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Junk posted: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? a fan sent an unsolicited script to Prince and Prince thought it was cool and wanted to do it the Simpsons writers had made another script for Prince and Prince didn't like it idk they talk about this on the dvd commentary
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Scudworth posted:Das Bus is a lovely retelling of Lord of the Flies using Simpson children, a book with almost no comedy to being with. I'm a fan of any episode that's just about the gang of children being naive idiots because they're children.
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get that OUT of my face posted:yet another incident of "this joke was done much better in the old days" Bart's sounding real husky. 28 years smoking reds does that to a 10 year old
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Scudworth posted:Das Bus is a lovely retelling of Lord of the Flies using Simpson children, a book with almost no comedy to being with. Where is the humor in making a comedy episode about something that was already a comedy? Aren't most parodies based around things that aren't supposed to be humorous? That's like saying "it's so weird Mel Brooks made Young Frankenstein when the original book is so serious. Why didn't he make it about the movie Cinderfella?" Aesop Poprock fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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Goddamn this thread is conjuring up bad memories of all the time I wasted watching anything after season 10 when I was in middle school
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Aesop Poprock posted:Where is the humor in making a comedy episode about something that was already a comedy? It also has no comedy potential, at least not in the hands of the s9 writers, as shown by the episode itself.
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Scudworth posted:It also has no comedy potential, at least not in the hands of the s9 writers, as shown by the episode itself. Das Bus has some good bits. "Go banana", "tastes like burning", and Otto's pitiful rescue attempt were already posted. When I was a kid, and wasn't all grown-up and sick of non-endings yet, I thought the "oh, let's say...... Moe" bit was hilarious. "One thing they export is corn... or as the Indians call it, maize" was funny. "I can't go on, you two go ahead... and carry me with you!" was also funny. ....Not funny enough for me to remember them without looking it up, though.
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Cobweb Heart posted:Das Bus has some good bits. "Go banana", "tastes like burning", and Otto's pitiful rescue attempt were already posted. When I was a kid, and wasn't all grown-up and sick of non-endings yet, I thought the "oh, let's say...... Moe" bit was hilarious. "One thing they export is corn... or as the Indians call it, maize" was funny. Yeah and all but 2 of those things are outside the Lord of the Flies plot.
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Squashing Machine posted:Bart's sounding real husky. 28 years smoking reds does that to a 10 year old He's putting on a voice lol. Marge was sounding kinda weird in some clip in here though Scudworth posted:Yeah and all but 2 of those things are outside the Lord of the Flies plot. I shouldn't have quoted your post because I wasn't really responding to it. If you think Lord of the Flies has no comedy potential you've obviously forgotten about the rear end-mar edit: SUCKS to your rear end-mar, scudworth
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Das Bus isn't great but it did give us the line "in conclusion, Libya is a land of contrasts."
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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? George Takei refused to do the monorail episode because monorails are no laughing matter.
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And mono was too close to homo Season 26 episode 7 commentary he lets em have it haha
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Ein cooler Typ posted:a fan sent an unsolicited script to Prince and Prince thought it was cool and wanted to do it I remember reading online a while back that they wanted to bring back that crazy Michael Jackson character and having him think he was Prince instead, but Prince saw that as him playing second fiddle to MJ, so he had his limo driver write a new script, which he sent to the Simpsons crew, who rejected it.
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Nelson using Milhouse's glasses as flint instead of focusing sunlight to start a fire was a pretty good Lord of the Flies gag.
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I love Milhouse whining during that scene
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what room is homer in here?![]() ![]()
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It is the rarely seen Rumpus Room.![]()
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That place is a mansion! I live in a single room above a bowling alley! And below another bowling alley.
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Drink-Mix Man posted:That place is a mansion! I live in a single room above a bowling alley! And below another bowling alley. ![]()
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twoday posted:It is the rarely seen Rumpus Room. why do they have two living rooms.
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Groovelord Neato posted:why do they have two living rooms. it's common for houses to have two living room areas.
