note that is climber
it's time we look at some of the darker
moments of The Simpsons though not quite
what it once was The Simpsons is still
one of those rare shows it has managed
most of the time to remain smart
thoughtful and topical for over 26 years
so what surprise is there that after a
quarter of a century there's a few bad
episodes put the chicken was back on
even then there are very few episodes of
The Simpsons I consider bad often the
newer episodes nowadays are just new to
me personally the episodes on this list
or either lazily written boring
insulting or just unpleasant to watch so
today we can look back at the top 10
worst Simpsons episodes of all time as
always there may be episodes on this
list that you like if so it's good that
you're able to get more joy out of it
and I was after all at the end of the
day it's just my silly personal opinion
anyway enjoy the countdown number 10
boys of Ballmer this episode is about
all the people of Springfield obsessing
continually over baseball
while boss is probably my least favorite
character even I don't think he deserved
treatment this cruel he misses catching
a final baseball and the city hates him
for it because you know a stadium will
continually boo out a nine-year-old boy
for missing a catch and not just boo him
out of the stadium but throw beer cans
at it mock his father for ever creating
him hey that's the guy what created him
if Homer had you some protection we'd
all be pooping roses on Easy Street and
even drive him around the crown in a
police car so they can keep attacking
him boo boo indeed oh look BOTS crying
isn't that funny
oh he's gone insane from his continual
torture from the town funny oh now he's
attempting suicide I'll come on we've
come to expect low jokes like that from
Family Guy
but the Simpsons we know is better than
that and even after he attempts suicide
they still taunt and mock him what the
hell has happened a Springfield I
realize that the creator's are trying to
do this ironically but it just comes
across as unusually nasty by Simpsons
standards and it's a joke they dragged
across the entire episode and it wasn't
that funny to begin with the saving
grace of this episode is there's a fun
side plot with Homer accidentally
becoming a mattress salesman which is
pretty damn funny to watch but i've
heard teenagers say they hate this
episode so much that it actually turned
them into angsty teenage emos true or
not I still found this a pretty terrible
episode and more than worthy of the list
number not all-singing all-dancing in
pretty much every series ever aired
there's a golden rule there's very few
episodes worse than clip shows they're
normally a way to conserve the animation
budget by using old footage from
previous episodes their excuse being
that the characters are reminiscing on
old times this tends to annoy the viewer
because if you wanted to see older
episode footage you'd watch the older
episodes The Simpsons family begins
singing corny reminiscent songs about
the TV mixed with previous footage to
kill time I mean do you remember the be
sharp song or spring in Springfield or
apu's quick-e-mart song or maybe the
monorail song of course you do
we've all heard these songs a million
billion times in reruns
Murdo don't maybe this episode would be
good if you wanted to show someone
younger who somehow never watched one of
the hundred million reruns on free TV of
seasons two to ten but even then it's
corny it feels sloppy and it comes off
as annoying I personally tend to skip
this one
number eight Papa don't leash this is
one of those particularly weak late
season episodes
do you remember Lurlene well she's
homeless and sleeping in a gutter oh
come on
thanks Marge and you can't help but feel
sorry for Lurleen throughout the entire
episode there's absolutely nothing wrong
with her as a person she's talented
polite caring and thoughtful of others
hell she's even a Stella cook so why
does the entire town seem to treat her
like garbage and it's kind of sad - what
shall lolene never moved on from Homer
she's really just not been given any
brakes by the world and it's far more
sad than funny to watch they also kind
of awkwardly discussed slow lanes daddy
issues who then proceeds to abandon
Lurleen a second time which wasn't
really funny or interesting is it kind
of a jerk how could a man just abandon
his family by which I mean what is the
method he would use and could anyone do
it even homers acting out a character in
this episode asking things like how
could he also abandon his family he even
dreams of murdering his father because
he thinks he'll be a burden in old age
I'm sorry but we've established by
season 19 that Homer is a better person
than that Lisa wake up they're taking
Angelica to Mount purgatorium by
Simpsons standards this episode is just
not smart
