Arger68]

37. My personal two favorites:

When Homer goes to clown college and when Homer gains weight to go on work comp.

[CanuckAmok]

75. "Clown College? Ya can't eat that."

"It's a great piece of buffoonery if you can pull it off, but if you blow it you'll look like a fool."


"You're gonna be having dinner with Groucho tonight if you don't beat it!"

[ikri]

39. Weekend At Burnsie's

A brief summary.

It's the only episode that has never been repeated (at least here in the UK) due to its content - Homer getting stoned

:smoke:

[ComerPerro]

46. The Phish episode. Loved it

Trey stops playing, "Hey, I smell marijuana smoke"

Page: "If Phish doesn't see some perscriptions, we are out of here"


Fish breaks it to Moleman that he is seriously ill...

[fishwax]

60. they don't rerun it there?

That's a shame, because it's a funny episode. I've seen it in syndication here in the states, fortunately :rofl:

Phish 1: Hey, I smell marijuana. That better me medicinal!
Phish 2: If Phish don't see a prescription slip, we're out of here!

[Kingofalldems]

40. Two I can thinkof:

Mr. Plow
Gabbo is coming----"He'll tell us what to do." ----Homer Simpson

[ComerPerro]

47. "All the kids in Springfield are SOBs"

[ironflange]

49. "Selma's Choice"

Tge one where Selma wants a baby, ends up with an iguana.

So much good stuff there: The Buzzing Sign Diner, Homer's six-foot hoagie, Duff Gardens, The Erotic Adventures of Hercules. . .

[Marie26]

51. "Marge vs. the Monorail"

With "Lisa's Substitute" a close second. To this day, when I hear someone pitching some expensive impossible government project, I'll think "Monorail!" :)

[Zavulon]

53. Pie Man - only because of the scene

when Milhaus demanded that Nelson reveal the identity of Fist Face. I can't even type this without laughing about that scene.

[Radical Activist]

54. When Mr. Burns runs for Governor

so that he won't have to spend the money to fix his power plant. It is the story of the Republican Party and should be shown in every classroom.

[dback]

56. "Homer's Phobia" w/John Waters

When the plant turns into the gay disco, playing "Gonna Make You Sweat." :)

[long_green]

58. line from that one. Bart: "You took me to a gay steel mill?"

nm

[XemaSab]

72. "Everybody dance now!"

:D

[Mad_Dem_X]

84. "Has the whole world gone gay?"

"Oh, be nice!"

Classic.

[ChickMagic]

57. The Screamapillar

I don't know why, but I collapse in giggles at that one.

[QuestionAll...]

61. hahah! the foogu fish one

the back of the menu had a map to the hospital. lol.

and marge's breakdown on the bridge in traffic where she snarls spittle and steam on her window (raaaar!) at an officer.

so many to choose from. lol.

[BigMcLargehuge]

78. I like the Fugu one too

where Homer listens to The Bible professionally read by Larry King.

[MnFats]

62. Homer the Heretic.....the one just on here...

...
the Simpsons' home is burning....Flanders pitches a mattrees out of the upper window, then tosses Homer after him. HOmer hits the matress and bounces back into the fire...


REv.what's his name gives credit to the firefighters of diverse backgrounds "Christian (nod to Flanders), "Jewish (Nod to Krusty the Klown)"...and, coming to the end of the line, where Apu is standing, "and Miscellaneous!"

Apu replies: "HINDU! There are 700 million of us!"

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

64. notice 90% of eps mentioned are pre-1999

the show's been in such a sorry state since the writing and productionn changed over. prior to that, it was the best damn thing ever put on TV.

[LSdemocrat]

65. You Only Move Twice, Lisa the Vegetarian, I Love Lisa

For the most part, it's all good.

[tanyev]

66. Streetcar!

[Bonescrat]

67. Guatemalan Insanity Peppers...

"El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer"
("The Mysterious Voyage of Homer")

[Initech]

68. Right now my favorite is "El Viaje Misterioso De Nuestro Jomer"

It's the one where Homer eats hallucinatory Guatemalan chili peppers and goes on a trip where he meets a talking coyote voiced by Johnny Cash.

[OnionPatch]

69. I like the one where Homer gets obese

so he can get disability or something. He wears moo-moos and works from home.

I have to admit that I don't watch it as much as I used to, so I haven't seen a lot of the newer episodes.

[ScreamingMeemie]

71. My very favorite: When the meteor was coming toward Springfield

When Marge's sisters said,"Well that really gives you an appreciation for the beauty of Life..." and then takes a drag off her cigarette. :D

[CanuckAmok]

73. "They call them fingers, but I've never seen them fing....oh there they go

[peekaloo]

81. The medical marijuana ep! "I could walk right up to the president

and blow smoke right in his stupid monkey face and all he could do was groove on it".

:rofl:

They burned down the gambling house
it died with an awful sound
I am hungry for a candy bar
I think I'll eat a Mounds.

:rofl:

[CanuckAmok]

82. Dude, your mom is hot!

n/t

[CanuckAmok]

74. Frank Grimes, comes to mind, and the Treehouse of Horror w the Shinning.

"No TV and no beer make Homer...something, something"

"Go crazy?"

"Don't mind if ah do!!"

[GCP]

76. Treehouse of Horror V

"The Shinning"
Homer fixes the toaster and keeps going back in time to change the future
Nightmare Cafeteria - where "mystery meat" is no longer a mystery! :D

[Courtesy Flush]

77. The best one is a matter of personal experiences

At least for me it is.

I work in the foster care system. I laughed my ass off at the episode where the Simpson kids went into foster care. The writers really had us pegged.

[Fox Mulder]

79. I wonder?

[BigMcLargehuge]

80. Homer takes a baptism for Bart -

another great one - Flanders loses his mind after the hurricane that destroys only his house:

Homer (reading from index card): I mock your values system.
Ned: Ohhhh Homer, oop, bye by! (window closes)
Homer: Previous occurences when I professed friendship were FRAUDULENT!
Ned: Well hi Homer... (window closes)
Homer: I have had relations with your spouse or significant other. NOW THAT'S PSYCHIATRY!

The one that had me convulsing with laughter - Homer is accused of sexual harassment by the babysitter where they had the talkshow "Ben" The Only Daytime Talk Show Hosted by a Giant Bear, who, of course, goes nuts and trashes the set during the show where the topic is "Mothers and Runaway Daughters Reunited by their Hatred of Homer Simpson". That ep also had the great phony news show "Rock Bottom" where they clumsily edited Homer's plea for innocense into a grunting drooling admission of guilt.

[ballabosh]

83. Duffless

Homer: Well beer, we've had some great times...
When I was 17,
I drank some very good beer.
I drank some very good beer
I purchased with a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was 17.


Lovejoy: So Homer, pleas feel free to tell us anything. There's no
judgment here.
Homer: The other day I was so desperate for a beer I snuck into the
football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
Lovejoy: I cast thee out!

[Release The Hounds]

85. Homer v. the 18th amendment

Also, Last Exit to Springfield

[BlackVelvetElvis]

86. Endut! Hoch Hecht!

"Krusty Gets Canceled" was great in every way, especially the Worker and Parasite cartoon from eastern Europe.
The designers and animators nailed that.
(I love when Krusty says at the end, "What the HELL was that?")

I also love the episode where Lisa gets braces and Homer becomes his union's president.
The Big Book of British Smiles and the great gags built around Homer having to pee (while visiting Burn's Manor).

My favorite Simpsons quote:
Marge: "Homer, have you been up all night eating cheese?"
Homer: "I think I'm blind."