"Excellent, excellent! Perhaps this energy conservation fad is as dead as the dodo."

^God, I hate to look that quote up. I didn't remember it at all. Well played.

I'd say 1-8 is the prime actually. But while I can understand people leaving out season one, leaving out season two just hurts my soul. That is quite possibly the best season of the show (seven is also a contender). Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein even once claimed that their seasons were an attempt to return to the…

From what I've read and heard (and bear with me):

@Nathan: I would say every season has at least one or two episodes that the fans really love, and consider classics. I liked those two particular episodes too (and a couple others, namely Bart the Mother and the Treehouse of Horror).

Much as I disagree with Zack about Homer's Enemy, I don't disagree with him about 8 being the last great season.

Also: We're OWL exterminators!

To clarify earlier statements: Bender's Game was pretty funny, and I've willingly watched and enjoyed it several times. There's tons of great lines. It was merely slightly disappointing at the time given A) the wait for it, B) having to pay, and C) that it just wasn't as good as the (brilliant) previous two. I…

He may have ocean madness, but that's no excuse for ocean rudeness!

For me:

I immediately thought of Twilight Zone too, although his comment about "maybe we're breaking new ground" seemed to suggest to me that he was genuinely asking and not certain if it had ever happened before. Though, his making an intentional reference to it would sort of make sense.

I think it's more about it being funny than genuinely sexy. And parodying the tropes of sci-fi, which tends to be full of heroines showing lots of skin.

Nonsense about Family Guy. That show always sucked.

Hmm…actually, what MBS posted is probably more correct than me. Though I am still pretty sure most of season two was also in the Tuesday slot, with some Sunday episodes before that as he describes. I don't believe it got that awful 7:00 slot until the third season, I'm pretty sure of that.

I'd go with The Simpsons seasons 1-8 as the better show. But then, that was possibly (probably?) the best show in the history of television.

Starting in season three, I believe. I think in season two it started at a reasonable time on Sundays, but then got bumped to Tuesdays or something for the rest of the season (just from what I can remember). From season three on though, yeah, it was in that ridiculous Sunday slot. Here in Colorado it came on at…

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I agree with Apocalypse too. The first two movies were excellent, especially Bender's Big Score, which was up there with my favorite episodes from the original run. Really, I enjoyed all of them on some level anyway…I think if you take them as a 16-episode "fifth season" as David Cohen suggests, the ratio of quality…

I was a little surprised too. I love season one as a whole, but this is probably the weakest episode of it despite a few nice moments (like the Smilin' Joe Fission video). I don't think it's horrible but it's rather weak, and the animation is especially poor at points. I kind of wonder what sort of grades the real…

66666666666(etc): I agree with all of that. I thought of the same things….it would have been too overcrowded if all the toys were back, and led to the same sort of problems that Indiana Jones 4 suffered from. Too many characters traveling together, and not enough time to do them justice.