# simpsons was actually good tonight **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537 "2003-02-17T01:17:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![owlofcreamcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@owlofcreamcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlofcreamcheese)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/1 "2003-02-17T01:17:25Z")
wow, simpsons was actually good tonight… not too shabby… ---
**Author:** ![Gaijin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@Gaijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaijin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/2 "2003-02-17T02:02:42Z")
Not too shabby? It was freakin’ awesome! The allusion to “Requiem for a Dream” was beautiful! And when they had to fight over the last Ribwich? Homer: “Welcome to the real world, Hippies! Hiya! Cha!” (kicks and punches ensue) Amazing. Simply Amazing. ---
**Author:** ![BizarroRonJeremy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@BizarroRonJeremy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BizarroRonJeremy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/3 "2003-02-17T02:07:49Z")
Yeah, that’s what it was…Requiem for a Dream…that’s what I thought it was but after seeing it I wasnt’ sure… ---
**Author:** ![BizarroRonJeremy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@BizarroRonJeremy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BizarroRonJeremy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/4 "2003-02-17T02:09:08Z")
the 301st (303rd) episode was much better than the 300th (302nd) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/5 "2003-02-17T02:11:02Z")
Both of them were funny. I liked Bart’s “Baby Stinkbreath” commercial, the Butterfinger gag, Puppy Goo-Goo, the auto-skateboard, and the reference that it’s really the 302nd episode in the first, and the Ribheads (nice play on the Dead’s followers), Lisa’s dream of college muses (is Brwynmar really full of lesbians?), and the 3M-M&M merger ironygag in the second. This post brought to you by Viagrogaine, the pill that gives you hair and what you need down there. [sub]may cause loss of scalp and penis[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/6 "2003-02-17T02:23:29Z")
I didn’t think the 300th was that good, but I loved the 301st. The Requiem For a Dream reference had everyone in the room rolling on the floor. Don’t get me started on the Seven Sisters jokes… us Swarthmore students got a huge kick out of those, especially the Bryn Mawr girl. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/7 "2003-02-17T02:28:03Z")
In other news, 3M and M&M have merged to form…Ultradyne Systems! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/8 "2003-02-17T02:49:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\*In other news, 3M and M&M have merged to form…Ultradyne Systems! \*\* I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/9 "2003-02-17T03:04:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by asterion \* > \*\*I don’t get it. \*\* It’s irony. You expect the new company to have Ms in it, 5M or something. It doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ave\_Minerva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@Ave\_Minerva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ave_Minerva)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/10 "2003-02-17T03:33:34Z")
Paris is no more. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/11 "2003-02-17T03:33:45Z")
They certainly got off to the right start… the Simpsons jumped a shark! Literally!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/12 "2003-02-17T03:41:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Marge: “I can’t count how many times your father’s done something crazy like this!” > (Lisa flicks a handheld counter from 299 to 300) > Lisa: “It’s 300, Mom.” > Marge: “I could have sworn it was 302.” > Lisa: “Shhhh…” this line made me laugh more than the show has done since season 8. Even my mom laughed out loud at it, and she never laughs at anything. I’m taking the guess that FOX is counting Who Shot Mr. Burns as one episode, and forgetting that either A Star Is Burns (the 30 minute The Critic commercial) or The Principal And The Pauper don’t exist. Or maybe they’re just dirty liars trying to get sweeps ratings. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/13 "2003-02-17T03:42:28Z")
“Think smaller and more legs.” Freakin’ hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/14 "2003-02-17T05:00:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fusoya \* > \*\* > I’m taking the guess that FOX is counting Who Shot Mr. Burns as one episode, and forgetting that either A Star Is Burns (the 30 minute The Critic commercial) or The Principal And The Pauper don’t exist. Or maybe they’re just dirty liars trying to get sweeps ratings. \*\* No, I think that there have been two special holiday episodes. The original Christmas one for sure and I guess another one that are counted. I really liked both episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/15 "2003-02-17T05:07:57Z")
I missed the “Requiem For a Dream” reference. I was imagining a close up of Marge’s face as she gets shock therapy, but it must have been more subtle than that. Someone clue me in? ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/16 "2003-02-17T06:09:05Z")
The first time Homer eats a Ribwich, there’s the drug use effect from Requiem For a Dream (the whole “fast-cutting-between-shots-with-sound-effects” thing). ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/17 "2003-02-17T06:15:48Z")
… and Homer’s eyes getting bigger, and then cut away :D. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/18 "2003-02-17T06:22:13Z")
Did the “I want to divorce my parents” line remind anyone else of the Rob Reiner movie [North](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0110687)? ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/19 "2003-02-17T06:42:41Z")
If they’d wanted to keep it really true to “Requiem”, they’d have had Homer going ‘ass to ass’ with, uh, I guess Smithers for one last Rib-let Sandwich. Probably just a mite too disturbing, even for FOX though. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537/20 "2003-02-17T06:47:20Z")
I know Barney wasn’t drunk so what was he drinking? I didn’t catch it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-was-actually-good-tonight/155537.md?page=2)