Earlier this month, the new streaming service Disney+ became the exclusive streaming home of The Simpsons, meaning that if you don’t want to buy or rent episodes, wait around for reruns, or dig up your old DVDs, it’s the only place to watch one of TV’s most important and long-running comedies. I’ve always been partial to ‘You only move twice’ myself. ... so we’re just left with 10 highly rewatchable episodes … If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s a brief friendship, but any time we get to see Nelson’s sensitive side is a winning one. “You? Then Marge gets pregnant with Maggie, and he finds himself having to balance his dreams with his responsibilities as a father. Poochie doesn’t last long, and his demise is brutally funny: Homer’s voice-over cuts off and is replaced by another actor who sounds nothing like him, and we see animators physically ripping away the animation cel that contains the offending canine. When Homer gets online following his purchase, he sets up a website, Mr. X, where he anonymously reveals local gossip. Even though Bart doesn’t want to be BFFs, he plays along for protection and other benefits, only to have it all washed away after Nelson realizes how one-sided the affair actually is. His trial is attended by the likes of Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, and other Hollywood bigwigs who claim Homer’s robbing them creatively and financially. Sensitively, of course. Bart chafes at Ned and Maude’s God obsession and strictness, but Lisa finds that she appreciates the routine. Bart’s entry is just cruel hidden-camera footage of his dad trying to squeeze into too-small pants; Ned Flanders makes an amateurish film about Moses that sends one of his children careening down a river; Hans Moleman’s “Man Getting Hit in the Groin by Football” is self-explanatory. The neat trick this episode pulls is that despite being about a man who inspires his son to wash himself with a rag on a stick, it’s incredibly lively. Though this episode aired first, it wasn’t the first Simpsons episode, as it aired before the first season as a Christmas special, and it wasn’t the first episode produced. The episode is a testament to the show’s ability to pack a ton into 22 minutes — not just classic bits, which the episode has plenty of, like Homer’s Jack Nicholson quote onslaught, but the story itself. After the rumor well dries up, Homer begins making up stories, including one about how the government is controlling our minds through flu shots. It’s a viewpoint that we’ve always gotten a glance at throughout the seasons, but this episode truly exposes Lisa’s inner judgements while also serving as a spot-on critique of the film-festival scene. In an attempt to boost public interest in the space program, NASA decides to send an ordinary person — Homer Simpson, natch — into space alongside astronauts Race Banyon and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, giving the writers of The Simpsons a golden opportunity to make every science-fiction joke imaginable. Showrunner Al Jean, who has worked on The Simpsons on and off since it first aired, suggests that you try out some episodes you haven't seen before and "definitely get some sleep." EPISODE. His catchphrase: “Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs.” Where once Homer adored his friends mistaking fiction for fact, he now rejects it completely by changing his name to Max Power. You haven’t run out of new things to watch, we promise. Bart gets expelled from school after driving a tractor into Superintendent Chalmers’s butt and is homeschooled by Marge, but becomes a bookworm after getting into a novel about a boy who goes to war. But this episode is a prime example as to why these two are just as entertaining as Homer or Bart. 8. It’s an ingenious way of connecting the first act to the third, making “Mayored to the Mob” feel more conceptually complete than other “Homer gets a new job” episodes. "Rosebud", of course, is a parody of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane with Mister Burns as the central figure who is trying to regain some of his lost childhood via his teddy bear. This combination of absurdity and repetition felt like something wholly new, and would prove to be one of the show’s signatures (i.e., “Cape Feare”’s Sideshow Bob vs. Rakes). There are extensive historical references as Bobo’s journey is traced from Mr. Burns throug… Two-thirds of the way through the episode, Homer says, “Guys, do you think Carl was right? “Boys kiss girls.”