Worst Episode Ever (A Simpsons Podcast)

Happy Holidays, WEE listeners! Let's ruin them by talking about this episode. Widely regarded as the worst Christmas episode, we're watching Season 18's "Kill Gil, Volumes 1 & 2," an episode that manages to include senseless violence, animal abuse, and tired gay jokes on top of its loose Christmas plot. But it's not all bad! This is also the debut episode of the Grumple. Ok, so it is all bad... We...

Our 10th anniversary episode! No? Ok, just our tenth episode...ery. We bend our rules to watch an infamous 90's episode, Season 9's "The Principal and the Pauper." Many think this began the end of an era, an era that continues for 17 more years (and a movie) with no signs of stopping. It's a strange story with secret impostors, shocking revelations, and America balls. But is it as bad as its reput...

The rumors are true, we are a NEW and NOTEWORTHY podcast on iTunes. Suck it, Mr. and Mrs. Money Cast! Today, Lady Gags comes to Springfield?! Is it true?? AND special guest Dan Ozzi from the VICE music blog "Noisey?" That must mean it's time for season 23's finale, "Lisa Goes Gaga." And boy does she, in a "joke" filled episode where there's no time to feel anything. Because, damnit, we must refere...

This week on what some have called "the 'Serial' of Simpsons podcasts" we expect a horrible trainwreck and instead find a slightly less worse one. Must mean it's time for Season 18's "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh," an infamous episode where Grampa marries Selma, his son's sister-in-law. Took 18 years, but finally that sexual tension gets addressed. We examine scaling back freeze-frame gags in newer episod...

This week on an over-stuffed "Worst Episode Ever," it's Season 24's "Penny-Wiseguys" starring Steve Carrell, the Thanksgiving of actors. Carrell plays a mafia accountant who gets put in charge, an okay story idea that makes a fairly terrible Simpsons episode. We examine the fanboy-ization of modern era jokes, tackle the disturbing over-sexualization of Marge, and prove how little we know about TV...

Our sixth episode is a perfect introdoockshun for new "Worst Episode Ever" fans. We jump into Season 12 for an episode that the hosts actually saw back in the pre-9/11 days of "The Simpsons." Jack, Dan, and returning guest Nick Noga dig into "Pokey Mom," the episode where Michael Keaton, a recently released criminal, moves in with the Simpsons. So, the whole town has lived with the Simpsons at som...

We're back with the hit "Simpsons" podcast that our mother's have attempted to listen to! And what kind of "Simpsons" show would we be without a Halloween episode airing well into November? So today we watch and dissect "Treehouse of Horror XX" with our guest, Mr. Nick Noga. Three chilling tales of references to better material that almost kind of work if you ignore the holes. We'll discuss the la...

Jack and Dan look out the window at the old cemetery, then watch "Bart-Mangled Banner," a season 15 episode that skewers post-9/11 patriotism in George W. Bush's America. Surely mid-series "Simpsons" does political satire with deftness and subtlety, right? We discuss the show's reliance on episode-ending musical numbers, how dark is too dark for a Moe joke, and start writing an episode called "Bar...

Load up on guns and bring your friends to "That 90's Show" in the third installment of “Worst Episode Ever.” Yes, Dan and Jack watch the infamous season 19 episode that changes the romantic history of Marge and Homer by adding in a bunch of 90s references. We discuss our shared love of lazer tag, wax poetic about when Semisonic was a thing, and debate the universal timelessness of "Weird Al" Yanko...

We're back for our second installment of "Worst Episode Ever" where we randomly decide to watch "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting," a season 25 episode billed to us as "Bart gets a teacher pregnant." You know, like ten year old boys tend to do. We discuss how our first two episodes each coincidentally had major plot points about horses, Les Miserables parody musical numbers, and how much we lo...

It's the inaugural episode of "Worst Episode Ever," a podcast where we try to find which episode of "The Simpsons" is the actual worst episode ever. Listen as we struggle to make it through "Saddlesore Galactica," a tipping point between the classic "The Simpsons" of yesteryear and the pale imitation the show became. Did we make it through our first episode without breaking into song? Do we uncove...