The combination of the classic Cape Fear sound cues and Kelsey Grammer’s perfectly evil Sideshow Bob is what makes the episode so great.
It was an old writing team going out with a bang but leaving enough space for a reoccurring gag (the rakes), which would go down as one of the Simpson’s best gags of all time. ****¾Ĭape Feare, a parody of the film of the same name (minus the E), is one of the Simpson’s finest episodes. The arcs for Wiggum and Barney are particularly good. This is a great episode, close to an all-timer. Lisa quizzes Homer on all the holes in his story, which makes it seem like the whole thing is made up until the reunion show on the roof. The episode is littered with throwback gags to the 80s without making it obnoxious and over the top. “Baby on Board, something, something, Burt Ward”. Being initially successful as a pop group with screaming girls, the agent wanting to make them marketable, hiding the star’s marriage and eventually the most creative voice going off on a weird tangent that destroys the group. The whole episode is based on the Beatles. The replacement is Barney in the first example of how useful he can be when he’s not drunk.
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The Be Sharps, which is witty at first but sounds less funny every time you hear it, are initially Homer, Apu, Skinner and Wiggum until Homer sets Wiggum free in the forest at night. “A Methuselah rookie card!” The Simpsons kids find a Be Sharps album and Homer tells the tale of when he was moderately famous in 1985. We kick things off at the Springfield Swap Meet. Honestly, they’re both strong episodes but the guest appearance of George Harrison here is what swayed the team to choose this. Let’s take a walk back through them as we look at the Simpsons S5.Īpparently, there was an argument as to whether this or Homer Goes to College should open the season. Despite the writer churn Season Five has some incredible highs. The result would be a comedy padding sequence that remains one of the Simpsons all-time greatest gags. The writing team had been getting a little sloppy and the final episode they wrote, Cape Feare, was too short to air. Al Jean and Mike Reiss left here to make the Critic, which itself is a good show but not on the level of the Simpsons. David Mirkin took over as showrunner with the show losing a lot of its better writers and would soon lose Conan O’Brien as well. After the success of S4 the Simpsons launched into a new era with season five.
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