Although now that I think about it, if they were casting The Simpsons MCU, Bart would probably end up as Spider-Man. Flanders would probably end up as either Bruce Banner or Captain America. (I guess that would make Homer/Marge Tony Stark and Pepper Potts in this analogy. But Homer is probably more of a Thor, personality wise. Whole thing gets messy quickly.)
I think the non character-focused nature of this episode works because the main character of the episode is the whole town in a sense, the real character arc is the development the community goes through as a whole. The ending isn't about Flanders but about everyone, Flanders is just a framing device. Maybe the writers were at a point where they built up the world so much they felt they could rely on it as the anchor of the episode rather than some specific characters. This would probably be a bad episode for someone who doesn't know anything about the side characters in the show, but it works when the viewer is deeply engaged with the world.
Yeah, this episode feels like one they could have only produced after the first 3 seasons or so. That was kinda what sparked the review. Even their bigger Springfield stories tend to involve one specific theme, one little character arc around someone in the Simpson family. But this one doesn't, and still decides to go for the heart-warming ending. It's kind of a miracle that this episode works so well.
What I like most about your Extra Seconds reviews is they bring attention to some really underrated episodes. Bart's Comet never comes up when people name their favourite episodes. Yet it has several hilarious and memorable jokes, such as 'oh dear god no', the balloon reveal, and Skinner's monologue about science, and it has an incredibly heartwarming end.
My fave underrated joke is Skinner grousing about having been scooped on an astronomical discovery by Principal Kahoutek, then saying in a sinister tone, "I got back at him, though. Him and that boy of his." Like, there's this whole seedy, cutthroat underworld of amateur astronomer principals with young boy assistants that we're only given the tiniest glimpse of.
There's nothing more exciting than this episode. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. This episode has it all
If this had been the season finale, I'm just imagining people going "Wait, is this the series finale? Are they really destroying Springfield? If it is the series finale, they could do it".
Well, the Dinosaurs TV show did it the previous year. Killed off the whole planet. It was pretty dark. So the Simpsons ending out with a bang like this wouldn't have been completely outside of context.
As a little dumb kid back in the day, this episode was my absolute favorite, and I could not describe why. I just felt that no other episode was like this one. Every minute of it just "clicked" for me. Thank you for finally formulating my young thoughts into words
There's a 4 AM? Top of the hour and now for the news...Of course there is no news because everyone's still asleep in their comfy comfy beds. Good night everyone.
4 AM is a magical time when you're a kid. As an adult it's usually a time when you get up either because you got to get to work or you just can't sleep.
Still the most disturbing moment is the scene with Maude saying ok to Ned leaving the bob shelter followed by Todd loading up the shotgun as he's sobbing. What a weird feeling.
AERODYNAMIK11 in her defence she offered once, nobody wants to die. But ye Todd with a shotgun is messed up especially since he knows his dads about to die
The funny thing is, even though I have watched this episode a million times, this might be the first time I actually realize that Flanders doesn't really play a part in most of the episode even though it looks like he is the main focus in the end. It's weird. But I guess it still works since the flow of the episode is so good. It follows Bart first, discovering the meteor and follows the whole Simpsons family when they have to decide what to do, and then they go to Flanders to seek cover and the focus shifts to him. It just works because it is all connected. Also, this episode has some great jokes.
Maybe they didn't originally plan for the person standing on the hill to be Flanders, it might have originally been just a random townsperson. They just found when they finished writing the ending, Flanders fit that role perfectly based on what we had learnt about him up to that point.
@@Tillyard86 I don't think they would just use a random person especially since Flanders becomes the focus so much once the Simpsons reach the bunker. Given Homers despise of Flanders I think they probably always written that part t o be him, since they needed Homer to vote someone out and Flanders made the most sense, even if he wasn't in the episode much before.
@@The_RedVIII A friend of mine had this idea for an alternative version of the scene where they are choosing who should leave the shelter. Basically, they would find that literally every person in there had some sort of purpose, except for one random townsperson that had never appeared before, a character created purely for the sake of this plot point, kind of like Disco Stu. In other words, a character the writers could quite easily kill off if they wanted to and it wouldn't affect the ongoing plot of the show. Therefore we the audience might actually think they were going to die. But then the rest of the town still join them on the hill at the end. My friend suggested they could go full lampshade and just have someone say "it's so strange that you seem to have no purpose in this town at all, no one knows you and you don't know any of us, it's almost like you were created by a writer of some sort to serve some kind of plot point." That was kind of why I suggested it might not always have been Flanders in the script.
