"Rather than come up with an excuse for their high school graduates to
all be at the same college after season four, season five opened up four
years later with changes like Brooke running her own clothing line"

"Who's playing the mother this year?"

That was later on. They initially fired her without replacing the character, then let her back on, then fired her again, then recast the part (out of necessity since she was important to a storyline).

I used to watch this show religiously but even back as a kid the excessive amount of filler wore me out. You can cut each season down from about 40 episodes to about six where the plot actually advances. The rest is just boring monster-of-the-week stuff. But at least when things happen they actually do happen, unlike…

Too hard to read with the pages all sticking together

Even with Hartman around I'd have given it one more season at most. It was very lucky to last as long as it did, especially with NBC not needing to carry weak performers along back then.

The thing was that Jarvis died the summer after the previous season had ended with a cliffhanger where Simon got into a driving accident that killed a little girl. Killing off the Grandpa on top of that would have apparently been too much melodrama even for this show, so they waited until late in the season - which…

Four, really, but everybody ignores that.

Jaime Weinman wrote some very fine reviews for the first two seasons at Macleans.

I doubt they'd last, but the first two seasons are the best anyway, and if they could get covered I'd be happy.

And almost having sex with your sister!

Smith has had very few small speaking parts as other characters, mostly early on. She was Angela Lansbury walking over coals ("uh! uh!") and one of the Maison Derriére girls in Bart After Dark, I think.

That was the first episode I saw, and the moment where Homer jumps out of the car only to end up back in it hooked me on the show. But nowadays I think it's a pretty mediocre episode.

And when everyone hates it, we'll bring out Slurm Classic and make millions!

Marjorie Gross?

Marge doesn't know anything about video games, to her they're all the same, and she probably wouldn't even consider there'd be games Bart wouldn't want.
Reminds me when I once went shopping with my mom, and she showed me socks with Cartman on them and asked, "Is this one of those Pokémons"?

You're aware this wasn't written by RDJ and CDAN is a nutcase, right? …Right?

He was still angry at Bart for putting his picture on America's Most Wanted.

If loving this episode is lame, I guess I'm just a big lame!

"Out of character" strikes me as a weird complaint here, considering how much build-up there is to Bart actually stealing the game. That it isn't something he would normally do is sort of the point. It's not like he just decides to take the game out of the blue.