True moving moments

How about a list of some true moving and serious moments and dialogues from the show? What a difference to the stupid fart humour of today.

One of my favourite moments comes from "Old Money" when Grampa asks Lisa why she thinks that she deserves his money and Lisa replies.

[serious] "I don�t deserve it. Nobody here does. The people who deserve it are on the streets, and they're in the slums. They're little children who need more library books, and they're families who can't make ends meet." [happy] "Of course, if you really wanted to, you could buy me a pony."

Great scene and quote. Serious and sad but also showing Lisa as an 8-year-old child and not as a stereotypical mini adult.

Another great moment from the same episode is when Grampa sadly looks at his wrinkled hands and finally decides to spend his money for the old people. "Dignity is on me." What a season.

Anybody knows some other great and moving moments?

Chris

Mr. Bergstrom's note to Lisa: "You are Lisa Simpson."

The moment in the very first televised series episode, "Simpsons Roasting Over an Open Fire," where Homer tells Bart that "Sometimes your face is the only thing that keeps me going!" (Kind of surprising after seeing the Homer-chokes-Bart themes of the earlier episodes.)

Bart at military school, cheering Lisa on during the Eliminator- "C'mon Lisa! You can do it! I know you can! I believe in you!"

I'd say it was when Bart bought Lisa the Bleeding Gums Album.

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The end of the episode where Bart sells his soul to Milhouse. Lisa buys Bart's soul and returns it to him after he prays. I don't exactly remember the quote, but it was something to the tune of, "we are not born with a soul, it is something that can only be attained through prayer and sacrifice like you did last night." It was a good moment.

Scott

The Platypus is the lowest order of mamalian life, It has a multi-purpose orifice and no teats, Every year 13 platipi are killed for their ducklike bills.

The speech that Homer gives Bart and Lisa when he's in the hospital for his bypass.

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ANNE: What did you say your job was again? JONATHAN: I'm an obstetrician-gynecologist ANNE: Hmm, well I'll keep my feet on the ground, then. --"Weakest Link," April 18, 2001

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The closing credits from the episode with Homer's mother. I kept waiting for the gag that should have been at the end, and when it didn't come, my cynicism was replaced by a wave of emotion.

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Yes, that reminds of the good old days, when The Simpsons balanced humour and sentiment with such consummate skill. Now it appears to have neither, and settles for an endless procession of fart and sex jokes with a mere wisp of a plot (and more often than not a weak ending). It takes real talent to simultaniously move and amuse the audience at the same time, talent that ia apparently beyond the current crop of writers. Yes, those were the days indeed (sigh)...

Lisa!

The whole Military Shcool episode (except for the first five minutes) was extremely moving. And very cruel. E.g. when Lisa listens to the tape from Marge.

Another one comes to mind: The "Bart vs Thanksgiving" episode, where Bart looks deeply inside himself. "This is stupid! I'm not gonna find anything... Just because I burned her center-piece and made her cr- .. uhoh!"

The episode involving Homer's mother, especially the end.

-Rich

--Homer's office at work covered with Maggie photos hiding the message from Burns (I forget what it was), and it says "Do it for her".

--In the hockey episode, were Bart and Lisa remember growing up together before Bart's penalty shot.

--When Homer's mother comes back, Marge is wondering why she came back after leaving Homer..........he says in almost a little boys voice something like "I don't know, maybe I was a horrible child and nobody wanted me!"

Later, Jamal

Good examples. Here are some others:

Homer�s speech at the end of "Homer�s Nigh Out"

"I have something to say to all the sons out there. To all the boys, to all the men, to all of us. It's about women, and how they are not mere objects with curves that make us crazy. No, they are our wives, they are our daughters, our sisters, our grandmas, our aunts, our nieces and nephews - well, not our nephews..."

The end of "Simpson and Delilah" when Marge sings "You are so beautiful to me" for Homer.

The scene in "The Way We Was" when Homer talks to Marge at the prom. I can�t exactly remember what he says but it�s very sad.

The end of "Lisa�s Sax" (to have at least one newer episode) when we see various scenes of Lisa and hear Baker Street playing.

Chris

Yes! This was a good example. Very awww-inducing. Here's the snpp.com synopsis:

[Marge] drives back to pick up Homer. Homer gets in and gives her a corsage. Homer explains, ``I've got a problem. Once you stop this car, I'm going to hug you, and kiss you, and then I'll never be able to let you go.'' Back to the present, Homer concludes, ``And I never have.'' Lisa is touched, but Bart is ready to puke.

