The Simpsons - Best Movie Parodies (Seasons 1-5)

[@colbyjackprod]

Thank you for reuploading this. I dont know how you got it, but thank you! I liked to refer to this a lot, then one day last year my channel disappeared after 60k subs. This was by far my favorite video though. -Metal Scar

[@BoredVHSlover]

You were my favorite channel for simpsons stuff! I'm still upset you got removed. I'll probably reupload more of your stuff later. I downloaded some of my favorite videos for a long road trip.

[@justsayin._.]

Metal scar?

[@DodderingOldMan]

The Simpsons was my first exposure to like 90% of these films.

[@shawn576]

Especially that car sinking in the river from It's A Mad Mad Mad World. Nobody around me knew wtf that was from, but youtube comments knew.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

I can't count how many times that a scene in a movie I'm watching catches me off-guard because I suddenly recognised it from an old _Simpsons_ episode. I'm like _"Oh, NOW I get it.. ~20 years later."_ 😂

[@malizee2264]

@@JohnGardnerAlhadisyes! Exactly! 😂

[@roniz2345]

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[@C2HGaming]

It's funny. The Simspsons caused me to watch these classics. I see how modern simpsons does movie references and... I'm not watching that crap.

[@XtotheK]

Amazing that all these years later there are still lesser known or even obscure film references being picked up in classic Simpsons. The writers and directors on the show truly were film lovers.

[@rabbidguarddog]

They referenced iconic photography too!

[@lloydrodriguez9969]

The movies shown were either classics or popular in its time. If they're obscure now, it's only because time hasn't been so kind to some. But they weren't obscure when the Simpsons parodied them.

[@lifeisgood420365]

Can you explain this to me/give me any examples? Sounds cool! ​@@rabbidguarddog

[@rabbidguarddog]

@lifeisgood420365 in the episode where Lisa became Ms. Springfield she's standing on a box and taking an othe I wish I could tell you what photo but I can't recall. That's one example. I just found this out, in season 13, there's a gag where Lenny had a photoshoot from Richard Avedon.

[@lifeisgood420365]

@@rabbidguarddog ah that's awesome, I'm gonna have to keep an eye out for some of these 😎👌 and thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it! ❤️

[@BrianRatkus]

Best part of the Patton parody is when Abe Simpson explains to Bart how it's okay to lead them to their deaths but it's not okay to slap them.

[@thegreatrenaldo7718]

Now apologize for that comment

[@lucky-one4569]

XD

[@hookedonphoenix3112]

They were referencing 30, 40, even 50 year old movies in a time when the Internet barely existed, and they did it with nuance. The cleverness that went into this show is unbelievable.

[@souljastation5463]

That's because those movies were in the cultural zeitgeist. People back then considered (many of) those movies timeless masterpieces and not "old stuff" that today would be "weird, weird".

[@jondoe-qi3vo]

Who would have knew we did things like watch movies and TV before the internet

[@jurealpeza2112]

@@souljastation5463 I agree about your zeitgeist point. I think about that lately. Although I stopped watching Simpsons, my kid loves them, so I watched episodes from the last 10 years. And the thing I noticed is the lack of movie parodies that I have seen a loot in the earlier seasons. Not just of the movies I have watched, but of the movies I have not watched, but I knew what movie the Simpson were refering to. They were culturally important and they were refered so much that you did not have to see them to know what movie was parodied. I do not think that it is the Simpsons that have changed that much, but our cultural landscape. On the one hand there are a handfull movies today that are so cultural important. On the other hand internet culture has changed the way we consume media, that if you put a movie reference not many people will get it. But put a reference to a viral video (like hawk tuah) and everyoun will get it.

[@trefwoordpunk2225]

@@jondoe-qi3voI really fucking despair for idiots these days….it’s depressing. No wonder the simpsons is shit now these are the people that write it now aswell….

