My vote is for "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie", this 'beloved classic' is one of the flat out worst Prime Era Simpsons episodes. It's unfunny and moralistic - and the moral is plain stupid to boot. Bart misbehaves because he craves attention and needs less neglectful parents, and the show pretends that all his issues stem from a lack of discipline. I could forgive it if it was a set up, since this "advice" came from one of his ignorant burnout teachers, but the show plays it straight, and after one piece of incredibly spiteful discipline were shown that Bart becomes a justice on the supreme court.
I wouldn't know because I like episodes based on the episode, not the rating.
John Rogers
Marge vs. the Monorail It's just not that funny
Elijah Cruz
s11e5
Aaron Hall
Well, pardon us Mr. Gucci Loafers
Ian Perry
I think it's stupid because the episode's premise only works in an imaginary world based on the writers' childhoods, back when there was no VCR and once a movie was no longer in theaters you could no longer see it. In the real world 90s, nothing could stop Bart from just watching the movie on video months after the movie stopped being in theaters.
Bentley Williams
If it wasnt for the internet I'd have never assumed this was supposed to be the show's best for many. It's not bad either but I don't see what makes it top notch with upwards of other 200 choices.
Season 2 is criminally underrated too, I'll never understand folks removing it from their notions of the classic era.
Hudson Adams
dunno but E-I-E-I Doh is pretty underrated
Lucas Gray
They had a VCR.
Being 10 and not having a Blockbuster card would probably stop him.
Chase Butler
>Being 10 and not having a Blockbuster card would probably stop him. An ordinary kid maybe, but this is Bart Simpson. Or hell, he could watch it at a friend's house.
Easton Nguyen
Last Exit To Springfield. It baffles me why a frankly mediocre, unremarkable episode is so frequently ranked number one by fans and critics alike.
Oliver Anderson
Homer's Enemy
Xavier Myers
This. Frank Grimes was a cuck who got what was coming to him. Also the B-Plot is just more le ebin bart and milhouse shenanigans
Carter Allen
>In the real world 90s, nothing could stop Bart from just watching the movie on video months after the movie stopped being in theaters. This episode came out in 1992 Thanks for proving you weren't alive back then
Joshua Martinez
Enlighten me, what did I get wrong?
Jayden Bell
He'd just get Milhouse to rent it.
Andrew Morgan
Does Bart even have any other real friends anymore?
Gabriel Bell
The one with Tomacco.
Parker Hughes
mabel
Thomas Smith
Because its about unions being epic
Chase Jenkins
This meme is getting tired.
Robert Cook
The problem was more that the episode was making the film out to be the biggest thing ever (which is hilarious because films based on cartoon shows are considered passable at best) and so Bart was completely ostracized for not getting to see the film while everyone else could.
And yeah one of the shitty things about the older Simpsons episodes was how stupidly moralistic they could get. It's weird considering how the show would in the same breath criticize the conventional morals of society. Like the episode which preached going to church still did an excellent job showing how stupid going to church was.
Ryder Taylor
The part where Grandpa wanted to break Bart’s teeth was hysterical
Joshua Morgan
What carries it are the Homer/Burns interactions, its some of the best the series ever had. I'd agree the rest of the episode isn't as great as those bits, but the whole bit where Homer thinks Burns is coming on to him might just be my favorite skit in the entire show.
>people finding out a lot of their favourite gags from the show all happened in the same episode Gee I wonder why.
Luke Kelly
All of them. Simpsons was never funny.
Caleb Jackson
>Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
I hated this episode. Homer felt so out of character.
Gabriel Young
People removing season 1 and 2 from the "golden era" are the ultimate plebs.
Lucas Cox
VHS has been a thing since the 70's, what did that user get wrong?
Justin Moore
>people removing season 1 and 2 from the "golden era"
Seasons 4 onwards were focus more on pop culture and gags similar to early Family Guy and and late Flintstones. Seasons 1-3 (Specially 1 and 2) had a more sarcastic dry humor and dealt a lot in real life issues.
Juan Lee
>an imaginary world based on the writers' childhoods A lot of elements of the Simpsons are like that. Like Krusty the Clown. Clown shows haven't been super popular shows that all kids watch in decades, they were completely replaced by cartoons. Not to mention, early seasons of the Simpsons made references to Richard Nixon, the Beatles, and a bunch of old TV shows that the show's target audience wouldn't be familiar with.
Kevin Garcia
Springfield is pretty backwards
Oliver Roberts
Simpson and Delilah is one of the most underrated eps.
>and what does my daughter want >"an absence of mood swings and some stability in my life" >how about a pony? >"okay"
the simpsons was always moralistic what about the fucking episode about stealing cable, that aged nicely didnt it? i remember when aqua teen had a joke where shake says what kind of moron pays for cable? and they all stare at the viewer
Aaron Torres
And then they said “You’re Stupid!” to the screen
Nolan Ross
>years later and they make an episode that advocates piracy How times have changed.
Luis Murphy
current simpsons writers where 5 years old when the show stopped being good
Matthew Johnson
It was bit more grey with it, with Homer being against people pirating the movie based off his story
Alexander Lewis
Except waiting for a movie to come out in VHS took months after release and watching a movie on a shitty TV is nothing like watching it on the big screen. Bart wanted to see on theaters during its release for the best possible experience.
Austin Mitchell
>that episode where Homer is evil for not going to church
was 90s America really that different than today?
Ethan Sanders
>getting
Jace Scott
It wasn't 90s America, like I brought up earlier in the thread, it was the America of the writers' childhood being anachronistically applied to the 90s.
