![]() ![]() Homer’s low brow humour and natural dislike for authority makes it hard for him to fit in. I’m also reminded, watching this, that this is the “I am so smart. Homer’s knowledge of college comes from Animal House style movies, and he automatically hates crusty old Deans. ![]() Homer needs to go to college to get nuclear physics 101. Especially the “you must find the jade monkey by the next full moon” and “I’m giving you the beating of your life” DeNiro homage from the Untouchables. This is the “a bee bit my bottom” episode where Homer accidentally causes a meltdown in a nuclear inspection van. How do you follow up two all-time great episodes to kick off the season? Another all-time great episode! The nuclear plant is visited by regularity body, and they discover Homer is useless. Before I started this project, I debated mentally what my favourite Simpson’s episode might be. The Gilbert and Sullivan conclusion with Wiggum’s whorehouse issues is also perfect. It precedes the rake gag, only created because the episode was running short. Homer wearing a “Witness Relocation Program” t-shirt is an exceptional little touch. The whole “Hello, Mr Thompson” bit is priceless and then we get a re-done entrance at Terror Lake with the “Thompsons” rushing into a houseboat. Homer gets shunted into the background a little bit until the Witness Protection. The “use a pen Sideshow Bob” bit, the parole board (“no one who speaks German can be an evil man”), the Bobby DeNiro imitations, the working out, “the following neighbourhood residents will not be killed”. When Bob arrives everything is so perfect. There’s a spell at the start of the episode where Bart suspects everyone of wanting to murder him before Bob arrives. Sideshow Bob has been stewing in prison and is determined to get out so he can kill Bart Simpson. This is the absolute peak of Bob as a bad guy. The combination of the classic Cape Fear sound cues and Kelsey Grammer’s perfectly evil Sideshow Bob is what makes the episode so great. It was an old writing team going out with a bang but leaving enough space for a reoccurring gag (the rakes), which would go down as one of the Simpson’s best gags of all time. ****¾Ĭape Feare, a parody of the film of the same name (minus the E), is one of the Simpson’s finest episodes. The arcs for Wiggum and Barney are particularly good. This is a great episode, close to an all-timer. Lisa quizzes Homer on all the holes in his story, which makes it seem like the whole thing is made up until the reunion show on the roof. The episode is littered with throwback gags to the 80s without making it obnoxious and over the top. “Baby on Board, something, something, Burt Ward”. Being initially successful as a pop group with screaming girls, the agent wanting to make them marketable, hiding the star’s marriage and eventually the most creative voice going off on a weird tangent that destroys the group. The whole episode is based on the Beatles. The replacement is Barney in the first example of how useful he can be when he’s not drunk. The Be Sharps, which is witty at first but sounds less funny every time you hear it, are initially Homer, Apu, Skinner and Wiggum until Homer sets Wiggum free in the forest at night. “A Methuselah rookie card!” The Simpsons kids find a Be Sharps album and Homer tells the tale of when he was moderately famous in 1985. ![]() We kick things off at the Springfield Swap Meet. Honestly, they’re both strong episodes but the guest appearance of George Harrison here is what swayed the team to choose this. Let’s take a walk back through them as we look at the Simpsons S5.Īpparently, there was an argument as to whether this or Homer Goes to College should open the season. Despite the writer churn Season Five has some incredible highs. The result would be a comedy padding sequence that remains one of the Simpsons all-time greatest gags. The writing team had been getting a little sloppy and the final episode they wrote, Cape Feare, was too short to air. Al Jean and Mike Reiss left here to make the Critic, which itself is a good show but not on the level of the Simpsons. David Mirkin took over as showrunner with the show losing a lot of its better writers and would soon lose Conan O’Brien as well. After the success of S4 the Simpsons launched into a new era with season five.
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