Spider Pig

My daughter has been a Simpson’s fan since she was 3.  I recall at the time thinking, “she shouldn’t be watching this stuff”, but if you see the crap kids watch nowadays, the Simpson’s might as well be the new Sesame Street.

Over the years we have accumulated the entire Simpson’s DVD collections and while there are untold numbers of excellent episodes, it was only just recently that I realized the genius that is Season 5.  From top to bottom I don’t think any other show has ever had as good a season as that 1993-94 season.  For what it’s worth, season 4 did have Mr. Plow, which I consider to be the greatest episode of all time, but Season 5 was 22 episodes of comedy gold.

Here is just a smidgen of the funny: Methuselah’s rookie card.  Cape Fear.  Chocked full of heady goodness.  The all syrup Squishy and Ernest Borgnine.  Think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts.  Mr. Burns, germs, and the Sproose Moose.  The Inanimate Carbon Rod.  The nacho hat.  Precious antique cans.

Epic win.  The likely reason for this uber season was that most of the writers for the previous four seasons had left the show and Season 5 was a whole new team of writers.  Whether these guys were just that much better than the previous guys, I dunno.  Maybe they were just in the right place, at the right time, doing the right drugs.