What simpsons episode had the biggest impact on you growing up?
For me it was bar selling his soul or homer 3D
no zoomers allowed ITT sorry
What simpsons episode had the biggest impact on you growing up? For me it was bar selling his soul or homer 3D
3d homer and mr. burns the alien scared the frick out of me as a child, I was just easily frightened.
>t. born in 1990
>homer 3D
>3d homer
I'm curious why this messed with so many kids heads (including me) aside from just that the animation was so different? Also the episode has a weird melancholy feeling although nothing particularly sad happens
>I'm curious why this messed with so many kids heads (including me) aside from just that the animation was so different? Also the episode has a weird melancholy feeling although nothing particularly sad happens
Ive never given it a second thought, but I think the homer 3d ep for me is one of my first experiences of existential dread. It was the unsettling thought that the family had potentially lost Homer forever through some incomprehensible force of nature completely outside of their control and would never be reunited with him again. For me as a kid that was pretty terrifying.
this is a good insight, it may have been the first time you confront the idea of your dad dying, which (statistically speaking) is the most likely big loss you're going to experience in your nuclear family
*first big loss
I've thought about it and I think when homer enter the 3D world it's the fact he can't get back to his family.
A lot of 90s CGI was VERY creepy and had this uncanny, unfamiliar look to it, including that episode. It was too fluid and smooth to look like claymation/stop motion, yet nowhere near realistic like live action.
Also that scene where Homer disintegrates right before being thrown into real life LA nearly made me lose my shit.
"Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" was always an odd episode to me because the backing music felt way overproduced, like it was intended for a full-featured movie.
For me, it's Bart imagining Homer's face melting off while he's silently seething at him for forgetting to pick him up after soccer practice. Or the clown bed that Homer built for toddler Bart. Or the hallucinations Lisa got after drinking the river water at Duff Gardens.
It's called gaslighting and zoomers really suck at it
S11E5
the movie
I said no zoomers, frick off
Its the music, listen
around 2:40 here, shit has no busi ess being this good https://youtu.be/3dvavcX9I8g?si=BGTwoxMvF-O9T23J
Marge Be Not Proud
Bart Gets an F was pure agony. Everyone in my family got amazing grades at prestigious universities, while I struggled with basic high school math and science. I swear to God I have some sort of learning disability.
That one, too.
Bart tryin to hold back tears after he gets an F and Crabapple slowing realizing that hes really upset and actually tried was such a soulful scene.
I want to eat the marshmellow
I think with Homer, it's because we were used those shock shows like "Mothman, A UFO, and Sasquach caught on camera: Don't miss it!" Only to have the characters be interacting in a stillshot of a forest or flying across a town with no one going "what the frick was that?!"
With the CGI Homer, you see him wandering along the sidewalk, lol, but with a big difference, camera angle moves and the humans in the shot are like: "what the frick, are you seeing this shit too?"
The one where Ralph is an autistic Cinemaphile incel
The one where they find the angel skeleton and it turns out to be viral marketing for a new mall. Only because it really creeped me out as a kid
The Barbershop Quartet episode. The opening at the swap meet is hilarious
wtf is this I don't remember it?
It's a dumb zoomer meme
Don't fall for it. The zoomers are trying to induce Alzheimer's in us but they just look like a bunch of silly dropkicks
That episode homer takes lisa to the Egyptian museum is really funny and cute in Homer and Lisa relationship but the song in the end when they "break" the orb is haunting. It's beautiful in such a melancholic way and stands out so much in the otherwise comedic tone of the episode. Everytime i watch that episode i think about that little song all day
The lady gaga episode where she teamed up with Lisa to fight climate change
I'm still upset how they massacred my girl Lisa. She was just supposed to be a smart kid, polite in public, but kinda mischievous at home with Bart, who likes Jazz.
But no, she has to be far left. She has to be vegan. She has to be bhuddist. She has to be a constant hypocrite and that's the point of the episode. She has to be the reason something goes bad and she needs to admit it was her fault after all.
Also tired of Marge episodes because it's always "Marge discovers she's actually amazing at X career or job she does but has to quit because le family unit" and it's always how Marge becomes really good at something yet ignores her family or the family suffers, or she's insufferable because she's NOT REALLY friends with the other moms.
They should have an episode where Marge kills herself and then just carry on the show like 8 Simple Rules
People shit on Family Guy compared to the simpsons, but at least Seth was aware enough to realize Brian had turned into an annoying self righteous liberal and addressed it while also continuing to joke about it later. He also had Rush Limbaugh voice himself in an episode.
