Rate and Review: Season 11

since i just rated season 12, i wanted to do this one too because i tend to group them together.

Beyond Blunderdome: 5/10
Brother’s Little Helper: 8/10
Guess Who’s Coming to Criticize Dinner?: 7/10
Treehouse of Horror X: 7/10
E-I-E-I-D’oh!: 9/10
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder: 6/10
Eight Misbehavin’: 6/10
Take My Wife, Sleaze: 6/10
Grift of the Magi: 8/10
Little Big Mom: 7/10
Faith Off: 7/10
The Mansion Family: 7/10
Saddlesore Galactica: 6/10
Alone Again, Natura-Diddly: 3/10
Missionary: Impossible: 7/10
Pygmoelian: 7/10
Bart to the Future: 6/10
Days of Wine and D'oh'ses: 6/10
Kill the Alligator and Run: 5/10
Last Tap Dance in Springfield: 7/10
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge: 3/10
Behind the Laughter: 10/10

average: 6.50
12th best season for me, season 12 is slightly better
 
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Beyond Blunderdome: B-
Brother's Little Helper: B+
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?: B-
Treehouse of Horror X: A+
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt): A-
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder: A
Eight Misbehavin': D
Take My Wife, Sleaze: D-
Grift of the Magi: A
Little Big Mom: F
Faith Off: B
The Mansion Family: C+
Saddlesore Galactica: C
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily: F
Missionary: Impossible: C+
Pygmoelian: C+
Bart to the Future: A
Days of Wine and D'oh'ses: B
Kill the Alligator and Run: F
Last Tap Dance in Springfield: C+
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge: D+
Behind the Laughter: A+
 
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What happened to my old post? Guess I'll redo my rankings

Beyond Blunderdome C
Brother's Little Helper A
Guess Who's Coming TO Criticize Dinner? B+
Treehouse of Horror X B+
E-IE-I-(Annoyed Grunt) A-
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder C+
Eight Misbehavin' C-
Take MY Wife Sleaze C
Grift Of Magi A+
Little Big Mom B
Faith Off B-
The Mansion Family C+
Saddlestore Galactica B
Alone Again, Natura-Diddly F
Missionary Impossible A-
Pygmoelian B
Bart To The Future F
Days of Wine and D'oh'ses C+
Kill The Alligator and Run D+
Lat Tap Dance In Springfield B+
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge F
Behind The Laughter A+

I may be too kind on S11, but I like the Scully era
 
I think it was most likely done in a comment of one of Dr. Lenny's blogs, which, if I remember correctly, were redone, deleting the ones that he already done.
 
The first Season where not a single episode gets an A (E-I-E-I-D'oh doesn't count because it's a Season 10 holdover), and the first true Season which is not a classic whatsoever. Too much Jerkass Homer, too many non-sensical and outlandish plots, Marge & Lisa act totally out of character. At least Bart doesn't really change.

Beyond Blunderdome: C
Brother's Little Helper: B
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?: B
The Simpsons Halloween Special X: B+ (B+ | B+ | A-)
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt): A-
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder: C+ (Homer trying to commit suicide is not funny whatsoever but the last quarter was cute).
Eight Misbehavin': C (Again, nothing special, but Apu's reaction to the octuplets is priceless).
Take My Wife, Sleaze: B
Grift of the Magi: B
Little Big Mom: C (The leprosy jokes are too overused).
Faith Off: C (Apart from the song, nothing special).
The Mansion Family: B- (I think this was also one of my earlier Simpsons episodes I've seen when I was much younger, so my grade justifies it).
Saddlesore Galactica: B (Have you guys ever heard of the genre "Absurdist Comedy"? Which is what this episode is supposed to represent).
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily: B (Never really cared about Maude).
Missionary: Impossible: B (would've been an A if there was a possible Part 2).
Pygmoelian: B-
Bart to the Future: C- (Saved by the meme, you know which one).
Days of Wine & D'oh'ses: B
Kill the Alligator & Run: D- (Worse than Miracle on Evergreen Terrace, only redeeming value is that it looked like Homer had so much fun).
Last Tap Dance in Springfield: C+ (Lisa's plot is boring and ruined by Jerkass Homer at the end, Bart & Milhouse's plot on the other hand is a barrel of laughs).
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge: C
Behind the Laughter: B

