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Lisas rival is probably the least worst of the Lisa episodes, but the Hockey one is just wrong. When was Bart ever in hockey? When was it ever even brought up?

HHH is one of the best promos they have. The problem comes with him going on for 10 minutes when he only needed 2.

Season 6 marks the begin of the decline of the show for several reasons. First off, in relation to season 3, 4, and 5, it didn't have the same quantity of quality episodes. A lot of the episodes were duds, with only a couple stand outs. Having said that, Itchy and Scratchy Land, and the Greyhound episode are high quality episodes, possiblie top teners. Secondly, the beginning of some harmful trends happened in this season - lots of focus on Lisa, Homer getting whackier and zanier without a lot of conscience for his actions, Bart becoming a pussy, and random, almost gimmick, episodes that serve no purpose other than filling time and providing some sight gags. Thirdly, the animation -for the most part- sucks. It doesn't have the charm of the previous seasons.

104. Bart Of Darkness (edit) First aired: 9/4/1994 Writer: Dan McGrath Director: Jim Reardon Guest star: Maggie Roswell (Maude Flanders, Nurse), Russi Taylor (Sherri, Terri, Martin Prince) It is really hot and the Simpson family does not have air conditioning. They try to live in a tent beside the refrigerator, but that does not work. Otto drives by with a traveling swimming pool. This gives Bart and Lisa the idea to hound Homer for a pool which they relentlessly do until he caves in and buys them one. All the kids in the neighborhood come by to use it. Bart tries to jump from his tree house into the pool, but winds up breaking his leg. He will have to spend the rest of the summer in a cast, so there will be no more swimming for him. He watches as Lisa becomes incredibly popular. Bart finds himself a new hobby by spying on the neighborhood with Lisa's telescope. While looking out the "Rear Window" of the house, Bart thinks he's seen Flanders commit a murder. He gets Lisa to break into Flanders' house and look for clues. He watches as Flanders returns home with an axe. He goes to help her, broken leg and all. Then Flanders tells them that Maude has been away with the kids, but now she is back. Ok episode. "Tis a nice barn, but tis no pool, English" "Continue swimming naked" and the Jimmy Stewart reference were great. 105. Lisa's Rival (edit) First aired: 9/11/1994 Writer: Mike Scully Director: Mark Kirkland Guest star: Winona Ryder (Allison Taylor), Russi Taylor (Sarah, Martin Prince, Uter, Sherri) Lisa wants to practice her saxophone because she is auditioning for first chair in the school band. A new student named Allison enters her class. Allison was skipped ahead a grade by Principal Skinner. Lisa is really jealous of her and is horrified to learn that Allison is going for first chair saxophone, too. Meanwhile, Homer and Bart find an overturned truck full of sugar. Homer fills up his car with it. Lisa loses her quest for first chair and Allison becomes the new smart girl at school, making Lisa feel terrible. When Lisa tries to befriend her, it does not work. Bart helps her think of a way to beat Allison at an upcoming diorama contest. Homer guards his sugar pile in the backyard and he is completely paranoid about an Englishman trying to steal it to put it into his tea. Instead bees find his stash. Beekeepers come to get them back. When it rains, Homer's sugar pile melts into the ground. Bart and Lisa manage to sabotage Allison's project, but Lisa can't go through with it. Neither of them wins the contest anyway; first place goes to Ralph Wiggum. The three smart kids, Lisa, Allison, and Ralph, walk home together. Awful for the most part, as all Lisa-centric episodes are (which season 6 had a nice healthy dose of) - Ralph is the only good part about it, as well as Barts affinity for spraying Allison with a hose. 106. Another Simpson Clip Show (edit) First aired: 9/25/1994 Writer: Penny Wise Director: David Silverman Guest star: Albert Brooks (Jacques), Sara Gilbert (Laura Powers), Jon Lovitz (Artie Ziff), Michelle Pfeiffer (Mindy Simmons), Michael Carrington (Krusty Anniversary Announcer) Through a series of clips from past episodes, the family recounts their trials and tribulations with love. Bad, even in relation to other clip shows. 107. Itchy & Scratchyland (edit) First aired: 10/2/1994 Writer: John Swartzwelder Director: Wesley Archer Guest star: Maggie Roswell (Ticket Booth Women, Various) Bart and Lisa see an advertisement for a new theme park, "Itchy & Scratchyland". They beg their parents to go, but Marge resists. She remembers all the times that Homer has ruined family vacations. Eventually she caves in and they hit the road. The park is very violent, raising Marge's old concerns. There are robot parades and terrifying rides. Homer and Marge agree to split up with Bart and Lisa. When some slack-jawed yokel takes a picture of a robot, it goes crazy and starts running amok. Security captures Bart after he abuses the costumed Itchy characters. When they put him in a cell, he sees Homer there. Homer is in for the same crime. The robots in the park all start to malfunction and go crazy. When security frees Homer and Bart, they get in a confrontation with the robots. Everyone else has left the park, so it's up to them to win back the theme park. They use cameras to beat the robots. The Simpson family returns home unscathed and watch an "Itchy & Scratchy" cartoon. Fantastic episode. One of my favourites. "Throw her in the hole", "Bort", "Tell em Itchy sent ya" "Possib-lie", "Your older, fatter, balder son" "My children need wine". 