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i just saw this on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-v1d-DjQqs
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:i just saw this on youtube wow, that's a good one. starts off just simply boring and terrible and ramps up to positively awful once homer gets in the windmill.
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Aug 20, 2018 02:38
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I only made it to the Susan Sarandon bit
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Aug 20, 2018 02:38
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:i just saw this on youtube 
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Aug 20, 2018 02:58
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:i just saw this on youtube  This dude!
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Aug 20, 2018 03:48
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That clip was bad, but not really offensively so. Just generic and boring and predictable. Like every joke I could see coming from a mile away. Also why is there a "you've got mail" joke in alongside a guantanamo bay joke? I'm pretty certain you've got mail hasn't been a thing since like the mid 90s.JazzFlight posted:And if you notice, right at the end, it was written by... Holy poo poo CodfishCartographer fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Aug 20, 2018 |
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Aug 20, 2018 04:09
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FeMac really? Please tell me this is an older episode.
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Aug 20, 2018 04:37
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ChaseSP posted:FeMac really? Please tell me this is an older episode. Season 17, which aired in 2006 apparently. So it's a teensy bit more forgivable for the aged jokes, but shows how bad the middling seasons sure are.
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Aug 20, 2018 04:52
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I remember this one, that was the last season I could endure. It's the season with Grampa's assisted suicide by diePod while watching cops beating up hippies to Glen Miller episode.
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Aug 20, 2018 05:10
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Aug 20, 2018 06:25
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CodfishCartographer posted:That clip was bad, but not really offensively so. Just generic and boring and predictable. Like every joke I could see coming from a mile away. Also why is there a "you've got mail" joke in alongside a guantanamo bay joke? I'm pretty certain you've got mail hasn't been a thing since like the mid 90s. I think it'd be more classic Simpsons stripped down a bit more or changed things a bit. Take out the feMac joke, it doesn't work. I could MAYBE see them going, "The prize was going to be the iMac, but we got the iMal, the Malibu Stacy version, instead. It does all the same work, but it only cost us about 80% as much." It's still not a good joke, but it might be a bit more subtle. Even the Susan Sarandon bit ALMOST works, but you need a different set up to it. LIke if some hipster was standing there next to Marge who was impressed with the 'you've got mail' announcment and they did the Guantanamo line as a 'You rubes don't are so concerned with your duck races, the world is burning and you don't even know it.... But I really want that computer, so put me down for a duck!" (Again, not that good, either.) Finally, the windmill stuff probably removes any sense of reality from the scene. Just have Homer making an rear end of himself chasing down the duck to try to get it back on the right path... only for that little fork in the stream just curve back to the same spot in the race, anyway.
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Aug 20, 2018 07:31
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Drink-Mix Man posted:I bet this will definitely happen. We might have discussed this but there was serious talk in the mid 90s of doing a Springfield spin-off. It never took off for whatever reason and they made the idea into the 22 Short Films episode (Steamed Hams). Mike Weiss (I think) said from that point on they realized they could make episodes about any supporting character. So, yeah, I can’t see a Springfield spinoff because it kinda already happened.
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Aug 20, 2018 08:09
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The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase was definitely one point where it started going downhill, I think. The Principal and the Pauper always gets the bad rap but spin-off showcase is one episode I almost never want to go back to. There's some good jokes in there but the episode as a whole is the worst kind of bland. I get the whole point is its making fun of dumb spinoff shows, but it winds up just being a dumb spinoff episode.
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Aug 20, 2018 08:19
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I hear Matt Groening just came up with a new show? Is it any good?
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Aug 20, 2018 08:42
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I will admit, both Homer drawing Kirby eyebrows on the duck and Flanders' final line were mildly funny. That scene was pretty good for 2006 Simpsons, of which I've watched too much.Phlegmish posted:I hear Matt Groening just came up with a new show? Is it any good? I'm up to episode 3 and it's growing on me. The first episode is a bit rough, and it's definitely no Futurama or classic Simpsons, but that's a high bar to clear. The royal couple are a bit too close to the Trumps for my taste, but the king seems to be growing a bit softer as the show goes, and he is voiced by John DiMaggio, who can basically do no wrong. The other main characters are all cute and likable.
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Aug 20, 2018 10:00
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Phlegmish posted:I hear Matt Groening just came up with a new show? Is it any good? It’s awful Zulily Zoetrope posted:I will admit, both Homer drawing Kirby eyebrows on the duck and Flanders' final line were mildly funny. That scene was pretty good for 2006 Simpsons, of which I've watched too much. This should invalidate this poster’s opinion on anything comedy
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Aug 20, 2018 10:02
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Phlegmish posted:I hear Matt Groening just came up with a new show? Is it any good? it is not good
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Aug 20, 2018 10:34
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:i just saw this on youtube I liked that it was a fundraiser for one church to build a bigger steeple than the one across the street, that was the best joke in that clip (and I suspect the whole episode)
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Aug 20, 2018 12:36
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I think Disenchantment is pretty good. It’s more like a medieval fantasy Futurama than Simpsons though. The first season wasn’t perfect but I think it’ll come into its own eventually.
