Simpson Christmas (Tracy Ullman show The Simpsons Short) Simpson’s roasting on an open fire (Season 1 episode 1) Marge be not proud (Season 7 episode … Although the episode has a bounty of Vegas zingers—“Someone dishonoring their marriage vows? Rate . Given the current debate around Apu, it’s a little cringe-inducing that the company’s president appears to be a Hindu pandit sitting cross-legged on a mountaintop. But … There’s not much barb to the regional humor (“Did you know that candles are made by losers?” is as pointed as it gets), but at least “Moe’N’a Lisa” abounds with classy literati guest voices, including Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, and a petty grudge match between Michael Chabon and Jonathan Franzen that’s worth the trip alone. When Marge refuses to buy him such an expensive, violent gift, Bart shoplifts a copy from the Try-N-Save, setting up some of the more heart-wrenching moments ever seen on The Simpsons. [Sean O’Neal], The entire Simpsons family doesn’t visit France in this season-one episode—just Bart, sent on an exchange program as punishment for a cherry-bomb-in-the-toilet prank that ran afoul of Agnes Skinner (making her first appearance). ), and a surprisingly snippy Flanders family, considering that the story happens minus two entire years of bad neighborino behavior. To be fair, Job never had to live next to Homer, as Ned is confronted with the spectacle of Homer doing nude Slip ’N Slide runs during Bible study. Marge gets depressed when the rest of the family does not get into the holiday spirit, and she writes a letter, hoping to get some help; Mr. Burns and Moe's new friend delay the Simpsons as they attempt to travel to Hawaii for the holiday. By the time the episode aired in 2005, The Simpsons had been on many other (and funnier) trips, but “Goo Goo Gai Pan” did carry on the tradition of being banned in the country that served as its setting. There are several other questionable choices, including the episode’s title, which refers to a World War II-era movie about American air strikes on Japan. On The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 10, a cable channel films a Christmas movie in Springfield, and Skinner falls in love in the holiday-themed episode. Since its official debut on December 17, 1989, The Simpsons has been synonymous with the holiday season. He’d get his fill of the country in season 17. Simpson, shush: Disparaging the boot is a bootable offense!” In failing to restore U.S.-Australian relations (to the chagrin of a slimy diplomat played by Phil Hartman), “Bart Vs. Australia” tweaked “ugly American” conventions and permanently established the show’s foreign policy. Rate. Hanging around with a new set of children, Lisa becomes popular, while Bart is left out. Her desire for a child was introduced in “Selma’s Choice,” but the writers hit snooze on Selma’s biological clock until season 16. If nothing else, this is also the episode that gave birth to that oft-quoted, rarely cited epithet for Florida: “America’s Wang.” [Sean O’Neal], The best gags come long before The Simpsons embarks on this “Safari”: the flimsy but vocal justifications for purchasing cupcakes and wine in bulk, the artist’s conception of an African safari on the box of animal crackers (did you ever see a happier pair of zebras in a convertible?). (The only rule is that their destination has to be a real place, i.e. Here, unwisely selected by Mister Burns to head up the nuclear plant’s new, union-free digs in India, Homer loses himself, Apocalypse Now style, once the Indian employees flock to his book-purloined management style. He confesses to the family, who then has to share some of the guilt, and ultimately gets found out as a fraud when Kent Brockman’s crew uncovers the frozen Christmas blob where Bart buried it under snow. Ever. (Hank Azaria does pop up briefly as Apu’s identical-sounding cousin Kavi.) Simply put, we’d never seen anything like it before—and didn’t realize we’d be seeing it for the next 30 years. (“You gotta cover the mascot. 4. [Erik Adams], In the DVD commentary for The Simpsons’ 11th season, showrunner Mike Scully acknowledges that “Kill The Alligator And Run” is a frequent pick for Worst. You'll also be able to enter into our new quarterly competition, with the chance to win a holiday. (“It’s not that hard,” muses one, guiltily, after Homer gives them the slip.) Miracle on Evergreen Terrace. Since joining the games press in 2007, he's written for sites like 1UP, Joystiq, The A.V. [Sean O’Neal], “That’s not a knife,” “Bart Vs. Australia” says to every other Simpsons journey beyond the Springfield city limits. 8. Mr Plow – Season four, episode nine. Rate. But the shudder that runs through a Tanzanian tribesman when Homer exclaims that “the Simpsons are going to Africa” portends a whole slew of jokes ranging from nonsensical (“hippos don’t come from eggs”) to uncomfortable (cracks about frequent regime changes and “bloodless coups”). When the town suddenly becomes a hot tourist destination, people flock in and everyone starts seeing dollar signs. Episodes. If Canada took it hard, it only had to wait until season 14, when the entire show stopped to sincerely praise—and sing—the country’s national anthem, “O Canada.” [Kyle Ryan], Does Carl, of Lenny and Carl fame, need an origin story? Considering the current controversy surrounding The Simpsons’ depiction of Apu, this scattered season-17 trip to India at least brings in an actual native speaker, Indian journalist Meher Tatna, to voice “various Indian women,” according to IMDB. Consumerism is the running theme of this Simpsons episode, and even the usually levelheaded Marge gets in on the action by opening up a bed and breakfast for t… So, while the first Simpsons Christmas special might exist as the first true episode the world has ever seen, it’s actually the eighth episode produced. Aurora borealis? Rate. The episode never aired in Japan, thanks in part to the scene in which Homer throws the emperor, Akihito, into a pile of unwashed sumo thongs. Random takedown of Canadians’ inferior basketball skills, check. If things hadn’t worked out in The Simpsons’ favor, the show would span 22 seasons, neatly bookended by two Christmas episodes. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 11, 2011. Typical of a year that also found Lisa paired off with Fat Tony and Cletus’ respective kids, season 18’s “Moe’N’a Lisa” still offers some bright spots amid its rather algorithmic premise—all of them located in Vermont. “Eh, too many kids,” says the other. 5. Though launching with a Christmas special seems ingenious in retrospect, Fox originally planned to premiere the first season in the fall of 1989. (And is never mentioned again.) As in Frank Capra’s classic Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Lisa’s idealism is quickly crushed when she witnesses a congressman discussing bribes with a timber lobbyist at the fictitious Winifred Beecher Howe Memorial (“I will iron your sheets when you iron out the inequities in your labor laws”). Having gotten Apu fired via ludicrous TV-news undercover sting, Homer travels with Apu to India to visit Kwik-E-Mart’s corporate headquarters to help get his friend’s job back. While everyone else enjoys a perfect day in New York—seeing Little Italy and Chinatown, taking in a Broadway musical, riding in a carriage through Central Park, visiting the offices of Mad Magazine—it’s Homer’s frustrating dealings with cops and khlav-kalash vendors and his desperate need to pee that really captures the soul of the city. As those fields of bullfrogs attest, once The Simpsons visits your country, things will never be the same. 2002 [Kyle Ryan], Ultimately, season 11’s “Missionary Impossible” cares less about the culture of Micronesia than it does the distinguished television of Great Britain (“If they’re not having a go with a bird, they’re having a row with a wanker!”), and the plotline of Homer fleeing to the Pacific Islands to escape a horde of pissed-off PBS celebrities counts as one of the show’s flimsiest travel premises. After over 30 years on the air, the anarchic animated family comedy The Simpsons has somehow only aired five Thanksgiving specials throughout its 700+ episodes. There are extensive historical references as Bobo’s journey is traced from Mr. Burns through the hands of Adolf Hitler and an expedit… This “affectionate love letter to Ireland” became a part of the show’s 20th-anniversary celebrations, and managed not to rub any of the Emerald Isle’s inhabitants the wrong way. But the inevitable Homer-Ned rapprochement comes whooshing past like the sandstorm that traps Homer in the desert, leaving him with a sun-baked case of Jerusalem syndrome, his messianic fervor at least uniting Jerusalem’s three major religions in the universal love of delicious, delicious chicken. The 31st annual Simpsons Halloween special includes a frightening look at the 2020 election, parodies of Pixar and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and a ninth birthday Lisa just can't get over. Vegas’ naked hedonism and superficiality prove low-hanging fruit for The Simpsons’ satire, and the jokes come quickly. Sideshow Bob and Tuscany are a natural fit, even if Krusty and Pagliacci are not. Not necessarily, but there’s only so much unchartered territory left to a show in its 24th season, as The Simpsons was when “The Saga Of Carl” debuted. But instead of spending their newfound cash on gifts and a tree, Homer sneaks away to buy him a pricey talking astrolabe—one that later tests its smoke alarm for a full three hours. Writer Matt Marshall envisions Ireland (a.k.a. Homer is Homer, decked out in all-USA jerkass-wear and brandishing his Carolina Panthers credit card while ordering cold cuts on his falafel and napping in Jesus’ preferred spot in the Church Of The Holy Sepulchre, while the episode takes a few solid jabs at Israel. Episode. After Thanksgiving dinner, Marge announces it is time to take the annual Christmas card family photo. [Dennis Perkins], The Simpsons has been to France a few times now, from Bart’s legendary misadventures in the exchange student program to that time when Carl wound up having sex with French first lady Carla Bruni. One minute-long stretch when the duo arrives in Vegas lands some funny sight gags (the sign for the Cirque Du Buffet at the Golddiggers Casino promises “Loosest craps in town!”), a random shot at Melissa Rivers, and some amusing Flanders overstimulation. Club is ranking these episodes of a vacational nature, counting down from the Worst. “‘Tis the Fifteenth Season” shows Homer at both his worst and his best in this memorable Christmas Simpsons. When we think of holiday-specific Simpsons adventures, we immediately think of Halloween due to the wild success of the annual Treehouse of Horror episodes. Even then, it’s just an excuse to get the Simpsons to China, where Homer poses as a renowned acrobat and Selma’s husband so she can adopt a baby. “That sure was a fun trip to Las Vegas,” says one. But while this season-29 episode’s truly impressive visual depiction of the streets of the Big Easy goes a long way toward erasing any lingering resentment over Oh, Streetcar!’s musical slanders, “Lisa Gets The Blues” largely neglects everything else in favor of a long, long montage of Homer the food monster chomping his way through literally every signature dish in town. Unless you caught Fox’s famous cartoon family in their interstitial The Tracey Ullman Show shorts, they first entered your life in the form of a Christmas special. Play 9 days left to view this episode. Best: Future-Drama. Jokes about curling, check. [Erik Adams]. Homer refuses a variety of illegal payments in an interchangeable picture-postcard locations, but one Simpson winds up enriched by the experience: Marge really gets to put her Portuguese lessons to work. Comically exaggerated Canadian accents, check. In this clip show, the citizens of Springfield honor Homer Simpsons with a Roast, but the festivities take a turn for the worst when aliens crash it. After watching “Mr. [Sean O’Neal], As filled with endlessly quotable lines as Knoxville’s Sunsphere is with 16,000 boxes of unsold wigs, the season-seven classic “Bart On The Road” takes a freewheeling journey into the heart of America to see all the wonders and spring break-squandering disappointments it contains. It only takes a few days in the home of the Sundance Film Festival (“Where Parker Posey meets parka-ed posers”) for Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers to go from swag-grubbing novice producers to jaded industry types stonewalling Park City darling John C. Reilly. 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