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[Carl Johnson]

Homer growing a tomato that tastes like cigarettes

I haven't seen all of the episodes listed above but Homer growing Tomacos was classic......

 

[David Williams]

I mean, the stuff with Marge and Homer fooling around with Bart in the room

I believe it went more like this: Homer takes what's left of Mr. Burns' pocket fox aphrodisiac and races home and takes Marge to bed. Cut to afterglow. Marge turns to Homer and says something like 'that was so good, I hope we didn't wake the kids.' Cut to Bart and Lisa in their own beds looking horrified, then cutting to Ned next door going "Wow."

I was so surprised by this I literally fell out of my seat laughing (the only time I laughed during the episode). Without this bit of surprising frankness, I'm afraid the episode was not only pedestrian but any of the potential good laugh bits were shown in the promos.

 

[Mitty]

Can we expect another bump on Dec. 9th (or whenever the next new episode is on) so that we can be reminded, in case we've forgotten, that the show still sucks?

Oh well, at least it's not a brand new thread every week as in past seasons.

I wonder how many of the show's loyal viewers tune in week after week just to prove themselves correct about the show's ability to continue sucking. Hell, you guys are probably keeping it on the air!

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I enjoyed the Simpsons last night. It's the first episode in a long time that has actually followed a coherent plot, instead of just jumping from joke setup to joke setup.

 

[Matthew Chmiel]

The Simpsons evading a vengeful mob made up of PBS and Betty White (!)

Homer growing a tomato that tastes like cigarettes.

Pffft. Homer running away from PBS and Betty White was the best (and funniest) part of that whole entire episode.

Also, the Homer growing a tomato that tastes like cigarettes was the best episode of Season Eleven (IMO, it would rank up with lots of classic episodes from earlier seasons). I don't ever remember me laughing so much at a particular Simpsons's episode in a while.

 

[Rich Malloy]

I completely agree with Matthew - those two are among the funniest latter-era episodes I've seen (and I guess I've seen em all).

And are you talking about the "Funzo" episode when you refer to the Gary Coleman cameo? That is one of the funniest episode of all time!

 

[Ryan Peter]

Tomacco

 

[Joel C]

Personally, I think the last two episodes have been great all around. I loved the Mr. Burn's story!

And remember, all the episodes we've seen so far are season 12 holdovers, exec produced by Mike Scully. The Al Jean season 13 episodes should start soon.

 

[Ike]

David,

In the first episode of the season, when Bart and Homer were connected at the wrist, Homer tried to make love to Marge with Bart on the floor. They didn't, and Bart and Homer got in a fight.

 

[Don Black]

The tribute to George Harrison was a nice touch too. Seeing his cartoon persona made me smile.

 

[Morgan Jolley]

The last episode was pretty good and had that classic Simpsons comedy. I think it made up for the bad episodes of this season.

 

[Anthony Hom]

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The tribute to George Harrison was a nice touch too. Seeing his cartoon persona made me smile.

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It was great of them to place that tribute in at last minute. Of course, the image came from his guest appearance on the Be-Sharps episode. They did the same for Phil Hartman and Linda McCartney.

 

[Derek Miner]

It was great of them to place that tribute in at last minute.

A very quick turnaround on that, I must say, since the Harrison dedication was placed in the episode in time for it to be fed out on satellite at 8:30am (eastern) Saturday morning, less than 24 hours after the news was released.

As far as the quality of the episodes, I've watched the Simpsons as often as possible for several years, and I've always enjoyed the show. I have laughed pretty hard at the last two episodes. I do tend to like surreal and broad comedy, so perhaps that's why I still like to watch...

 

[Jeremy Allin]

Last night's episode, "Hunka Hunka Burns In Love", had more 'laugh-out-loud' bits than I can recall in recent seasons. Great episode!!
Burns: Her 'excellent' was...ex-cellent!

 

[Mike St.Louis]

Can we expect another bump on Dec. 9th (or whenever the next new episode is on) so that we can be reminded, in case we've forgotten, that the show still sucks?
Oh well, at least it's not a brand new thread every week as in past seasons.

Yes, I thought I would reuse this thread instead of starting a new one (hello Patrick ).
I thought the last episode was better but still on the 'sucky' side.
Of course I am holding current episodes up to the Simpson's standard which is very high indeed.
If the series were to end today they would have a great many episodes to be proud of and would qualify for one of the best comedies ever.
I will continue to watch it loyally - unlike the X-Files which I have bailed on.

 

[Keith Paynter]

Comic Book Guy's new T-shirt: "Worst episode ever."

 

[Dome Vongvises]

I'm probably one of the only Simpson fans who gets confused as to what episode belongs to what season. But the PBS episode was pretty funny. There's something about Mr. Rogers running down the street saying, "It's a beautiful day to KICK YOUR ASS!!!".

 

[David Williams]

In the first episode of the season, when Bart and Homer were connected at the wrist, Homer tried to make love to Marge with Bart on the floor. They didn't, and Bart and Homer got in a fight.

Ah, thanks for the sort out. It wasn't clear in the first message. I've been tuning out lately as The Weakest Link is usually on at the same time. With the cast of Third Watch on WL last night, I decided to watch the Burns/Simpson sexathon. I apparently haven't missed much this season, judging from this thread. I did watch this year's Treehouse of Horror, and aside from Slithers eating Burns and the vomiting frog-prince thingy, it was horrible... and so I haven't been back since.

Bring on more Simpsons DVDs!!

 

[Mike St.Louis]

December 9, 2001

Yup, guess this is the best thread to use.

I'm waiting to start up the "The Simpsons...Doesn't Suck" thread just as soon as it comes to pass.

Actually, it wasn't a terrible episode but it still wasn't classic Simpsons quality. And 10 years from now I won't consider it a classic.

 

[Mike St.Louis]

December 16, 2001.

I'm losing count. Is this 4 for 4 now?

Yuck, what a stinkeroo...

It's frustrating. They are so close yet they just can't seem to get it together.