THAT'S RIGHT, I DID THE IGGY: The Simpsons Season 4 Poll

a while back i was googling dental plan information and discovered that "dental plan lisa needs braces" comes up before anything related to actual dentists.

Wish I could find a gif from Homer the Heretic of Ned doing that reverse-flip off the mattress while trying to rescue Homer from the fire.

http://i.minus.com/ixi2MH0MV7Rnb.gif

You are my god now.

I CAN'T CHOO-CHOO-CHOOSE ANY ONE EPISODE HERE, GUYS

iirc "Last Exit to Springfield" was the agreed gold standard for the entire series back in the day

Stunned there isn't more stunting for "A Streetcar Named Marge" itt.

xp that's what's so amazing, nearly ANY episode in this season could be held up as the gold standard. They're all that good.

I wonder how "Brother From The Same Planet" would have worked out if they'd actually managed to get Tom Cruise?

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100717053529/simpsons/images/thumb/f/f0/Crazyv.jpg/500px-Crazyv.jpg

she'll go three hundred hectares on a single tank of kerosene

Troy McClure: Hello, I’m Troy McClure. You might remember me from such instructional videos as ‘Mothballing Your Battleship,’ and ‘Dig Your Own Grave and Save!’ Now over the next six hours I’ll be taking you through the ‘dos’ and ‘do not dos’ of foundation repair. Ready?

Homer: Ready!

Troy: First, patch the cracks in the slab using a latex patching compound and a patching trowel.

Homer: [to Bart] Hand me my patching trowel, boy.[Bart shrugs.] Hmm.

Troy: Now, do you have extruded poly-vinyl foam insulation?

Homer: No.

Troy: Good! Assemble the aluminum J-channel using self-burring screws. Install!

Homer: What do I do for-

Troy: After applying brushable coating to the panels…

Homer: Wait a minute-

Troy: You’ll need some corrosion resistant metal stucco lath.

Homer: Wait a minute!

Troy: If you can’t find metal stucco lath…

Homer: Uh-huh?

Troy: Use carbon-fibre stucco lath!

Homer: Ohhhh!!

Troy: Now parge the lath!

This was a GREAT season for Hartman. Between Lyle Lanley, the Lionel Hutz cameo in "Streetcar," the thing Snrub just quoted, "Marge In Chains," "Brother from the Same Planet" . . .

Ha, I never noticed this,

Adam ... adds that the school's architecture is in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright, who was the model for Howard Roark, the protagonist of ``The Fountainhead''.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100305022442/simpsons/images/2/2b/Ayn_Rand.PNG

Sorry for poor quality, but I mean . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwU-ddEloI

Holy crap re: Frank Lloyd Wright! Funny, I was just thinking how that episode had one of the more spelled-out reference gags ("The Birds"/Hitchcock walking his dogs...devilishiously satirical! I wonder if anyone else got that!)

"Batman's a scientist!" Sorry, have to vote Monorail. The Halloween episode is BRILLIANT too. The Frogurt exchange and then the only zombie humor I can tolerate anymore:

Barney: Wow, George Washington!
Homer: Take that, Washington!
[BLAM!]
Homer: Eat lead, Einstein!
[BLAM!]
Homer: Show's over, Shakespeare!
[clubs him to the ground]
Zombie Shakespeare: Is this the end of Zombie Shakespeare?

she'll go three hundred hectares on a single tank of kerosene

PUT IT IN H.

Show's over, Shakespeare!

christ, I say this all the time (usually when trying to get my daughter to stop doing something annoying)

I'm not voting in any of these polls fwiw cuz yeah I just can't decide, any vote would be fairly arbitrary

I will vote in a "Best episode ever" aggregate poll though (assuming I will be able to vote for the lemon tree episode)

Well, you're really asking two questions there . . .

Worker and Parasite almost enough to get me to change my vote, but nope. MONORAIL!

omg @ the shape that Homer leaves in the window from "Heretic" gif, IT MAKES U THINK.

Well, you're really asking two questions there . . .

right, I guess what I'm saying is when we get to the season w the lemon tree episode (I can't remember which - 5?) I will vote for that, and then vote for it again in a best episode ever poll.

