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cool new Polack jokes posted:I'm kind of amazed Julie Kavner is still doing the voice. Her regular speaking voice sounds very much like the other characters she voices, who all smoke. I'm pretty sure she smokes, too. She was the only major VA who didn't appear when they did "Inside the Actor's Studio" with the Simpsons voice cast because she has a "secret process" for doing Marge's voice, which likely just means she has a killer smoker's voice. Incidentally that episode of Inside the Actor's Studio was as painful to watch as any modern episode. It was literally James Corben and the audience making requests of the voice cast to re-enact popular scenes and howling like baboons because "Oh my god the good jokes are coming from people and not cartoons what a thrill" for like 2 straight hours. Lord knows how long they filmed in the studio.
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That was also because it's written into her contract that she never has to do promotions for the show, and can't be photographed or filmed for it. She's an extremely private person.
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That's fair.
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Watched a few random recent episodes and the only funny thing was how much Harry Shearer clearly doesn't give a gently caress.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Watched a few random recent episodes and the only funny thing was how much Harry Shearer clearly doesn't give a gently caress. The scare over him threatening to leave the show last year to focus on his independent comedy made me track some of it down and woof, novelty songs of him flatly singing about catholic priests molesting deaf choirboys is some dire poo poo.
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SEX BURRITO posted:Homer was trying to pass Spiderpig off as a therapy animal or something.
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plus you can replace 'em and nobody can tell the diddly ifference
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Or they would pull a Maude Flanders and just kill off every character he voices. Just have some long painfully unfunny sequence of a bunch of beloved characters dying in horrendously unfunny ways. Or just have half of Springfield be a smoking crater and have none of the characters acknowledge it or the missing characters who don't show up anymore.
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At this point, I'm sure there's somebody out there who can do a more faithful Marge voice than Julie Kavner.
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muckraker-ess! oh my god, this has plagued me for my whole life
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Houle posted:Or they would pull a Maude Flanders and just kill off every character he voices. Just have some long painfully unfunny sequence of a bunch of beloved characters dying in horrendously unfunny ways. Or just have half of Springfield be a smoking crater and have none of the characters acknowledge it or the missing characters who don't show up anymore. It turns out that Bart's Comet really did hit Springfield, and every episode since then was Homer in a coma for 23 years.
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get that OUT of my face posted:cool, another rip-off of an older episode (this time the one where homer gets a therapy monkey in season 9) pray for mojo
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The one that ended with them singing the Canadian national anthem- was that supposed to be a joke?? 
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The one where Lisa thinks she's losing her intelligence but it turns out that only happens to simpson men and Bart sadly asks, 'so I'm going to end up retarded?' and Marge says yes, now go join the head-butting contest with your special needs dad
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I decided to watch season 6, it was awesome until I got to the Lisa episode with Bleeding Gums Murphy. The worst part was Lisa singing, I stopped watching about 30 seconds into the song. Fact: every Lisa episode is terrible.
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All singing, all dancing. Whats worse than a clip show? An all musical clip show!
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the episode that most strongly signaled to me the simpsons was done was the 'paint your wagon' episode. i stopped watching it after that. its not as bad as the newer stuff in retrospect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM5-xFenaZI
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Ronnie posted:All singing, all dancing. yeah
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The memes
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bitterandtwisted posted:The one where Lisa thinks she's losing her intelligence but it turns out that only happens to simpson men and Bart sadly asks, 'so I'm going to end up retarded?' and Marge says yes, now go join the head-butting contest with your special needs dad Then they retconned it to it being that he stabbed his brain with a crayon as a child and once removed he's a genius. Also Dr. Hibbert hadn't seen it because his thumb has been covering it up for decades and seems to be fine with it being loged back into his brain to restupify him. Thing is, the Simpson gene is a great way to explain the lower and lower quality writing. They just have a horribly brain degenerative disorder that robs them of a fulfilling full life in a predictable and horrific way played for laughs.
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pram posted:the episode that most strongly signaled to me the simpsons was done was the 'paint your wagon' episode. i stopped watching it after that. its not as bad as the newer stuff in retrospect
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bitterandtwisted posted:The one where Lisa thinks she's losing her intelligence but it turns out that only happens to simpson men and Bart sadly asks, 'so I'm going to end up retarded?' and Marge says yes, now go join the head-butting contest with your special needs dad
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If I had to pick a favorite joke from the classic era, it might be this:
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When Homer is working at the kwik E mart and sleeping on the job, Flanders acts naughty by giving him exact change and walking away chuckling. Great character moment. All of that is gone.
