What was the first episode of "the Simpsons" you watched?

[garret]

The first bit of the Simpsons I ever watched was a few minutes of "I'm with Cupid", but the first full episode I watched was either, "Sweet and sour Marge", or "30 minutes over tokyo".

[Nameless]

"There's No Disgrace Like Home", back when the show first premiered on UK terrestrial.

[Billy]

'Bart the Daredevil', back when the show first premiered on UK terrestrial (the second episode they showed).

[maggie_simpson]

I think I first saw Moaning Lisa, but about a year after it first aired on UK terrestrial.

[Klia]

I first saw THOH 4.

[Hypnotize]

i first saw saw the 3d animation of THOH 6 when i was 7 (or something young like that) and i started really watching it when i was 12

[Solid Snake]

The Call of the Simpsons, when I was 4 (I'm 18 now :P) we had it on one of those old fasioned Simpsons Collection VHS's.

[grissom]

I'm not entirely sure. The first couple I really remember are The Mansion Family and a couple THOHs. I downloaded a bunch of low quality episodes on my laptop when I first started watching the show, including those mentioned above. It could've been any of those 30-35 episodes. I didn't watch it much on TV for some reason in the beginning.

[CJman327]

Yeah, when I was 3 my uncle loved The Simpsons(and still does, but don't worry he's only almost 28 so he's not a loser! :p)and I had seen The Mysterious Voyage Of Homer. :D

[Willmak5389]

I don't exactly remeber what my first was, but I vividly remember seeing Lisa's rival when I was real young.

[Klia]

Yeah, when I was 3 my uncle loved The Simpsons(and still does, but don't worry he's only almost 28 so he's not a loser! :p)and I had seen The Mysterious Voyage Of Homer. :D

So there's certain age limits to watching the Simpsons?

(Beyond that of children.)

[John Jay Smith]

Homer Simpsons versus the City of New York, then the one where Grandpa's kidneys explode.

[TheForbiddenDonut]

I saw 'Clown Without Pity' from THOH 3 when I was pretty young. The first full episode I watched was 'Krusty Gets Busted.'

[CJman327]

Well, god, if you were like 52 you don't like The Simpsons really! :p

[garret]

^ That sentence made absolutely no sense.

[TerrorK]

Not sure, it was way back in 1990 from the first season whatever it was. I have a feeling it was There's No Disgrace Like Home... something about seeing the shocking sequence before pretty much anything else rings in my mind. Can't be certain though.

[Disco Stud]

i got in on the ground floor....1st airing of 'simpsons roasting on an open fire" 1989.

[Steve Bennett]

Disco Stud And i watched the very same broadcast. #1 and have been hooked ever sense.

[david195]

My first ever experience of The Simpsons was one of the Tracey Ullman shorts - 'Bart of the Jungle' I think which was on at the start of a VHS movie as a preview for the Simpsons video collection. The first full length episode I saw was 'The Call of the Simpsons' on one of said videos back in about 1996 which I borrowed off my step-brother and I can remember even back then thinking it was the best show I'd ever seen. It's funny to think that the show's been part of my life for a whole decade now. Here's hoping for the next decade.

[Uncke Herb]

Can't remember, but Dog of Death vividly comes to my mind.

[Nebuchanezzar]

I ain't one of them punkass bitches that began watching The Simpsons from the start. Nup, but I did come in during Mirkin's reign of terror, with my first episode being And Maggie Makes Three. A brilliant start to a brilliant TV show.

[Toli]

I have no idea. The Simpsons began when I was born and thats how long I've been watching it for.

[Stratman]

My first recollection of the show is Homer ''taking his boulder for a walk.'' I honestly can't remember the first episode I watched because I started when I was 6 and I'm now 22.

[Disco Stud]

I ain't one of them punkass bitches that began watching The Simpsons from the start. Nup, but I did come in during Mirkin's reign of terror, with my first episode being And Maggie Makes Three. A brilliant start to a brilliant TV show.

i would say that makes you special, except what makes you REALLY great is how you managed to post nearly 500 times in under 3 months....

heres to hoping you get a life :chug:

[Simpsons Forever!]

As I've said before in numerous threads like this and will say again, Moaning Lisa was the first episode of The Simpsons I watched.

[Mowbs]

"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire." I was like 5 years old and we watched it as a family. I have been following the show from the very beginning. I remember in first greade we had to talk about ourselves in front of the class in the beginning of the shcool year. I mentioned that my favorite show was The Simpsons and I think my teacher was upset that I enjoyed the show that much.

[Wonderlicious]

I recently found out (due to seeing old TV schedules) that the first episode that I ever saw in its entirety was Call of the Simpsons when it premiered in 1996 on the BBC, though I had seen the beginning of Bart the General on a friend's video years before. And I hate to sound like a broken record, but from the moment I watched Call of the Simpsons, I was forever hooked.

By the way, did anyone in the UK ever see the show around the time it premiered on Sky (thanks to the BBC's initial response that it was too American for British tastes (http://www.wetware.demon.co.uk/simpsons/article.1991-03.theface.html) :uhh: )? Can anyone describe what they felt? And as I was only three and wasn't truly aware of the media, what was the buzz on The Simpsons like around 1991 or so in England?