Combine VU solo careers with best episode ever poll.

Just watched Kamp Krusty. Mr Black kills me

"For the past 15 years I was president of Euro-Krustyland...until it blew up."

and especially his delivery of:

"Gentlemen, to evil!"

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3769/10610223406_2b16f5c78b_z.jpg

voting "last exit to springfield" for a bunch of reasons, not least among them the international brotherhood of jazz dancers, pastry chefs, and nuclear technicians logo

it's nowhere near the best thing here but i have a real soft spot for 'new kid on the block.' the scene where bart imagines sara gilbert ripping his heart out and going "you won't be needing this!" is one of the most OTM depictions of early crush angst ever.

The original idea for the b-story was that Homer was going to get in some sort of (legal?) trouble for heckling Don Rickles. Rickles was lined up as a guest voice, but backed out after reading the script, and accused the writers of stealing his material.

omg

New Kid on the Block also has Moe's best reaction to a Bart prank call, when he tells him he's going to shove a sausage down his throat and stick starving dogs up his butt. Can't remember if that's a direct lift from the Tube Bar tapes or not.

Stunned there isn't more stunting for "A Streetcar Named Marge" itt.

― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, November 1, 2013 8:56 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it might be my vote, but it was kinda weird watching it recently and realizing its "homer might actually be an abusive husband" implication

I've seen this episode held up as an example of what an awful husband Homer is a number of times. Which, I get, but I don't at the same time: there are episodes where he behaves way worse.

Stunned there isn't more stunting for "A Streetcar Named Marge" itt.

― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, November 1, 2013 8:56 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it might be my vote, but it was kinda weird watching it recently and realizing its "homer might actually be an abusive husband" implication

― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Saturday, November 2, 2013 12:56 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh man, it's definitely my vote. The show songs are hilarious. And Ned as Stanley! "Can't you hear me yell-a, you're putting me through hell-a, Stella!" Also Apu's solo and the super-cheery finale. Also the Ayn Rand School for Tots, and the scene where they go to pick up Maggie and all the kids are sitting there creepily sucking on their recovered pacifiers. Might be my favourite episode.

Hard not to vote for Monorail and Mr Plow though.

i love it cause i was in streetcar in tenth grade and we were all so excited when it came on one night and IMing each other about it, and my away message was definitely "OH MY GOD STREETCAR NAMED MARGE IS ON!!" in gigantic letters, and i still sing "i am juuuust a simple paaaaperboy..." all the time, meeeeemories

(i was the paperboy)

also the room of babies creepily sucking on pacifiers is one of the best payoff jokes in history

look I guess I will have to vote Last Exit because Homer as a donut-eating Mafia Don is top level of his dream sequences

oh oh oh and the negations with Burns: "My God! He is coming onto me!"

IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE BLURST OF TIMES

OMFG why did I not vote for Mr Plow as I'd first thought, because of "PUT IT IN H!!". My fave line EVER.

"Take her for a test drive and you'll agree, "zagra verdans lotik diev!""

Best Homer vs. his brain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odoUzxgH35Y

Actually, that's one of the few instances where his brain works.

homer isn't really an abusive husband. he is a pretty awful father though -- the running 'gag' of him throttling bart is prob my least favorite thing in classic simpsons.

might have to vote 'last exit' just for this:

kent brockman: mr. simpson, organized labor has been called a 'lumbering dinosaur.'
homer: AAAAH!

kent brockman: uh, my director is asking me not to talk to you anymore.
homer: Woohoo!

And no mention of this yet. It's really amazing how packed with material that episode is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUj8dma0oo

They sing without juicers! They sing without blenders! They sing without flungers, cabdabblers, and smendlers!

if you watch the episode, Burns' face kinda morphs into the Grinch for a second just before that line

as a kid I found workers singing lisa's song of solidarity incredibly moving

god really? I hate it whenever she sings.

[joanna nuisance joke]

but seriously, yes really! I mean I hate the jazzman song as much as anyone but the power plant song works so well in the context of last exit. I am #teamlisa forever tho

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akdzx5/an-oral-history-of-marge-vs-the-monorail-the-simpsons