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Wizard Master posted:Meanwhile, Marge returns to giving her sex talk to teenagers, but this time she prepares with finger puppets. While the teenagers snicker, Marge fails miserably to get her point across about sex. Elsewhere, Lisa enjoys Bob's company despite Homer's usage of the Bunsen burner to toast the rest of the marshmallows since he already ate all the chocolates. At home, Homer tries to squeeze in some alone time with Marge, yet an angry Marge decides to use Homer as an example for her sex education class. Marge brings Homer to church to tell her class that she has abstained from sex with her partner for two days. The mere image of Homer and Marge touching each other gives the teenagers enough reason to pledge to wait until marriage for sex. To quote Wiki: quote:he episode received positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+ rating and praised Kelsey Grammer's voice-acting and the episode's "strong, straightforward narrative."
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Milo and POTUS posted:lmao the av club is such trash Every so often they try to frame some episode of nu simpsons as a “new classic” and it’s the saddest poo poo ever. I think they gave the Gaga ep a B.
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Having to watch and review new Simpsons episodes sounds like an awful job.
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is this tweet true? https://twitter.com/mattselman/status/1037147366564851712
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Every Simpson only owns two sets of clothes. That's clearly baby Lisa in the hand-me-downs that will eventually pass to Maggie once she reaches the immortal age of 1.
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Sep 6, 2018 11:48
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its probably supposed to be lisa
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snack eater posted:is this tweet true? That animation looks a whole lot newer than when that episode would have originally been illustrated E: checked on frinkiac, Homer finds out at the front door when he comes home during the baby shower. There are two flashbacks to when Marge tells Homer she's pregnant with Bart and Lisa and it's on that same couch. That has other continuity errors but that tweet is bullshit. e2: actually it is from that episode! Just later when they're discussing the pregnancy after Homer gets his job at the plant back. brugroffil fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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HMS Beagle posted:Every so often they try to frame some episode of nu simpsons as a “new classic” and it’s the saddest poo poo ever. I think they gave the Gaga ep a B. I give the Gaga episode a B for "barf"
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Plan Z posted:This popped up on my Youtube recommended and ugh: all of the voice actors just sound so off. like they sound like they are wearing dentures or something.
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brugroffil posted:That animation looks a whole lot newer than when that episode would have originally been illustrated the streaming has the wrong aspect ratio
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The only true way to watch the Simpson's is in 4:3 with the occasional Fox cartoon show advertisement playing along the bottom of the screen for 5 seconds
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snack eater posted:the streaming has the wrong aspect ratio Yeah the 16:9 "hd" simpsons loving sucks, they just cut off the top and bottom of the screen and that kills a ton of jokes
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Improbable Lobster posted:Yeah the 16:9 "hd" simpsons loving sucks, they just cut off the top and bottom of the screen and that kills a ton of jokes Why the gently caress do studios do this now. It reminds me of the early dvd era with lovely “fullscreen” ones everywhere.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Why the gently caress do studios do this now. It reminds me of the early dvd era with lovely “fullscreen” ones everywhere. exact same reason "FILL THE SCREEENN"
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Could be worse. I remember seeing on TV a few years back where they would fill the empty sides of the screen with commercials. I am under the belief that television doesn't want you to watch TV with all the ways that it tries to distract you from its content.
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Houle posted:Could be worse. I remember seeing on TV a few years back where they would fill the empty sides of the screen with commercials. Let’s just say there a reason they call it the Idiot Box
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Improbable Lobster posted:Yeah the 16:9 "hd" simpsons loving sucks, they just cut off the top and bottom of the screen and that kills a ton of jokes They actually seem to use a mix of either cropping it to 16:9 or they stretch the 4:3 image to 16:9. It sucks all around and it looks like it has some sort of weird image filter that blurs textures and sharpens edges.
