The Ashley12 Simpsons episode madness

[ashley12]

Hi, Im ashley12

You may remember me from such inspired bigfooty threads as "The ashley12 cartoon character madness" and "RDT something something, where something may have happened"

Anyway, after an intense discussion after a game of indoor cricket, I have decided to follow up the cartoon character madness bracket with the same concept but for Simpsons episodes.

128 episodes have been selected, and only the best will prevail

FWIW the episodes are all prior to Season 15, because I like to pretend that the time after that period doesnt exist.

Anyway, first round there are groups of 4, with the winning episode only advancing...

Post your picks in a new post in this forum, and lets see which episode is considered the best (yes, I may have money on this)

FIRST ROUND GAMES

1.50) Lisas Rival (A new girl arrives at school)
2.70) Team Homer (Homer joins a bowling team)
3.116) Missionary Impossible (Homer becomes a missionary)

4.102) The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace (Homer becomes an inventor)
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5.25) Homer at the Bat (Homer plays softball)

6.44) Homer the Vigilante (The town is hit by a cat burgular)

7.128) Barting over (Bart meets Tony Hawk)

8.18) Homer defined (Homer saves the plant)
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9.120) New kids on the Blech (Bart, Nelson and Ralph join a boy-band)

10.126) Poppas got a brand new Badge (Homer forms a security team)

11.77) Much Apu about nothing (The Bear patrol is on alert)

12.10) Bart gets hit by a car (Bart goes to court vs Monty Burns)
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13.99) The trouble with trillions (Homer has a tax problem)

14.19) Like Father like Clown (Krusty is Jewish)

15.38) Homers Barbershop Quartet
16.52) Barts girlfriend (Bart loves Rev. Lovejoys daughter)

Ignore the numbers, they are merely the order of the episodes when I originally wrote them down, and where they came out of the random number generator...

 

[ashley12]

Example vote

- Team Homer
- Homer the Vigilante
- Poppas got a brand new badge
- Barts girlfriend

gogogogogo

fwiw this votes will be added to the facebook group I have among my friend to determine the winner

 

[QS]

Missionary Impossible
New kids on the Blech

Homer Defined
Homer's barbershop quartet

 

[ashley12]

Homer's barbershop quartet

Are you going to vote on the other "games"

You have to pick one from the first four esps listed, one from the next four etc...

 

[Ochre]

How long do we have Ash, because I'd like to rewatch some before I vote.

 

[Dagless]

+ Juggernaut
- Wolverine

 

[Ochre]

+ Juggernaut
- Wolverine

+ Spangher
- Swift

 

[Ochre]

Edit: new votes later on

 

[QS]

Are you going to vote on the other "games"

You have to pick one from the first four esps listed, one from the next four etc...

Edited post.. oops! Didnt read properly.

 

[Mr Eagle]

1.50) Lisas Rival (A new girl arrives at school)
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5.25) Homer at the Bat (Homer plays softball)
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11.77) Much Apu about nothing (The Bear patrol is on alert)
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14.19) Like Father like Clown (Krusty is Jewish)

Dammit this is way too close to Ochre's list. I think my dain is bramaged.

 

[Ochre]

 

[WCEforeverman]

Lisas Rival ​

"Jeremy's Iron" "Here's a ball, perhaps you'd like to bounce it"​

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Homer the Vigilante ​

"I wasn't asleep. I was drunk!" "I believe you Dad"​

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Much Apu about nothing ​

"Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock"​

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Homers Barbershop Quartet​

"Oh my god! Where did you get that brownie!"​

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Missionary
Softball
Boy band
Quartet (oh....it's just a Grammy)

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Lisas Rival ​

"Jeremy's Iron" "Here's a ball, perhaps you'd like to bounce it"​

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Homer the Vigilante ​

"I wasn't asleep. I was drunk!" "I believe you Dad"​

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Much Apu about nothing ​

"Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock"​

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Homers Barbershop Quartet​

"Oh my god! Where did you get that brownie!"​

Forgot that, very good bit. This is going to be harder than I thought reading the concept.

 

[ashley12]

Roughly 24hrs between matchups....

 

[Quinz]

This is going to be painful....

Group 1- The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace just edges out Team Homer and Lisa's Rival.
Favourite Quotes-

Ned: no, Homer wasn’t a great man, or even an adequate man. And he certainly never accomplished anything. Uh, President Lenny, do you have anything to say?
Lenny: Nah.

Homer: Reading about this Edison character. They won't let me in the big people library downtown, there was some ... unpleasantness, I can never go back. Ooh! [reading a pop-up book] Look at all the inventions Edison came up with: the stock ticker, the storage battery, even wax paper! And look at him dance!

Tour Guide: Hey folks, do you like riddles? [crowd murmurs] Okay, then. How many geniuses does it take to invent a light bulb? [waits] Just one. Thomas Edison. [the tour group claps approvingly. The guide takes them to a door closed off by a velvet rope] Now, behind that door is Edison's actual preserved brain. Ordinarily, folks, tour groups are not allowed to see it. [removes the rope] And of course, today will be no exception. [replaces the rope] Now no tour would be complete without a visit to Edison's boyhood gift shop.

Group 2- Probably the most difficult choice, but Homer the Vigilante by the length of Dal Santo’s.. short pass over Homer at the Bat, both episodes are right up there with my all time favourites. It’s a very underrated episode I think.