This episode has one of my favorite bits. The whole segment with the fighter jets and the pilots arguing about taking money from the military only to have their parachutes disintegrate and culminating with them fist fighting after they hit the ground, never fails to make me laugh aloud. Honestly, the whole first 5 mins or so is amazing. Plus you get the dark/evil skinner joke with the principal Kohoutek which is named for an actual astronomer that discovered a comet in 1973. Honestly, I could go on and on about the writing in this episode being some of the best in the series, but I’ll leave it at this; Bart’s Comet is definitely a top 10 episode for me and if that upsets you, don’t curse me, curse the man who invented helium! Curse Pierre-Jules-Cesar Janssen!
I love when people quote memorable lines from the episodes in the comments. I had a friend who would often quote Simpsons' lines during a conversation or situation that would fit perfectly & it just cracked me up everytime.
I like the way the Big Butt Skinner weather balloon keeps coming back. It's the reason why Bart is made to work with Skinner in the first place, it's what distracts Skinner so Bart can discover the comet, and at the end it's destroyed by the comet and demonstrates how useless the Flanders' shelter would actually have been.
I never thought about it before but now that you mention it..."Bart's Comet" really could've (should've?) been fleshed out into a feature. I think it's even more fitting than "Kamp Krusty", the original planned feature.
I've been watching your videos a lot lately and as a huge fan of the Simpsons growing up (watching the full seasons all the time on DVD) it's very relaxing to just hear you talk about something I love so much in great detail. Love the videos and keep up the amazing work!
*From the vast emptiness of a night sky, that Bart's lack of appreciation for was solidified in Bart of Darkness, to the outside-looking-in reveal of Ned walking over a hill, alone, to face the sun and fate... Only for a sea of townspeople to join you, the show's family shows us that they stuck with each other despite the angry mob and bickering from earlier. Wonderful.*
Terrific episode! The Homer and Flanders stuff is a lot of stuff and the Bart and Skinner stuff is great too! I love any episode that features both or even one of those two classic character duos! It has plenty of fun laughs too! Definitely one of my favorite episodes of the season!
The jokes in this episode just land every time with me. Moe gets some of the best lines and it's also a very quotable episode. "I said it before and I say it again: Democracy simply doesn't work."
Was this Database's first appearance? It feels weird how they'll occasionally use him from time to time as being among Bart's "friends" along with Milhouse and Nelson.
Hey this channel inspired me to take a deeper dive into The Simpsons (I'd only ever watched it sporadically and had a season 3 dvd boxset as a small kid) Turns out I LOVE IT, the early seasons are amazing thanks so much for making this well-edited and thoughtful videos! I know a sound like an elderly person on facebook I just really appreciate the effort you put into these!
Hey Stephanie, thanks for leaving this comment. It's awesome hearing from people who re-discover The Simpsons and check out all those classic episodes! Glad you're enjoying them so much! :D
Fun fact - Pierre Jules César Janssen, the man who “invented” helium, was an astronomer. He theorized helium as being the element responsible for a spike in the light spectrum from certain stars. So the connection between the Skinner balloon and the astronomy in this episode not only goes way deeper than you thought, but they telegraph it onscreen in a way that almost nobody would ever recognize.
I remember the first act of this episode very well, but for some reason, I can't remember much of the rest. I think every time it reran, I got pulled away from the TV.
At the height of the coronavirus crisis i thought about this episode a lot. It was at the same time relatable and heartwarming. I live in brazil. Close to 2000 deaths per day. There are people dying as i speak. Dealing with the sentiment of impotency without resenting yourself from the things that you love is hard. Like, really hard. At this point we've got used to this nightmare. It will end, sooner or later. Some people try to ignore it completely which by the way is astoundingly selfish, some embrace it to the extent of spreading fatalistic melodrama. I do neither of those things. I try to cope with the sad reality of losing loved ones and at the same time learning how to keep my head up during tough times like this. I am not a god. I dont have control over these once in a lifetime extraordinary situations i may or may not go through during my life. Dealing with it is essential to remain sane. So, i look up to flander's serendipity when facing what is, possibly, his last day on earth. Of course im bummed out by it, but you know what? I wont let these fantastical ddestinythings get in the way of my personal faith, my enthusiastic childlike way of living life. If this is the end, it shall be a peaceful, forgiving end. Fortunatelly, slowly but surely, things are getting better. This isnt the end of the world as we know it (sorry r.e.m). But those weeks of true personal terror and uncertaity made me appreciate this gem of an episode even more. Was already personal favorite, grew on me even more.
