Simpsons Season 5 DVD Box set

[DerangedHermit 0]

My favorite syndication cuts from Season 5:

 

- from Rosebud

 

*Homer and Lisa watch TV*

Burns: Smithers, I'm home! [canned laughter]

Smithers: [enters, wearing apron] What, already? [canned chuckle]

Burns: Yes. [loud canned laughter]

Lisa: [watching] Is it my imagination, or is TV getting worse?

Homer: Oh, it's about the same. [talking to TV, pointing] Uh oh! Look out, Smithers! *sound of breaking glass* [laughs hysterically] I love this show.

 

- from Boy Scoutz 'n' the Hood

 

Bart: Aw, who needs a cruddy knife anyway? Knives are boring...

*Bart dodges Hans Moleman who's being thrown out of Moe's.*

Moe: [holding a knife] When I say, "Put your beer on a coaster," I mean it!

Hans: You call that a knife? *This* is a knife!

*pulls out an oversized blade from his cane, it's too heavy for him to hold up*

Hans: Ooh... ooh... down I go. [thump] Ooh.

Bart: [moans]

 

- From The Last Temptation of Homer

 

The camera pans past all the exhibits at the energy convention inside the convention center: cold fusion, "Oil Power", "What About Wind?", coal, and water. It comes to rest on the solar energy display ("Cheap, clean hope for tomorrow"), which is being run by Hans Moleman. A man in a suit with sunglasses asks, "So this stuff really works?" "It certainly does," says Hans proudly. "Oh, well, lotsa luck!" says the man, giving Hans a chop in the neck. A number of other men in suits appear, and two of them close red curtains around the exhibit. When they open them again, one man sits behind the desk in front of a banner that says, "Fossil Fuel: Use Us and Nobody Gets Hurt." Seconds after, the man remembers to take off his sunglasses.

 

Marge: Good news, honey: two weeks are up. You don't have to wear your glasses any more! And your scalp and posture seem fine.

Bart: Yes! [kicks shoes off]

*They fly through the window and smash through Flanders' window]

Ned: Kids, did anyone pray for giant shoes?

Rod: I did!

Ned: Okily dokily!

 

-from $pringfield

 

Back in Burns' Casino, Homer watches a Dustin Hoffman-lookalike with amazement while a Tom Cruise-lookalike sits next to him.

Homer: Twenty-one? Do that card counting thing again. Come on: do it again.

Raymond: Definitely have to leave the table.

[grabs his arm] No! Please, please, please, please, please?

Raymond: Gotta watch Wapner. Leave the table. Yeah, leave the table.

Homer: No!

Raymond: Aah! [screams repeatedly, hits his head with his palm]

Homer: Aah! [screams repeatedly, hits his head with his palm]

[Star Ocean 3 0]

How can you people finish watching already? It's been two days.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Anyone know why they did the syndication cuts in the first place?

[Guest Failed Mascot]

Anyone know why they did the syndication cuts in the first place?

to add more time for commercials.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

How can you people finish watching already? It's been two days.

The episodes are done before you even can think twice about it. I guess that happens when there isn't a single clunker in the 22-count batch.

[Slayer 0]

The episodes are done before you even can think twice about it

Commercial free rocks

 

Also, more good scenes that were cut in syndication

 

- Homer dancing on the giant electric floor piano (I dunno what the hell you call them) parodying the scene from Big ("Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy")

 

- The Star Trek arena fight ("Deep Space Homer")

 

- Rappin' Ronnie Reagan ("Homer Loves Flanders")

 

- Breakdancing Self Defense ("Secrets of a Successful Marriage")

[Guest Failed Mascot]

- Rappin' Ronnie Reagan ("Homer Loves Flanders")

the place where I got the idea for my gimmik account is exposed!

[Slayer 0]

Watched the full collection of deleted scenes.

 

A strange inconsistency... from the "138th Episode Spectacular" they show four deleted scenes from the season. Two are in the box set (Homer dealing Blackjack to Bond, Apu's funny Indian film) but they left out the classic breakdancing Richard Simmons robot.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

I think they just flat-out replaced the Richard Simmons bit with "He locked the door! I'll show him! *buzzzzzzz*", as opposed to just cutting it down for TV.

