Sugar Smacks and Cheap Thrills

So It's Come To This : The Top 10 Episodes

If you're one of the few people who's ever watched The Simpsons, you've probably noticed that you tend to gravitate towards certain episodes. Episodes that you like and know by heart. Episodes that, after a few hundred viewings, still make you laugh at certain points. Well, after much, much whittling, we've condensed each of our lists down to a solid ten, respectively. So tuck your pants into your socks and let the arguments fly. Can you see that I am serious?

Paul's List

1. You Only Move Twice - Season 8
Best Moment: Homer's brief but revealing quest to find sugar for his coffee.

2. Homer Badman - Season 6
Best Moment: The "dramatization" of Homer's Rock Bottom interview.

3. Bart's Girlfriend - Season 6
Best Moment: Following an incident with a glue truck, Marge and Homer have a short discussion about what may be troubling Bart.

4. Hurricane Neddy - Season 8
Best Moment: At the suggestion of Dr. Foster (a great supporting character), Homer confronts Ned in a hollow attempt to anger him.

5. Brother From the Same Planet - Season 4
Best Moment: Homer's female doppelganger joyfully sings "I am Woman" as she drives past a neglected Bart.

6. Lisa the Iconoclast - Season 7
Best Moment: Hollis Hurlbut bans Lisa and all her future descendants from the Springfield Historical Society for a period of three months.

7. Homer the Heretic - Season 4
Best Moment: The entire first act: "Delilah" in the shower, Moon Waffles, "These Things I Believe," and the discovery of a penny.

8. Selma's Choice - Season 4
Best Moment: A minor subplot depicting the love/hate relationship between Homer and the sandwich he can't seem to quit.

9. A Milhouse Divided - Season 8
Best Moment: Bart demonstrates a standard stunt by breaking a chair over Homer's head and shoulders.

10. Hungry Hungry Homer - Season 12
Best Moment: Homer wearily improvs a song in which he compares himself to Jesus Christ.







Jess's List

1. King Size Homer  - Season 7
Best Moment: Homer gets excited by a free sample of fabric softener and washes his fat guy hat.

2. Homer the Heretic - Season 4
Best Moment: Ned tries to save Homer when his house is on fire.

3. Fear of Flying - Season 6
Best Moment: Marge tries to self-medicate her fears by watching movies depicting plane crash survivors.

4. Homer's Enemy - Season 6
Best Moment: After Homer proudly wins a contest that was set up to embarrass him, Frank Grimes finally snaps.

5. This Little Wiggy - Season 9
Best Moment: Marge is endeared by Ralph and touches his special area.

6. You Only Move Twice - Season 8
Best Moment: Hank Scorpio offers Homer sugar out of his pants.

7. Hurricane Neddy - Season 8
Best Moment: Ned feels blessed when the town has pitched in to build him a replacement house.

8. Homer Badman - Season 6
Best Moment: "Homer S: Portrait of An Ass Grabber"

9. Bart's Girlfriend - Season 6
Best Moment: Willy is an unwitting pawn in Skinner's setup for Bart.

10. Homer's Phobia - Season 8
Best Moment: Steelworkers work hard and play hard.

Oh, Baby Names!

Bendy Wendy
Jiggly Love
Molly Soft
Dick Cunningham
Goldie Summers
Jim Blossoms
Honey Pie
Coraline St. Valentine
Lindsey Nicole
Rosie Cheeks
Reggie Hammer
Lefty Lucy
Bobbi Sox
Brandy Alexander
Leopold
Bubbles Bleu
Snake Foreskin
Sharon Taint
Lemonade Stan
Annie Holler
Booner James
Penny Candy
Loretta Deluxe
Patty Cake
Anita Anita

Soda Crackers

Hungry For A Simpler Time

Alphabet soup, stapled together and still deep undercover. Riddled with whiskey and gurgling movie quotes, it was high time the three of them took off. Maraschino cherries were all that was left, and foreclosure on the campsite left little to the libido. Cans of water and sliding down the nylons couldn't be further from the truth - chicks with dicks and all that jazz. Twice cooked pork was the farthest from your mind. Puzzle pieces and playing cards were not the worst I could do, but by no means were they the best, either. Painstaking scrutiny was dispensed by shorter people, kings for a day again in Margaritaville, but not really. Folks, these were the days when a gigolo like Spiro Agnew could descend into the darkness and still keep a piece of the cake for his kids. Truly, that was happiness. All the main characters were paralyzed, and I'm not listening. Cross my broken heart, no one's doing it right anymore. The churches have been liberated and the ovens are set on "clean." Coffee is put on ice and contains no peanuts. Is this the exposure a young coed deserves? If there weren't any more books, who would pay that bill? Point is, people and other things shouldn't be having that. What's become of all this dark hair we've seen? To put it lightly, chicken skin is too delicious to be determined. A shaved field mouse is still just that. And, not to be relevant, but even the nights are better. Erectile disillusionment is something to be pampered, not hampered. And with that, and the chicken skin thing, you start to see just where they're coming from, and where they're going: driving stick up the highway to hell with no real critique of all this hoopla.