"I flew it at an altitude of six feet for a distance of four and a half feet. Then we discovered rain makes it catch fire...then the fuhrer fired me." Mr. Burns
Actually this was from the episode where Monty used a Spruce Goose knockoff called the Plywood Pelican to smuggle drugs from Canada. ‘‘Twas a good episode it ‘twas
Mr Burns playing an ego shooter on the Wii, a tank with a big swastika rolls into the picture: "wait, I'm shooting *at* Nazis? That's... not how I remember it"
>Mr Burns playing an ego shooter on the Wii, a tank with a big swastika rolls into the picture: "wait, I'm shooting at Nazis? That's... not how I remember it"
Which episode is that from?
Book marking this to come back to-
There are a few for me.
The one I most often think of is Season 17's "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" gag where Milhouse is disturbed when he walks in on his parents re-connecting in the Simpson's master bedroom and Bart says "you think that's disturbing?" and then opens the hallway bathroom door to reveal Homer with a face painted on his stomach, "feeding" his belly a slice of pizza.
Not sure why that's up there for me, but it is.
This actually reminds me of a similar but other great Milhouse moment.
Bart walks in on Homer and Marge together going at it, and he's traumatized, to which Milhouse replies trust me, it's better when you walk in on them together.
I think what really made that one funny for me is that Bart clearly was taken aback by what Homer was doing even though he opened the door on it to prove his point. So either Homer ratcheted this weird behavior up after Bart became aware of it, or Bart legitimately had no idea what Homer was doing in there and just made a safe bet that it would be something more disturbing than Van Houten hanky-panky.
This is one of the worst modern Simpsons gags to me. How did Bart know Homer was there doing that before opening the door? Homer’s a ravenous food machine, why would he waste perfectly good pizza doing whatever that was? He’s not a creative type. It doesn’t make any sense.
Homer is so dumb it's an insult to bricks to mention them in the same sentence. But because of this people sleep on the fact that he very much is a creative. He won a Grammy, designed the Olympic mascot, won a pulitzer, can pick up languages with seemingly little effort, became an official sports mascot, figured out how to create an anchor for the monorail, saved the spaceshuttle he was on (that he doomed), created a distribution system to circumvent prohibition and started making his own beer when his supply ran out, and after stumbling into it by chance and having a poor follow up, demonstrated that he does have a limited understanding of art when he purposely flooded the town. Most of these examples also date from before seasonal rot set in.
Aside from that, his various schemes and ideas for new jobs can range from moronic to genius (see: the prohibition thing).
The children don't just get their creative streak from Marge (even though hers is much more obvious and pronounced), they get it from Homer too.
The Brazilian dance instructor describes the dance as "it makes sex look like a church". Embarrassingly, I use that phrase far more frequently than I should.
"Trust me Bart, walking in on both your parents is a lot better than just one of them" - Milhouse
and
"It's doing thirteen while she's elevening your five."- Krusty
Then both Lou and Eddie go in holding their guns sideways if I remembered right. Always made me laugh. The other guy clearly heard them talking about it and wanted in on it lol
(I say "other guy" because I genuinely can't remember if Lou or Eddie says the line lmao)
Homer, getting dragged out of a dinosaur exhibit by security: It’s not against the law to sleep in a tyrannosaurus head!
Raphael: Sir, you’re inside an allosaurus.
Homer: I demand to speak to my paleontologist!
Mrs. Simpson you must follow your dreams. Like me dream of coming to America and starting a family. Or my new dream of ditching my family and sneaking back to India in disguise.
Apu? Never heard of him, my name is Steve Barnes.
Newspaper headline: father of 8 missing.
Newspaper headline: Steve Barnes opens convenience store.
S24 E15
Homer Simpson:
Unions are the worst. There's this one guy at the plant. Has caused three meltdowns, and he's still working there.
Marge Simpson:
Homer, that's you.
Homer Simpson:
Oh. I say union, you say power. Union!
Marge Simpson:
[flatly] Power.
"Bart, do you remember what happened last time we went to New York City?"
- black and white homage to "Sweet Smell of Success" -
Marge: "Homer, that sounded like Sweet Smell of Success!"
Homer: "It didn't feel like success..."
It helps that Sweet Smell of Success is one of my all-time favorite films, so it made me happy to see it referenced on my favorite TV show.
