Rate & Review: Cape Feare

[Archduke_Chocula]

the funniest sideshow bob outing and an outstaning episode, the laughsare continuous and feature some of the moreclassic Simpsons skits (The Rake Scene) it's also funny to see Bob get out od jail


Ten Best moments

1) The Rakes
2) Sideshow Bob singing the entire score from the H.M.S. Pinafore
3) "The following people will not be killed by me"
4) "Remember.....you name is Homer Thompson"
5) "All hail Krull and his glorious new regime, signed, Little Girl"
6) "Alright this is deicated to Bart Simpson with the message, 'I am coming to kill you slowly and pinfully' 'hehehehehehehe, wipeout'"
7) "Surely theres no harm in lying in an open public street"
8) Lisas call to Moe and Moes Reacion
9) Homer out ruding Sideshow Bob
10) Sideshow Bobs parole trial "No thats German for, Thee Bart, Thee"
"No one who speaks German could be an evil man"

Honarable mention
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Homer: Oh Flandes, won't you join me in my kitchen?
*waits pounding fist*
Homer: Heheheheheh
Wiggum: It dosn't work if you invite them into your house
Flanders: Hidily Hey
Homer: Go Home
Flanders: Tudily doo

[chiefdan]

Nonstop humor indeed. My favorite part is the whole "Mr. Thompson" scene.

[Clarence]

6/5 , you might not think I can vote 120 percent , but you were dead wrong.... Really great episode.

[Channel Surfer]

Grade: A+

2nd best Bob episode (behind only "Sideshow Bob Roberts") to date. It does a great job parodying the storyline and atmosphere (minus the sexual tension) of "Cape Fear", mixing it with near perfect slapstick (the in/famous rakes, Bob's run in with the cacti, the parade) with ingenious side tangents ("Up Late with McBain", Lisa's pen pal letter) and absurd situational humor (Bob singing the score fro the "H.M.S. Pinafore"). It's not exactly the style I prefer from "The Simpsons", but there's no style that I would suggest the writers solely peruse, and this episode is the best of its kind as an atmospheric, parodic, slapstick farce.

[SideshowTim]

One of the best episodes ever, A classic for sure, Absolutely hilarious episode "Bart ya wanna see my new chainsaw and hockey mask?" line has me in histerics every time, Great story to it too, 10/10. A+++

[George Cauldron]

A VERY good episode which is incredibly funny. First, the flaws. The rake scene, while funny and memorable, goes on for far too long. That's the intention, since the writers needed to fill up some time. Some parts of the episode are absurd and cartoonish - Sideshow Bob being trampled on by elephants, the props used for HMS Pinafore - a drop-down British flag, a Playbill, etc. It seemed rather Looney Tunes at times. It may sound like I'm being overly critical, but I really do like this episode. My personal favourite parts include Homer still not getting the idea that he's now Homer Thompson, and the little homage to the opening credits, with The Thompsons.

[Archduke_Chocula]

yup, anoither fine episode from the Conan O' Brien era (I have the same birthday as him)

the rake scenes the best

his reactions priceless, and the way he just clamly changes irection after getting hit.

"niaaaagra"

[pat]

5/5 So freaking hilarious!! The rake scene, Bob singing the score from the H.M.S. Pinafore, The Thompsons, Homer scaring Bart. It goes on like that. This one ties Sideshow Bob Roberts for best Bob ep, IMO.

[Eddie]

Second best SSB episode. 7/10

[El Zilcho]

6/5. All I can say.

[I'm David Croket!]

Classic stuff 5/5
I want to be John Elway!

[Garp]

4´5/5, but I´ll rate it as 5/5 anyway.

[Robertuybrush]

5/5! Absolutely brilliant. One of the funniest episodes ever with awesome pacing. Arguably the best Sideshow Bob episode ever. And I love all of them.

[Archduke_Chocula]

Hehehe I love when there in the theatre and Homer has that huge Cigar

[Crotis Jivefunk]

One of Bob's best! 5/5

My Sideshow Bob ratings, from best to worst:

1)Brother From Another Series 5/5
2)Cape Feare 5/5
3)Sideshow Bob Roberts 5/5
4)Black Widower 4.5/5
5)Day of the Jackanapes 4.5/5
6)Krusty Gets Busted 4/5
7)Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming 4/5
8)Day of the Jackanapes 3/5

[Wezzo]

Mine's pretty similar to emetib's, but SSBR is at the bottom.

