No mention of Lisa’s Substitute so far? Dustin Hoffman as the inspiring substitute teacher (the line - [paraphrased] “That’s the trouble with being middle-class - anyone who really cares will leave you for someone who needs it more.”
Bart running for class president. Marge setting boundaries for Lisa. Lisa calling Homer a baboon. Closes with Homer’s admission of his faults and the triumph of his parenting.
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I couldn’t even pick a best one for each season!
I loved the musical reprise one just cause I
love both the original songs & the parodies.
I dont remember the actual episode, but Moe has to leave the bar and he tells Barney not to steal any beer while he’s gone… Barney’s reponse is
-“What kind of pathetic drunk do you think I am… … WHOA!!! Someone spilled beer in this ashtray!! …Slllluuurrrrp”
The Chillifest where Homer goes on a trip and Flander’s moustache has a life of it’s own and Barneys Burp goes on for ever.
Bed goes up
Bed goes down
“Ralph! I thought you were dead!”
“Nope!”
22 Short Films About Springfield, followed closely by “El Mysterios Voyage del Homer”…
Sailor: Uh, would that be the hot pants, sir?
Captain McAllister: Aye, the hot pants.
Holy moly, the “El Mysterios Voyage del Homer” chili scene just reminded me of the episode where he is the food critic. Not the best episode by any means, but it had one of the funniest quotes of all times:
(the towns chefs are conspiring to poison him at some sort of food fair)
Japanese chef: “Ah, he has already unbuttoned the top button of his pants.”
Captain McAllister: “Why doesn’t he just give it up and switch to sweat pants?”
Japanese chef: “He says the crotch wears out too fast.”
Captain McAllister: “Arr! There’s an image that will haunt me in my nightmares.”
– Joey Joe Joe Bob Shabadoo
My favourite is the one with Frank “Grimey” Grimes.
Favourite quotes (can’t remember the episode).
(long pause) *
Marge: You don’t know, do you.
Homer: No ma’am.
** * and * **
Homer, trying to recapture an insulting letter he sent to Mr Burns goes into a post office and says:
Homer (doing a Mr Burns impression): Hello, my name is Mr Burns, I believe you have a letter for me.
Post office Worker: Certainly sir, what’s your first name?
Homer: I…don’t…know.
Favorite episode? Whichever one was just on!
Best line ever uttered by a minor character…Sea Captain on the phone: “Call me back, Ishmael.”
I guess the one I always come back to is the one where Apu gets fired from the Kwik-E-Mart…James Woods gives a classic cameo. Homer and Apu travel to India…and one of the best songs in the history of the show (“Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart”).
A tie, between “The Fighting Hellfish,” where Grampa Simpson and Mr. Burns fight over who owns the paintings from their time in World War II (a personal favorite for having the best Grampa stuff) and the Cape Fear takeoff with Sideshow Bob, which of course leads completely logically to Sideshow Bob singing the entire score of “The HMS Pinafore.”
Damn, I love Sideshow Bob episodes. Thank God there’s one scheduled for this season.
(Apu and Homer are standing at the top of a mountain in India)
Apu: “This is the world’s first convenience mart!”
Home: “It’s not very convenient, is it?”
The “Is Bart Gay?” episode was one of my favourites. I also liked “Homer and Marge get marriage counselling.”
Reruns of The Simpsons are better than first-runs of most shows, as far as I’m concerned.
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.
Bart Sells his soul… if just for the hymn ‘In the Garden of Eden’ by I. Ron Butterfly, including organ solo, lighters and Homer saying to Marge “Remember when we used to make out to this hymn?”
Plus the episode where Bart brings Santa’s Little Helper to school, and he gets into the ventilation shaft. “Grease me up, Woman!”
My favorite all time episode was the one where Bart gets a big brother. I just love the scene at the end where they have the big hong-kong style fight at the aquarium.(I hope I’m not mixed two episodes up, I often do that). approximate best line: “Well he’s not the only one who can abuse a charitable organizatio.”
Second place has to be the battle with Shelbyville over the lemon tree.
Two classics that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Bart works for the bordello - also possibly contains the best song (“we put the spring in Springfield”)
The one where Sideshow Bob rigs the election. (“You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth! I deride your truth-handling abilities. No truth-handler, you!”). Brilliant stuff…
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.
“Wait, there’s Lee Marvin! He’s always drunk and ornery!”
Possibly my favorite Snake episode, especially when he keeps threatening the end music.
My two favorites were the one with Sherry Bobbins (“a totally original concept”) and the one where Marge gets into the musical version of a Streetcar Named Desire, so she enrolls Maggie in the Ayn Rand day care center. It’s damn near impossible to make the A story and B story equally funny and mesh together that well.
The best quote ever was from Separate Vocations (the one where the kids have to take aptitude tests and it says Bart will become a police officer):
Bart: Wow! Can I see your club?
Cop: It’s called a baton, son.
Bart: Oh. What’s it for?
Cop: We club people with it.
Later after Snake crashes his car and Wiggum opens the glove box filled with lottery tickets:
Wiggum: Looks like you just bought yourself a lottery ticket – to jail!
Eddie: He’s unconscious, sir.
Wiggum: Ah, they can still hear things.
I really can’t pick a favorite episode. Homer at the Bat might come close, since the only thing I love more than The Simpsons is baseball.