I thought I'd start a thread dedicated to all things SIMPSONS. If you're my age (24) you were probably raised on this show as well. It's my all time favorite show since I was in the 3rd grade. Yes, I had a Bart Simpson "Eat My Shorts" t-shirt and it is still rolled up in a ball somewhere in my closet at my parents house. I bet if it was in perfect condition it would be worth some money as a collectors item.

Anyways, feel free to discuss anything you'd like on the topic of this great television program. It could be your favorite episode, favorite character, favorite scene, favorite dialogue, hidden meanings, the shows evolution, the demise of the show over the last few years since writers got switched (IMO!!!) or deeper issues like political and social satire represented in the show.

I think the longest running animated program, and arguably the best TV show EVER is deserved of its own thread.

Enjoy!!

Weaseling out of things is important to learn, it's what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel.

I think someone has that as their signature, one of my favorite lines from the Simpsons.

My favorite line from the Simpsons (although it would be very difficult to pick one) would have to be Homer talking to Bart and Lisa after being defeated in the Boxcar race :

"If something is too hard to do, it's not worth doing!"

EDIT: "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."

This was from the boxcar episode... the other quote was from a different one. DOH!!

http://www.thesimpsonsquotes.com/

Outstanding.. thanks

Hobbes, I love fridays.


"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

My favorite episode (hands down): Homer eats the hallucinogenic chilli pepper at the chilli eating contest and proceeds to trip his nuts off.

Homer: "Wait a minute... that wasn't a talking fox! That was just a talking dog" (sighs in relief)

Talking Dog: "Find your soulmate Homer!"

I think my favorite episode, if I had to choose one, is "Lisa's Rival." So much good stuff in there, especially the side story of Homer finding the overturned truck of sugar. Plus it has the "my cat's breath smells like cat food" and "I bent my wookiee" lines from Ralph.


Oh, and I like Fridays too.

The British guy hiding behind the sugar pile (steals sugar when Homer's not looking):

"And as soon as you let your guard down, I'll do it again!!" (in a British accent with teacup in hand)

Classic.

In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

Another one of my all time favorite episodes: 22 Short Films about Springfield.

This was the one with the Pulp Fiction references... ends with Nelson being forced to march down broadway by the tall man in the little car, with his pants down sucking his thumb while the whole town points and gives him a taste of his own medicine: "HAA HAA"

Homer: [sleepy] Must...protect...sugar. Thieves everywhere. The strong must protect the sweet...the sweet...[snores]
Marge: [walking out] Homer?
Homer: [with a Spanish accent] In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women...[snores]
Marge: Homer...Homer!
Homer: Wha...what?
Marge: I want you to forget about guarding the stupid sugar! You're being completely paranoid.
Homer: Oh, am I? Am I really? Ah ha!
[Pulls a man from behind the pile]
Thief: [holds teacup and saucer] Hello.
Homer: All right, pal: where'd you get the sugar for that tea?
Thief: I nicked it when you let your guard down for that split second, and I'd do it again. [sips tea] Goodbye.
Homer: You see, Marge? Do you see?
Marge: Homer, when are you going to give up this crazy sugar scheme?
Homer: Never, Marge! Never. I can't live the button-down life likeyou. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles. Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called "City Fathers" who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?"
Marge: Look, just get rid of the sugar, OK?
Homer: No! [Marge leaves]
[a swarm of bees lands on Homer and the sugar pile]
Aah! Hey, get off my sugar. Bad bees! Bad! [gets stung]
Ow. Oww! Oh, they're defending themselves somehow.
[The beekeepers track their bees down to Homer's sugar pile.]
Beekeeper 1: Well, very clever, Simpson, luring our bees to your sugar pile and selling them back to us at an inflated price.
Homer: Bees are on the what now?
Beekeeper 2: Simpson, you diabolical...we're willing to pay you $2000 for the swarm. [starts counting money]
Homer: Deal! [thunder crashes, rain starts]
Beekeeper 1: Oh, wait a minute. The bees are leaving.
Homer: No! My sugar is melting. Melting! Oh, what a world.
[thief spits out his tea]
Homer: [weeps] My sugar's gone...
Marge: [walk out with umbrella] I'm sorry, Homey.
Homer: It's OK, Marge. I've learned my lesson. A mountain of sugar is too much for one man. It's clear now why God portions it out in those tiny packets, and why he lives on a plantation in Hawaii.

On President Clinton changing the outcome of a band competition:

Clinton: Just keep whining until you get your way

Marge: Thats a pretty lousy lesson

Clinton, Hey, im a pretty lousy president
then he gives this goofy, aww shucks, look

Leave it to the Deomcrat hater to post that quote LOL.

Good one though!

I hate em both, the south park episode about the election with the turd sanwich and giant doosh is a good bash on both

Mr. Burns: I don't like being outdoors Smithers, for one thing, there's too many fat children.

Lionel Hutz: Well, he's kind of had it in for me ever since I accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly," and replace "dog" with "son."

Homer: There's your giraffe, little girl.
Ralph Wiggum: I'm a boy.
Homer: That's the spirit. Never give up.