Overall: B-
 
Here is my Season 11 ranking, and boy, this is going to be controversial, have some controversial rankings in this list:

22. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge (2/10, Hate): Marge is so hateable in this episode

21. Pygmoelian (2/10, Hate)
20. Alone Again, Natura-Diddily (2/10, Hate): Originally, I didn't care about Maude's death, until I realized the reason of her death, and that due to being Maggie Roswell being greedy. So due to Maggie Roswell's greed, I hate this episode, it could easily be the lowest ranked episode

19. Take My Wife, Sleaze (2/10, Hate)
18. E-I-E-I (Annoyed Grunt) (4/10, Dislike)

17. Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder (4/10, Dislike)
16. Little Big Mom (4/10, Dislike): Lisa is such a jerk in this episode, and she is the reason why I hate this episode. Honestly, if it weren't for the skiing stuff at the beginning of the episode and the "Stupid Sexy Flanders", it would be ranked lower
15. Missionary Impossible (4/10, Dislike)
14. Eight Misbehavin (4/10, Dislike)
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3. Faith Off (4/10, Dislike)
12. Behind the Laughter (7/10, Okay)

11. Beyond Blunderdome (7/10, Okay)
10. Bart of the Future (7/10, Okay): I used to love this episode more, but has time has gone on, I have lost the love for this episode.

9. Kill the Alligator and Run (7/10, Okay): So yeah, this ranking is controversial, but let me explain. When it comes to the whole alligator fake out thing, I didn't really care about it, honestly, I forgot that the Alligator was the reason why The Simpsons wanted to be arrested. I like the beginning of the episode prior the Alligator's "Death". After it thou, its kind of cringe inducing imo.
8. Saddlesore Galactica (8/10, Like): And yet another controversial ranking, and that's because I didn't really care for the whole evil Jockey thing, I actually found it kinda funny, and I did like the song. If I were to complain about one thing, its the scene where Comic Book Guy was reminding The Simpsons about the events of "Lisa's Pony", as I felt a bit angry that the family forgot the events of that episode.

7. Treehouse of Horror X (8/10, Like)
6. Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner (8/10, Like)
5. Days of Wine and D'oh'ses (9/10, Enjoyable)
4. Last Tap Dance in Springfield (9/10, Enjoyable): This used to be my #1 fave episode, but has time has gone on, its gone down. I loved the Bart & Milhouse B Plot a lot, and I love the A plot too. Love the scene where Homer's eyes gets crusted over too. The reason why its not a 10 is that while I liked seeing the likes of Alex Whitney, Allison Taylor & Janey Powell again, I do wish they had some speaking lines, and yes, Allison does have some lines, but I don't think her voice fitted her character.

3. The Mansion Family (10/10, Best)

2. Brother's Little Helper (10/10, Best)
1. Grift of the Magi (10/10, Best)

So, overall, Season 11 so far during this re-watch & re-ranking is the worst Season for me, there are some good episodes, but majority of them are awful or snoozefests. Honestly, there are only 5 episodes I would watch, those being 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 6th Place episodes
 
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My Opinion on Season 11:






  1. Days of Wine and D'ohses (10/10, Best)
  2. Behind the Laughter (10/10, Best)
  3. E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) (9/10, Love)
  4. Treehouse of Horror X (9/10, Love)
  5. Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner? (9/10, Love)
  6. Pygmoelian (9/10, Love)
  7. Grift of the Magi (9/10, Love)
  8. Brother's Little Helper (8/10, Good)
  9. Last Tap Dance in Springfield (8/10, Good)
  10. Faith Off (8/10, Good)
  11. The Mansion Family (8/10, Good)
  12. Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder (7/10, Decent)
  13. Missionary: Impossible (5/10, Average)
  14. Take My Wife, Sleaze (5/10, Average)
  15. Little Big Mom (4/10, Dislike)
  16. Eight Misbehavin' (3/10, Bad)
  17. Bart to the Future (3/10, Bad)
  18. Saddlesore Galactica (2/10, Hate)
  19. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge (2/10, Hate)
  20. Beyond Blunderdome (1/10, Worst)
  21. Alone Again Natura-Diddly (1/10, Worst)
  22. Kill the Alligator and Run (1/10, Worst)