Just absolutely stellar breakdown. I have seen this episode about 200 times (no kidding, it's one of my favorites) and came to the same conclusion you came too, that is a very long 22 minutes.
@@freckleonmylumpsack6031 Nah, it's pretty easy. Just watch every episode from the first 8 Seasons at least 10 times and then you know most of the stuff.
I completly forgot this was a season 6 episode. For some reason I kinda remember this episode as being much later in the series. At the very least late season 7. I find it funny also that you didn't put "Bart Sells his Soul" in your top tier list, considering your history with that episode.
It's weird, when I was picking out episodes for that Tier List, I was like, "Which of these have I already over-praised on this channel?" I think doing Top 10s messes me up where I get hesitant to randomly spoil stuff for future videos, lol
One of my favourite parts of this episode is right at the end where the comet broke up in the atmosphere to become no bigger than a chihuahua's head, just like Homer said it would after every other avenue was gone (they even had the chihuahua there on the hill next to Bart when he picks it up for reference). The part I love is when Lisa acknowledges that it was exactly what her dad said would happen and she, Bart and Homer hold each other as they're both scared because Homer was actually right
Flanders doesn't believe in insurance he feels it's a form of gambling but a bomb shelter and escape room is fine! I just love ned he's like this calm simple crazy timebomb FLANDER'S your the devil?
"So while everyone else is sitting around, twiddling their thumbs and going, 'Dee dee do, do, do dee do, do do do do di du di do do, dee dee dee doo dee doo do, do, do do do, dum dum see du doo, do do dee dee dee dee du do, do..." That part just gets funnier every time I think about it! Lol!
One of my favorite comedic bits of all time is the scene of the two fighter pilots talking about 'taking money from the military and putting it into healthcare"...only to disagree, land on the ground safely then commence to beating the shit out of each other. I dont know why I always find it so hilarious but it cracks me up every single time.
I love the calmness that follows when he's driving to calmwood mental hospital.... "I think there in the den" "in the den! May God have mercy on us all"
8:59 idk what's worse about this frame, Homer's nose being the wrong color, Apu being the wrong color, or Krusty's face just looking like he's seen some shit.
Perhaps this is just me, but I used to have the misconception that it's the popped Skinner balloon that hits the shelter at the end and causes it to collapse. Finally on my latest rewatch I noticed that actually it's just the shrunken comet itself that hits the building. I was a bit disappointed by this realisation because I loved the idea of the balloon being a Chekhov's gun that's vital to the final plot twist rather than just reappearing for a callback gag that doesn't affect the plot. I guess a balloon destroying a building would have been less believable. Still one of my absolute favorite episodes of the entire show, though.
You're 5k up on subs since I joined. I appreciate, so much, modern Simpsons content. You're phycology is dead on though. You're grounded and throw to the side certain off-beat inconsistencies like I do, knowing writers will be writers. Don't change whatever you do.
I just thought that this Bart's Comet episode goes though the 5 stages of grief. Similar to Majora's Mask when that clip was in the video I instantly thought of that. Shock, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Grief and Acceptance when Ned Flanders was alone on the hill before everyone joined him.
The fighter jet sequence blows my mind with how tangential it gets. Great example of humor that keeps on building on itself to the point of brilliant absurdity.
I have to add possibly my fave joke from this episode. They’re all crammed into the bomb shelter, and they’re starting to bicker. Barney demands, “WHO’S touchin’ me?!” And Skinner goes, “I am!” And Barney, joyfully, “OH! Okay!” 😍 lmao 🤣 This episode is possibly my fave from this season! This video helped me figure out another one of the countless jokes that never fails to make me laugh!
One of the best written episodes in the whole series. The story arc of the balloon, from being the genesis of the story to its tragic end by the meteor, being perfect.
Oh, come on! I'm shocked that you didn't comment on Homer predicting the comet would burn up and then the comet actually burns up. That's one of the best parts of the whole episode.
It'd be interesting to see a deep dive on the tier list. Not rank every episode obviously but maybe some highlights of each tier and observations about what causes episodes to fall into each tier.
Showing a town reacting outrageously to their impending doom, with the EXCEPTION of Ned Flanders, is in itself, a bit of a foreshadowing of the Flanders scene. Flanders is very disconnected from the town throughout the episode because he is arguably the safest. But that makes him a more obvious target to jettison. Not that they SHOULD, but on the face of it, it's not the MOST surprising.
When Daria did their musical episode (which was the style at the time), I remembered seeing an ad for it where there was a scene just like the one at the end here w/ the crowd singing "Que Sera Sera" or one that sounds a lot like it. Of course this wasn't in the final episode, so perhaps I was just blurring the two memories together. Did anyone else remember seeing said ad?