[Garp]

I have seen these one today at lunch time... and it was better than I remembered! I found something strange. Did you notice what´s wrote in Homer´s big cigar? "Knoxville World Fair 1983"... then 2 seasons later, we found that the fair was on 1982... it´s not important, but quite curious.

[Nebuchanezzar]

I asked Mike Scully to reopen this thread so I could R&R it, but now I don't feel like R&R'ing it because I'm lazy. I still want to discuss the episode though. Could someone who has contentious opinions about this episode please say something controversial so I can disagree with it?

[TheForbiddenDonut]

nonstop humor. It's not exactly my cup of tea, and I still find it to be far from the funniest episode of all time. Hence, not the first option.

[The Southern Zombie]

In the commentary for "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Badassssss Song", David Mirkin mentioned that one of the great things about Homer is that when he's pushed to the side of an episode's plot, he can be the most valuable character on the show, because then everything he does or says is gold. I believe "Cape Feare" is the best example of that, and it's the reason I noticed this "sporadic Homer effect" long before Mirkin explained it in that commentary.

I remember one time when I watched this episode for the first time in a long while, and ended up laughing at seemingly every single thing Homer said or did and thought he'd never been funnier. I adore the scene with the Witness Relocation Program agents and Homer so much that I used to recite it verbatim to amuse my friends. And that's not to say that Bart and Sideshow Bob aren't fantastic in the episode too...it's just that even though this episode is about them, I'll always think of it as one of the finest examples of Homer at his best.

[Stupid Flanders]

A Simpsons classic A+++

[-Bart-]

i don't get it. instand of killing Bart why was sideshow Bob singing the entire score from the HMS Pinafore? that was somehow kinda... stupid but other than that it was a good episode. 4/5

[tom cody]

A classic Simpsons episode, maybe the best of all-time.

[Fugitive]

A++++ one of the best episodes of the Simpsons and one of the funniest too. Hard to beat the rakes part and Bob singing the HMS Pinafore. Oh how I love Kelsey Grammer.

[KoenSoontjens]

imao the best ssb episode and a very good parody .and like many i think the homer thopsons sequence is the best.and a close secons is "Bart ya wanna see my new chainsaw and hockey mask?"

[Dr. Strangelove]

When I first saw this episode, I didn't like it that much because it was such a large departure from the previous Sideshow Bob episodes. However, after watching it many times since, it has grown to be one of my very favorite Bob episodes. The writing and animation are both excellent, making it a great last episode for the original writing staff.

[SideshowTim]

Second best SSB episode. 7/10
harsh eddie, harsh! :silly: has your opinion changed any 4 years down the track?

[America: Fuck Yea!]

amazing episode.

[re4p3r1]

the scene with bob hitting all those rakes were classic

[Kiyosuki]

Its one of the show's most well known episodes for a reason.

Nothing too heavy satire wise, but its just such an incredibly entertaining episode and it does it in a distinct way I can't imagine any other show doing quite the same way. The animation for its time was also excellent, some great use of shading. And every character was at their best balance here, especially Bart. It was also arguably Sideshow Bob's best moments in the series. You know you got some legendary moments in this, the thing with everything scaring Bart in bed, the scene where the Simpsons become the Thompsons, Bake em away Toys, Bob under the car, the musical scene in the end. Its all just great stuff, its probably one of the top 5 best paced and written episodes. Everything rolled out exceedingly smoothly. When a 20-25 minute episode feels much much longer you know the writing was pretty good.

[Nebuchanezzar]

harsh eddie, harsh! :silly: has your opinion changed any 4 years down the track?

My bet is that he's hidden this forum.

[banana plantation]

funny episode but if it came out nowadays ppl would be grabbing pitchforks and torches

[Nebuchanezzar]

That seems to be a fairly popular, although totally ludicrous point of view.

[SideshowTim]

funny episode but if it came out nowadays ppl would be grabbing pitchforks and torches
why would that be? are you saying people simply hate the new episodes for the sole purpose that they're new?

[gonz]

4/5 for sure. a brilliant episode and one of the best of season 5.

