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What are your favorite Simpsons episodes, lines, characters, gags, jokes, or moments?

Some of mine, on quick reflection:

Ralph Wiggum, eating berries: "It tastes like burning!"

Sheri (or Terri), starving: "I'm so hungry, I could eat at Arby's"

My favorite moment is the episode where Principal Skinner and Ms. Krabople (No idea on the spelling) had an affair and Ralph said "I saw them making babies and one of them winked at me"

This just comes to my mind. A recent episode. I'm not sure of the exact lines.

Milhouse- Woah, your dad is really good at science.

Homer- Science? What?

Bart- Um.. no dad, pie pants,he said pie pants.

Homer- hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... pie pants.

Another One-

Ralph- Bart and Lisa, you guys should get along and be best friends like me and mr. finger.

Ralph pokes himself in the eye. Pulls out scissors.

Ralph- You've betrayed me for too long.

Scence cuts away.

Ralph has many hilarious lines and so obviously does homer.

Ralph- My daddy shoots people.

Homer- Hmmmmmm. floor pie.- when their is a pie on the ground.

Homer- This donut has purple filling..... purple is a fruit.

Homer- Probably more than onece- Oh my God! Where did you get that brownie.

Homer is about to eat a deadly donut thing made by this weird freaky dude.

Lisa- Wait, dad its lowfat.

Homer- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!- throws the donut into the air and it explodes when it hits the ground.

Homer- Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.

Ralph- I dressed myself.

There are many, many simpsons quotes that I could name of the top of my head but I'll leave some room for other people.

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Hmmm...some of my favorites:

1) I forget the episode (it might be the one with FUNZO) but I remember some new people come to teach the kids at school and they are singing a song.

New Teachers: "If your happy and you know it say a swear!"

Bart: BOOBS!

Millhouse: HINEY!

RALPH: MITTENS!!

2) Principle Skinner, trapped inside a dodgeball bag talking to his hampster Nibbles.

"Good job Nibbles! Now, chew through my ball sack."

3) Bart: "Hey Moe, look over there!"

Moe: "What? what am I looking at? Is it that?"

Homer: "Hey Moe, can I look too?"

Moe: "Sure, but It'll cost you."

Homer: "My wallet is in the car" Runs out.

Moe: "Ha ha...Sucker, Now back to the wall."

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A few more:

1) Apu: Silly customer, you cannot hurt a twinkie!

2) Ralph, while eating Tomacco:

Ralph: This tastes like Grandma!

Wiggum: Now Ralph, don't say tha...Hey, this does taste like Grandma!

3) Flanders, after adopting Bart and Lisa:

"Who wants some nachos, Flanders style?...That's cucumbers and cottage cheese!"

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My favorite episode is "Lisa the Vegitarian". It's prefect Simpson's humor right to the ending credits, where the backmasked recipie for lentil soup is unapoligetically obvious. A close second and third are the "Run, Lisa, Run" and "Homer vs. Art" episodes.

Lines:

Dr. Nick: Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

Falnders: Looks like heaven's easier to get into these days than Arizona State!

God: How are the Cardinals doing this year? Are they still in St. Louis?
Homer: No, they moved to Arizona.
God: Arizona? Christ. (edited for syndication)

Also: anything, and I mean anything said by the Bumblbee Guy or the Sea Captain.

How about a few quotes as timely as today's headlines?

"By the time this paid political announcement is done, every Johnny Lunchpail in this whole stupid state will be eating out of my hands. [realizes the camera is on] Oh, hello, friends." -- Gubenetorial Candidate, Montgomery Burns

[President Lisa Simpson takes office...]
Lisa: As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump. How bad is it Secretary Van Houten?
Milhouse: [shows to a chart] We're broke.
Lisa: The country is broke? How can that be?
Milhouse: Well, remember when the last administration decided to invest in our nation's children? Big mistake.
Aide: The balanced breakfast program just created a generation of ultra-strong super-criminals.
Milhouse: And midnight basketball taught them to function without sleep.

[And, finally, how can I resist the episode where Evergreen Terrace becomes home to a former first family...]

Barbara: George, it's time to get dressed.
George: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club.
Homer: [knocking at door] Yoo hoo!
George: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures]
Homer: It's your sons, George Bush Jr. and Jeb Bush. {Come outside, Dad.}
George: {Oh, good.} Bar, the boys are out in the front yard. _They'll_ help me think of a plan to get those Simpsons.
Barbara: Oh, George, is that all you ever think about? The boys probably just want a letter of recommendation.

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I love how the Simpsons include little clues in several episodes to try to let you know what state Springfield is in. But theres really no way to find out.

Oh, and if anyone saw the "Behind the Laughter" episode, you may remember that towards the end, the narrator referred to The Simpsons as "This northern Kentucky family"

Upon seeing this I thought "Oh! So they live in Kentucky. Now I know. That really sucks!

