Worst The Simpsons Episodes
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Lisa Goes Gaga
I... honestly don't know what else I was expecting. With this episode, it's clear to me that even with the newer episodes supposedly being better, the show is completely unwilling to change itself in any way whatsoever. It's yet another ratings trap that tries to pose itself as something that will change the show, but as you'd expect at this point, we're back to square one by the end. Lisa is pretty out of character when it comes to her treatment of Lady Gaga, and the episode gives away the twist a few minutes in, so it isn't a surprise at all. When it comes to the show's ratings traps, I don't know if "pathetic" is the right word to describe this, but one thing's for sure: Lady Gaga is dead to me.
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The Boys of Bummer
Even if this episode was trying to be satirical, because in real life people can be this stupid believe it or not, it still doesn't feel right. I get it, satires are meant to be over the top, sarcastic and show people what's wrong with them.
But I mostly feel like this episode simply had no purpose. Even for a satire, its too unbelievable, even for the Simpsons world.
Even if the point of it was to make fun of people who behave in the way Springfield behaved here, it doesn't deliver it right. In the end people feel bad about their douchebaggery, but it looks like they mostly felt bad about Bart failing, and the ending then made it look like if it was a satire but for making fun of the whole "trophy for trying" idea. If that was the intention, then this episode backfired completely.
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Brother's Little Helper
Gosh all the people think this episode sucks because one person said it is the worst episode. Its actually one of the better Season 11 episodes if you watch the whole season.
This was a great episode, why is this so high?
EDIT: Accidentally voted for this so I could comment on it (forgetting that I already did)
Season 11 was good but this ruined it for me.
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All Singing, All Dancing
Here's when things get bad for this episode: so the Simpsons get the movie Paint Your Wagon. I am really on homer and bart's side but when the cowboys paint the wagon the characters were singing. Then the drunk and violent guy comes he said "you missed a spot" then the cow boys say well come on in then the singing resumes and when lisa started singing it turns out everybody in Springfield started singing then it continued for the rest of the episode. It's stupid it's crappy and again shame on you matt groening
As much as other episodes on this list are unentertaining this has got to be the episode during the simpsons golden era which gave a glimpse of the decline in later seasons to come.
From start to end there may have been only a few minutes of guns episode which were entertaining such as the clip of lyle lanley. But besides these few clips and scenes from the plot to the characters e.g. Snakes storyline and end scene was not interesting, to the written work the episode was the worst written.
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Love Is a Many Strangled Thing
They made an episode where Homer suffers through PTSD and attempts suicide, and it's played for laughs? And the writers have Bart take advantage of Homer's condition and make him apathetic when Homer (his own father) attempts suicide?
What. Were. The. Writers. THINKING?
This is worse than Plankton attempting suicide and Mr. Krabs laughing about Plankton's suicide attempt in "One Coarse Meal"! As bad as Mr. Krabs's actions are, at least Plankton and Mr. Krabs are established enemies! Homer and Bart are father and son!
News Flash: A character going through realistic trauma and attempting suicide with others treating them in mean-spirited ways is not funny! It's depressing and just plain mean. It would be like watching a documentary about kids bullying a kid, and the victim committing suicide as a result.
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Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase
Total turd. Troy McClure couldn't have done worse. The gaga episode was cringe worthy but the clip rehash show was unforgivable.
See this in the T.V. guide and avoid the channel at all costs; I saw it once and I will never see it again unless I am forced to do so.
This is worse than later episodes.
The silly cheerleader Lisa.
It should've been an episode of just Chief Wiggum, P.I.
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Elementary School Musical
. I love this episode! How could you call it bad? Its hard to sing while playing... guitars.
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The Devil Wears Nada
This episode just destroyed any shred of sympathy I may have had left for Carl.
This episode is actually pretty decent minus the stuff with Ned and Marge.
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Large Marge
Marge isn't even that attractive looking, why even make this episode for the sole purpose of you know what.
Large Marge was an OK episode, if you ignore the sexist jokes, its kind of funny. Quite underrated too
This episode was evidently written with one arm.
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Papa Don't Leech
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Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie
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Whiskey Business
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Homer vs. Dignity
Geez, I hated this episode. Why does fox consider this a Christmas episode? It has nothing to do with Christmas at all! I watched this episode when I was 9, and I never watched another episode of the simpsons for an entire month! I thought Mr. Burns was an okay character... UNTIL THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE! Homer abuses his friends, humiliates himself, all just for fat stacks of cash! And to top it all off he dumps rotten fish on the town, and that's it! Homer learns no leason! We just have to watch the town get attacked by seagulls! Now this should be the reason he got counsoling in Love Is A Many Strangled Thing.
"The Simpsons Showcase" may have been the 1st misstep... the "Principal and the Pauper" may have been jumping the shark... but this was the ground zero of Simpsons episodes. Apart from recycling old plots (family in financial trouble, Homer helping Mr. Burns, Homer is Santa, E.T. C), there's also the infamous panda rape scene. I thought Simpsons was a little more high-brow than that.
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Regarding Margie
This one is way too low. This episode tortures Homer for no reason, has Marge at her worst, Is completely mean spirited, Has an overused plot, and the worst part is the ending, Marge doesn't remember Homer because of all of his love but him saying beer. Screw this episode so much. It is way worse than the Boys of Bummer because Springfield was seen as the antagonist, Marge is supposed to be the hero of the story... This episode needs to die.
This episode just uses amnesia cliches as an excuse to almost wreck Homer and Marge's marriage.
