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ITT: We post screens that showcase the visual charisma lost by modern Simpsons
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Rapping Granny
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Also one of my favorites.
Exclamation-One
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effzee said:
Left out the best part:
Marge: Homer, there is a man here who says he can help you.
Homer: Batman?
Marge: No, he's a scientist.
Homer: Batman's a scientist?
Marge: It's NOT BATMAN!
:lol:lol:lol:lol
BobFromPikeCreek
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We've got periodicals on microfiche!
Some random goodness.
Barney, you've been riding my back all night.
I don't know what this switch does.
Oh dear... my wife is going to kill me.
The froghurt is also cursed!
I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island.
Candy Apple Island? What have they got there?
Apes. But they're not so big.
Awww, but I'm so sweet and tasty!
Dad! It's in there again!
First you didn't want me to get the pony, now you want me to take it back! Make up your mind!
starchild excalibur
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Man, i bought seasons 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 during black friday and have only opened up and watched part of 3 (i've seen pretty much all the episodes on TV before, though)
I really need to crack open the others and rewatch some of these classic scenes.
I really need to crack open the others and rewatch some of these classic scenes.
Couple of lines not said yet:
"You, get out! You are banned from this establishment. You, and your children, and your children's children......for three months."
"1. Where is the fife. 2, give me the fife."
"Jeremey's Iron."
"Here is a ball."
"I bent my wookie."
It's funny, this whole thread hasn't even delved into Ralph yet.
"Hi Principal Skinner, hi Super Nintendo Chalmers."
"I got carsick in your office."
"I choo-choo-choose you!"
And, perhaps my favourite line ever, from Boy Scoutz N the Hood:
"How was jerk practice, boy? Did they teach you how to sing to trees? And build crappy furniture out of useless wooden logs? Huh?
[His chair collapses] D'oh! Stupid poetic justice."
And from the same episode:
"Egghead likes his Booky-Books!"
"You, get out! You are banned from this establishment. You, and your children, and your children's children......for three months."
"1. Where is the fife. 2, give me the fife."
"Jeremey's Iron."
"Here is a ball."
"I bent my wookie."
It's funny, this whole thread hasn't even delved into Ralph yet.
"Hi Principal Skinner, hi Super Nintendo Chalmers."
"I got carsick in your office."
"I choo-choo-choose you!"
And, perhaps my favourite line ever, from Boy Scoutz N the Hood:
"How was jerk practice, boy? Did they teach you how to sing to trees? And build crappy furniture out of useless wooden logs? Huh?
[His chair collapses] D'oh! Stupid poetic justice."
And from the same episode:
"Egghead likes his Booky-Books!"
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
"hiya neighbor. mind if i chew your ear?"
"dad, you killed the zombie flanders!"
". . . he was a zombie?"
Eddie: Do you hold a grudge against Montgomery Burns?
Moe: No!
*BZZT*
Moe: Alright, maybe I did, but I didn't shoot him.
*DING*
Eddie: Checks out. Okay, sir, you're free to go.
Moe: Good, 'cause I got a hot date tonight.
*BZZT*
Moe: A date.
*BZZT*
Moe: Dinner with a friend.
*BZZT*
Moe: Dinner alone.
*BZZT*
Moe: Watching TV alone.
*BZZT*
Moe: Alright! I'm going to sit at home and ogle the ladies in the Victoria's Secret catalog.
*BZZT*
Moe:Sears catalog.
*DING*
Moe:Now would you unhook this already, please! I don't deserve this kind of shabby treatment!
*BZZT*
Scully: This is a simple lie detector. I'll ask you a few "yes or no" questions and you just answer truthfully. Do you understand?
Homer: Yes.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
"kwijibo. . . a fat, balding, north-american ape."
"he hands in notes from you that are obvious forgeries when compared to the origin. . . "
"he hands in notes from you that are obvious forgeries when compared to the origin. . . "
legend166 said:
There's a scene with the Springfield Elementary kids putting on a play for Mr. Burns in an attempt to plead for funding by showing the importance of education...Ralph plays an incompetent doctor operating on a stuffed likeness of Burns, decapitates him with a saw, and gleefully says "Oops, you're dead!" :lol
Random Smithers line that cracks me up...in "Homer the Smithers" when Smithers is working at the race track and is announcing something over the loudspeakers but keeps interjecting his own comments, then is heard being thrown out.