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Groovelord Neato posted:why do they have two living rooms. I think it's just representing the inconsistencies with the house shown in different episodes edit: after some google research, i guess they have two living rooms?? weird Last Chance fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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bitterandtwisted posted:what room is homer in here? Bart or Lisa's bedroom
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It's the rumpus room that only exists so Homer can see the treehouse in that one shot
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bitterandtwisted posted:what room is homer in here? twoday posted:It is the rarely seen Rumpus Room. Why would the TV be moved, though? If you look at the house diagram, the TV screen is directly in front of the window while in the episode it is at a 90-degree angle. Why would Homer move the TV? If it's to avoid the distraction of the outdoors, why not just close the curtains? Do you notice how many times "11" shows up in this shot? Kubrick's only Simpsons episode is way underrated.
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The bigger question is how could they afford the house mortgage on a house with all that space when homers cheque in the bear patrol episode is like, less than $400
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JediTalentAgent posted:Why would the TV be moved, though? If you look at the house diagram, the TV screen is directly in front of the window while in the episode it is at a 90-degree angle. Why would Homer move the TV? If it's to avoid the distraction of the outdoors, why not just close the curtains? Do you notice how many times "11" shows up in this shot? They lived in the house for like 30 years, maybe they rearrange the room sometimes
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JediTalentAgent posted:Why would the TV be moved, though? If you look at the house diagram, the TV screen is directly in front of the window while in the episode it is at a 90-degree angle. Why would Homer move the TV? If it's to avoid the distraction of the outdoors, why not just close the curtains? Do you notice how many times "11" shows up in this shot? 54 40 or gently caress posted:The bigger question is how could they afford the house mortgage on a house with all that space when homers cheque in the bear patrol episode is like, less than $400 Fried Watermelon posted:They lived in the house for like 30 years, maybe they rearrange the room sometimes simple answers to all of these: its a cartoon
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"Rubber band reality" Sometimes Homer is in danger of missing the mortgage payment, sometimes he's ready to pull $75,000 out of his wallet
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it was the 90s Al Bundy had a nice house and Dodge on minimum wage
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Last Chance posted:I think it's just representing the inconsistencies with the house shown in different episodes The fireplace one is the family room. My parents house has one. It's basically a living room but there's not usually a TV in it, it's for like conversations and reading and stuff. Usually has a fireplace or a wood stove or something (my parents has a wood stove)
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Last Chance posted:simple answers to all of these: its a cartoon
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54 40 or gently caress posted:The bigger question is how could they afford the house mortgage on a house with all that space when homers cheque in the bear patrol episode is like, less than $400 Don't ask me how the economy works
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Hardcordion posted:Nelson using Milhouse's glasses as flint instead of focusing sunlight to start a fire was a pretty good Lord of the Flies gag. I love Milhouse throwing off the cage after Bart says not guilty.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oCQXBkD1Fc
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Aesop Poprock posted:The fireplace one is the family room. My parents house has one. It's basically a living room but there's not usually a TV in it, it's for like conversations and reading and stuff. Usually has a fireplace or a wood stove or something (my parents has a wood stove) I'm not surprised that a house has two living areas. I'm surprised The Simpsons (the cartoon family) have one because I never remember seeing it on the show.
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Speaking of the rarely seen room. Remember when they aired the New York episode and gave away a replica of the Simpson house irl? Did anyone ever hear a single word on that house since that night? I remember there was some clause that the demo pics had matching furniture, but none of that would be in there for the winners. It would just be a house with lovely cartoon colors on the walls and stuff. Sometimes I think about this house and wonder about it and it's life beyond those ads in TV Guide or whatever it was that had the pics...
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Hrist posted:Speaking of the rarely seen room. Remember when they aired the New York episode and gave away a replica of the Simpson house irl? https://roadtrippers.com/stories/visit-the-real-life-full-size-simpsons-house
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Hrist posted:Speaking of the rarely seen room. Remember when they aired the New York episode and gave away a replica of the Simpson house irl? I remember they had little live action segments going into and out of commercial where louie anderson would walk around the house and show you stuff and I remember him opening the medicine cabinet and there was a big glass jar of munchkins that said "prescription donuts" on it and i remember thinking that was the kind of joke someone who didn't actually watch the show would come up with also they painted the house yellow because the simpsons are yellow, i guess? even though the house isn't yellow on the show. the person who lives there now apparently repainted it to be less obnoxious and in doing so actually made it look more accurate Riptor fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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