108. Sideshow Bob Roberts (edit) First aired: 10/9/1994 Writer: Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley Director: Mark Kirkland Guest star: Dr. Demento (Voice of Himself), Larry King (Himself), Henry Corden (Fred Flintstone) Homer has been listening to a conservative radio talk show host. One day Sideshow Bob calls in from prison, voicing his conservative views. The host, Barlow, gets Sideshow Bob released from prison. Upon Sideshow Bob's release, the town's Republicans want him to run for mayor against Quimby. Bob outwits Quimby in every debate and wins by a huge landslide. Lisa is skeptical (as usual) about how he did it, so she investigates. Meanwhile, Homer has problems with the gang from Riverdale. Sideshow Bob imposes a few new policies. For one he condemns the Simpsons' house to help make way for the new Matlock Expressway, much to the delight of the seniors. Second, he gets Bart placed in kindergarten. Lisa discovers how Sideshow Bob won the election: he had dead people vote for him. He admits to all of this when Bart and Lisa outwit him in front of the town. Sideshow Bob goes back to prison. Good episode, can't really say too much about it. 109. Treehouse Of Horror V (edit) First aired: 10/30/1994 Writer: Greg Danula, Dan McGrath, David X. Cohen, Bob Kushell Director: Jim Reardon Guest star: James Earl Jones (Maggie), Russi Taylor (Uter) a)."The Shinning" The family become caretakers of an estate in the mountains, where no beer and television make Homer go crazy. b)."Time & Punishment" Homer fixes the toaster and it becomes a time machine. While visiting the past, he kills a bug, which affects the future in a big way. c)."Nightmare Cafeteria" Principal Skinner finds a solution to his overcrowding problem and the quality of meat in the cafeteria. Agh. I'm a lil mixed. Willie dying is great, "That's Willies time", "There's a lil uter in all of us". But it's not nearly as good as IV. 110. Bart's Girlfriend (edit) First aired: 11/6/1994 Writer: Jonathan Collier Director: Susie Dietter Guest star: Meryl Streep (Jessica Lovejoy) The parents stop the kids in the middle of their game and bring them to church. Bart sees Lovejoy's daughter, Jessica and it's love at first sight for him. He tries to impress her, even by trying to become a good person, but nothing is working. So he goes back to being the devil's cabana boy and pulls a prank on Willie. This is what impresses Jessica, so she invites him over for dinner. The Lovejoys do not like him, especially after talking about last night's episode of Martin. This makes Jessica like him even more. They hang out together and behave badly, but she pretends not to know him in public. Jessica is using him, but he will do anything to please her, but it begins to depress him. He vows to quit seeing her, but he just can't help himself. Of Jessica and Bart, he is the lesser of two evils, especially when Jessica pins the blame on him after she steals the church's collection plate. The congregation chases him and Jessica won't come forward; it's up to Lisa to tell everyone that it was Jessica that stole the plate. The plate is found in Jessica's room, Jessica continues on making men do whatever she wants. Bart becomes a big pussy. Sign of things to come. Not very good. 111. Lisa On Ice (edit) First aired: 11/13/1994 Writer: Mike Scully Director: Bob Anderson Guest star: Russi Taylor (Sherri, Terri, Martin Prince, Uter) Bart has to give a report, but Skinner calls all the students down for an assembly. He passes out slips that tell the students if they are failing. To Lisa's horror, she is failing gym. She has to join an outside sports program to pass. They all go to see Bart play hockey under Chief Wiggum and Homer is one of those hyper-competitive dads. Apu is the coach of the opposing team, and he thinks that Lisa has similar talent to Bart's. He makes her his goalie and she is very good as she develops the "eye of the tiger" and the "mouth of a teamster," and she soon makes her team a winner. Now that Lisa is a popular jock, Bart tries to become a teacher's pet in school. When bullies beat him up, she saves him and he really begins to resent her. They get into a physical confrontation and they soon have to play each other on the ice. It is a huge game and everyone is there. As the game ends, they decide to stop trying to compete with each other. When the game ends in a tie, everyone riots and destroys the stadium. AGH! Awful. 112. Homer Badman (edit) First aired: 11/27/1994 Writer: Greg Daniels Director: Jeffrey Lynch Guest star: Pamela Hayden (Sally Jesse Raphael), Tress MacNeille (Woman At Protest), Maggie Roswell (Ashley, Various), Dennis Franz (Himself) After hiring a feminist babysitter, Homer and Marge go to a candy trade show. They smuggle out candy for the kids. Homer steals a rare piece of candy, but he can't find it when he gets home. When he gives the babysitter a ride home he sees the candy stuck to her posterior. When he grabs for it, she screams and runs away. He awakes the next morning to find protestors on his lawn and the babysitter leads them in a sexual harassment campaign. They make Homer's life a living hell. Homer does an interview for a tabloid TV show thinking that America will hear his case, but all they hear is what a complete jerk he is. FOX does a TV movie about him and he is depicted even worse in this portrayal. The news has around-the-clock coverage of the situation. The Simpson family does a public access show to clear his name, but it does not help his cause. Willie comes to Homer and shows him a video that he recorded of the night in question. Homer shows the babysitter and she realizes that she was wrong about him being an ass-grabber and the news admits that it was wrong about him, too. With all the forgiveness going on, Homer makes up with his TV set. See you in hell, CANDY BOYS! Classic. 113. Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy (edit) First aired: 12/4/1994 Writer: Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley Director: Wesley Archer Guest star: Homer is having trouble getting it on with Marge. They buy an audio book to rekindle their sex life, while Bart gets a book about the UFO conspiracy. Homer and Marge start trying the books ideas, but nothing works. Abe tells Homer of a home remedy that will give him an instant hard-on. After it works like a charm, Homer has the idea to market it. He and Abe pitch the tonic at malls to start and everyone begins buying it. The children begin to notice that all of their parents have disappeared. Homer and Abe then go on to neighboring towns and they start to get on each other's nerves. Bart and Milhouse start to form conspiracy theories as to where all the adults are. Abe and Homer go to their old house and relive the good old days. This puts them even more at odds and Homer deserts Abe. He is furious with him. Homer decides to spend more time with his kids. Abe gets Barney to replace Homer as he continues to pitch the product. Homer's half-assed over-parenting does not work very well on his kids. He goes back to the house for inspiration