"Let go of me... Where are you throwing me?" *crash noises*
The reading of the line plus not actually seeing him during the scene, just seeing the drag race audience and hearing him over the speakers, makes it particularly funny IMO. Here's the full reading courtesy of snpp.com
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
speedpop said:
i contend that people who didn't get a steady dose of simpsons when they were little have poor senses of humor.
adamsappel
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It's amazing how hard one can laugh just seeing a screenshot and knowing the dialogue that comes with it. My brother used to try and quote Simpsons by saying, "Remember that one episode where Homer says..." I would tell him, "Just say the line. Everyone will know it."
I used to go see an awesome band in Baltimore named Kwyjibo.beelzebozo said:"kwijibo. . . a fat, balding, north-american ape."
BitchTits said:Lisa's Rival is such a great episode. All the stuff with Alison, the diaramas, and Homer's sugar stash was gold!
[Pulls a man from behind the pile]
Thief: [holds teacup and saucer] Hello.
Homer: All right, pal: where'd you get the sugar for that tea?
Thief: I nicked it when you let your guard down for that split second,
and I'd do it again. [sips tea] Goodbye.
Homer pleads his case with Marge.
Homer: You see, Marge? Do you see?
Marge: Homer, when are you going to give up this crazy sugar scheme?
Homer: Never, Marge! Never. I can't live the button-down life like
you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the
creamy middles. Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with
my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling
of the so-called "City Fathers" who cluck their tongues, stroke
their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer
Simpson?"
Marge: Look!... just get rid of the sugar, OK?
OW! Oh, they're defending themselves somehow! :lol
Easily in the top ten greatest scenes of the simpsons.
Rorschach said:
The bee keepers were great.
"No noise indicates no bees...hmmmmm"
or
"Homer, you diabolical genius, selling the sugar for an inflated price and increased profits"
"Im doing what now?"
Not sure of the exact quote but so damn good.
You know what I noticed, some of the older Simpsons jokes are more relevant today than they were back then.
bggrthnjsus
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loose orderingAstroLad said:
1) boy scoutz n the hood
2) homer loves flanders
3) homer goes to college
4) mother simpson
5) homie the clown
6) 22 short films about springfield
7) two bad neighbors
8) $pringfield (or how i stopped worrying and learned to love legalized gambling
9) mr. plow
10) behind the laughter (which i think is the only episode i like post season 10)
i could probably throw in like everything in seasons 4-6 though
Zerodoppler
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Ah, there's an interesting story behind this nickel. In 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three - medium brown...
Rapping Granny
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One of my last favorite momments before the show went downhill.
Dead Man Typing
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Just saw this episode for the first time since I came to Australia. What a fantastic show from start to finish. Especially with a perspective from inside the country.
Rapping Granny said:Another amazing episode is King-Size Homer.
Lisa: Dad, what are you doing down there?
Homer: Washing my Fat Guy Hat, honey.
Homer: To start press any key. Well where's the "any" key? I see Esc, Catarl, and PigUp. There doesn't seem to be any any key! Phew. All this computer hacking is making me thirsty. I think I'll order a Tab. (pushes Tab key) Oop! No time for that now, the computer's starting.
AstroLad said:
My top 10 is rather similar to yours, AstroLad. I do appreciate an 'emotional' episode like in Beelzebozo, though, so I've got a couple of episodes that aren't as hilarious as the others (not that any of them aren't great - in fact all are tremendously funny).
Order is a little vague and subject to change.
1) Homer Bad Man
2) And Maggie Makes Three
3) Homer Goes to College
4) Marge vs. the Monorail
5) Bart Sells His Soul
6) King Size Homer
7) Mother Simpson
8) Marge Be Not Proud
9) 22 Short Films About Springfield
10) The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
And Maggie Makes Three is my favourite combination of touching and hilarious (the ending is the most touching Simpsons moment ever I think - even more so than Mother Simpson's ending, which is no slouch either). Homer Bad Man and Homer Goes to College are hilarious - and I already mentioned the Head Bee Guy scene as one of my very absolutely stupid scenes. And The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie show is the best piece of meta-referential anything ever.
EDIT: bggrthnjsus's list will pretty much all be in my Top 30, too. You guys have good taste. Also forgot 22 Short Films. That needs to be there.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
"i'm not a state, i'm a monster!"
"no lisa. the only monster here is the gambling monster that's enslaved your mother.
i call him GAMBLOR. and it's time we snatched her away from his neon claws!"
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
yep. "$pringfield" is one of my ten favorite episodes, and easily the best 5th season episode, imo.
Haunted
Member
Oh the memories. I love this thread so much.
