The Simpsons - "Stealing First Base" - Talkback [3/21]

I can't agree with others in this thread. This episode was awful. The plot should've been simple enough to follow, but the whole thing went absolutely nowhere and the Lisa B-plot could've largely been cut from the episode since it amounted to a total of 5 minutes and a pointless Michelle Obama cameo.

Nikki proved to be the most annoying of all of Bart's girlfriends. I couldn't tell if she's trying to be a rebellious punk or a sheltered one. The episode makes it seem like she goes back and forth between being naturally mean-spirited or if she was being restricted by her parents.

As for the positives, I really liked the entire scene in the assembly. Homer choking Skinner was hilarious, and Nelson's interactions with the blind kid were also amusing. Other than that, the episode felt like a dud.
 
Not to mention the Itchy and Scratchy movie was not made in 3-D, so this could be a sequel that Homer and Bart are watching at the theater (which Bart is allowed to see).
 
Same here. And given that Al Jean is still the showrunner, he had to have remembered he'd already done that on The Critic. It might've been funnier if they'd taken the old footage from that and spliced it in. Same joke.

The kiss montage is a really sweet idea I'm surprised hasn't been done elsewhere already. Then again it could only really work in animation, where copyright can easily be fudged. I wish they'd saved it for a GENUINELY sweet moment, like with Homer and Marge. For all the epicness of that kiss, it's ultimately meaningless because we'll never see that girl again.

Most bizarre Itchy and Scratchy ever.
 
I thought the kissing montage was a fun, original idea. And i dont see it as being "out of place" like some people seem to do. Instead, i feel it really helped to lift the message of the episode; namely that physicall contact isn't a "dirty" and "bad" thing, but something nice.

Overall, i liked this episode. It's always nice when recent Simpsons episodes base their plots around actuall social satire (which in this particular case centered around the overtly sensetive regulations regarding "indecency" going on in American schools). Because sometimes, with shows like Family Guy and (especially) South Park being so much more prominent when it comes satirical commentary, The Simpsons hardly feels like a work of satire at all in comparassion.
 
I didn't mind the Michelle Obama appearance (Boy, she could open the helicopter door well!), but when Bart shared the desk with a 4th. grade girl there was an appearance of Franken Berry Fruit By The Foot used to split the sides.

I wonder if the blind kid who got his sight back thanks to Nelson is going to be a new Simpsons regular in the episodes to come...
 
I really liked this episode, and when the kissing montage came i went "WHAT!" for like each one untill it cut back.:D
5/5 Awsom-OBest Season since season 9 In my opinion.:)
 
Man did this episode have a lot of unfunny, time-wasting filler. The whole skateboarding scene, the Itchy & Scratchy cartoon (two weeks in a row now with a dragging I & S toon) and the kissing montage were all not funny. Lisa's subplot was terrible. Are you telling me after getting that F, she wouldn't have checked her answers? I'll admit to not being nearly as smart as Lisa, but even I could pick out that Washington D.C. isn't a state, so even if she weren't as bright as we think she is, she still should have been able to figure out at a glance that that wasn't her paper.

After last week's semi-tolerable episode, this one sunk back to the usual lows this show is comfortable with in its, well, last eight or nine seasons.
 
OK, am I the only one who thinks the skateboarding scene wasn't meant to be funny? Skateboarding is what Bart does. In older episodes, when Bart skateboarded, did you sit there laughing your butt off at his amazing skateboard tricks?

It's like saying a scene with Homer sitting down and drinking a beer is not funny. They are not meant to be laugh out loud funny. Just little things that the characters do.
 
Dude, I seriously think you should just give up on the show. I know you're on a quest to see every episode since the Tracy Ullman shorts and everything, but what's the point, it's not like someone is going to give you an award or a certificate just because you have once the show is all said and done. I mean, in the end, none of it really matters, especially since all you ever do these days is complain about how easily it is to hate the show because the writers make it easy.

Seriously, just give it up; the show's over, stick a fork in it, it's done. Many other longtime Simpsons fans have done it, including me, who has only seen maybe five of the episodes this season. And I just feel it may end up more beneficial to you to stop torturing yourself week after week just so you can come on the internet and complain, and just move on and find another show to latch on to.
 
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