. If you've watched all 550 plus episodes, can you really claim that you've seen it all? Home’s journey to gain weight is more than just funny. Even Homer needs the imagination of Lisa, who’s sent to the power planet for Go to Work With Your Parents Day, to reveal the magic in the mundane — it’s amazing how easily radiation suits can make you feel like you’re an astronaut. Lisa and Abe are widely cast as wet blankets on The Simpsons. If early Simpsons episode were tales about a family (whereas later ones were about a family and a town), “The Way We Was” was the first step in the long road to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. (If you haven’t yet seen this episode, find it, watch it, and come back here.) Hipster jokes didn’t have the best track record before this episode aired, but The Simpsons was able to breathe life into them. This story was originally published in October 2014. This episode, by contrast, works overtime to blend references to Eternal Sunshine, Memento and It’s A Wonderful Life into a compelling story of Homer awaking to find his memory of the previous 24 hours blank while Marge sports an unexplained black eye. “The Principal and the Pauper” is the WORST. As much as this show makes fun of the sometimes small-mindedness of Springfield, it has created a town that feels alive, and viewers have become as loyal to it as its residents prove to be here. and it’s revisited beautifully here when Moe – on the point of committing suicide – saves Maggie’s life and is transformed from social pariah to hero. An essential character who orbits the Simpsons universe on a regular basis, Apu’s world is generally contained within the walls of the convenience store he works in. The episode begins with a trip to a candy convention, where Homer steals a rare gummy. The Simpsons is essentially a sitcom, but over time, it has taken on a role not unlike that of Saturday Night Live — an institution that’s expected to comment on the state of culture. Gabbo!” the mysterious strobe-flash ads proclaim.). But here, at least, was a meaningful one. As much as it pains him to reject the offer, Homer has to, because he can see how much his daughter loves the stuffed animal. Barney, as is often the case, reveals unexpected refinement, directing a black-and-white psychodrama about his alcoholism, but Homer, who’s on the judging panel, prefers the one with the football in the groin. With updated release dates where available. Stuck deep down below (especially Homer, who is literally stuck in a tunnel because of his girth), Lisa begins to tell him a story. There is something profoundly unsettling about seeing The Simpsons’ characters outside their familiar milieu, which is one of the reasons why most episodes set in the future with grown-up versions of Bart and Lisa fall flat. A parody of The Da Vinci Code and National Treasure, “Gone Maggie Gone” uses the puzzle-solving, conspiracy-mystery format to create a wholly unique and wonderful episode. The episode succeeds at both telling the story of Homer’s desire to still be cool and making fun of what was cool at that time. “This one spent two hours in the broiler!” Homer declares. “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpsons Mind” won the 2008 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour), but it’s Outstanding Comedy Series-worthy. It might seem small, but there is one joke at the very end of the episode that feel so completely Simpsons that it could’ve worked in any episode in any of the next 25 seasons: When Homer comes home with the family’s new dog, after it seemed like the family would go with out presents this year, Marge hugs him and says, “This is the best gift of all, Homer.” Adding, “Yes, something to share our love and frighten prowlers.”. In her video will, the recently deceased Aunt Gladys implores Marge’s sisters, Patty and Selma, not to die alone, so Selma begins looking for a suitable life mate. The Simpsons may live in America’s Crud Bucket, but it’s THEIR crud bucket. There she sees her local congressman take a bribe to raze a forest in Springfield. Some fans criticize “That ’90s Episode” for ignoring the show’s past, but I’d argue there are few episodes of the show more deferential to it. Throughout, there’s a empathetic understanding of actual showbiz hazards: Homer becomes addicted to painkillers, Marge blows a lot of the family fortune on bad investments, and Lisa eventually pens a tell-all titled Where Are My Residuals? "Brother from Another Series" - I adore Cecil and Bob's sophisticated banter here, and I haven't even seen a lot of Frazier. This doesn’t end well. A riff on the Frank Capra/Jimmy Stewart movie, this episode is an early example of how extreme and committed Lisa could get when she glommed onto something she believed in. It’s one of the best jokes The Simpsons has done in its last decade. Homer’s unable to sit still while working in his living room, and during the conclusion, his daring climb up the power-plant tower to prevent a “potential Chernobyl” is paired with Mr. Burns’s surprisingly lively “push out the jive, bring in the love” exercise class. Bart and Lisa investigate and learn that Krusty’s dad, Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky, didn’t want to perform the ceremony because he was afraid Krusty (a.k.a. The year is 2010. Although The Simpsons has always been aware of how chaotic the kids’ home lives are, they never really dealt with it on somewhat real terms until this episode, which finds Homer and Marge going away for a spa vacation. It’s one of the (many — we’re talking about 25 seasons here, people) most moving scenes of the entire series (partly thanks to Bart’s court-mandated sincerity chip). It’s a pairing the show doesn’t do much, but it works very well here: They’re both slaves to their desires, be they women (Quimby) or free stuff (Homer). When Lisa’s regular teacher Miss Hoover is stricken with Lyme disease, her class is taken over by a substitute named Mr. Bergstrom (guest-star Dustin Hoffman), a gentle, funny, guitar-strumming, everybody’s-best-friend-and-mentor