When I was a child, this episode gave me a fear of meteors/asteroids, including thinking I would see one every time I looked at the sky, and having nightmares about the end of the world almost every night. Sometimes the nightmares were different, and the moon crashing into Earth actually was one of them, but it took a few years for me to get over that.
Hey Jim, another good episode to review is Homer Badman. I just finished rewatching it and I’m surprised at how relevant it is this day in age. Just some food for thought.
RIP Doris Day
Yes, RIP to one of the greats. The announcement shook me a little this morning, since I had so recently referenced her in the video. Que sera sera :(
TheRealJims bruh, you’re catching the Simpsons Knack for the divination.
*"I love you, a bushel and a peck" is something I'd expect Marge to sing to the kids when they're at military school/Kamp.*
Dad burned a CD of her stuff for my mom for Christmas. Very next day she died.
That's right, Mr. Burns was actually shot by Big Butt Skinner.
Omg
Buttzilla
Ned singing alone on that hill almost made me cry as a kid. I was so happy when the whole town sang along.
Mr. Bump 2.0 me too, also I think this was the first time I heard that song to, it was sad and beautiful
billy g first time I heard that song too
Whatever will be, will be
This + the Fugu episode
i don't feel so good, neighborino...
I don’t wanna go neighborino...
Although now that I think about it, if they were casting The Simpsons MCU, Bart would probably end up as Spider-Man. Flanders would probably end up as either Bruce Banner or Captain America.
(I guess that would make Homer/Marge Tony Stark and Pepper Potts in this analogy. But Homer is probably more of a Thor, personality wise. Whole thing gets messy quickly.)
@@TheRealJims Who's Thanos then?
@@FlymanMS Either Mr.Burns just for hilarity, or Sideshow Bob. (can't of any buff characters that would fit as Thanos)
@@scifiguy9000 I think Bob suits better. Mr Burns has more of Obadiah Stane vibe.
I think the non character-focused nature of this episode works because the main character of the episode is the whole town in a sense, the real character arc is the development the community goes through as a whole. The ending isn't about Flanders but about everyone, Flanders is just a framing device. Maybe the writers were at a point where they built up the world so much they felt they could rely on it as the anchor of the episode rather than some specific characters. This would probably be a bad episode for someone who doesn't know anything about the side characters in the show, but it works when the viewer is deeply engaged with the world.
Yeah, this episode feels like one they could have only produced after the first 3 seasons or so. That was kinda what sparked the review. Even their bigger Springfield stories tend to involve one specific theme, one little character arc around someone in the Simpson family. But this one doesn't, and still decides to go for the heart-warming ending. It's kind of a miracle that this episode works so well.
@@TheRealJims too an extent this episode also kinda gets redone a few years later as the Hey Arnold! episode'Sally's Comet'
@@TheRealJims This is probably the definition of an episode that "shouldn't work, but somehow does."
What I like most about your Extra Seconds reviews is they bring attention to some really underrated episodes. Bart's Comet never comes up when people name their favourite episodes. Yet it has several hilarious and memorable jokes, such as 'oh dear god no', the balloon reveal, and Skinner's monologue about science, and it has an incredibly heartwarming end.
to me, it's always been one of my top episodes.
Its my favorite
My fave underrated joke is Skinner grousing about having been scooped on an astronomical discovery by Principal Kahoutek, then saying in a sinister tone, "I got back at him, though. Him and that boy of his."
Like, there's this whole seedy, cutthroat underworld of amateur astronomer principals with young boy assistants that we're only given the tiniest glimpse of.
There's nothing more exciting than this episode. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. This episode has it all
Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, twenty-two minutes declination... no sighting.
-You got that, Bart?
-Hell no.
-Good.
thats such a skinner joke
Prez Sez School is for losers
Harry Shearer understands how to make something be funny BECAUSE it's boring.
If this had been the season finale, I'm just imagining people going "Wait, is this the series finale? Are they really destroying Springfield? If it is the series finale, they could do it".
"By god if Little House on the Prarie could do it, so can we!" - A Simpsons writer, probably
Well, the Dinosaurs TV show did it the previous year. Killed off the whole planet. It was pretty dark. So the Simpsons ending out with a bang like this wouldn't have been completely outside of context.
As a little dumb kid back in the day, this episode was my absolute favorite, and I could not describe why.
I just felt that no other episode was like this one. Every minute of it just "clicked" for me.
