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sassassin posted:But the joke in those episodes is Craig telling the main kids that they enable all these wacky adventures to happen every week. They can just walk away at any point and things won't get worse/sillier. They're to blame. That's a bit beside the point, which is that I think that South Park tends to come up with funny sounding premises but generally doesn't do a very good job following up on those premises and often ends up making obvious or repetitive jokes from them. khwarezm fucked around with this message at 01:04 on May 23, 2017 |
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Southparks best moments are the rick and Morty esque stuff where they're obviously adlibbing and having fun with the content. Anything drawn out or re-referenced can get painful cause it's obvious how much they're trying to rush it through
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May 23, 2017 01:02
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Post more fake Simpsons episodes, they're hella good.
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Warbird posted:Post more fake Simpsons episodes, they're hella good.
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May 23, 2017 05:54
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Warbird posted:Post more fake Simpsons episodes, they're hella good. What do you mean "fake" These are real episodes
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TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:Maybe the last season would have been more coherent if the election results weren't so crazy in the real world.
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khwarezm posted:Regardless of their middle of the road preachiness my problem with South Park is that its just never been that funny or clever. It feels they come up with a basic idea that could lead to funny stuff, but never seem to know how to actually pull it off properly and stretch out that funny concept until its really not funny at all. Like they have some kind of zany premise like giant Guinea Pigs attack the town because Homeland Security cracked down on Peruvian Flute bands and that's... kind of it, the zaniness of the plot is the joke and they don't go much further than that. It also feels like they call-back too much to well know plots or jokes from previous episodes and have too many running gags, which also a problem I have with contemporary Simpsons. I always assumed the quick production times were due to the show just being a fast paycheck and nothing more. Nothing is lazier than doing a current events show with a slight twist on it (especially when the politics is the intellectually lazy 'the truth is in the middle') and I get the feeling the guys got on Comedy Central's good side and have been riding the easy paycheck for a while. Oddly enough, much like the Simpsons. Unless you're doing the animating, it must be a good gig to pound out an episode on the quick and then spend the majority of the year doing anything else. 54 40 or gently caress posted:Are the above episodes real because they sound plausible Pretty much this. Last Chance posted:Pretty sure those aren't real just because it feels like some thought went into them And pretty much this. JazzFlight posted:Ehhh, even so, they were really running gags thin every week with the same drat "jokes" like the member berries and the online trolling. Cartman being a bland "good-guy" was aggravating and the other main kids and Randy were barely in the season. I never want to see any of those episodes again and would prefer to think that they didn't even happen. I think South Park's laziness wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't just so unnecessary. Trey and Matt have some good stories left in them and they are definitely more on the ball than the Simpsons writers by the sheer virtue of still being with the show they created. I remember the episode 'You're Getting Old' as being pretty heavy stuff that also had a few laughs and wasn't afraid to get into some areas that American animation doesn't really get into. It's a more personal look that as a season finale was downright depressing...and that's a good thing. It breaks the norm. It makes a statement and is interesting to watch even if it's hard to. But then you get the other stuff and.....well....I'd rather have a show that has some thought put into it than an afterthought because a contract has to be fulfilled. In a way, I think this whole idea comes from the fact that the Simpsons didn't do this. They went from a pretty good show that had its own personality and became television wallpaper and has remained that way (with a few exceptions) for the last seventeen years.
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Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson enter a domestic partnership in order to pay less taxes out of necessity because Lenny is piss broke. Turns out Carl is a Nigerian prince's heir and the second half of the episode is spent with the two fighting over if it's Carl's money or if Lenny can get a solid gold head. Side plot involves Milhouse getting bullied and becoming friends with Ralph so he can steal Wiggum's gun and use it to scare bullies. (Guest starring Jermaine Dupri and Chris Rock)
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May 23, 2017 15:39
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I'm fairly sure that's a real episode and that I've seen it. This concerns me greatly.
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May 23, 2017 15:43
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Warbird posted:I'm fairly sure that's a real episode and that I've seen it. This concerns me greatly. I haven't even seen it but I think I read it before in this thread
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khwarezm posted:Regardless of their middle of the road preachiness my problem with South Park is that its just never been that funny or clever. the original web video that started the whole thing, with santa fighting jesus, was funny at that time, in the context of the internet of that period, when there were not a million other easily accessible funnier videos to compare it to
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this randomly showed up in my youtube feed and it reminded me of just how loving funny the simpsons used to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXjWRXDFV8
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Toss up between time Homer got raped by a dolphin and that time he got arrested for insulting beef
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Fojar38 posted:this randomly showed up in my youtube feed and it reminded me of just how loving funny the simpsons used to be That's post season 9...,
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wow that tik tok video was really really hard to watch
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Neukoln19 posted:wow that tik tok video was really really hard to watch Yeah but even those first few seasons we originally thought sucked are still better than what it's been for the last 15 or so years.
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Mustached5thGrader posted:That's post season 9..., it was a funny episode though. It's only two seasons afterward, in a season that concluded with "behind the laughter". my first and for some time only exposure to the show was a book my brother left lying around that provided quotes and synopses for each episode of like seasons 9 and 10, so i'm willing to keep going after 9. only in the years since that we've passed its creamy middle and reached the terrible lows.
