"Special Guest Star: Robert Goulet!"

"I will not suffer your insubordination! There has been a shocking decline in the quality and quantity of your toadying, Waylon! And you will fall into line, now!"

I'm going to say "Ouch" for Madonna!

Yeah, it's hard to simply quote these exchanges without hearing Azaria and Shearer effortlessly playing off each other. According to some of the commentaries I've heard a few of the exchanges that wound up in the show was just the two of them riffing.

Actually, in a a typical murder mystery everyone usually has a motive. In Murder on the Orient Express (do I really need to put a spoiler alert here?) everyone actually did it.

Classic Brockman from Part 2:

More rubber stamps!

And divorced from the hype, the episodes hold up surprisingly well among "Classic Era" Simpsons, primarily because the mystery is not really the point (although the reveal of Maggie shooting Burns is gloriously silly), it's just a mystery/police procedural narrative to throw a bunch of good jokes on. Plus, Tito Puente!

To me it seemed like they wanted to parody the hyped season-ending cliffhanger only to pretty much become what it was intending to mock. The utter ridiculousness of it all just barely kept it from going off the rails. That the episodes were individually good helped.

Dear Lord! That's the loudest profanity I've ever heard!

Why is it when I heard the word "school" and the word "exploded" I immediately thought of the word "SKINNER"!!??

(Tastes sand from the sandbox) "Excellent! Not a trace of urine. Seymour, you run a tight ship."
"Well, you know what they say, sir: 'Where there's no smoke, there's no fire.'"
"What an odd remark."

"I feel like I'm going to die, Bart"
"We're all going to die, Lis."
"I meant soon."
"So did I."

377 comments along, I'll chime in with my list.

I would pick the haunting ballad "When You Find the Girl of Your Dreams in the Arms of Some Scotsmen from Hull" for W, but then again, I think that's a Barry Wom solo tune.

I agree it's Mike Binder's hamfisted script/direction that really sinks Reign Over Me, but Adam Sandler was just playing his manchild asshole schtick to morose affect. It didn't work at all.

Movie idea #2,305: Adam Sandler is trapped on a deserted island and falls in love with a coconut.

"I hear you. Because you're talking in the ear that I didn't lose a button in."

Journey 2: Elec-2-ic Boogatoo

Ha! Upvoted for just the obscurity of the reference. And since we're on the Gortner thing, I would've went for him fighting giant mice.