[@travisdonaldstanley6420]

@@jondoe-qi3vo Thanks for the satire. Many of the writers had watched these movies on VHS years before the show came on, and also on Sunday nights. The 10 Commandments and The Sound of Music were my go to yearly views. Not only that but there was HBO, Showtime, and others on cable and satellite. Interestingly, TCM came out in 1994. Turner Classic Movies (TCM) debuted on April 14, 1994 at 6 PM Eastern Time. Ted Turner launched the channel in New York City's Times Square district to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the first commercial movie exhibition in the United States. The first film to air on TCM was The Petrified Forest (1936) at 4:30 AM. The launch event also included Robert Osborne and an oversized switch that Turner and Osborne pulled to bring the channel live.

[@geodaet83]

I alwayes liked how you could enjoy classic Simpsons episodes without understanding any of the movie parodies that they were doing unlike later episodes and so many other shows that were pretty much relying on the viewer knowing the reference. The references were just a little bonus but the main plot/message was and is just timeless.

[@Manbemanbe]

Such a good point.

[@CodeNameX001]

There are SO many Citizen Kane references, especially in early Simpsons. In the episode with "Oh, Streetcar", Homer boredly playing with a tattered Playbill. Mr. Burns running for Governor is FILLED with them, but I want to single out the nearly direct quote, "Is your boss Governor, yet?" Burns trying to track down his Teddy Bear, Bobo, is filled with parallels to Rosebud. And one of the weirdest, on the episode where the Plant goes on strike, there's a transition with a vulture that looks like Mr. Burns. A reference to the infamous "Cockatoo transition", which was basically one of the earliest jumpscares in film.

[@PedroHenrique-gr4zr]

"here is the cane from citizen kane" always gets me

[@travisdonaldstanley6420]

Interesting. Psycho and Clock work Orange seemed to have a lot too. Godfather legacy too, and if course 2001 Space Odyssey. I always loved the T2. "Hmmm, I guess he didn't see me." Such a funny punch line to the whole bit.

[@Redem10]

"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" has the whole exchange between Lisa doesn't want to ghostwrite for Homer anymore is pretty much lifted from Citizen Kane, took me forever to notice it.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

I'm pretty sure Citizen Kane is the reason Mr. Burns' full name is Charles Montgomery Burns, a reference to Charles Foster Kane.

[@thomashoppe893]

Yeah, the Musicals..... They should have developed those further, they where so great.

[@MollyInanna]

I have to also say, in the "Officer and a Gentleman" reference, kudos to the Simpsons composer for an absolute masterful soundalike for "Up Where We Belong" ...

[@Wolfencreek]

"Brace yourselves Gentlemen, according to the gas chronometer, the secret ingredient is.....Love?! WHO'S BEEN SCREWING WITH THIS?"

[@RobDagger]

Omg i just noticed that screwing has a double meaning here 😂😂😂

[@Chrisbajs]

*chromatograph

[@shawn576]

@@RobDagger LOL i never even thought of that. ewwww

[@aaronclements2230]

The Cape Fear episode is easily the best parody episode outside of The Shining :D

[@00amandahugnkiss00]

missed a few...The Fugitive, planet of the apes, The Birds (when Maggie was in daycare), more Ben Hur "you truly are the king of kings", and Rear Window (when Bart Broke his leg)

[@pallokko]

And A Streetcar Named Desire "SMITHEEERRRRRSSS!"

[@Arz2003]

​@@pallokko These are most new to me also never knew there was so many references

[@balok63a40]

The "Action Man Comics" episode also had a reference to "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" ("Nobody puts one over on Bart J. Simpson").

[@CommonContentArchive]

"White Heat" as well (when Bart says "top of the world, ma")

[@higginswalsan]

That The Birds reference is one of my favorite ones

[@Kaiyanwang82]

I love these brillian re-contextualized references. Compare these with Family Guy that hammers you with 1:1 remakes of a scene for the sake of it.

[@MollyInanna]

You know, your comment reminds me of the time that I was in a bed and woke up with a horse head next to me because I turned down a request from a Mafia don ... [wavy lines]

[@laver94]

A lot of the simpsons ones are shoehorned in for the sake of it too

[@Kaiyanwang82]

@@laver94 Family sit com, but not yellow

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

​@@laver94 Yeah, mostly in post-Golden Age seasons.

