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Originally posted by LinnTate:
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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Yeah, I think I know what ya mean. It just kinda fizzled out. A very unsatisfactory wrap up,or was it. Perhaps they were leaving the door open for further installments in "The new new twilight zone".

That quote is a classic. I'm still laughing.

Homer: She was made of monkeys.
Bart: Wow,magic can do anything.

Even though tonoght's episode faded a tad in the homestretch, I thought that Future Drama was one of the best Simpsons episodes of the last few years.

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Originally posted by mark f:
Even though tonoght's episode faded a tad in the homestretch, I thought that Future Drama was one of the best Simpsons episodes of the last few years.

It was very funny. And that's even considering that it borrowed from the Indian Casino storyline (in terms of the visions of the future).

My favorite Simpsons moments ever.

1) From 'Simpson and Delilah': "I'm going to tell you three things that will haunt you for the rest of your life. You've ruined your father, you've destroyed your family, and BALDNESS IS HEREDITARY!"

2) From the Stonecutters episode: "The ancient society of....NO HOMERS!"

3) When Bart and Lisa were adopted by the Flanders: Flanders is about to baptize Bart, and Homer jumps in slow motion screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!", saving Bart from becoming a Flanders just in time.

4) From 'You Only Move Twice': Mr 'Bont' escapes from the laser cutter, and Homer tackles him. "Nice work Homer! When you get home today, there'll be another story on your house!" And they shoot Bont.

Last night's episode was great, I laughed harder than I had at any new episode in a long time! I also loved the end of the season opener with Smithers and Burns water fighting while washing the manatee. Classic!

The new episodes that they have beeen coming out with are just as good as the oldies. THe creators are keeping the entire casts' personalities which I feel is very important.

If you haven't seen the new ones yet, i feel bad for you. I'm not the biggest Simpsons fan, but I know for sure that there have been at least 2 new ones lately. There was one on last night. Just to let you in on it: Marge and Bart become closer, as family, in this episode.

George: Simpson! You a menace to soicety.
Martha: Oh George. Leave the boy alone.
George: Martha, I want a divorce.
Martha: Oh George, you made this the happeist day of my life.

Is my favorite quote of the simpsons

Did anyone catch 'The Simpsons' last night?! It was a NEW Sideshow Bob episode ("Funeral for a Fiend") and they had his ENTIRE family! Well, not the "ENTIRE" family, no cousins or uncles, but it had his brother, wife, son, AND his mother & father! All in the same episode! I truly have no idea what folks are sayin' when they talk about the show's quality taking a dip, I laughed my @ss off! Can't ya see?! I've only got a little bit of it left!

The episode after it was a rerun ("You Kent Always Say What You Want"), but had my favorite Marge sequence: her running home to beat Bart & Lisa before they get home from school so she can take 'em to the dentist. The part when her and Snake get mixed up after running into each other just kills me, Snake actually tries to shoot Cheif Wiggum with Maggie! But the funniest is when he and Marge "trade back", he fires at Wiggum and you hear poor Wiggum let out a yelp! Then you have that wonderful moment when Homer finds out Marge lied to him about riding dirt bikes through the cemetary and he says, "Why the cemetary, I thought, but my fantasy was too strong."

I'd give Sunday's a 95/100, at least!

My favourite show of all time. I gotta lot to catch up on when I return to civilisation.....

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Originally posted by LinnTate:

[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.

This has always been one of my favorite episodes. Another part I liked:

[after Homer and Bart play a prank on George Bush Sr., he says something like, "I'll get 'em. I've pulled a few pranks in my time." In the next scene, he has a banner on his house with two poorly-drawn faces and the words "Bad neighbors" on it. Dr. Hibbert and Ned Flanders see the banner.]

Dr. Hibbert: I don't understand, so you're saying you and Barbara are bad neighbors?

Bush: No, that's not Bar and me, it's them. [points across the street]

Flanders: Who, Maude and me?

Bush: No, the man and his boy. You know...the boy is named Bart, I don't know the name of the man. Bar, what's the name of the man?

Barbara: I'm not getting involved, George.

GOLD

That’s one of my favourite episodes, I love the part when Homer and George Bush are fighting in the sewers, and Homer runs up the side of the pipe and falls on Bush, that was mint!

Another quote which I love from that episode is:

Homer: I guess you might say he’s barking up the wrong Bush.
Homer: (Inner Monologue) There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you’ll ever say and nobody heard it.

...and still you will hear people dismissing it as some 'kids' show....unbelievable

I'm currently going through my 'Simpsons' DVDs as the days go on. I haven't been watching them everyday, but the DVD never leaves my player (mostly 'cuz I have a 5-disc changer ). Anyway, I'm up to season 9's "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" and I came to a part that used to be hilarious, but is now very sad because it happened to my neice this year in school. It's kind of an amusing anecdote.

It's the scene when Ms. Hoover tells Lisa to turn her desk around because she refuses to teach her anything! Can you believe they did that to an 8-year-old girl just because her mother had moved out of the school district, but didn't want her daughter to leave her friends behind?! My mother marched into the school with a friend of hers one day and busted them with her in the corner with NO SCHOOL BOOKS! She didn't even have her backpack or school supplies! You can bet my mother went off something fierce! The most messed up thing is that the Principal knew about it! As she was explaining why they had the right to do this, my mother's friend started quoting state laws to her. After awhile the Principal turns to the woman and asks who she is. The woman was on THE SCHOOL BOARD! My mom didn't even know this! (They met because of their mutual love for primates. It runs in the family. This woman owns a chimpanzee!) They were chit-chatting on the phone about my neice's problems at school, when the woman suggested they pay a surprise visit. Alotta heads rolled in this case!