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Who-all remembers those weird cranks who tried for years to petition the TV industry and Hollywood to ban letterboxing (which they called "letterschlocking") and widescreen-formatted movies because they considered it a form of censorship They would come into Usenet groups and rabble-rouse and get into arguments that I think they thrived on. Twenty years later and I still don't know whether it was a genuine mental illness at work or someone doing "jokes on them I was only pretending" for like years on end E: Either way I'm still thinking about this long after he probably died, so I guess he wins Data Graham fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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Data Graham posted:Who-all remembers those weird cranks who tried for years to petition the TV industry and Hollywood to ban letterboxing (which they called "letterschlocking") and widescreen-formatted movies because they considered it a form of censorship vaguely, but I'm pretty sure if this happened today, whoever was leading them would be elected president of the united states
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Improbable Lobster posted:Yeah the 16:9 "hd" simpsons loving sucks, they just cut off the top and bottom of the screen and that kills a ton of jokes Imagine watching movies with my dad in the DVD era when there were black bars. He hated it and would zoom the picture in to fill the screen as much as possible and refused to do it any other way. One Christmas, we put our foot down and dad got so mad and stubborn about it he slammed a door when he walked away.
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Data Graham posted:Who-all remembers those weird cranks who tried for years to petition the TV industry and Hollywood to ban letterboxing (which they called "letterschlocking") and widescreen-formatted movies because they considered it a form of censorship I recall these people and I think they were being serious too. I still remember the dark days of working retail and hearing people complain about "the black bars" until Hollywood put their foot down and just dropped the Fullscreen Editions all together.
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I just read all 129 pages of this thread in about a week, and watched almost all of the clips. My favorite was the 2013 writer's reunion. I'm not sure how they managed to make writing the (once) funniest series on television sound like a miserable slog, but they were able to. And also you guys spent waaaay too much time determining where The Simpsons "jumped the shark" or "started its gradual decline" or "hit its lowest point". I mean I read so many conflicting opinions I swear you guys were trolling me.
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I think he's expressing surprise at a GBS thread being so on-topic
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HMS Beagle posted:Every so often they try to frame some episode of nu simpsons as a “new classic” and it’s the saddest poo poo ever. I think they gave the Gaga ep a B. 'It' still good! It's still good!' 'It's gone' 'I know  '
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LoonyLeif posted:I just read all 129 pages of this thread in about a week, and watched almost all of the clips. My favorite was the 2013 writer's reunion. I'm not sure how they managed to make writing the (once) funniest series on television sound like a miserable slog, but they were able to. What was the consensus? I must know.
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Plan Z posted:Imagine watching movies with my dad in the DVD era when there were black bars. He hated it and would zoom the picture in to fill the screen as much as possible and refused to do it any other way. One Christmas, we put our foot down and dad got so mad and stubborn about it he slammed a door when he walked away. I'm glad that my dad was one of the weirdos who actually understood why letterbox was superior. We even had some letterbox VHS tapes before DVD showed up on the scene. My mom didn't quite understand and I got a few pan and scan DVDs for Christmas before I upgraded my TV to HD.
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I fell out of Simpsons somewhere around season 14 or 15, dunno why, guess it got boring Turned on Fox one night to be greeted by this episode I don’t get it What’s the joke Where are the jokes
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steve MOBS *lungs explode from laughter*
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This was one of the last episodes I’ve caught when it was new. The main thing that makes it terrible is the mapple and steve mobs names. They didn’t even try to do the obvious and make an easy fruit joke.
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Some guy in the comments just spit out the name "Steve Robs" and while that's no comedy gem either, I take it as demonstration that literally millions of Joe Schmoe yahoos on the Internet can write a more coherent joke than The Simpsons writers
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Some guy in the comments just spit out the name "Steve Robs" and while that's no comedy gem either, I take it as demonstration that literally millions of Joe Schmoe yahoos on the Internet can write a more coherent joke than The Simpsons writers Well, you can't suck a guy's dick and accuse him of being a thief at the same time.
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Sockser posted:Where are the jokes the jokes are clearly there. they're just really, really, really bad
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The mapple poo poo isn’t even the worst part of the episode. The B plot is Homer thinking a Muslim family are terrorists. A fresh original plot for 2008.
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also. bart literally says 'bill gates' and 'microsoft' so why didnt they just use apple and steve jobs? defies explanation
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pram posted:also. bart literally says 'bill gates' and 'microsoft' so why didnt they just use apple and steve jobs? defies explanation its "parody" in that the writing is of a porn to sub-porn quality
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Yup, that's the one that finally did it for me, can't believe that was 10 years ago.
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