4/30/2023 0 Comments Yoink simpsons![]() ![]() Lisa quizzes Homer on all the holes in his story, which makes it seem like the whole thing is made up until the reunion show on the roof. This is a great episode, close to an all-timer. The arcs for Wiggum and Barney are particularly good. ****¾Ĭape Feare, a parody of the film of the same name (minus the E), is one of the Simpson’s finest episodes. It was an old writing team going out with a bang but leaving enough space for a reoccurring gag (the rakes), which would go down as one of the Simpson’s best gags of all time. The combination of the classic Cape Fear sound cues and Kelsey Grammer’s perfectly evil Sideshow Bob is what makes the episode so great. This is the absolute peak of Bob as a bad guy. Sideshow Bob has been stewing in prison and is determined to get out so he can kill Bart Simpson. There’s a spell at the start of the episode where Bart suspects everyone of wanting to murder him before Bob arrives. When Bob arrives everything is so perfect. “Oh, honey, I wouldn’t say ‘doomed.’ It’s going to be an adjustment, no question.The “use a pen Sideshow Bob” bit, the parole board (“no one who speaks German can be an evil man”), the Bobby DeNiro imitations, the working out, “the following neighbourhood residents will not be killed”. Lisa apologizes for dooming humanity, but Marge consoles her. A quick cut later, and the surviving Springfieldians are floating on driftwood in the ocean. Before dying, he asks, “Hey, what’s the gag?” Of course, the humans will have none of it, and Homer leads them in the assault. ![]() The clowns of the sea.” They bludgeon him. “Uh-oh, sharks! The assassins of the sea! Ohh, you’re not sharks. The creatures’s first target is hapless Lenny, out for a night swim. ![]() But unbeknownst to Lisa, Snorky is the dolphin’s leader, and after years of being treated like a “common seal,” he wants revenge on the humans. In an act of activism, she frees the marine creature, and he swims out to sea. Lisa takes pity on a dolphin named Snorky who lives in an aquarium. 2 – ‘Night of the Dolphin’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror XI’ Rosie O’Donnell leads all of the passengers in “Clang, Clang, Clang,” and Homer decides death can’t come fast enough, as he ejects his and Bart’s seats from the shuttle, where their heads can pop in peace. Also, their ship is headed directly into the sun. Homer looks around in panic at Dan Quayle, Pauly Shore and Tom Arnold, realizing they’re far from being the world’s best and brightest people. They leave Earth behind, but something about this shuttle doesn’t seem right. But only Lisa, Marge and Maggie are allowed on the ship (Lisa’s their proofreader), and all hope seems lost until Homer and Bart spy another rocket about to take off. They yoink a ticket off Krusty’s body and sprint to Houston. But there’s an out the Simpsons discover that something called “Operation Exodus” plans to rocket the world’s most important people into space so they can start a new human civilization. Dick Clark’s face melts off, revealing him to be a robot. Planes fall from the skies, and nuclear missiles are deployed. So when the ball drops, the virus spreads and pandemonium ensues. It’s Y2K, and Homer is the only technician in the world who forgot to debug his computer. 3 – ‘Life’s a Glitch, Then You Die’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror X’ The episode’s best bit comes when the camera pans over the field of Homers clones, which includes Homers from past episodes, a Homer as he appeared in the original shorts, and, of course, Peter Griffin. Is it the scene where a helicopter suspends a 50-foot donut over a cliff, baiting thousands of Homers to fall to their deaths? No, that’s not it. They’re a hungry bunch, eating entire fields of corn and the farmers that tend to the fields. But soon Homer loses control of the population of belly button-less pea brains. At first, he uses the power for good, relatively speaking. ![]() Homer buys a cursed hammock that can clone him. Also, it’s the best line of the night: “Look them in the eye and say, ‘Don’t eat me.’” 4 – ‘Send in the Clones’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror XIII’ They go to the usually level-headed Marge for aid, but her advice is less than helpful. One by one, the children are picked off, until Bart, Lisa and Millhouse are the only ones left. The solution is hilarious, morbid and so very wrong: Eat the disobedient students. Skinner thinks that detention is too crowded, and Doris thinks it’s wrong to serve the children grade-F meat. Principal Skinner and Lunchlady Doris have problems. ![]()
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