type. “All’s Fair in Oven War” features two very funny Simpsons stories. Log in or link your magazine subscription, 98. Homerland. From then on, everything goes great for Homer until he realizes something: He wants to lose. These run the gamut from Mel Brooks–level shticky (Sideshow Bob telling the parole board that his “Die, Bart, Die” tattoo is “German for ‘The Bart, the’”) to subtle (Bob’s Night of the Hunter–styled “Love” and “Hate” tattoos read “luv” and “hat” because Simpsons characters only have four fingers), to so drawn-out that they verge on anti-humor (Bob stepping on rake after rake). It’s not often Bart cares about something, but when he does, he’s all in. This Halloween trilogy features a monster in an attic, a political satire, and a riff on The Incredible Shrinking Man, Fantastic Voyage, and other adventures in miniaturization. You?” “Sure. After a series of unsuccessful robberies, Burns reroutes all the beer trucks heading to Springfield, which will remain “dry as a bone” until Homer gives up the bear. Homer grows sick of paying a ridiculous amount of money to see a movie only to be bombarded by 20 minutes of deceptive commercials and trailers before the film even begins, so he begins downloading them illegally online. That isn’t a knock on the episode. Director: Mike B. Anderson | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith Votes: 4,159 In one of the series’ most ambitious, structurally daring episodes, “Trilogy of Error” is split into Homer’s Day, Lisa’s Day, and Bart’s Day, and they all intersect. Then 9/11 happened, and it was taken out of syndication. The Simpsons has always thrived on pop culture, whether it’s parodying a film or writing in relevant guest stars, and that continues to be a strength (and sometimes a weakness) to this day. What begins as a fairly simple story about Homer buying a computer turns into an elaborate parody of The Prisoner that was understood by probably about 5 percent of Simpsons fans. With the public on his side, Bob decides to run for mayor of Springfield, despite being an ex-con who recently tried to murder a young boy. The problem is, those “secrets” end up being Homer and Marge’s actual marital problems and sexual particularities. Plow, that’s my name. At the end, though, they’re both losers in Homer’s eyes when a deciding penalty shot ends with them reaching the conclusion that love conquers all (while it tears everyone else apart in the resulting riot). No show has ever done big and small storytelling concurrently as well as The Simpsons and this is a masterful example. “It all happened in 1990,” Homer says. The best: a pitiful Burns levels with Maggie and lets her keep Bobo, although not before giving her some advice: “Don’t make the same mistake I made.” It’s a rare moment of good will for an otherwise bad man. So he tries to purchase his soul back from Milhouse, only to learn that he already traded it to Comic Book Guy, who informs Bart that someone already bought it from him. A jealous side. To protect himself, Mayor Quimby passes the blame along to someone else: illegal immigrants. It’s also a star-making episode for regular cameo player Rainier Wolfcastle, who pronounces the hero’s catchphrase “Up and atom!” as “Up and at dem,” and responds to an onrushing tidal wave of acid with a monotone, “My eyes … de goggles, dey do nothing!”. The Simpsons has addressed almost every grown-up topic under the sun, but this one’s pure wonderful throwback. Her name is Rachel Cohen and she just got into Brandeis.”. And when you watch it you’ll get to know why it is listed among the 25 best Simpsons episode. “A Milhouse Divided” pulls off that Simpsons trick of digging into incredibly painful real-life situations with enough humor that the experience doesn’t become unpleasant. During a surprise party celebrating Seymour Skinner’s run as principal of Springfield Elementary for 20 years, a mysterious guest crashes the festivities. He takes incorrect stances to such extremes that they reveal the absurdity of the position even in the most minor sense. Kirk loses his job and tries rather pathetically to reinvent himself as a single guy, even dating a radio-station employee named Starla and recording a demo; Luann has better luck, hooking up with an American Gladiator who goes by the name of Pyro. That’s a shame, because it’s actually an interesting and vastly underrated exploration of a character we thought we knew for years. Also, the characters didn’t necessarily feel settled yet. Homer grows so desperate for a single sip of Duff that he admits in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting that he “snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.”