and meets back up with his father, but their loving reunion is soured when the house goes up in flames. Ok. 114. Fear Of Flying (edit) First aired: 12/18/1994 Writer: David Sacks Director: Mark Kirkland Guest star: Anne Bancroft (Dr. Zweig), Ted Danson (Sam Malone), Woody Harrelson (Woody Boyd), Rhea Perlman (Carla Tortelli), John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin), George Wendt (Norm Peterson), Pamela Hayden (Stewardess, Lesbian) Homer gets banned from Moe's and while searching for a new place "where everybody knows his name" stumbles into an airport bar and ends up almost flying a plane after being mistaken for a pilot. The airline gives him free airline tickets so he won't tell anyone. He takes the family and Marge goes nutso on the plane. Back at home, she starts acting really crazy. Lisa wants her to go into therapy, but Homer is reluctant. He is afraid a shrink will tell Marge to leave him. He rents some videos for her, so she won't have to go into therapy. They are "Hero," "Fearless," and "Alive." Soon afterward she goes into therapy, which reveals that she's repressed something she saw her father do when she was a young girl. It turns out her father was a stewardess. The cheers stuff aside, this wasn't a good one. I dunno if it started in season 6, but "unexpected character twists that are never seen before or after" is really common in this season. 115. Homer The Great (edit) First aired: 1/8/1995 Writer: John Swartzwelder Director: Jim Reardon Guest star: Patrick Stewart (#1) Homer has trouble with a plumber and at work he begins noticing that Lenny and Carl have a lot of mysterious privileges at work. Lenny keeps giving hints that they are part of a secret. Homer follows them one night when they go to their secret meeting place. Every male in Springfield that he knows is in the place. Lenny lets it slip that they are the Stonecutters and Homer wants to be a member. He discovers that Abe is a member, which means that he can easily become a member. They initiate him with painful rituals and he is member #908. As a Stonecutter, the plumber quickly fixes the leak in his basement and he gets a new parking space at work. When they celebrate a big occasion Homer desecrates a sacred parchment. As his punishment Homer is kicked out of the club and they take his clothes. Upon stripping him, they discover a birthmark. It is shaped like their logo, which means he must be the chosen one. They begin to worship him. They let him win at card games. Soon his life becomes meaningless and too easy. Lisa recommends that he begin helping people in the community using his new authority. The Stonecutters don't like helping people, so they form a new secret society, the "No Homers". As the only Stonecutter left, he begins feeling lonely. Marge makes him realize that he is part of a more exclusive club... the Simpson family. I love this episode, but it follows the previous format. Ah well, Let's have Ribs. 116. And Maggie Makes Three (edit) First aired: 1/22/1995 Writer: Jennifer Crittenden Director: Swinton O. Scott III Guest star: Family time together has Homer telling the story of why there are no pictures of Maggie in the house. Awful attempt at sentimentality. 117. Bart's Comet (edit) First aired: 2/5/1995 Writer: John Swartzwelder Director: Bob Anderson Guest star: Pamela Hayden (Ham) Principal Skinner releases a weather balloon, but Bart turns it into an anti-Skinner prank. Principal Skinner is upset, so Bart's punishment is to help him log amateur astronomy sky coordinates. Bart gets up at 4:30 AM to assist Skinner. When Skinner steps away, Bart discovers a comet. The nerds of the school, super friends, soon embrace him. When they figure out that his comet is approaching Springfield and will annihilate the town, Professor Frink comes up with a plan to intercept the comet with a missile. Unfortunately the missile misses and destroys the only bridge out of town; the people of Springfield are doomed! The Flanders family let the Simpsons in their bomb shelter. The rest of the town asks Ned if they can come in as well. When the shelter is too full, one person has to leave, so they kick Ned Flanders out. Soon they feel guilty about it, so they all leave to die with him. The comet comes through the atmosphere and breaks apart due to all of Springfield's polluted clouds. Let's just sit here and twiddle our thumbs... dooo dodododo... The animal guessing game, the superfriends, awesome stuff. 118. Homie The Clown (edit) First aired: 2/12/1995 Writer: John Swartzwelder Director: David Silverman Guest star: Dick Cavett (Himself), Johnny Unitas (Himself) Onstage, Krusty entertains children with his antics on television; offstage, he spends money like a madman. Fat Tony shows up to his office and demands the money he is owed. Krusty has been gambling and his various products have been highly unsuccessful. At his accountant's advice him to regionalize, Krusty establishes a Clown College. Homer sees the billboard advertising the school and cannot get it out of his head. He starts seeing clowns everywhere. He even shapes his mashed potatoes into a clown tent. He enrolls in the classes. Krusty is his teacher, who gives absurd lectures, but Homer actually pays attention; although he can't seem to get the hang of Krusty's trademark trick with a small bicycle. Graduation day arrives. Graduates will serve as Krusty's doubles in regional promotions. Homer gets to do Springfield. He opens new fast food restaurants, performs at birthday parties, and co-hosts the "Ace" cable awards. Homer begins to dislike his new career and decides to quit, but then he realizes that looking like Krusty may have his advantages. He can get out of speeding tickets, get discounts from Apu, and get good deals at restaurants. Meanwhile, Krusty is making more foolish bets, such as betting everything against the Harlem Globetrotters. The mob takes over at the clown college. Fat Tony threatens to kill Krusty, but Krusty escapes. He goes with his capos to find Krusty. Meanwhile Homer, dressed as Krusty, is trying to get a good deal on a car. They keep trying to shoot him, but luckily for him, they miss. The real Krusty has plastic surgery, but he looks the same (except for his breasts). The mob kidnaps Homer and takes him to Don Vittorio, where they plan to kill him. They say they won't if he can do the bicycle trick. Krusty comes just in the