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As others have said, Blarg's comments are excellent.

I recently saw some more episodes from season three, which is considered to be the best or second-best season by many people. Most of the episodes just reinforce the big problems I have with the show. Episodes like "Lisa's Pony" and "Saturdays of Thunder" have you feeling sorry for Homer. In "Saturdays of Thunder" it's the typical "son rejects dad's help at first and it's sad, but later they work together and their relationship grows."

I do not want that [censored] crap in my comedies. I don't want to feel sad while watching a show that's supposed to be making me laugh. I hate it in garbage like Roseanne and Full House and the Cosby Show, and I hate it in Simpsons. In my view it's a large part of why almost all sitcoms are so infuriatingly bad.

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You must have despised Full House, that's all it was about.

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I do not want that [censored] crap in my comedies. I don't want to feel sad while watching a show that's supposed to be making me laugh. I hate it in garbage like Roseanne and Full House and the Cosby Show, and I hate it in Simpsons. In my view it's a large part of why almost all sitcoms are so infuriatingly bad.

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To me that's why shows like Seinfeld of Family Guy can never be as good as the Simpsons or Futurama. Sure it's great to have a laugh a minute, but I want my show to have poignancy as well. I want to care what happens to the characters. In Family Guy you just laugh at whatever, but with the Simpsons or Futurama you care if Homer and Marge get back together and you care that Fry's love for Leela goes unrequited.

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I do not want that [censored] crap in my comedies. I don't want to feel sad while watching a show that's supposed to be making me laugh. I hate it in garbage like Roseanne and Full House and the Cosby Show, and I hate it in Simpsons. In my view it's a large part of why almost all sitcoms are so infuriatingly bad.


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This is exactly why the old simpsons owns so much. This is why comedy in serious shows is freaking amazing. It's cathartic, man. Pure comedy is meaningless. Real comedy makes fun of us.

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Scrubs is another brilliant example of comedy being better because of drama.

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...you care that Fry's love for Leela goes unrequited.

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yah, but he'll never love Leela like I love Leela.

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...you care that Fry's love for Leela goes unrequited.

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yah, but he'll never love Leela like I love Leela.

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Sewer Mutant: Behold. When El Chupanibre comes for the, ahem... "virgin"...

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...you care that Fry's love for Leela goes unrequited.

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yah, but he'll never love Leela like I love Leela.

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Were I to marry a cartoon, it would definitely be Amy (with the possible exception of Stripperella or Six from Trippin' the Rift).

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OP: Season 3 is most definately NOT one of the best seasons. I am a huge Simpsons fan, and while I do like season 3 I find it pretty bland overall. Before you give up on the show forever I reccomend you take a look at seasons 4-9. If you don't enjoy these episodes, well the Simpsons probably isn't for you.

As far as the new episodes go, I don't even bother anymore. I find when a joke does hit, it's still quite funny, but there are probably at least half a dozen cringe worthy parts to every episode.

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season 5 is the first real good season of the simpsons. season 9 is easily the best year of the show. season 13 seems to be the last good year. also, the first third of the show is usually the most funny.

any episode that has (as main characters):

a. homer and mr. burns
- work retreat
- trillion dollar bill
- mr. burns dating young
- homer as smithers
- homer as mr. burns jester
b. homer and bart
- homer at college
- homer football coach
- grease
- burlesque house
- bart gay?
- carneys
- homer scaling murderhorn
c. krusty
- clown college
- krusty's comedy

is almost surely guaranteed to be spectacular

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I don't know which season it was from, but the best episode has to be the one when Lisa makes "Lingwo", the grammar correcting robot.

The scenes from each character's life are so cleverly converged, it's like watching a movie. It also has some of the best one liner quotes ever:

Homer: Sorry doesn't put thumbs on the hands Marge.
Lisa: We've been spinning for hours.
Wiggum: 1,2,3 Fake Street. Home of knifey wifey. Open up "Stabitha".
Cletus: You could be one of those TV magic queers.
Cletus: They done stolded my wheels.
Lou: There's enough Chinese skycandy here to put you kids away for a long time.
Lou: Hey Chief, can I hold my gun like this (holds it out sideways)?
Wiggum: Fat Tony, is that you?
Lisa: "Sentence fragment" is a sentence fragment.
Fat Tony's mob henchman: Shut uppa you face. I oughtta whack you in the labonza. Hey, they's throwin' robots.

And many more.

The second best episode has to be when Bart gets the immunization shot and goes loopy, moons the flag at the teachers on donkeys basketball game and gets the whole family thrown in jail for violation of "The Government Knows Best Act". Best scene is when the drunk Bill of Rights throws up all over itself mumbling "What did I do....What did I do"? Quite funny commentary of the Bush Administration's agenda.

hahahah Cracks me up just thinking about it.