In the skit where Homer goes to hell: John Wayne? I didn’t get that at all.
After Homer dropped Agnes to her death, they should have showed her ghost rising up and belting Homer in the jaw.
I know! That was so random!! Was it because he was a draft dodger…that why he ended up there?
You guys may be reading to much into that. It seemed to be in there to me simply for the sake of throwing in a random joke. I don’t think they had a reason for Wayne being there, but just picked out a cultural icon and thought it’d be funny to have him in hell.
Us Simpsonites tend to read into our jokes very well…
So what about the cunnilingus?
LOL . . . Ok, if you insist. You take that “little trollop” line of mine seriously, don’t you? That’s the most forward come on by a girl I’ve ever gotten!
[Homer]
mmmmm . . Sugar walls . . .
[/Homer]
hehehe. It’s driving you crazy that you don’t get the reference, huh?
I must live up to my sig line.
Ohh. Okay. Cool. I think I get it now.
Well since we’ve all made our positions on this last one clear…what have your fave halloween episodes been in the past?
I dug the Shining (SHINNING- do you wanna get SUED?). I also appreciated the one when Homer sells his soul for a donut.
I had mixed reactions after first seeing this episode. Then I was beyond pissed when I found out that the recorder didn’t work. Oh well, just gonna have to wait for re-runs. The first thing that got me was that this episode was shown on the day after halloween? IIRC, the past halloween episodes were shown on Halloween.
As far as past episodes, I really miss the grave stones in the openings. Also the one where Homer travels through time with the toaster is great. But the best has got to be where Kudos and Kang pick abduct them. The space dust/cook book part will never be forgot.
The Halloween episode rocked.
The season premiere (tonight), was so damn brilliant, I recanted all my complaints about the slight deterioration of last year.
For complete annotation purposes, the “MMMM, sugar walls”
line refers to a Sheena Easton(remember her?)song called “Sugar Walls” from 1984, a sexually suggestive song in which ‘sugar walls’ referred to her vagina. So Homer eating
out the candy cottage=cunnilingus.
I’ve been watching the show since the very beginning, and I have to say that the Halloween episode, IMNSHO, sucked beyond belief. There were a few funny lines, but the overall impact was pure suck.
And the season premiere sucked even worse. As god is my witness, I laughed only once during the entire episode, at Kent Brockman’s quip about “golden showers.”
Enough with the celebrity guests. It was great when Dustin Hoffman and Michael Jackson were doing character voices, but what the hell is the point of having The Who as The Who, doing nothing funny?
Homer chloroforming Marge was a replay of Homer performing a sleeper hold on Marge from the “Mayored to the Mob” episode.
Remember when the show was about a family named Simpson, and not “The Wacky Town of Springfield and its Ensuing Wackiness”?
I totally agree with this. At least make them say something funny, or agree to poke fun at themselves.
Homer: It’s a drink I made up from grass clippings and vodka. It’s called a lawnmower, do you want one?
Ron Howard: Yeah, alright.
Homer (in computerish voice): I’m paying for this round.
Steven Hawking: I didn’t say that.
Okay I’ll bite, I realize I’m ignorant, but what was the joke about the Golden Showers. I saw the episode and how it came about, I just don’t get what they were implying.
I agree, I don’t think that it was all that good to have “special guests” on the season opener. It’s better when celebrities voice other characters, not themselves. Oh well, still a great show.
A golden shower is a sexual act of urinating on a partner. Always makes me think of the song “When I Grow Up” by Garbage when I hear the phrase.
"MMM…fish
AH! that’s ME!"
priceless 
Well, I gotta side with the 1st episode being brilliant.
The Who stuff was pretty pointless, but otherwise, very sharp. Maybe you just needed a nap or something, Pldennison, eh?
In the dolphin story Homer made another sexual reference. He said words to the effect of,
“We invented (various things), bendy straws, and the glory hole!”
Go to Google and do a search on “glory hole.” I won’t define it here.
But between “sugar walls” and “glory hole,” I’m keen to go re-watch my tape and see what other sly sexual allusions are there.
I comagree w/ Pld. This WACKINESS has got to end. Dolphins walking on their hind flippers? Evil jocky-midgets? BARNEY TRYING TO LAY OFF THE BOOZE?! Good god, man!! You call yourself a Simpsonite?
Anyway. I liked seeing the Who…nothing truly funny happened. It was vaguely funny how Homer didn’t put many Who songs on their playlist. His convincing the band to play in New Springfield was rather weak. (“Those people are gonna make you cut your hair…etc!”- not up to par.) I much preferred Futurama- they always are up to task.
Ohh!! I know what a glory hole is. HA! I’m gonna taunt my brother tomorrow with that. Or not. But anyway…as for other sexual references, there are others not in this episode.
In Black Widower-
Just don’t drop that thing in the shower, Bob!- Krusty
Bart, if I had wanted to kill you, I would have choked you like a chicken the moment I walked in this door… or something like that.
And in one episode, there’s a fast food joint called the Gulp 'N Blow. The restrooms say: Gulp (for the ladies) and Blow (for the guys). There are definitely others if you’re truly interested in the sexual nuances of a Simpson episode.
I side with the people who loved the premiere. My favorite part in the episode, though, was when Pete Townshend turned up his amp to “whuh-oh” and then proceeded to blow up the trash wall with his guitar and amp. That was cool. Therefore, I’m glad The Who was in the episode.
I personally thought that the season premiere wasn’t up to standards. The “golden shower” line was pretty funny, though. The off-camera snickering, and Kent Brockman asking, “What?” really topped it off. Overall, not Matt’s best effort. I thought the least funny part was where Homer had basically been gutted by the badger. It brought the whole thing down to the level of “splatshtick” that Itchy and Scratchy parodies. The Halloween episodes have always been darker than the normal show, and I thought this one was as good as any.
One thing that I have always loved about the show is the subtle jokes. I hope the show doesn’t start to deteriorate into typical Prime Time, Rub-Your-Nose-In-It crudity for crudity’s sake.
I heard that The Who made them re-draw their characters several times because they weren’t “good looking” enough to begin with.
That’s why you shouldn’t have guest stars as themselves.