Thank you for finally formulating my young thoughts into words
I’m less impressed by Homer being right about the comet than I am about him getting the baby ox in the farm animal game
There's a 4 AM?
Top of the hour and now for the news...Of course there is no news because everyone's still asleep in their comfy comfy beds. Good night everyone.
4 AM is a magical time when you're a kid. As an adult it's usually a time when you get up either because you got to get to work or you just can't sleep.
Good night ShadowBlazer!!
@@FlymanMS it's still magical
@Disobedient Nomead me too, but only cuz I'm still up, not because I just woke up
BTW it is 3:36am as a write this lol
with their wife
Still the most disturbing moment is the scene with Maude saying ok to Ned leaving the bob shelter followed by Todd loading up the shotgun as he's sobbing. What a weird feeling.
AERODYNAMIK11 in her defence she offered once, nobody wants to die. But ye Todd with a shotgun is messed up especially since he knows his dads about to die
Todd, you're the man of the house now
The funny thing is, even though I have watched this episode a million times, this might be the first time I actually realize that Flanders doesn't really play a part in most of the episode even though it looks like he is the main focus in the end. It's weird. But I guess it still works since the flow of the episode is so good. It follows Bart first, discovering the meteor and follows the whole Simpsons family when they have to decide what to do, and then they go to Flanders to seek cover and the focus shifts to him. It just works because it is all connected. Also, this episode has some great jokes.
Me too, now I’m starting to think if this has happened in other episodes too. Time for a simpsons scavenger hunt.
Maybe they didn't originally plan for the person standing on the hill to be Flanders, it might have originally been just a random townsperson. They just found when they finished writing the ending, Flanders fit that role perfectly based on what we had learnt about him up to that point.
@@Tillyard86 I don't think they would just use a random person especially since Flanders becomes the focus so much once the Simpsons reach the bunker. Given Homers despise of Flanders I think they probably always written that part t o be him, since they needed Homer to vote someone out and Flanders made the most sense, even if he wasn't in the episode much before.
@@The_RedVIII A friend of mine had this idea for an alternative version of the scene where they are choosing who should leave the shelter.
Basically, they would find that literally every person in there had some sort of purpose, except for one random townsperson that had never appeared before, a character created purely for the sake of this plot point, kind of like Disco Stu.
In other words, a character the writers could quite easily kill off if they wanted to and it wouldn't affect the ongoing plot of the show. Therefore we the audience might actually think they were going to die. But then the rest of the town still join them on the hill at the end.
My friend suggested they could go full lampshade and just have someone say "it's so strange that you seem to have no purpose in this town at all, no one knows you and you don't know any of us, it's almost like you were created by a writer of some sort to serve some kind of plot point."
That was kind of why I suggested it might not always have been Flanders in the script.
4am for bart: wakes up
4am for me: goes to bed
This episode has one of my favorite bits. The whole segment with the fighter jets and the pilots arguing about taking money from the military only to have their parachutes disintegrate and culminating with them fist fighting after they hit the ground, never fails to make me laugh aloud. Honestly, the whole first 5 mins or so is amazing. Plus you get the dark/evil skinner joke with the principal Kohoutek which is named for an actual astronomer that discovered a comet in 1973. Honestly, I could go on and on about the writing in this episode being some of the best in the series, but I’ll leave it at this; Bart’s Comet is definitely a top 10 episode for me and if that upsets you, don’t curse me, curse the man who invented helium! Curse Pierre-Jules-Cesar Janssen!
I love when people quote memorable lines from the episodes in the comments. I had a friend who would often quote Simpsons' lines during a conversation or situation that would fit perfectly & it just cracked me up everytime.
Didn't we all?
Any examples?
I honestly cant think of any.... but they were so good. Wish I could.
@@britann9539 Maybe a little morphine would refresh my memory.
Look out, Itchy! He's Irish!
"did you get that bart?"
"hell no"
"good"
7:14 - I liked that 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Shelter", the Simpsons shelter scene did a great job homaging it
I like the way the Big Butt Skinner weather balloon keeps coming back. It's the reason why Bart is made to work with Skinner in the first place, it's what distracts Skinner so Bart can discover the comet, and at the end it's destroyed by the comet and demonstrates how useless the Flanders' shelter would actually have been.
"Let's burn the observatory, so this would never happen again!"
I never thought about it before but now that you mention it..."Bart's Comet" really could've (should've?) been fleshed out into a feature. I think it's even more fitting than "Kamp Krusty", the original planned feature.
Considering that many animes get multiple movies, it would have been cool to have both episodes be Simpsons movies.
What did you think of the video? *Comet* down below...