Homer: Okay, we've got the secret vigilante handshake. Now, we need code names. I'll be Cue-ball, Skinner can be Eight-ball, Barney will be Twelve-ball, and Moe, you can be Cue-ball.
Moe : You're an idiot.

Seymour Skinner: Any sign of the burglar yet?
Homer Simpson: He'll show.
Seymour Skinner: How's that?
Homer Simpson: It's his job.
Seymour Skinner: How's that?
Homer Simpson: He's a burglar.
[they nod at one another as the theme music from "Dragnet" plays]

Kent Brockman: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
Homer: Aw, you can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that.
Kent Brockman: I see. Well, what do you say to the accusation that your group has been causing more crimes than it's been preventing?
Homer: Oh, Kent, I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes.
Kent Brockman: [pause] Well, touché.

Kent Brockman: Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Professor: Yes I would, Kent.

Group 3- Much Apu About Nothing

Homer: We're here, we're queer, we don't want any more bears!
Lenny: (to Homer) Hey Homer that's a pretty catchy chant. Were'd ya learn it?
Homer: Oh I heard it at the mustache parade they have every year.

Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.

Moe: Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.

[in the late '70s]
[Frink stands in front of a huge mainframe]
Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive [to student] Don't touch it! [back to class] But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.
Apu: Could it be used for dating?
Frink: Well, technically, yes, but the computer matches would be so perfect as to eliminate the thrill of romantic conquest.

Group 4- Another very difficult choice between The Trouble with Trilions and Homers Barbershop Quartet.. but I went with the former.

Kent: This is Kent Brockman, live at the Springfield post office on tax day! It's literally the eleventh hour, 10 PM!

Homer: Marge! How many kids do we have? Oh, no time to count, I'll just estimate! Uh... nine!
Marge: Homer, you know we don't h—
Homer: Shut up, shut up! If I don't hear you it's not illegal! OK, I need some deductions, deductions... ah!! Business gifts! [Homer grabs the boat painting from above the couch and hands it to Marge.] Here you go, keep using nuclear power!
Marge: Homer! I painted that for you!
Homer: OK, Marge, if anyone asks, you require twenty four hour nursing care, Lisa's a clergyman, Maggie is seven people, and Bart was wounded in Vietnam!

Agent Johnson: [on speaker] This is Agent Johnson from the FBI. Be on the lookout for a 1936 Maroon Stutz Bearcat! [A 1936 Maroon Stutz Bearcat whizzes past.
Chief Wiggum: [lazy] Ahh, that really was more of a burgundy.

Mr. Burns: All we ask is preferential treatment because of my fabulous wealth! [Burns holds the trillion dollar bill up.]
Castro: May I see?
Mr. Burns: Ho ho ho, see with your eyes, not with your hands!
Castro: Please, we are all amigos here!
Homer: Mr. Burns.. I think we can trust the president of Cuba..
Mr. Burns: [hands it to Castro, and waits a couple of seconds.] Now, give it back...
Castro: Give what back?

 

[Ochre]

I know it's been 24 hours but I'm rewatching some of these now, so don't end it yet Ash

 

[Dagless]

Same

 

[Ochre]

Lisa's Rival easily wins the first one.

Can't believe I'm going against Homer At The Bat, but Homer the Vigilante is very very good.

Much Apu About Nothing

Homers Barbershop Quartet even though Bart's Girlfriend has the greatest scene in Simpsons history

 

[Dagless]

Kent Brockman: Well, it looks like we have our first caller. And I mean ever, because this is not a call-in show.

 

[ashley12]

New matchups up when i get home in around 4hrs...

 

[ashley12]

And u gotta link the scene ldo or at least quote it

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Team Homer - because boweling is very important. Remember the month we didn't do it?

Homer the Vigilante - because I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing any crimes.

Much Apu About Nothing - because I knew it was the immigants. Even when it was the bears.

Homer's Barbershop Quarter - because you'd never fit the name Nahasapeemapetilon on a marquee.

 

[Dagless]

1.50) Lisas Rival
Homer: Bart, if foodstuffs should touch the ground, said foodstuffs shall be turned over to the village idiot. Since I don't see him around, start shoveling.
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6.44) Homer the Vigilante (The town is hit by a cat burgular)
Kent Brockman: Well, it looks like we have our first caller. And I mean ever, because this is not a call-in show. (BTW its BS that this gets lumped with HJomer at the Bat, when the next batch is pretty meh IMO... It's like... It's RIGGED or something!)
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12.10) Bart gets hit by a car
Lawyer: Your Honor, my client has instructed me to remind the court how rich and important he is, and that he is not like other men.
Mr. Burns: I should be able to run over as many kids as I want!
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13.99) The trouble with trillions
Mr. Burns: [points to a display case] Oh, you'll find this amusing, the suit Charlie Chaplin was buried in.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

1.50) Lisas Rival
Homer: Bart, if foodstuffs should touch the ground, said foodstuffs shall be turned over to the village idiot. Since I don't see him around, start shoveling.

Damn, I didn't realise that was the sugar episode. So many great lines from that little subplot.

"I pinched it, the minute your back was turned. And I'll do it again. Good day"

"First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the wimmin"

"To the Beemobile!"
"You mean your Chevy?"
"...yes"