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Junk posted:Murphy, you are a elf... uncontrollably, I think. i am tired about these jokes about my giant hand the first such incident occurred in 1956 when..
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yet another incident of "this joke was done much better in the old days"
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Ein cooler Typ posted:I don't get it. Is Bort a common name in America? This is the funniest thing The Simpsons has produced since Old Man Yells at Cloud lmao
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watched the armin tanzerian episode yesterday and one thing that stood out beyond the obvious was how mean spirited and weird sending the real skinner off, tied to a chair on a train car, was I mean that whole episode was dumb [though this thread has helped me kind of "get it" better I guess, I still hate it] but that seemed weird
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"the principal and the pauper" gets all the ire among fans because it was the first episode of season 9 that felt off. the Lord of the Flies episode was worse, and if any number of those not-as-good episodes were in the place of that one, it would be the one fans point to as the downfall
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Feb 21, 2017 09:43
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:tbh, and just imo, I feel like the ongoing popularity of the Simpsons is largely because of Europe. Krauts also love two and a half men and the big bang theory
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Feb 21, 2017 13:33
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Junk posted:Murphy, you are a elf... uncontrollably, I think. Think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts! 
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Code Jockey posted:watched the armin tanzerian episode yesterday and one thing that stood out beyond the obvious was how mean spirited and weird sending the real skinner off, tied to a chair on a train car, was IIRC the whole point of the episode is to address people whining about the lack of continuity in the shows universe so the whole thing is meant to be tongue in cheek. Also, I tried watching an episode with commentary (Homer Goes to College) and remembered why I don't really care for it because it's boring. However, one part Homer is all wall-eyed and Matt Groening mentioned how he's biting his tongue and one of the other guys mentioned how much he disliked when that happened since it was an inconsistency from the Korean animators. That took my by surprise because those were always what made the show so endearing
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54 40 or gently caress posted:IIRC the whole point of the episode is to address people whining about the lack of continuity in the shows universe so the whole thing is meant to be tongue in cheek. I remember quite a lot of the Futurama commentary tracks being quite good. I think one of them had Billy West and John DiMaggio doing duelling professors, also Billy West doing an entire commentary as Zoidberg and in the Spanish Fry constantly talking about how this was the episode about Fry's "Woohoo".
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I think I've listened to most of the commentaries for the classic seasons, and some of them are great and fun, and you really get a sense of how much they cared about the show back then. I can't imagine they would have anything interesting to say about any modern episode.get that OUT of my face posted:"the principal and the pauper" gets all the ire among fans because it was the first episode of season 9 that felt off. the Lord of the Flies episode was worse, and if any number of those not-as-good episodes were in the place of that one, it would be the one fans point to as the downfall It was actually only the second episode of season 9, the first being the New York City episode, and both were actually holdovers from season 8. It's just a weird episode itself and everything immediately following it was different in tone and style.
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Feb 21, 2017 19:15
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:tbh, and just imo, I feel like the ongoing popularity of the Simpsons is largely because of Europe. Europeans are overwhelmingly mentally ill.
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Feb 21, 2017 19:24
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:I think I've listened to most of the commentaries for the classic seasons, and some of them are great and fun, and you really get a sense of how much they cared about the show back then. I can't imagine they would have anything interesting to say about any modern episode. Simpson Tide is also a holdover from an earlier season, which is weird because a lot of the random humor seems more in keeping with Season 10+.
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I own seasons 1-11 and enjoy them all, but the best are the ones in the middle Season 12 was the first one that was hard to watch (more than 50% bad) and the first we didn't bother recording on VHS. The Blunder Years in Season 13 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_(season_13) had too much of the gruesome stuff that had become more commonplace- the worm crawling out of Smithers' dad's corpse's nose, his death in the reactor and Burns' callous disposal of him was not great. And inspiring not just Smithers' homosexuality- but his misogyny- by saying his father was killed by a pack of tribal Amazons. Again, not amusing. I didn't make it past the first act for Brawl in the Family, and while I watched most of the others I can say it was, along with Season 12, where cynical was replaced with mean to the detriment of the warmth the show had. In the past the show often had some subtle, yet provocative political statements, but S12-13 also marked the turn to a very overt Hollywood-fashionable liberal bent contemporary with the Iraq War, leading to some hamhanded and dated commentary. As far as I know they never depicted George HW Bush as President whereas Clinton was constant fodder, so it was a weird mix of harping on the administration while simultaneously it didn't exist in the Simpsons universe whereas Clinton, Reagan, Bush I, Carter, Ford, Nixon, and even Kennedy were all animated and voiced in the series to that point, very little of it dated, almost all of it funny.
