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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:24 PM
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What is your favorite simpsons episode?
Mine is Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment.

“Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment” is the thirteenth episode of the second season of The Simpsons, which aired on February 7, 1991. This episode tells the story of Homer stealing cable and Lisa's resulting moral conflict. It is one of a number of Simpsons episodes that have won an Emmy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_vs._Lisa_and_the_8th_Commandment

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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:27 PM
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1. Mine is
when homer joins Free Republic and is a freeper for a week
:woohoo::hi::hug::loveya:
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:30 PM
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2. ...
:hi: :hug: :*
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:43 PM
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3. "Selma's Choice" (season 4, episode 13)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma%27s_Choice

It doesn't get any better when Selma goes to a sperm bank, thinking that having a child on her own would spare her her loneliness, and upon arriving there, it's shown that Barney frequently makes donations there... and they show Barney's babies burping... I almost peed my pants laughing in hysterics when that first aired...
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Juche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:48 PM
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4. I'm not sure
I don't think I have a favorite, but several were really good. Homer finding his mother is still alive and the ending of that episode, and the one where Lisa develops a crush on her teacher (dustin Hoffman).

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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:49 PM
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5. Tomacco
Really, I can't think of a finer episode. :D
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:50 PM
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6. Season 11 (the final good one IMHO)
:D

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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 03:09 PM
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14. I havent seen many but that is what I was going to say!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 03:15 PM
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17. "Soil pH? That's just superstition."
:P
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:54 PM
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7. Marge On The Lam
"At the risk of editorializing, these women are guilty, and should be dealt with in a harsh and brutal fashion. Otherwise their behavior could incite other women, leading to anarchy of biblical proportions. It's in REVELATIONS, people!!!!!!"

:rofl:
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:55 PM
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8. The flaming moe
My ex and I were so baked when we watched that,we about peed our pants. moe....moe....moe...
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:56 PM
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9. "There's No Disgrace Like Home"
The scene at Dr. Monroe's Family Therapy...

Aw hell, here it is. Enjoy.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/29856/the-simpsons-electric-shock-aversion-therapy
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 02:56 PM
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10. 1st treehouse of horror.
quothe the raven, "eat me shorts!"
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 03:05 PM
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11. the mr. scorpio one cracks me up
:rofl:
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 05:45 PM
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22. "If you could kill some guys on your way out, it would really help me a lot."
:rofl:

Love Albert Brooks. :D
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 05:52 PM
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24. The one where Bart and Milhouse get that stopwatch that stops time
I don't think I have ever laughed so hard. I also think I broke my first TIVO replaying that part. :rofl:

Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off

Bart and Milhouse (in a parody of the Twilight Zone episode “A Kind of a Stopwatch”) get a stopwatch through an ad in an old comic book magazine that actually allows them to stop time. They have a great blast pulling pranks on Springfieldans, such as pantsing Principal Seymour Skinner. They almost get away with it, but they are outsmarted by Mayor Quimby. An angry mob goes after Bart and Milhouse. While they are on the run, they stop time and the watch breaks, causing Bart and Milhouse to be the only two people moving in a world where time has stopped.

They have some time fun with the entire world (such as giving the Pope a wedgie) but soon become bored. They find a watch repair manual, but despite their best efforts, it takes fifteen years to restore the flow of time. Martin is set to take the blame from the mob and is killed. Lisa notes that Bart is much older and wants to play with the watch. Lisa finds a secondary function that changes reality. After many alterations, (including turning the family into TV guides and the Fantastic Four) Homer has her stop on the one where everyone is playing with Hula Hoops. As a side effect, Bart reverts back to a ten year old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XIV
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cwydro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 03:07 PM
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12. I think I am the only person in the US
who has never watched that show. Not even once.
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 09:28 AM
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36. I envy you
i think you will really really enjoy it when you get around to it.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 03:09 PM
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13. The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
I loved it -- Homer thinks he can be an inventor like Edison (Season 10 Episode 2). He's in the basement thinking and shows the Edison poster his work.

Homer: Look, Mr. Edison, I did it! I'm an inventor! And I owe it
all to you! See, it's just a
regular chair, but I attached a couple of extra
legs to the back, kind of like the ones on the back of your
...
has the same device on his chair]
Homer: Aww, dammit!!
Bart: Hey, Dad, I heard you swearing. Mind if
I join in? Crap, boobs, crap.
Homer: I thought I had a great idea, but I must've seen it on this
poster.
Bart: If Edison thought of that chair, how come it's not on this
chart?
Homer: It's not? Maybe he never told anyone about it! That chair
might be the only one he made!
Bart: So ...?
Homer: So, we've got to go to the Edison Museum and smash it. Then
I'll be an inventor!
Bart: But I thought you loved Edison.
Homer: Aw, to hell with him.
Bart: Yeah! Hell damn fart!