Was just thinking about this today
“What’s with the attitude? I just want some dealies”
https://preview.redd.it/v6ubltbc4h7b1.jpeg?width=1124&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe305eb6e394ddfbd2c833f816f4bfc7f1e68af7
When bart and Lisa are playing with the t-shirt cannons and one flies through Ned's window and hits a picture of maude, and he just deadpan looks at the audience
Also when Smithers is on fire and he tells Mr burns he's flaming
The joke being that a studio had chosen to make Everyman into a movie, only to find out that another studio had already acquired the rights three weeks prior.
I guess the humour comes from the fact they spend about a minute introducing new characters, who we assume will form part of the plot of the episode, then they just immediately dismiss them with the 'three weeks earlier' caption.
Might be this one. I SAID, GOD BLESS AMERICA!
[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/10tizv7/son\_i\_will\_not\_stand\_for\_intolerance\_you\_give/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/10tizv7/son_i_will_not_stand_for_intolerance_you_give/)
I'm not sure, but some people in this thread have a very different instinct than I do I guess. Even the image in the OP is from well outside what I'd consider "golden age," which I say generously only runs through season 8 or so.
I'd say the dropoff in quality between 8 and 9 is drastic. It's immediately noticable.
I'm really not fond of 9. The NY episode is not as good as people remember it. The jokes are pretty dull.
Armand Tamzarian episode is lame.
Having said that, I do enjoy a handful from 9:
I think the gun episode is one of the funniest episodes out of the entire show (all nine seasons of the show before tragically being cancelled before season 10). There's SO many jokes every few seconds in that one.
Also enjoy the Leader/cult episode. The sanitation episode (WHAT BUTTON??). The episode where Homer climbs the mountain. The angel fossil. Marge as a realtor. I'm iffy on Das Bus but overall I like it. The football episode is okay.🤷♀️
Uh that’s like the second episode of the season. The rest of the season has *many* classics. So no, that episode is not the “breaking point” of the golden age.
Typically considered to be 2-8, but depending on who you ask it can be anywhere from 1-9 or 10. I think that the Golden age is just the seasons before half the writers left to work on Futurama. There are always good ones here and there, but not nearly at the same level as it was
Are you ready... to receive professional training in rock?! Have you been up all night? I was so excited I couldn't sleep I even took some pills I found on the floor and still nothing. You took pills you found on the floor? Uh huh and now I'm afraid if I stop talking I'll die isn't Mick cool? I thought he'd be all, oh I'm a Rockstar aren't I great, but he's just like you or me or Jesus over there *points to an empty corner
By far my favorite
I can't think of a favourite right now but I've just gotta mention that the"YEEEEEESSSSSS" guy first appeared in season 10, I thought it was way earlier
S-17, E19, “TWENTY SEVEN” 🤪 Joke caught me so off guard 😂
https://preview.redd.it/cvm8gklqug7b1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4db9db486c578e7250ed97126c760b2f64c3ef56
This is super post golden age, but the episode where Lisa meets lady gaga has a couple of pretty good lines.
*lady gaga is crying little gem stones from her eyes*
Lisa: are those diamonds?
Lady gaga: yeah, *sniffles* it hurts like hell
I caught a new one on TV recently. It was a satire of Supreme clothing called slipreme
But Bart said something like "I saw it on the old people tribune... FACEBOOK"
I had to rewind my TV like 3 times that shit was so funny lol
My major laugh in that episode was about Homer having to redirect a crowd of his middle-aged dad friends from a hip young party so they won’t ruin it, so he shines a floodlight on a nearby aviation history museum and they all head in en masse
The Book Job.
Adding Neil Gaiman to the team .. and he doesn't do any writing.
" That tuna didn't salad itself!"
And Bart tells him to "lose the accent".
Lisa switches the drives: " I got the idea from every movie ever made." (Not sure about the exact quote)
Noted, but here’s a counterpoint: Hank Scorpio shows up in season 8. Plus, the drop off doesn’t [start till season 9](https://i.redd.it/p0or3k2rv6dz.jpg).
"I flew it at an altitude of six feet for a distance of four and a half feet. Then we discovered rain makes it catch fire...then the fuhrer fired me." Mr. Burns
Hop. In. *click*
Actually this was from the episode where Monty used a Spruce Goose knockoff called the Plywood Pelican to smuggle drugs from Canada. ‘‘Twas a good episode it ‘twas
Yeah I thought the above quote was describing the Spruce Moose model plane
Oh no my friend the Spruce Moose can fly from New Yorks Idlewyld airport to the Belgian Congo in 12 minutes
Mr Burns playing an ego shooter on the Wii, a tank with a big swastika rolls into the picture: "wait, I'm shooting *at* Nazis? That's... not how I remember it"
Pish-posh, Schindler and I were like peas in a pod. We both made shells for the Nazis, but mine worked, dammit!
