First episode you ever watched

[Lionel Hutz]

This thread idea came to me while I was reviewing "Homer and Apu", which I'm about 90% sure was the first episode I watched.
This might be a tough question for some as the show has been on so long, many of us can't remember a world without it.
(Could be a premiere or a repeat)

[The Governor]

"Goodnight" on the Ullman show when I was 11.

[irvine_11]

Too young to remember, but the earliest episode I remember watching the premiere of is Lisa's Sax. I was five years old.

[The Wiggs]

I honestly could not tell you. I wish I knew, but I never will.

[jbauer]

My first Simpsons viewing wasn't even an episode. It was Do the Bartman, the Michael Jackson-esque music video directed by Brad Bird, when it premiered on MTV. I was 9 at the time.

My first episode was Homer's Odyssey, which first aired a couple of months after I saw Do the Bartman.

[The Thompsons]

"There's No Disgrace Like Home" when I was 7 on January 28,1990.

Le Jake wins the thread however viewing the first short on the then fledgling Fox Network.

[Dehumanizer]

Oh I wish I could remember. The first season I watched as a whole on DVD though was either season two or three , back in like 2003 or something. Don't know remember what exact episodes I saw on TV before that though.

[Alex_Of_Darkness]

I saw the Simpsons movie in the movie theater during the summer of 2007 and as I liked it, I decided to buy the season 7 a few months later when saw it in the store and oddly the first episode that I decided to watch is Marge be Not Proud from the second disc.

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

I know I probably watched the show as an infant thanks to home movies where I have a Bart poster in my room that I never remember owning. The earliest episode I can actually remember watching the night it aired though is Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 1 when I was 6.

[YellowFever]

I believe the first episode I ever watched was most likely 'Some Enchanted Evening' but a repeat in the mid-to-late 90's, from there I'd watch sporadically on BBC2 over here in the UK and in 2003 I bought the Season 3 DVD. I got through 23 episodes in one night! That's when I fell in love with the show, that's when my obsession started! Next day I went to ASDA and picked up Season 2 and watched almost all of that in one day too!

[Company Picnic]

I was born after the show began airing, but my earliest Simpsons memory is of Bart rolling home in the garbage can in Bart the General, not sure exactly what age I was, but it was very early in life. Not sure if this would've been the shows debut on British terrestrial television, it would've been early to mid 90s.

Also remember being very amused at Homer taunting Flanders in Dead Putting Society, at an extremely young age.

[King-Size Homer]

I'm not entirley sure what episode I saw first, but one of my earliest memories of The Simpsons was watching the season 5 episode Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood. So there is a small chance that this was the first episode I watched, but if not, definitely one of the first.

[moneychair2003]

"Bart the general" on VHS in French back when I was 2 or 3. Still own that tape today.

[Bartesque]

The earliest I remember is Lisa The Greek.

[Company Picnic]

It's remarkable how we discuss these classic era episodes with such familiar terms yet actually they aired when many of us were much too young to understand them on the first showing, or possibly not even born. True quality lasts, I guess.

[Malaise Forever]

"The Crepes Of Wrath" as it's the episode I remember the most watching since we had it recorded.

[Behold Gravity]

Totally true quality does last. Simpsons was a big part of watching TV as a kid, coming out of school each weekday looking forward to 6 o'clock on BBC 2 after the kids programmes. My earliest might be Simpson and Delilah its sort of hard to tell, but my first boxset was S1.

[The Thompsons]

It's remarkable how we discuss these classic era episodes with such familiar terms yet actually they aired when many of us were much too young to understand them on the first showing, or possibly not even born. True quality lasts, I guess.

It is nice to see interest in the show has carried on to all you youngsters.

[The Thompsons]

I also noticed, maybe by coincidence, most people's first episodes were still from season 1.

[Space-Coyote]

I watched a few of the shorts, but I can't remember which one was the first. I only watched a few because I wasn't that big of a fan of the Tracy Ullman show, but I was a fan of Matt Groening because I had read all of his Hell books. I remember watching Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire when it first aired, I was 21 at the time.

[zach]

not the first episode i ever saw but the first new episodes on original air dates were from somewhere in Season 11.

