The Simpsons

like there was another episode where a car is peeling out in front of Marge and she throws a pair of socks at it out of anger, which manages to hit the back window and shatter it, and MOST IMPORTANTLY there isn't a moment where she goes "I didn't think THAT would happen!", it just cuts to the next scene. I guess I gotta admit as bad as the show has gotten there's still always like one or two good jokes per episode

still the stupidest gag of misdirection that makes my brother and I laugh is Itchy and Scratchy Land, where Homer is driving and falling asleep and then they show a car careen off the road and wreck and then it pans to Bart in the hotel going "whoa, glad that wasn't us"

a serious flanders wasn't bad but it felt a bit flat in the same way a full two episode arc of chief wiggum PI probably would - there were a lot of things I liked about it

the best thing I've seen from them in years was the halloween episode from a couple of years ago with the anime style death note parody - most of the credit should go to the studio that made it because they did an amazing job with the designs - the whole thing was probably the first halloween episode in decades where all the segments landed (assuming there aren't many hidden gems I've missed from the 20s seasons)

third segment really freaked me out on first viewing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNBAUpjT0VM

as for misdirects that's literally every joke in season 5 it's quite incredible

"I can't solve this case....can...YOU?"

my brother made a shitty Julius Caesar movie for English class and he tried to do that same POV misdirection joke and it came out so badly

Do they throw the old SimpsonsWorld bodies in a Tesla truck in the above clip?

I've heard from a couple of friends that even as the show's declined the Treehouse of Horror episodes are apparently still very good. guessing it's because it allows them to do a lot of weird/format-busting stuff rather than "Chief Wiggum runs into his old high school crush, voiced by Anne Hathaway" type shit. the Serious Flanders episode was like that too, in fact that struck me as one of the few modern episodes where they actually seemed to enjoy making it