Are these really the worst Simpson's episodes?

[The Curmudgeon]

The internet is full of certain things; naked ladies, cats with learning difficulties and people complaining that the Simpson's isn't funny anymore.

While the quality is questionable on certain episodes, some are still gems, and almost every episode has some great gags and laugh out loud moments. Pretty much NO sitcom can say that these days.

So, out of morbid curiosity, I decided to do a quick search for a list of the Worst Ever Episodes of the Simpson's. I found a pretty official looking list, from a dedicated Simpson's website. They seem to update this list every year, but some of the results are just baffling.

simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/NoHomers.net's_50_Worst_episodes

If you know your Simpson's, hopefully you'll know about the episodes I'm talking about here.

So when you think of bad Simpson's episodes, do you think of the episode where Maude dies? When Homer let carnies stay with him? When Homer meets a pre-social periah Mel Gibson? When Homer becomes Max Power? These are all GREAT episodes...right?

For me, the worst episodes are those fucking terrible "three stories from the past" episodes where Simpson character re-create famous tales from the past or the Bible or whatever else the lazy writers think of.

This list is a few years old now, so I imagine a lot of these episodes on this list will now be given much more credit than they have here.

So what episodes would make YOUR list?

[trashcanman]

Honestly, very seldom if ever have I disliked an episode of The Simpsons. The very worst ones are just meh and don't leave any impression at all so I probably don't even remember them. I'd have to agree that the laziest written ones are where they take existing stories and just paste Simpsons characters into them. Can't say any of those have ever knocked my socks off. Except maybe the Treehouse of Horror parodies, but that's probably the horror/sci-fi fan in me giving them a pass.

[The Curmudgeon]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one still loving the Simpson's. It now seems fashionable to rag on the show and talk about The Golden Years, when it's still funnier than most sitcoms on TV today.

The Treehouse of Horror episodes are standard, classic Simpson's though, and they've often got the cleverest gags and most inspired parodies. It's the "Bart reads a book of classic stories, cut to Bart dressed like Huckleberry Finn" episodes I can't stand.

[The Curmudgeon]

I actually found this pretty decent article written by, of all people, the lead singer of Hadouken! on this very subject.

news.qthemusic.com/2013/04/gues_column_-_the_simpsons_wha.html

Fittingly, "Hadouken! What Went Wrong?" would be another decent read, but I digress. He raises some pretty good points (and, yeesh, THAT Ke$ha intro was fucking brutal).

[trashcanman]

I thought the alternate ending to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in the Mel Gibson episode was fucking hilarious. Wait, when did that Ke$ha thing happen? I missed an episode? How? When? The fact that that guy had to get so technical about why the new Simpsons isn't as good as the old Simpsons shows that the discrepancy isn't as great as people pretend. Not only that, but he's clearly still watching. If it was actually shit, not only would he not be watching, but he would be able to come up with a laundry list of horrific garbage like I did when I bashed the Buffy comic. When something is actual shit, it isn't hard to come by specific instances that pretty much everybody can agree is indefensibly dumb. The Simpsons is not one of those things, even after so many years.