[PenultimateManStanding]

I don't have a TV anymore, but when I did, The Simpsons was about all I watched. I understand that the show is popular worldwide. One time Homer got stuck in a water-slide tube because he was too fat. Once he tried to do something about it; he raised his fist to the heavens and shouted, "As God is my witness, I'll always be hungry again!" A parody of "Gone With The Wind". Seems like a good Peak Oil line. The funniest show ever was a parody of Cape Fear in which Sideshow Bob had a psychotic vendetta to kill Bart.

[Madpaddy]

Simpson, Homer Simpson,
He's the greatest guy in history,
From the town of Springfield,
He's about to hit a chestnut tree .......Duh

Someday Bart when you grow up you can be chief justice of the United States, like Warren Burger....Hmmmmmm BURGER

I just love that show.

[PenultimateManStanding]

The worldwide syndication is to 70 countries. Damn, that's alot of countries! America's last great cultural export, perhaps? Doooouw!

[Aaron]

Best... show... ever...

[julianj]

Yes, I too love The Simpsons. Amazingly nearly every episode is still wonderful.

It's hard to remember all my favourite moments, though:

Lisa: I've made a perpetual motion machine

Homer: Go to your room! In this house we obey the Laws of Physics!

has to be a fave

And a vapid media person brainstorming for a new character for Itchy and Scratchy:

We want the original Dog from Hell

Writer: don't you mean Cerberus?

There are lots more. I bet this thread will run and run.

[PenultimateManStanding]

I like the literary and cinematic spoofs. I was telling my kids about this novel I'm reading by Jack London, The Sea Wolf, in which a literary gentleman is washed out to sea and picked up by a seal-hunting boat captained by the evil Wolf Larsen. They won't put him back to land and keep him as a menial laborer. The kids told me, "Oh, The Simpsons did a show on that! Otto, the bus driver got washed to sea and picked up by a fishing boat, they said, evil-like,'we will make you our slave!'" Then once, Dustin Hoffman did a show where he played a substitute teacher that Lisa fell in love with. Mrs. Crabapple hit on him. She put her leg up on a desk. You could see the Hoffman sub character across the room, under her bent leg, who said, "Mrs. Crabapple, you're trying to seduce me!" (The Graduate) They did, in fact, two different episodes parodying The Graduate. One time Grandpa fell in love with an old women in the nursing home. Mr. Burns stole her with his money and fancy dancing. Burns and the old lady were about getting married when Grandpa ran up to bang on a window overlooking the wedding. He pounded on the glass and screamed, "Mrs. Bouvier! Mrs. Bouvier!" They then ran out of the church together, after Grandpa fell through the broken window, and got on the last seat of a bus leaving town. Mr. Burns is a charming old evil rascal. Once he was in the bathtub and his sidekick put a top hat on his head which was too much weight and pushed the evil Burns under.

[Free]

Yeah, what's not to love about the Simpsons!
But the show I like even more is "Malcolm in the Middle", some fantastic screenwriting there, you can tell they grew up in such a family as well, some things you just can't make up.

I sometimes wonder that Fox Channel is giving them such creative freedom, for example when Dewey has to sell Chocolate bars for the school, he tells some right winger that they are "America bars against terrorists" and some left winger that they are "pro choice bars"...

[frankthetank]

Lets not forget "Arrested Development" ...the only show i watch as of now (its scheduled to be terminated after this season is done)...Better then "Seinfeld" in my book...

FOX does have some awesome TV shows...

[elroy]

Simpsons rule, which is good.
They show too many re-runs though. That's bad.
But there's some episodes I've never seen before. That's good.
But the quality consistency has degraded quite a bit.

That's bad. Can I stop now ?

[Keith_McClary]

Canyonero, Canyonero!

[Omnitir]

The Simpsons is really getting old now. It’s still funny at times though. Though mostly old...

Futurama is WAY better.
Here's some quotes:

“You win this time, gravity…”

"People said I was dumb, but I proved them."

"You're watching Futurama, the show that doesn't condone the cool crime of robbery."

"Would you kindly shut your noise-hole?"

“Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.”

Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: "Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree. "

[katkinkate]

One of my favourite bits is in the opening sequence when they zoom into the classroom where Bart is writing lines on the board. He's writing something different every episode and I have to find out what it is. I'm always dissapointed when I miss that bit.

[Specop_007]

Simpsons, Futurama, Tripping The Rift. My favorite shows on TV. That 70's show is pretty good too.

[elroy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('katkinkate', 'O')ne of my favourite bits is in the opening sequence when they zoom into the classroom where Bart is writing lines on the board. He's writing something different every episode and I have to find out what it is. I'm always dissapointed when I miss that bit.

[KiddieKorral]

Me and my friends often go back and forth remembering Simpsons episodes. Good times.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KiddieKorral', 'M')e and my friends often go back and forth remembering Simpsons episodes. Good times.

[PrairieMule]

Best Episode Ever: Bart Sells His Soul.

Bart switches Hymms in the Church program.

Rev Lovejoy:Ok open up your inserts and we will all sing "In The Garden Of Eden" by I.Ron Butterfly

Congregation with Organ Music: In the garden of our love baby! don't you know I will always be true. Pleaaaaaase taaaake my haaaaaaaand.

[katkinkate]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('elroy', 'T')hen you'd probably like this: http://www.snpp.com/guides/chalkboard.openings.html

[JeeBoomba]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'B')est Episode Ever: Bart Sells His Soul.

Bart switches Hymms in the Church program.

Rev Lovejoy:Ok open up your inserts and we will all sing "In The Garden Of Eden" by I.Ron Butterfly

Congregation with Organ Music: In the garden of our love baby! don't you know I will always be true. Pleaaaaaase taaaake my haaaaaaaand.

[smallpoxgirl]

My favorite episode by far was the one where Bob Dole and Bill Clinton were replaced by space aliens Kang and Kodos while campaigning for president. Homer sneaks up and pulls their masks off at a public rally and reveals them both.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')omer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're
nothing but hideous space reptiles. [unmasks them]
[audience gasps in terror]
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about
it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.
[murmurs]
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.
[Kang and Kodos laugh out loud]
[Ross Perot smashes his "Perot 96" hat]