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get that OUT of my face posted:"the principal and the pauper" gets all the ire among fans because it was the first episode of season 9 that felt off. the Lord of the Flies episode was worse, and if any number of those not-as-good episodes were in the place of that one, it would be the one fans point to as the downfall At least Das Bus had some classic lines. "They have the internet on computers now," "Go banana," and "tastes like burning" are all top-notch. I don't remember the order they were aired, but I remember Principal and the Pauper and Lisa the Skeptic were the ones that hit me as being noticeably worse than the episodes I would watch in syndication.
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Feb 22, 2017 08:34
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I'll take the off-the-wall episodes like Das Bus any day over the dud sentimentality of Lisa the Skeptic. I always kind of liked Das Bus. 
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You Are A Elf posted:Think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts! so does anyone else think homer actually got with mindy, but he was just imagining it's marge to get through guilt etc? that's how, watching it, it initially seemed to me anyway maybe I missed something though
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alpaca diseases posted:so does anyone else think homer actually got with mindy, but he was just imagining it's marge to get through guilt etc? that's how, watching it, it initially seemed to me anyway Isn't "marge" dressed just like Mindy at the end? Homer's a Bad Man.
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Yeah I like Das Bus. Is "They were saved by... oh let's say, Moe" subversive humour or some kind of turning point signifying the death of the Simpsons? Because I just thought it was funny.
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You Are A Elf posted:Think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts! Hey Homer, you're hallucinatin' again! Not a good sign...
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sout posted:Yeah I like Das Bus. I guess it seemed to a lot of people that they just threw their hands up in the air rather than give it an actual ending. But it did make me chuckle the first time I saw it.
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I specifically remember the morning after Das Bus aired, everyone in science class was talking about how funny it was. So at least back then, in a typical suburban school, it was thought highly of.
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Nolan Arenado posted:I specifically remember the morning after Das Bus aired, everyone in science class was talking about how funny it was. So at least back then, in a typical suburban school, it was thought highly of.
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Feb 22, 2017 17:07
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sout posted:Yeah I like Das Bus. It's a reference to the book Lord of the Flies where the kids get saved randomly at the end.
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edit: Wrong thread, i r smart.
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I saw the rapper takes the poweplant one last night, so bad, im mad at rza for going near it
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das bus is all right, quit bad mouthing das bus
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Nonviolent J posted:I saw the rapper takes the poweplant one last night, so bad, im mad at rza for going near it this reminded me of the episode where bart sneaks out to a rap concert and enters a battle, oh my god that one is painful, painful
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Code Jockey posted:this reminded me of the episode where bart sneaks out to a rap concert and enters a battle, oh my god that one is painful, painful What do you mean? That is totally in character for rap-loving Bart, who idolizes 50 Cent.
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Nonviolent J posted:I saw the rapper takes the poweplant one last night, so bad, im mad at rza for going near it Are there any examples of a celebrity being brought in for a Simpsons episode, seeing how dumb the script is or how retardedly they're used and refusing to do it?
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Aesop Poprock posted:Are there any examples of a celebrity being brought in for a Simpsons episode, seeing how dumb the script is or how retardedly they're used and refusing to do it?
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Drink-Mix Man posted:What do you mean? That is totally in character for rap-loving Bart, who idolizes Vanilla Ice.
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Drink-Mix Man posted:What do you mean? That is totally in character for rap-loving Bart, who idolizes Kool Moe Dee
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Speaking of incredibly dumb episodes about Bart and music, I read about a newer episode where Bart finds out he has a secret talent for jazz. Which he uses to torment Lisa endlessly for the entire episode, because of course why not?
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Feb 22, 2017 22:53
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Aesop Poprock posted:Are there any examples of a celebrity being brought in for a Simpsons episode, seeing how dumb the script is or how retardedly they're used and refusing to do it? Apparently Harvey Firestein got offered a chance to return as Karl as part of the episode where homer shacks up with a couple of gay caricatures, but he rightly felt pretty put off over the whole premise.
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NiceGuy posted:Apparently Harvey Firestein got offered a chance to return as Karl as part of the episode where homer shacks up with a couple of gay caricatures, but he rightly felt pretty put off over the whole premise. Why do I suspect his whole involvement would have been: Homer: Karl, my old executive assistant? What are you doing here? Karl: [Embarassingly lame gag] Fin.
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Didn't Prince or someone else turn down an appearance because he wrote his own script based around his appearance and the Simpsons people weren't having any of it?
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motherfuckers I'd have killed to see a (classic) episode of the simpsons with a script written by Prince
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Dylan McKay posted:das bus is all right, quit bad mouthing das bus Das Bus is a lovely retelling of Lord of the Flies using Simpson children, a book with almost no comedy to being with.
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