Season 1
Dismal animation, not-quite-right voices, and a tone that skews harrowing, season one is the clumsy childhood of the show we'd…
My Recollection Homer buys a bowling ball for Marge’s birthday. The raw sexuality of bowling. Homer no-selling getting hit in the head with a baseball. The Episode This episode was…
My Recollection The end is at the start. A serious tone. Not very funny. The Episode There’s a few reasons why a narrative may start at its own end before…
My Recollection They buy an RV, get lost in the forest, and Homer gets mistaken for Bigfoot. This is one of the first ones I had taped, so I watched…
My Recollection Bleeding Gums Murphy and Video Boxing. The Episode There’s a Creepypasta around somewhere that claims this was a replacement for an episode titled Dead Bart which is a…
My Recollection Herman saying that the pincer movement can’t fail against a 10 year old. Movie references. Nelson’s bi-racial buddies, more students we never see, victims of the move to…
My recollection The song Marge sings, taking the padding off the mallets, and the electro-shock therapy with the seldom seen again Marvin Monroe. About the only interesting thing Monroe ever…
My recollection This section is sort of pointless given that I never watch these early episodes. Now that I’m doing it, I see why. The basic plot is Homer becoming…
My Recollection There was an awful lot of naked green Bart. I remember that standing out. Also, my dad telling me about another algebra joke where the answer, when said…
I can recite whole episodes of this fucking show by heart. It’s my third parent and, much to the chagrin of my biological parents, the one I spend the most…