**whack**
hah
Meh
@AlkisenSuper: GET THE FUCK OUTA HERE!!! ---->
This is one episode I always forget about but I always enjoy watching. The scene with Ned was really good
From all the places I've seen your ass commenting, this is by far the one I least expected
I've been watching your videos a lot lately and as a huge fan of the Simpsons growing up (watching the full seasons all the time on DVD) it's very relaxing to just hear you talk about something I love so much in great detail. Love the videos and keep up the amazing work!
Simpson's Showdown idea:
The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show vs The Day the Violence Died
Oooh that’s a good one
aka. The Simpsons ruin cartoons duology.
*From the vast emptiness of a night sky, that Bart's lack of appreciation for was solidified in Bart of Darkness, to the outside-looking-in reveal of Ned walking over a hill, alone, to face the sun and fate... Only for a sea of townspeople to join you, the show's family shows us that they stuck with each other despite the angry mob and bickering from earlier. Wonderful.*
I haven't seen this episode for years. I had to pause the video and watch the episode again. So many jokes I missed as a kid.
If Bart hadn't had those photos and blueprint on him when Skinner confronted him, the whole episode might not have happened.
But the comet would still exist, and come towards Springfield, but if Bart didn’t get in trouble, act 1 might not have exist, just act 2 and 3
Terrific episode! The Homer and Flanders stuff is a lot of stuff and the Bart and Skinner stuff is great too! I love any episode that features both or even one of those two classic character duos! It has plenty of fun laughs too! Definitely one of my favorite episodes of the season!
The jokes in this episode just land every time with me. Moe gets some of the best lines and it's also a very quotable episode.
"I said it before and I say it again: Democracy simply doesn't work."
Was this Database's first appearance? It feels weird how they'll occasionally use him from time to time as being among Bart's "friends" along with Milhouse and Nelson.
Hey this channel inspired me to take a deeper dive into The Simpsons (I'd only ever watched it sporadically and had a season 3 dvd boxset as a small kid) Turns out I LOVE IT, the early seasons are amazing thanks so much for making this well-edited and thoughtful videos! I know a sound like an elderly person on facebook I just really appreciate the effort you put into these!
Hey Stephanie, thanks for leaving this comment. It's awesome hearing from people who re-discover The Simpsons and check out all those classic episodes! Glad you're enjoying them so much! :D
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This is one of my favorite episodes mainly because of the Iraqi Fighter Jet gag, the 4am vibes, and the overall great writing. It’s a 10/10 for me.
8:59 Homer's blue nose lmao
Mac Monkeyhat and Apu being yellow...
Boy I really hope someone got fired for that blunder
@@connorcorn7309 A wizard did it.
+Mac Monkeyhat
How the hell did that happen?
Fun fact - Pierre Jules César Janssen, the man who “invented” helium, was an astronomer. He theorized helium as being the element responsible for a spike in the light spectrum from certain stars. So the connection between the Skinner balloon and the astronomy in this episode not only goes way deeper than you thought, but they telegraph it onscreen in a way that almost nobody would ever recognize.
I remember the first act of this episode very well, but for some reason, I can't remember much of the rest. I think every time it reran, I got pulled away from the TV.
And now for the news: there is no news yet, because everyone's still asleep.
Some guy named Quy Tran sole your Simpsons Timeline Present video and reposted it with the same name.
Personally, I LOVE getting up early. Something about that still, serene tranquility of the pre-dawn hours really appeals to me
Great video. This is by far the best simpsons channel on youtube. Keep em coming!
At the height of the coronavirus crisis i thought about this episode a lot. It was at the same time relatable and heartwarming. I live in brazil. Close to 2000 deaths per day. There are people dying as i speak. Dealing with the sentiment of impotency without resenting yourself from the things that you love is hard. Like, really hard. At this point we've got used to this nightmare. It will end, sooner or later. Some people try to ignore it completely which by the way is astoundingly selfish, some embrace it to the extent of spreading fatalistic melodrama. I do neither of those things. I try to cope with the sad reality of losing loved ones and at the same time learning how to keep my head up during tough times like this. I am not a god. I dont have control over these once in a lifetime extraordinary situations i may or may not go through during my life. Dealing with it is essential to remain sane. So, i look up to flander's serendipity when facing what is, possibly, his last day on earth. Of course im bummed out by it, but you know what? I wont let these fantastical ddestinythings get in the way of my personal faith, my enthusiastic childlike way of living life. If this is the end, it shall be a peaceful, forgiving end. Fortunatelly, slowly but surely, things are getting better. This isnt the end of the world as we know it (sorry r.e.m). But those weeks of true personal terror and uncertaity made me appreciate this gem of an episode even more. Was already personal favorite, grew on me even more.
