Issy posted:

FilthyImp posted:

Had a $3 VUDU credit so I purchased Season 4. Hoping that Disney releases original aspect ratio blus at some point because the formatting is sperging me out man.

Did they DNR these episodes? poo poo looks weeeeeird

PostNouveau posted:

You don't need the DVDs. You can watch all the commentaries on http://www.simpsonsworld.com/

Justin Godscock posted:

With regards to talk of a major VA dying ending the show.

Disney is going to be getting control of The Simpsons in 2019 and, mark my words, the show will die by their hand. The question is if its the result of another pay dispute.

SeANMcBAY posted:

As much as I want the show to end I hope it could at least end on a somewhat high note. Like maybe with another movie with Hank Scorpio or something with the best writers returning.

Stato-Masochist posted:

The DVD commentaries are definitely worth it for all of the inside baseball about how the show is made and whatnot, but the best thing about them is the slow unraveling of how peculiar of a person John Swartzwelder is.

JediTalentAgent posted:

I don't know how Disney/Fox can end the Simpsons.

They could maybe go the route of doing the Simpsons as a series of shorts, again. The series is officially cancelled, but they stay in the public eye in the form of 0.5-5min shorts that appear through the week with other programming and/or their Hulu/Youtube channel.

SeANMcBAY posted:

Mike Reiss was interviewed by Chapo Trap House a few weeks ago and the anecdotes he dropped about Swartzwelder were loving hilarious. I see why they kept slipping him into the show with cameos. I need to pick up some of his books.

JediTalentAgent posted:

I don't know how Disney/Fox can end the Simpsons.

They could maybe go the route of doing the Simpsons as a series of shorts, again. The series is officially cancelled, but they stay in the public eye in the form of 0.5-5min shorts that appear through the week with other programming and/or their Hulu/Youtube channel.

I could see them doing a Springfield series spinoff to take weight off the main cast of characters to give themselves an out of, "Well, the Simpsons are a part of Springfield, too..." They can quietly cancel the Simpsons and the characters continue to make appearances down the road.

Tree Goat posted:

there's lots of scenarios where they cancel the simpsons, it's very easy to envision:

1) one of the few tribes scrounging for food in the last few arable pieces of land in the american wastelands is insufficiently vigilant in purifying their water, and the elders succumb to cholera. they did not specify a lore-keeper before this calamity and so the long oral tradition of the tribal simpsons-speaker, an unbroken chain of voice actors dating back to before the cataclysm, is forever severed.

2) a flaw in the central machine of the self-aware disney entertainment system causes an unstable feedback loop in the neural circuitry that imprisons the cast and crew in their statis pods. while its system of thought is entirely alien to ours, this malfunction creates a pattern of behavior that is somewhat analogous to the human notion of mercy. in the brief seconds before the error-correction and redundancy systems restore the status quo, the DES permits the cast the ultimate freedom: the freedom to die.

3) the last gasp of a super-massive dying star releases a gamma ray burst that bathes our planet in purifying radiation and we, the simpsons included, are snuffed out like a match on a windy day.

Tree Goat posted:

there's lots of scenarios where they cancel the simpsons, it's very easy to envision:

1) one of the few tribes scrounging for food in the last few arable pieces of land in the american wastelands is insufficiently vigilant in purifying their water, and the elders succumb to cholera. they did not specify a lore-keeper before this calamity and so the long oral tradition of the tribal simpsons-speaker, an unbroken chain of voice actors dating back to before the cataclysm, is forever severed.

2) a flaw in the central machine of the self-aware disney entertainment system causes an unstable feedback loop in the neural circuitry that imprisons the cast and crew in their statis pods. while its system of thought is entirely alien to ours, this malfunction creates a pattern of behavior that is somewhat analogous to the human notion of mercy. in the brief seconds before the error-correction and redundancy systems restore the status quo, the DES permits the cast the ultimate freedom: the freedom to die.

3) the last gasp of a super-massive dying star releases a gamma ray burst that bathes our planet in purifying radiation and we, the simpsons included, are snuffed out like a match on a windy day.

Tree Goat posted:

there's lots of scenarios where they cancel the simpsons, it's very easy to envision:

1) one of the few tribes scrounging for food in the last few arable pieces of land in the american wastelands is insufficiently vigilant in purifying their water, and the elders succumb to cholera. they did not specify a lore-keeper before this calamity and so the long oral tradition of the tribal simpsons-speaker, an unbroken chain of voice actors dating back to before the cataclysm, is forever severed.

2) a flaw in the central machine of the self-aware disney entertainment system causes an unstable feedback loop in the neural circuitry that imprisons the cast and crew in their statis pods. while its system of thought is entirely alien to ours, this malfunction creates a pattern of behavior that is somewhat analogous to the human notion of mercy. in the brief seconds before the error-correction and redundancy systems restore the status quo, the DES permits the cast the ultimate freedom: the freedom to die.

3) the last gasp of a super-massive dying star releases a gamma ray burst that bathes our planet in purifying radiation and we, the simpsons included, are snuffed out like a match on a windy day.

Tree Goat posted:

there's lots of scenarios where they cancel the simpsons, it's very easy to envision:

1) one of the few tribes scrounging for food in the last few arable pieces of land in the american wastelands is insufficiently vigilant in purifying their water, and the elders succumb to cholera. they did not specify a lore-keeper before this calamity and so the long oral tradition of the tribal simpsons-speaker, an unbroken chain of voice actors dating back to before the cataclysm, is forever severed.

2) a flaw in the central machine of the self-aware disney entertainment system causes an unstable feedback loop in the neural circuitry that imprisons the cast and crew in their statis pods. while its system of thought is entirely alien to ours, this malfunction creates a pattern of behavior that is somewhat analogous to the human notion of mercy. in the brief seconds before the error-correction and redundancy systems restore the status quo, the DES permits the cast the ultimate freedom: the freedom to die.

3) the last gasp of a super-massive dying star releases a gamma ray burst that bathes our planet in purifying radiation and we, the simpsons included, are snuffed out like a match on a windy day.

Improbable Lobster posted:

Mayde Flanders' death, op

Data Graham posted:

Lowest point, not beginning of the end / point of no return

Angelwolf posted:

Today I learned that they killed off Fat Tony, only to have him replaced by (his twin brother?) Fit Tony, who was rather slender. Who then, through the stress, gains weight and becomes Fat Tony.

How did they not. loving. learn?

Fried Watermelon posted:

Imagine if they did a King of the Hill crossover instead of that Family Guy one

Hank opens a new propane store in Springfield

Homer's BBQ runs out of propane but it's only made in Arlen for some reason

Last Chance posted:

it's lazy as gently caress

SweetMercifulCrap! posted:

That's the joke, it's basically the writers admitting "whatever, who cares at this point?"

Iron Crowned posted:

Yeah, I consider the death of Maude Flanders to be when they jumped the shark.

Ein cooler Typ posted:

do you think Al Jean actually thinks the simpsons is still good