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- “Rosebud,” Season 5, Episode 4. 1993.
- “Cape Feare,” Season 5, Episode 2. 1993.
- “Homer’s Enemy,” Season 8, Episode 23. 1997.
- “Deep Space Homer,” Season 5, Episode 15. 1993.
- “Homer at The Bat,” Season 3, Episode 17. 1992.
- “The President Wore Pearls,” Season 15, Episode 3. 2003.
- “Treehouse of Horror V,” Season 6, Episode 6. 1994.
- “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show,” Season 8, Episode 14. 1997
- “Marge vs. The Monorail,” Season 4, Episode 12. 1993.
This Citizen Kane homage gets into the backstory of Mr. Burns, recalling his beloved childhood teddy bear, Bobo, that he discarded in exchange for ascension to a life of wealth — and his lifelong quest to recover the treasured object. “It’s as perfect an episode of television as I’ve ever seen,” Ortved says. There are extensive historical reference...
This is what Richmond calls the “ultimate Sideshow Bob episode.” It’s primarily a play on the Oscar-nominated 1991 movie Cape Fear, a psychological thriller from Martin Scorsese. In the Simpsons version, Homer and his family are terrorized by Homer’s nemesis Sideshow Bob, voiced by actor Kelsey Grammer; they end up entering the witness protection p...
This episode explores what happens when reality — or something like it — bumps up agains the Simpsons fantasy. In it, Mr. Burns hires a hard-working man named Frank Grimes to join the power plant. But when Grimes is stuck with Homer, he is driven to madness and, ultimately, death. “It’s quite dark,” admits Ortved, “but you and I laugh so hard, beca...
In this take on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Homer heads to the cosmos after being selected as an average-Joe astronaut to give NASA better ratings. In typical Homer fashion, he manages to mess up the navigational instruments with a smuggled bag of chips and unleashes an ant farm upon the shuttle, which he erroneously ends up believing are giant, alien a...
In order to win a softball game, Mr. Burns hires major league baseball stars to staff up the company’s team. Notably, the Simpsons team managed to get the actual celebrities themselves to voice act their characters, from Roger Clemens to Ken Griffey Jr. “It’s amazing in retrospect that they managed to get these celebrity athletes,” explains Turner....
Clever, precocious Lisa becomes student body president of Fairfield Elementary School in this episode that parodies the opera Evita, with Lisa even singing a spin on “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” as she goes on to rule the school. “It’s a really careful and smart satire and tribute to a musical, a great exploration of Lisa,” Ortved explains, “and i...
In their fifth installment of the annual — and much-loved — Halloween-themed “Treehouse of Horror” episode, theSimpsons creators parodied a number of famous scary stories to sharp comic effect. “The Shining,” which is the segment that’s most well-remembered, sees the family get hired by Mr. Burns to take care of his mansion. Homer quickly deteriora...
In this self-skewering episode, a popular kids’ show in the Simpsons’s universe — The Itchy & Scratchy Show — decides to make an attempt to inject fresh energy into its world with the addition of a new character, Poochie, to keep the attention of the audience. The show was not afraid to take a mirror to itself, with this episode as proof. “The Simp...
In one of the show’s finest homages to classic theater, a traveling salesman named Lyle Lanley, voiced memorably by Phil Hartman, comes to Springfield and sells the town on the concept of a monorail, á la the musical The Music Man. The townspeople are quick to fall for his song-and-dance routine, and naturally Homer ends up as the conductor of the ...
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- Episode 1 (1989) Nothing embodies the love that Homer (Dan Castellaneta), Marge (Julie Kavner), Lisa (Yeardly Smith), Bart (Nancy Cartwright), and Maggie share with each other better than the very first installment of The Simpsons.
- Episode 12 (1991) The Simpsons has always excelled at parodying popular movies, and the season 2 episode “The Way We Was” utilized the loose outline of the classic Robert Redford film The Way We Were as a way to show its first flashback installment.
- Episode 10 (1991) The struggling bartender and lifelong loner Moe Szyslak (Hank Azaria) is one of The Simpsons’ greatest recurring characters; while Moe often has ambitions to achieve things greater than his tavern, he only rarely flirts with success and remains penniless.
- Episode 12 (1993) “Marge vs. the Monorail” is a masterpiece of comedy. Written by a young Conan O’Brien during the peak of his work on The Simpsons, the episode features one of the show’s greatest guest stars ever in Phil Hartman.
Sep 22, 2019 · On this list, we are choosing the funniest, most interesting, and/or most memorable episode of each season. Then, we are ranking each of those best episodes against one another. Read below to find out how the highlight of each season stands against the other seasons!
- Marge vs. the Monorail'' Airdate: Jan. 14, 1993. Fast-talking huckster Lyle Lanley (Phil Hartman, natch) sells the town a faulty monorail; only through Marge's intervention is the town saved.
- Cape Feare'' Airdate: Oct. 7, 1993. The Simpsons is, at its heart, one big parody, but even Homer Thompson could recognize ''Cape Feare'' as the show's most meticulous and manic pop-culture takeoff.
- Last Exit to Springfield'' Airdate: March 11, 1993. This episode is virtually flawless, the product of a series at the height of its creative powers—when the satire was savage and relevant, when names like John Swartzwelder, George Meyer, and Conan O'Brien were relatively unknown, when Maude Flanders lived.
- Rosebud'' Airdate: Oct. 21, 1993. It begins with Citizen Kane, ends somewhere near the Planet of the Apes, and in between, manages to find time to include Hitler, the Ramones, and 64 slices of American cheese.
Jun 9, 2024 · The best Simpsons episodes on IMDb continue to slightly shift with each new season, but still largely feature titles from the beloved classic Simpsons era. The Simpsons. TV-14. Where to...
Mar 29, 2024 · Ranking the 10 best seasons of The Simpsons is an overwhelming task, but there are just some seasons of the show that stand out due to its writing, humor, and heartfelt arcs .
