New Vegas helps a lot by making the villains genuinely interesting. Sure the Legion are creepy murderous slavers, but they're also tough, disciplined, and driven in a way that sharply contrasts with the whiny conscripts in the NCR. They're consummate survivors who can come out of the desert with football pads, some…

Really, are you sure it's "most?" It always seemed to me like you had to go out of your way to kill him. Generally in games I don't attack people while there's still dialog options and it's really not that hard to talk him down.

Eh, it's by no means half the content… unless you're foolish enough to go Legion, then it's way more more than half!

The "under penalty of torture" line is actually from ending of The Principal and the Pauper. Later Lisa makes a throw away "Armin Tamzarian" comment and utterly fails to get tortured. Where's your consistency, Simpons?!?

It's not in his honor, it's in honor of deadbeat dads everywhere. He's just the one who agrees with it most vocally.

Yeah, I had absolutely no clue what the aquarium jokes meant when I was a kid.

You may already know this, but the voice of Zapp Brannigan was originally going to be Hartman. Instead we got Billy West doing a pretty decent Phil Hartman impression.

Scotland Yard is in England.

Why not? Except for the dumb songs, it was like the only interesting part of the show. Knowing that people only raise pigs for one reason made every episode a real nail biter.

I think they actually are the animals' thoughts, but Jon can't see the thought bubbles. Any time it seems like they're having a conversation, it's really just Jon talking while Garfield scowls or makes faces. Jon only does this because he's very, very lonely.

The lack of identification for this woman is probably the funniest part. I vaguely remember hearing the name before, but I ain't gonna look up where, that's for damn sure.

That is freaking incredible. I'm especially fond of the phrase "life juice."

Sometimes he hangs out with mice instead of eating them. It's funny because he is a cat who is lazy.

Teenage pregnancy's a terrible thing.

OK, fair enough. I wouldn't be much of a Simpsons fan if i couldn't tolerate a little exaggeration for effect. I'll quibble a little on the nine seasons thing though, the Simpsons was good right from the start, but it didn't become "best thing on TV" good until probably season two or three.

You're… you're right. :c That was him talking to Groundskeeper Willy, right? I reeeaaally need to rewatch those old episodes. There's ones I probably haven't seen since I was a kid. I bet there's a lot of new jokes to find in there.

Have you looked at the cast and crew of this show? Half those guys probably have a gaggle of grandkids by now. Even in the show's heyday, they weren't always that good at engaging with youth culture ("Who should we get for our Lolapalooza parody?" "I know, let's call Peter Frampton!"), but it's gotten worse as the…

So what you're saying is that (classic) Simpsons is the single best show ever made and no show made today or at any point in the imaginable future could ever be as good, or even worthy of the comparison. Not to be rude, but do you even realize how absurd and blinkered that statement is? Were you just being hyperbolic,…

An 8-year-old with no party affiliation? I certainly didn't have a clear political identity at that age and my dad's a party activist! I know Lisa's had the personality of a college kid for a while now, but a partisan elementary school election is pretty out there.

And I regressed back to lurker. Circle of life I guess.