nick of time and Homer and Krusty both do the trick together to avoid their execution. Don Vittorio and Krusty settle the outstanding debt. I used to love this episode - and it does have its moments (Homer mugging the Hamburgerler, the Close Encounters parody) but its another case of "homer does something whacky" and hasn't really aged all that well. 119. Bart vs. Australia (edit) First aired: 2/19/1995 Writer: Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley Director: Wesley Archer Guest star: Phil Hartman (Evan Conover) Lisa explains the Coriolis Effect to Bart, but he does not believe it, so he makes a collect call to Australia to ask them about which way their water drains. When Bart doesn't hang up, Australia owes $900. They want Bart to pay, but he insults them. Bart soon gets dozens of letters in the mail. Then Australia indicts him for fraud. America wants to send him to Australia to make an apology. The family is sent to Australia, where they start exploring the culture. Bart makes his apology, but they want to give the additional punishment of a boot to his ass. Bart and Homer escape the booting and they try to run back to the embassy. Bart agrees to have them do the booting anyway, but instead he moons Australia. The Simpson family leaves the outraged country in a helicopter. Great at the time, has some good scenes (Knifey Spoony), but "Simpsons in..." has been done to death since. The end was great though. 120. Homer vs. Patty And Selma (edit) First aired: 2/26/1995 Writer: Brent Forrester Director: Mark Kirkland Guest star: Mel Brooks (Himself), Susan Sarandon (Ballet Instructor) Homer invests in pumpkins and loses all his money. Bart is late for school, so he isn't able to sign up for the physical education class that he wants, the only class left is ballet. Homer struggles to pay his debts. Patty and Selma recently got promotions and raises at work and despite his blinding hatred for them; Homer asks Patty and Selma to lend him money. He can't let Marge know, so they blackmail and torture him. Bart finds that he has a knack for ballet and he learns to love it. Marge's sisters really push Homer's buttons but when Marge finds out, Homer feels ashamed. Bart feels a little ashamed, too, about his new talent. Homer decides to become a chauffeur to earn money and pay back his debt and one of his fares is Mel Brooks. When he gets pulled over, Chief Wiggum discovers that Homer has no chauffeur's license. Homer has to go to the DMV where Patty and Selma work. Bart performs in front of his school and bullies beat him up afterward. Homer has to take a driving test with Marge's sisters and they flunk him. After failing him, they light up cigarettes in the afterglow. While this would cost them their promotions, since they work in a government building, Homer saves them by saying they are his cigarettes. He tells them that he did it for Marge, because fighting with them is so hard on her. In appreciation for saving their jobs, they call off the debt. Oh good lord, awful, awful, awful. Bart in Ballet is such a horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible thing. The only purpose was to make Bart more of a pussy. Mel Brooks was a nice appearance. 121. A Star Is Burns (edit) First aired: 3/5/1995 Writer: Ken Keeler Director: Susie Dietter Guest star: Maurice LaMarche (George C. Scott), Jon Lovitz (Jay Sherman), Phil Hartman (Charlton Heston, Judas Ben-Hur) Springfield is the least popular town in America. They have a town meeting on how to attract tourists and Marge pitches the idea for a film festival. After they accept her idea, she searches for a film critic to be the judge and Jay Sherman is her choice. He comes to Springfield and stays with the Simpson family. Mr. Burns decides to enter the festival to boost his reputation, and makes a horribly self-indulgent film. Jay Sherman fits right in with the Simpson family, but he and Homer quickly form a rivalry. After the screenings, Homer has already made up his mind he is going to vote for the dumbest video, the one by Hans Moleman. This is an injustice to Barney's film about alcoholism, which is the best of the bunch. The jury includes Jay, Homer, Krusty, Marge, and Mayor Quimby. Mr. Burns bribes Krusty and Quimby to vote for him. Homer decides to change his vote to Barney's film, so Mr. Burns loses. What does Barney win? Why beer, of course! Mr. Burns later tries (unsuccessfully) to bribe the Academy Awards. Man gets hit by football. Great episode. 122. Lisa's Wedding (edit) First aired: 3/19/1995 Writer: Greg Daniels Director: Jim Reardon Guest star: Mandy Patinkin (Hugh Parkfield), Maggie Roswell (Miss Hoover, Librarian) The family visits a Renaissance Faire. When Lisa runs off while chasing a bunny she meets a mysterious fortune teller offers to tell her about her future by reading her cards. We flash forward to 2010 at an Eastern university where she meets an arrogant proper young English gentleman named Hugh. They manage to fall in love and he asks her to marry him. He lets her meet his family and soon she brings him to meet hers. She is very uneasy about this meeting, since her family is so rude and obnoxious. As they all prepare for the wedding, Hugh reveals that he thinks Homer is too brutish. He and Lisa have a fight and break off the engagement. The fortune teller then vanishes in a puff of smoke and Lisa meets back up with Homer, appreciating him a little more than usual. Another fucking Lisa episode. 123. Two Dozen And One Greyhounds (edit) First aired: 4/9/1995 Writer: Mike Scully Director: Bob Anderson Guest star: Frank Welker (SLH, Various), Tress MacNeille (Mrs. Potts) The family notices that Santa's Little Helper has been destroying the house. He soon runs away and goes back to the dog track from which he came. He finds another greyhound there and humps her in front of everyone. The family decides to bring her home. The two dogs quickly fall in love. Santa's Little Helper's bitch has 25 puppies, but 25 puppies are too much for the Simpson family. They spoil an important dinner party. The family decides to give them away, but Mr. Burns dognaps them. They wonder what he could possibly want with them. Bart and Lisa go to spy on him and see what he is doing. He plans to kill them and make them into a greyhound skin tuxedo. They try to save the puppies, but Mr. Burns catches them before they escape. Mr. Burns has one of his characteristic changes of heart and decides not to kill them. He keeps all the puppies which grow to become successful racing dogs, making him even richer. All time classic. 