[TransponderHut]

The Tracey Ullman Show shorts. My mother used to watch it in reruns on Lifetime all the time, so I got exposed to The Simpsons at a very young age.
My very first episode was Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire during the 1989 holiday season.

[Dr. Bartley]

Call of the Simpsons but not on it's original airing.

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

call me a punkass bitch.....I watched many of the Tracey Ullman shorts during their original airdates....

[Matt19]

Me too, But I just have vast memories of them, first full episode was Call of the Simpsons.

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

yeah, I have a hazy memory of the Ullman shorts. But in my defense, I wasn't preparing for the Simpsons to still be around nearly 20 years later....not to mention the loss of many a brain cell during that period....

[Good Moleman To Robert]

No clue, I would have been a newborn. Been watching all my life.

[XxJohnxX]

"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"

I saw it on 12/17/89. Yep thats right. THe first airing of the first episode. I was hooked immediately.

[Veryjammy]

Marge On The Lam which is maybe why I'm fonder of it than many people here. That antique cans gag had me rolling.

[StarskyMaxwell]

Marge In Chains, in its first airing in Spain. Good times.

[Smo]

"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", this past summer

[S-M-R-T]

the earliest ep of the simpsons i remember watching, was probably homer cubed or simpsons roasting on an open fire

[kfc_colonel]

When I was little I was forbade from watching The Simpsons. I think my parents were just going by what they had heard. When I was finally allowed to watch it, the episode I saw was Homer at the Bat when it first aired. Pretty good first impression.

[ZombieFlanders86]

When I was little I was forbade from watching The Simpsons. I think my parents were just going by what they had heard. When I was finally allowed to watch it, the episode I saw was Homer at the Bat when it first aired. Pretty good first impression.


Yeah, I wasnt allowed to watch the Simpsons for awhile, till i was at a nieghbor's house with my parents. The kids were all watching " one fish, two fish, blow fish, bluefish", and my dad let me watch. After that, my dad saw the show was fine and i started watching repeats.

[shhbly]

Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire


after watching Tracey Ullman, I was really excited for the Simpsons
series!
I was in college and a bunch of us got together to watch. It was just a few days before going home for Christmas break!

[Joel Duffman]

Disco Stud And i watched the very same broadcast. #1 and have been hooked ever sense.

I'm with you guys! Fall of 1989 I was in junior high school and "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" was all me and my nerd friends talked about. Until the next episode that is.

[do what donny dont does]

call me a punkass bitch.....I watched many of the Tracey Ullman shorts during their original airdates....


Here's to the true old schoolers! :chug:

[Gatorgod]

The one where Homer builds Bart a crappy Go-cart racer *Syndicated rerun*

[Red Hot Homer Simpson]

The First One I remember Seeing Was Cape Feare (when I was about 4) All I remember of it was the thompsons thing where Homer Goes "...I think he's talking to you"

[Rest your giant head]

"The call of the Simpsons",six years ago.
Man,I can't believe I'm watching this show for six years!

[Mr. McCraig]

Six years, try sixteen! My intro to the simpsons was Bart the General when it originally aired back in 1990. We didn't have the fox station at the time, and I saw it while visiting relatives in another state. I had never even heard of the simpsons, but I thought the episode was great! I remember shortly after we returned home 'simpsons mania' exploded and everyone knew about it. Our NBC affiliate picked up the show and began to air it on saturday afternoons before fox came into our area. I was 10 at the time so in my head Bart and I are still she same age. Today is my/our 27th birthday!

[Joel Duffman]

Using "Simpsons Math" Bart would be 27 this year. That is crazy considering that I am only 3 years older! Does anybody remember when the show moved to Thursdays to go up against the Cosby Show? that was the biggest deal in television, after "Who Shot JR" of course.

[Monty Burns]

Back on topic, I remember the first episode that I ever saw was

The Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire on the Greatest Hits Video way back in '99 when I was 6. I'm 13 now and still enjoy the show to this date!

[Mazzi_rules]

wish i was old enuf to watch the Ullmen shorts...... i cant rember wot the first episode i watched was.... i think it was a tree house of horror iii

[AngryDad33]

Dumbbell Indemnity-Homer jumping out of the car and rolling back in, Moleman bringing the books for Homer and Homer picking up the book called how to escape from prison and hitting Moleman with it, and Homer riding the book cart saying " must kill Moe weeeeeee must kill Moe weeeeee" made me laugh alot when I was a kid after that I never stopped watching.

[garret]

I just remembered watching an episode at my Grandma's when I was four. I think it was Marge vs. the Monorail. I guess that's my actual first episode... I would have watched it more but my mom wouldn't let me.

[Thats A Paddlin]

The first one I can remember watching is Bart The Daredevil.

[bluemoose]

How do you guys remember? I haven't got the faintest idea what the first episode I watched was.

[jim]

Whichever was the first episode that ever aired in Australia all those years ago. Think I was about 8 years old. I know it was a double episode, and Im sure the episodes were Bart The General and the Babysitter Bandit but I could be wrong. Been hooked ever since.

[Nightshade]

I think the first episode I ever watched was Bart the Daredevil.