However while doing some reading online, I came across something quite interesting. In the credits of that same episode, one of the producers names was listed as:

Wernout F. Romky

Now, If you take this name and change it around a bit, you get:

Wer nout from ky

or:

We're not from KY (Kentucky)

So you see, this was a very sly move performed by the great genius Matt Groening to cover up for the "northern Kentucky family" line in the episode. Pretty cool!

From "Homer 3-D" (a Treehouse of Horror):

Homer's trapped in the 3-D universe (which looks like Tron) and Bart tries to rescue him...but the universe sucks everything into it.

Everyone: What happened?

Bart: We hit a little snag when the universe collapsed on itself...but Dad seemed cautiously optimistic!

Homer (through the portal into the 3rd dimension): CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP...

In honor of Mike's unrepentant stance in Outcome of the Presidential Election thread, I give you the scene when Barney observes Homer kicking a mailbox in frustration from Season Two's "Blood Feud."

Barney: "I'm with you, Homer! Fight the Power!"

For that matter, Barney is always good for the opportune observation:

Bart and Lisa: "Good-bye, Shary Bobbins!"

Marge: "Thanks for everything!"

Barney: "So long, Superman!"

Good stuff.

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Hmmm...more funny moments:

Scientist: The procedure will either increase your brain power, or it will kill you.

Homer: Increase my killing power, eh?

and:

From the medicinal marijuana episode, one of my favorites (the only episode rated TV-14!):

Homer: Hey Flanders, could Jesus Microwave a burrito so hot, that even he couldn't eat it.

Flanders: Well, as melon scratchers go, that's definately a honeydew!

and:

Homer: Hey, Shemp is Hemp spelled backwards!

Otto: And Otto is...Otto spelled backwards!

......silence........

Otto: Now I'm scared.

oh god...i just saw the medicinal marijuana one last night...hilarious...easily the best one i have seen ina long while.

That one is really funny.

"Wow, that saxophone would make a great pipe"

"They're called fingers, but I've never seen 'em fing...oh there they go!"

Flanders:"I try to do everything the bible says, even the bits that contradict the other bits."

Homer: "You stink Flanders."
Flanders: "Thanks for the nose-news nieghbor."

Homer: "You find out that life is one crushing dissappointment after another until it gets you so mad, you just wanna kill Flanders."

Flanders:"I think we just ran over something."
Homer: "I hope it was Flanders."

Flanders:"Oh yeah, the clown. The only one who isn't funny."

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Supervillain Hank Scorpio: Which country do you like the least: Italy or France?

Homer: France.

Scorpio: {chuckles to himself} Nobody ever says Italy.

Here's another one I saw just recently:
Homer(reading)"Your horoscope. Today will be a day like any other" Oh, it just gets worse and worse!

I'm not sure about all of the details of the scene or episode or anything because I haven't seen this episode for a while, but there's one where Homer is talking on the phone to some one and then says something like, "Please hold" and then he starts singing into the phone and says things inbetween the singing like, "Your call is important to us," etc. I like that scene. That's only one though.

Yeah, further to the "phone stuff", I love it when someone rings up and is put on hold, like when Maggie goes missing and they ring missing persons and the song being played is "Baby, come back" or when Marge rings Homer in the psych. hospital and the song she is put on hold with is "Crazy". These are the little touches that make "The Simpsons" such superior entertainment.

Yeah, and adding some more "phone stuff," who could forget the great prank calls that bart always makes to Moe's tavern. Those are always classic.

Bart: "Hi, is Mike there? Last name, Rotch."

Moe: "Hold on. Hey, I'm lookin' for My Crotch! Has anyone seen My Crotch?

but my favorite is the Halloween special parodying the Twilight Zone Movie, and Bart is the magical boy with the power to do anything.

It goes something like this:

Moe: "Hold on. Hey everybody! I'M A BIG FAT STUPID UGLY MORON!......hey wait a minute..."

...and I have a smelly but and I like to (smell?) my own but".

I saw the new "Twilight Zone", with a follow up to the original episode. Did you know that the little boy was played by Billy Mumy, and he also played the grown up role, with his little daughter as his daughter in the follow up. They showed the beginning of the original, and it's exactly the same as the intro to "The Simpsons" send up, right up to the ".....I bet you didn't see that coming" part.

That new Twilight Zone episode was a great concept, bm. I'm not sure if I was completely happy with the execution, but a follow-up story was such a better idea than the remakes they've sometimes done.

The Simpsons take on the classic TZ episode "To Serve Man" is a favorite. I heard a story several years ago, I don't if it is apocryphal or not, that somebody asked the original story's author, Damon Knight, his opinion of the episode. He'd not heard of The Simpsons and given his, shall we say, strong opinions, there was some fear he was going to be offended. Turns out he was delighted and became an enormous fan of the show.

Again, it may not be true, but I like to think it is.

"Look, I know that to you, we Simpsons are a lower order of life. We face that prejudice every day of our lives..." Lisa to Kang and Kodos

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