Friday’s Five Favorite Episodes of The Simpsons

1. Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song (Season 5)

2. Marge Be Not Proud (Season 7)

3. Lemon of Troy (Season 6)

4. Itchy & Scratchy Land (Season 6)

5. The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show (Season 8 )

This list is done in honor of the 20th Anniversary of The Simpsons.  Which Fox celebrated 24 days after the 20th anniversary of the first episode (12/14/89) or 4 days too early for the 20th anniversary of the second episode (1/14/90).  Of course, they’re also really late for the 20th anniversary of the first Simpsons’ short on the Tracey Ullman Show (4/19/87). Of course, Fox also celebrated the 302nd episode as the 300th so clearly math is not one of their specialties.

If I can keep speaking about The Simpsons, my mom recently pointed out that I can always tie things back to The Simpsons.  And while I admit to this, it’s for a good reason.  The show has simply covered so much ground that of course they’ve touched on everything and so the show can always be brought up.  There is a joke in the movie “You’ve Got Mail” that men can bring up The Godfather in any situation.  Maybe so, probably not as much as The Simpsons.  And in my defense, I’m not the only one who finds the Simpsons’ useful in everyday life.

Also, when I say I love this show, I mean that I loved this show.  I’ve got the first 8 seasons on dvd and that’s all I need.  I haven’t watched new episodes of the show in years at least five years.  Before that I suffered through a few seasons waiting for King of the Hill to start and hoping it wouldn’t be too rough on me.  I just looked at the list of season 9 episodes while putting together this list and saw that of the 25 episodes in that set, there are only four (The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, Treehouse of Horror VIII, The Joy of Sect, Das Bus) that I like.  I knew I stopped there for a reason.