124. The PTA Disbands (edit) First aired: 4/16/1995 Writer: Jennifer Crittenden Director: Swinton O. Scott III Guest star: Russi Taylor (Uter, Martin Prince), Maggie Roswell (Miss Hoover, Luann Van Houten) Skinner's elementary school is dilapidated, the bus is in terrible shape, the food is unsatisfactory, et cetera. Bart sees Krabappel and Skinner arguing about this, so he pushes both their buttons to try to bring about a teacher's strike. Bart is ecstatic, but Lisa is horrified. During the strike, kids have to stay at home with their parents. Bart unleashes his unique brand of mischief on the town. Lisa is worried about becoming stupid and not getting graded, and starts to go insane. Bart's plan backfires when substitutes take over the teachers' jobs, including Marge as Bart's teacher. Bart gets Skinner and Krabappel to start negotiating again, and they finally come to an agreement. To raise funds for the school, they rent out the school's coat rooms to Springfield's overcrowded prisons. Bart standing outside with the kite was great, the rest wasn't anything notable. Cept for Purple Monkey Dishwasher. 125. Round Springfield (edit) First aired: 4/30/1995 Writer: Jeffrey Ventimilia, Joshua Sternin Director: Steven Dean Moore Story: Al Jean, Mike Reiss Guest star: Ron Taylor ("Bleeding Gums" Murphy), Steve Allen (Himself) Bart eats the jagged metal prize in his box of cereal and he has to have it and his appendix removed after he collapses at school. At the hospital Lisa happens to see "Bleeding Gums" Murphy and he gives her his saxophone. When "Bleeding Gums" Murphy dies it makes Lisa very distraught. When his funeral does not properly honor him, she vows to make Springfield remember him. She wants to buy a copy of his rare record, but it costs $500. Bart's case against Krusty's cereal gets him that exact amount, so he buys it for her. She plays it for a tribute to "Bleeding Gums" Murphy and he appears to her as a cloud. Together they jam as the episode draws to a close. Hey, guess what? ANOTHER LISA EPISODE! JEEESUS. 126. Springfield Connection (edit) First aired: 5/7/1995 Writer: Jonathan Collier Director: Mark Kirkland Guest star: Homer and Marge listen to some classical music at an outdoor concert. On their way home, Marge stops a thief (Snake) when she gets a surge of adrenaline. She soon finds that her life isn't thrilling enough. She looks for ways to fill the void and decides to join the police department. Homer is a little insecure about this. When she trains, she finds that Chief Wiggum does not take her seriously. She passes training and starts her new career. It stresses her out, especially with all the corruption. She wants to clean up the town, but it is so difficult. Her first major stand comes against Homer after he disrespects her in public and to his horror, she sticks him in jail. Homer has his poker buddies over after his release and one of them, Herman, uses Homer's car hole (garage) for storing counterfeit jeans. When Homer figures this out, Herman takes him hostage. Marge saves him and wants to arrest Herman. When her backup shows up, the other cops take the jeans and refuse to harm Herman. This last bit of corruption is enough to make Marge quit. The episode closes with a musical homage to Hill Street Blues. Blah, clearly they had nothing else to write about. 127. Lemon Of Troy (edit) First aired: 5/14/1995 Writer: Brent Forrester Director: Jim Reardon Guest star: Bart gets a big lecture from Marge after vandalizing a sidewalk, she tells him to have pride in his town. When the kids run out of lemons for lemonade, they head to the town's lemon tree and get in a confrontation with the kids of Shelbyville. When the tree is gone, Bart and five other kids go to wage war with Shelbyville. Homer finds out about this and goes with their fathers to find the kids, courtesy of Ned's RV, which Homer totally abuses. Bart pretends to be from Shelbyville, but the kids from Shelbyville chase him anyway. Bart finds the tree, and with his gang of kids and Homer with his gang of fathers team up to get the tree back. Good episode for the most part. "Shake harder, boy", Martin and Nelson together. 128. Who Shot Mr. Burns? (1) (edit) First aired: 5/21/1995 Writer: Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley Director: Jeffrey Lynch Guest star: Tito Puentes (Himself) When Willie tries to bury a class's dead hamster, he strikes oil. This means that the school is rich. The fact that Mr. Burns can never remember Homer's name is really starting to get under Homer's skin. Principal Skinner looks into spending the money from the oil well. He approves every silly request from people at the school. Mr. Burns makes it known that he wants the oil well to complete his monopoly. Principal Skinner rejects this idea. When they switch on the oil well for the first time, they find that someone else tapped the well with a slanted oil well. It is Mr. Burns. His new well shoots oil towards the Simpsons home, where it injures Bart's dog. Bart is very angry at Burns for this. Lisa is very angry because her idea to get Tito Puente as the school's band teacher cannot happen now. Homer is very angry because Mr. Burns still cannot remember his name. Moe's has to close down due to toxic fumes at the oil well, so Moe and Barney are very angry. They grab their guns and leave Moe's for the last time. The retirement home collapses due to the oil well, so Abe and the old folks are very angry. Mr. Burns is happy with all of these developments, but he has just one more plan. He wants to block out the sun. Smithers, refuses to help him and Mr. Burns fires him, so he goes on a drunken binge. Abe moves in with the Simpson family and with him, he brings a gun. Marge buries it in the yard. Homer spray paints his name on Mr. Burns' wall. When Mr. Burns still cannot remember his name, Homer threatens him. At a town meeting, Mr. Burns reveals his plan to block out the sun. He makes it night forever and walks home in twilight. He struggles with someone and a shot is fired, and he lay bleeding on the town's sun dial. Everyone is Springfield is a suspect, so it is up to Chief Wiggum to find out "Who Shot Mr. Burns." Good-great episode, everyone petting their guns.

