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.
Things exploding when they shouldn’t is low-key one of my fave running gags. Molemans car bumps into a tree at a snails pace? Explodes. Wiggum as a beer Stein? Explodes. A man’s appendix that’s about to burst? Explodes. Corn flakes + milk? Burns. A model rocket hitting a model comet? Explodes and ignites a model of Moe’s Tavern. Pop rocks and soda at a candy convention? Explodes into a fireball.
I love those types of gags