Seasons 2 - 8 were when The Simpsons were on their long role. After the sorta crudely sketched, not quite set up and established first season and before their permanent nose dive around Season 9 and the awful "Principal and the pauper", the show had 7 fabulous years.
"Brush with Greatness", where do I start with why it was great? The great and funny parts that made me laugh were:
The Krusty the klown show advertising Mount Splashmore and the song with Krusty singing in a yelling voice, "I wanna go to Mount Splashmore, take me take me take me now!, Now! Now! Now! Now! Now!, Mt Splashmore take me there right now".
Bart and Lisa asking Homer repeatedly "can we go to Mt Splashmore?can we go to Mt Splashmore? can we go to Mt Splashmore?" with Homer saying "no" after each time asked with the tone of his "nos" getting angrier each time until he's yelling "NO!!!", "NOOO!!!", "NOO!!!", NOOOO!!!!".
Homer looking fatter than usually and him not quite fitting in the car while still having the seat pushed all the way back scrunching Lisa.
Homer getting stuck in the waterslide pipe, along with people booing and Kent Brockman's news report on it.
Fat Homer watching the commercial for the "goodmorning burger" topped with a fried egg, rich creamery butter, and Lisa then expressing her concern for him and him responding "oh Lisa, thats a load of rich, creamery butter".
Homer ordering the "subliminally slim" cassette tape, them being out, and the people at the company, one guy saying "eh, just sendem a vocabulary builder", then saying to the vocab tape and box its in hes about to send to Homer "here ya go fatso".
Every time Homer talks after getting the vocabulary builder tape, one example is "my triumpherate of twinkies overwhelms my resolve".
The Sinclare character of the painting art teacher and critic that Marge sees when she starts painting a lot. Sinclare is played by Jon Lovitz (who also played the theater director in "a streetcare named Marge". I liked how Sinclare is wowed by everything saying "marvelous!" or "splendid!" to Marge's paintings, and even to a janitor scrubbing the floor. He praises everyone and everything, but then as soon as Marge even starts to thank Sinclare for his helping her, he suddenly angrily says "please Marge, I don't TAKE PRAISE VERY WELL!!!!" Hilarious!!
The entire section of Mr. Burns at the Simpson house with Marge painting him. Those scenes had some very funny lines and very funny jokes. I won't reveal any more. There ARE a good number of other funny things in this episode that I have still not written in my review here. I have written enough of them and feel it would be a mistake to name them all here, in case someone reading this hasn't seen the episode or hasn't seen it in a long time.
