I've posted this on FB, but I don't actually know many of you in real life, so I'll post it here, too. (And because I value your opinion, of course.)
My wife and I are trying to put together a list of the ten best episodes of the Simpsons, and so far, we've been able to narrow it down to thirty. We're planning on watching and reviewing all thirty of these episodes and culling them down to fifteen, after which we'll rank them in order of preference for a top ten list. But that's just our opinion; we'd love to have others weigh in and help us out.
Here are the thirty we've been able to come up with (titles and seasons only, I'm afraid; I'm not up to writing thirty synopses here):
1. Bart the Murderer (S3)
2. Flaming Moe's (S3)
3. Radio Bart (S3)
4. Homer at the Bat (S3)
5. Seperate Vocations (S3)
6. Bart's Friend Falls in Love (S3)
7. Kamp Krusty (S4)
8. Marge vs. the Monorail (S4)
9. Selma's Choice (S4)
10. Brother from the Same Planet (S4)
11. Last Exit to Springfield (S4)
12. Krusty Gets Kancelled (S4)
13. Cape Feare (S5)
14. Rosebud (S5)
15. Boy-Scoutz'n the Hood (S5)
16. $pringfield (S5)
17. Homer the Vigilante (S5)
18. Deep Space Homer (S5)
19. Bart of Darkness (S6)
20. Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy (S6)
21. Homer the Great (S6)
22. A Star is Burns (S6)
23. Radioactive Man (S7)
24. Bart Sells His Soul (S7)
25. A Fish Called Selma (S7)
26. Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" (S7)
27. You Only Move Twice (S8)
28. Bart After Dark (S8)
29. Simpsoncallifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious (S8)
30. In Marge We Trust (S8)
(All listed by air date to prevent any of my personal bias coming through.)
Use any criteria you want to decide which are your favorites. And if you don't care to help or aren't particularly interested, well, hopefully you guys have fun watching them anyway. Or not watching them. Or whatever.