@@tribot_leader south park does a entire episode on the fact that a show as long as simpsons will have covered almost every subject and thus any show coming after will inevitably be ripping it off
@@hax3044 well, I guess it depends on where exactly the blockage is, in a sink if its not somewhere beyond your reach you might be able to take the drain apart a bit so it comes back out
On the commentary for this episode Matt Groening went on holidays so he never saw how the episode finished, he got back, it was already almost fully animated and he was like WTF none of that was said in the writer's room.
Imagine leaving with the episode where Bart gets a horse and starts racing and coming back weeks later to dancing jockey elves that want to kill Homer and Bart Just think about it
Funny, this was supposed to mock how fans are annoyed by repeated plotlines, which puts a lair of irony in that this is seen as one of the worst episodes of the Simpsons, accidentally giving Comic Book Guy a valid point.
The episode was pretty much the same about the Simpsons getting a Horse so we don’t want everything looking all the same but still Lisa should have done something instead of the subplot about losing to another school music band and such.
"You gotta stop being so trusting, chief." "I would rather let a thousand guilty men go, than chase after them!" Sleep soundly. You are safe under the watch of Springfield's finest! 😂
@@Jagerbomber It's based off an actual quote, "I'd rather let a thousand guilty men go free, than see even one innocent person suffer." -William Blackstone
It's kinda like how the episode where Mr. Burns memorably says ''you've made a powerful enemy today, my friend'' to a vending machine is also the god awful episode where Homer does several undignified things for money.
Come to think to, yes, those episodes there sub-par. But compared to trash that we see today, old Simpsons at its worse are far better than new Simpsons at its best. Heck, I would take worst Simpsons of old over anything new, Family Dad, American Dad, South Park, Simpsons. You name it. New media is trash.
As someone who has raised horses, its shockingly easy to feed them things they aren't supposed to it. Which is why the real cost of a horse isn't the food but the vet bill.
Homer reasoning that he is a Vietnam vet without an ID to avoid paying the 50 cents is golden. He made me convince he was a Vietnam war vet even he wasn't at all.
Even funnier because "La Choy" is a brand of American Chinese food ingredients, "Chun King" was canned Chinese noodles, and "Margaret Cho" is a Korean comedian
@@jsgv0rt3x19 *Korean-American I legitimately laughed out loud at that Margaret being referenced which is incredible given this is one of the most reviled Simpsons episodes of all time.
Well, crying isn't going to bring him back... unless your tears smell like dog food. So you can either sit there crying and eating can after can of dog food until your tears smell enough like dog food to make your dog come back, or you can go out there and find your dog.
Ponies are a type of horse. Officially, it's any adult horse that is shorter than 147cm/58inch at the withers. Unofficially, it's any horse you wish to call a pony
This was that period after the "golden age" of Simpsons where the jokes were still great, but the plots got dumber and dumber, and they couldn't end the episodes properly.
I never thought about it that way, but that's exactly what it is. They could still write a good gag, but so many possible storylines had already been done that they had no solid framework left to put the jokes into.
In the commentary they explain that the names Homer mentioned were not actually battles in the Vietnam war. Dan Castlneta just made them up on the spot.
Because some people are always judgemental about any Simpsons season past 10. They like to niptick every single fault those seasons have, and it sucks out the enjoyment for others.
Coming back to these old "new" simpsons episodes is great, they were subpar back then but now they are kinda funny compared to the weird episodes they put out now.
