![]() Step forward snaky monorail salesman Lyle Lanley (the late Phil Hartman), with an expensive transportation system to pitch – via the episode’s celebrated musical number – and a plane to Tahiti to catch. Even the opening sequence is a stand-alone nugget of comedy gold: Homer clocking off from work at the nuclear power plant in a Flintstones pastiche that sets up nicely the nefarious after-hours activities of Burns and Smithers, depositing barrels of toxic waste in a public park, only to be collared by the Environmental Protection Agency and forced to pay the city a $3m fine.īut what to do with the money? This is the crux of the episode, as the citizens of Springfield discuss ideas that could be for the public good (Homer’s: “A giant billboard that says ‘no fat chicks’?”). If you want to know just how much plot can be achieved in a mere 20 minutes, then the 12 th episode of Season 4 is something of a masterclass, and one that also includes a legendary celebrity cameo (Leonard Nimoy) and has one-liners to spare (step forward Conan O’Brien, who wrote and produced it). You'd best watch these ones first, though. At which point, more than 600 episodes will be yours, to stream at your leisure. It's set to launch in the UK on 24 March, and they're offering £10 if you sign up before launch day (it'll be £59.99 a year after that, so get in there quick). Just please, be nice about it.Ĭheck our favourites out below, and pre-order Disney+ here. And if you don't agree with our picks – and we're sure that few will think we've got it 100 per cent right – feel free to tweet us your corrections. That, for us, is the hallmark of a great episode of television. The episodes that offer such a payload of laughter that the Esquire team returns to them time and again. We've even passed on 'Cape Feare', perhaps the only TV show to ever combine Gilbert and Sullivan and rake-based slapstick.īut hey, we only had so much space and these ten are the ones that really spoke to us. Where's 'Mr Plow?' How can we have missed 'Homer's Enemy', and perhaps the best single-episode character in television history, Frank 'Grimey' Grimes? There's no Poochie, neither of the 'Who Shot Mr Burns?' episodes. There are also some notable missing entries. It's not that there's no decent episodes of The Simpsons after its early golden years, it's just that nothing – bar, perhaps, the weirdly post-modern 'Behind The Laughter' – shines quite as bright as that run through the Nineties. Eagle-eyed readers will notice that there's nothing here post-season eight. This is pure gut instinct, based on subjective enjoyment, memorable gags and songs that stick in your head for decades. We do it most days, anyway.Ī quick word about our methodology: there is none. To celebrate, the Esquire team decided to pull together a formal, official, sanctioned list of the best The Simpsons episodes of all-time. The glaring, donut-shaped hole in the Disney+ UK adverts suggested that, for one reason or another, The Simpsons wouldn't be arriving onto our streaming shores.īut thanks be to Jebus, the House of Mouse managed to force through a deal with Sky and, earlier this month, it was finally announced that the full 31 season catalogue (!!!) would be making it onto our screens by way of Disney+. The only episode from his best list we have in common is Marge the Meanie.For a while there it wasn't looking good. Not enough to be one of the worst let along the worst. THoH XXXII - Eh, just a run of the mill modern THoH where at best there's one segment that has a decent idea which they ultimately squander. Meat is Murder - I didn't like the episode either. Though not the reasons he stated, there are points where it borders too much on feeling like a PSA, the ending feels like it wasn't properly thought out and the less that's said about the hallucination scene the better. And ultimately I found it to be appealing in a way that very few other episodes this season were.īart's in Jail! - Despite it being of the very few highlights of the season, I could see why someone would place it as a bad episode. I'd argue I'm more insane as I'm probably the only person on this site at least that would consider Pretty Whittle Liar to be a highlight of the season! When compared to the last two Spuckler heavy episodes, this one at least felt like it was trying to be different. ![]()
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