Your Favorite Episode and Why

[Little Nellie Kelly]

As I haven't seen a thread for this, I decided to go ahead and make it: what is your favorite episode, and why?

I'll add my full thing later, but my favorite episode is Principal Charming.

[Jesse Pinkman]

Springfield Files:

I think it is a hilarious episode the whole way through. From the opening with Leonard Nimoy to the "Keep watching the skis! Duh, I mean skies" line, this episode is chock full of great gags.

I also really like characterization. Homer wasn't portrayed crazy, or at least, not as crazy as he would have felt in the Scully/Jean era. He was crazy because he thought he saw an alien, but he didn't try to force people to believe him, like he almost certainly would have done in the Scully/Jean eras.

It also had a very great idea for the plot. I like mystery/sci-fi stuff, and that was exactly what this episode was. Did Homer see an alien? When others see it, is it really an alien? The mystery aspect is remarkable.

I read somewhere that this episode was originally going to end on a mystery, with the viewers not knowing if it was an alien or not. That also would've been a great ending I think!

So, this episode is my favorite of the series. Might be a random choice but it is one of those episodes I can always watch and I know, no matter what, I will love it and be entertained. 10/10 (because i don't think it is fair for a normal 5/5)

[zartok-35]

I'll add my full thing later, but my favorite episode is Principal Charming.

I thought your favorite episode was "Marge on the lam". Thats certainly mine!

Marge on the Lam has the perfect combination of 'Odd-ball' jokes and unusual chracter relations, which puts it into a league of it's own.

[Little Nellie Kelly]

It changed.

[Old painty-can Ned]

Marge Simpson Vs The Monorail: The episode starts off with a rather blatant parody of the Flinstones song which ends decently funny( it being one of the most remembered things in Simpsons history). The next bit which I found gut busting was Burns getting arrested for dumping the toxic waste making a comment about the bald children arousing suspicion. While at his court case in Hannibal Lector attire he easily pays his fine and buys the staue of just while the judge happily says SOLD! proving a subtle point about the justice system. The town hall meeting is one solid jokes after another and to cap it off ends with the best musical number in Simpsons history. The town meeting like most of Springfields town meeting do show a case for mob mentality and just stpidity on the towns part(Snake: Could this town be any stupider?). But it's not just them it also shows that in the Springfield universe most towns could be swept up by a suave man and his iseads all b/c one person accepts it. Evidence of this are that when Marge goes to the other town to pick up Cobb you can see the cracks in their street implying that their main street was all cracked and broken as well. The character of Lyle Lanley is the best performance Phil Hrtman ever gave to the show. He is suave,smart and can even beat one of the towns smartest(Lisa) with his charm.

The episode also contains a few of my favourite jokes from the show including my all time favourite one liner
Cobb:I knew I shouldn't have stopped for that haircut.
But is also chalk full of other like Lisa and Lanleys conversation before he enter the cab"Yah well my plane leaves in less than a minute".Homer as the monorail conducter is just gold with many hilarious jokes(him and Bart studying,"I call the big one bitey") and the whole development of the rail is gold. Lastly this episode contains my favourtie appereance of a guest star in Nimoy as every line he had was pure gold.

So in closing this episode may be low on settiment but the the show has never had better gags and one liners. It truly changed the way people could imagine the Simpsons and could only could've come from the zany mind of Conan O'Brien and the brillian writers of the classic era room.

Grade: A++ The Best Episode Of All Time

[Duygu]

Stark Raving Dad and Bart the Mother (:

[Ray Jay Jonah]

Thnking quickly, Don't Fear The Roofer, $pringfield, Trilogy of Error and Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming.

[Jakro]

I've watched the episodes from the classic seasons once (I'm getting around to doing it again), but the episode that got most powerfully struck inside my brain the first time around was Lisa's Wedding. Maybe not the funniest episode (though solid on jokes anyway), but Lisa is by far my favorite character and I remember being very emotionally overwhelmed after watching it.

[bigmoney2112]

Dancing homer just because it was entertaining and is an episode I could watch over and over and not get bored of it.

