Episodic Minority

[Comicshow MolemanBob]

Are there any episodes that you seem to be in a small minority for either loving, loathing, liking or disliking?

I hear a lot of dislike for 'Tennis the Menace' when I found it to be a pretty funny episode

I also found 'Holiday of Future's Past' to be really average when many people were raving about it...

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

Aside from much of the past 13 years? A Star is Burns is still in my personal top 5 episodes of all time.

[The Governor]

I hate Homer's enemy, and yes, I get it was supposed to be an experiment to see a relatively normal person in Springfield.

[The Thompsons]

Liking almost all of season 1, especially "Homer's Odyssey", "There's No Disgrace Like Home" and "The Tell-Tale Head"

Disliking the majority of the second half of season 9. One episode that I see praised alot on here, "Simpson Tide", would be the standout difference of opinion.
Also not liking "All Singing, All Dancing", while most people are indifferent to it.

[Real Melvin]

Overrated

"Dead Putting Society" - Very, Very bad characterization and it's not funny
"Mr. Plow" - I just don't find this one very entertaining and the plot is quite disjointed
"A Star is Burns" - The plot was thin and just felt like it was made to use the Critic

Underrated

"A Streetcar Named Marge" - A fantastic, emotional and hilarious main story with a brilliant subplot
"Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" - Brilliant portrayal of the crumminess of Spin-Offs and Troy McClure was on top form (As always)
"Bart the Mother" - A sweet Marge and Bart episode with a lot of great jokes

More later...

[The Thompsons]

A Streetcar Named Marge" - A fantastic, emotional and hilarious main story with a brilliant subplot

You should have been on here 5 years ago. This episode was in a lot of people's top ten.

[CMYK]

I liked, that 90s show. Lots of people dislike it.

[bomberswarm2]

Here is my ranking for every episode:
So you tell me what is under/overrated. But my Top 5, in no pitculaur order:
1. Lisa on Ice
2. Bart vs Thanksgiving
3. The Secret War of Lisa Simpson
4. Bart vs Lisa vs The Third Grade
5. Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Any More

[CMYK]

That spread sheets intese ...

[Mr Black]

I find Dead Putting Society very underated on here, much like Bart of Darkness which was up in 33 on the top 100 list. Same with I love Lisa which was very high.

Apart from that Trilogy of Error and Eternal Moonshine are rated quite highly which is bemusing to say the least.

[Brad Lascelle]

I liked, that 90s show. Lots of people dislike it.

That 90s Show is one of those odd duck episodes that is possible to enjoy if you're able to consciously ignore how it takes a dump on the continuity established in every flashback episode that preceded it. Selman's one of the few ultra-talented writers the show has left in its stable and the episode is fine when treated as some alternate universe tale as it does have strong characterizations and the Nirvana parody is pretty inspired.

[The Spruce Moose]

I like There's No Disgrace Like Home, Bart Gets an Elephant, The Otto Show, Radioactive Man, Burns, Baby Burns, Trash of the Titans, The Trouble with Trillions and Homer's Odyssey. I quite like When You Dish Upon A Star. I find Saddlesore Galactica and Bart-Mangled Banner okay (although I haven't seen either in years)

Moe Baby Blues, Eternal Moonshine of the Simpsons Mind, Holidays of Future Passed and Trilogy of Error are all overrated. They're quite good but nowhere near classics.

I prefer Season 11 to Season 13 (but again, haven't seen either one in a while)

I prefer Season 2 to Season 4

[Company Picnic]

I'm not a huge fan of Homer at the Bat, even though it's from one of the very strongest seasons of the show and does have some decent jokes nonetheless. It's one of the best of its format on the show (doesn't match Krusty Gets Kancelled but much better than any later guest star episodes) and the pacing and writing on the episode is good but really it doesn't particularly grab me.

[Dobbie]

I found 'Holidays of Future Passed' quite bland and uninteresting. The characters did feel like humans rather than cartoons but it doesn't stop the fact I barely gave out a chuckle during the episode.

