The scenes that most people remember are Bart skateboarding naked and Homer having Spider-Pig, each of which happen before the main plot (Springfield having a dome put over it, due to being environmentally unsafe, and the Simpsons escape, due to the residents wanting to execute them after Homer caused it).
Back when the movie was released, it was amongst the highest-grossing movies, so its not like it was some niche movie.
How about “this is the worst day of my life!”
“this is the worst day of your life, so far
Pretty sure that was from the movie
Listen! I want ten thousand tough guys on patrol and I want ten thousand soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher. And here's how I want them arranged: tough soft tough tough soft soft soft tough tough soft.
Of course I have you ever tried going mad without power it's boring no one listens to you!
Homer having Spider-Pig
The only reason anyone even remembered this one (past tense because I'm pretty sure it's fading) is because it was in all the trailers and stuff. Everyone knew all about spider-pig before the movie was anywhere near release.
I think the big issues with the movie is that it is not particularly long (Wikipedia says it is one hour and 27 minutes long), the actual plot does not start for a while into the movie and it does not have an "epic" feel to it (unlike South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut). It really is like an extended episode or multi-part serial.
the only thing I remember is the rock and hard place joke and homer driving a motorcycle dead-ass vertically up the inside of the dome wall
I think that, if they were going to make a movie out of The Simpsons, they should have done it in the 90s, and they should have based it on the plot of Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming.
It still has the "epic" stakes that you'd want in a feature-length movie. It brings up themes that The Simpsons was known for making jokes about in the show and turns them up to 11 (e.g. Sideshow Bob's culture war against the depravity of television; Clinton-era liberal imperialism; even the whole theme of "nuclear" stuff with Sideshow Bob and the nuclear bomb). It would still have been political, but without being tied to the era of An Inconvenient Truth and Al Gore the way the actual Simpsons movie was.
I also think it would have been better having Sideshow Bob as the villain, rather than introducing some new guy. Sideshow Bob is the perfect antithesis to everything The Simpsons stands for, and the movie would have aged better -- I mean, Sideshow Bob basically believes everything current-day reactionaries believe.
I remember more than the average person, but that's only because my brain holds onto everything like some sort of sponge
Always did think the scene where Homer pretends to have a chainsaw was cute
I only saw it once in theaters and I sorta checked out about 2/3rds of the way through. I suffer from "comedy fatigue" and I prefer my comedy material to be shorter, like an hour tops.
I hadn't thought about this movie in like 10 years until someone brought up the scene with Homer and the Inuit (Not sure if Inuit applies to groups in Alaska like it does in Canada) as an example of a racist caricature of traditional throat singing. So I remember that scene
They made Arnold Schwarzeremoved president because they thought viewers were too dumb to know who Rainier Wolfcastle was based on, one of the longest-running Simpsons characters. :deeper-sadness:
I remember the angry mob coming for them and something in the Arctic. Or Alaska. Some snowy climate.
Homer dumped Spider-Pig's waster into Lake Springfield, which caused the EPA to put a dome over Springfield, due to it being too polluted. The city residents then form a mob to try and execute the Simpson family, but they escape the dome and end up fleeing to Alaska.
