Yeah I think there are enough good bits to make them fun as I flick through with my daughter on D+.
But it’s a good example of an episode form that was frustrating when you were waiting a week for a new episode and instead of a proper story you got this?!
It’s nowhere near as bad as it could be, but Bart the Lover always seems a bit mean-spirited. Catfishing your teacher because you got detention? Tbf, Bart doea feel bad about it, but still.
Honestly most of season 2 can get in the bin, cba, season 3 is when it started to get better imo, its too angsty, i prefer the lighthearted stupid homer and storylines. Dont like the animation either. 3 men and a comic book is particularly annoying, it always used to come on tv at one point and it’s shit
Just had a thought: I wonder if Family Guy was entirely created cos Seth Green thought that the way the Simpsons Halloween episodes constantly jumps around plots at random should happen after every single fucking line.
Rewatching Season 2 I love how naive and simple some of the plotlines are. Sometimes it lands and is really affecting (end of Simpson and Delilah) but sometimes it just comes across as too cliché. Season 2 isn’t up there with the best, but it’s still really, really good.
It started to get brilliant on Lisa’s Substitute (end of Season 2). The run of that/War of the Simpsons/ Three Men and a Comic Book / Blood Feud is up there with the best of Season 3 IMO.
The episodes I dislike are ones with typical sitcom endings, like Mr Lisa Goes to Washington and When Flanders Failed. They’re too sappy and simplistic.