# Wow tonights Simpsons episode sucked **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888 "2002-04-22T00:31:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/1 "2002-04-22T00:31:25Z")
Wow, did tonights clip show episode of the Simpsons suck. Out of 12? seasons, those are the best clips they could find. The only funny part was when Kang and Kodos said “we have been watching your planet since it was created…5000 years ago…by God!” Perhaps the most appropriate clip was the brief flash at the end of Homer jumping a shark (a la Arthur Fonzarelli) ---
**Author:** ![hegel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@hegel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hegel)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/2 "2002-04-22T00:32:33Z")
Perhaps better in Cafe Society? ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/3 "2002-04-22T02:32:15Z")
True hegel it should go in CS. I do agree that the simpsons episode wasn’t exactly spectacular. Then again my sever hatred for old episodes wrapped up in “new” dressing could potentially bias me. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/4 "2002-04-22T02:35:24Z")
**Moderator’s Note:** Definitely better in Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/5 "2002-04-22T03:31:09Z")
I really did not need to see Agnes Skinner’s panties. Really. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/6 "2002-04-22T04:09:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by msmith537 \* > \*\*Wow, did tonights clip show episode of the Simpsons suck. Out of 12? seasons, those are the best clips they could find. The only funny part was when Kang and Kodos said “we have been watching your planet since it was created…5000 years ago…by God!” > Perhaps the most appropriate clip was the brief flash at the end of Homer jumping a shark (a la Arthur Fonzarelli) \*\* I liked the Simpsons more when the show was more realistic, (not that it was that realistic before). Now the aliens are shown in episodes that aren’t Halloween. I hate to say it, but don’t like Simpsons anymore… Unless it gets better (to me, I mean if you people don’t agree that’s fine), I wouldn’t care of they axed it. ---
**Author:** ![Anodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@Anodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anodyne)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/7 "2002-04-22T04:24:04Z")
Hey, lets not get carried away here. It was just a clip show. Fox makes them do clip shows every once in a while. Personally I was glad it was somewhat bizarre and full of other jokes besides the clips. And the song at the end was hilarious! Just my opinion 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:** [April 22, 2002, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/8 "2002-04-22T06:20:30Z")
What do they say about clip shows in that song? Anyway Homer’s reminiscing about his car and then they show him driving a car down the cliff. That wasn’t his car! That was Moe’s car. Homer ‘stole’ it in an insurance scam. Can I nitpick The Simpsons and not be a nerd? ---
**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:** [April 22, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/9 "2002-04-22T06:22:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > **What do they say about clip shows in that song?** From a show from an earlier season. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/10 "2002-04-22T06:55:17Z")
I gotta say…the twice-a-day Simpsons reruns really make me realize how far the show has sunk. I caught the “Bart and Lisa play hockey against each other” episode the other day–sheer brilliance. So many wonderful one-off jokes. Now the writing’s just awful. ---
**Author:** ![l1I235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@l1I235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/l1I235)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/11 "2002-04-22T07:50:04Z")
I’ve also noticed that they don’t show episodes of late in sydication. I loathe the Simpsons now, even though I was once a true-blue Simpsons fan. It’s like All in th Family - a great show, but it should of been axed after Mike & Gloria left, or at least after Jean Stapleton (Edith) left, but it just kept going, long after the novelty had worn off. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/12 "2002-04-22T07:59:36Z")
You must have a kinder affiliate than I do, **mademoiselle**. Currently, my Fox affiliate is showing the suckiest season of them all. Moe gets a facelift. Maude dies. Homer and Bart have a racehorse. Barney quits drinking. Bart’s future. Long pointless episode that at one point has them in the Everglades. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/13 "2002-04-22T14:05:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Long pointless episode that at one point has them in the Everglades. Without question the worst episode that I’ve seen; after seeing it, I no longer bothered to catch the show on a regular basis. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/14 "2002-04-22T14:24:57Z")
Yeesh harsh crowd- I was grumbling a bit at the clip show for the first 15 minutes but the second half of the show was good- I loved the song and the shot of Homer jumping the shark ala the Fonz. A pure thumb in the eye to all the internet Comic Book Guys out there. . . . -me ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/15 "2002-04-22T14:39:54Z")
name of the x-files was jump the shark ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/16 "2002-04-22T20:56:47Z")
We got it three times a day in San Fran, and they are from the heydey episodes, so i am ODing. This episode was a pain, but is the second clip show i remember where they make fun of the clip show. And Kang and Kodos talking about the planet being made 5000 years ago was cool, as was the neato song at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/17 "2002-04-22T22:37:53Z")
I’m in with the “sucked, but hey, it was a clip show” crowd. It was the lamest of the clip shows. The 184th Episode Spectacular, April Fools Day, and “Behind the Laughter” shows stood on their own much better. Kang and Kodos were priceless, however. And they were very apologetic, so I’ll forgive them. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/18 "2002-04-22T22:42:15Z")
I’m jealous. I have no Simpsons in syndication. I can get only about 22 minutes of Simpsons every week. Unless I watch my Season 1 DVD. Sign. Big sign. I used to have 2 a day but then they replaced the second one with “Just Shoot Me” and then they replaced the first one with “Just Shoot Me.” Enormous sigh. ---
**Author:** ![shimmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shimmery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shimmery)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/19 "2002-04-22T22:59:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Menocchio \* > \*\*I’m in with the “sucked, but hey, it was a clip show” crowd. It was the lamest of the clip shows. The 184th Episode Spectacular, April Fools Day, and “Behind the Laughter” shows stood on their own much better. > \*\* And who can forget the musical episode! Pure comic gold. ---
**Author:** ![Supersaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Supersaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Supersaurus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888/20 "2002-04-23T01:02:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MyFootsZZZ \* > \*\* > > I liked the Simpsons more when the show was more realistic, (not that it was that realistic before). Now the aliens are shown in episodes that aren’t Halloween. I hate to say it, but don’t like Simpsons anymore… \*\* I felt the same about the aliens. Have you seen the preview of next week’s episode? It seems that Homer is actually going to mutate into the incredible hulk… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-tonights-simpsons-episode-sucked/104888.md?page=2)