 

Which episode is Seymour Skinner's Badass Song? The name doesn't help me at all on this one.

[cbacon 0]

Bart gets Skinner fired by bringing Santa's Little Helper to school. Flanders takes over as the school principle.

[Slayer 0]

I think they just flat-out replaced the Richard Simmons bit with "He locked the door! I'll show him! *buzzzzzzz*", as opposed to just cutting it down for TV.

I guess I should have differentiated between cut scenes (originally aired in primetime but cut for syndication) and outtakes (footage that was made but never used at all)

[Guest Failed Mascot]

I love the Cape Feare episode

 

On the TV...

 

Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, it's "Up Late with McBain". I'm your

announcer, Corporal Obergruppenfuehrer Wolfcastle. And

heeere's McBain!

McBain: Ja, thank you, ja, that's nice. Let's say hello to my music

guy, Skoey. [skoey bows] That is some outfit, Skoey. It

makes you look like a homosexual.

[Audience boos]

Whoa, maybe you all are homosexuals too!

Bart: This is horrible.

Lisa: The FOX network has sunk to a new low.

[Guest Crazy Dan]

My Brother got me this for X-mas and man I didn't realize how many good episodes were in this season. I think this is the Best Simpson Season every, but I think from Season 4 - 6 all produce some of the best TV shows ever. But Season 5 has the most consistency. Real happy with this gift and any Simpson lover needs this for his/her collection.

[Agent_Bond34 0]

I love the Cape Feare episode

 

On the TV...

 

Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, it's "Up Late with McBain". I'm your

announcer, Corporal Obergruppenfuehrer Wolfcastle. And

heeere's McBain!

McBain: Ja, thank you, ja, that's nice. Let's say hello to my music

guy, Skoey. [skoey bows] That is some outfit, Skoey. It

makes you look like a homosexual.

[Audience boos]

Whoa, maybe you all are homosexuals too!

Bart: This is horrible.

Lisa: The FOX network has sunk to a new low.

That part was fucking hilarious.

 

I love this season, well, disc one, anyways.

 

Great stuff, that is.

[Guest Failed Mascot]

After watching Homer the Vigilante its very noticable how much they cut out for syndication. I think they took out a whole 4minute sequence along with other minor things.

[BlackFlagg 0]

I just noticed Fox is currently on season 5 in it's daily episodes, wonder if they timed it out so it would start around the dvd release.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Not all Fox stations are on the same syndication schedule.

[DerangedHermit 0]

Not all Fox stations are on the same syndication schedule.

Yeah, my FOX station sucks (showing newer episodes which suck many balls).

[AboveAverage484 0]

I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and say Season 3 is the best season, but I still like 4 and 5.

[DerangedHermit 0]

I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and say Season 3 is the best season, but I still like 4 and 5.

I'd say everything up to and including season 9 is good, season 3-7 being the cream of the crop and 5 and 6 being the best.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

I'd say the classic stuff began around Season 3 and ran until around Season 9. It began to taper off during the 1998-1999 season, but a lot of the shows were solid. I think the 2000-2001 season was the only one where I thought the show was just awful. Haven't watched it close enough since 2002 to really speak for recent seasons.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

"Ohh, he card reads good!"

[Guest Failed Mascot]

I think ironically the show died with Maude Flanders. That episode and everything afterwards is 99% crap.

 

Also after watching all of the deleted scenes via Disc 4's bonus feature it shocked me to see so much quality stuff thrown out. Like Skinner's nightmare in the hotel from the episode "The Boy Who Knew Too Much".

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I found it somewhat eerie that on "Bart Gets Famous", Conan's commentary is talking about how he didn't hope his appearance on the show would be one of those ironic things that seemed good at the time but becomes sad [due to cancellation] when it was finally watched. The thing was, he was making this comment right around the time Bumblebee Man was readind a news report about a tidal wave death toll, played for laughs.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I noticed a weird joke in the Czech version of the 100th episode... the line about everyone thinking Bart had a walking clock under the box turned into "Dr. Spock". However, Dr. Spock and Star Trek were the only htings I understood, so I wonder what Bart's set-up to that was... unless the children thought Leonard Nimoy had ticks.