[Company Picnic]

It is nice to see interest in the show has carried on to all you youngsters.

We should all show some love for our favourite show - any British boarders recall when episodes switched from BBC 2 to Channel 4? I think BBC 2 had been showing some newer seasons at that point (by their standards), but it felt really weird to have a commercial break in the show, even though it was intended to have ad breaks in its original US format.

And did BBC 2 air seasons within a reasonable time of their US airing? I can remember Seasons 6 to 10 getting extremely heavy airplay, and can recall not seeing much pre-Season 6 for a while on the BBC.

[leprechaun_dan]

Well, I'm about 50% certain of this, but I believe Who Shot Mr Burns was the first I remember seeing. Knowing where I'm from, the episode, like always, probably took 6 months to air on TV after the US

[Alex_Of_Darkness]

It's remarkable how we discuss these classic era episodes with such familiar terms yet actually they aired when many of us were much too young to understand them on the first showing, or possibly not even born. True quality lasts, I guess.

I just realize that the first episode that I see aired for the first time only 48 days after I was born

[The Governor]

"There's No Disgrace Like Home" when I was 7 on January 28,1990.

Le Jake wins the thread however viewing the first short on the then fledgling Fox Network.

The funny thing is at the time, I just happened to tune into the Ullman show and I've never seen it before. I remembered the short as something that was just a "filler" bit on the show.

[Brad Lascelle]

I was watching when the show kicked off with Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire during its initial premiere in December 1989.
But as for which Ullman sketch was my first... that one's tricky.

I wasn't watching right out of the gates in '87. I didn't watch Ullman until it was blocked with It's Garry Shandling's Show in '88 and I watched them back-to-back.
I still remember the catchy theme to Garry's show as well.

Incidentally, I was 10 years old when 10-year-old Bart first graced TV on the FOX Network. Makes me feel old considering I'm now 35 and Bart is still... well, 10.

[Gamblor]

The first one I have a distinct memory of watching was "Homer the Vigilante" when it aired. I would have been around 7. Although my mother used to tell me and my step-dad would rush home to watch the show. So I know I watched it before then.

[Manic-Depressive Mouse]

Incidentally, I was 10 years old when 10-year-old Bart first graced TV on the FOX Network. Makes me feel old considering I'm now 35 and Bart is still... well, 10.

I'm a couple of years younger than you (I was 10 when "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" aired, and have watched the show pretty much from go), and yes, that makes me feel old too! My parents were always slightly concerned about the fact that my siblings and I liked the show so much, because of the controversy over it, but they always let us watch (a while back my dad said he wished he hadn't, because then we would have grown up to be...even more straitlaced, I guess. I mean, we were all honors students who grew up to be college professors and electrical engineers, you know, total disappointments )

[MagicMeg]

The first episode I ever watched was the first episode ever, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. It was on one of those Classics cds, and this one was titled Greatest Hits, with the episodes: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song, Bart Gets an F, Trash of the Titans, Lisa's First Word . Pretty lucky I bought that one, because right after I couldn't get enough and bought all the DVD collections they'd already released then, and actually started watching the show on Fox. The show was already on waaaay before I got hold of the CD, but I never paid much attention to it -_-

[alex_on_ice]

The first episode I ever watched was Bart Gets An F (Season 2). In the summer of 2004, I was in a store (the equivalent of something like "Best Buy" in America) just looking around the place. I fell on a light green boxset - yeah the season 2 boxset - that got my attention. A boxset was 40 Euros at the time (since then the price has gone down 10 euros) and I did have some money to waste, so I decided to buy the boxset.

It was sort of a crazy buy because I knew absolutely nothing about the Simpsons (and I mean nothing). But when I got home and started disc 1 by playing Bart Gets An F, I knew this show was special ! Season 2 hooked me to the show. I then got Season 1 the same summer, adding Seasons 3, 4 and 5 to my collection very soon afterwards. The first season I bought on its release date was Season 6 (got it on the first day it came out).

Anyhoo, I had watched the first 9 Seasons of the show "millions of times" before the movie came out in the summer of 2007. I hadn't seen any other seasons at the time (only the first 9, but I knew them well).