[@marcuswalters8093]

Or just directly lifts the footage and plays it for 3 mins straight.

[@MollyInanna]

"Top of the world, ma" in the GODFATHER bit is a reference-within-a-reference: Cagney in "White Heat" (1949)

[@klever...1]

5:35 Mr Bergstrom is voiced by Dustin Hoffman

[@shawn576]

lol I never realized that. I love when jokes go that deep. I think it was the movie Airplane where a woman says "he doesn't ask for a second cup of coffee at home" and the woman saying it was the same actress from the commercial saying that exact line.

[@peternesbitt]

Al Jean mentioned that on the DVD commentary. Micheal Jackson also voiced his episode but neither of them wanted their names used on the final credits. I guess it wasn't cool at the time.

[@milkmonster2310]

When The Simpsons uses cultural references and parodies wisely and when Family Guy consists entirely of them.

[@DoctorJammer]

Someone always comments this thinking they are having an original thought. The Simpsons haven't been remotely funny or even watchable for over 15 years while Family Guy has had plenty of hilarious bits in that time. FG is sketch comedy, which is fine. And while never as good as Simpsons at its peak, have still provided plenty of laughs.

[@milkmonster2310]

@@DoctorJammer Family Guy is sloppy and vulgar with their jokes that they intentionally stretch them out to make the 20 minute runtime. I would take 2000-2008 Simpsons over anything Family Guy.

[@Former_Employee]

If you don't like it why are you talking about it ? Comparison is the thief of joy and the Simpsons is good on its own without you needing to build it up by putting something else (fg) down. Fyi

[@DoctorJammer]

@@Former_Employee I like that, "comparison is the thief of joy," I'm going to use that.

[@magnumcornetto]

@@DoctorJammer 15 years is generous. The Simpsons died with the 90s, and what's been around since is the zombie incarnation of it. That being said, the first 9, maybe 10, seasons of The Simpsons is probably the best thing in the history of television. Comparing FG to it is unfair.

[@femed1283]

11:27 i never thought of that scene that way, that why it has cherries, hahahaha

[@craigrussell3062]

0:08 I don't get how this is a reference to Alex's conditioning scene in Clockwork Orange. The setup is completely different. An actual Simpsons reference to that in scene Clockwork Orange is at 8:15, from Dog of Death when Santa's Little Helper is going through Mr Burns' training program.

[@iaincrawford6083]

Good call, I'm not seeing the reference either.

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

Seasons 1-5, when The Simpsons was the greatest tv show in history.

[@Ed_Scott]

Facts!!!!

[@Kelvin_Ess]

Unequivocally!

[@DaveKovalComedy]

6-9 is full of classics as well

[@chrisrj9871]

1-8 definitely, maybe some of 9

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

@@chrisrj9871 Disagree. Around that "Who shot mr Burns" period, Homer started to become a different character, among many other things.

[@wastelander138]

It's nice to be reminded of how good the show used to be. The attention to detail in some of the scenes is fantastic.

[@dollors1]

12:27 I never realized that Barney throwing the drinking fountain out the window was something from the actual movie and not just a gag.

[@chloeedmund4350]

I love that "Officer and a Gentleman" scene. So heartwarming.

[@therunawaykid6523]

Homer: “we’re going to the back seat of my car and I won’t be back…..for 10 minutes!”

[@SomeoneCommenting]

Kids had no idea where that came from 11:27 but adults must have been rolling on the floor laughing

[@christopherchadwick2659]

So many great memories. I started watching The Simpsons when I got posted out to Hong Kong in 1993, so every one of these episodes takes me back to my time over there watching it with the lads.

[@makuIa]

17:07 one of my favourite ever simpsons moments in history. the blatant ignorance of social awareness homer has & the awesome music to go with it. awesome

[@Bea_Esser]

Fun fact, there is a metal song based on this scene by the band Okilly Dokilly.

[@therunawaykid6523]

There is even a reference to t2 in the ratchet and clank game on ps4 when you hit one of the enemies into the lava when they sink down they put their their thumb up just like Annie does

[@shawn576]

The Citizen Kane smashing things scene is hilariously bad in both. I love it.

