NUMBER THREE - Cape Feare (Season 5)

Down to the last three! Considering how messy this top ten has made my blog, I'll have to consolidate them into a single post later. Hope you've enjoyed it so far!

The Simpsons has been pretty good with continuity and revisiting past episodes, but the Sideshow Bob episodes make up a completely separate arc on their own. Sideshow Bob has been the perfect archvillian for the series, personifying both the psychopathic killer and the ‘Wile-E-Coyote’ kind of eternal loser. “Cape Feare” is my favourite Bob episode, as it sticks to the relatively simple plot of the original ‘CaFear’, but also delivers excellent comedic timing. Bob’s lust for murder is made very palpable and disturbing, but it is constantly offset by the injuries he sustains while following Bart around (ie. 9 rakes in the face).



Homer is also especially dim-witted in this episode, and his stupidity plays off of Bart’s paranoia, such as the hilarious scene with the hockey mask and the chainsaw. In the end, the episode finds a great balance between typical Simpsons’ silliness, and dark, Hollywood suspense. It’s a shame that the newer instalments of the Bob saga aren’t half as good.