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pram posted:the episode that most strongly signaled to me the simpsons was done was the 'paint your wagon' episode. i stopped watching it after that. its not as bad as the newer stuff in retrospect it's an interesting point because I agree this is terrible but it's also got nothing to do with all the "pandering to millenials/contemporary culture" poo poo that is truly horrible and takes up most of this thread. like only baby boomers and a few odd gen x'rs would get the joke about Paint Your Wagon, I only know about it because my dad made me watch it once (it's really bad)
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Lazy garbage clipshows were a problem with US shows in the 80s/90s in general, not the Simpsons in particular. The 138th Episode special is probably the only clipshow of any program of that era that was good (if it even counts when most of the content was previously unseen or on the Tracy Ulman show).
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gonna paint that wagon gonna paint it fine gonna use oil-based paint because the wood is pine ... thank you, brain, for hanging onto that
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The Clerks cartoon did a good clips show.
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Earwicker posted:it's an interesting point because I agree this is terrible but it's also got nothing to do with all the "pandering to millenials/contemporary culture" poo poo that is truly horrible and takes up most of this thread. like only baby boomers and a few odd gen x'rs would get the joke about Paint Your Wagon, I only know about it because my dad made me watch it once (it's really bad) Yeah, and that brings up an interesting point which is that old Simpsons used to be pretty good at making references to niche cultural things like that, all these weird scattershot "Dennis Miller ratio" in-jokes like the Paint Your Wagon parody, Rory Calhoun, or Mike Farrell's "My Core Beliefs" ("man, he really hates Wayne Rogers!"). By contrast, these days they're going out of their way to make wall-to-wall nods to contemporary popular trends. It's like they went from being content so snicker amongst themselves over occasional obscure throwbacks to desperately trying to shove in your face the fact that, "No, we're TOTALLY with it! Look, an Uber episode! Apple Computers! WE'RE STILL RELEVANT." Every one in a while they go out of their way to make a joke about some less-than-mainstream internet or geek culture thing, but doesn't have the same flavor for some reason. I wonder if there actually is a difference or if I'm just old and bitter that my obscure throwback references aren't about the 70's anymore. Drink-Mix Man fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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bitterandtwisted posted:Lazy garbage clipshows were a problem with US shows in the 80s/90s in general, not the Simpsons in particular. The Simpsons writers were self-aware of it. The first clip show where Bart puts the beer in the paint shaker was called "So It's Come to This".
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Yeah, if I recall correctly, in the commentaries they mention the clip shows were a thing the network demanded from them, not something they really chose, or wanted to do.
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Drink-Mix Man posted:It's like they went from being content so snicker amongst themselves over occasional obscure throwbacks to desperately trying to shove in your face the fact that, "No, we're TOTALLY with it! Look, an Uber episode! Apple Computers! WE'RE STILL RELEVANT."
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Apple Computers WHAT computers?
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get that OUT of my face posted:isn't the simpsons take on apple just called "Mapple?" be creative ffs ExplodingSims posted:Yeah, if I recall correctly, in the commentaries they mention the clip shows were a thing the network demanded from them, not something they really chose, or wanted to do.
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Urdnot Fire posted:
Emphasis on at least, they figured "hey its animation so you can just put new voices over old footage. three or four entire episodes every year. no biggie. cartoons are easy!"
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I watched the Simpsons Futurama crossover episode. It was so bad that being in proximity to the Simpsons made the Futurama parts actively worse.
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Urdnot Fire posted:Hilariously enough, Fox execs wanted them to have at least one clip show per season before the showrunners shot them down. tbf if they were still doing that today I might actually watch those (and only those) episodes cause you'd presumably get the only funny or memorable parts of whatever dribbles out the mouths of the intern writers mouths out onto the pages
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always good to see this thread bumped and full of new postsArcsquad12 posted:I watched the Simpsons Futurama crossover episode. It was so bad that being in proximity to the Simpsons made the Futurama parts actively worse.
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get that OUT of my face posted:always good to see this thread bumped and full of new posts Like the Simpsons this thread will never die. There is always more and it is always worse. It really says something about Futurama that there's really only one season that is generally bad, the one that came out after the DVD specials. Once that speed bump was crossed the show got good again, but most importantly, it actually ended. Even the original run's cancellation finale was great. The writers gave a poo poo which is more than can be said about the Simpsons.
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Why are you talking about Simpsons canon Why is anyone talking about Simpsons canon The canon of the show literally does not matter at loving all and is not why the show is bad now or was good in the past You know what made it good in the past? Funny jokes and good writing You know what's making it bad now? Unfunny jokes and bad writing
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