The family that doesn't know the meaning of the word "cancelled" - The Simpsons!

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But then again, that guy thought Brake My Wife Please was 'hilarious', once said that Principal Skinner was 'stupider and funnier' in Lard of the Dance, and likes Season 19. So yeah, his opinion is definitely worth a damn, eh?

While normally I feel people exaggerate the quality of new episodes and don't mind it when someone likes them, you'd have to be autistic to enjoy Brake My Wife Please. And there was another guy who thought that same episode was 'hilarious' as well, which left me scratching my head.

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I'm still scratching my head as to why you place so much importance on other people's opinions.

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I don't. I hate Brake My Wife Please. But everyone seems to love it. There was even a Scottish guy who normally hates new episodes who loved it, thought it was hilarious.

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I most certainly don't love Brake My Wife, Please. The plot is lousy, there's pretty much no structure or direction to the episode, and most of the jokes fall flat. The majority of season 14 stays in this pretty mediocre level of not quite being offensively terrible, but not being significantly good/memorable in any way, but that episode was a particular low point for me. I think I chuckled at the flying penguin gag and that was about it.

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I wouldn't say Brake My Wife, Please is too bad, but it does have flaws with pacing or something.

And stum, I don't care to hear much of some random guys' opinions of some episodes.

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I think I chuckled at the flying penguin gag and that was about it.

I liked the Mr. Wilson gag and "Whatcha wearing?" Other than that, garbage.

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There was a guy on NoHomers who said he preferred Homer vs. Dignity over Bart Gets an F.

Well, you're comparing two totally different tone of episodes there. One is a serious episode, and the other being gag-centered. I think people really overexaggerate on that "Panda Rape" scene in Homer vs. Dignity to be honest. It's one of the better episodes in Season 12 for me.

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I actually think Homer vs. Dignity would be terrible even if it didn't have that scene.

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Yeah, the story was ridiculous, the episode wasn't funny, and I swear there were two or three other episodes from season 12 where act one had the premise of "The Simpsons are broke!" I'm aware it's a recurring theme in the show, but too much repetition too close together (much like the "Homer gets a new job" plots that littered season 10).

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Yeah, the story was ridiculous, the episode wasn't funny, and I swear there were two or three other episodes from season 12 where act one had the premise of "The Simpsons are broke!" I'm aware it's a recurring theme in the show, but too much repetition too close together (much like the "Homer gets a new job" plots that littered season 10).

Season 10's Mayored to the Mob alone would wipe the floor clean of every episode from Season 13 and beyond for me. Heck, even Homer vs. Dignity would clean like 75% of them, probably even more than that. That's how much weaker Season 13 and beyond is to me.

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Homer's jobs in Season 10:

Grease salesman (Lard of the Dance)
Inventor (Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
Celebrity assistant (When You Dish Upon a Star)
Hippie (D'ohin' in the Wind)
Bodyguard (Mayored to the Mob)
Yuppie (Homer to the Max)
Trucker (Maximum Homerdrive)
Conceptual artist (Mom and Pop Art)
Spring salesman (The Old Man and the 'C' Student)
Mr. Burns' assistant (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)

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I'm completely with AdrenalineDragon on this one, except I'd up the percentage from 75% to about 97%.

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Yeah, the story was ridiculous, the episode wasn't funny, and I swear there were two or three other episodes from season 12 where act one had the premise of "The Simpsons are broke!" I'm aware it's a recurring theme in the show, but too much repetition too close together (much like the "Homer gets a new job" plots that littered season 10).

Well I'll have to be on the other side of the fence here and say I really like that episode.

"What are you doing man, that's Carl!"

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Yeah, the story was ridiculous, the episode wasn't funny, and I swear there were two or three other episodes from season 12 where act one had the premise of "The Simpsons are broke!" I'm aware it's a recurring theme in the show, but too much repetition too close together (much like the "Homer gets a new job" plots that littered season 10).

Well I'll have to be on the other side of the fence here and say I really like that episode.