[@zoicon5]

"Take me home, Smithers. We'll destroy something tasteful."

[@therunawaykid6523]

Reminded me of the part in the room with Johnny smashing the stuff but also missing it at times 🤣🤣

[@Resimaster]

My film studies lecturer would talk about classic movies and, if someone didn't know which one he meant, he'd say "remember that Simpsons episode where...." The one i remember most was Rear Window, which wasn't in this list, now i think about it.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

Your teacher really has it together.

[@therunawaykid6523]

It’s funny that the Shia lebouf film disturbia pretty much copies rear window where he suspects his neighbour of being a murderer

[@kamenanew9867]

Holy crap i had that flanders family car. Geo metro, three cylinder, could push seventy downhill. Wow i never realized i had that car.

[@balok63a40]

My mother had a Geo Metro too, as a replacement for a Chevy Chevette if you can believe it. I remember my father once commenting on her preference for underpowered cars.

[@supersizesenpai]

You can tell that Matt or someone in the writer's room was a huge Hitchcock fan. No other directors work was shown more, closest is Kubrick.

[@Rbills02]

Probably Al Jean. Most of the 20+ year old movie references can be attributed to him. That’s why he was perfect to helm The Critic, cause it was nothing but movie references.

[@supersizesenpai]

@@Rbills02 Agreed. my god i miss that series. it was ahead of its time.

[@balok63a40]

@@supersizesenpai I just binge-watched "The Critic." While Duke Phillips is a parody of Ted Turner, the episode in which he runs for president is frighteningly prescient of Trump's campaign.

[@supersizesenpai]

​@@balok63a40 That series was ahead of its time. I own the DVD boxset and know the speech Duke gives (after Jay quits being his speech writer) by heart. I also still say "Gaaaaaze into my evil eye" whenever I'm jokingly trying to persuade someone. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I still the think funniest moment in the entire series is when Jay's parents go missing and Jay gets control of all their parents businesses and Jay finds out just how ghoulish the companies his parents own really are. He tries to shutdown the cigarettes company because it clearly promotes to children. ---- Jay: That's it, I'm shutting this place down. Manager: But Mr. Sherman, think of the children. Without cigarettes, what will children do after they have sex?" Jay: You're a bad man.... Manager: Hey, if its a crime to encourage children to smoke and have sex then lock me up! *Cuts to manager in the back of a paddy Wagon* Manager: I need a hug.. ---- Bro when I tell you I laughed till I nearly passed out you better believe it.

[@balok63a40]

@@supersizesenpai I probably should be embarrassed to admit this, but I think that the single line that got the biggest laugh out of me (and still does) is "Penguins can't fly!"

[@CountrySteaks]

Watching each and every one of these classic era episodes as a youngster, I was ignorant of almost every single one of these movie references, though I was still blissfully entertained all the same.

[@AndyHoward]

8:35 the song SSB sings/parodies is "Something Stupid" by Frank and Nancy Sinatra 9:15 Mandella Effect: Tom Cruise does not wear sunglasses during that particular scene. 18:33 "The Sound Of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkle

[@jefverstraete8574]

the sound of silence was used in that scene they were parodying, in case you didnt know.

[@jorgewilliam7103]

@@jefverstraete8574 Yeah, but it didn't say "Hello Grandpa, my old friend", lol

[@taylorsriorancho]

Very possibly the major contributing factor to the particular Mandela effect was this episode.

[@therunawaykid6523]

“Then I go and spoil it all by doing something stupid like exploding you”

[@hershelkrustowsky7684]

So great how some references are almost 1 to 1 to the original. My 2 favourites are Indiana Jones and Terminator Judgement Day.

[@chrislong3938]

Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Geat Escape were always my favorites!

[@Jen7867]

Wow, this is a phenomenal comiplation. Nice work!!!

