All Simpsons Segments from The Tracey Ullman Show

 

To be honest, they're pretty rough but worth checking out as a historical artifact.

I remember The Simpsons being my favorite part of The Tracey Ullman Show and saw many of these when they aired. I liked The Simpsons before it was cool, blah, blah, blah.

A interesting facet of this era is that Maggie actually talks, though incoherently.

Game Grumps - Waterworld

 This is great.

Mr. T on The Simpsons (2003)

 What can one say about "The Simpsons?" It was one of the best shows ever made but then it jumped the shark ... and then it made another 20 seasons... and then it was never cancelled... and kept getting worse for eternity.

I have not made a full forensic audit of the show but judging by a single episode, it appears it was on the down slope in 2003. On the one hand, the episode has a never-ending string of gags and goofs and it's seeming smooth and effortless. And on the other hand, it's only jokes - the phenomenon of liking and caring about these characters is gone. It all seems soulless and empty.

Mr. T guests in the episode "Today, I am a Clown." In the episode, Krusty has never had a bar mitzvah so he gives himself one, turning the event into a TV special. Mr. T is one of the participants. Why Mr. T? Because jokes. Mr. T makes a bunch of Jewish jokes. Example: “I pity the fool who didn’t bring an envelope to this bar mitzvah.”

Still, it is two pop culture icons meeting each other and I am a sucker for Mr. T in cartoon form.

How to Solve Who Shot Mr. Burns

A pretty well done video re-examining the case of Who Shot Mr. Burns and giving some of the clues that were hidden throughout the episode.



I've never talked to enough people about it to know whether my answer was obvious or perhaps "too obvious" but I always thought it was "obvious" that it was the dog, Santa's Little Helper.

First, the dog was left in the car with the gun. Mr. Burns speaks to someone who doesn't speak back and he doesn't react as if that's a strange thing. And he says "I think you better drop it. I said drop it!" which is clearly a dog phrase. Plus, it being a non-human no one would go to jail and they could carry on the show as if nothing happened.

Even if you were going to go down the route that Mr. Burns points to W and S on the sundial to somehow give a clue as to who did it - I've never bought that idea for a second - but even if you were doing that he pointed to "S" and "M" for Simpson's Mutt.

So I've always thought that that's the answer and I was so convinced, so sure that I was right that I've never accepted the "real" answer. It wasn't Maggie, it was the dog! Like I said, maybe my answer is so obvious that it would be too obvious and was intended to throw people off. I don't know, I'd need to talk to more people to see. But the even greater mystery is: how could there be a massive nationwide contest and not one person actually guessed the right answer? That may be proof that the real answer really was objectively very stupid.