lolene was a character that deserved a
dignified ending so I tend to skip this
one
and for number seven another Simpsons
clip show no I'm not announcing what it
is that is the literal name of the
episode if they don't even try with the
name what chance does this one have
they're very self-aware that their
recycling old content I mean Lisa even
openly states it it's a new episode not
exactly
they pasted together from old shows and
it seems new to the trusting eyes of
impressionable youth but we're still
getting a continual barrage of old
content that 99.9% of us have seen far
too many times perhaps if the first ten
seasons of The Simpsons hadn't been on
constant reruns for the past 20 years
these clip shows wouldn't be so bad but
they're just an absolute snore because
most of us can quote each one line for
line at this point
it's another Simpsons clip show and
another one worth skipping number six
homers night outs but gets a spy camera
and he uses it to take a secret photo of
Homer at an office party who dances next
to another woman oh no and this photo
somehow spreads all over town within
days I'll for goodness sake he's dancing
next to a woman he's not even dancing
with her why is this picture somehow the
talk of Springfield is Springfield
really so boring at this point that a
fat man dancing next to a woman is the
talk of the town and Marge isn't just
upset she is enraged to the point of
throwing things at Homer and yelling him
out of the house at night so burning
down the church you're filling an
alcohol-free city with liquor sabotaging
a NASA rocket that that's all fine yet
dancing next to another woman is
horrible apparently Marge is mad because
by Homer dancing next to this very
friendly talented dancer Homer was
treating her as an object really much
come on Marge please forgive me yeah
Marge better lighten up and become the
kind and understanding wife we know soon
well she's really gonna have a tough 25
years ahead of her this is the worst
thing you've ever done you say that so
much it's lost all meaning
I don't think I'm a misogynist but this
episode was just lame in the end though
it is just the first season though so we
can all laugh and smile at how silly it
is I know it's cheap to take potshots
season one as the characters are still
being established but it's still such a
silly cheap premise for an episode
number five the musk who fell to earth
oh my god I'm sure Elon Musk is a great
guy who gives incredible contributions
to society but this episode reminds me
of another episode
I dislike there isn't really any
standard plot for it it feels like it's
just The Simpsons writers in blind or of
having Elon Musk in the studio I'm happy
for them but in terms of a story it just
doesn't work Elon Musk is a very bland
voice actor I feel like I'm falling
asleep every time I listen to it I don't
care about the money the whole monetary
system is just a series of
interconnected heterogeneous data well I
get it he's smart but none of the jokes
make me laugh I'm all for intelligent
discussions it's widely TSA's my
favorite Simpsons character but Elon
Musk's constant overbearing presence
combined with his flat emotionless
delivery makes it a pretty hard episode
to swallow that being said this is a man
who deserves far more celebrity or than
others I can think of oh just you wait
we'll get to you soon
and the number four eight misbehavin
occasionally a Simpsons episode will
feel to me disquieting and ugly eight
misbehaving is one of those episodes it
just makes me feel very uncomfortable
MoMA tries to make up who and Manjula
pregnant because my doula decides she
wants a child we slowly watch how
unstable their marriages and then
they're suddenly hit by eight newborns
of course up who is absolutely horrified
isn't that funny
I actually haven't seen an episode of a
show that so perfectly captures the
ugliest parts of marriage and spends the
whole episode dragging this point out
the jokes aren't terrible but the
premise is just really unpleasant oh I
just had the most beautiful dream what I
died oh no you don't not till they're
out of college it's a no day when I want
to to tell you the truth when I first
saw this episode at seven years old it
made me decide I never ever wanted to
have children ever I guess I tend to
dislike episodes and make children out
to be mistakes hi the little blessings
ooh
there are ravenous swarm of locusts just
eating and screaming and grabbing and
poking and pulling and drooling
personally I prefer Jim Henson's taken
you give people the greatest gift that
can ever be given children but no the
other game
and for number three my sister my sitter
this one isn't mentioned much but it's
another one I just found painful to
watch it's mainly just about Bart being
cruel to Lisa as she tries to be a
babysitter around the town aside from
