Season 8

[Kigents]

The Simpsons season 8 episode list

801 "Treehouse of Horror VII"
802 "You Only Move Twice"
803 "The Homer They Fall"
804 "Burns, Baby Burns"
805 "Bart After Dark"
806 "A Milhouse Divided"
807 "Lisa's Date with Density"
808 "Hurricane Neddy"
809 "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer
(The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
810 "The Springfield Files"
811 "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
812 "Mountain of Madness"
813 "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"
814 "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
815 "Homer's Phobia"
816 "Brother from Another Series"
817 "My Sister, My Sitter"
818 "Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment"
819 "Grade School Confidential"
820 "The Canine Mutiny"
821 "The Old Man and the Lisa"
822 "In Marge We Trust"
823 "Homer's Enemy"
824 "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"
825 "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"

Discuss your favourite season 8 episodes here!

[cinco]

El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer

Story:I like episodes in which a character has some sort of identity crisis and has to find him- or herself. (eg. "Lisa The Simpson", "Bart Sells His Soul")
In this episode, Homer is the subject of a spiritual journey. Now, Homer isn't quite the thinking man, but the experience he endures in this episode gives him doubts about his relationship with Marge and more so, his connection with her. In a fruitless search for a soulmate, accompagnied by the song "At Seventeen" we can see a different kind of Homer than the one we are used to. This is a man in serious crisis and the pain of not being able to find an answer on the soulmate-question breaks him inside. He does not drift away that far that he wants to end his life like he did in "Homer's Odyssey" and "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind", but it comes close. When arriving in the watchtower, the point of insanity has already reached and a man who was once ready to die in "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" is now standing on the point of letting a ship crash in a moment of lunacy. Suddenly, as a "Deus Ex Machina", Marge arrives and Homer is back reverted to his normal self in the presence of his wife who IS indeed his soulmate, but also is kind of a surrogate-mother to him. ("Mother Simpson" goes a whole end in explaining this) The fear to have no connection with anybody and the feeling of loneliness that is present within Homer during this episode shows what a fragile soul rests beneath this man. Again, the origin of his fear to end alone can be found in the "Mother Simpson"-episode.

Style: a refreshing dream-sequence with an artistically direction never seen in a Simpsons-episode, combined with disturbing moments like the one in which Marge's head is just hair and the wind vaporizes her like dust, gives this episode an overall surreal feel. A masterpiece of television animation.
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[cinco]

YOU'LL ONLY MOVE TWICE

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What a way to really kick off the 8th season. (not mentioning the THOH-episode of course)
Season 8, last classic season, season with so many great one-time characters, season with Hank Scorpio.
Oh yeah, undeniably the best Albert Brooks-character.
Once he enters this episode, it is pretty much HIS show.
And yes, than we already have gotten the Simpsons leaving Springfield in a way that feels quite definitive. (which isn't of course, because there is the statusquo-thing in a show like this one)
So how does Cypress Creek look?
Well it's little bit more detailed environment than we are used to see in this show (and that includes the new Simpsons-house), a lot of green colors, a lot of high trees, a fake creepy perfect community-feel and a slick boss who feels too good to be true.
It's only after 14 minutes that his real façade is revealed, but Homer, quite infatuated by this person, really does not seem to get it.
And his family-members have problems of their own.
So Homer has to leave his perfect job to regain the happiness of his family again and has to give up being a employee (henchman) for one of the more successfull supervillains in cartoon history.
(seizing the east-coast is not a little thing)
Seeing Homer give up a dream is seeing Homer at his most vulnerable/hurt.
Reminds me of his previous bowlingalley-job and his later Poochie-job.
So instead of action-music during the big "Team Scorpio"/government-fight, we hear a rather sad tune while seeing Homer saying his last goodbyes to this place where he felt so right. The fight is just happening in the background and a totally unaware Homer leaves one of the most action-packed Simpsons-scenes without looking back.
You only move twice, but you'll only meet a boss this great once.

[bartyboy]

my favorite of season 8 would have to be you only move twice, followed by homers enemy

[Acid Eco]

homer's enemy ftw

[cinco]

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[bartyboy]

i'd but that

[cinco]

This is still my favorite season with some great experiments considering storytelling and presentation.

some highlights from the season:

Homer experienced his biggest existential crisis.
Kirk Van Houten became a fully developed character.
Skinner and Krabappel got together which delivered a whole new road of possibilities for future episodes.
We finally saw a reformed Sideshow Bob. (I evenregretted him getting evil again later in the series)
Episodes like the spinoff showcase and the one with Poochie warned for what eventually would really happen with the show.

And for the rest: we have our musical-spoofs, our spionage-spoofs, our scifi-spoofs... what more do you want from one season?

[Shunsuke]

[Maggie starts crying]

Lisa: Oh, look, Bart! Now you got Maggie all upset!

Bart: Relax, I'll give her some ice cream. [gives all his ice cream to Maggie; Maggie's eye pupil shrinks]

Lisa: Bart, that's coffee ice cream. It has caffeine in it!!

[Maggie starts twitching her head and body hyperactively]

Bart: Well, at least that'll make things more interesting for you, now won't it?

lol

The autodialer was funny as well. Also the part from that one episode where the family thinks Homer is dead.

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LOL

[cinco]

The pretzel-episode was the weakest imo.

And believe it or not, but this season created loads of Lisa-Nelson shippers thanks to "Lisa's Date with Density".
I still root for Milhouse though.

[TheRiddlingVortex]

Great season.

[cinco]

Trippy season.

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[cinco]

BROTHER FROM ANOTHER SERIES

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This episode would have been a fitting end to the Sideshow Bob-episodes.
And looking at what came afterwards, it would have been a good thing if it indeed would have been the last.
It's sort of a redemption-episode for Bob but like most good deeds in the Simpsons-universe, it doesn't pay.
And in a way, it felt good to see Bart and Bob side by side in the end, Bob has always been one of the most intellectual and erudite characters inside the Simpsons-universe, but while being in the middle of all those people wh marvel in stupidity, how else could he end up as being a villain? And yeah... we finally get an origin-story regarding him, how he ended up being Krusty's sidekick instead of his brother and such. Although as it turns out, Cecil might be even more evil than his brother so Krusty probably chose the lesser of two evils.
So yeah... watch all the Bob-centred episodes all in a row up until this episode and you might have a rewarding experience and a satisfying finale.