"D'Oh!" "A Deer!" "A Female Deer."

Not to smash your idealism yet again ... It appears that Fox ripped off The Simpsons from a lesser known Tezuka Productions' Mr. Sparkle Big Bad Donkey Wrestler. Apparently the main character in the Tezuka production from the 1950s-60s was named Gomer Sparkle. I mean, just look at that pic!

But seriously, I thought I would get on Garet's good side and post my top twenty favorite Simpsons episodes. He is the biggest Simpsons fan that I currently know.

I have posted my ranking, the episode number, the title and the date it aired. If you want to know what episode I am referring to then I suggest a visit to The Simpsons TV Tome page.

You'll notice that the episodes come exclusively from the first nine seasons and predominately from season five. I really think the show went down hill in terms of its writing after season nine. Oh, well.

20) 136) Mother Simpson – 11-19-95
19) 56) Black Widower – 4-9-92
18) 78) The Front – 4-15-93
17) 77) So It Has Come To This – 1-1-93
16) 115) Homer the Great – 1-8-95
15) 181) Lisa’s Sax – 10-19-97
14) 84) Homer Goes to College – 10-14-93
13) 157) Burns Baby Burns – 11-17-96
12) 104) Bart of Darkness – 9-4-94
11) 176) Homer’s Enemy – 5-4-97
10) 89) Boy Scoutz N the Hood – 11-18-93
9) 92) Homer the Vigilante – 1-6-94
8) 85) Rosebud – 10-21-93
7) 98) Bart Gets an Elephant – 3-31-94
6) 86) Tree House of Horror IV – 10-28-93
5) 83) Cape Feare – 10-7-93
4) 82) Homer’s Barbershop Quartet – 11-30-93
3) 109) Tree House of Horror V – 10-30-94
2) 171) Homer vs. the 18th Amendment – 3-16-97
1) 60) Kamp Krusty – 11-24-92