:lol :lolRorschach said:
Eddie: Do you hold a grudge against Montgomery Burns?
Moe: No!
*BZZT*
Moe: Alright, maybe I did, but I didn't shoot him.
*DING*
Eddie: Checks out. Okay, sir, you're free to go.
Moe: Good, 'cause I got a hot date tonight.
*BZZT*
Moe: A date.
*BZZT*
Moe: Dinner with a friend.
*BZZT*
Moe: Dinner alone.
*BZZT*
Moe: Watching TV alone.
*BZZT*
Moe: Alright! I'm going to sit at home and ogle the ladies in the Victoria's Secret catalog.
*BZZT*
Moe:Sears catalog.
*DING*
Moe:Now would you unhook this already, please! I don't deserve this kind of shabby treatment!
*BZZT*
Scully: This is a simple lie detector. I'll ask you a few "yes or no" questions and you just answer truthfully. Do you understand?
Homer: Yes.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Not something. Everything.Mash said:
I watch classic Simpsons every night while I fall asleep, and I watch the new Simpsons every Sunday that I'm home to watch it. I can't even begin to understand how anyone can say one word in defense of the show these days.
beelzebozo
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you've clearly got some strong beliefs about the subject, liu kang, so maybe you might have an opinion on this, as it's something that i sometimes wonder about in passing when i'm really lamenting what the how has become: what restrains the show from doing a reboot, at the end of one season effectively returning in the next to more grounded stories, presumably with a good writing staff who can turn out funny episodes? is it just that the people in charge of the direction of the show are so unfunny and not clever that it won't happen? or has who the characters are just changed so much that the showrunners perceive returning to that too far a change for the audience the simpsons have NOW?
in short, can a show that has been running so long and changed so much (for the worse) ever rebound, or is it doomed to mediocrity? i don't know. just something that crosses my mind every now and then.
in short, can a show that has been running so long and changed so much (for the worse) ever rebound, or is it doomed to mediocrity? i don't know. just something that crosses my mind every now and then.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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It's possible. There was the scene in the movie where Marge leaves Homer and he's watching the tape of her explaining that she's leaving him, and it cuts right into their wedding tape because she recorded over it. That was a powerful, heart-moving scene taken right out of the good days. James Brooks was the guy that gave Simpsons its heart, so maybe he did that scene, but he's been absent from the actual TV show.
They need to bring some of the old fucks back and have them really take over the show. Like bringing in Abe Simpson to replace the Itchy & Scratchy writers.
They need to bring some of the old fucks back and have them really take over the show. Like bringing in Abe Simpson to replace the Itchy & Scratchy writers.
VGChampion
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Grug said:This episode has my favorite Simpsons moment of all time.
"Bart, I don't wish to alarm you but there may be a boogeyman or boogeymen in this house!"
Oh man, same here. That's one of the best lines. I can't find a picture as usual but I love when Homer and Bart are in the ocean wearing shark fins laughing and when Bart shows up Homer freaks out and runs away. :lol
The problem with the idea of a series rebound/reboot is that there's really no incentive for it to happen. Clearly, the current writing staff believes they are doing right by the series, and it continues to be popular and profitable. You'd need a strong push from the top -- maybe Groening could, like, bump his head and have a revelation -- to completely change the tone and style of what the show has become, and probably at least some new staff (producers, writers) as well.
I'm in 100% agreement that the show has declined so badly that it's pretty much unwatchable for (most) fans of the older seasons, but I just don't see any hope for a restoration of quality.
Great thread, BTW.
I'm in 100% agreement that the show has declined so badly that it's pretty much unwatchable for (most) fans of the older seasons, but I just don't see any hope for a restoration of quality.
Great thread, BTW.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
that it continues to be profitable and popular is probably the biggest problem. i have to imagine that at least some members of the staff--particularly the higher-ups who have been there so long like groening--are well aware that the show is not what it used to be. taking the risk of doing something drastically different (but at the same time so familiar, as it would be the way the show used to be) is probably something fox and many people in charge aren't interested in doing. it's a sure-thing at this point.
i do wonder what a return to the comedy style and dedication to story of seasons 3-5 would do to the ratings. the show would be inarguably funnier, to be sure, drawing back in old fans, and i think the shift would be nearly imperceptible to fans of the new episodes, who i think will watch just about anything.
i do wonder what a return to the comedy style and dedication to story of seasons 3-5 would do to the ratings. the show would be inarguably funnier, to be sure, drawing back in old fans, and i think the shift would be nearly imperceptible to fans of the new episodes, who i think will watch just about anything.
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