The episode is essentially a reflective look at the inevitability of growing old and falling out of touch with modern culture. After a projectile blow-up pig inadvertently hits him in the gut and he suffers no visible ill effects, he joins the tour’s freak show and heads out on the road to rekindle his wild spirit. In an attempt to reconnect with his kids, he buys them all tickets to the Hullabalooza rock festival. After embarrassing Lisa and Bart on the school run with his 70s rock music, Homer begins to question how he became so out of touch. Homerpalooza (S7)Ī great Homer-centric episode here which focuses on his desperate attempts to remain cool. ![]() Jon Lovitz meanwhile is perfect as the over-the-top director, Llewellyn Sinclair, delivering such reassuring comments as “I’ve directed three plays in my career and I’ve had three heart attacks. The songs are catchy, even if the New Orleans one (“home of pirates, drunks and whores”) didn’t go down too well with the aforementioned American city. The main thrust of the story sees Marge take on the role of Blanche Dubois in musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire with Homer’s unsupportive and selfish ways leading him to become comparable with that story’s lead male character, Stanley Kowalski. His loveable stupidity comes to the fore and inevitably he’s deemed unfit for duty, but not before one of the show’s most memorable sequences where he drifts off into the magical “land of chocolate”, prancing and skipping about with giddy glee.Īn episode that contains a distinctly Simpsons take on the pratfalls of community theatre, coupled with arguably Maggie’s finest hour in a wonderful subplot involving a parody of The Great Escape. The episode’s highlights however, as is so often the case, come from Homer. There’s plenty of fun to be had throughout the episode poking fun at German stereotypes, plus Mr Burns trying to blend in at Moe’s is a joy to behold. Eventually of course, Mr Burns grows bored of retirement and after realising he no longer has any power, “what good is money if you can’t inspire terror in your fellow man?”, buys the plant back from the Germans who are themselves taken aback at the cost involved in bringing the place up to scratch. This spells bad news for Homer who, as the plant’s safety inspector, is in deep water when the new management team find the plant in dire need of repair. Burns Verkaufen Der Kraftwerk (S3)Īfter Mr Burns begins to grow weary of running his beloved power plant, a German Consortium swoops in and buys it for $100 million. Here they are then, the top 50 episodes of The Simpsons. ![]() It was a tough job, but someone had to do it. Was Deep Space Homer funnier than Homer Goes To College? Did I laugh more at Bart Vs Australia or Two Bad Neighbours? It proved almost impossible in certain cases and I’m already regretting leaving several memorable episodes out. The next challenge was then to try and actually rank them all in order. Season 10’s Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo almost made it purely for its Rashomon joke, but ultimately, that episode it lost out to more consistently funny outings. So many episodes have a particular line in them that make you want to include it solely for that one moment. In reality, it’s incredibly hard to pick and choose which ones make the cut. In theory, selecting fifty of the show’s best episodes from a choice of 552 shouldn’t be all that difficult. There’s more gold in those first 10 or 11 seasons than any other show can hope to achieve. The beauty of The Simpsons though is that whenever you watch a newer episode that perhaps doesn’t tickle your fancy you can always go back to the vast catalogue of bona fide classics and be entertained all over again. Past this point the standard becomes a little more mixed, and recent seasons have been distinctly average at best. They’re consistently funny, all killer and no filler runs with barely a dud episode to be found between 1992-1998. Personal opinions may vary, but for me the show’s peak years were from season 4 through to 10. For so many of us, its quotes and catchphrases have permeated our everyday vernacular, from single words like “crisitunity” and “embiggen” to phrases “you don’t win friends with salad” and “everything’s coming up Milhouse.” It’s a true cultural phenomenon that’s influenced not just animation, but all areas of TV comedy and sitcom. Since its debut in 1989, across 552 episodes and 25 seasons, The Simpsons has become one of the most revered and beloved TV programmes of all time.
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