That�s also a good moment but I meant the other scene at the prom, the dialogue isn�t in the capsule.

Homer is sitting on the stairs and crying and Marge asks him why he can�t accept that she�s here with Artie Ziff and not with him and Homer says that the usually thinks about many other things but when he thinks about Marge he can only think about her and he can�t understand why the only thing he was ever sure about in his life can be wrong. Marge shrugs and says "Well, it is" and leaves.

Chris

Definitely a keeper. For Homer to strategically use Maggie's photos to cover up a sign saying "Don't Forget, You're Here Forever" to read "Do It For Her" was uncharacteristically brilliant, but a really touching moment.

Too bad you beat me too it! :)

Other ones that come to mind...

-After Marge telling Lisa to smile all the time regardless of how bad she feels, Marge realizes all the crap she has to go through (Lisa being coerced into doing another student's homework, being told by the band instructor to tone down her creative side), Marge immediately picks up Lisa, tells her to just be herself.

Marge: Lisa, I apologize to you, I was wrong, I take it all back. Always be yourself. If you want to be sad, honey, be sad. We'll ride it out with you. And when you get finished feeling sad, we'll still be there. From now on, let me do the smiling for both of us.

Lisa: Okay, Mom.

Marge: I said you could stop smiling, Lisa.

Lisa: feel like smiling.

-Homer says a final goodnight to his family members when he has only 24 hours to live. "Lisa, I know you'll make me proud." "Bart...I like your sheets."

-Maggie's first word.

That's all I can think of off hand.

Peace, Vince Yim

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For my true moving moment, it has to be the ep. when Homer became the sanitation guy with U2 in it. Right at the end the whole of Springfield is 'moved' a few miles down the road. #cough# As for a serious moment, Maggie getting an emotional response from Mr. Burns by retuning Bobo to him has to rank up there.

Maybe the end of 5F17 (Lost Our Lisa), when Homer and Lisa leave (or better try to leave) the museum and sing this song from TV...

T.K.

I AM SHOCKED that so far NO ONE has mentioned these two classic moving moments.

"Bart gets an F" At the end where Bart gets his final F and starts to cry

"Mother Simpson" The VERY end where Homer is sat on his car sadly watching the stars

I'm shocked, too...that no one has mentioned the hands-down most moving movement of them all:

At the end of the episode (I think it was one of the "They Way we Was" eps), when Homer puts Maggie to bed, leaves, and then Maggie says "Daddy" to herself with a big smile. That was a great one, especially after the hell Bart and Lisa put Homer through during the episode itself, calling him "Homer," etc.

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this was going to be the first one i mentioned.

also the end of "homer's triple bypass."

Ah, season 7. Maybe the most serious season past 3 and the last one where the writers had understood the early concept of the show.

Here�s another good moment from season 7: Selma says

"A loveless marriage is one thing, we're not hurting anybody. But bringing a child into a loveless family is something I just can't do.."

in "A Fish called Selma" and leaves.

Although many people don�t like the episode I like the scene from "Lisa The Iconoclast" when Lisa first wants to tell the truth about Jebedia but just says "He was great". A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Chris

True moving moments, let's see... Moving Springfield 5 miles down the road at the end of "Trash of The Titans", family moving to Cypress Creek in "You only move twice", to Capital City in "Dancing Homer", to Terror Lake in "Cape Feare", Mr. Burns moving out of his mansion in "The old man and the Lisa", Skinner moving to Capital City in "The Principal and the Pauper"... Did I miss anything? Ah, yeah, Krusty's

Let's just say it moved me. To a bigger house!

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A bit tardy, but I just remembered Ned sitting and chastising himself over his last words to Maude being "no foot-longs!"

That, I found strangely moving, because it did speak eloquently to the fragility of our life on this earth, and how you really should never miss an opportunity to tell people dear to you, that you love them.

Er, well, this bit was just from last season, of course.

FWIW while I do tend to sympathize with the oft-stated view in here, that the show's become too slapstick & yuk-yuk krazed for its own good, I also think that current episodes continue to be worthwhile at times.

The trick is for the writers to remember that these are human characters, and not just receptacles for delivering the next punch line as efficiently as possible.