Meanwhile the simpsons just doubled down the the point of making really cringy and soulless literal Democrat Party propaganda videos
A few years ago I rewatched my DVD collection with the commentary track on. Ended up turning it off on Lisa-centric episodes or just flat out skipping them because the fart-huffing got to be way too much.
what's the most scary episode? Is it even a haunting treehouse?
The Christmas one where Bart gets caught shoplifting and feels like an outcast. I think I got in trouble at school when it aired and was a youngish teen kid. Too old for Santa and just old enough to know I put a damper on the holiday. I think I got caught smoking in school or some shit
>be me bonestorm or go to hell!
There's a lot but the episode where Bart commits credit card fraud to buy a super well trained, high quality purebred, perfect dog always stuck with me. He immediately gets caught and instead of returning the new dog he gives away Santa's Little Helper instead. He doesn't like the choice and immediately recognizes and regrets what he did but it's such a true to life thing where as a kid you're trying different things to work out what's right and wrong. Bart slowly realizes this new dog that's good at everything and completely perfect was actually kind of fricking annoying and not what he really wanted. That he misses his stupid, loyal dog that he grew up with and is filled with regret and self loathing that he betrayed something he loves that was completely innocent. Then when he finally tracks down Santa's Little Helper only to find he's been given to a fricking blind man and is his only companion.
The episode is stll filled with jokes obviously but in 15 minutes they have lessons for kids about appreciating your loved ones and the beauty and realness of imperfection and also about the real moral consequences of your actions. The Simpsons was such a good show man
Great one
Also the ship horn part gets me every time
kek yeah. also something about "there, there, shut up boy" I still remember.
I haven't seen the episode in like 15 years so while it's impressive I could recall that much I also wrote that post like I'm chatgpt's moronic sister, my apologies
>Lumbley! Shovel on more dogs, won't you?
>>Aye Aye!
>>More dogs!
>In you go.
i remember that episode when it ends with the island getting all their trees getting cut, it was so funny holy shit
Reading this guy's manifesto reminded me of this 20 year old Onion article:
https://www.theonion.com/suicide-letter-full-of-simpsons-references-1819567405
It's pretty frickin' weird.
Homer 3D is awesome. Most of the people behind it would later work on the movie Antz.
>He's disappeared into fat air.
PDI (Pacific Data Images) did the computer animation of Homer 3D in 1995. Shortly after, DreamWorks bought PDI and they began working on their first computer generated movie project, which was Antz.
i liked the one where bart and lisa kept calling him homer, then he puts maggie to bed and she says dada
Homer's Enemy
Or "Bart gets an F" just because of the "blablablabla" scenes
I don't even remember what episode it was, possibly multiple ones, but there's a particular gradient they used for sunsets that really stuck with me over the years.
None of them had any impact beyond me quoting it incessantly in middle school
the episode where Homer eats the poisonous blowfish and is set to die.
it triggered my mortality salience and shook me for months if not years.
The one where Lisa goes on a beach vacation and becomes the cool simpson with the beach bum kids and Homer bought illegal fireworks from cape cod apu.
>Okay, gimme a couple of those porno mags, large box of condoms, some of those panty-shields, a bottle of Old Harper, some illegal fireworks and one of those disposable enemas. Ah, what the hell -- make it two.
I only remember the part where he tries lighting it uses the kitchen stove, it burns half the wick off immediately, so he freaks out and throws it in the fridge.
Then he says "the beer sleeps there!", took it out, and threw it in the dishwasher instead.
I was a stupid druggie teen and I consumed an entire bottle of cough syrup alone in my parents basement not knowing the really trippy Johnny cash spirit guide episode was on and it was unsure what was happening and forgot everything until I saw the rerun.
Homer's mom dying
The one with Mindy. I really thought Homer cheated on Marge. It didn't shake my core but it was a wth moment.
Can you guys write the name of a single fricking episode so I can watch it
How new?
Just a classic one, one of the ones you're describing. I've seen the first 9 seasons but it was like 20 years ago, I don't remember them
Three Men and a Comic Book - as a kid I remember getting really drawn in to how rare and important the #1 issue comic was to the boys, was a real gut punch when it got destroyed
Anyone else barts age when the show started?
I was 6. Probably picked up bad behaviors from the role model.
Confirmed when my daughter started doing Bart shit after I let her start watching the show around age 8.
I was -1 when the Tracey Ullman shorts first debuted and nearly 2 when the Christmas pilot came out.
where sideshow bob slides out from under the car and steps on a rake, then another rake and so on.
don't know why but i was doubled with laughter at that.
I pulled up a season 6 on Disney and the chalkboard gag was “the one armed man didn’t steal my homework”