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Best Simpsons Episode. Season Five

Homer's Barbershop Quartet (I doubt my son or daughter is that stupid.)
19 (11.2%)
Cape Feare (BART YOU WANNA SEE MY NEW CHAINSAW AND HOCKEY MASK)
26 (15.4%)
Homer Goes to College (NEEEEEERD)
20 (11.8%)
Rosebud (Oh,a head bag. Those are chock full of.... heady goodness)
9 (5.3%)
Treehouse of Horror 4 (I'd sell my soul for a donut)
5 (3%)
Marge of the Lam (Marjorie please, I enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew. Ah ballet)
1 (0.6%)
Barts Inner Child (Tramampolne, Trabopoline!)
2 (1.2%)
Boy Scouts 'n the Hood (Twenty Dollars can buy many peanuts)
2 (1.2%)
The Last Temptation of Homer (I guess we'll be going down together. I mean, getting off together. I mean...)
7 (4.1%)
$pringfield [Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling] (Marge, for the first time in our marriage I can finally look down my nose at you. You have a gambling problem)
11 (6.5%)
Homer the Vigilante (It seems that the cat has been caught... by the very person that was trying to catch him. How ironic)
4 (2.4%)
Bart Gets Famous (I didn't do it)
7 (4.1%)
Homer and Apu (Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?)
7 (4.1%)
Lisa vs Malibu Stacey (Hello Smithers. You're quite good at turning me on)
3 (1.8%)
Deep Space Homer (And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords)
14 (8.3%)
Homer Loves Flanders (Men, there's a little crippled boy sitting in the hospital who wants you to win this game. I know because I crippled him myself to inspire you.)
3 (1.8%)
Bart Gets an Elephant (Keeping him chained up in the backyard is cruel. Pulling on his tail is cruel. Yelling in his ears is cruel. Everything is cruel. So, excuse me if I'm cruel!)
7 (4.1%)
Burns' Heir (Homer Simpson doesn't say b'oh he says d'oh)
3 (1.8%)
Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song (I call it Billy and the Clone-o-Saurus.)
3 (1.8%)
The Boy Who Knew Too Much (Come back here! I'm not through demeaning you.)
10 (5.9%)
Lady Bouvier's Lover (If he marries your mother, Marge, we'll be brother and sister! And our kids will be horrible freak things with pink skin, no overbites, and five fingers on each hand)
0 (0%)
Secrets of a Successful Marriage (if this doesn't get your motor running, my name isn't Homer J. Simpson)
6 (3.6%)

Total Members Voted: 44

Voting closed: January 13, 2022, 11:49:19 am

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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #40 on: January 12, 2022, 07:49:42 pm »
40 votes. I'm calling it.

Cape Feare wins
Homers Barbershop Quartet a close second
So close to homer goes to college in third. Just one vote off

I'll do a new poll hopefully tomorrow night. Bit busy with work at the moment and want to get my quotes right!

Always thought Barbershop Quartet wasn't quite as good as the best episodes but that might be because I didn't get all the references. It still has the 'Baby on board, something something Burt Ward' song which never fails to amuse me.
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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #41 on: January 12, 2022, 08:38:22 pm »
Almost all gold. I voted for 'Homer goes to college' as I loved it
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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #42 on: January 12, 2022, 08:46:05 pm »
Gutted I've only found this poll in Season 5. Just looking back over these episodes though and it's so difficult to choose five, I think this was when the show was at the peak of its powers.

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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #43 on: January 12, 2022, 09:17:40 pm »
Almost all gold. I voted for 'Homer goes to college' as I loved it
Well you look like a college guy who's up to no good.
Not like the crusty old deans who voted for the barbershop quartet.
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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #44 on: January 12, 2022, 09:25:47 pm »
Well you look like a college guy who's up to no good.
Not like the crusty old deans who voted for the barbershop quartet.

He's obviously been to the school of hard knockers.
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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #45 on: January 12, 2022, 09:48:28 pm »
Just to mess Jake around, Barbershop Quartet has slipped to second after he called it over ;D

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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #46 on: January 12, 2022, 09:51:23 pm »
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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #47 on: January 12, 2022, 10:33:51 pm »
Always thought Barbershop Quartet wasn't quite as good as the best episodes but that might be because I didn't get all the references. It still has the 'Baby on board, something something Burt Ward' song which never fails to amuse me.


Some of the episodes are good enough that you don’t need the references. Rosebud is definitely one of my favourite episodes and I only found out about the Citizen Kane references from the last page!
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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #48 on: January 12, 2022, 11:10:01 pm »
Just to mess Jake around, Barbershop Quartet has slipped to second after he called it over ;D

Yeah I just saw that, I think the poll stays open until I make the next one, so I suppose homer goes to college sneaks in now.

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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #49 on: January 13, 2022, 04:36:55 am »
wait, how many make it through to the Final?
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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #50 on: January 13, 2022, 08:25:52 am »
wait, how many make it through to the Final?

So its 2 per season get through to the semis
10 in  each semi, 3 votes each
6 in the final., there can be only one
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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #51 on: January 13, 2022, 08:44:37 am »
Yeah I just saw that, I think the poll stays open until I make the next one, so I suppose homer goes to college sneaks in now.

#votescadal

Well thats good because if Homer Goes to College didnt make it then I am tactically voting next time.

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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #52 on: January 13, 2022, 09:03:34 am »
Why did the Simpsons have such a dramatic fall off in quality by the way? Did specific writer/writers leave or anything?

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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #53 on: January 13, 2022, 10:11:23 am »
Why did the Simpsons have such a dramatic fall off in quality by the way? Did specific writer/writers leave or anything?

Even if the same writers kept going, surely it would have fallen off in quality anyway? These guys produced I would say 7 series of some of, if not the best telly there has ever been. That midas touch would abandon anyone at some point.

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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #54 on: January 13, 2022, 11:56:15 am »
Even if the same writers kept going, surely it would have fallen off in quality anyway? These guys produced I would say 7 series of some of, if not the best telly there has ever been. That midas touch would abandon anyone at some point.

the fact the characters start to become caricatures of themselves was inevitable

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Re: Best Simpsons Episode - Season 5 Poll
« Reply #55 on: January 13, 2022, 01:20:11 pm »
Some of the episodes are good enough that you don’t need the references. Rosebud is definitely one of my favourite episodes and I only found out about the Citizen Kane references from the last page!

I agree with that, and Rosebud is definitely one (although I've seen Citizen Kane before I can't remember much about it). I think Barbershop Quartet falls short of that though.
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