Top 10 The Simpsons Episodes They Couldn't Get Away Making with Today

The Top Ten

  1. Homer and Apu

    Basically, any Apu episode can fit in the list, but I chose that one because James Woods (who is more well known for his far-right Twitter nowadays) is a guest star.

  2. Stark Raving Dad

    You can watch this on DVD, but it's no longer on Disney+ due to Michael Jackson's arrest.

    I like this episode, but I highly doubt the Simpsons would make this episode today.

    You mean the episode they pretend they never made at all? Unless you're fortunate enough to own the season 3 DVD set from an earlier print run, if you want to see this episode without resorting to piracy, you're out of luck.

  3. Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire

    How did they get Santa's Little Helper? Via greyhound racing (which is now mostly illegal).

  4. The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson

    Do I even need to explain?

  5. Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo

    So many jokes in the episode would be brushed off as politically incorrect in the final episode of the Simpsons' golden age.

  6. Homer Badman

    Nowadays, the Simpsons wouldn't try a light-hearted approach to sexual harassment.

  7. Goo Goo Gai Pan

    With Disney (owner of FOX) openly supporting China, this would be better off either being stuck in 2006 or being a South Park episode.

  8. Homer's Phobia

    While the message is timeless as ever and the gay character is played by a person who is gay, people might call it stereotypical in 2020.

  9. The Boys of Bummer

    "The Boys of Bummer" is the eighteenth episode of the eighteenth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on April 29, 2007. The episode was written by Michael Price and directed by Rob Oliver.

    This episode has a light-hearted approach to suicide that feels like if One Coarse Meal entered Springfield. Not in 2020, no sir, let alone 2007.

    This episode could have been controversial if it were made nowadays.

  10. Itchy & Scratchy & Marge

    Nowadays, this episode seems hypocritical since the Simpsons did exactly what they were criticizing back in Season 2 with the "Apu" character. Additionally, they banned "Stark Raving Dad" for featuring Michael Jackson following pressure from the Parents Television Council, which was founded four or five years after the episode aired.

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    The Regina Monologues

    Because of JK Rowling's appearance as herself in this episode, and not because "Harry Potter" still had two books to go at that point in time (which was alluded to in dialogue). Ms. Rowling, like Michael Jackson, has sadly become way too much of a pariah (yes, moreso than then-PM Tony Blair who also guest starred as himself) in recent years.

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    Beyond Blunderdome

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  13. There's No Disgrace Like Home

    Imagine an episode where Homer and Marge's personalities were swapped in "There's No Disgrace Like Home." Homer is embarrassed by the family at a work event, forces them to say "grace," and refuses to let them eat on the couch. Homer even ends up pawning their TV so he can afford counseling to try to fix the family. Marge is the layabout who gets drunk in public and makes a scene.

    The characters are like the ones in the Ullman shorts, I suppose. Homer is just a grumpy man who gives away the television for his family's medical care. Lisa was just a girl version of Bart.

    In the episode, Homer says that his mother once told him, "Homer, you're a big disappointment." But this was only early Simpsons.

  14. Much Apu About Something

    Jay's voice actor is now too busy playing a different millennial stereotype named Jay (the husband of the woman who can communicate with the title characters in "Ghosts").

    It's an Apu episode. Need I say more?

  15. Itchy & Scratchy Land

    1. The titular theme park is a not-so-affectionate parody of Disneyland/World, and Disney now owns the show. 2. There was a scene mentioning now-retired co-stars of Itchy and Scratchy, one of whom was named Ku Klux Klam, which given the BLM movement...

    Regarding that comment about Ku Klutz Klam and how that joke would rile up a mob today: also there was Uncle Ant, which given today's attitude towards "transphobia"...

  16. Two Dozen and One Greyhounds

    Not only for being a take on a Disney movie but also for the dogs not being "fixed."

  17. Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious

    Since the show is owned by Disney, such a heavy-handed parody would have been dead on arrival.

  18. A Streetcar Named Marge

    The show itself apologized for this a mere week later, via the very next episode's chalkboard punishment.

    This would be canceled within a matter of seconds today.

  19. Bart's Dog Gets an F

  20. King-Size Homer

    Would basically be called "fatphobic" today for treating obesity like a wacky situation.

  21. Homer the Heretic

  22. Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy

  23. Lisa the Vegetarian

    It's kind of two-sided. On one hand, you have Lisa receiving little comeuppance for her actions. On the other hand, Apu is a major character, and Troy McClure's film makes fun of vegans, among other things.

  24. Marge in Chains

    Obviously, due to the subject matter and predictions.

  25. The Fool Monty

  26. Half-Decent Proposal

  27. Krusty Gets Busted

    This would kind of be compared to cancel culture.

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