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Aug 20, 2018 22:32
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CodfishCartographer posted:The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase was definitely one point where it started going downhill, I think. The Principal and the Pauper always gets the bad rap but spin-off showcase is one episode I almost never want to go back to. There's some good jokes in there but the episode as a whole is the worst kind of bland. I get the whole point is its making fun of dumb spinoff shows, but it winds up just being a dumb spinoff episode. Wiggum and Skinner's segment of Spin-off Showcase is loving hilarious. Moe and Grandpa's segment ends up being such a dead on parody of hackneyed sitcoms that unfortunately it actually is a hackneyed sitcom  , the variety show parody was funny idea but stretched out too long, though Lisa being recast as a peppy 16 year old cheerleader was pretty drat funny.
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Aug 21, 2018 00:32
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Plus it has Troy McClure. End of story, it's a good ep.
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Aug 21, 2018 00:47
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khwarezm posted:Wiggum and Skinner's segment of Spin-off Showcase is loving hilarious. Moe and Grandpa's segment ends up being such a dead on parody of hackneyed sitcoms that unfortunately it actually is a hackneyed sitcom Exactly this Also rip phil hartman, the best thing about the simpsons
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Aug 21, 2018 00:59
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Code Jockey posted:Exactly this It's not a coincidence that The Simpsons poo poo itself after Hartman was killed.
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Aug 21, 2018 01:03
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Phlegmish posted:I hear Matt Groening just came up with a new show? Is it any good? Not a great first season. The first two episodes are particularly bad. It's all serialized too, which ain't a great choice for a Groening show. But I think it shows promise. The voice cast and premise are good.
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Aug 21, 2018 01:13
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Enjoyment of the spinoff showcase episode is direct correlated with whether you lived through the 80s and had to suffer through the assorted insane spinoffs and sitcom concepts on network television of the time.
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Aug 21, 2018 01:14
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SirPablo posted:It's not a coincidence that The Simpsons poo poo itself after Hartman was killed. this is i think the best answer to the topic question. It was just a hole that couldn't be filled
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Aug 21, 2018 01:21
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Milo and POTUS posted:this is i think the best answer to the topic question. It was just a hole that couldn't be filled A Phil Hartman Zapp Brannigan, it would’ve been incredible
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Aug 21, 2018 01:34
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Who, other than Hartman, could have come into the Simpsons to do a similar type of character? I know it's years too late, but H. Jon Benjamin or even a Keanu Reeves* could almost do a Troy McClure-type, if you moved him from the 70s/80s type of fun celebrity and more a jaded 90s/00s cynical hipster celebrity whose educational videos all reek of sentenced community service assignments. *edit: Stephen Dorff. Get him do to them in the same way he did his Blu e-cig commercials. JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Aug 21, 2018 |
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Aug 21, 2018 01:42
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Asimo posted:Enjoyment of the spinoff showcase episode is direct correlated with whether you lived through the 80s and had to suffer through the assorted insane spinoffs and sitcom concepts on network television of the time. Is the only good spinoff we got Fraiser?
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Aug 21, 2018 01:44
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Calaveron posted:A Phil Hartman Zapp Brannigan, it would’ve been incredible I mean I'm not gonna say the Billy West one is bad in any way, but...
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Aug 21, 2018 01:54
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JediTalentAgent posted:Who, other than Hartman, could have come into the Simpsons to do a similar type of character? Matt Berry plays a Brannigan/McClure-esque character on Disenchantment and he is perfect.
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Aug 21, 2018 02:01
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SirPablo posted:It's not a coincidence that The Simpsons poo poo itself after Hartman was killed. Hartman was incredible but it completely is
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Aug 21, 2018 02:42
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Iron Crowned posted:Is the only good spinoff we got Fraiser?  ), and there's definitely a bunch of others I'm forgetting. Whether those are "good" depends highly on your tolerance for 80's sitcoms, so for most people here they probably don't count.
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Aug 21, 2018 03:12
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Here’s another one that was recommended to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJO2hRyefNs It’s not even that new Where are the jokes
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Aug 21, 2018 03:34
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Phlegmish posted:I hear Matt Groening just came up with a new show? Is it any good? First two episodes kinda suck but it improves a lot afterwards
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Aug 21, 2018 04:08
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Riptor posted:Hartman was incredible but it completely is It resulted in the loss of some bit characters. I can help but think Hartman helped write or improve some scripts even. At least being in doing the voice acting.
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Aug 21, 2018 05:16
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Iron Crowned posted:Is the only good spinoff we got Fraiser? The Simpsons itself is kinda a spinoff on of itself technically.
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Aug 21, 2018 22:36
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It's a little weird that there are two episodes in the early teens that deal with Homer commiting a crime and then end with a trial turning out to be fake. And both involve Homer being tricked by someone in a rubber mask. (The Great Money Caper / The Frying Game)
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Aug 21, 2018 22:44
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So I was thinking... if the simpsons were cancelled in like... 2000 or earlier, would we see people clamoring for a revival now? Is no parallel universe safe from the simpsons continuing to air?
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Aug 22, 2018 03:32
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Just caught this tonight and for fucks sake I laughed until I hurt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yICU1pQ8fkM It was once so good
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