I watch a lot of television. When I was a kid, that was something of a brag - now that I'm an adult, it feels sort of sad. But, nevertheless, it remains true. I love television. That's why WandaVision is my favourite TV show this year - it loves television too. Whatever season you might be thinking of putting forward to oust 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Simpsons season eight, I have probably seen it, considered it, and rejected it as unworthy of the television gods. Prison Break season one? Please. Game of Thrones season three? Close, but not a chance. The Sop🍸ranos?🐷 Breaking Bad? The Wire? Mad Men? House? Twin Peaks? Lost? Sorry, no. The X-Files season four? See, you almost had me there, but still: no.
Of course, you might disagree - but it's okay, we all get things wrong sometimes. You'll come around. Once you've actually looked - once you've studied and carefully examined - The Simpsons season eight, you will join the side of truth. As much as I love television, I also love The Simpsons. The two are intertwined, not just in that The Simpsons is a television show but that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Golden Age was so heavily referential of classic television and movies that watching The Simpsons is an education in television itself. "I'm riding some guy named Ironside!" only works if you know TV.
Enough about why The Simpsons is so great - that's an entirely separate argument, albeit 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:one I am very qualified to make. An underrated quality The Simpsons has is its 'one and done' characters - characters who only appear in a single episode, yet steal the show and become iconic in the show's history. Think Hank Scorpio, the Bond villain Homer goes to work for in Cypress Creek 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and the best one-and-done star ever. Other great Simpsons examples include: Frank Grimes, Homer's enemy who dies after being driven past his limit by Homer's incompetence; Hugo, Bart's evil twin; Sherri Bobbins, the show's totally-not-a-Mary-Poppins rip-off; Larry Burns, Mr. Burns' boorish son; Belle, the entrepreneuse who owns the burlesque house; and John, the gay man who helps open Homer's mind. Remember all of those classic characters? Yeah, they're all from season eight. That's not even including Poochie, Roy, Cecil Terwilliger, and Rex Banner, who also make their single episode appearance in season eight.
It's not just the characters though. You Only Move Twice and Homer's Enemy are two of the show's finest episodes ever. They’re my personal favourites, and the IMDb ranking agrees, putting them at one and two. The Springfield Files, which crosses over with The X-Files, is another season eighter cracking the top ten in sixth. I'll just give you a moment to remember how good The Springfield Files was. Fun fact - David Duchovny wanted to write a follow-up where The Simpsons came out of the television in The X-Files, but Fox rejected the idea. Never forget what they stole from you.
It also has El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer), starring Johnny Cash as a psychedelic coyote, and Mountain of Madness, one of the best Burns episodes ever. Lisa's Date with Density, the episode where Lisa and Nelson date is one of the few to actively shape the canon, setting up a Lisa and Nelson romance arc that endures to this days. A Milhouse Divided, which gave us the iconic drawing of dignity and Kirk and LuAnn's divorce, also fundamentally changed the narrative of The Simpsons. Grade School Confidential, where Skinner and Krapabbel begin their affair, is another season eight episode to have lasting effects - no other Simpsons season is this influential on what came after.
In the interest of fairness, I should mention that season eight also contains My Sister, My Sitter - the worst episode of the Golden Age. A terrifically mean-spirited episode, it revolves around Lisa being asked to babysit Bart, a task several full-grown adults have proven unable to do, and winds up with Bart getting concussed, dislocating his arm, and being covered in dirt as Lisa tries to secretly take him to the walk-in clinic in a wheelbarrow, all while a hopped-up-on-caffeine Maggie is trapped in a kitty carrier. A typically funny episode in its first two acts, it derails hard at the end and is thꦿe only fault you might find with this season.
I've got through all that, and I haven't even mentioned The Homer They Fall, The Canine Mutiny, or The Twisted World of Marge Simpson. I haven't even mentioned Hurricane Neddy either, which is responsible for possibly the show's best ever monologue, and for many fans a solid contender for all-time best episode.
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