Best 'The Simpsons' Episodes. When FXX announced a complete Simpsons marathon — as in airing all 5. August 2. 1st through Labor Day — there was much rejoicing among those of us who have spent nearly as much time in Springfield as we have in our own actual hometowns. Conversations started turning to what required us to set our DVRs and when the Ramones- cameo episode (. And that led to an even more important conversation: Of the 5. What, essentially, are the greatest Simpsons' episodes of them all? So after hours of arguing, several bouts of fisticuffs, many games of roshambo and much consulting of online forums, Rolling Stone has come up with the answer — the 1. Simpsons episodes of all time. You can use this as a guide to the marathon, or simply something to end arguments such as whether . Regardless, grab your Duff beer or Krusty Kola and dig in. He becomes a local celebrity and a center- square occupant on Hollywood Squares, but fame is a fickle mistress. Homer then decides to use his spare time to bond with Maggie (? Whoa- oh, that really came out of left field! Bonus points for reminding us of the living hell that is the film adaptation of Paint Your Wagon. Best Visual Gag: The look on Homer and Bart's faces after they see Clint Eastwood break into song. Best Line: ! Thank god, he's always drunk and violent. Dad gets addicted to painkillers, the family fail to pay their taxes, and fame starts to sour. Fame.. it plays hideous tricks on the brain. Best Visual Gag: Fox's failed Bart Simpson T- shirts — . Marge takes the family out for Ethiopian food, trying to be a cool mom, and she and the kids start a food blog called The Three Mouthketeers. Marge, enjoying being the fun parent, gives Homer the wrong address to the molecular gastronomy restaurant, sending him instead a meth lab. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of a working class lifestyle epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer. FXX is showing all 552 episodes of 'The Simpsons,' so we ranked the 150 best of the groundbreaking animated sitcom. Definitions: Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first. Finally: Project Runway New Season Details Released. Fashion reality show 'Project Runway' will finally return to TV on the Lifetime cable channel, Lifetime Television announced today. It beat out NBC Universal (that. Best Visual Gag: Homer chokes on something, collapses by the fridge, and his ghost gives him the Heimlich Maneuver. Best Line: ! My kids do not eat sorbet — they eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream! Instead they're granted the title of world's fattest town. Marge sets out to be the Erin Brockovich of the Motherloving Sugar Corporation, getting all sugar banned from Springfield. Homer teams up with Apu, Mr. Burns, and Count Fudgula to smuggle the sweet white stuff back into the town. Best Visual Gag: Disco Stu snorts sugar through a dollar bill, throws himself a dance party. Best Line: . All Rights Reserved/Courtesy Everett Collection. Beware the liberal use of the Dropkick Murphys' . Your name sounds like 'crabapple.' Did you go sour waiting for someone to pick you? The folks at work show him a new respect, until the show changes the cop from bad- ass to a buffoon who says . There's only one way for Homer to do in order to retain his dignity: change his name to Max Power. Best Visual Gag: As Lisa explains that shows . Watch The Simpsons Online: Watch full length episodes, video clips, highlights and more. Lisa skips a grade, Bart gets bumped back a year — and suddenly becomes the better student, having already completed third grade. They both get left behind on a field trip. Best Visual Gag: Groundskeeper Willie adding Bart and Lisa's names to the Vietnam Memorial–esque Field Trip Memorial. Best Line: . Once it's headed on a collision course with Earth. Professor Frink plans to destroy the comet with a rocket, but fails. The Simpsons head to the Flanders' bomb shelter, the rest of the town joins, and the comet breaks up. Best Visual Gag: A fighter jet destroying its fellow fighter jet with a missile, and then destroying itself in identical fashion. Best Line: ! You know, I may regret this when our air runs out and we can't whistle or stay alive, but . Nashaspeemapetilons shows up at the Kwik- E Mart, Homer convinces him to say that Marge is his wife. Luckily, all's well that ends well. Best Visual Gag: The barbershop where Apu has his haircut montage: Hairy Shears. Best Line: . Bart gets a tattoo, and the laser- removal costs the family Christmas money. Homer tries earning cash as a mall Santa, fails, tries at the racetrack, fails. Then father and son save Christmas with a pet dog, Santa's Little Helper. Best Visual Gag: Bart's unfinished . Therefore he is my model of manhood, and my estimation of him will govern the prospects of my adult relationships. So I hope you bear in mind that any knock at him is a knock at me, and I am far too young to defend myself against such onslaughts. Go watch your cartoon show, dear. The episode famously ends with the Simpsons going to Hell, to the tune of AC/DC's . But the most memorable is Homer star role in . His unhappy state lands him in The Rolling Stones' Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp, where he meets a slew of rock stars. Not ready for camp to end, Homer tries stealing the show at a Springfield concert; he eventually