# Simpsons **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 24, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390 "2000-09-24T20:26:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/41 "2000-09-25T22:33:24Z")
> [@](#): > > And the episode where Homer takes the kids to Hullabulooza. (“Billy Corrigan, Smashing Pumpkins…” “Homer Simpson, smiling politely.”) Yay! Someone mentioned this episode! I’m a rabid Smashing Pumpkins fan, so I loved this one. Anyone remember the “Tappa tappa tappa” one where Lisa tried to learn how to tap dance? That one is one of the best. ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/42 "2000-09-25T23:41:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by headshok \* > **I love the Halloween episodes. My favorite story was the one where Homer builds a time machine out of a toaster; he winds up in prehistoric times, and whenever he steps on a bug or sits on a lizard he drastically changes history (a takeoff on an old sci-fi short story, I think.** “A Sound of Thunder,” by Ray Bradbury. The spoof was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/43 "2000-09-26T00:14:29Z")
On the off chance anybody might need a citation for any of these quotes, the best place to start is [The Simpsons Archive](http://www.snpp.com). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/44 "2000-09-26T00:43:53Z")
Oh, I LOVED the Bart is Gay one…“So John, this is your sick mother?” “Waylon, don’t do this.” The Spin Off one, and the one where Sideshow Bob actually HELPS Bart and Lisa against his brother-ironically named **Cecil**. ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/45 "2000-09-26T01:17:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jophiel \* > \*\*My top three favorites are probably: > Homer Works for Scorpio > Homer the Beer Baron > Homer Quits Church > > not the actual titles, but you know what I’m talking about. No doubt people can list others and I’d go “Oh yeah!” but those three always make me drop whatever I’m doing and watch. \*\* “Homer, if you could kill a couple of soldiers on the way out, that would be great.” ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/46 "2000-09-26T01:29:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Welfy \* > \*\* > Anyone remember the “Tappa tappa tappa” one where Lisa tried to learn how to tap dance? That one is one of the best. > \*\* “I didn’t fill my shoes with blood tapping code for the Allies in WWII for nothing, missy!” ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/47 "2000-09-26T01:38:22Z")
When Homer went back to college to get his degree and he tries to prank call the Dean… Homer: _in disguised voice_ Hello, Dean? You are a stupid head! Dean: _Looks out window, sees Homer standing by payphone_ Homer, is that you? Homer: AAAH!! ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/48 "2000-09-26T01:41:18Z")
Also the one where Shelbyville spiked Springfield’s water supply… Marge: Oooo, the walls are melting again! Turkey: Frankley, I think I’m overdone ---
**Author:** ![headshok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/49 "2000-09-26T04:52:04Z")
> [@](#): > > _spoke wrote:_ > **I like the Halloween episode where Homer sells his soul for a donut. (“The Devil and Homer Simpson”) It turns out the devil is Flanders. (It’s always the one you least suspect.) Hilarity ensues.** Mmmmmmm…forbidden donut… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PerfectDark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@PerfectDark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerfectDark)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/50 "2000-09-26T05:40:01Z")
In Australia, on paytv, on a channel called Fox8… There has been a Simpsons Fanfest; Simpsons Episodes 24 hours a day from September 15th to October 1st. If I could stay awake for about 360 hours I would watch them all, but alas I am not a god… ☹ I bet you all wish you lived in Auustralia?? **PerfectDark** ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/51 "2000-09-26T05:44:35Z")
I just adore the song “See My Vest” I loved the disney versions and my friend Richard sings the parody just oh so wonderfully. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/52 "2000-09-26T08:18:16Z")
For me it’s gotta be either the toaster/time machine one a few people have already mentioned or the one where Homer works for the evil villain Scorpio. I love that part where “James Bund” flips the quarter into the air, splitting the laser beam into four parts that burn through each of the manacles restraining him. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/53 "2000-09-26T08:49:53Z")
I decided to wait until there were enough listed so I’d only have to pick among the ones not listed yet. This instant, I might have to pick the one where Homer’s accused of sexual harrassment, with the candy convention, the “Under the Sea” parody, the _Rock Bottom_ interview, a special episode of _Gentle Ben_, homemade Prozac, and Dennis Franz in _Homer S.: Portrait of an Ass-Grabber_. **Kent Brockman** : Simpson scandal update: Homer sleeps nude in an oxygen tent which he believes gives him sexual powers. **Homer** : Hey – that’s a half-truth! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/54 "2000-09-26T08:51:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\*I have a three-way tie: The 22 short films about Springfield (I was actually on the edge of my seat waiting to see HOW FAR they were going to follow the Pulp Fiction parody. NEVER expected to see Wiggum in a ball gag – HA!) The episode where Mr. Burns hires all the professional baseball players at the plant so they can be ringers on the softball team. (Mike Sosa after developing radiation poisoning: “Can’t…lift…arm… Or…speak…at…normal…rate…”) And the episode where Homer takes the kids to Hullabulooza. (“Billy Corrigan, Smashing Pumpkins…” “Homer Simpson, smiling politely.”) > > Have to admit the Gay Steelworkers gave me one hell of a chuckle. \*\* One of my favorite Simpson quotes is from the Hullabalooza episode. Homer tells Billy Corgan, “Thanks to your gloomy music, my children have stopped dreaming of a future I can’t possibly provide!” ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/55 "2000-09-26T10:07:47Z")
