If there's a save, then giving it one star seems like poor choice.

Yeah, man. What the fuck?

Shearer walked off the show for that episode, but then offered him a raise.

For some reason, David X. Cohen considers the Armin Tamzerian episode the best thing he's ever written. He spends the entire commentary track being incredibly defensive and insisting that it's a work of brilliance and that people who dislike it don't watch The Simpsons the correct way.

The other folks on the track seem to be humoring him.

Nerds value internal consistency in their worlds, and I can dig it I guess, but in a show like The Simpsons where shit is constantly changing to fit this or that episode it's kind of tragic to see people flipping out because something broke their precious canon.

The episode itself was not amazing but come on.

I think most fans issue with the episode (which he completely fails to address) isn't messing with Skinner's backstory, but the fact that the episode simply isn't funny. It instead makes a lumbering attempt at doing a serious drama episode, and the result comes off like fanfiction.

Oh, okay.

Well I guess that's true.

It's an Albany expression.

I honestly think Steamed Hams deserves to be up with there Who's on First, Dead Parrot, and 10,000 Year Old Man. It's one of the greatest two-man comedy routines ever recorded.

largely improvised too, as I recall

!!!

I want proof of this.

Localized entirely in your kitchen.

Mhmm!

Shhhhh, some people here are very touchy about that subject.

An entire generation of kids will smoke pot and laugh at cartoons about yellow people.

I too have very strong views on a cartoon I enjoyed as an adolescent.

Although, my opinion differs in nuanced ways from yours so we are now the bitterest of enemies.

Adventure time. Flapjack. Chowder. Even the new Futurama is still pretty good.