[re4p3r1]

why would that be? are you saying people simply hate the new episodes for the sole purpose that they're new?

it sure seems like it even though some of them are good episodes

[pizzamancjm]

last time I watched it, the episode made me think if the best elements of family guy and simpsons made an show this would be it, 5/5, because the random jokes and not what you think they will be kind of things really made this one of the best Simpsons episodes ever.

[Lollygagger]

A+ from beginning to end.

["El Barto"]

Better than Cape Fear, A Simpsons classic. I love this episode.

[Homerpalooza]

5/5

[NumberZone]

This is an awesome episode - 5/5

Great story and great jokes, a perfect episode.

[Anthony DiFrancesco]

It was great. Great plots, comedy, etc. I loved the new "couch gag" at terror lake. The sampsooooonss...

[Baby Gerald]

This is my favorite episode of the Simpsons ever A+.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Excellent episode with great gags and slapstick humor. Possibly the best "Bob" episode. 5/5

[Sideshow Jay]

5/5

My personal favorite. This episode contains non-stop laughs and is the episode that made me the Sideshow Bob fan I am today.

[Drutopia]

"The following people will not be killed by me..."

[yarbs527]

5/5 An amazing episode

[Swartzweldian]

By far the best Sideshow Bob episode. Excellent episode.

Now for the criticisms:

The story is taken almost completely from movies. I mean beat for beat paradies..It's the same thing. Music and all. Overall - not very original idea.

However, they twisted it just enough so that it works. If you hadnt seen the movies - then the episode just looks like a great original masterpiece. Having seen them adds some quick laughs at the paradies, but also shows the lack of originality.

The rake scene was pretty stupid. Im not sure how else to put it. It's a bad Family Guy gag. At the time - the idea of a long joke was pretty original so it was unique and funny. Its not a gag that ages well though.

You can tell Family Guy tried to build on a few classic Simpson moments - but with little other substance it has struggled.



Clearly a 5/5 - but not the best episode ever.

[Bumblebee_Man]

5/5

Outstanding.

[Basil-Ovelby]

One of my most favorite episodes ever.
Better than Cape Fear, and for me, that's saying a lot because I really love Cape Fear. XD

[Sideshow Jay]

I like the rake scene, which is rare since I don't usually care for extended gags like that. Maybe it has to do with the fact that The Simpsons doesn't usually do slapstick gags like that, and yet this was one of the most slapstick episodes. It was unusual and that made it funny to me. I've laughed even more in every subsequent episode in which Bob steps on a rake (though he usually only steps on one). Throwback gags FTW! If they did another extended rake scene, that would suck.

[cars01]

My favorite sideshow bob episode.

[moleman31]

I love this episode, but it's so overrated. Here are the flaws.

1. The rake scene. Extended gags are always annoying, and this one isn't funny.

2. The Homer Thompson scene. We get it, Homer is dumb. It goes on for too long.

3. The score to the HMS Pinafore being sung by Sideshow Bob. It is annoying and, like an earlier poster mentioned, a cartoony moment. They could have probably came up with a better ending.

This episode is full of hilarious moments ("BART DO YOU WANNA SEE MY CHAINSAW AND HOCKEY MASK!?!?!?" is great) but suffers from extended gags. The episode is almost all slapstick, and while there is nothing wrong with that if it is funny like it is here, other episodes do it better, like Last Exit to Springfield or Mr. Plow. Great episode, not one of the best. 4.5/5

[iPod]

I love this episode, but it's so overrated. Here are the flaws.

1. The rake scene. Extended gags are always annoying, and this one isn't funny.

2. The Homer Thompson scene. We get it, Homer is dumb. It goes on for too long.

3. The score to the HMS Pinafore being sung by Sideshow Bob. It is annoying and, like an earlier poster mentioned, a cartoony moment. They could have probably came up with a better ending.

This episode is full of hilarious moments ("BART DO YOU WANNA SEE MY CHAINSAW AND HOCKEY MASK!?!?!?" is great) but suffers from extended gags. The episode is almost all slapstick, and while there is nothing wrong with that if it is funny like it is here, other episodes do it better, like Last Exit to Springfield or Mr. Plow. Great episode, not one of the best. 4.5/5

Basically my opinion on the matter. A great episode, worthy of season 5, but very overrated in my opinion.

