#Best modern simpsons episodes code#
#Best modern simpsons episodes plus#

Mostly car related.” … an incredible retelling of The Odyssey … the River Styx with Lady by Styx playing and Homer saying “This truly is hell!” … the English Army fighting Joan of Arc and the French, with quotes like “I thought we had a truce.” / “Just because you keep saying it doesn’t make it so.” … every single line Moe has during the Hamlet retelling … Rosencarl and Guildenlenny … and somehow tying it all in to Ghostbusters.Ĥ | “I’m Spelling As Fast As I Can” (February 16, 2003) What I love: There were many “three stories” episodes of The Simpsons this decade and this was the strongest all around … Homer not reading to baby Bart because “Stuff kept coming up.

5 | “Tales From the Public Domain” (March 17, 2002)

#Best modern simpsons episodes code#

What I love: Phony McRingRing, the phone company mascot … Homer assuming the badger in the doghouse is “probably Milhouse” … Kent Brockman talking about golden showers … “area code camp” … Homer strapped with dynamite to protest … Homer trading the bottle of chloroform to see The Who … all of the callbacks to stuff from old episodes that made up the wall dividing the town … the low class New Springfield words like “Oh yeah” and “Come here a minute” … and, by far and away, Homer’s repeated difficulties with remembering to dial the correct area code and his exasperation that results. What I love: The best Sideshow Bob episode of the decade (just edging out “Day of the Jackanapes”) … a really good mystery as to who was trying to kill Homer … each prisoner being crazier than the last (and the final two needing to trade places) … fighting on stilts (and cops on stilts) … bringing back the Homer-Frank Grimes rivalry … Sideshow Bob taking advice given to him by Lenny … and, without a doubt, Sideshow Bob’s version of I’ve Grown Accustomed To Your Face.Ħ | “A Tale of Two Springfields” (November 5, 2000) 7 | “The Great Louse Detective” (December 15, 2002) What I love: How much this episode pissed off the country of Brazil … Homer quoting “Now that’s what I call a moon shot” right after it’s said on Itchy and Scratchy but thinking it’s his own joke … Homer trying to fix the phone line … sexy Brazilian “kids” television … Homer asking if in the southern hemisphere “Hot snow falls up?” … Homer jumping in an unlicensed taxi then getting kidnapped … “Our money, it is so gay” … and Homer asking Moe for 50 grand, agreeing to pay Moe that much instead, then asking Flanders for 100 grand.

… and finally, Moe, having been excluded, finding his own clues to solve the mystery. Burns’s “corpse hatch” and solving the mystery that the dead body is Waylon Smithers Sr. What I love: Marge’s fantasy about Burley leading to Homer pretending to be Chad Sexington … Marge liking a prank where nothing catches on fire … the entire sequence where Homer is hypnotized, from saying “Look at me, I’m a famous historian, out of my way!” to when he’s supposed to be Emily Dickinson but says “Look at me, I’m Angie Dickinson, out of my way!” … Homer screaming nonstop … young Carl talking about the future where there’ll be the internet - the inner netting to line swim trunks … all of the Stand By Me parallels … Homer repeatedly saying “The old quarry is just a stone’s throw away” … finding Mr. 11 | “The Blunder Years” (December 9, 2001) I structured each of these differently than I usually do - rather than write paragraphs about why these episodes are amazing, I just made sub-lists of the stories, jokes, quotes and cultural impact moments that made me love these episodes so much.

#Best modern simpsons episodes plus#

Here are the 11 best Simpsons episodes of the 2000s, plus some honorable mentions at the end. Plus, I submit to you: Even a past-its-prime Simpsons is still better than 99 percent of the other stuff on TV.