While I don't know if this episode is the hard demarcation between good and bad Simpsons, maybe conceptually it is. It marks where the fundamental project of the show switched from building the world of Springfield to Springfield being the sandbox the writers play in.

Does it make me a big nerd if that scene (as funny as it is) really bothers me because in a season 1 episode it showed Marge making pork chops and she was slinging the spices like she knew what she was doing? She definitely would know what oregano is.

So I don't know if anyone else has addressed this, but I have a couple of gripes about stuff that plagues so much pop culture "science" writing.

They used to have Smiths karaoke nights around where I live, but it was just singing along to the album tracks. I never got to go.

This is factually incorrect.

I'm upvoting for the standing up for The Natural Bridge. Not the thing about their last album.

Wow, talk about taking navel gazing to an absurd degree. That scene was about showmanship, rivalry and ego that drives great artists (both Berry and Lewis in this scene). Rude, disrespectful and racist? Seriously?

Maybe if she looked like 18 year old Winona Ryder, then, yes. But seriously, just no, she looked like a child when they were married.

Cool story: my band covers "Angel of the Morning." The sexual politics of that one get interesting when you switch the singer from female to male.

I can confidently say that this is my favorite line in the entire series.

Don't you know you must conform your tastes to what your internet peers prefer or risk being shunned?

Not to be a wet blanket here, but I always hated that line. It's just so mean and over the top and, the true sin, not funny.

Fuck yeah… Appetite.

I don't know whether your naivete is sweet or ridiculous. Knockoff Prada bags are produced in the same factories that make "legitimate" bags for Walmart. It's a tautology, but countries that don't care about intellectual property don't care about intellectual property. It's not like there are rogue factories making…

Maybe they were referring to Stevie Ray Vaughan's stirring 9 minute guitar solo tribute to his wife.

Wait, wait wait. An Xbox currently costs 500 fucking dollars? And you have to pay a fucking monthly subscription fee to use entertainment apps on the thing you just paid 500 fucking dollars for? Who the fuck pays for shit like this?

I guarantee you that you own many things produced by child labor unless, you just don't really own anything. Globalization!

The thing that always blows my mind is when they advertise a $25k watch in those airline magazines in the back of airplane seats. Hey, I'm sitting in coach, keep those things in first class, buddy.

I hate this fetishization of owning books. I'm all for reading and do it a lot. You know what I don't have in house? More than a couple of books. I move just about every year and lugging boxes and boxes of books around sucks. You know where you can borrow books from? EVERYWHERE! The library, friends, off the…

Wrong, smart guy. He said "Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that’s even REMOTELY true. Facts, schmacts."