You got through a whole review of this without mentioning Principal Kahoutek... and that little boy of his?
Peter McAlinden lmao 😂 that was one of the funniest jokes in the episode and I forgot about it
Wow watched this video just for that joke so good
Reminds you that Skinner really is suffering deeply from ptsd from Vietnam
Just absolutely stellar breakdown. I have seen this episode about 200 times (no kidding, it's one of my favorites) and came to the same conclusion you came too, that is a very long 22 minutes.
How ist it, that i cean hear the jokes and even full dialogue in my head, just by looking at a single frame?
Damn i wish i had a memory like yours
@@freckleonmylumpsack6031 Nah, it's pretty easy. Just watch every episode from the first 8 Seasons at least 10 times and then you know most of the stuff.
@@ozzydio7233 bahah okay i get you :)
I completly forgot this was a season 6 episode. For some reason I kinda remember this episode as being much later in the series. At the very least late season 7.
I find it funny also that you didn't put "Bart Sells his Soul" in your top tier list, considering your history with that episode.
It's weird, when I was picking out episodes for that Tier List, I was like, "Which of these have I already over-praised on this channel?" I think doing Top 10s messes me up where I get hesitant to randomly spoil stuff for future videos, lol
Could you do (or have you done) an Extra Seconds on Last Exit to Springfield?
It's my favourite episode barely beating out You Only Move Twice.
There's a 4.30 in the morning now?
Yes but remember there is no news because everyone's still asleep in their comfy beds.
@@Tillyard86 "Mom, can you make me some breakfast?" "hmm there's a stuffed pepper in the trash from last night, just rinse it real good"
One of my favourite parts of this episode is right at the end where the comet broke up in the atmosphere to become no bigger than a chihuahua's head, just like Homer said it would after every other avenue was gone (they even had the chihuahua there on the hill next to Bart when he picks it up for reference). The part I love is when Lisa acknowledges that it was exactly what her dad said would happen and she, Bart and Homer hold each other as they're both scared because Homer was actually right
Flanders doesn't believe in insurance he feels it's a form of gambling but a bomb shelter and escape room is fine! I just love ned he's like this calm simple crazy timebomb FLANDER'S your the devil?
"So while everyone else is sitting around, twiddling their thumbs and going, 'Dee dee do, do, do dee do, do do do do di du di do do, dee dee dee doo dee doo do, do, do do do, dum dum see du doo, do do dee dee dee dee du do, do..."
That part just gets funnier every time I think about it! Lol!
One of my favorite comedic bits of all time is the scene of the two fighter pilots talking about 'taking money from the military and putting it into healthcare"...only to disagree, land on the ground safely then commence to beating the shit out of each other.
I dont know why I always find it so hilarious but it cracks me up every single time.
Can you do hurricane neddy? Its one of my favorites
Same!
Ah hell, diddly, ding-dong crap!
I love the calmness that follows when he's driving to calmwood mental hospital.... "I think there in the den" "in the den! May God have mercy on us all"
Can't you see this barnyard noise guessing game is tearing us apart?!
8:59 idk what's worse about this frame, Homer's nose being the wrong color, Apu being the wrong color, or Krusty's face just looking like he's seen some shit.
Perhaps this is just me, but I used to have the misconception that it's the popped Skinner balloon that hits the shelter at the end and causes it to collapse. Finally on my latest rewatch I noticed that actually it's just the shrunken comet itself that hits the building. I was a bit disappointed by this realisation because I loved the idea of the balloon being a Chekhov's gun that's vital to the final plot twist rather than just reappearing for a callback gag that doesn't affect the plot. I guess a balloon destroying a building would have been less believable.
Still one of my absolute favorite episodes of the entire show, though.
Apu is yellow at 8:59, help.
You have quite the eye! I have seen this episode at least 15 times, but never noticed it.
I am 34. Did telling you that help?
@@camelopardalis84 Yes, I enjoy to know the ages of people who enjoy these
@@Chrisbajs I just realized in the same shot, Homer's nose is blue. It's fun to look out for these goofs in the older seasons.
@@frostdragon64 So relieved I help and didn't make the situation even worse! Anytime, frostdragon64, anytime. I'm there for you.
You're 5k up on subs since I joined. I appreciate, so much, modern Simpsons content. You're phycology is dead on though. You're grounded and throw to the side certain off-beat inconsistencies like I do, knowing writers will be writers. Don't change whatever you do.