gives up the rock & roll lifestyle for his family. Best Visual Gag: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Lenny Kravitz, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, and Brian Setzer chase Homer around in a giant devil head. Anyway, we're gonna start with the fundamentals: playing a burning guitar with your teeth. Bart reenacts The Fly and invents . Springfield gets the Salem Witch Trials treatment and accidentally invents Halloween and the concept of trick- or- treating. Best Visual Gag: If it's not Puritan Springfield as a whole, it's the sight of Marge as a green, broomstick- riding witch. Best Line: . Maggie winds up in an Italian- American- Mexican standoff with the Mob, because why not? Best Line: . You can either walk out with dignity or I can push you down this muddy hill. Marge opens a gym and becomes super successful; Homer gets gastric bypass and cosmetic surgery (hence the episode's title) and, weirdest of all, a full head of hair. Best Visual Gag: Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, and Daniel Clowes (all voiced by themselves) reveal their superpowered, shirtless alter egos — the League of Extraordinary Freelancers — and beat up a rampaging Comic Book Guy. Best Line: ! We can finally start a family! Once he busts out of the joint, he steals an atom bomb and orders all television stations destroyed. But that doesn't stop Krusty, who finds an emergency broadcast transmitter. The clever part of the episode, though, is how it's all a takedown of TV on TV. Best Visual Gag: A sign that says, . So don't bother pointing that out. Burns's estate, where their dysfunctionality accentuates itself. Homer pawns the TV and cashes in the kids' college fund to attempt family therapy with Dr. It's a rough early episode, though you can see tiny hints of what the show would eventually become. Best Visual Gag: All five Simpsons electro- shocking each other into oblivion. Best Line: . My boss is gonna be at this picnic, so I want you to show your father some love and/or respect. The inability to talk forces to Homer to become a good listener, much to Marge's delight. Once the wires are taken off her husband's jaw, Marge fears her husband will go back to being an obnoxious lout — so, naturally, she ends up in a demolition derby. Best Visual Gag: The ! Only the actors who play him. With Springfield facing a tourism deficit, Lisa suggests the legalization of gay marriage. Homer gets ordained and turns his garage into a chapel. Marge's sister Patty is gay, but her fianc. Flashbacks takes us to with Baby Bart and Newborn Lisa. Maggie eventually says . Also, it's an Olympics episode! Best Line: ? Could this be the best day of my life? Season: 7. The Simpsons borrow the Flanders' summer house, which gives Lisa an excuse to reinvent herself. She quickly falls in with the local cool kids (led by Christina Ricci), which angers Bart to no end. Out comes Lisa's yearbook; away goes her new friends, or so she thinks. And for god's sake, watch out for those illegal fireworks, Homer! Best Visual Gag: While dreaming of library temptations, Lisa imagines Alice and the Mad Hatter.. Lewis Carroll hostage situation. Best Line: . The indebted school gets purchased by Kid First Industries and turned into a . The company uses student feedback to create Funzo, a Furby- ish toy set to dominate the Christmas season. By the end, we're watching a sparkling anti- consumer holiday special. Best Visual Gag: Moe's Wonder. Bread bag shoes. Best Line: . Angry Dad becomes an internet series at Better. Than. TV. com. Homer becomes unwittingly famous, tries to overcome his anger, and then totally Hulks out. Best Visual Gag: All the kids doodle and name their new creations; Ralph just says . One procedure later, Homer's IQ is 5. Lisa finally gets the dad she's always wanted. If you think the effect is only temporary, however.. If that's not enough for you, there's also numerous digs at cartoons and motion- capture technology, Julia Roberts movies, cameos from the Great Gazoo (that WTF martian from The Flintstones) and the best Leon- Uris- books- can- smash- turtles joke ever. Best Visual Gag: Homer comes up with a mathematical formula that proves there is no God; Flanders agrees it's . No one wants to hear Lisa's revisionist history/. If you're a fan of the continued uses of made- up words such as . A mid- life crisis turns Moe's Tavern into a swanky . Never mess with a drunk's regular joint. Never. Best Visual Gag: Lenny, Carl, Barney and Homer dance on the bar, Coyote Ugly- style, to a raucous tune.. Best Line: . The Powersauce Bar marketing team soon realizes that Homer eating their bars while climbing the Murderhorn mountain would be great publicity. Best Visual Gag: Homer imagines a giant escalator that takes him to a yeti, how gleefully cranks our climbing hero into the stratosphere via a tirejack. Best Line: . A vision quest takes Bart to his adulthood, where he's a beer- bellied bum and Lisa is president. Best Visual Gag: Milhouse as a balding, turtlenecked member of Lisa's presidential cabinet. Best Line: . Marge tries growing vegetables; Homer destroys her scarecrow and becomes lord of the crows, briefly, before being mauled by them. He then gets a prescription for Texas THC, which leads to a big promotion at work. Phish plays Springfield, and pot gets outlawed.
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