Hulk Hamlet? "To do, or not to do... that is the question... Whatcha gonna do?"

It is basic kayfabe stuff, it's just using words like "Heel" and "Babyface" to make it appear to be a "shoot". Just awful.

It makes sense, as Season 6 marked a change in the show and provided signs that a decline was on the way. Though not intentional, the new packaging helps with organizing "good simpsons" and "bad simpsons".

Season 3: A woman is breast feeding in Lukes Diner. Luke can't stand it and asks Lorelai to stop the lactating. Jess walks in. Sees it. GREAT disgusted/shocked look. Classic. One of my favourite things is when Graham says "DIRTY~!" after something like "Now I'm going to give Miss Patty my Gavel". And Jess does GREAT a Christopher Walken.

I found it odd that they did the "skeleton" animations for the opening of Unleashed, but they didn't do any submissions - you'd think Mir having Sylvia in an armbar and them showing the bone break would be a gimmie.

This could be some strange form of initiation where Christian has to "earn his stripes" on Smackdown and get as many losses as possible as a heel so when he turns face they will all get washed away.

The Unleashed shows are taped and feature fights from previous UFC cards. This one is designed to familiarize fans with Ivan Salaverry - a top prospect in the middleweight division. Those are two good matches, btw. The other 3 fights, much like the last Unleashed, are from the Ultimate Fighter Finale undercard.