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Cobweb Heart posted:it was a funny episode though. It's only two seasons afterward, in a season that concluded with "behind the laughter". my first and for some time only exposure to the show was a book my brother left lying around that provided quotes and synopses for each episode of like seasons 9 and 10, so i'm willing to keep going after 9. only in the years since that we've passed its creamy middle and reached the terrible lows. That's like the saddest version of finding your dad's old porn mags possible
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All I have to say is somehow, someway Fox kept this show running for 30 years and even the voice actors are in it for the money holding the show up under the guise of "artistic credibility".
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Justin Godscock posted:All I have to say is somehow, someway Fox kept this show running for 30 years and even the voice actors are in it for the money holding the show up under the guise of "artistic credibility". that doesn't really make sense to me. those voice actors have to have a LOT of money at this point, and even if they stopped working today they'd still get a bunch of income in royalties and basically they could easily live very very comfortably without ever having to go into work again if they wanted to I don't believe it's "artistic credibility" either because the show hasnt had any in over a decade, but maybe they are bound by some satanic contract or something Earwicker fucked around with this message at 13:53 on May 25, 2017 |
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Earwicker posted:that doesn't really make sense to me. those voice actors have to have a LOT of money at this point, and even if they stopped working today they'd still get a bunch of income in royalties and basically they could easily live very very comfortably without ever having to go into work again if they wanted to The thing is, why stop the gravy train? From what I read somewhere the voice actors don't put in much work (I guess that's why the voice acting the new seasons is so dull) yet get paid handsomely, why stop that? And I wouldn't be surprised that on some level the voice actors enjoy the work, or find some sort of purpose in it.
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Cobweb Heart posted:it was a funny episode though. It's only two seasons afterward, in a season that concluded with "behind the laughter". my first and for some time only exposure to the show was a book my brother left lying around that provided quotes and synopses for each episode of like seasons 9 and 10, so i'm willing to keep going after 9. only in the years since that we've passed its creamy middle and reached the terrible lows. I had the one with seasons 1-8.  best bathroom book you can own.
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54 40 or gently caress posted:Don't they literally phone it in now Yes. The gags about Krusty recording a couple of phrases for a talking Krusty doll in a single take and then leaving to go golfing are pretty close to the reality now for the voice actors.
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canyoneer posted:Yes. You don't even have to go to the studio to do it anymore.
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Aesop Poprock posted:That's like the saddest version of finding your dad's old porn mags possible Don't jerk off to the simpsons creep
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I'm rewatching season 9 right and just hit the Principal and the Pauper. Yeah the premise is stupid as poo poo but its still got solid jokes.
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May 25, 2017 19:13
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Cobweb Heart posted:Don't jerk off to the simpsons creep Bart I'm piss
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Cobweb Heart posted:it was a funny episode though. It's only two seasons afterward, in a season that concluded with "behind the laughter". my first and for some time only exposure to the show was a book my brother left lying around that provided quotes and synopses for each episode of like seasons 9 and 10, so i'm willing to keep going after 9. only in the years since that we've passed its creamy middle and reached the terrible lows.
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Cobweb Heart posted:Don't jerk off to the simpsons creep Seriously, why is Simpsons porn is so prolific on the internet?
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Guy Mann posted:Seriously, why is Simpsons porn is so prolific on the internet? is someone actually asking this in 2017?
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i saw the title of the video and immediately closed the tab when did the simpsons get partisan? in the classic days, they were cynical towards republicans (for being cartoonishly evil) and democrats (for being incompetent morons, plus mayor quimby was a caricature of the worst parts of JFK)
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get that OUT of my face posted:when did the simpsons get partisan? Season 1 episode 1. But they were actually funny about it so it wasn't so noticeable.
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get that OUT of my face posted:i saw the title of the video and immediately closed the tab They were always super partisan. I mean Quimby being a horndog is one thing, but they make it as clear as possible that the Republicans 'Evil Dracula style headquarters whose candidate commits mass voter fraud and flies off on a rant about how people love despotic tyrants instead of true democracy' were way worse. Personally I find this quite odd, one of the things I disliked about the Simpsons long decline was how politically inert and safe it became (They mocked H.W Bush and Clinton tons while they were in power, but they never mentioned George Bush at all, or any of the other crazy political stuff happening during his tenure?) but recent season have tried to reverse that course in the clunkiest, crappiest way. As we can see here.
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khwarezm posted:Personally I find this quite odd, one of the things I disliked about the Simpsons long decline was how politically inert and safe it became (They mocked H.W Bush and Clinton tons while they were in power, but they never mentioned George Bush at all, or any of the other crazy political stuff happening during his tenure?) but recent season have tried to reverse that course in the clunkiest, crappiest way. As we can see here.
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khwarezm posted:They were always super partisan. I mean Quimby being a horndog is one thing, but they make it as clear as possible that the Republicans 'Evil Dracula style headquarters whose candidate commits mass voter fraud and flies off on a rant about how people love despotic tyrants instead of true democracy' were way worse. Eh, all the way back in season 3 you had this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JECng2RTOw&t=169s
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they did take the piss out of democrats but i'd say it's accurate that they leaned in harder on republicans. the thing was, they were funny back then no matter who they were targeting
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"Grampa, didn't you wonder why you were getting money for doing absolutely nothing?" "I figured it was because the Democrats were in power again."
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