[@MattAndImprov]

When Bart said "Top of the World, Ma" in Tell-Tale Head (clipped here for the Godfather reference), that's also a movie reference: Cagney in White Heat

[@caffeinebob4458]

The shock therapy / Clockwork Orange link is extremely dubious…

[@therunawaykid6523]

Yeah I think they got confused

[@CommonContentArchive]

Yeah, a bunch of them are wrong. Just in the first minute or two, there's a few goofs. A million different war/military movies show recruits marching and doing call-and-response - that's not a reference to Full Metal Jacket. Just another example

[@Z.B.Productions]

You missed another "It's a Wonderful Life" parody in the episode "When Flanders Failed in Series 3. It's at the end when Homer says "To Ned Flanders, the richest left - handed man in town".

[@elraunchhands]

I know we're supposed to pretend it doesn't exist, but "Stark Raving Dad" had a reference to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" with that patient that plays the chief.

[@WeldinMike27]

I love that episode. "Whoa.... Michael Jackson...."

[@willemverheij3412]

It had many more references to that episode, with background characters and minor characters looking similar to support characters of that movie. I think there even was a Nurse Ratchet looking woman around there too though not in a speaking role.

[@Sushizombies]

6:13 seeing Bond with Homer Simpson’s voice is too perfect 😂

[@daniapfel2825]

Fuck ! And it’s Dan Castellaneta

[@Contemplativeman101]

Thank you for the compilation. I still need to check out some of these films

[@Xanderall]

Can't believe you didn't include the Music Man homage from the "Marge vs. the Monorail" episode!!

[@JRS06]

Doesn't that Michael Jackson episode also reference One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest? I know Disney banned that one but it still counts.

[@mRahman92]

I remember in the old days of this kind of cross reference video, they would always play the clips sequentially. I guess only later on did we finally get simultaneous clips. We've come a long way since windows movie maker.

[@timewarpdrive77]

Some of these (particularly the patton one) were parodies of real life or tropes, rather than these specific movies.

[@Belgand]

Also the Charles Whitman sequence. It _might_ have been influenced in how it was presented by a TV movie based on it, but was mainly referencing the actual shooting and people's general knowledge of it. The shots don't appear to be quite close enough for me to see it as a clear visual inspiration.

[@timewarpdrive77]

@@Belgand Im not quite sure what that is and I didn't get very far into the video, so I'll just take your word for it.

[@CommonContentArchive]

The kids on the jungle gym was definitely Full Metal Jacket, and the slap was Patton, but yeah, the kids marching and doing call-and-response is 99% of military movies, not just FMJ

[@timewarpdrive77]

@@CommonContentArchive The patton slap happened in real life

[@CommonContentArchive]

@@timewarpdrive77 I know

[@monadamus42]

Wow, I knew the Simpsons parodied a lot but not this much. This is so great. Thank you for making it, Bored!

[@all_time_Jelly_Fish]

they sure did love the graduate, the godfather and 2001 a space odyssey

[@Melissa0774]

What about the scene after Homer and Marge got married at that casino, Shotgun Pete's? I'm talking about the part where they're outside the Carvel store and Homer is getting the fudgy the whale cake that says "to a whale of a wife." And then the Levis truck goes by and he says "Do you think that truck is full of jeans?" I know I've seen that exact scene in a movie before. I think it might be a Sandra Bollack movie, but I'm not sure. I think it might even be from Officer and a Gentleman. But I know I've seen that exact scene in a live action movie on TV before. But I never see any references to it anywhere, not even on the Simpsons wiki or anything.

[@malizee2264]

Thank you thank you!!!! This is years of finally getting to see what every movie actually was!!!!!! Ahhhhhh sooooo satisfying!!!!!❤

[@agalgonzalez]

The S5 E16 Terminator 2 gags were some of the most memorable!

[@rubberneckinc.8937]

So many clips from when the Simpsons were hysterically funny must see TV. Sadly they like the Fonz have long since jumped the shark. Great work putting this together.

[@michellegray7892]

0:16 the movie parody is Patton. How you got Cool Hand Luke when it is literally the main "Patton' sound bite playing is beyond me.