Lisa: I'm an ugmo.
Homer: Now, that's not true. You're cute as a bug's ear.
Lisa: Father's have to say that little stuff.
Homer: Dad, am I cute as a bug's ear?
Grandpa: No. You're homely as a mule's butt.
Homer: There. See?

Marge: My name is Marge Simpson and I have an idea. It may sound a little boring at first.
Mayor Quimby: Chat away. I'll just amuse myself with some pornographic playing cards.

Homer: Lisa, Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

"And with your last ounce of strength you pointed to the letters on teh compas, W and S, but from your perspective it was MS for Maggie Simpson."

"What? No, no, no. With my last ounce of strength I sucked out my gold fillings. Those paramedics have sticky fingers."

From the Who Shot Mr. Burns episode.

I am, uh, sick of you people!

Stick it to us Quimby!




Huh, according to the original town charter I'm to recieve 3 pigs a month and two comely young lases of virtue true.

Keep the pork, how many babes do I get?

Dad, I had a horrible dream that the boogeyman was...

AHHHHHHHH BOOGEYMAN!

Bart, I don't mean to alarm you, but there may be a boogey man or boogey men in the house. You get your sisters, I'll get the gun.

I'd have to say the Simpsons started to head downhill sometime around '99. The new episodes just aren't the same... as a matter of fact I'd go as far as saying they're NOTHING like the Simpsons of old, as far as overall witty humor, story development, intelligent scripts etc. I rarely watch the new episodes, but luckily there is a plethora of older great episodes that I can and will enjoy until my dying day.

I want to have the first ten seasons of the Simpsons on DVD someday. So far I have seasons and 2 and 3.

I have the first three seasons on DVD, but stopped buying them because they are on syndication all the time. I just have 10 episodes on my TiVo that I can bring up anytime. I also agree that The Simpson's haven't been great for a while now. I'll still watch the new ones from time to time, but the older ones are much, much better.


Homer: Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.

Kent Brockman: Scientists say they're also less attractive physically and while we speak in a well-educated manner, they tend to use low-brow expressions like 'oh yeah?' and 'com'ere a minute.'
Homer: Oh yeah? They think they're better than us, huh? Bart! Com'ere a minute.
Bart: You com'ere a minute."
Homer: Oh yeah?

Krusty: Don't blame me! It's the percadan. If you ask me, that stuff rots your brain ... And now a word from our new sponsor ... Percadan, oh crap!

Ralph: The doctor said I wouldn't have so many nose bleeds if I kept my finger outta there.

Krusty, after being bribed to vote for Mr. Burns' film:

"this film really moved me...TO A BIGGER HOUSE! Oh wait, I said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud..."

Comic Book Guy: Last night's 'Itchy and Scratchy Show' was, without a doubt, the worst episode ever. Rest assured, I was on the internet within minutes, registering my disgust throughout the world.

Barney: 40 dollars!? This better be the best damn beer ever.. [drinks beer] You got lucky.

SAX A MOE PHONE

Chief Wiggum: Can't you people take the law into your own hands? I mean, we can't be policing the entire city!

I've said it before, and i'll say it again, the episode where Homer gets Mojo the Helper monkey.

"Pray for Mojo"



Best. Episode. Ever.

Clown College??? You can't eat that.

Another perfect episode is the Canyonero one, where Krusty gets sponsored by Canyonero.

"I hope he tells us to burn our pants."

"Don't you hate pants?"


Also, The Powersauce Bars episode.

"Made with apples, and a secret ingredient that unlocks the awesome power of apples."

Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.


Ralph: My daddy shoots people.



Homer: There's your giraffe, little girl.
Ralph Wiggum: I'm a boy.
Homer: That's the spirit.


And probably my all-time favorite:


Ralph: That's my swingset, and that's my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end. And this is where I met the leprechaun.
Bart: Right, the leprechaun.
Ralph: He told me to burn things.

"See Lisa, we can't even afford Periodic Tables. We only can get these promotional ones from Oscar Meyer."

"Martin, what is the Atomic weight of Bolonium?"

"Scrumptacular"

"Yes, I would've also accepted delicious"

Homer (after convincing the movie theater worker to put butter on his milk duds): "Swim my pretties."

remember when krusty lost with quads to fattony...talk about a cooler.

and also bet against the Harlem Globetrotters because he thought the other team was due...

"I thought they were due! That game was fixed! The Globetrotters used a ladder for pete's sake! C'mon! He's just holding out the ball, take it!"

lolll...krustys emotions and hand gestures were classic while he was watching that game.

I’m Dutch, and I approved this thread.

worst thread ever



had to be said. and having said that, i plan to contibute to this thread pretty much every day. on average, i watch 2-3 episodes a day, and my roommate got every simpsons, futurama and family guy DVD set for christmas. yeah, i like going to university.

keep your eye out for the crusty old dean

Lionel Hutz: This is the greatest case of false advertising I've seen since I sued the movie The Never Ending Story.

Lisa: Bart, Pablo Neruda says "the eyes are the window to the soul."
Bart: I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.

...because you don't know what cesar chavez looks like

"Hey, I heard dere was a lunar eclipse tonight, ya tink we should look up?"

"Nah - for me its solar or nuttin"

Fat Tony's wiseguys conversing while Homer dangles from the power line above them