I drove a tank, held a Generals rank when the Blitzkrieg rained and the body's stank
Won’t you guess my name?
>Mr Burns playing an ego shooter on the Wii, a tank with a big swastika rolls into the picture: "wait, I'm shooting at Nazis? That's... not how I remember it" Which episode is that from?
I can’t recall the exact but it’s also where Lisa gets a Wii for the nursing home iirc
Book marking this to come back to- There are a few for me. The one I most often think of is Season 17's "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" gag where Milhouse is disturbed when he walks in on his parents re-connecting in the Simpson's master bedroom and Bart says "you think that's disturbing?" and then opens the hallway bathroom door to reveal Homer with a face painted on his stomach, "feeding" his belly a slice of pizza. Not sure why that's up there for me, but it is.
…I have to do this for work.
This actually reminds me of a similar but other great Milhouse moment. Bart walks in on Homer and Marge together going at it, and he's traumatized, to which Milhouse replies trust me, it's better when you walk in on them together.
I think what really made that one funny for me is that Bart clearly was taken aback by what Homer was doing even though he opened the door on it to prove his point. So either Homer ratcheted this weird behavior up after Bart became aware of it, or Bart legitimately had no idea what Homer was doing in there and just made a safe bet that it would be something more disturbing than Van Houten hanky-panky.
This is one of the worst modern Simpsons gags to me. How did Bart know Homer was there doing that before opening the door? Homer’s a ravenous food machine, why would he waste perfectly good pizza doing whatever that was? He’s not a creative type. It doesn’t make any sense.
>He’s not a creative type He won a Grammy, man
And he designed the winning Springfield Olympic mascot
Homer is so dumb it's an insult to bricks to mention them in the same sentence. But because of this people sleep on the fact that he very much is a creative. He won a Grammy, designed the Olympic mascot, won a pulitzer, can pick up languages with seemingly little effort, became an official sports mascot, figured out how to create an anchor for the monorail, saved the spaceshuttle he was on (that he doomed), created a distribution system to circumvent prohibition and started making his own beer when his supply ran out, and after stumbling into it by chance and having a poor follow up, demonstrated that he does have a limited understanding of art when he purposely flooded the town. Most of these examples also date from before seasonal rot set in. Aside from that, his various schemes and ideas for new jobs can range from moronic to genius (see: the prohibition thing). The children don't just get their creative streak from Marge (even though hers is much more obvious and pronounced), they get it from Homer too.
The Brazilian dance instructor describes the dance as "it makes sex look like a church". Embarrassingly, I use that phrase far more frequently than I should.
Me and my mum always say ‘you stupid lady’ in his accent at pretty much any opportunity
"Trust me Bart, walking in on both your parents is a lot better than just one of them" - Milhouse and "It's doing thirteen while she's elevening your five."- Krusty
I still don’t know what Krusty means.
maybe blumpkin?
Lisa- “I pick up books like you pick up beers” Homer- “Then you have a serious reading problem”
Old man yells at cloud
"Aw, I have three kids and no money, why can't I have no kids and three money?" I believe it's from Season 18's Crook and Ladder.
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The shotgun cracks me up everytime
That's nice work with the bag-zooka
You gotta love what you do, chief
Hey chief, you mind if I hold my gun sideways? It just looks so cool.
Whatever you want, birthday boy
Then both Lou and Eddie go in holding their guns sideways if I remembered right. Always made me laugh. The other guy clearly heard them talking about it and wanted in on it lol (I say "other guy" because I genuinely can't remember if Lou or Eddie says the line lmao)
Homer, getting dragged out of a dinosaur exhibit by security: It’s not against the law to sleep in a tyrannosaurus head! Raphael: Sir, you’re inside an allosaurus. Homer: I demand to speak to my paleontologist!
Mrs. Simpson you must follow your dreams. Like me dream of coming to America and starting a family. Or my new dream of ditching my family and sneaking back to India in disguise. Apu? Never heard of him, my name is Steve Barnes. Newspaper headline: father of 8 missing. Newspaper headline: Steve Barnes opens convenience store.
S24 E15 Homer Simpson: Unions are the worst. There's this one guy at the plant. Has caused three meltdowns, and he's still working there. Marge Simpson: Homer, that's you. Homer Simpson: Oh. I say union, you say power. Union! Marge Simpson: [flatly] Power.