[Financial Panther]

My favorite episode is Bart Carny. Cooder and Spud are the BEST one-time characters the show has ever had, and the jokes just never stop. I never understood how it is possible to dislike this episode, because it is simply genius.

[El Duderino]

My all-time favorite episode would be The Boy Who Knew Too Much. A superbly crafted episode, with some wonderful gags, tight and nicely flowed pacing, some excellent characterization and a perfect balance of drama and comedy. I particularly like the beginning of the episode with Skinner hunting down Bart in a way hilariously reminiscent of Westworld and Bart's line "Oh my God, he is like some sort of...non...giving up...school guy!". Another very memorable moment in the episode is of course Dan's performance of the Miao Mix commercial which always cracks me up. The episode also has one of the best parodies of the legal system in the series imo. The Freddy Quimby character was fun and suitably arrogant. I also really like the hotel stuff between Homer and Skinner, the 'new' director's cut version of Free Willy (which also reminds me of Skinner's line "Justice is not a frivolous thing, Simpson. It has little if anything to do with a disobedient whale." ). Definitely one of the best Swartzwelder-written episodes and one that'll continue to remain my favorite.

[Miss Diko]

Bart's Comet, it's one of the few classic episodes that make me laugh from beginning to end, you get to see an off school activity of Skinner, we get introduced to the 'super friends,' and I liked how Homer kept reassuring his family everything was going to be ok even though he didn't know for sure, and ended up being right on the nose in the end!

Also Bart of Darkness, it reminds me of summers with my older brother since we have a pool in the backyard. Strangers would come over just to use the pool, if one of us couldn't swim we had to fake pity/accompany the other, finding weird ways to stay cool in the SoCal heat, etc.

[Bella Drape 'er]

My all-time favorite episode would be The Boy Who Knew Too Much. A superbly crafted episode, with some wonderful gags, tight and nicely flowed pacing, some excellent characterization and a perfect balance of drama and comedy. I particularly like the beginning of the episode with Skinner hunting down Bart in a way hilariously reminiscent of Westworld and Bart's line "Oh my God, he is like some sort of...non...giving up...school guy!". Another very memorable moment in the episode is of course Dan's performance of the Miao Mix commercial which always cracks me up. The episode also has one of the best parodies of the legal system in the series imo. The Freddy Quimby character was fun and suitably arrogant. I also really like the hotel stuff between Homer and Skinner, the 'new' director's cut version of Free Willy (which also reminds me of Skinner's line "Justice is not a frivolous thing, Simpson. It has little if anything to do with a disobedient whale." ). Definitely one of the best Swartzwelder-written episodes and one that'll continue to remain my favorite.

The Boy Who Knew Too Much is definitely one of my favourites too!

The beautiful day beginning and the reluctance of going to school/work is such a downer of misery and therefore very relatable. Shunted into school, Bart delivers a comic-enducing note of absense: "Please excuse my handwriting, I busted whichever hand it is I write with. Signed, Mrs. Simpson." Which naturally converts Skinner into a detective figure - albeit a bad one: "If I were a truant boy out for a good time, I'd be right here:
the Springfield Natural History Museum."

Little wonderful touches continue throughout with traunt Bart and work absentee Homer meeting up, Skinner tastes Bart's gum on the street, the Terminator-esque chase, Bart's enduring climbing up a rocky cliff with added tense music. Homer elected to Dury duty: "Aw, jury duty? I'll see that Quimby kid hanged for this!". Bart battling his conscience, Lisa trying to push him in the right direction. Marge revealing some disturbing family history. Homer and Skinner in a hotel room. And finally justice is served at the end.

I can only recall in delight of the fun I've had watching this countless times. To see justice and humour served so magnificently in the Court of the Simpsons.

And although this is my favourite episode, I would delightfully reward Lisa's Substitute, Stark Raving Dad and Lisa's Wedding runner up places.

[tom cody]

Homer The Heretic:

Just a great all around episode, featuring my favourite line of the series (As shown in my sig), also each character was at their best in this one. I still get a kick out of one of the Flanders kids telling their father to speed up and Ned saying: "I Can't, it's a GEO"

[Little Nellie Kelly]

^

That's actually in Homer Loves Flanders.