SEASON RATING: (6.5/10, Mixed)









I don't necessarily hate this season like most people seem to but I do think it's safe to say this is the season where the show jumped the shark, especially in the latter half. The first half feels more like Season 10 with more plot variety. To be honest, this season is the one I'm the most conflicted with. It's heavily flawed compared to the previous 10 seasons but it's better than most of what came after so....silver lining I guess.
 
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Beyond Blunderdome: C+
Brother's Little Helper: A-
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?: A-
Treehouse of Horror X: B-
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt): C+
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder: C-
Eight Misbehavin': C-
Take My Wife, Sleaze: D+
Grift of the Magi: B+
Little Big Mom: B+
Faith Off: C
The Mansion Family: C
Saddlesore Galactica: B+
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily: F
Missionary: Impossible: B-
Pygmoelian: D-
Bart to the Future: C+
Days of Wine and D'oh'ses: D+
Kill the Alligator and Run: D+
Last Tap Dance in Springfield: C-
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge: D+
Behind the Laughter: C+
 
My Opinion on Season 11:







22: Kill the Alligator and Run, (1/10: Worst)
21: Alone Again Natura-Diddly, (1/10: Worst)
20: Eight Misbehavin', (1/10: Worst)
19: Saddlesore Galactica, (2/10: Hate)
18: Beyond Blunderdome, (2/10: Hate)
17: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge, (2/10: Hate)

16: Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder, (3/10: Bad)
15: Bart to the Future, (4/10: Poor)
14: Little Big Mom, (5/10: Average)
13: The Mansion Family, (6/10: Okay)
12: Take My Wife, Sleaze, (6/10: Okay)

11: Missionary: Impossible, (7/10: Good)
10: Last Tap Dance in Springfield, (7/10: Good)
9: Faith Off, (7/10: Good)
8: Days of Wine and D'ohses, (7/10: Good)
7: Pygmoelian, (7/10: Good)
6: Brother's Little Helper, (7/10: Good)

5: Grift of the Magi, (8/10: Great)
4: E-I-E-I-(D'oh), (8/10: Great)

3: Behind the Laughter, (9/10: Love)
2: Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?, (10/10: Best)
1: Treehouse of Horror X, (10/10: Best)











I'm not going to lie. This season is a mixed bag. There are several episodes I enjoyed upon rewatch but there are some terrible episodes and some bottom of the barrel episodes. While this season seems to be all over the place, there are some genuinely funny jokes here. As a whole, this season is alright at best.
 
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The show is starting to dwindle but I still found this season enjoyable overall, I have a few unpopular opinions

Beyond Blunderdome: 4/5
Brother's Little Helper: 4.5/5
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner: 5/5
Treehouse of Horror X - 5/5
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) - 4.5/5
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder - 4.5/5
Eight Misbehavin' - 4/5
Take My Wife, Sleaze - 3/5
Grift of the Magi - 4.5/5
Little Big Mom - 3.5/5
Faith Off - 3.5/5
The Mansion Family - 3.5/5
Saddlesore Galactica - 1/5
Alone Again, Natura-diddly - 3/5
Missionary: Impossible - 0.5/5
Pygmoelian - 4.5/5
Bart to the Future - 4/5
Days of Wine and D'oh'ses - 4.5/5
Kill the Alligator and Run - 1.5/5
Last Tap Dance in Springfield - 3/5
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge - 4/5
Behind the Laughter - 6/5
 
I will (correctly I would wish) update for every season R&R thread WITH some my comments

