“A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again” (Season 23, 2012) He’s cool.” His buddy asks, “Are you being sarcastic, dude?” He responds, “I don’t even know anymore.” The ’90s!ĩ8. Take one scene: Homer gets onstage and a shirtless member of the audience comments to his buddy in the de rigueur ironic tone, “Here comes that cannonball guy. The episode succeeds at both telling the story of Homer’s desire to still be cool and making fun of what was cool at that time. Homer becomes a part of traveling music festival, Hullabalooza … as a guy who takes a cannonball to his stomach. It’s the Gen-X, Lollapalooza world, filtered through the lens of the show. The Simpsons is essentially a sitcom, but over time, it has taken on a role not unlike that of Saturday Night Live - an institution that’s expected to comment on the state of culture. He talks in rhyme and owns a whimsical store in a failing mall: He’s like the dad in a Wes Anderson movie.” Over 25 years, The Simpsons takes the job of culture critic very seriously. In a scene in which Flanders is trying to mediate the conflict between Homer and Armisen’s character, Homer goes, “Can we at least agree to both hate Flanders?” To which Armisen replies, “I like him. First, it helps that the jokes were rooted in fleshed-out characters and real insecurities Homer and Marge have. Hipster jokes didn’t have the best track record before this episode aired, but The Simpsons was able to breathe life into them. Homer convinces a hip family (voiced by Portlandia’s Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein) to move from Portland to Springfield, effectively transforming the city, with the Tire Fire becoming a farmer’s market, Android’s Dungeon becoming a Taschen, and the Kwik-E-Mart turning into Apu’s House of Spats. Airing in late 2012, “The Day the Earth Stood Cool” is the show’s hipster episode. Both episodes deal with the alternative culture of the day, as a way of showing Homer facing the fact that he has aged out of relevance. “The Day the Earth Stood Cool” and “Homerpalooza” are cousins of sorts. “The Day the Earth Stood Cool” (Season 24, 2012)
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(Note: It doesn’t include the Michael Jackson episode, “Stark Raving Dad,” which was pulled from circulation earlier this year.) These 100 episodes best paint a picture of all the things the series does best. The list reflects the show’s continued greatness over 30 years, meaning it includes the first episode and also some of the more recent ones.
Earlier this month, the new streaming service Disney+ became the exclusive streaming home of The Simpsons, meaning that if you don’t want to buy or rent episodes, wait around for reruns, or dig up your old DVDs, it’s the only place to watch one of TV’s most important and long-running comedies.īack in 2014, we assembled this list of the 100 most essential Simpsons episodes as a guide for fans both young and old, and for those who have yet to even see a single episode. After three decades on the air and more than 650 episodes, Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie have officially moved into the Mouse House.
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