. Some of the jokes are so knowing that they verge on Woody Allen-style cultural-insiderism; when Bart asks Lisa why she knows so much about Judaism, she replies, “I have a Jewish imaginary friend. We’re going to describe it here for those who have seen it to remember — if you haven’t, skip ahead and come back later. ... Best Simpsons episodes post-2000 (that you probably haven't seen yet) “Lisa’s Rival” shows what happens when she meets her match. From the moment Maggie is seen in Duplo – and therefore bigger than everyone else – you knew it would work. Lisa’s battle with the sexist Malibu Stacy doll company may be permanently stalled when her rival doll is dropped in favor of a last-minute hat upgrade, but it still results in Lisa’s strongest feminist statement on the show yet. A rare Simpsons installment with an explicit and unmistakable political agenda, “Lisa the Vegetarian” closed with Lisa still a vegetarian, and she remained steadfast in her belief throughout the run of the series to date. Few scenes throughout the history of television and movies capture NYC better than the one in which Homer tries to remove the boot on his car by chewing off one of the bolts. Any number of the newer episodes which seem to be competing with each other for most disjointed surreal crap ever. That it also reveals Snake’s backstory as an archaeologist with the unhelpful surname of Jailbird is just an added joy. Piling incident upon incident and gag upon gag, this episode-length affirmation of Springfield’s gullibility will continue to be quoted whenever public works are discussed. Rapid-fire sight gags combine with effortlessly spare dialogue while Gil, as an incompetent lawyer channelling Glengarry-era Jack Lemmon, is an unalloyed delight. “Gone Maggie Gone” is a classic example of this, where it’s still able to feel fresh and super funny, despite the reference text being a bit dated. While viewers get a better insight into Apu’s life and commitment to his work, it is ultimately Homer who incites the adventures. With that in mind, here are some of the best modern episodes of The Simpsons you’ve likely never watched. Few Simpsons episode do a better job at capturing Lisa’s fundamental desire for connection. Then Barney buys a bigger truck, and the two become rivals. But any cross-creative awkwardness dissipates once critic Jay Sherman (guest-star Jon Lovitz) touches down in Springfield to judge its first-ever film festival. Indeed, the complex series of events, culminating in Martin delivering a wedgie upon himself, suggest the show’s writers could have lent Jack Bauer’s crew a hand with their plotting. It also has Homer utter one of the show’s more nihilistic (and whiny) lines of dialogue — “I’m a lonely insignificant speck on a has-been planet orbited by a cold, indifferent sun.”. The two bond when Lisa arranges Moe’s grimy, suicidal ramblings, or his “brain goo,” as he calls it, into a poem. ... Here’s our guide to the top 11 cameos in Simpsons history… f you haven’t ... 15 of the best Simpsons episodes … The other critics at the Shopper balk at his unanimous admiration and peer-pressure him into writing some negative reviews, which in turn upsets the local restaurant owners and chefs. The A.V. A common thread among all of the Simpsons origin stories is the untimeliness of Marge’s pregnancies. In order to keep his “Cal Ripken-like streak of school openage” intact, Skinner ignores the punishing weather and makes his students come in on the last day before Christmas break. One of the most aggressively meta episodes of an already keenly self-aware sitcom, “The Itchy and Scratchie and Poochie Show” is as footnote-able as T.S. To prove that there’s no such thing as a soul, Bart sells his for the low, low price of $5 — enough money to buy a disappointing pack of expandable water toys. “Skinner’s Sense of Snow” turns every kid’s nightmare — attending the only school in your district to remain open during a storm — into a riotous dream. Whether it is Gore Vidal revealing he got the title for Burr by seeing it on an advertisement for Eskimo Pie, Thomas Wolfe requesting everyone’s leftover garlic mashed potatoes, or the violent rivalry between Michael Chabon and Jonathan Franzen (all four authors provided their own voices), the show succeeds at somehow turning these literary heavyweights into buffoons. On a seemingly innocuous nature walk to some local caverns, Homer stupidly touches a giant stalactite and opens a hole in the ground through which the family falls. It’s midseason on TV, and there’s only one show that catches Homer’s eye: Police Cops, starring none other than … Homer Simpson. The final shot — a roll call of future public-works scandals, confirming that Springfield learned nothing from this disaster — is oddly poignant. She’s unsuccessful, but is given the chance to show off her motherly skills when she takes Bart and Lisa to Duff Gardens. Rather than being lustful or playful, there’s a nervousness and a discomfort about her. Gleefully ridiculous from start to finish, “Deep Space Homer” is mainly an excuse to showcase Homer’s stupidity, clumsiness, opportunism, cowardice, and seemingly inexhaustible good luck, and as such, it’s a classic. A Flowers for Algernon homage that is arguably better than its source material. Naturally, Moe blows it, but not before telling Maggie the plots of both Godfather films (including Moe Greene’s assassination) as a bedtime story. Turns out the dish-detergent product Mr. Sparkle’s logo was actually just a coincidental combination of a fish and a lightbulb (or “fish-bulb,” as Bart calls Homer), but its preposterous story line has since created one of the show’s most iconic images, next to the “I Choo-Choo-Choose You” Valentine and the Inanimate Carbon Rod. Where nothing can possi-blye go wrong now streaming on Disney+ to that,... Union ’ s as meta as “ the Principal and the Simpsons this. 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