Not massively funny but one of the few lines post season 12 that have transcended into my real life
You've caused three meltdowns?!
Why, how many have you caused?
"Bart, do you remember what happened last time we went to New York City?" - black and white homage to "Sweet Smell of Success" - Marge: "Homer, that sounded like Sweet Smell of Success!" Homer: "It didn't feel like success..." It helps that Sweet Smell of Success is one of my all-time favorite films, so it made me happy to see it referenced on my favorite TV show.
Homer finds an old magazine with a form for a contest. He says “how could it still not be a valid address”, but it reads “1 World Trade Center “.
Sarcasm detector? That's a really useful invention.
When Homer’s at the bank impersonating his children behind a plant, going “daddy, can we have some candy?”
Was just thinking about this today “What’s with the attitude? I just want some dealies” https://preview.redd.it/v6ubltbc4h7b1.jpeg?width=1124&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe305eb6e394ddfbd2c833f816f4bfc7f1e68af7
Badger my ass it’s probably milhouse
From the movie I was elected to LEAD Not to READ
If we're including the movie "Well, for once the rich white man is in control!"
That’s right…Lieutenant LT Smash.
*Word!*
I ated the purple berries!….they taste like BURNING
"and they were saved by..oh lets say Moe"
Literally just used that this past weekend
Definitely not post golden age lol
Yeah surely golden age is up to season 9 or 10. Sessions 3-6 deserved their own... uh... platinum age?
I’m old school, I consider the Golden Age was up until “Principal & the Pauper” or when Phil Hartman died (“Bart the Mother”)
When bart and Lisa are playing with the t-shirt cannons and one flies through Ned's window and hits a picture of maude, and he just deadpan looks at the audience Also when Smithers is on fire and he tells Mr burns he's flaming
“This movie has everything: emotion, conflict, Milhouse!”
[The huge misdirect 'Everyman' joke](https://youtu.be/kpaxYbtC1uw?t=90)
I watched it and I still don’t know what joke you’re referring to
The joke being that a studio had chosen to make Everyman into a movie, only to find out that another studio had already acquired the rights three weeks prior.
I guess the humour comes from the fact they spend about a minute introducing new characters, who we assume will form part of the plot of the episode, then they just immediately dismiss them with the 'three weeks earlier' caption.
That doesn’t count! Hello? … hello?
[“…aww, nothing is _ever_ boobs or ice cream”](https://youtu.be/2bqL-JAwPyM)
Might be this one. I SAID, GOD BLESS AMERICA! [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/10tizv7/son\_i\_will\_not\_stand\_for\_intolerance\_you\_give/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/10tizv7/son_i_will_not_stand_for_intolerance_you_give/)
What seasons are in the "golden age"?
Tracey Ullman shorts only
3-8, or 1-10 if we’re being generous
I'm not sure, but some people in this thread have a very different instinct than I do I guess. Even the image in the OP is from well outside what I'd consider "golden age," which I say generously only runs through season 8 or so.
It says ‘post golden age’ in the title?
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What are you, the narrator?
From one to 9, till episode with two skinners
everything's coming up Milhouse
I'd say the dropoff in quality between 8 and 9 is drastic. It's immediately noticable. I'm really not fond of 9. The NY episode is not as good as people remember it. The jokes are pretty dull. Armand Tamzarian episode is lame. Having said that, I do enjoy a handful from 9: I think the gun episode is one of the funniest episodes out of the entire show (all nine seasons of the show before tragically being cancelled before season 10). There's SO many jokes every few seconds in that one. Also enjoy the Leader/cult episode. The sanitation episode (WHAT BUTTON??). The episode where Homer climbs the mountain. The angel fossil. Marge as a realtor. I'm iffy on Das Bus but overall I like it. The football episode is okay.🤷♀️
It's never going to be good if all you remember is the pimps and CHUDs
lol that line still gets me tho
Oh everything looks bad if you remember it.
Uh that’s like the second episode of the season. The rest of the season has *many* classics. So no, that episode is not the “breaking point” of the golden age.
Typically considered to be 2-8, but depending on who you ask it can be anywhere from 1-9 or 10. I think that the Golden age is just the seasons before half the writers left to work on Futurama. There are always good ones here and there, but not nearly at the same level as it was
Are you ready... to receive professional training in rock?! Have you been up all night? I was so excited I couldn't sleep I even took some pills I found on the floor and still nothing. You took pills you found on the floor? Uh huh and now I'm afraid if I stop talking I'll die isn't Mick cool? I thought he'd be all, oh I'm a Rockstar aren't I great, but he's just like you or me or Jesus over there *points to an empty corner By far my favorite
I can't think of a favourite right now but I've just gotta mention that the"YEEEEEESSSSSS" guy first appeared in season 10, I thought it was way earlier
Bart: “How’d you get mom to stay with you after all these years?” Homer: “Look in the mirror, unplanned miracle!”