"What are you doing man, that's Carl!"

I think I'll join you with this one. I found Homer vs Dignity to be hilarious. I don't exactly get all the hate for this episode. It was probably the best of Season 12.

[Reply #254 on:]

It doesn't get a lot of hate, really. On NoHomers, people generally like it.

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I usually find people using it as a example of how The Simpsons changed after Season 10 all the time. And they usually take the panda rape thing VERY seriously.

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It doesn't get a lot of hate, really. On NoHomers, people generally like it.

Well, I'm guessing that most of the classic Simpsons fans have left that site and just stopped watching entirely by now. I'm guessing it's full of new Simpsons fans.

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It doesn't get a lot of hate, really. On NoHomers, people generally like it.

Well, I'm guessing that most of the classic Simpsons fans have left that site and just stopped watching entirely by now. I'm guessing it's full of new Simpsons fans.

No. There's only about a couple people on there (Raspberry and FP are the ones that spring to mind) who can even tolerate the new episodes.

The Scully era is fairly popular on that site now, some people even group it in with the classic era. They just hate the new episodes.

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It doesn't get a lot of hate, really. On NoHomers, people generally like it.

Well, I'm guessing that most of the classic Simpsons fans have left that site and just stopped watching entirely by now. I'm guessing it's full of new Simpsons fans.

Not really. Homer vs. Dignity still shows up pretty high on the recent worst episodes lists, because it's still considered by many to be the episode where The Simpsons "Jumped the Shark" for them. However, from what I can gather most fans have gotten nicer to the Scully Era in recent years compared to the dreck Jean gives us for episodes nowadays.

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It doesn't get a lot of hate, really. On NoHomers, people generally like it.

Well, I'm guessing that most of the classic Simpsons fans have left that site and just stopped watching entirely by now. I'm guessing it's full of new Simpsons fans.

Not really. Homer vs. Dignity still shows up pretty high on the recent worst episodes lists, because it's still considered by many to be the episode where The Simpsons "Jumped the Shark" for them.

Kill the Alligator and Run was voted the second worst episode ever, and that's from Season 11.

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It doesn't get a lot of hate, really. On NoHomers, people generally like it.

Well, I'm guessing that most of the classic Simpsons fans have left that site and just stopped watching entirely by now. I'm guessing it's full of new Simpsons fans.

Not really. Homer vs. Dignity still shows up pretty high on the recent worst episodes lists, because it's still considered by many to be the episode where The Simpsons "Jumped the Shark" for them.

Kill the Alligator and Run was voted the second worst episode ever, and that's from Season 11.

Even that episode doesn't seem so bad nowadays considering I'm getting through episodes without laughing once. Besides, there were worse episodes in that season for me already.

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It doesn't get a lot of hate, really. On NoHomers, people generally like it.

Well, I'm guessing that most of the classic Simpsons fans have left that site and just stopped watching entirely by now. I'm guessing it's full of new Simpsons fans.

I'm a member, and I hate new Simpsons.

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What username do you have on there, LMP?

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All of them. Every account on the site is my fake account.

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No, seriously?

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I used to have an account called "Lost My Phone," but forgot the password after being inactive for a while.

PM me if you want to know my current username.

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Stum, what are your favourite episodes from the Scully Era?

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It doesn't get a lot of hate, really. On NoHomers, people generally like it.

Ah, pfft. You can't trust the opinions of message board members. 

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I really like 'Homer Vs. Dignity' myself, probably because how it's both over-the-top and calm (although it's admittedly much more over the top than anything). I can see how it may have 'Jumped the Shark', as it was a bit zany,  but at least it was pretty funny.
Then again, I'm biased on it, just like I was on 'Marge be no Proud'; it was an episode on one of my first Simpsons DVDs, 'Simpsons Christmas 2', so it's a bit nostalgic for me as one of the first episodes I had ever seen.

