I'd say it's definitely a top ten episode for me, if not a top 5.

I'm whizzing with the door open… and I love it!

Someday you'll thank me for all this scary love.

Al Jean in short-shorts…

KA-CHING

PDE, I didn't know it was a real thing until like 3 years ago.

Probably the authentic start of the Simpsons golden age. The sentimentality of the past is mostly gone, the joke-a-minute ratio is way the fuck up there, and the implication of an extra God-digit.

NERRRRRD!

Can't come to work today. Religious holiday. The Feast of… Maximum Occupancy.

The network that puts its once good shows on 5 or 6 seasons past their prime baffles you?

Is it in Brooklyn? We need to hear more about white people in Brooklyn!

I sincerely hope we haven't her the last of the People's Champion, the Reverse Apache Master, or Dr. Cockenballs.

What would you do with a million dollars?

"Whether Christian, Jew, or… miscellaneous."
"Hindu! There are 700 million of us."

You, sir, are a national treasure.

Olympia Snowe was denied the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, but was offered to be Head of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee. I presume that's why she retired.

1) I can't figure out if they need to get rid of the "next week on Mad Men" spots or if we need to admire them as examples of post-modern media critique.

Some rich white people died. Why are we still talking about this?

"I don't want to watch no TV that makes me depressed. That's stupid."

I think they both work together pretty well. I don't mind the procedural elements, and sometimes they're actually interesting. But yeah, the family/grief/reality issues are far more interesting. Hopefully, if and when (sigh… if) the show moves on, they'll balance it a little more toward that.