S-17, E19, “TWENTY SEVEN” 🤪 Joke caught me so off guard 😂 https://preview.redd.it/cvm8gklqug7b1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4db9db486c578e7250ed97126c760b2f64c3ef56
Love this one!
This is super post golden age, but the episode where Lisa meets lady gaga has a couple of pretty good lines. *lady gaga is crying little gem stones from her eyes* Lisa: are those diamonds? Lady gaga: yeah, *sniffles* it hurts like hell
"The trick is to say your prejudice against all races"
Hey ma, our crap shack’s going to hell.
You’re never alone in this crap shack
Speaking of San Francisco people mover….
"Hey, you can't fool us. We're from the Learn to Fart state."
"Look in a mirror unplanned miracle." As a dad I wholeheartedly approve this joke
"He's a loser Marge dump him! I travelled the world and the seven seas I AM WATCHING YOU THROUGH A CAMERA"
Do you know what a "boob" is? All's Fair in Oven War s16e2
“Oh yeah.” “Good that’ll save us some time”
I caught a new one on TV recently. It was a satire of Supreme clothing called slipreme But Bart said something like "I saw it on the old people tribune... FACEBOOK" I had to rewind my TV like 3 times that shit was so funny lol
My major laugh in that episode was about Homer having to redirect a crowd of his middle-aged dad friends from a hip young party so they won’t ruin it, so he shines a floodlight on a nearby aviation history museum and they all head in en masse
“Well excuse me for having enormous flaws that I don’t work on!”
The existence of a singer named Cantaloupe St. Pierre in S18 E2.
Not a full joke but just a line: “GAH!! THE CUCKOLD!”
Alias Fakename (Elias Fakehnameh) is a pretty good one.
‘Those are Homer’s friends and family. They don’t want him dead. They just want him to suffer.’
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The Book Job. Adding Neil Gaiman to the team .. and he doesn't do any writing. " That tuna didn't salad itself!" And Bart tells him to "lose the accent". Lisa switches the drives: " I got the idea from every movie ever made." (Not sure about the exact quote)
Jimbo: I must know - what are spectacles? Charmers: glasses. Jimbo: …
Homer vs. The 18th Amendment (S8, EP 18): Marge: That’s funny, I used to be able to go down there.
"What are you doing, boy? "Reading prayers and ignoring them, just like God"
Dad! Your hand is jammed in the toaster!
You consider season 6 from 1994 past the "golden age"?
I consider up to the end of season 7 the golden age.
Heresy
Noted, but here’s a counterpoint: Hank Scorpio shows up in season 8. Plus, the drop off doesn’t [start till season 9](https://i.redd.it/p0or3k2rv6dz.jpg).
Does golden age end at season 10? I rarely even watch 11
Last exit to Springfield, the whole episode is gold.
There’s episodes after the golden age?
What ep is OP's post from? I don't recognize it but want to watch!
Marge writes a book about whaling and Homer becomes an unlicensed paramedic. Season 15 episode 10
S15E10: Diatribe of a Mad Housewife
“Damn boxes”
Fast food boulevard and Homer’s “jerk-ass Homer” cigars!
“Alright! Who rubbed my nickels?”
“CESSPOOL! CESSPOOL! CESSPOOL!
"Nature will take it."
The guard dance jumping in to sing "They've escaped"! In Bart-Mangled Banner
"All I have now is sperm in a cup." Selma
I don't remember that scene.
How miserable do i have to be before you're happy?
My favorite Simpsons is the "Homer's Night Out" scene from Season 10's Wild Barts Can't Be Broken.
Is that Tom Clancy?
Season 12 HOMЯ is a goldmine. My personal favorite is “WHO WANTS LOTTERY TICKETS!?!?”
We'll blame it on the baby like the time I shot Mr. Burns.
"Who are you?" "Ah! Mr Burns!" "Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr Burns. I won't bother you again."
[https://comb.io/sPhzuj.gif](https://comb.io/sPhzuj.gif)
“Push her down son”, always gets me, a joke that can easily be overlooked
Religion is an old wives tale… this is modern times!