There doesn't seem to be any replays. Here's a schedule of UFC's up-coming shows on cable. August 1st - 11:05 pm et Unleashed - Spike TV Ivan Salaverry vs. Tony Fryklund Ivan Salaverry vs. Joe Riggs Chris Leben vs. Jason Thacker Josh Koscheck vs. Chris Sanford Nate Quarry vs. Lodune Sincaid August 6th - 9:00 pm et Ultimate Fight Night - Spike TV Ivan Salaverry vs Nathan Marquardt Stephan Bonnar vs Sam Hoger Kenny Florian vs Alex Karalexis Mike Swick vs Keith Rockel Josh Koscheck vs Pete Spratt Nate Quarry vs Pete Sell Chris Leben vs Patrick Cote Drew Fickett vs Josh Neer August 8th - 11:05 pm et Unleashed - Spike TV Content TBA August 14th - Check local listings time Fox Sports Network Liddell vs. Horn Liddell vs. Babalu Horn Highlights August 15th - 11:05 pm et Unleashed - Spike TV Content TBA August 22nd - Ultimate Fighter 2

The heart of this issue, and probably the fundamental difference between you and I, is that I don't just look at Wins and Losses. I put more stock into performance and the fight itself, because I think that often is more indicative of a fighters overall skills than whether or not he ultimately won. I don't think Chuck Liddell is a better fighter than Randy Couture, so I don't put him above Randy in my LW rankings despite his recent Rd 1 KO win over Couture. From what I have seen from Kawajiri and Shaolin - and I fully acknowledge this may change when I see more of them - is that they are not as good of fighters as Hansen and Gomi. Kawajiris performance at the last Bushido show, for the most part, was shit. While Gomi was very impressive, as was Hansen (and I am not just basing my opinion on the Bushido show, but am using it as an example). They are very well rounded and they push the fight and they can win and have won fights both standing and on the ground. Edwards is like that too, but he's not nearly as aggressive and I think that hurts him a bit. Shaolin and Kawajiri tend to win the same way each fight - they are extremely strong in one area and well adept enough in others to compliment their strengths. And while that may put up wins, in terms of being a mixed martial artist, it's not what I consider enough to be a top fighter.

What I probably loved most about the show, next to the main event, were the advertisements for Ultimate Fight Night and Boiling Point. They are really coming into their own with the production; I wonder how much of that is inhouse and how much of that is from SPIKETV. I like how they put Jeremy Horns record up there, and made him seem like a big threat.

The Batista match was fully designed to get Batista over and the turnbuckle spot was meant to get over Batistas power (the focus wasn't on the turnbuckle itself, but rather, Batista picking Benoit up). It worked. It doesn't appear that the match was designed to get OJ over.

WHAT?!

DING DING DING Jeez, took you people long enough. I thought it was rather obvious. I was thinking of calling the network "SEE" or "EYE", I haven't fully decided though.

It might be a nice change to have no one get attacked by a musical instrument of any kind. That's like having a contract signing without the heel signing it in his opponents blood - absolutely unheard of! Maybe Cena will KO Jericho with a pimp cup.

