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I like the episode where Elizabeth Montgomery flaunted her giant 70's areolas and danced with wedding apes to the superior New Order tunes. Jimmy Carter.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Black hair.matedog wrote:I like the episode where Elizabeth Montgomery flaunted her giant 70's areolas and danced with wedding apes to the superior New Order tunes. Jimmy Carter.
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I might be back on the bandwagon.matedog wrote:I like the episode where Elizabeth Montgomery flaunted her giant 70's areolas and danced with wedding apes to the superior New Order tunes. Jimmy Carter.
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Seasons 4-8 are what I rate as the peak.BostonBeaneater wrote:Season 4, particularly when the Germans take over the plant.
I don't know if I'd start with a classic episode. A lot of the reasons why they are so funny is familiarity with the characters. Little things like how awful Moe is as a person and that one time he tried to kill himself by sticking his head in an oven and had a piece of paper on his back that read "no funeral." Or anything related Lionel Hutz. I'm thinking season 4 is a good starting point because it's still early but also in the classic period. Not sure what a good starter episode would be though.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Best Hoy post ever*matedog wrote:I like the episode where Elizabeth Montgomery flaunted her giant 70's areolas and danced with wedding apes to the superior New Order tunes. Jimmy Carter.
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Absolutely agree, but seasons 2 and 3 have some really great episodes.matedog wrote:Seasons 4-8 are what I rate as the peak.BostonBeaneater wrote:Season 4, particularly when the Germans take over the plant.
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Yeah, 4-8 (I don't know why I cut it off at 6 earlier) are the grade A stuff. But there are stone cold classics in 2 and 3.Silent Majority wrote:Absolutely agree, but seasons 2 and 3 have some really great episodes.matedog wrote:Seasons 4-8 are what I rate as the peak.BostonBeaneater wrote:Season 4, particularly when the Germans take over the plant.
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The Way We Was may be a good starter, actually. That's one of my early favourites.
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what was the shark? Phil Hartman's death?
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There was no pure shark. It was around that time, though.tepista wrote:what was the shark? Phil Hartman's death?
A lot of reasons contributed, and the decline was gradual. There were still very good episodes for the next few years.
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I think that's Doc's theory.tepista wrote:what was the shark? Phil Hartman's death?
I found half of season 9 to be as good as 4-8. To me that is the very very clear transition season. 10 is alright but noticeably worse than 4-8. I bought season 3 but was surprised by the lack of out loud laughing I did in nearly every episode.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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When Smithers goes on vacation and homer is Burns' assistant is a good one.
Burns knowing Homers name may be shark too.
Burns knowing Homers name may be shark too.
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I totally agree with you here too. However, I think season ten is, perhaps two episodes aside, irredeemable.matedog wrote:I think that's Doc's theory.tepista wrote:what was the shark? Phil Hartman's death?
I found half of season 9 to be as good as 4-8. To me that is the very very clear transition season.
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I don't see Hartman's as the cause of the show's decline, but if you have to pick a moment when things went noticeably downhill, it was there. Still, seven seasons or so of genius is remarkable, even with this black hole of awfulness that's followed.matedog wrote:I think that's Doc's theory.tepista wrote:what was the shark? Phil Hartman's death?
I found half of season 9 to be as good as 4-8. To me that is the very very clear transition season. 10 is alright but noticeably worse than 4-8. I bought season 3 but was surprised by the lack of out loud laughing I did in nearly every episode.
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I think the show would have held together a lot longer if Phil Hartman didn't die. It would have still gone downhill, but losing him was a huge loss for the dynamic of the show. It's mostly coincidence that it started to suck when he died, but it hurt.
The loss of hand-drawn animation kind of killed the aesthetic too. Same thing happened to King of the Hill. It got too clean and artificial looking and it made sight gags and visuals much more boring.
The loss of hand-drawn animation kind of killed the aesthetic too. Same thing happened to King of the Hill. It got too clean and artificial looking and it made sight gags and visuals much more boring.
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