My personal fave has already been mentioned: the one where Marge is Blanche in “Oh, Streetcar!” The songs are hysterical. “New Orleans! Nasty, stinking vomitous bile, New Orleans!” and “You can always depend on the kindness of strangers…a stranger’s just a friend you haven’t met - Streetcar!” And the Ayn Rand Day Care Center is just great. Additionally, I love every episode with Rev. Lovejoy. He’s probably my favorite minor character. Well, and Dr. Nick. And Troy McClure. Rev. Lovejoy: Marge, perhaps you should think about getting a divorce. Marge: But Reverend, doesn’t the Bible say divorce is wrong? Rev.: Well, Marge, the Bible says pretty much everything is wrong. Oh! And my other favorite episode: the one where Selma marries Troy McClure in a sham marriage solely because of “Planet of the Apes The Musical.” “I hate every ape I see, from chimpan-a to chimpan-z. You’ll never make a monkey out of me!” Statue of Liberty rises from the stage… “Oh my god, I was wrong, it was earth all along. You’ve finally made a monkey out of me! Dr. Zaius, I love you!” ---
**Author:** ![Lethal\_Lynx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lethal\_Lynx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lethal_Lynx)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/56 "2000-09-26T10:34:59Z")
“What is the BEST Simpsons episode of all time?” You might as well ask someone which child is your favorite? It’s just so damn hard to choose. But a quote does come to mind from the episode where they go to [Australia:](http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F13.html) Homer: Burkina Faso? Disputed Zone? Who called all these weird places? Brain: Quiet, it might be you! I can’t remember. Homer: Naw, I’m going to ask Marge. Brain: No, no! Why embarrass us both? Just write a check and I’ll release some more endorphins. [Homer scribbles a check, then sighs with pleasure] I wish I could bargain with my brain like that. ---
**Author:** ![zwaldd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a9adbd/32.png) [@zwaldd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zwaldd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/57 "2000-09-26T15:43:26Z")
the ‘mr. sparkle’ commercial is pretty dang funny. my favorite whole episode is the one where homer goes to **clown college**. the clown music that plays while he’s obsessing about the clown college billboard is pretty creepy, especially when the dancing clowns he sees is actually his coworkers on fire. this one is great all the way to the end when krusty finally pays the mob boss the money he owes them and the boss says ‘and here’s a-your change, and a-we thank you.’ ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/58 "2000-09-26T16:43:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zwaldd \* > \*\*the ‘mr. sparkle’ commercial is pretty dang funny. > > my favorite whole episode is the one where homer goes to **clown college**. the clown music that plays while he’s obsessing about the clown college billboard is pretty creepy, especially when the dancing clowns he sees is actually his coworkers on fire. this one is great all the way to the end when krusty finally pays the mob boss the money he owes them and the boss says ‘and here’s a-your change, and a-we thank you.’ \*\* Ah, my heart sings whenever Joe Mantegna shows up as Fat Tony. I especially like him in the episode where Marge starts up a pretzel business and Homer buys protection from the mob. Great scene when Tony and his cronies stop Marge on the highway and Tony reaches into the car to take Marges keys from the ignition: “Um…is there a button or something to release these keys?” “No, you have to push it in and then turn it.” ---
**Author:** ![needspeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@needspeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needspeed)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/59 "2000-09-26T17:36:05Z")
Best episode is way too hard to pick, but I have a new favorite Homer quote: “I’m the luckiest man in the world…now that Lou Gehrig’s dead.” * * * [http://www.angelfire.com/indie/brainingdamage](http://www.angelfire.com/indie/brainingdamage) come for the fish, stay for the fun ---
**Author:** ![Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390/60 "2000-09-26T17:42:20Z")
I’ve got over 225 Simpson’s episodes on tape. Picking the one best episode is not easy. Some of my favorites that haven’t been mentioned yet: Mr. Burns for Governor Homer Grows Hair Marge Meets Jacques Timmy in the Well Lurleen Lumpkin (If I had to pick my favorite one this might be it.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons/34390.md?page=4)