"You Only Move Twice'"
One of the Golden Age's wackiest scenes likewise happens to be one of
its most clever. In this season 8 champion, the Simpson group deserts
Springfield when Homer lands another position at the Globex Corporation — a
secretive uber organization keep running by well disposed appearing to be
ginger Hank Scorpio (Albert Brooks, giving his best Simpsons visitor
execution). Continuously, it turns out to be clear (to everybody except Homer)
that Scorpio's really a merciless supervillain never going to budge on overcoming
mystery specialist James Bont. It's a crazy setup reinforced by one of the
show's best chuckles per-minute proportions. Presently, on the off chance that
you'll pardon us, we need to travel to Hammocks-R-Us; it's in the Hammock
District.
"Who Shot Mr. Smolders? Parts 1 and 2"
A two-section comedic reverence to Dallas' "Who shot J.R.?"
stunt, "WSMB?" is perhapsThe Simpsons' most pretentious pop minute
ever. An atypical excursion, as well: Satiric shots (O.J. Simpson, Madonna, and
Twin Peaks) and over the top arbitrariness (Moe's marathon lie-finder session
is a work of art) are subordinate to an efficiently plotted homicide riddle
that, oh, peaks with a cop-out, but a conscious one. (Maggie did the
deed—inadvertently, obviously.) There's no chance it could have drawn closer
the evaluations for the Dallas cliffhanger, yet it's still a significant marker
in the show's advancement. By deftly sending The Simpsons' variety of
supporting characters (even Doctor Colossus!), this onetime hostile to Cosby lightning
pole exhibited what a rich, self-maintaining universe it had gotten to be.
"Homer at the Bat"
Whenever Mr. Blazes initiates nine elite player significant leaguers
for his organization softball group, what follows is less an arraignment of
America's hobby than a loopy festival of the game's departed honesty, a paean
to professional sluggers as both legends (Jose Canseco misses the defining
moment since he's hurrying into a smoldering house to save a child—and a
feline, and a player piano… ) and softies (Darryl Strawberry sheds a tear at
Bart and Lisa's cheap seat bugging). It was likewise early verification that
The Simpsons could juggle a squad of visitor stars without giving the family
short shrift: Who drives in the triumphant run when a ball skips off his head?
Homer, obviously.
"The Last Temptation of Homer"
Whenever Mr. Blazes is compelled to enlist a female representative at
the plant, Homer is abruptly extremely mindful at work. There's bounty Homer
respects about Mindy Simmons (voiced to smooth flawlessness by Michelle
Pfeiffer): avarices, sloth, and, he suspects, insult that "'Ziggy"s
gotten excessively long winded!" obviously, we realize that Homer will
stay loyal, his marriage having as of now survived Jacques the playing teacher
and a goliath catfish named General Sherman. However, it's Homer's anguished
adventure ("Oh no, I'm sweating like Roger Ebert!")— and an important
cameo by Colonel Klink of Hogan's Heroes—that makes arriving so incredible.
It's no Scenes From a Marriage, however it's one serious part all the more
diverting.
"A Fish Called Selma"
You may recall Troy McClure from such TV appears as "The Simpsons
138th Episode Spectacular," yet in his splashiest turn, the underemployed
on-screen character is tormented by a "sentimental irregularity."
"Gay? I wish!" says the closeted fish fetishist, who turns into a
family man by wedding Marge's sister Selma (the one with a monotonous anxiety
harm from scratching her butt). Hollywood parodies are well-tread ground for
the appear, however this thought on the outrage humility cycle, highlighting
the brilliant McClure vehicle Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!,
is especially savvy. Furthermore, Selma's goodbye to McClure is additionally a
touching tribute to the man who supplied his voice, the late Phil Hartman:
"Farewell, Troy. I'll never forget you, however not from your
movies."
"Last Exit to Springfield"
This scene is for all intents and purposes impeccable, the result of an
arrangement at the tallness of its inventive forces—when the parody was savage
and important, when names like John Swartzwelder, George Meyer, and Conan
O'Brien were generally obscure, when Maude Flanders lived. So it is that we
locate America's most loved family at Painless (once in the past "Difficult")
Dentistry, in light of the fact that Lisa need supports. In the mean time, at
the atomic plant, Mr. Smolders is attempting to chop out the union dental
arrangement. The rest is the stuff of syndication legend: Burns confronting
down "splendid" work kingpin Homer Simpson; Homer Simpson confronting
down his own mind ("Lisa needs props/DENTAL PLAN!"); Grampa rattling
on about wearing onions on his belt. "Last Exit" is a transcendent
ensemble of the high and the low, of ironical shots at unions and sweet ruminations
on the embarrassments of youth (as prove by Lisa, who adapts to a medieval
mouth contraption), and, obviously, each one of those "D'oh!"s. The
things, at the end of the day, that make us cherish The Simpsons in any case.
"Cape Feare"
The Simpsons is, at its heart, one major satire, however even Homer
Thompson could perceive "Cape Feare" as the show's most fastidious
and hyper popular society departure. Not just is it a pitch-immaculate send-up
of the Martin Scorsese redo (with Kelsey Grammer's Sideshow Bob setting out to
Terror Lake to chase down and kill his smallish enemy, Bart), however it
additionally includes a standout amongst the most peculiar scenes in TV
history. We're alluding, obviously, to the rakes. Consider it. What number of
different arrangement would squander profitable prime-time land by
demonstrating a man whacking himself in the face with a greenery enclosure rake
not once, not twice, but rather NINE TIMES?!? If at any time there was a muffle
virtuoso in its dreary ineptitude (advancing from interesting to not all that
entertaining to the most clever thing ever), this is it—simply the most honed
cut in a whole scene that out and out kills.
1. "Marge versus the Monorail"
Quick talking vendor Lyle Lanley (Phil Hartman, natch) offers the town
a broken monorail; just through Marge's mediation is the town spared. That is
the plot of "Marge versus the Monorail," yet it's not the point. The
fact of the matter is that the scene has seemingly the most elevated disposable
stifler per-minute proportion of any Simpsons, and every one of them are roar
with laughter clever. You need spoofs? In its initial five minutes,
"Monorail" sticks The Flintstones, Beverly Hills Cop, The Silence of
the Lambs, andBatman. Superstar cameos? Leonard Nimoy exhausts the town with
stories from the Star Trek set. Simpsons in-jokes? Nation star Lurleen Lumpkin,
from "Colonel Homer," has a bit part. A musical number? The Music
Man'- motivated "The Monorail Song" is, all around, roused. Elaborate
visuals that were unmistakably formulated by a roomful of congested young men?
This scene highlights mammoth remote-controlled mechanical ants, a radioactive
squirrel, a lift to no place, and—in the event that we haven't specified it as
of now—Leonard Nimoy. In this way we broadcast: Best. Scene. Ever.
