The Simpsons: 10 Most HATED Episodes

Even the lamest Simpsons episodes usually have at least one saving grace, whether a standout scene or even a single line worthy of a chuckle. Sometimes, however, there's just no redemptive quality to be found, and that's the case in this off-the-wall part anthology, part absurd tale.

One of the reasons The Simpsons has managed to last as long as it has is that Springfield is a living, breathing world with no shortage of storylines to be milked from literally any random facet that has ever existed within the confines of the show's history. Here, it's the origin story of Moe's bar rag, a mystery that fans were surely not particularly eager to explore.

Structurally, it's a total mess, lurching from the always-maligned historical anthology setting to meaningless gags involving the continuing adventures of the sonorous rag (voiced by Jeremy Irons, no less), with a pitiful Bart/Milhouse B-story, each sequence as cringingly unfunny as the last.

It's easy to write the events off as the deluded fever dream of a typical Treehouse of Horror, but nope; this is just another thing that happens in modern Simpsons, a show that once performed at the height of wit and satire.