[@diamanteduul8084]

2:18 😂 he's only gonna be gone for 10 minutes

[@chazm3]

it’s what they used to call “a quickie”

[@CartoonCritter1985]

Thanks for sharing! I knew most of the movie references, but have now learned even more! 😊

[@ClintEasywood69]

what season was 'bart of darkness', ripping off rear window. He's like "that little boy over there looks suspicious!" When he's watching people too, a classic. Did the show's good writers go the way of the doo doo bird? How can a show be this good when it started, only to morph into family guy 1.1 crapola!

[@carltontaylor6500]

That DOA joke is one of my all time favorites😂

[@juancarlosrestreporestrepo6984]

0:17 There is a more exact reference to that movie; when Skinner re joins the army.

[@slowtospeak365]

At 8 seconds it should've shown Santa's little helper being brainwashed by Burns

[@alemontreemydearwatson9775]

This is brilliant , A few I didn’t know as well... very well done thanks 😀

[@shinkicker404]

Love all the old references in the early Simpsons. I’m sure they do it these days still, but these ones are particularly good and classic and was surprised how many I recognised when I was a kid too.

[@hiyabutahir8052]

The old good Simpsons era

[@TheUnitedView79]

This is amazing! I grew up watching the Simpsons from the age of 8 and the majority of these references were from films I’ve only watched since being an adult… pure genius!

[@therunawaykid6523]

The sampsons? 🤨

[@TheUnitedView79]

@@therunawaykid6523 autocorrect 🤣 I'm not even gonna edit it

[@therunawaykid6523]

@@TheUnitedView79 ok

[@Viceroy_Sundercles_III]

Sampsons made me chuckle, since Sampson lost his hair much like Homer.

[@Psilocybin77]

Man alive!!! There are men alive…in here

[@willemverheij3412]

The Indiana Jones reference is just so much fun and really plays into the imagination of children too. Best of all is, you don't even need to know the references to get the joke and it didn't feel like 'a failed attempt at a joke was made' as you'd get in later seasons.

[@vince-cg7kq6lo5z]

I'm not sure why you cut off the Streetcar Named Desire reference at the end. Otherwise good video, I didn't know some of these.

[@dayoldjam]

It's a shame being reminded the Simpsons was good, great upload.

[@SRETRODUDE]

S4E2 also has a reference to the ending of The Birds.

[@markdohrmann5983]

Kind of surprised you cut off the last scene as it flows from Cat On A Hot Tin Roof to Streetcar Named Desire.

[@l-wolverine2211]

So many 3rd walls broken, mostly from Cape Feare

[@RealBadGaming52]

Never herd of the 3rd wall

[@higginswalsan]

So many of these I got but didn’t realize how intricate they were until this video. The Godfather one with Jebediah Springfield’s head including the establishing shot and a rendition of the Simpsons theme kinda like The Godfather theme

[@Ezekial2517]

11:19 I see someone doesn’t want to get sued

[@Karmy.]

I've never seen Thelma and Louise before but Marge on the Lam is still one of my favorite episodes

[@danielcantu859]

Loved Lionel

[@agalah408]

Sticking together is what good waffles do...

[@daniellongsworth4484]

It's so sad, that the brilliance of the earlier seasons of the Simpsons has been lost to us.

[@Guiscardr]

How they ever got the Clockwork Orange reference with the cakes through the censors always impresses me!

[@justpaddingtonbear]

Fantastic video! Thank you so much for creating it.

[@WAEVOICE]

Could've sworn there was a reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street around this period.

[@walterpetersen776]

Tree House of Horror Where Willie got tired of being killed so does the killing.

[@Belgand]

Flanders was using his hand razor glove in the topiary scene that here is only tagged as Edward Scissorhands.

[@Redem10]

Just how much of citizen Kane can you recreate using exclusively Simpsons footage?

[@Boxmediaphile]

there need to be a Kubrick compilation

[@claymccoy]

They reference A Clockwork Orange numerous times.

[@mustang6172]

You ended on the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof reference but ignored the Streetcar Named Desire reference it led into.

[@JosephJamesScott]

I was surprised at how many of those I knew, even some references from movies I hadn't actually seen.

[@RossMcCarthy1990]

I always like the one of the birds,when homer picks up maggie from day care.

