The Simpsons Episode-by-Episode: S7E15-17: Bart the Fink/Lisa the Iconoclast/Homer the Smithers

I love when Bart's trying to get away from the tigers..."Rocky five plus Rocky two equals Rocky VII!" Homer using Flanders' RV is great, too.

 

Jul 20 2010 05:27 PM ET

'Simpsons' exclusive: Jon Hamm to guest
by Dan Snierson

"The Simpsons is serving up a side of Hamm: Mad Men star Jon Hamm will voice a character on an upcoming episode of the animated Fox comedy, exec producer Al Jean tells EW.com. In the episode?titled ?Donnie Fatso? and slated to air in December?Hamm plays an FBI supervisor whom Homer reports to when he becomes an undercover informant in prison and infiltrates Fat Tony?s inner circle (which means, yes, Joe Mantegna returns to reprise his mobster role). But don?t expect to see Don in this don-themed episode. ?There?s no Mad Men reference,? says Jean. ?Jon?s a gruff FBI man. Homer asks if he can pick his undercover name and finally Jon just says, ?Your name will be Nicky Blue Pants Altosaxophony.? Homer says, ?Do I get to keep the name when I?m done with it?? and Jon says, ?No, it?s the property of the government.? He has no patience for Homer.? And how did the recording session go with Hamm, who has also guested on 30 Rock and SNL? ?You gave him one note and he immediately did 12 great things with it,? reports Jean. ?He was really funny. And handsome. He had it all.?

 

Wrong thread, dude.

http://boards.theforce.net/the_amphitheatre/b10382/19016888/p1

 

Season 6 - Episode 25: Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One) [2F16] (season finale)

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Original Airdate: May 21, 1995
Writers: Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein
Director: Jeffrey Lynch

Chalkboard gag: "This is not a clue... or is it?"
Couch gag: The family attempts to run across a continuously repeating background

Plot synopsis: It's bad enough that Mr. Burns steals the newly discovered oil under Springfield Elementary, but it's going too far when he steals the town's sunshine. He is shot and everyone wonders who did the dirty deed.

Guest star: Tito Puente

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How do you finish off a fantastic season? With a fantastic episode that got everyone talking during the summer of 1995. I remember I taped the episode and watched it many times to see if I could figure it out but alas I didn't. I think my first guess was something way off the charts like Flanders or something (just to be funny/different). :p

Also, chocolate microscopes?

 

Probably the most famous Simpson's episode(s). However I don't think it took many people that long to figure out whodunnit - within a couple of days I remember all the kids at school yelling out "It's Maggie!!!"

Even better though was the gag reel of all the 'outtakes' they did for it, featuring a variety of different characters killing Burns (from memory: Apu, Barney, Smithers, Moe etc... even Santa's Little Helper)

 

So many awesome quotes from this episode:

"These fumes aren't as fun as beer. Sure, I'm dizzy and nauseous, but where's the inflated sense of self-esteem?"
"Good Lord, that's the loudest profanity I've ever heard!"
"You know those guitars that are, like, double guitars, you know?"
"Well, I can't possibly figure out this mystery. Can you?" (points at the camera, but then the camera moves to show he's pointing at Wiggum instead)

 

Oh my goodness, how could I forget about this?! It is one of THE greatest moments in the history of the show as far as I'm concerned.

 

This episode feels more immense and cinematic than the damn movie. Love it.

 

Oh, a couple more:

"I'll kill that Mr. Burns! And, uh, wound that Mr. Smithers!"
"How can you have a house without a gun? What if a bear came through the door?"
"Smells like one of Van Houten's." "It does not!"

 

Season 7 - Episode 1: Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two) [2F20]

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Original Airdate: September 17, 1995
Writers: Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein
Director: Wes Archer

Chalkboard gag: "I will not complain about the solution when I hear it"
Couch gag: The Simpsons line up for a mug shot

Plot synopsis: With Burns shot, Chief Wiggum follows a trail of DNA that leads to the Simpsons front door step. Homer is charged for the shooting and before Homer can be jailed, he escapes. It's a race to see who reaches Burns' hospital room first.

