I agree. I enjoyed reading Genji's take on Bart, and agree that the very-early marketing of the show was all about Breakout Character Rebel Bart, but I don't feel like it was ever borne out by what actually happened on the show. If anything, I've always bought into the view of Bart as "this century's Dennis the…

I love this episode, but I understand where others might not, and it's for the latter reason. Only recently have I been able to even get through "Scenes From The Class Struggle In Springfield", because Marge reminds me far too much of my mom in that episode, and it's unbearable. It's a shame, because the Homer-golfing…

You get upvoted for calling it "the Guy".

I would also accept, "Tell me what you think of me."

No, you didn't ruin the joke. I'm saying that you cast it in a new light which made me realize that the writers' intention might not have been the same one that I've always found so funny. Not your fault at all. :)

I don't disagree, but what can you do with some of the shit these writers churn out, though? No performance would save these scripts.

I agree that it was a huge factor. Without Hutz and McClure, they had to lean harder on Disco Stu, Gil, etc. I'm similarly worried that the loss of Marcia Wallace will make the show (even) worse, because they've just lost one of their core settings in the fourth-grade classroom. Can't kill time there? Well, then,…

Or brilliant laziness, or unfathomable trolling. A smaller moment, obviously, but my favourite Rabin moment was his ode to the "disrespectful bucket of blood" that gets dropped on Carrie at the prom. It's like he doesn't know that, if you can't find a good adjective, you can just omit an adjective entirely. It sort of…

Wow. So often around here, I'll see something that enriches the joke, but this is the first time a comment chain has totally ruined a classic joke for me. If Homer's thought process is, "I don't know what the 'C.' in 'C. Montgomery Burns' stands for", it's much less funny than him not even remembering "Monty".

I sleep in a big bed with my wife.

They did? When?

"old" is my favourite part of that - Groening would've been a drunk of barely 30 when he made humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling debts.

Yeah, if you're old enough to know what "right-wing" is, you're old enough to know that Simpsons ain't it.

Pensive, Lenny.

When was this, though? If you were 12 in 1990 when Smithers was an occasionally-over-the-line sycophant, that's pretty good. If you were 12 past the point when Smithers was a thousand times more flanderized than Flanders and when his every appearance was one long "Smithers is so gay you guys, not just for Mr. Burns…

Liked for the typo. Classic Rabey Honey.

I had a boss named Johnny for a while. My performance of this song at the company Christmas party was one of the few times that quoting Simpsons has led me to a mandatory sexual harassment seminar. …35 is few, right?

Yeah, I'm stunned that anyone sees this as a "clip show" when the framing device is so excellent.

I did. I was ten; how was I to know what the NRA was or what Matt Groening thought of it?

It was in a much later, much worse episode - possibly the "screamapillar" one.