The Simpsons: 10 Most HATED Episodes

10. The Boys Of Bummer

The steep decline of the show from acerbic satire to buffoonish yet tone-deaf antics is abundantly clear in this tale focusing on Bart's psychotic break after losing Springfield a baseball game.

Bart simply dropping the ball would be one thing, but watching him flail around absurdly afterwards while trying to make a play is more akin to... well, a cartoon. Not to mention the 78 (!) times it takes for a faux-rematch to result in Bart making the redemptive grab, essentially the Springfield equivalent of Joey Tribbiani attempting to speak French. How can anyone be this incompetent?

As the town quickly turns on Bart for his initial failure, it feels all too much like a Treehouse of Horror parody, only The Simpsons wants you to believe that it's canon. It all culminates in Bart literally attempting suicide by leaping from a water tower. Springfield's citizens react by jeering him in his hospital bed. Once upon a time, audiences were a little unsettled by the darkness of Homer snoring through Frank Grimes' funeral, but this is just too much.

In other news, Homer gets a job as a mattress salesman before discovering that his bed is the secret to hot romance, in one of the lamest B-stories ever attempted.