Oh, I thought that was the list of band names, condensed.

It's funny but it barely feels like a Simpsons episode. It's one of the episodes that Jean and Reiss did with their Critic writing staff and they all have this offbeat, fast-paced wackiness to them (but not in the same way as the Scully Era), but Springfield Files, Lisa's Sax and the Shary Bobbins ep still feel much…

Yeah. It's a good season, mostly because the joke writing was still really sharp. But you can clearly see how the show was headed in the wrong direction. I'm looking forward to the reviews, because, after eight seasons of (mostly) gushing and quoting, we'll now see that it's easy to criticize… fun, too.

"I think Homer should be loud and angry all the time" - Mike Scully, probably

I struggle a little to remember how this one goes, actually… This is one of the episodes I haven't seen in quite a while, but others I still remember much better. I guess it's a lot like the previous season's finale and really pales in comparison.

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interesting how throwing out passive aggressive comments seems that much more casual and cool when not using capitalization or interpunctuation

God just gave an encore for him.

I laughed the whole way through the review until I read Tom Wilkinson's name. Damn. God sure gets them all.

“I’ve helped so many people through hard times,” Travolta says.

It's a bit different here, as we're at the end of season 8 now and we're not seeing isolated elements that would be executed poorly later on, but a general shift towards sloppier writing and characterization in this episode, Homer's Enemy, City of New York (season 8 holdover)… But as I said, this episode is good, and…

I like this episode, and the Mr. Sparkle stuff is classic, but the way the main conflict is "resolved" with a wacky monkey fighting action sequence foreshadows the Scully Era quite a bit. About 80% of seasons 10-12 would consist of characters running away from animals.(note:dramatization, may not be accurate)

I just came here to read the words KFC Yum! Center, so thanks Marah for working it into the article although you didnt have to.

Heh, and that's the reason why I think it wasn't until the Galaxy games that Nintendo truly managed to capture the spirit of Mario in 3D. 64 is still a great game, but open world-gaming isn't really what I come to Mario for.

Tooie is huge, but with a few exceptions (the factory level, mostly) it just avoids being too much for me (unlike Donkey Kong 64. Rare completely lost the plot there). Plus it has much more humor and interaction between the characters compared to the first game.

Possibly the funniest episode followed by the best-written one. They were really on a roll here

It's such an inspired bit of casting. I mean, just based on the script, the role isn't even much, nothing that would demand a celebrity guest shot or suggest she'd be fitting for it. I'd like to think that the moment in the writers' room when somebody suggested Bea Arthur do the voice must have just floored them with…

"Uh Uuh uh uh uh"
"What kind of moronic plan is that?"

I think there definitely was an attempt to build up something of a myth around Groening as the Amazing Creator and Face of the show when it became big, which caused a bit of a backlash when stuff like the DVD commentaries made it obvious how many people contributed to the show, and how many were more directly…

He rarely got the credit he deserved. The show would have never become what it was without him, showrunning the first seasons and hiring the original writing staff. RIP.