Your favorite Simpsons episodes... Share them with me!

[JTG of the PRB]

I'm watching Season 5 tonight, and "Cape Fear" just started. Probably my favorite Sideshow Bob episode ever, and one of my top 5. My all-time favorite is "Homer at the Bat" - the one with all the MLB all-starts guest-starring in a story focusing on softball.

So... Which episodes do you love? And if you don't like The Simpsons, how may I most efficiently chide you?

[cemaphonic]

1. I would be hard-pressed to name a favorite,

although I agree that Cape Feare is easily the best Sideshow Bob ep. I'm awfully fond of the season 2 episode where Marge gets Itchy and Scratchy cleaned up. "Porch Pals" cracks me up every time (the show's writers have said that they are amazed at all the fanmail they get naming it the best Itchy and Scratchy), and I love the idyllic children-playing-to-Beethoven's 6th montage.

If I absolutely had to pick a favorite though, probably the one where Bart becomes Burns' heir.

[JTG of the PRB]

2. All very good episodes.

The next time I have a little bit of disposable income, I';m going to go out and by Season 7. I have 3-6 now, and I definitely want to expand my collection.

If you have any of the DVDs, have you ever listened to the commentaries? Some of them are just fascinating...

[cemaphonic]

8. Yeah, I've got 1-8

probably stop there, as the number of good episodes per season after that don't really justify a DVD purchase.

3-6 are probably the most essential seasons, although I would probably pick up 2 before 7.

I've only listened to a handful of the commentaries, but they are often pretty interesting.

[Ptah]

3. That one where Bart wrote on the chalkboard.

:thumbsup:

[JTG of the PRB]

5. Good answer!

:rofl:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

4. I love them all

Can't remember specific ones off the top of my head. I love it when Homer says "Sweet merciful crap!" and "Kiss my hairy yellow butt!" and when Bart says "Oh my God - the dead have risen and they're voting Republican!"

:rofl:

[JTG of the PRB]

6. That last one - ANOTHER great Sideshow Bob episode!

The one where he steals the mayoral election... Genius!

[cemaphonic]

7. oh yeah, I forgot about that one

Cape Feare probably still wins, but just barely.

"Yeah, Yeah, we love Grimby." And the water-cooler sight gag.

[terrya]

9. I think my favorite is the one with John Waters as a guest voice.

Homer thinks that Bart might be gay. So, Homer tries to "straighten" Bart out...including a trip to a steelmill...a gay steelmill. :-)

But there are very, very few bad "Simsons" episodes. They're all pretty much good.

[Richardo]

30. "Dad, why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?"

"I DON'T KNOW."

That's one of my faves too. :rofl:

[philosophie_en_rose]

10. There are so many...

I really love the Treehouse of Horrors, where Kodos and Kang steal the election. (Don't blame me! I voted for Kodos!). I love all the Sideshow Bobs, the episode where Bart goes to France, and especially the X-Files crossover. There are probably dozens that I'm forgetting, but I haven't actually watched the show in a long time.

[nuxvomica]

11. It's between the one where Bart sells his soul to Milhouse and...

and the one where Flanders gets custody of the Simpsons kids. The first one boasts probably the greatest scene in the whole Simpson canon, the church congregation's performance of "In the Garden of Eden" by "I. Ron Butterfly". The second includes Homer's heroic rescue of his children from baptism.

[rug]

12. Any episode that has Homer chasing a chicken.

Barring that, the Lisa Lionheart episode.

"But she has a new hat!"

[Kingofalldems]

13. Mr. Plow

Call Mr. Plow, that's my name
That name again is Mr. Plow----Homer J. Simpson

[skygazer]

14. The one where Bart pretends to be a boy fallen in a well

Timmy O'Toole. And there's a big effort to dig the kid out, complete with a celebrity-studded song a la "We Are the World."

The best line ever on a Simpsons though, was in the episode where the family is searching for Duffman who has fallen on hard times. They find him at the Springfield Men's Mission where a sign over the door proclaims, "We Add God to Your Misery". :rofl:

[RainDog]

15. Maggie breaks out of daycare like Stalag 17

and another Maggie one when she goes to a baby woodstock. I can't remember the names of either.

[rug]

18. Ayn Rand School For Tots.

:rofl:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

16. homer goes to Krusty's Klown Kollege

continuous one liners and sight gags

[dropkickpa]

17. The curse of the Flying Hellfish

Hands down my favorite!

"Now! Hey, listen! Now, my story begins in 19 dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause that Kaiser had stolen our word twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety six miles."

[deucemagnet]

20. The older Grampa episodes were pure gold!

I love that he wore his bedroom slippers for the entire episode.

[JTG of the PRB]

24. "Dickety? Highly dubious!"

:rofl:

That's in my top 5 as well. Such an entertaining episode.

[sniffa]

19. Monty Burns Casino

Best episode evah!!

It gave us the term, Gamblor.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

29. Yes! $pringfield

That's my favorite episode. "You made her cry, then I cried, then Maggie laughed, she's such a little trooper!"

[deucemagnet]

21. "Homer, on your way out, if you want to kill somebody it would help me a lot."

[Initech]

22. Marge On The Lam

"Stupid TV!!! Be more funny!"

"I'm on a road... looks to be asphalt. Trees, shrubs. I'm directly under the earth's sun... now!"

"Can I throw up in your bathroom? I'll buy something!"

"At the risk of editorializing, these women are guilty and must be dealt with in a harsh and brutal fashion. Otherwise, their behavior could incite other women leading to anarchy of Biblical proportions. It's in REVELATIONS, people!!!!"

There is a bunch of other ones I could name but this one is my all time favorite.

[DS1]

23. The French nuke Springfield

[XemaSab]

25. Tomacco

The one where Homer challenges the old southern colonel to a duel and the family has to go hide out on the old Simpson place, where with the help of tomato seeds, tobacco seeds, and a bar of uranium, they create TOMACCO!

[Mutley]

26. Bart on Focusin.

:D

[ebdarcy]

27. The one where Burns wants greyhound puppies to make a suit.

There's a song about all the animals who make up his wardrobe. And yes, I know the song by heart.

All the Treehouse of Horrors episodes. The one where Selma marries Troy McClure and he stars in the Planet of the Apes musical. Sideshow Bob episodes. The one where a fortune teller tells Lisa about her future engagement. Another one is when Selma takes the kids to Duff Gardens, they go on a Small World-type ride, and Lisa drinks the "water" and begins to hallucinate.

[arcadian]

28. The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson

classic

[Manifestor_of_Light]

31. Trash of the Titans

The one where Homer is a garbage man and sings "The Garbageman Can" (The Candyman Can).

Also has U2 (all four of them) sitting at a bar singing at the end.