Great (5/5)
None
Very good (4.5/5)
None
Good (4/5)
«Days of Wine and D’oh’ses»
80 (B)
«Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder» 78 (B)
«Treehouse of Horror X» 78 (B)
«Grift of the Magi» 77 (B-)
Solid/OK (3.5/5)
«Alone Again, Natura-Diddily»
74 (B-)
«Last Tap Dance in Springfield» 74 (B-)
«Guess Who’s Coming to Criticize Dinner?» 73 (B-)
«Behind the Laughter» 73 (B-)
«Beyond Blunderdome» 72 (B-)
«Missionary: Impossible» 70 (С+)
Decent (3/5)
«The Mansion Family»
69 (C+)
«Faith Off» 69 (B-)
«Brother’s Little Helper» 68 (С+)
«Saddlesore Galactica» 68 (С+)
«Little Big Mom» 68 (С+)
«Take My Wife, Sleaze» 67 (С+)
Mediocre (2.5/5)
«It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge»
66 (C)
«Kill the Alligator and Run» 65 (С)
«E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)» 64 (С)
«Bart to the Future» 63 (С)
Bad (2/5)
«Eight Misbehavin’»
59 (С-)
«Pygmoelian» 57 (C-)

Average score 69.636 (C+) (WATCHABLE) down from season 10
Count of really good episodes (81+) NONE
Count of really bad episodes (57-) 1 - luckily, it's just 1/22 ~ 5% of season

My personal favorites, despite how I put them in my "rating", but I felt something to these episodes after just first watching:
«Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder»
«Eight Misbehavin’» (shocked myself seeing it now)
«Grift of the Magi»
«Faith Off»
«Saddlesore Galactica»
«Alone Again, Natura-Diddily»
«Kill the Alligator and Run» (even more shocked myself seeing it now)
«It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge»
«Behind the Laughter»

«Pygmoelian» is in my BOTTOM-20 overall episodes. The next higher 3 episodes make a list of my BOTTOM-100. «Bart to the Future» is the worst flashforward, IMHO.
To something good, «Treehouse of Horror X» is really strong installment and the best "post classic" THOH.

For a long time it was (and maybe still is) the worst season of the show for the fans, including me. The reason - big drop in quality from "OK, maybe I will watch something again" in season 10 to "decent, so watchable, but have no desire to rewatch it" in season 11. But note "was", because there would be worse seasons in the future. Here most of the stories didn't contain morals, but had (un)successful playing (often satirical) of scenes from real life. Still in personal BOTTOM-3 of the seasons (the worst in SD, to said)
 
Updated Season 11 Rankings:

Hate - 2/10
22. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge
21. Pygmoelian

Dislike - 4/10
20. E-I-E-I (Annoyed Grunt)
19. Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
18. Little Big Mom
17. Missionary Impossible
16. Eight Misbehavin'
15. Faith Off
14. Alone Again, Natura-Diddly
: Since my last ranking of the Season, I have since learned the context of why Maggie Roswell left...and due to that, I've since softened to this episode. However, I still dislike it, I don't really think the writers & showrunners needed to kill Maude as it wasn't like she had much of a role in other episodes, not to mention, Maggie's other roles were taken up by Marcia Mitzman Gaven, and according to her Wikipedia page, she hasn't done much voice acting after the Simpsons (aside from maybe a movie called "Moonlight Mike") that released in 2002, and as of 2020 has since retired from theatre which she did. Maybe Marcia didn't like Maude, who knows, there isn't really much information about her time on the show on either Wikisimpsons or Wikipedia.

Meh - 6/10
13. Take My Wife, Sleaze

Okay - 7/10
12. Beyond Blunderdome
11. Bart of the Future
10. Kill the Alligator and Run
: Like I said in my previous ranking, I didn't really care for the "fake-out" alligator death
9, Saddlescoore Galactica: Again like I said in my previous ranking, I didn't really care for the whole evil Jockey thing, the reason why its lower is that as time has gone on, I'm kinda angry towards Homer asking if anyone cares for what Comic Book Guy says regarding the events of "Lisa's Pony" as I look it as a sign that the writes & showrunners don't care for continuity

Like - 8/10
8. Treehouse of Horror X
7. Grift of the Magi
6. Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner
5. Behind the Laughter

Love - 9/10
4. Days of Wine and D'oh'ses

Best - 10/10
3. The Mansion Family
2. Brother's Little Helper
1. Last Tap Dance in Springfield
: So yeah, this was originally ranked lower in my previous ranking, but nostalgia has caused it to move up to #1 for me. The same criticism I stated in my previous ranking still stands thou

Not gonna rank the guest stars in this Season as honestly, most of them were celebrity guest stars, and while I do have them ranked in my previous recent Season ranking on Season 10, none of these are really all that noteworthy imo outside of recurring Guest Star Manjula.