Thanks!
Oh, how I love this channel.
I just thought that this Bart's Comet episode goes though the 5 stages of grief.
Similar to Majora's Mask when that clip was in the video I instantly thought of that.
Shock, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Grief and Acceptance when Ned Flanders was alone on the hill before everyone joined him.
Groening is on record not liking Database? He, and all of the nerds, are so awesome.
I think Bart's Comet might be my favourite episode I've seen so far (about 40 or so)
The 3 stooges joke was a joke about your imagination being needed to see constellations, that's how i always took it.
Super glad we got a video about this. I really enjoy the one minute reviews but deep dive is also nice.
The fighter jet sequence blows my mind with how tangential it gets. Great example of humor that keeps on building on itself to the point of brilliant absurdity.
The thing that bugged me was that the "only bridge out of town" got destroyed.
But they have a harbor!;) !!
I like how you very briefly went back to your "F" episodes. Also, good video in general.
I have to add possibly my fave joke from this episode. They’re all crammed into the bomb shelter, and they’re starting to bicker. Barney demands, “WHO’S touchin’ me?!” And Skinner goes, “I am!” And Barney, joyfully, “OH! Okay!” 😍 lmao 🤣 This episode is possibly my fave from this season! This video helped me figure out another one of the countless jokes that never fails to make me laugh!
One of my favourite episodes. Great analysis.
PD Why is Apu yellow at 9:00?
Rubén Castañeda Sosa Animation error
Wizards did it
keep up the good work, watch these for hours
Great review and analysis of a great episode
We ain't got shelter-inis
One of the best written episodes in the whole series. The story arc of the balloon, from being the genesis of the story to its tragic end by the meteor, being perfect.
2:37 You can't deny that a Three Stooges joke is very Swartzweldian...
Brilliant episode!
Amazing video! I love your stuff so much!
Oh, come on! I'm shocked that you didn't comment on Homer predicting the comet would burn up and then the comet actually burns up. That's one of the best parts of the whole episode.
I had to pause this video and laugh for about 15 minutes because you reminded me of that James Brown line.
I always find this episode incredibly tempting on a rewatch. It is a really rewatch-able episode
The background music sounds like it would fit an original Wii title or menu program.
"Eeeeeeuuughougheuogheuogh" - Baby Ox
lisa: it was a pony I tells ya....I love when shes a kid...
I love how you analyze episodes
To this day, I have frequent cause to exclaim "There's a four o'clock in the *morning* now?"
It'd be interesting to see a deep dive on the tier list. Not rank every episode obviously but maybe some highlights of each tier and observations about what causes episodes to fall into each tier.
this could conceviably be an episode that could be turned into the shows finale
419 likes, 0 dislikes. You sir, have some of the best content on the whole platform.
8:22 that’s what the Paper Mario games are about
Showing a town reacting outrageously to their impending doom, with the EXCEPTION of Ned Flanders, is in itself, a bit of a foreshadowing of the Flanders scene. Flanders is very disconnected from the town throughout the episode because he is arguably the safest. But that makes him a more obvious target to jettison. Not that they SHOULD, but on the face of it, it's not the MOST surprising.
When Daria did their musical episode (which was the style at the time), I remembered seeing an ad for it where there was a scene just like the one at the end here w/ the crowd singing "Que Sera Sera" or one that sounds a lot like it. Of course this wasn't in the final episode, so perhaps I was just blurring the two memories together.
Did anyone else remember seeing said ad?
i don't remember the ad. still a decent episode
Ned must have used the same construction company on his bomb shelter as he did his house.
It was a baby ox
Did anyone else find Waldo in the first shot of everyone in the bunker?
Just recently
I found Wally/Waldo when they are all stuck in Flanders' shelter.
When I was a child, this episode gave me a fear of meteors/asteroids, including thinking I would see one every time I looked at the sky, and having nightmares about the end of the world almost every night. Sometimes the nightmares were different, and the moon crashing into Earth actually was one of them, but it took a few years for me to get over that.
Have a play with majora's mask
@@dontspikemydrink9382 I've seen pictures of it and even those are disgustingly creepy without context.
Hey Jim, another good episode to review is Homer Badman. I just finished rewatching it and I’m surprised at how relevant it is this day in age. Just some food for thought.
YOU HAVE TO DO A SIMPSONS TIER LIST
Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, twenty two minutes declination... no shitpost.
0 dislikes. wonderful :)
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Whatever hapopened to Database? I totally forgot about him.
alZiiHardstylez Matt Greoning hates him so he rarely gets in an episode