Maude tells Ned to speed up and he says that he can't, because it's a GEO.


^ Homer Loves Flanders


^ Homer the Heretic

[Granto]

haha all this time, and Tom doesn't even know his favourite episode's quotes

[Mira]

Bart Sells his soul is #1 followed by Eeny Teeny Maya Moe and Moe Baby Blues.

they're sweet episodes and moe is in them a lot.

[Kang's Bastard Spore]

Favorite: Bart Sells Soul

Reason:


I.


Ron


Butterfly

[River Felix]

Lisa on ice
- Great jokes
- Solid simple story
- Nice emotional moments
- Ends with a riot and a great hokeyesque take on the simpsons theme

[Granto]

As I haven't seen a thread for this

what a puzzling statement

[cinco]

As I haven't seen a thread for this, I decided to go ahead and make it: what is your favorite episode, and why?

http://www.nohomers.net/showthread.php?t=84044

[Granto]

yes that would be 1 of the 540,000

[cinco]

Ok then, here we go again. My controversial choice:

I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU, BUT NOT FROM YOUR FILMS:
THE BRILLIANCE OF “A FISH CALLED SELMA”

7 minutes. The core Simpsons-family only appears for 7 minutes in this episode that just contains an A-plot. No B-plot present in this one. The tragic love-story between Selma and Troy gets all the space in the world to breathe. But is it a love-story? Troy claims he doesn’t really love Selma, but why the crushed look in his eyes during the end when Selma leaves him? Watch it and try to feel not sorry for both.

SET-UP: A Fish Called Selma is a testament to the fully realized Simpsons-universe that has been created during the first seven years and it proofs the brilliance and boldness during the Oakley&Weinstein-period: focusing on a one-joke character, turning him into a fully realized person and weaving the Simpsons naturally into the mix, but keeping them in the background, free from true plot-involvement. Take in mind, Homer spoiling the fakeness of the marriage isn’t the reason for Selma to leave Troy.

VISUALS: The “camera”-angles of a drunken Troy driving his DeLorean (!) through the streets pulls you right into the life of this Hollywood-outcast, the parallel Sir LiesAlot--Miss Piggy // Troy--Selma wedding-request is funny, ironic and touching at the same time, the astonishing “Planet of The Apes Musical”-montage reaches perfection… this episode is a visual delight.

PERFORMANCE: This is Phil Hartman’s “moment de gloire” as a Simpsons voice-actor, but Julie Kavner also deserves praise for the layered emotions she puts into Selma’s voice during this episode.

HUMOR: But is the episode funny? Oh yes, it certainly is.

Wiggum: Ow, I'm seeing stars here!
Troy: No, just one!

Parker: Troy! Mac Parker. Ever hear of... Planet of the Apes?
Troy: Uh... the movie or the planet?

Selma: This is the best day of my life.
Troy: It's a good day for me too, baby.

Waiter: Cigarette, Mrs. McClure?
Troy: You bet! From now on, she's smoking for two!

And… every single line of the musical.

EMOTION: Furthermore, this episode contains real sincere and heartfelt moments:

Selma: Well, not much happens to me. But I once had dinner with a movie
star, and it was the most wonderful night of my life.

Selma: Hmmm... Look, I'm sorry. A loveless marriage is one thing, we're
not hurting anybody. But bringing a child into a loveless family
is something I just can't do.

If one episode is able to become a movie-scenario, it is this one!

[Diversity Pumpkin]

Troy claims he doesn’t really love Selma, but why the crushed look in his eyes during the end when Selma leaves him?

Because her leaving would end the revival of his career.

[Miss Diko]

I sort of agree that Troy was upset more or less because he lost out on a major comeback opportunity at the end, but perhaps he felt for a moment that there was a woman out there that really truly cared for him, thus Selma's last line, "I'll always remember you, but not from your films."

[Old painty-can Ned]

and calling A Fish Called Selma Phil Hartman's best voice actor moment is quite the hyperbole

[Miss Diko]

and calling A Fish Called Selma Phil Hartman's best voice actor moment is quite the hyperbole

To cinco it might be (also perhaps it was because it's an episode about the character), but I personally liked his VA'ing better in "Realty Bites"