"Homer Goes To College" is absolute perfection. Fuck, Conan knew how to write this show. "Sir, 6 cinder blocks are missing." "There'll be no hospital then. I'll tell the children."
I watched one from the most recent season last night because Jeff Martin wrote it, pretty solid actually. Animation weirded me out and it flowed a little weirdly, but there were solid jokes at least.
Haha I never noticed until now the parody of Billy's "Zero" shirt he wore throughout the Mellon Collie tour. I quoted this line endlessly though even though I knew nothing about cigars. I remember watching the commentary on this episode and the writers' were like "yeah, I don't think the drummer was in the band for very long after". Two months after this episode aired JC OD'd.
Also, Courteny Love was slated to cameo on the episode but the members of Sonic Youth protested, saying they'll back out if Courtney came on
It was the original version of the smiling politely joke Courtney : hi Homer I'm a big fan Courtney Love Homer : Homer Grateful
I basically feel like 1-10 are essential, 11-12 are worth watching but when the decline starts, and after that you can basically stop whenever you start getting bored Oh and the movie is essential too, I would suggest using that as the series finale actually
Oddly enough, I think through five seasons, my favorite episode has been "Bart's Inner Child," but fuck, there's something in all of these episodes that's just fantastic. Nothing misses right now. Starting S6 tomorrow evening.