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The Principal and the Pauper
Dare I say it, this episode isn't bad. Yes, the idea of Skinner being an imposter did mark the show's shark jump, but episodes like Curse of the Flying Hellfish (where Skinner's father sounds and looks just like Tamzarian) and Boy Meets Curl (where the fetus inside Agnes Skinner resembles a fetus version of Tamzarian) prove that this episode is non-canon. And it had lots of funny moments, like watching Agnes treat "Skinner" like a small child, Ralph Wiggum and Lisa's Presentation, the "America Balls" and "Up yours, children"
It just messed up the whole thing with Principal Skinner. The fact that you knew his story but then apparently it was all a lie is ridiculous. It's much funnier that Agnes is his real mother than that she's some other guy's mother. A waste of Martin Sheen.
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Love is a Many-Splintered Thing
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Saturdays of Thunder
It wasn't the best episode, sure, but it was still pretty good.
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That '90s Show
I don't call it a terrible episode. Yes originally Marge and Homer got together in the 1970s and Bart and Lisa were born in the 1980s and Maggie I think she was born in 1990. BUT I know its only a cartoons BUT the kids and the parents never age. Homer and Marge are still in their 30s, Bart is still 10, Lisa is still 8, Maggie is still 1 and sometimes they have birthday episodes like they are a year younger. I don't really care if they made an episode based on the 2000s. I know it's a cartoon but its been running for many years, no one ages.
This episode just makes me sick. I don't care about "floating timelines" or whatever excuses people have for this episode. It was just terrible. Marge and Homer are youths from the 70s/early 80s and should always be like that.
Also the Simpsons did a much better job at commenting on 90s pop culture and current events, while the 90s were actually happening. So this episode is extremely unnecessary.
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Girls Just Want to Have Sums
This was the nadir of the 'bullies always come off best' episodes. All through it I was longing for the Nazis to suddenly conquer America and get the gas chambers up and running again, but this time filling them with those who deserved it.
Aren't you happy that the school is back to normal? I love this episode after reading the plot. So do not call this episode the worst or I'll turn you into Mitochondrial Eve.
Oh, come on now. It may have been sexist, but its still a decent episode. Plus, Season 17 was a great season
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Kill the Alligator and Run
This abomination takes two views to realise its terribleness, the plot is over the place, the voice acting is weak ass water and the overall view on the depressed was a stereotype and made me rather annoyed, it's stupid and definitely worth a skip.
Kill Gil might be a little less unredeemable, but this episode really made me angry. The whole plot is stupid and all over the place.
This episode was not really that bad. It had the montage with the "I like it" lady, and that was really awesome.
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Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
Another crap episode from a frustrating season. I've seen people trying to justify this saying that it doesn't matter because Maude was not a fun or interesting character. Maybe she was not the best, but that doesn't change the fact that the Flanders family had a better and a funnier dynamic when she was alive. What made Homer hating Flanders funny was the fact that Ned was a constant source of Homer's unhappiness. With Maude's death, Ned stopped being an object of envy and became an object of pity, someone Homer has to help instead of hate, that is boring.
Now Homer hates Ned only because is Homer and that's the thing he is supposed to do... the dynamic between those characters is no longer funny.
Also killing Maude because the actress quit was a demostration from the show that they now care more about business instead of good storytelling and creativity.
So that's why I believe this episode deserves a place in the top ten.
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Kill Gil, Volumes I & II
I personally disliked this episode, though the part with Homer and the Grinch-like character was funny. The episode centers around Gil, the lovable loser who gets fired after he gives away a gift intended for his boss's daughter. The Simpsons, feeling bad for him, invite him to stay with them, but Gil quickly overstays his welcome and begins annoying everyone, and Marge is too much of a pushover to kick him out.
Months pass, and Marge is still unable to kick him out. She finally reaches her boiling point and decides to go through with it, but, in a surprise, Gil has already left and has become surprisingly successful. However, Marge, still needing to voice her anger at him, drives to his workplace and completely tears him apart by voicing her outrage, embarrassing him in front of his coworkers and causing him to get fired again. A complete waste of an episode.
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Simpsons Bible Stories
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge
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Bart-Mangled Banner
God, this episode hasn't aged well. Ever since the post-9/11 era ended painfully due to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, fans look back at the episode nowadays in disgust. Why? For starters, it feels like a pro-American patriotic propaganda episode, with the family getting frowned upon by patriotic Springfielders and the family getting sent to a post-9/11 reeducation camp. The episode came out in 2004, by the way, as there was tons of pro-American patriotism back then, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The episode is also very mean-spirited towards Bart. He just wanted to play a prank! He was deaf, and didn't notice the donkey eating his shorts, nor did he notice the national anthem was playing, or that his butt was facing the flag! I kind of feel the creators of the show kind of regret making this episode, even after certain events that happened this year.
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My Sister, My Sitter
This is by far one of the worst episodes. Lisa, my favorite Simpsons, is tortured by Bart, my least favorite Simpson. Bart isn't original or anything. He just starts acting like a toddler wanting to be in charge. When I made a Top 10 Worst Simpsons episodes list last year, this was #3. It's THAT bad.
Bart Has two frames of mind; a normal, likeable 10 year old, and a bratty, idiotic nimrod. CHoose your pick in this episode!
One of the worst of the classic seasons. Best moment was probably the Hans Moleman cameo.
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Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy
Lisa made her own Barbie parody doll because Malibu Stacey was going stale. They introduced a new hat for the latest edition, not caring that an 8 year old made the doll. Malibu Stacey sucks.
The hate for Lisa is really annoying, oh its because she's a girl like Marge is a woman. If Maggie starts school oh no.
Because all female things suck and women are treated like objects.