Mine’s gotta be Marge on the Lam. It’s got Ballet as bears driving little cars, it’s got Homer about to have his arms sawed off cause he didn’t let go of soda, it’s got good waffles sticking together, it’s got moonshine straight from your own still, it’s got ghost cars, it’s got Miguel Sanchez, it’s got Sunshine and Lollypops and Raibows, it’s got precious antique cans, it’s got suspects in a…red car who are passing directly beneath the earth’s sun…now. it’s hilarious and really encapsulates season 5s ‘fuck it, we ball’ attitude.
I say every single season 1 episode because there are still people who insist on excluding them from classic era Simpsons.
What about Lisa’s Rival? Everybody remembers the B plot, but how many people actually talk about the main plot? There’s character development in Lisa being a big fish in a small pond, there’s funny lines (“Here’s the grapes, and here’s the wrath!”), Milhouse getting chased by feds. I guess it’s underrated in that sense.
Bart’s Inner Child is kinda the same thing. The entire episode gets overshadowed by the trampoline B plot.
I get the exclusion cause it’s a different beast almost, but season one kinda slaps in a way that the other seasons don’t. Lisa has the best characterization early on. She’s just depressed and clever but still 8.
I fucking love the tramampolone I mean trambopaline stuff, but you aren’t wrong. However things not being double bolted was the reason for every failure at work for a while cause of that episode.
I’m a fifth level Simpsons fan, I only watch the Tracey Ullman shorts