I'll just give you a moment to remember how good The Springfield Files was. The Springfield Files, which crosses over with The X-Files, is another season eighter cracking the top ten in sixth. They’re my personal favourites, and the IMDb ranking agrees, putting them at one and two. You Only Move Twice and Homer's Enemy are two of the show's finest episodes ever. That's not even including Poochie, Roy, Cecil Terwilliger, and Rex Banner, who also make their single episode appearance in season eight. Remember all of those classic characters? Yeah, they're all from season eight. Burns' boorish son Belle, the entrepreneuse who owns the burlesque house and John, the gay man who helps open Homer's mind. Other great Simpsons examples include: Frank Grimes, Homer's enemy who dies after being driven past his limit by Homer's incompetence Hugo, Bart's evil twin Sherri Bobbins, the show's totally-not-a-Mary-Poppins rip-off Larry Burns, Mr.

Think Hank Scorpio, the Bond villain Homer goes to work for in Cypress Creek and the best one-and-done star ever. An underrated quality The Simpsons has is its 'one and done' characters - characters who only appear in a single episode, yet steal the show and become iconic in the show's history. Related: The Simpsons' The Shinning Is The Best Horror Comedy EverĮnough about why The Simpsons is so great - that's an entirely separate argument, albeit one I am very qualified to make. 'I'm riding some guy named Ironside!' only works if you know TV. The two are intertwined, not just in that The Simpsons is a television show but that the Golden Age was so heavily referential of classic television and movies that watching The Simpsons is an education in television itself. As much as I love television, I also love The Simpsons. Once you've actually looked - once you've studied and carefully examined - The Simpsons season eight, you will join the side of truth. Of course, you might disagree - but it's okay, we all get things wrong sometimes. The X-Files season four? See, you almost had me there, but still: no. The Sopranos? Breaking Bad? The Wire? Mad Men? House? Twin Peaks? Lost? Sorry, no. Game of Thrones season three? Close, but not a chance. Whatever season you might be thinking of putting forward to oust The Simpsons season eight, I have probably seen it, considered it, and rejected it as unworthy of the television gods.

That's why WandaVision is my favourite TV show this year - it loves television too.

When I was a kid, that was something of a brag - now that I'm an adult, it feels sort of sad.

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