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As much as I dislike Homer vs. Dignity, I can't really call it a "jump the shark" episode given that it was preceded by such crap as Saddlesore Galactica, Monty Can't Buy Me Love, Eight Misbehavin', Alone Again, Natura-Diddily, Kill the Alligator and Run and Take My Wife, Sleaze.

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As much as I dislike Homer vs. Dignity, I can't really call it a "jump the shark" episode given that it was preceded by such crap as Saddlesore Galactica, Monty Can't Buy Me Love, Eight Misbehavin', Alone Again, Natura-Diddily, Kill the Alligator and Run and Take My Wife, Sleaze.

Yes, Alone Again, Natura-Diddily and Saddlesore Galactica are common episodes associated with "Jumping the Shark" for The Simpsons too. Also, Monty Can't Buy Me Love ain't that bad, despite only being average at best. Take My Wife, Sleaze is one of the better episodes of Season 11 to be honest. I actually enjoyed the Sword Bike showdown at the very end.

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Monty Can't Buy Me Love ain't that bad, despite only being average at best.

It's actually not (the first two acts are pretty decent), but the whole Loch Ness Monster thing was the show's first full-blown voyage into cartoony retardedness... I'm aware the show has had a disconnect from reality since about season 4, but it's always been confined to a throwaway gag here and there. This was the first time it was ever a major plot point, and it undoubtedly paved the way for shit like jockey elves and all the old people's eyes falling out.

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Stum, what are your favourite episodes from the Scully Era?

Bart Star
King of the Hill
Dumbbell Indemnity
Wild Barts Can't Be Broken
Pygmoelian
Children of a Lesser Clod

There's more, but those are the best, I think.

[Reply #273 on:]

I agree with King of the Hill. Most of the rest are relatively average in my opinion, and I don't like Wild Barts Can't Be Broken or Children of a Lesser Clod at all.

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What? How can you not like Wild Barts Can't Be Broken? The stuff with Homer the Isotopes fair-weather fan was hilarious, and so were "Don't Go There" and the musical number at the end.

Children of a Lesser Clod is the funniest episode of Season 12, IMO. Homer singing "Is that All there Is?" to Rod and Todd is hilarious in a twisted way.

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How can you not like Wild Barts Can't Be Broken?

There weren't any laughs in it for me (except maybe the B-grade horror movie we got a few glimpses of at the drive-in, and I didn't much care for the whole kids vs. adults plot. The whole thing felt like pretty standard season 10 fodder to me, I'm a little shocked that it's frequently singled out as a highlight of that season.

I enjoyed the first half or so of Children of a Lesser Clod, but didn't really like they where they went with it. Again, the laughs were sparse. I'd concede it's one of the better episodes of season 12, but that isn't really saying much at all.

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I thought CoaLC got better as it went on.

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How can you not like Wild Barts Can't Be Broken?

There weren't any laughs in it for me (except maybe the B-grade horror movie we got a few glimpses of at the drive-in, and I didn't much care for the whole kids vs. adults plot. The whole thing felt like pretty standard season 10 fodder to me, I'm a little shocked that it's frequently singled out as a highlight of that season.

What do you consider to be the best episode of Season 10 then?

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Probably Lisa Gets an 'A.' It's got a very classic-era feel to it (along with a nice little character-based story and plenty of laughs to boot).

I also very much enjoyed Lard of the Dance, The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace, Bart the Mother, D'oh-in in the Wind, Mayored to the Mob, Homer to the Max, I'm With Cupid and Mom and Pop Art. The rest would all be ranked pretty average for me.

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again...I adore season 10. Almost every episode in that season feels like a classic to me.

The only episodes I would say I don't care much for in that season are Sunday Cruddy Sunday, The Old Man And The C Student, and Monty Can't Buy Me Love. But others that people have mentioned in here as ones they hate are some of my favorites...ones like When You Dish Upon A Star, Kidney Trouble, Viva Ned Flanders, Screaming Yellow Honkers, Simpsons Bible Stories, and Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo.