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Simpsons fans post your favorite non "Golden-era" episodes

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A Casual Fitz said:
Right, I don't either... but there are some good episodes past season 9 and I'm attempting to not waste my time going through the bad ones.
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S11E05
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) a.k.a the tomacco episode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-I-E-I-%28Annoyed_Grunt)

S11E12
The Mansion Family - 'Shut up, net face'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mansion_Family

S11E15
Missionary Impossible - Save me Jebus!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary:_Impossible

...actually a lot of Season 11 are pretty good.



S10E07
Lisa Gets an A - the pinchy episode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Gets_an_"A"

S10E22
They Saved Lisa's Brain - "Jeez, how many gazeboes do you she-males need?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Saved_Lisa's_Brain

wow quite a bit of Season 10 sucks
 
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Outside of the golden era there are no good episodes.
WHY THE HELL DO YOU THINK ITS A "GOLDEN ERA"?!??!?

Also, if Netflix could stream seasons after 10 it would be a lot easier for you to find the handful you like.
 
PottedMeat said:
S11E05
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) a.k.a the tomacco episode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-I-E-I-(Annoyed_Grunt)

S11E12
The Mansion Family - 'Shut up, net face'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mansion_Family

S11E15
Missionary Impossible - Save me Jebus!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary:_Impossible

...actually a lot of Season 11 are pretty good.



S10E07
Lisa Gets an A - the pinchy episode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Gets_an_"A"

S10E22
They Saved Lisa's Brain - "Jeez, how many gazeboes do you she-males need?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Saved_Lisa's_Brain

wow quite a bit of Season 10 sucks
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I'll make a note of these, thanks!
 
The best golden era episode is Marge versus the Monorail. A close second is the Frank Grimes episode. Or "Grimey" as he LIKED to be called.
 
A Casual Fitz said:
Yep
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:thumbsup:

took them almost 2 seasons to realize that Bart was not the Simpsons. Homer was. (well, Bart was the marketing whore that established the franchise early, Homer is what carried it)


i also agree that you probably shouldn't look past 2000 or so for consistently great episodes.

I'd say the Conan O'Brien years were the absolute best, hands-down. probably the last good season for me was the year that had the lemon tree episode.
 
zerocool84 said:
Honestly season one wasn't that good in my opinion. They were still forming the characters and finding out what worked for them. Season 2 is when it really started to get good.
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Definitely this; the first season is actually kind of painful to watch now. At the time I thought it was amazing, but not now.

KT
 
Triumph said:
The best golden era episode is Marge versus the Monorail. A close second is the Frank Grimes episode. Or "Grimey" as he LIKED to be called.
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Grimey. hehe. One of the best. I also like the very underrated Deep Space Homer. "I for one welcome our new insect overlords.." -Kent Brockman.
 
KeithTalent said:
Definitely this; the first season is actually kind of painful to watch now. At the time I thought it was amazing, but not now.

KT
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I love, or is it hate?, to go back and watch the first few seasons of any beloved TV series. It's almost always a "WTF, wow they have matured!" educing sensation. It's amazing how apparent the changes are to all the major characters in any long running series. You can see the actors slowly finding a grove with their character that they eventually comfortably slip into. It isn't usually till some ways into the 2nd, or sometimes 3rd, season of any series that you can go "Bingo that's the character I know and love".
 
The guest stars really suck the funny out of the show. It's like they use it as an excuse to not write any jokes assuming we'll just think the stars being with the Simpsons is funny by itself.
 
Locut0s said:
I love, or is it hate?, to go back and watch the first few seasons of any beloved TV series. It's almost always a "WTF, wow they have matured!" educing sensation. It's amazing how apparent the changes are to all the major characters in any long running series. You can see the actors slowly finding a grove with their character that they eventually comfortably slip into. It isn't usually till some ways into the 2nd, or sometimes 3rd, season of any series that you can go "Bingo that's the character I know and love".
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but rarely have cartoons changed the way all the characters looked after the first season and even changed some of their voices as well. The first season really was a growing pain but it was obviously for the better.
 
A Casual Fitz said:
The guest stars really suck the funny out of the show.
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I have to agree with this, and sometimes I can't even tell who the guest stars are due to the animation style. (I had NO idea the guys in a recent episodes were the "Flight Of The Conchords" guys).
Guest stars make for lame storylines most of the time, with a few exceptionss.
 
A Casual Fitz said:
The guest stars really suck the funny out of the show. It's like they use it as an excuse to not write any jokes assuming we'll just think the stars being with the Simpsons is funny by itself.
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I will generally agree to that. Although they've had guest stars all the way through the history of the Simpsons, they really started relying on them after the 90's way too much. By far my favorite guest star episode is Mr. Burns' Son, with Rodney Dangerfield.

"Hey, if this stuff's too good for ya, I've got some crap!"

"Oh, what's to tell? I was at the orphanage till I was 18, then I got my job at a souvenir stand.....Oh, and once I saw a blimp!"

Homer: This is the kidnapper. Do you miss your son?
Burns: Yes I am missing one son! Return it immediately!

Smithers: Well, I hate to break it to you, Larry, but if Mr. Burns ever wants to see a stranger, he will observe him through a powerful telescope.
 
Triumph said:
I will generally agree to that. Although they've had guest stars all the way through the history of the Simpsons, they really started relying on them after the 90's way too much. By far my favorite guest star episode is Mr. Burns' Son, with Rodney Dangerfield.

"Hey, if this stuff's too good for ya, I've got some crap!"

"Oh, what's to tell? I was at the orphanage till I was 18, then I got my job at a souvenir stand.....Oh, and once I saw a blimp!"

Homer: This is the kidnapper. Do you miss your son?
Burns: Yes I am missing one son! Return it immediately!

Smithers: Well, I hate to break it to you, Larry, but if Mr. Burns ever wants to see a stranger, he will observe him through a powerful telescope.
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Yeah that one was good, and he played a fictional character in that one rather than simply the celebrity him/herself. The Mel Gibson one comes to mind as being especially terrible.
 
I keep meaning to start a run myself. I have seasons 1-11 on DVD and I consider 9 through 11 the transition period. They were the seasons I still watched every sunday but started to realize it was going downhill. There are a ton of great episodes mixed in those seasons though and would def say that they are worth watching even putting up with the not so good and rarely shitty episodes.

After 11 IMHO is when the show lost all of its charm and started its slow transition to completely bland family sitcom with occasional family guy ripoff attempts and overuse of celebrity guests. Rarely there will be a decent episode but not many. The only one of the later episodes I actually watched and enjoyed that I can even think of is the one with Alan Moore (that Watchmen Babies V for Vacation thing really reminded me of the good old days)
 
Not one of my favorite episodes, but the episode where Homer is retelling the story of Lisa's first word, in the flashback, he tells baby Lisa that he's started a college fund at the Lincoln Savings & Loans Bank. I LOL'd when I heard that line.
 
Locut0s said:
I love, or is it hate?, to go back and watch the first few seasons of any beloved TV series. It's almost always a "WTF, wow they have matured!" educing sensation. It's amazing how apparent the changes are to all the major characters in any long running series. You can see the actors slowly finding a grove with their character that they eventually comfortably slip into. It isn't usually till some ways into the 2nd, or sometimes 3rd, season of any series that you can go "Bingo that's the character I know and love".
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Yep. Friends is another one that really jumps to mind; the early episodes are ridiculously bad, but it got pretty funny afterward (in the middle years). Yeah yeah, I shouldn't be watching Friends, but it was funny damn it, I don't care what anyone says. 😀

KT
 
her209 said:
Not one of my favorite episodes, but the episode where Homer is retelling the story of Lisa's first word, in the flashback, he tells baby Lisa that he's started a college fund at the Lincoln Savings & Loans Bank. I LOL'd when I heard that line.
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Harvey Birdman had a great line on that too.

Harvey: So I'll just put my savings in this diversified index fund. Safe and sound.

Phil Ken Sebben: It's 1985, Birdman, wake up! The smart money is going into S&L's... like that one!

Harvey: You mean Lincoln Savings & Loans?

Phil Ken Sebben: Right, S&L's are unkillable. Ever seen It's a Wonderful Life? Even that Bailey bastard couldn't screw it up! ...And the rest on gift certificates!
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