So it has a happy ending, but still... to think a TEACHER would refuse to teach a student because she had a problem with where the child lived! Good gravy! That's... just... sad.

That’s utterly disgraceful; I’m glad justice was served in the end.

I was watching Lisa’s Rival this morning, and I suddenly remembered where you got your tagline from, Monkey Boy

I love this bit:

Homer: (ringing doorbell) Sugar man! (eats some from the bag)
Skinner: Door-to-door sugar? (chuckles) What a marvellous idea.
(Skinner's mother calls)
Skinner: What's that mother? ...I'm just talking to the sugar man! ...Mother, I'm a big boy, I can do as I wish! (to Homer) Excuse me.
(Skinner slams door then opens door again a second later)
Skinner: Thanks a lot, Simpson, now I'm grounded!

The little “chronicles of Milhouse” in this episode are GOLD

Bart: Hey, I know! How about I dig up some dirt on Alison? Remember how I got Milhouse's picture on "America's Most Wanted"?
(two agents in sunglasses drive up, see Milhouse)
Agent 1: There he is on the monkey bars.
Agent 2: Try to take him alive.
Milhouse: Oh no, not again!

And then...

Bart: Yep, she's clean as a bean, but...I _did_ tip off the Feds as to the whereabouts of our good friend Milhouse.
(Milhouse stands at the mouth of a large pipe with his hands up, facing an agent pointing a gun at him)
Milhouse: I'm telling you, I didn't do anything.
Tommy Lee look-alike: I don't care.
(Millhouse turns around, looks down, jumps...off a dam)
Milhouse: Aah…
(Milhouse hits churning water at bottom)
Milhouse: Ouch! My glasses.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F17.html

That really is one of my favorite episodes! I LOVE BART AND HIS TAPE RECORDER!
Bart: *CLICK* "Note for later: Put rubber spider down Lisa's dress. Heh, heh, heh." *CLICK*
*SLIGHT PAUSE*
Bart: *CLICK* "HEH! Heh, heh, heh!"
aaaand...
Bart: *CLICK* "Note: Next year, order fewer cards." *CLICK*

I also love how he was soooo stuck on getting Allison wet!
Bart: "Now, here's what we do. Tomorrow morning when Alison comes out of her house, we spray her with the hose -- soaking her from head to toe, leaving us relatively dry."
Lisa: "Relatively"?
Bart: "Well, there's bound to be some splash-back."
Lisa: "Bart, her being wet won't help me win the competition."
Bart: "Well...we could just sabotage her diorama, humiliating her in front of the students and faculty."
"Perfect!"
"Leaving her primed for the most dramatic hose-soaking of her life!"
"Enough with the hose!"


However, it is Homer's "B Story" that really makes this one of the greats!
Bart: "Hurry up and finish eating!"
Homer: "You're steering fine, boy. Hard to the right!"
Bart: "Oh!"
Homer: "Hard to the left!
Bart: "Oh!"
Homer: Cat! Deer! Old man!"
Abe: [diving out of the way] "Aah!"
Homer: "Jackknifed sugar truck!" [gasps] "Sugar?"
[skids to halt; Hans Moleman stands outside the truck]
Homer: "Don't worry, buddy. Here's a quarter; call for help at the nearest phone. I'll keep an eye on things here."
Hans: "If only this sugar were as sweet as you, sir."
Bart: "Homer, that was downright decent of you."
Homer: "We've hit the jackpot here! White gold, Texas tea! ...Sweetener!"
Bart: "Dad, isn't this stealing?"
Homer: "Read your town charter, boy. 'If foodstuff should touch the ground, said foodstuff shall be turned over to the village idiot.' Since I don't see him around...start shoveling!"

Homer: [sleepy] "Must...protect...sugar. Thieves everywhere. The strong must protect the sweet...the sweet..." *snores*
Marge: "Homer?"
Homer: [with a Spanish accent] "In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." *snores*
Marge: "Homer...Homer!"
Homer: "Wha...what?"
Marge: "I want you to forget about guarding the stupid sugar! You're being completely paranoid."
Homer: "Oh, am I? Am I really? Ah ha!"
[Pulls a man from behind the pile]
Proper Englishman: [holds teacup and saucer] "Hello."
Homer: "All right, pal: where'd you get the sugar for that tea?"
Proper Englishman: "I nicked it when you let your guard down for that split second... and I'd do it again." *sips tea* "Goodbye."

All GOLD Stuff their, MB. I love the part with Hans “If only the sugar were as sweet as you, sir”, and I loved the tape recorder part too! I love the way he makes a point of recording his laughter a second time, lmao...

Another one of my all time favourites is “The Boy Who Knew Too Much”, ahhh what scenes to post, there were so many good ones to choose from. A couple of my favs are:

(Skinner scowls at Bart from the jury box)
Skinner: (thinking) I know you can read my thoughts, Bart. Just a little reminder: if I found out you cut class, your ass is mine. Yes, you heard me. I _think_ words I would never say.
Homer: (thinking) I know you can read _my_ thoughts, boy. (singing) Meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow...

I thought Homer said: “You’re not gonna read _my_ thoughts, boy” but I guess I remembered wrong…

Homer: (on phone) Aw, I miss you too, Marge. But the law needs me! I'll be home as soon as I can. (hangs up, presses a button) Room service? Send up two more pot roasts and three more pillows with mints on them.
Skinner: You know...we're kind of like the original "Odd Couple". You're the messy one and I'm the --}
Homer: Shut up!
Skinner: Oh, yes, very well.

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