[Drumstick]

Amazing episode so many funny jokes good plot possibly the greatest episode of all time.5/5

[Moe Nopoly]

great episode and also one of my favorite ones. Funny and entertaining story.
I like especially the scene where Bob sings the entire score to the H.M.S. Pinafore :LOL: 5/5

[Evil Jebus]

Absolutely love it. It's just too god damn brilliant. If I had to choose a favorite episode with a gun to my head, more than likely, this would be the one.

[jase]

Damn amazing episode. It doesn't get much better than this folks. 5/5

[Cupcake Kitsune]

This is a very overrated episode. While there are many funny parts in it, and I do enjoy it, it just doesn't feel like one of the best episodes out there to be. Still, it is very good, so I'll give it a 4.5/5, rounded up to 5 for the poll.

[Lil Lisa at Lincoln]

I'd give it a 5/5. Classic Simpsons with so many moments that had me in hysterics.

[Starman]

Second favourite episode of all time, although I didn't care for the first scene.

A++

[homer2121]

This is a fantastic episode.

5/5

[Sniper Squirrel]

such a great episode, love sideshow bob's parole meeting, all the scary fake outs about who's trying to kill bart, the whole mr thompson thing, the list goes on, I'll give it a 9.5/10

[lovedartsandsimpsons]

My 2nd fav episode of all time(to who shot mr burns p1).loved "the thompsons" going though the clouds,the rakes(my fave joke ever)and the H.M.S pinafore.

[Elkwood]

Best
episode
ever.

[ThaSimpsonz]

4.5/5 (A-)
It's a well-directed and well-paced show, and there are lots of good gags.

[simpsonsfan20]

3.5/5

It was kind of an okay episode. The rake scene was really worth 60 seconds of the episode.

[Mr Johannson]

One of my favourite episodes ever. A lot of great moments. The rakes, Hello Mr Thompson... ,the elephants, HMAS Pinafore. And I've never even seen Cape Fear.

5/5

[PMD14]

A- (4/5)

I think this is the best Sideshow Bob episode along with Brother from another series. Thought it was hilarious the way Sideshow Bob was strapped under the car the whole journey and also him being trampled by the parade. The rake scene did go on a bit long and I'm not a fan of those scenes that are being funny by going on forever but whatever. Homer running into Bart's room with the knife was funny as well. Overall a good episode.

[Beast]

The funniest non-stop thrill ride Simpsons episode in history, and my personal favorite ever. Humor at its absolute best. A+

[Fox Executive]

Second favourite episode of all time, although I didn't care for the first scene.

A++

Me too, #2, right after homer the heretic

[Nebuchanezzar]

3.5/5

It was kind of an okay episode. The rake scene was really worth 60 seconds of the episode.

That would be extremely awkward.

[Fox Executive]

My favourite, that says everything, but for those who don't understand: A+++++

[ahhgoobras]

Definately one of the best episodes ever made

[TerwilligerBob]

For sheer volume of laughs, this one is king. Nonstop humor, purely classic, and Sideshow Bob at his very best. A simple plot, padded with hilarious scenes, and done just right makes this among the best episodes ever. Here is my ranking of the classic sequences:

#1 Sideshow Bob Steps On Rakes
#2 BART DO YOU WANT SOME BROWIES BEFORE YOU GO TO BED????
#3 The H.M.S. Pinafore
#4 Homer Thompson
#5 Parole (the Bart, the)
#6 The giant parade over Bob (no not the elephants!)
#7 Strapped under the car and through the cactuses
#8 In the theater (especially Bob getting mixed up: "Stay away...FOREVER!")
#9 Bart's Paranoia
#10 The death threats

And George Cauldron, you say the rakes went on too long? Apparently you missed the whole point. I mea, that was a piece of real genius. There is no mounting irritation, not the slightest change between each rake step, there is only one cut in the entire scene: when the camera pans out to reveal rakes scattered all around the car for no reason whatsoever, all "accidentally" pointing towards Bob(which is so random and ridiculous it makes you laugh twice as hard). It repeats over and over: turn, step, thud, nnrnrgrhh; proceeding steadily from funny to funnier to unfunny to the funniest thing ever. This is the Hilarity of Complete Randomness on a scale not seen until the peak of South Park. 5/5