-Gomi got the best of Hansen standing, but again, he couldn't continue to do it when it counted: the 3rd round. In the 3rd round he essentially gave up the fight with a lackadaizacal effort from the top. Hell, people often give UFC shit for overrating the importance of simply obtaining and keeping top position. The fact is, Gomi lost the bout fairly, and I don't see how he could be ranked ahead of Hansen with comparable resumes and a head-to-head loss. I disagree with your assessment of the third round and I don't think it's a "fact" that Gomi lost the bout "fairly". Gomi was active in the third round for all but 40 seconds. He got a choke and turned it into a front headlock and got off 2 knees. He easily reversed Hansens attempts at a leglock and turned it around on him. He got off some good shots from the guard and was active on top for the most part. He controlled the fight in every aspect. There was nothing in that match that suggested to me that a rematch would have Hansen winning the bout or that he was a better fighter than Gomi. - Pulver had NO size advantage. Going by Sherdog records he did, but evidently going by those pictures he didn't. Gomi used that weight advantage every single time he struck Pulver. Weight plays a factor not only in the grapping aspect of MMA, but striking as well. The fact is, Pulver was never a big LW, and the talent in the weight division had become so that the size he gives up is no longer negated by his skills. Also, I don't know how you can say that Gomi's size advanatge didn't help him. This day and age in MMA, a fight between skilled fighters seperated by 15+lbs is never going to favor the smaller guy. As far as technique, Gomi was able to shrug off Pulver's shots and bang through Pulver's guard without any fear of retribution from a weaker fighter. The fact is, physical advantages had as much to do with that win as skill. Disagreed. The actual shot that put Pulver down wasn't due to physical strength - it was about hitting the right spot at the right time. It was due to timing and accuracy. It was a skillful knockout. Despite Pulver being "smaller" I don't see a considerable advantage going to Gomi because of it. The reach advantage wasn't abnormal - you'd see it in any fight. The physical mass of Gomi wasn't that much bigger than Pulver - waistlines, shoulder width, biceps, forearms, calfs - it was pretty much even. The only thing of Gomis what was discernably bigger was his huge frikken head. I think it is completely unfair to negate Gomis win over Pulver for Pulver being "undersized" when an undersized Pulver was able to beat BJ Penn. - No one's arguing that Lugwig isn't a good striker, but combined with the Maxwell loss, it's hard to give THAT much credit to yet another fighter for doing the same, especially one of arguablly more skill. You'd rather look at two losses (and specifically one) rather than numerous wins via KO? I don't think Gomis KO win should be discredited because of one fight. - I don't necessarily see how the flaws Azaredo exposed were fixed in the Silva fight, outside of Gomi taking the fight to the ground more often. As a striker, Gomi has always relied on his chin & wreslting ability to get him out of danger, as opposed to solid defense. Gomi kept greater distance against Silva, whereas he underestimated the gap between he and Az in their previous fight and got caught more. Wouldn't you say that avoiding the strikes by moving back is solid defense? Also, I meant to say "good" ground fighters (in regards to Silva & Bennet).over lackluster competition, but when faced with a decent grund fighter (Remedios, who's ground skills are far from elite), he needs his stand-up skills. From what I've seen of Silva, I'd say his ground skills are "good". As far more well rounded, I'd say Thomson & Edwards jump out. Both have solid striking, as well as good ground & submission skills. Thomson has some good takedown skills as well, and Yves has good takedown defense. I like both Thomson and Edwards and agree that they are very well rounded. I think it would be a cool lil experiment to make a list of skills (striking, wrestling, submissions, etc.) and grade each fighter on them. It would make for some good discussion, as I think this has. - As stated before, he won the fight based on the judging criteria. Besides, I rank him two spots ahead of Gomi because not only did he beat Gomi, but Yves Edwards has a better resume than Gomi as well. and thus gets placed just ahead of Takanori as well. Gomis resume is impressive and I wouldn't say Yves is _more_ impressive. Thomson and Franca and Mishma are good wins, but then again so are Silva and Az and Pulver. I appreciate fighters that fight often and build their records. They prove that they have durability in the sport. Yves and Gomi prove that. I don't think your top two have yet, and it looks to me they get there on the basis of Hansen beating Gomi. Also, Hansen doesn't deal with the "overrated" stigma simply because no one ever talkes about him as being the #1 LW in the world as they do Gomi. So Gomi should continually be dismissed and disrespected because other people put him as their #1? Unfair. His performances deserve better. I'd hate to see what you say about Kawajiri when he gets more popular. - As those pictures showed, Sherdog's stats are often inaccurate, from fighter stats to match endings, etc. Gomi has bulked up since arriving in Bushido (thanks to the 160lbs limit). He's bigger than Shaolin overall, and also bulkier than Edwards & Hansen. The issue was never that big until he came to PRIDE and started feasting on smaller men en route to his current overrated stature. I think Gomi has stepped it up in his past few fights. In the beginning he was getting fed some easy guys to build him up (Gracie being an iffy one), but he should get some respect for taking on the Chute Boxe Academies good fighters. I wouldn't exactly call that "feasting on smaller men".

Tonight kicks off the run of MMA with the UFC airing UNLEASHED at 11pm on SPIKETV. And for Canadian fans, APEX's FREEDOM FIGHT will be airing on TSN from 7-9pm.

So what are the odds that Jericho hits Cena over the head with a guitar (or drum)? If RAW sucks tonight (if?), and you have a sour taste in your mouth, you might want to stay on SPIKETV for UFC Unleashed. They are replaying Griffin/Bonnar, which is absolutely outstanding and has two guys going balls out for a UFC contract. http://www.spiketv.com/shows/series/unleashed/

There's a difference?

Maybe they could use a sock puppet for Hassan.

If they wanted to bump Benoit back to the ME slot, wouldn't they have had his match with Jordan end via CO or something less decisive than an actual pinfall? It's hard to justify including someone in the world title picture when he's fresh off a loss in his quest for a mid-car belt. They had a DQ finish in the main event, so having a similar finish in the US title match would have been redundant. Justified or not, it's easy to ignore a cheap loss in a match with no hype or storyline going into it.

RRR, I recall your rant on Hassan: "The guy had a bad match with Benoit! Nathan Jones didn't even have a bad match with Benoit!" How about the useless Orlando Jordan? He had a bad match with Benoit last night, with a horrible 80s finish. There are some finishes that badly need to be retired, and "heel taking off the turnbuckle" is one of them. It's right up there with "manager grabs the face's leg on a suplex" in the pantheon of bad finishes. I see a lot more potential in OJ than Hassan, as I've actually seen good matches from OJ on Velocity and the guy has nice punches. He could be better protected than Hassan. Saying that, I wouldn't give a flying fuck if they fired OJ at anytime. I, personally, like the turnbuckle spot - but not for finishes. For an excuse for blood, it's good. For avoidance spots and the pay off, it's good. But I don't buy it's knockout value. I also like the leg spot, even if it doesn't make much sense to me.