that the writing in this one just felt
lazy there's a couple of good jokes with
Homer but why would I want to watch but
make Lisa's life so miserable oh this is
like watching a three-year-old tantrum
how am I supposed to like this kid it's
not funny it's not pleasant it's just
watching Lisa have to suffer through
barks he's not even doing clever antics
they're just what you'd expect from a
three-year-old I told you to go to bed
yeah right bread
you said go to bread oh go to bread
that's about the most unfunny joke I've
ever heard in my life I disliked this
one when I was a kid and I found I
disliked it just as much as an adult
it's just watching Lisa be continually
tortured by Bart how is it Pleasant or
even remotely funny oh poor Lisa you've
probably already seen this one and made
your own opinion but I tend to skip it
and number two love is a many strangled
thing but what's himself in front of the
entire stadium of Springfield so March
forces Homer into counseling because of
this where he is traumatized by being
continually strangled and I mean
honest-to-god post-traumatic stress
disorder
it's an incredibly awkward and
unpleasant episode we then watched the
extent of Bart's cruelty as he
continually tortures his father this is
even more cringe-worthy to watch I just
don't get some comedy post-traumatic
stress disorder is funny humiliation is
funny by the writers trying to make me
want to see Bart strangled I thought I
was supposed to empathize with this kid
then Bartlet's his father be hanged
right in front of him and he doesn't
care anything can't look texting Oh God
this one was unpleasant to the core and
definitely worthy of skipping this is
almost as bad as the Simpsons get almost
and without any doubt the number one
worst Simpsons episode of all time is
Lisa goes gaga I loathe this episode
there's good episodes of The Simpsons
then there's bad episodes in there's
crap episodes then then there's Lisa
goes gaga
this is among the most sugar-coated
contrived garbage I have ever witnessed
it makes me long for the worldly
cynicism of Barney the Dinosaur
here's an idea let's spend the entire
episode watching Lisa be miserable and
placating the ego of an already
egocentric singer in fact it lets make
her out to give worldly advice to Lisa
in her cereal box
two-year-old happiness philosophy I had
some very tough times myself before I
became a superstar at age 22 everything
is gonna be fine
you better yet now let's drop all
character development we have ever given
Lisa over the last 26 years and make the
entire
town of Springfield grovel at Gaga's
feet this can be done well Michael
Jackson's guest appearance was humble
dignified and heartwarming this absolute
garbage is not even comparable to
Michael Jackson's appearance I was so
outraged and infuriated when I saw this
contrived crap that I stopped watching
Simpsons for a year afterwards most of
the guys I know hated this episode but
what's interesting is to see that women
I know hated it even more one woman I
knew even said it's so hypocritical that
she pushes herself as a feminine role
model she's appealing to a young
generation with nothing
oh the ego on this woman is just too
much to bear where does this pride come
from from stripping yourself half naked
and writing contrived crappy songs how
did we manage to build up a shallow
wind-up pop singer as the Messiah of
life growing up Lisa was a role model to
me she was independent and she never
gave up she was kind but she had her
limits
she was thoughtful and she always stood
up for what she believed in that truth
must be told
despite all the things that makes Lisa a
strong and independent character for
children of all generations she can
apparently be molded by a plastic
wind-up doll like Lady Gaga everything
Lisa has been over the last 26 years
it's forgotten as she turns into jelly
in front of this egotistical
hypocritical damaged walking drag show
this is the lowest fan rated episode of
The Simpsons over the last 26 years and
this time I can completely agree with
fans viewers were insulted fans were
insulted I'm pretty sure Lisa's voice
actor was insulted it was just an ugly
sickly-sweet mess that made me try to
exorcise the Simpsons permanently from
my mind and that's why in my opinion
Lisa goes Gaga is the worst Simpsons
episode
ever made ever Oh despite these dark
moments in the Simpsons
there are honestly a rare occurrence and
frankly the Simpsons is an important
part of history now so for all the
people complain about the series still
going a part of me is comforted to see
it still there as long as homers around
I'll always have that refreshing
reminder of the joy I've gotten from the
Simpsons for so many years do you think
I missed a bad one which episodes your
least favorite let me know in the
comments as always thanks for watching
and I'll see you next time
you