And there's huge nostalgia wrapped up in these episodes for people too. The Simpsons is a rare childhood memory that improves with rediscovery.

OK, yes, but also it had that emotional grounding at its peak. That helped it tell great, family stories, which were good to balance out the likes of Homer goes to space, which has no grounding in reality, but is really fucking funny.

Homer calling him Mr Bean was brilliant though. And I enjoy JK Rowling's disdainful reading of "He grows up and marries you, is that what you want?"

Me too. Just because they're not *as good* doesn't mean they can't be good. I mean, you're not comparing them to anything, you're comparing to the greatest TV show of all time.

The scene where the real Don Draper was run out of Sterling Cooper on a railroad was the real giveaway.

The Entertainer sequence is only a minute long, but it's one of my favourite Simpsons scenes. The show was at it's best when it told stories that had such strong emotional grounding that the fact that it was a cartoon was incidental, but this is a sequence that is so beautifully animated that it would be probably…

So I am the only person who hates this Jewish storyline.

I always adored their hero theme song. It always cracked me up.

Referring to Lucky, a.k.a Citizen Snips, as seldom-used really takes that gag up a level.