Guest star: Tito Puente

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Eddie: Did you hold a grudge against Montgomery Burns?
Moe: No! [buzz]
All right, maybe I did. But I didn't shoot him. [ding]
Eddie: Checks out. OK, sir, you're free to go.
Moe: Good, 'cause I got a hot date tonight. [buzz]
[i]A[/i] date. [buzz]
Dinner with friends. [buzz]
Dinner alone. [buzz]
Watching TV alone. [buzz]
All right! I'm going to sit at home and ogle the ladies in the Victoria's Secret Catalonia. [buzz]
....Sears catalogue. [ding]
Now would you unhook this already, please? I don't deserve this kind of shabby treatment! [buzz]

 

That Moe interrogation is an all-time classic, but who could forget the Groundskeeper Willie one, complete with the Basic Instinct reference?

Oh, and:

"Dozens of people are gunned down each day in Springfield, but up until now, none of them had been important."

 

Senor Burns is also a great moment.

It may not surprise you, but all of us despise you.
Please die. And fry. In hell. You rotten, rich old wretch!

 

"When you were in that coma, did you feel your brain getting damaged?"

Episodes like these make me wish I'd have gotten into the Simpsons sooner, although I would've been too young to appreciate them, anyway.

 

I remember this one, too.

 

Me too, we even speculated on it in my family.

 

Another of my favorite lines from this episode came from Apu:

"Be careful when we capture him! We cannot claim the reward unless we have 51% of the carcass!"

 

Season 7 - Episode 2: Radioactive Man [2F17]

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Original Airdate: September 24, 1995
Writer: John Swartzwelder
Director: Susie Dietter

Chalkboard gag: "Bewitched does not promote Satanism"
Couch gag: The couch is a fax machine that spews out a piece of paper with The Simpson family in a sitting position. The paper slides back under the couch.

Plot synopsis: Friendships could be torn when Bart and Milhouse are both up for the role of `Fallout Boy' in the new `Radioactive Man' movie. Meanwhile, the town of Springfield sees $$$ and milk the `Radioactive Man' film crew for all their cash.

Guest star: Mickey Rooney

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I think we all know which line this episode is famous for. ;)

 

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Rainier Wolfcastle is just awesome. The goggles line is a classic, but I also love him trying to get Radioactive Man's catchphrase right:

Coach: Up and atom!
Rainier: Up and at them!
Coach: Up and atom!
Rainier: Up and at them!
Coach: [annoyed] UP AND ATOM!
Rainier: [louder] UP AND AT THEM!!!
Coach: [covers his eyes] Better.

And of course if you need cows in a film ...

Martin: Uh, Sir, why don't you just use real cows?
Painter: Cows don't look like cows on film. You gotta use horses.
Ralph: ... what do you do if you want something that looks like a horse?
Painter: Ehh, usually we just tape a bunch of cats together.

 

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Chicken necks?

 

If there's ever a list of the Top 10 (or 20 or 30 or 100) single greatest Simpsons lines, the goggles line would have to be on it.

There's so much other greatness in this episode, too. I love the 70's Radioactive Man Batman parody, with the spandex and "SNUH! NEWT! MINT!", etc.

 

Season 7 is full of so much win. Lisa the Vegetarian, Bart Sells His Soul, King Size Homer, Team Homer, Homer the Smithers, 22 Short Films About Springfield and Much Apu About Nothing.

 

There's a $1000 leaving town tax!

 

Season 7 - Episode 3: Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily [3F01]

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Original Airdate: October 1, 1995
Writer: Jon Vitti
Director: Susie Dietter

Chalkboard gag: "No one wants to hear from my armpits"
Couch gag: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Grampa, Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II are in a nine-square grid as seen in the opening credits of The Brady Bunch.

Plot synopsis: Bart, Lisa and Maggie are placed in the care of the Flanders family when Homer and Marge are found to be unfit parents. Now, Homer and Marge must prove to the authorities that they are fit parents before the kids become too Flanders like.

Guest star: Joan Kenley (telephone lady)

 

"Wow Dad, you took a baptismal for me. How do you feel?"
"Oh Bartholomew, I feel like St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion by Ambrose of Milan."
"Wait! Homer, what did you just say?"
"I said shut your ugly face, Flanders!"