Did anyone catch The Simpsons last Sunday?
Mid-way through, there was a 60 second homage to the opening credits of Catch Me If You Can.
It was spot-on, complete with the John Williams score. Totally unexpected, so best.
I’m gonna have to start watching The Simpsons again. I watched it religiously in high school.
New thread: What’s the best Simpsons ever? I vote for “El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer” (featuring Johnny Cash as the spirit coyote). Or “Lisa The Vegetarian” which ends with my favorite McCartney song. “When I grow up I’m going to Bovine University!”
What’s your favorite?
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Oh, god… there are so many! The gun one was awesome; “Bloodbath and Beyond” for the gunstore? “Vote Quimby”? Fantastic.
As much as they were all hype because of the cliffhanger, parts 1 and 2 of “Who shot Mr. Burns?” were great episodes in their own right.
And the episode with John Waters? The gay steel mill? “Hot stuff, coming through!!!”
I also forgot most of the Treehouse of Horror episodes. The time travelling toaster and “The Shinning” are particularly fantastic.
i’d nominate homer-as-outsider-artist, the kodos vs. kang electoral race, and the sideshow bob cape fear episode.
I really liked the pulp fiction homage in 33 and 1/3 stories about Springfield, or whatever the title was, simply for the interaction where
Milhouse is asking the Comic Guy if he can use the bathroom. “Bathroom is for paying customers only.”
mmmm, my favorites are probably the BABYSITTER BANDIT episode from the (Second?) season, and Blinky the 3-eyed-Fish was probably their best satirical episode.
That PULP FICTION bit was so best.
i can’t name a favourite simpsons episode. damn impossible. i have a collection of them on my computer. oh dear god. i fell in love w/ my boyfriend simply based on simpsons references. okay he’s good in the kip too but still, anyone who gets my stupid “angry ant” jokes is tops.
That Catch Me if You Can thing was awesome. My wife and I sat there with our jaws on the floor, amazed that they’d pull off something like that.
Fave episode? The one where Krusty loses his daughters violin in a poker game, then Homer helps him get it back.
Homer: I won’t lie. Fatherhood’s not easy – like motherhood.
And…
Homer: I said I was sorry!
Gangsters: Oh okay. Class act.
Homer: Sorry you’re such jerks!
Simpsons move to Cypress Creek
Homer gets job with Hank Scorpio
and when asked why he is in the remedial class a kid tells Bart,”I moved here from Canada and they think I’m slow eh?”
its all about The Monorail Episode (written by Conan O’Brien)
Is there a chance the track will bend?
Not on your life my Hindu friend.
Conan rocks.
I really enjoy the “Beer Baron” episode.
Liquor Enforcement: I’ll get you Beer Baron
Homer: (in the distance) Nooo Youuuu Wooooont…
I also like the one where Patty (selma?) marries troy mcclure.
“Sure I love you baby, like I love fresca!”
Monorail wins. Hands down.
pshaw.
chili cookoff where homer eats the super-spicy pepper and starts hallucinating.
and if that doesn’t win, it should at least get an honorable mention for homer’s pancho.
Monorail was awesome, but I’d also like to give a shout-out to the “Itchy and Scratchy Land” Jurrasic Park parody and the Planet of the Apes musical. For some reason, I rarely see these two in syndication.
There will always be a special place in my heart for the flashback episode where Homer and Marge meet in high school… ::sigh:: so romantical.
My wife & I are constantly referring to SUVs as Canyoneros.
I can’t say that I can remember the full storyline of many episodes, but some of the lines will never leave me…
Comic book guy: This is a very rare issue of Mary Worth in which Mary advises a friend to commit suicide.
El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer is on Fox 5 right now!
tough call, but if i can only choose one… right now, i’d have to go with Lisa’s Rival, mostly for the sideplot of homer finding that knocked over truck of sugar.
in america, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
the one where lisa’s a loser at school, and the family takes a trip to the beach. milhouse owns that episode.
“and she looks like blossom!”
> El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer is on Fox > 5 right now!
Man, I wish I saw that comment earlier. I would’ve liked to Tivo that. That season’s not out on DVD yet, right?
One word : Tramapoline!!!
way waaay back, maybe in the first season, Bart was an exchange student and went to France. thereabouts he was forced into slave labor making wine. With antifreeze — so best.
That, and the episode when the mob had used rat-milk in the cafeteria, and Lisa wanted to kiss Homer …
Well, we ought to watch them again, they just got a huuuge raise.
And well they should.
God bless Harry Shearer.
pulp iction in 33 stories on springfield and the treehouse of horror episode in which LIsa reads Edgar allen poe’s THE RAVEN..that was awesome..If anyone read poetry like that, I might have actually liked literature…
i like the plow king and the one where homer and ned become friends. my favorite part is from the clown school one: “i’m seeing double here! four krustys!”
My absolute favorites: home-sweet-home-diddly-home, where Marge and Homer go to a spa retreat, and Bart, Lisa, and Maggie have to live at the Flanders’. “Kids, who wants some nachos, Flanders’ style — thats sliced cucumber with cottage cheese”
and the episode in which Marge becomes a real estate agent and sells a haunted house to Flanders. “red room” and “AHHHHHHHH!!!! I’ve ALWAYS wanted purple curtains!”
classics.
I second or third the 32 Short Stories About Springfield. My other all-time favorite is when Bart sells his soul. In the garden of Eden, baby . . .