I might get murdered for this but 'Simpson Safari' isn't as bad as people make it out to be in my opinion. Yes it's a poor episode, but not in my 'worst 20'.

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

14 Overrated:

Kamp Krusty
Mr Plow
Separate Vocations
Colonel Homer
Selma's Choice
Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood
Homie the Clown
A Star is Burns
Radioactive Man
Bart the Fink
Trilogy of Error
The Haw Hawed Couple
Eeny Teeny Maya Moe
Holidays of Future Passed

28 Underrated:

Bart the Genius
Bart the General
Life on the Fast Lane
Simpson and Delilah
Treehouse of Horror
Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish
Bart vs Thanksgiving
Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
Homer vs Lisa & the 8th Commandment
Brush with Greatness
Blood Feud
Mr Lisa Goes to Washington
Bart the Murderer
Like Father, Like Clown
A Streetcar Named Marge
Lisa the Beauty Queen
I Love Lisa
The Front
Homer's Barbershop Quartet
Marge on the Lam
Sideshow Bob Roberts
Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequancy
Bart's Comet
Homer vs. Patty and Selma
'Round Springfield
The Springfield Connection
Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish
Bart Carny

[Ruffles]

I happen to like 'New Kids on the Blecch'

[Jesse Pinkman]

liked 90s show

absolutely hated boy meets curl and consider it a bottom 3 episode of the series

[Financial Panther]

Oh boy, here we go.

NOTE: An episode I say I like a lot more than most MUST STILL BE ABOVE-AVERAGE in my eyes. The same goes with the episodes I dislike more than most; they must be below-average. For example, I don't find Lisa's Substitute as great as most people, but as I don't find it below-average, I will not put it on my list. This is to keep it from appearing that I am a big fan of Kill Gil or a hater of Lisa's Substitute.

Episodes I Like a Lot More than Most

Lisa the Greek
Bart's Friend Falls in Love
Brother From the Same Planet
Bart's Comet
Two Bad Neighbors
Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
Simpsoncalifragilisticexpialad'ohcious
Lisa the Skeptic
Girly Edition
Trash of the Titans
King of the Hill
Maximum Homerdrive
Thirty Minutes over Tokyo
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?
Saddlesore Galactica
Homer vs. Dignity
HOMЯ
Day of the Jackanapes
Simpson Safari
Tales From the Public Domain
Blame it on Lisa
The Great Louse Detective
The Dad Who Knew Too Little
The Bart of War
I, D'oh-bot
Margical History Tour
Mobile Homer
Don't Fear the Roofer
A Star is Torn
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore
The Monkey Suit
Little Big Girl
Homerazzi
Marge Gamer
Funeral for a Fiend
Gone Maggie Gone
Thursdays With Abie
The Bob Next Door
Donnie Fatso
The Falcon and the D'ohman

Episodes I Dislike a Lot More than Most

Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment
Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
Separate Vocations
Last Exit to Springfield
The Front
$pringfield
Lisa on Ice
Scenes From the Class Struggle in Springfield
Lisa the Iconoclast
El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer
Homer's Phobia
Behind the Laughter
She of Little Faith
Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays
Catch 'Em if You Can
She Used to Be My Girl
Future-Drama
The Heartbroke Kid
Springfield Up
You Kent Always Say What You Want
All About Lisa
Treehouse of Horror XX
The Color Yellow
The Fight Before Christmas
Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts

[The Spruce Moose]

I've never heard a bad word against Lisa the Greek, Bart's Friend Falls in Love or Bart's Comet on here FP

[Financial Panther]

Those episodes I still feel are underappreciated, though. I wasn't sure if I should put them or not.

[Jims]

When scoring the Top 100 lists, I found that people like three episodes waaaaaaaay more than me. In particular, Homer vs the Eighteenth Amendment, The Springfield Files, and Homer Badman.

