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Ku Klux Klam and scratchtasia. great stuff
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GIRL BRAINS posted:Boy I hope somebody got fired for those blunders Blunders....or wonders?
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Benny Harvey posted:Blunders....or wonders?
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I just got to season four. It's such a great season. Though season 2 and 3 were great too. Tons of different types of jokes with a healthy mix of subtle, subversive, or visual humour. I am noticing that celebrity cameos have always been a thing. I guess it's just the quality and direction that is horrendous. Even one of the earliest episodes that completely centered around celebrities, the baseball episode, allowed celebs to be made fun of and allowed them that cartooney personality. Having Daryl Strawberry be a suckup and a brat teasing Homer or Ken Griffey Jr, when asked if he was better than a plant worker reply "Well, I don't know you - but yes" we're pretty great uses of talent. I don't know. Maybe when I get to the higher seasons I'll forgive the celebrity cameos and focus back on poor directing, writing, and show running.
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Houle posted:I just got to season four. It's such a great season. Season 4 is great, it's really where they hit their stride.
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I just watched the comet episode from season 6 and holy poo poo - that's in serious Best Episode Ever territory. "Flanders, get out - my family needs to use your bomb shelter" "Well I figured this might happen, so I made the shelter big enough for both our families!" "No deal, out"
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webmeister posted:I just watched the comet episode from season 6 and holy poo poo - that's in serious Best Episode Ever territory. this is a Twilight Zone episode
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Houle posted:I just got to season four. It's such a great season. Though season 2 and 3 were great too. Tons of different types of jokes with a healthy mix of subtle, subversive, or visual humour. I am noticing that celebrity cameos have always been a thing. I guess it's just the quality and direction that is horrendous. Even one of the earliest episodes that completely centered around celebrities, the baseball episode, allowed celebs to be made fun of and allowed them that cartooney personality. Having Daryl Strawberry be a suckup and a brat teasing Homer or Ken Griffey Jr, when asked if he was better than a plant worker reply "Well, I don't know you - but yes" we're pretty great uses of talent. I don't know. Maybe when I get to the higher seasons I'll forgive the celebrity cameos and focus back on poor directing, writing, and show running. The celebrity cameos are a kind of a cargo cult thing I think. It’s not bad in itself to have them. Later seasons just tastelessly bung them in all the time because That’s What Simpsons Does, not just because they ran out of ideas. Even like Marge vs The Monorail, which a lot of people in this thread have praised and which I totally love, has the out-of-loving-nowhere appearance of Nimoy. You can say a similar thing about the Simpsons becoming “too cartoonish” or “unrealistic”, at the end of this episode Nimoy transports away ffs! The later seasons are bad because they’re just aping concepts from earlier in the show without any of the humor or good writing.
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skasion posted:The celebrity cameos are a kind of a cargo cult thing I think. It’s not bad in itself to have them. Later seasons just tastelessly bung them in all the time because That’s What Simpsons Does, not just because they ran out of ideas. Even like Marge vs The Monorail, which a lot of people in this thread have praised and which I totally love, has the out-of-loving-nowhere appearance of Nimoy. You can say a similar thing about the Simpsons becoming “too cartoonish” or “unrealistic”, at the end of this episode Nimoy transports away ffs! The later seasons are bad because they’re just aping concepts from earlier in the show without any of the humor or good writing. To defend it, Nemoy doesn't show up and become the central focus of the plot. It doesn't really feel terribly out of place because minor celebrities show up to unveilings of things all the time. A modern episode would revolve around the Simpsons somehow being the only people who can get Nemoy to the launch of the monorail by tricking him into thinking he's back on Star Trek.
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There's a big difference between "here's Celebrity, to do Thing Related to Celebrity's Fame and also they have jokes written that don't hinge on Thing" and "It's Celebrity! Isn't the thing they're famous for funny or weird? Thing! Thing thing thing"
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Last season had an episode with a couple New York Times editor/writers in Homer's living room and a some chess grandmaster guest star and all I could think was "who could possibly give a poo poo!? Who is the target audience for these guests!?"
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Detective No. 27 posted:Last season had an episode with a couple New York Times editor/writers in Homer's living room and a some chess grandmaster guest star and all I could think was "who could possibly give a poo poo!? Who is the target audience for these guests!?" See also: Julian Assange, and Elon Musk.
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did they ever make an episode where the entire family breaks the fourth wall and pleads with the audience to let them die
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Police Automaton posted:did they ever make an episode where the entire family breaks the fourth wall and pleads with the audience to let them die yeah it's actually the main plot of the last ~400 episodes
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Iron Crowned posted:See also: Julian Assange, and Elon Musk. Oh come on now, they didn't bring a rapist in as their guest voice, you can't b.. Now the writers are just being spiteful.
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Police Automaton posted:did they ever make an episode where the entire family breaks the fourth wall and pleads with the audience to let them die Ah the "lost" simpsons episode where it has a hyper realistic Homer crying over his dead families bodies. There is no soundtrack to the episode, you can only hear Homer's raspy breathing and weeping. Homer begins begging to the camera to kill him, but all you can hear is Dan Castellaneta. He's not even using his Homer voice, just begging for you to let him die. He lets slip that the other actors have been dead for years, they just recycle past voice work. You can watch this episode if you spin the fourth Season 8 DVD backwards.
