# In honor of the Simpsons 500th episode... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178 "2012-02-17T20:14:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/21 "2012-02-17T20:54:15Z")
I can’t not hem and haw… I have lists… Give me a while to mull it over. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/22 "2012-02-17T20:55:45Z")
[Brother From Another Series.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_from_Another_Series). Funny on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/23 "2012-02-17T20:57:22Z")
I haven’t seen it in a long while, but my favorite was always “[Homer’s Enemy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%27s_Enemy)” which featured Frank Grimes, who lived above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley. I liked how put out he was by Homer’s success despite his idiocy and laziness. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/24 "2012-02-17T21:01:01Z")
**Treehouse of Horror III**. Talking Krusty doll! King Homer! Zombies! “Marge! The dolls’s trying to kill me and the toaster’s been laughing at me!” "Hey, I hear we’re going to Ape Island. “Yeah, to capture a giant ape. I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island.” "What do they got there? “Apes. But they’re not so big.” ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/25 "2012-02-17T21:03:06Z")
Rosebud “Mmmmm 64 slices of american cheese” ---
**Author:** ![Mdcastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@Mdcastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mdcastle)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/26 "2012-02-17T21:04:44Z")
Marge Be Not Proud ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/27 "2012-02-17T21:10:32Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > My pick is Cape Feare, which doesn’t have any emotional content to speak of but just cracks me up harder than any other episode in the whole canon. It was written at the end of the fourth season (it aired early in season five) when the writing staff was exhausted and most of the original writers were getting ready to leave the show. So they went nuts and packed the episode with stuff like Homer’s Witness Protection blunders, Sideshow Bob’s German tattoo, his performance of the HMS Pinafore complete with costumes and a Playbill, Homer accidentally scaring the crap out of Bart by bursting into his bedroom with a knife (and then doing it again with a chainsaw and hockey mask), and the scene where Bob is run over by an agonizingly long parade. The parade is my favorite, particularly the very inefficient writing on the elephants who trample Bob. And, of course, this is the episode with the rake gag. Ah yes, the rakes. And “no one who speaks German could be an evil man.” And LUV and HAT with a line over the A. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/28 "2012-02-17T21:17:07Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Homer and Apu. > > Who needs the Kwik-E-mart “I dooooo!” My favorite as well. “Silly customer, you cannot hurt a Twinkie!” “Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-mart?” “Yes.” “Really?” “Yes.” “You?” “Yes, thank you, come again.” “Oh great. Christians.” Monstromart, where shopping is a baffling ordeal. I just love that episode! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/29 "2012-02-17T21:20:54Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Homer and Apu. > > Who needs the Kwik-E-mart I thought the writers did a nice job on many of the songs from the musical episodes. In particular, “See My Vest” tends to play in my head a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/30 "2012-02-17T21:21:37Z")
_Bart the General_ ---
**Author:** ![Prox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@Prox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prox)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/31 "2012-02-17T21:26:20Z")
A lot of great ones listed so far, but my favorite is “Lemon of Troy” when Bart went with a bunch of kids to wage war of Shelbyville. So many great lines in it. “Shake harder, boy!” ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/32 "2012-02-17T21:31:58Z")
Has it been mentioned upthread yet? The classic one where Mr. Burns ran for president, but his campaign went straight down the toilet when he could not eat a piece of “Blinky” the three-eyed mutant radioactive fish on camera. And I also love _Brother From Another Series_, since I was and am a big _Frasier_ fan. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/33 "2012-02-17T21:35:45Z")
My Sister, My Sitter ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/34 "2012-02-17T21:42:51Z")
Definately **Bart the Murderer** The first appearance of Fat Tony. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/35 "2012-02-17T21:58:46Z")
$pringfield. But, the episode where Selma marries Troy McClure is a close second. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/36 "2012-02-17T22:12:36Z")
There were two episodes that popped right into my brain meat. So I’ll go with the one with Lingo and Homer getting his thumb cut off and the whole happenstance of the vignettes.\* Homer: “Lingo dead?” Lingo: “Lingo IS dead.” \*I think I used that word correctly if not just pretend I am smart and I meant to be ironic or something. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/37 "2012-02-17T22:13:09Z")
It’s tough, but I have to go with Last Exit to Springfield. Homer: [thinks] Oh, man. I have to go to the bathroom. Why did I have all that beer and coffee and watermelon? Mr. Burns: Now Homer, I know what you’re thinking. I want to take the pressure off. Now, it doesn’t take a ‘whiz’ to know that you’re looking out for ‘Number One’. Well, listen to me, and you’ll make a big splash very soon. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/38 "2012-02-17T22:13:34Z")
If forced to pick just one, “A Streetcar Named Marge”. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/39 "2012-02-17T22:42:15Z")
C E D’oh Instructor: You there! The naked, greasy, bald, fat man! Homer: _GASP_ You know everything about me! ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178/40 "2012-02-17T22:45:51Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > There were two episodes that popped right into my brain meat. So I’ll go with the one with Lingo and Homer getting his thumb cut off and the whole happenstance of the vignettes.\* > > Homer: “Lingo dead?” > > Lingo: “Lingo IS dead.” > \*I think I used that word correctly if not just pretend I am smart and I meant to be ironic or something. error. Homer: Linguo – dead? Linguo: Linguo _is_ dead. episode is 'Trilogy of Error ’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-simpsons-500th-episode/613178.md?page=3)