After this re-ranking, I think I might rank Season 11 lower actually, not sure how low thou. Also, apologies if I come off as extremely harsh towards the writers & showrunners in this re-ranking
 
My Updated Thoughts on Season 11:




Beyond Blunderdome: 3/10
Brother's Little Helper: 6.5/10
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?: 8/10
Treehouse of Horror X: 8.5/10

E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt): 7.5/10
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder: 5/10
Eight Misbehavin': 5/10

Take My Wife, Sleaze: 7/10
Grift of the Magi: 10/10
Little Big Mom: 6/10
Faith Off: 7.5/10
The Mansion Family: 8/10
Saddlesore Galactica: 5/10 (Still don't hate this one as much whereas it's just boring)
Alone Again Natura-Diddily: 0/10 (I actually think Life of Brian from Family Guy is better written than this thing)
Missionary: Impossible: 2.5/10
Bart to the Future: 1/10
Days of Wine and D'ohses: 10/10
Kill the Alligator and Run: 0/10
Last Tap Dance in Springfield: 7.5/10
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge: 1/10
Behind the Laughter: 9.5/10









Average: 5.5/10









Plain and simply put, this was not a good season. I don't think this season is as horrible as some make it out to be. However, it doesn't change the fact there's a lot of bad and lackluster episodes. Plots become nonsensical, characters start becoming awful (especially Homer), the comedy being more reliant on slapstick rather than telling well told jokes and the pacing is at its worst throughout this season. That was everything wrong with Season 11.
 
Beyond Blunderdome: 5/10
Brother's Little Helper: 7/10
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner: 5/10
Treehouse of Horror X - 9/10
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) - 8/10
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder - 5/10
Eight Misbehavin' - 6/10
Take My Wife, Sleaze - 5/10
Grift of the Magi - 7.5/10
Little Big Mom - 6.5/10
Faith Off - 7.5/10
The Mansion Family - 5/10
Saddlesore Galactica - 1/10
Alone Again, Natura-diddly - 2/10

Missionary: Impossible - 4/10
Pygmoelian - 7.5/10
Bart to the Future - 2/10
Days of Wine and D'oh'ses - 3/10

Kill the Alligator and Run - 5/10
Last Tap Dance in Springfield - 3/10
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge - 4/10

Behind the Laughter - 9.5/10

Average: 5.3/10


Season 11 was the first bad season of the series becoming little more than a mediocre cartoon. Characterization, plots, logic and heart, everything that made the show what it once was just gone, replaced by whatever the writers could come up with. There were a few gems on this list but overall the show had plummeted from the golden years and there was no turning back.
 
Beyond Blunderdome: 5/10
Brother's Little Helper: 7/10
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner: 5/10
Treehouse of Horror X - 9/10
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) - 8/10
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder - 5/10
Eight Misbehavin' - 6/10
Take My Wife, Sleaze - 5/10
Grift of the Magi - 7.5/10
Little Big Mom - 6.5/10
Faith Off - 7.5/10
The Mansion Family - 5/10
Saddlesore Galactica - 1/10
Alone Again, Natura-diddly - 2/10

Missionary: Impossible - 4/10
Pygmoelian - 7.5/10
Bart to the Future - 2/10
Days of Wine and D'oh'ses - 3/10

Kill the Alligator and Run - 5/10
Last Tap Dance in Springfield - 3/10
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge - 4/10

Behind the Laughter - 9.5/10

Average: 5.3/10


Season 11 was the first bad season of the series becoming little more than a mediocre cartoon. Characterization, plots, logic and heart, everything that made the show what it once was just gone, replaced by whatever the writers could come up with. There were a few gems on this list but overall the show had plummeted from the golden years and there was no turning back.
I'm curious as to how you would rank Seasons 12 and 13
 
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