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did anyone ever mention the time that marge was actually in real life playboy, for real, naked in playboy as an official thing
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scrolling through what was on tv last night the episode guide for a 25th season episode was that bart gains a new friend after homer reverts to the mind of a 10 year old or something
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webmeister posted:I just watched the comet episode from season 6 and holy poo poo - that's in serious Best Episode Ever territory. The little chihuahua that walks up to the remains of the comet was a nice call back to Homer being right about what would happen 
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It’s not that they’ve run out of ideas it’s that the ideas no longer make any sense Bart gets a girl pregnant Bart has a heart attack Bart drives a car He’s 10 ffs
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Houle posted:Even one of the earliest episodes that completely centered around celebrities, the baseball episode, allowed celebs to be made fun of and allowed them that cartooney personality. Having Daryl Strawberry be a suckup and a brat teasing Homer or Ken Griffey Jr, when asked if he was better than a plant worker reply "Well, I don't know you - but yes" we're pretty great uses of talent. the treehouse of horror IV episode where the 1975 Philadelphia Flyers appear in the jury of the damned is great too
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ALFbrot posted:did anyone ever mention the time that marge was actually in real life playboy, for real, naked in playboy as an official thing Matt Groening drew it himself. As a reminder, Marge is based on his mother.
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Not a Children posted:There's a big difference between "here's Celebrity, to do Thing Related to Celebrity's Fame and also they have jokes written that don't hinge on Thing" and "It's Celebrity! Isn't the thing they're famous for funny or weird? Thing! Thing thing thing" Lady Gaga is so weird you guys (buy her records!!!) and would totally love to hang out with a random working class family. Homer also loves contemporary poopoo-pop.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:the rest of it is indefensible but diePod is a pretty good pun "What music and scenery you'd like?" "Gimme Glen Miller and cops beating hippies!"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AWI_ECKrBc I was thinking of this joke today and laughed, I still could not believe they aired it when I first saw it, even with the disclaimer
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get that OUT of my face posted:why the gently caress is bart dating girls on the regular? even when you factor in the seasons when it slowly declined into what it is now, i can only think of two times where that was a plot point: the season 6 episode where he falls for Rev. Lovejoy's daughter, and the episode where he falls for some girl and the episode ends with them in canada. he was strictly anti-girls Honestly even in the 90s the series wasn't sure how to portray Bart consistently. He'd go from being a loser whose only friend was Milhouse and was bullied constantly to a cool dude who just didn't give a poo poo that the other kids seemed to respect multiple times in a season
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54 40 or gently caress posted:No joke, this is why Hayao Miyazaki hates anime. He straight up said it’s made by shut ins who don’t actually watch or interact with humans and modern animation is stiff and lifeless because of it Funny enough they had a few fight sequences in Naruto that are very fluid and elastic and interesting but everyone HATED them because they thought they were too stupid and cartoony looking. They're different from most of the other fights enough that I feel like they had to be animated by a different studio, like the one who did FLCL or Kill la Kill. I thought they were cool as hell though, so it's probably more that anime companies know their idiot followers don't like too much change and tend to stick with what's familiar for profit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ8BhNRcsHI
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Aesop Poprock posted:Honestly even in the 90s the series wasn't sure how to portray Bart consistently. He'd go from being a loser whose only friend was Milhouse and was bullied constantly to a cool dude who just didn't give a poo poo that the other kids seemed to respect multiple times in a season So, pretty much the life of your average elementary school kid
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Aesop Poprock posted:Honestly even in the 90s the series wasn't sure how to portray Bart consistently. He'd go from being a loser whose only friend was Milhouse and was bullied constantly to a cool dude who just didn't give a poo poo that the other kids seemed to respect multiple times in a season Honestly that sounds like the way things worked when I was ten during the early 90s. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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call it a compromise and say the 1975-76 flyers because NHL seasons go over two yearsAesop Poprock posted:Honestly even in the 90s the series wasn't sure how to portray Bart consistently. He'd go from being a loser whose only friend was Milhouse and was bullied constantly to a cool dude who just didn't give a poo poo that the other kids seemed to respect multiple times in a season the whole "no girls" thing was kind of a constant outside of the two episodes i mentioned
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There was also that episode where Bart had a crush on the babysitter from next door. I only really remember him being anti-girl when Milhouse got a girlfriend.
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Junk posted:There was also that episode where Bart had a crush on the babysitter from next door. I only really remember him being anti-girl when Milhouse got a girlfriend.
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Junk posted:There was also that episode where Bart had a crush on the babysitter from next door. I only really remember him being anti-girl when Milhouse got a girlfriend. It always annoyed me that that character and her mother didn't become reoccurring characters. They were pretty cool and would have been a funny contrast to the Flanders.
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khwarezm posted:It always annoyed me that that character and her mother didn't become reoccurring characters. They were pretty cool and would have been a funny contrast to the Flanders. There’s a continuity error where Ruth Powers shows up for Maggie’s baby shower despite it being a prequel episode.
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khwarezm posted:It always annoyed me that that character and her mother didn't become reoccurring characters. They were pretty cool and would have been a funny contrast to the Flanders. The mom was often in background crowd scenes after that, no more 
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Code Jockey posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AWI_ECKrBc
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Code Jockey posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AWI_ECKrBc this joke is the crystallization of the rat-faced kid who sat next to me in middle school. it's the pedantry of the modern goon combined with the humor sensibilities of youtube commenters. gently caress you al jean, probably.
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