I'm one of those people who gets really hung up on the ending of an episode (see my rant about Lisa the Iconoclast), and the ending of Homer Badman has always bugged me. They don't really foreshadow Groundskeeper Willie very well in the story, so the way it is written, he just feels like a big deus ex machina. Granted, they have to clear Homer somehow, but they could have definitely executed it better.

It's also a very angry and negative episode in general, so I don't really enjoy watching it much.

As for episodes I probably like more than others, probably Homer to the Max is the biggest one. People seem to hate that episode for some reason, but I think it's great. Yeah, it does go a bit off the rails in the 3rd act but the first two acts are almost flawless and even the 3rd act has some funny gags (like Ed Begley Jr's car).

I also like Homer the Moe. Sue me.

[Financial Panther]

Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait......You don't like Lisa the Iconoclast either? Come. Come. We must talk.

[Jims]

Nah, I said I don't like the ending of Lisa the Iconoclast. I'd have to find the rant post I made about it, but I believe I called it the biggest cheat ending of the Classic Era.

EDIT: That was easy to find. Hooray Advanced Search function.

There is NO WAY, I repeat, NO WAY in hell that Donald Sutherland's character could have stolen that tongue right in front of everyone. His explanation is that he saw it as the dust was clearing in front of everyone and then snatched it quickly. But that's such garbage. They're basically saying that EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO WAS STARING EXPECTANTLY RIGHT AT THE COFFIN DIDN'T SEE THE GUY REACH TOWARD THE SKULL AND PULL SOMETHING OUT. That he just magically was able to see through the dust better than everyone else and then was able to grab it without being seen by anyone.

That is such garbage, and is definitely the kind of thing we would utterly destroy if it happened today. I would be somewhat okay with this if the reveal was in a jokey way or they lampshaded it, but the episode plays it so straight with the Dramatic Mystery Reveal that it makes me think the writers think this is a clever twist. And yeah, I guess it's surprising in a way but it's so utterly cheap and implausible.

(The first time I saw this episode, I assumed he exhumed the body by himself beforehand because I assumed no one could've pulled that off. But on subsequent viewings, it's clear that he means when he was with everyone else. Maybe I need to rewatch it and he really meant as they were prying open the case he saw it, but I don't remember it being framed that way either.)

And, ugh, then the guy goes ahead AND HIDES THE TONGUE IN THE MIDDLE OF A SET DISPLAY THAT EVERYONE CAN SEE. I mean, what the hell. Who on Earth would do something like that? Especially someone so concerned with the legend of Jebediah Springfield? It's so stupid it feels like it's a joke in the episode, but they play the moment completely straight.

I like the Homer/Lisa aspect of the episode and themes and stuff, but this Act 3 silliness with the tongue is really, really distracting for me.

[Financial Panther]

Yes. The ending is the worst ending I've ever seen. It completely ruins the episode and leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It is my least favorite episode of the series.

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

On the contrary I think the ending was pretty much perfect.

[Financial Panther]

That's fine. I'm a person who needs the truth to be told, and I can't stand liars. But I can see your point.

[alex_on_ice]

I've always liked Homer v.s Dignity (and I'm sure I'm one of the only members on here that likes the episode).

I've always hated Gone Maggie Gone (and on the french simpsons forum, a lot of the members consider it to be the strongest episode of Season 20 --> I don't like the atmosphere in the second half of the episode. It's just too crazy!!! Even if it's trying to parody The Da Vinci Code).

[Financial Panther]

I don't have a problem with Homer vs. Dignity. In fact, I probably should write it in my list.

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

I'll tell you why I liked it FP. I liked the point that they made which is that sometimes not knowing the truth and being happy is better than knowing the truth and being miserable. Especially when you consider Jebediah Springfield was dead for hundreds of years or w.e. I think that having Lisa carry on her 'He's a fraud, you should all be ashamed' stance would have made for a very bad ending.

[Financial Panther]

It would've certainly been a wackier ending, yes, but I still would've preferred it to what we got. Just my opinion, though.