it'd be great if you got the Bumblebee Man when his house falls down on him and that Chihuahua is left barking on the rubble.
It's a bit odd seeing him without his suit.
specifically 0:17 to the end.
You got it . . . soon-ish.
How about Homer's mental image while trying to "think unsexy thoughts!"
I believe it was Barney Gumble in a bikini, swaying around and humming a tune, then belching.
Sorry, mate. It's been done. Like Homer's psychedelic trip that I posted earlier, a lot of stuff you can already find through a quick Google image search.
those aren't the vids i'm looking for, and i can't even view that second one
It's Conan O'Brien hosting a talk with 4 Simpsons writers from way back when. I love that kinda stuff, personally.
How would people here periodize the Simpsons? I will posit that it was good, then bad, then good again (and perhaps now bad again, I'm not sure). Someone should fill this in with additional detail.
ebola
Okay, you asked for it . . .
The golden years, arguably, were seasons 2-8. You can't find a single bad episode. The first season was decent, but they still were working out character models, along with other animation tweaks, and the voice actors were still evolving their roles. By season three everything really clicked and they were firing on all cylinders.
The Simpsons could probably best be divided into 'showrunner' eras. The first were creators Matt Groening/Sam Simon/James L Brooks who had previous sitcom experience they brought over so it was all very real and avoided being too cartoony, so to speak. When Al Jean & Mike Reiss took over as showrunners during the third & fourth seasons, the show had it's best and classic episodes, imo. It still held that 'real' and grounded feeling where the show relied more on plot and character-driven emotions. David Silverman and the rest of the animation crew hit their stride.
Then Dave Mirkin took over. Some argue this was when the decline began, but I disagree. What did happen was crazy shit started becoming more common, like Homer going into space and other general whacky-ness. The Simpsons had always been slightly whimsical but Mirkin ramped it up. I enjoy the Mirkin seasons, if only because they include his very dark sense of humor as well and I dig it.
Josh Weinstein & Bill Oakley took over, and being huge Simpsons nerds, came in with a game plan from a fan's perspective. They brought back the show to it's emotional roots and along with pushing the show conceptually, they wanted to explore some of Springfield's denizens pasts. Aside from doing episodes like
22 Short Films About Springfield, which no one working on the show before would have done, they did controversial things like break canon by saying Seymour Skinner was actually a fake this whole time. That's another moment people point out as the showing having jumped the shark.
Mike Scully became show runner for the ninth season and I'll just say the show went downhill and the golden era faded away. Homer became incredibly stupid, crafty plotlines were replaced by cheap jokes and cutaway gags, and great episodes became the exception rather than the norm. It's been said his three seasons running the show killed the Simpsons, and while I do think it's a bit harsh and over-generalized, it's hard to defend against. Al Jean has been showrunner since then and I don't know how the show is because I stopped giving a fuck.
/nerd
