Make one bad season out of S1-S8!

[christmas_ape]

"When I first watched 138th special clip show as soon as I saw Troy McClure Narrating I knew it was gonna be awesome
And it was."

I should have made it clear that I didn't include that episode, just the other two. That one gets a pass because actually very little of it is composed of old footage. I realise you don't seem that interested in actual discussion of the episodes' merits, but meh.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

What's it to you? And why shouldn't they count? If they're not supposed to count, then they shouldn't exist.

Because they're not actual episodes, and shouldn't be considered so. If it is, it's just filler because you CAN'T make a full bad season out of the classic era.

[Prune Tracy]

Because they're not actual episodes, and shouldn't be considered so. If it is, it's just filler because you CAN'T make a full bad season out of the classic era.

How are they not actual episodes? They still have plots. It's not like it's all clips from previous episodes.

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

They are still episodes dude.

[Homer Defined]

Because they're not actual episodes, and shouldn't be considered so. If it is, it's just filler because you CAN'T make a full bad season out of the classic era.

That's why the two I posted on my list is there, just for filler so the list wouldn't be too short, not because of the fact that they're clip shows. I left the 138th Episode Spectacular off because it felt more like a separate special from S7 than just a clip show.

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

That's why the two I posted on my list is there, just for filler so the list wouldn't be too short, not because of the fact that they're clip shows. I left the 138th Episode Spectacular off because it felt more like a separate special from S7 than just a clip show.

I have to agree; clip shows seem to be the only majorly disliked episodes out of the classic era and while I think of them as episodes that shouldn't count, they do constitute the bad parts of classic era seasons. As I said before, it is almost impossible to think of a bad classic era season due to the fact that a majority of these episodes are classic, good and decent. None of them are truly terrible enough to be constituted as bad.

[The Angry Animated Comedy Nerd]

My updated list (using seasons 1-9) -

Bart's Friend Falls in Love
Marge Gets a Job
So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show
Another Simpsons Clip Show
Bart's Girlfriend
A Star Is Burns
Lemon of Troy
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular
The Day the Violence Died
Treehouse of Horror VII
Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious
The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase
All Singing, All Dancing
Bart Carny
Joy of Sect
Das Bus
The Trouble with Trillions

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

How are they not actual episodes? They still have plots. It's not like it's all clips from previous episodes.

Another Simpsons Clip Show pretty much is.

[Prune Tracy]

Another Simpsons Clip Show pretty much is.

It still has a plot, thin as it is. Hell, it even made me laugh once.