# What's the WORST Episode of The Simpsons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-episode-of-the-simpsons/137263 "2002-11-18T03:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-episode-of-the-simpsons/137263/101 "2002-11-25T13:38:35Z")
How about the episode where Homer has to take care of Mr Burns house? The recent Apu episodes The Artie zip episode (whatever his name is!) The only good one was(This is my taste) was when Bart went out with Greta. Welcome to Dick Cheyneys America! ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-episode-of-the-simpsons/137263/102 "2002-11-25T13:46:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\*No, it’s “It tastes like burning!” Ralph wasn’t dying. He just eated the purpleberries. \*\* Thanks for setting me straight. :o ---
**Author:** ![Riboflavin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Riboflavin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riboflavin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-episode-of-the-simpsons/137263/103 "2002-11-25T17:55:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alias \* > \*\*Now wait a minute, the episode a couple weeks ago with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards etc. was REALLY funny. As soon as it was over, I wished I’d taped it so I could watch it again. \*\* Ugh, I couldn’t stand that one. Some of the jokes were a bit funny, but the theme of ‘these guys are so cool’ running through the whole thing (which is what I mean by overall ass-kissing) yanks the humor out of those bits for me, and the tedium of how much time is spent saying ‘look, here’s a celebrity’ wouldn’t make up for it even if the humor wasn’t removed. And how about the YVAN EHT NIOJ episode, where the whole thing seemed to be written just to have a guest appearance by N-Sync? Ugh. And it’s the ‘whole show’ ones that grate on me like that, I do like the short appearances like the Stephen King bit and the Stan Lee bits, but those also tend to make fun of the guest instead of telling us how cool they are. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-episode-of-the-simpsons/137263/104 "2002-11-25T18:01:16Z")
Yeah, I hate episodes when they just pander to the celebrities. And they seem to have the entire population of springfield in the audience at the rock concert. I mean would mr burns or say Grandpa and his chums like the rolling stones??? Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-episode-of-the-simpsons/137263/105 "2002-11-25T18:17:41Z")
Hey, Stephen Hawking was gold! Stephen Jay Gould, way less so. Another vote for the killing of Maude Flanders. I thought it was cheap, lazy and tactless, and I haven’t watched more than three of the episodes since then. Obviously, they’d been going downhill for some time. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-episode-of-the-simpsons/137263/106 "2002-11-25T21:04:55Z")
Maybe they’ve been listed, but I didn’t see them: (tie) **Lisa as President** and **The Last Temptation of Krusty** , both painfully bad and completely unfunny (though last night’s certainly comes close). ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-episode-of-the-simpsons/137263/107 "2002-11-25T22:17:10Z")
> [@](#): > > And they seem to have the entire population of springfield in the audience at the rock concert. I mean would mr burns or say Grandpa and his chums like the rolling stones??? Hey, why not? They’re all in the same age group. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-episode-of-the-simpsons/137263/108 "2002-11-25T22:31:57Z")
Does any of the UK dopers, when the Simpsons come on at the standard 7:00 pm, and you then find out that it’s a new episode, do you immediately turn it over? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-episode-of-the-simpsons/137263.md?page=5)