Cracks me up.
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 04:02 PM
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19. that was a good one
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 03:11 PM
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15. I have so freaking many that I just love.
Seriously, I don't think I could trim it down to just one episode.


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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 03:11 PM
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16. Treehouse of Horror IIV is the most quotable episode for sure
"Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others," "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos" etc
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 06:53 PM
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30. OMG, yes
Edited on Sat May-23-09 06:54 PM by Mad_Dem_X
My husband and I still quote that once in a while: "Abortions for some, miniature American flags for all!" and, "I am Clin-TON!"
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 03:18 PM
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18. Any one with Robert Underdunk Terwilliger
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 09:11 AM
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34. Sideshow Bob Roberts is a classic.
:-)
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 05:25 PM
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20. among many: medicinal marijuana, Krusty elected to congress
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 09:55 AM
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38. "they call 'em fingers but you never see 'em fing. Whoa there they go."
:D
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 05:43 PM
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21. One of them I really liked was where Marge almost had an affair with her French bowling instructor
Jacques: What cosmic force brought us together Marge?
Marge: Destiny!
Jacques: Yes. Some divine pin-spotter, must have placed us, side-by-side.
Marge: Like two fragile bowling pins.
Jacques: Standing bravely.
Marge: Until inevitably,
Jacques: We must topple.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 05:51 PM
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23. Bart goes to a Spinal Tap concert and wants to learn to play the guitar.
It ends up with Otto the bus driver staying with the Simpsons, and working to get his driver's license. Best episode ever!
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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 05:58 PM
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25. The Frank Grimes episode
I can watch it over and over again.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 06:06 PM
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27. Frank "Grimey" Grimes.
And a few episodes later, Homer finds Grimes' memorial card in his pocket and says "Ah, Frank "Grimey" Grimes, whatever happened to that guy?"


I also love the episode where Homer gains enough weight to qualify for disability to work from home. He ends up wearing a golf hat, a mu-mu and a cape when he goes to a theater. He is too big to fit in the chairs, and when embarrassed, Homer shouts "I just want to watch 'Honk If You're Horney' with my dignity!"


I love the Simpsons. :rofl:
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 08:19 PM
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32. I love that one.
the bird almost killed everyone.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 05:59 PM
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26. Mr. Burns Casino
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 06:21 PM
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28. "Homer at the Bat" by, like, a friggin' mile.
I could watch that one every single day and never get sick of it. All the big-league players providing their own voices, and each one of them (except Darryl Strawberry) meeting a bizarre and inexplicable fate, each more inexplicable than the last!

:rofl: I love it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_at_the_Bat
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 06:51 PM
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29. Dang. Interesting stuff. Jose is a real hoser, isn't he?
:evilgrin:
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martymar64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 12:06 PM
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41. Strawberry was the one sucking up to Burns. Kept calling him Skip.
Connection, maybe?
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-23-09 06:55 PM
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31. The one with the supposed "spin-offs"
"The LoveMatic Grampa" still makes me almost wet myself from laughing. "That's the second time he's pulled the plug on me!"
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martymar64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 12:08 PM
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42. Wiggums as a Private Eye!
Look, Big Daddy! There's Regular Daddy!
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 09:01 AM
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33. I just changed mine to "Bart's Inner Child"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%27s_Inner_Child

Homer comes across an advertisement in the newspaper for a free trampoline. He rushes to the address from the advertisement, where Krusty is giving it away. After Homer, Bart and Lisa use the trampoline for a while, Marge expresses the danger of trampolines. However, Homer believes it enhances their house, and has grand plans of building a theme park in their yard, using the trampoline, a mud pit, and soiled mattresses built as a fort. Homer soon decides to charge others a fee to use the trampoline. But soon people begin to get injured, and Homer accepts Marge's advice to get rid of the trampoline. After failing at his various attempts to get rid of the trampoline, Bart steps in to help, by chaining the trampoline to a pole and waiting for Snake to break the chain and steal it for himself.