[@aivokallo77]

In Mr.Plow dvd-commentary, one producer laughs that they parodied a movie that nobody watched at the time. I saw Sorcerer the first time couple of years ago. It is a fantastic thriller!

[@indignadodelotrolado5024]

0:16 its not Patton soundtrack?

[@dcarbs2979]

I knew they made a lot of references. Never realised they were quite this literal.

[@CursoryMercenary]

So So Good. I can't even pick the best one.

[@supersizesenpai]

10:09 this one is particularly funny now cuz The Simpsons are owned by Disney now.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

Unlike most of their IPs, _The Simpsons_ went to shit *before* it fell into Disney's franchise-ruining mitts.

[@supersizesenpai]

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis You aren't wrong. I still watch every episode and 80% of the episodes are almost unbearable. But told myself I will keep watching till the day the series is complete and by Odin's beard I will stick it out.

[@therunawaykid6523]

Yeah I still find it funny that there is that scene in the Simpsons movie where Bart after coming out a clothes drawer has a bra on his head looking like ears and says “I’m the mascot of an evil corporation “ and now Disney owns it

[@classiclife7204]

Well kids, now you know the cool movies you need to see. (Except for "Prince of Tides", wtf Simpsons writers, lol)

[@gregoryjclark81]

"Oh, come on, Waylon, make love to me the way you used to." "No." "It's that horrible Mr. Burns, isn't it?" "YOU LEAVE MR. BURNS OUT OF THIS!!!" "Smithers?!?"

[@alyh3721]

I would have loved this in college, I had to take a film class for English and recognized all the old films 😊 Just needs some Deniro, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Sergio Leone, Arthur Minelli, etc. and it'd cover most of the syllabus

[@antony716]

There's never been a cuter murder than seeing Maggie running away with the mallet

[@sammyurno1]

That’s why the Simpson were so successful back then. So many parody. It’s funny. 😂

[@joannejohnson7006]

These really are pretty fabulous 😂👏🏽🌱🎃

[@J0hnD0e]

I wasn't aware there were so many movie references in the Simpsons!

[@Leonards-leopard]

Up until series 8 or even 9 the Simpsons was god tier. Nothing could touch it

[@Daniel-nn8mr]

The Simpsons is the best at referencing other media.

[@gettyfanatic8860]

8:29 Frank and Nancy Sinatra - Saying Something Stupid

[@kingklasherz4834]

i know most of these movies and ive watched all the simpsons episodes. a lot of these i just didnt connect in my head lol

[@darradonna]

Amazing how much of this show was out of a film

[@sdgdhpmbp]

The references made really show that you need encyclopedic level of film knowledge. Beyond that, the examples here are specifically about iconic cinematography than references while also twisting them to be their own thing. I refuse to believe that Simpsons today somehow forgot how to do this, or that no other show before or after it mastered the craft, but consider this. Simpsons did it in such a way that anything else following format feels like a cheap imitation. Maybe we should be thankful for how Family Guy instead relies heavily on cutaway gags for references. What Simpsons has here is beautiful, no other word for it, and demonstrated to me what cinema is about more than any other movie, sitcom, game, reference or what have you ever hoped to tell me. Pop cultural references are not a sin. You don't have to make them alienating when you don't know the source (see Family Guy). Simpsons use it to convey their story/jokes. I wonder if that's the only way you can pump in so many at once, cause the other ways I know feel too distracting (plus, you know, Simpsons does those too)

[@specialkalberta]

Brilliant although I wish they could've snuck in the later episode which parodies the final scene of the Godfather.

[@nathalieduverna6963]

When the Simpsons were good 👍🏾😊

[@smaller_cathedrals]

Fast forward to one of the more recent episodes in which they made fun of and ridiculed the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. All these references here a clever, tasteful, an homage to classics while simultaneously having a storytelling purpose within the context. Mocking one of the most shocking and traumatizing sequences in movie history for cheap laughs is, sadly, what the Simpsons have sunk to.

[@shivadarling18]

11:27 That has got to be a top contender of best parody. XD