Marge and Homer argue later that night, with Homer telling Marge that even though getting the trampoline was a mistake at least he was willing to try new things, while she was boring and nagged too much. Marge disagrees, but after discovering that Bart and Lisa agree with Homer's assessment (through a montage of clips from such past episodes as Dog of Death, Colonel Homer, and Homer the Heretic), she becomes annoyed and stays the night at Patty and Selma's house. While there, she is introduced to an infomercial featuring self-help guru Brad Goodman, who supposedly can help her with her "chronic nagging." After Marge and Homer watch a Brad Goodman video, Marge is more tolerant and the two of them get along better. Observing how out of control Bart is, they take the family to see Brad Goodman's live lecture in the hopes that it will change him. Bart interrupts the lecture, and Brad Goodman encourages the town to follow Bart's spontaneous attitude ('Be like the boy'). Soon, the whole town begins to act like Bart, which means Bart's rebellious ways are no longer unique, putting him in a slump.

To celebrate their new-found attitude, the town holds a 'Do What You Feel' festival (in stark contrast to the annual 'Do As We Say' Festival, started by German settlers in 1946). But the festival soon goes awry because those responsible for building the stages and maintaining the rides did not feel like doing a thorough job, resulting in a runaway Ferris wheel and more. Arguments begin, as everybody has been encouraged to always say exactly what is on their mind, and soon a riot starts. Bart is quickly blamed for starting the whole 'Do As You Feel' trend. The town chases after Bart, but Homer drives by in a float and saves him. The town gives up the chase and decides to go to the old mill to get some cider. The Simpson family returns home where try to figure out what the lesson of the episode was, before finally giving up and watching television.

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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 09:24 AM
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35. Lisa the Simpson
Lisa learns about the dreaded Simpson gene (intelligence decreases as you age) and imagines a life married to Ralph Wiggum. The "turning stick" scene makes me laugh every time. This ep also featured Jasper as "Frostillicus" :rofl:

It ends well for her since the gene adversely afflicts the males only. Seeing the men on the front lawn with pots on their heads banging into each other is another laugher.

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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 09:32 AM
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37. "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
A prohibitionist movement emerges in Springfield after Bart accidentally gets drunk during a St. Patrick's Day celebration. The municipal government discovers alcohol has actually been banned for two centuries, and moves to enforce the law, prompting Moe to disguise his bar as a pet shop. With the town becoming impatient with the police's incompetence, Chief Wiggum is replaced by Rex Banner, an officer of the United States Treasury Department.

In the meantime, Homer figures out a way to keep Moe's bar operating, through bootlegging. One night, he and Bart sneak out to the city dump to reclaim the beer that was disposed of when the Prohibition law began to be enforced. He then sets up shop in his basement pouring the beer into hollow bowling balls. Using an intricate set of pipes under the Bowl-a-rama, he bowls the balls into Moe's. Marge actually thinks it is a great idea once she catches on. The media realizes someone is allowing Springfield's underground alcohol trade to flourish, and they give the still-unknown Homer the nickname "Beer Baron". Rex Banner fails to catch the Baron and resorts to stopping people in the street to question them.

When his supply of liquor runs out, Homer begins to brew his own. However, his stills start to explode. He is then confronted by a desperate ex-Chief Wiggum. In an attempt to rekindle Wiggum's career, Homer allows the former Police Chief to turn him in. The punishment that awaits him is death by catapult, showing how anachronistic the law really was. In the end, it is Rex Banner who is catapulted, and Wiggum is given his job back. The town clerk then finds out that the Prohibition law was actually repealed a year after it was put in place, and so Homer is released. Within five minutes Fat Tony floods the town with alcohol once more, and Springfield salutes its qualities.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 10:17 AM
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39. Something from Season 1...the only season I've seen. (n/t)
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martymar64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 12:01 PM
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40. A tossup between the Hullabalooza and the Tomacco episodes.
Edited on Sun May-24-09 12:03 PM by martymar64
The Hullabalooza episode has been censored in the shot where Otto sees his shoes talking to him (presumably while tripping on something good) while watching Peter Frampton. I guess Middle-America isn't ready for humor about psychedelics.

Also, I loved their trips to Japan, Australia and Brazil.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 12:09 PM
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43. Some of the Conan O'Brien episodes were gold.
Like the Monorail one.

One of my personal favorites was "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)", where Homer eats a chili pepper and is then inclined to find his soulmate. I don't know why, I think it's because it's both sweet and funny. And I love when Homer thinks his soulmate is the lighthouse keeper named Earl, only to find out that EARL stands for Electronic Automatic Robotic Lighthouse.

Plus it features Johnny Cash as a talking coyote....how often do you find that?

I also loved Hubbapalozza, and that's even before I became a big Smashing Pumpkins fan. One of the few episodes which featured a long list of guest stars playing themselves that didn't come off as somewhat overindulgent. (The one where Mr. Burns assembles a bunch of major league ballplayers for the company softball team is another good one.)
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-24-09 12:27 PM
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44. The "Boy Band" one. n/t
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