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What was the one where they were gonna execute Homer, but it turned out it was a reality show? It sucked badly
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Nutsngum posted:Its not like they havent dont good university jokes before either. What about the buffoon lessons? The four years at clown college?
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Oct 2, 2018 16:35
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The Glumslinger posted:What was the one where they were gonna execute Homer, but it turned out it was a reality show? It sucked badly That was an episode of Black Mirror
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Oct 2, 2018 17:19
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Communist Walrus posted:Hmm, need to parody a famous tech company...how about Macrosoft and its CEO, uh...Will Gates. Heh, nailed it. "Macrosoft"? Hey, hellas, "Macrosoft." Ooh-la-di-da Mr. College Man with his jokes that make sense. "Wicrosoft," please.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:07
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CodfishCartographer posted:That was an episode of Black Mirror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frying_Game quote:Homer decides to give Marge a koi pond for their anniversary, but an endangered "Screamapillar" takes refuge in the pond. Bound by law not to disturb it, Homer accidentally injures the loud, unsettling insect larva and is sentenced to two weeks of community service. This was a season 13 episode
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Oct 2, 2018 18:19
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Argh that was one of the deadly episodes that confirmed the show was gone for good. That revelation that Eddie and Lou don’t have last names, to make a bad in-joke about producers, was a nail in the coffin.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:27
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The Glumslinger posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frying_Game  This was in the first half of The Simpsons
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Oct 2, 2018 18:40
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The Glumslinger posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frying_Game I was mostly making a joke about how newer episodes are so ridiculous that they're practically black mirror eps, but holy poo poo I remember this episode now, it’s all coming back to me like some horrible forgotten dream. Also wow, that was only a few seasons after poo poo like You Only Move Twice and Homer's Enemy, how does the show go so downhill SO fast?
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Oct 2, 2018 18:43
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CodfishCartographer posted:I was mostly making a joke about how newer episodes are so ridiculous that they're practically black mirror eps, but holy poo poo I remember this episode now, it’s all coming back to me like some horrible forgotten dream. Also wow, that was only a few seasons after poo poo like You Only Move Twice and Homer's Enemy, how does the show go so downhill SO fast? That’s a good question, especially as it was written by John Swartzwelder. Looking at Swartzwelder’s writing credits, what the heck happened to him post-1997? He went from writing some of the best, like Bart Gets an Elephant and Homer the Smithers, to garbage like Kill the Alligator and Run, Monty Can't Buy Me Love, and Simpsons Safari. I wonder if he just stopped caring and collected paychecks, or burned out.
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Oct 2, 2018 19:23
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Just ran out of good ideas in the setting? 
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Oct 2, 2018 19:24
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They ran out of good writers and the energy to actually work on scripts. Swartzwelder may have written a bunch of good episodes, but all those episodes had good punch up teams and a good room to kick around better jokes than the first draft. Pretty sure the staff for decades has been the type that prides themselves on working 9 to 5 instead of staying late like all the other writers in Hollywood. I think this is why the Treehouse of Horrors were usually pretty good long after the show sucked all the time (only in the last few years have those started to suck). Or if they do a big stunt episode like the hourlong one or the Lego one, those are usually a lot higher quality. The staff knows there's going to be more eyes on those and more marketing, so they actually put forth some effort. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 19:29
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CodfishCartographer posted:That was an episode of Black Mirror And Harvey Birdman (kinda)
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Oct 2, 2018 19:55
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Hyrax Attack! posted:That’s a good question, especially as it was written by John Swartzwelder. Looking at Swartzwelder’s writing credits, what the heck happened to him post-1997? I have no idea how the timelines line up but wasn't there a point where he started mailing in drafts from home because they wouldn't let him chain-smoke in the writers' room anymore? Maybe other people were rewriting and ruining his ideas. EDIT: Wikipedia says this started as early as '94 so maybe not. He shot a live-action pilot in '96 that went nowhere, maybe that broke him. quote:By 1994, with the show's sixth season, Swartzwelder was granted a special dispensation and allowed not to attend rewrite sessions with the rest of the staff, instead being allowed to send drafts of his scripts in from home so other writers could revise them as they saw fit. This was a direct result of Swartzwelder's avid smoking coming into conflict with a newly implemented policy banning smoking in the writers' room.[12] Swartzwelder's scripts typically needed minimal rewriting compared to those of other writers, with about 50% being used.[5]
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Oct 3, 2018 07:37
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Nutsngum posted:Its not like they havent dont good university jokes before either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNEBjJScbk&t=169s I was sure you were being sarcastic and it was going to be that Mr Burns and the SJWs at Yale video. But it was a good clip, so thank you.
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Oct 3, 2018 22:48
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JediTalentAgent posted:Are the Simpsons even on Netflix? no FOX made their own streaming service to show The Simpsons in the wrong aspect ratio
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Oct 3, 2018 22:57
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snack eater posted:no didn't they fix that after groening complained?
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Oct 3, 2018 22:58
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no, they still expect people to sign up for their exclusive service
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Oct 3, 2018 23:06
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snack eater posted:no, they still expect people to sign up for their exclusive service
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Oct 3, 2018 23:51
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snack eater posted:no, they still expect people to sign up for their exclusive service I still need to pick up seasons 1, 9, and 10 to complete the collection
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Oct 4, 2018 00:04
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SEX BURRITO posted:I was sure you were being sarcastic and it was going to be that Mr Burns and the SJWs at Yale video. But it was a good clip, so thank you. I liked this one, too https://youtu.be/zJ7PV4sqL0s
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Oct 4, 2018 05:05
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Hyrax Attack! posted:That’s a good question, especially as it was written by John Swartzwelder. Looking at Swartzwelder’s writing credits, what the heck happened to him post-1997? The thing to remember about The Simpsons is that the good episodes were all group projects and the person listed as the writer may not have even written the majority of the episode. When most of the writers room is incredibly mediocre even the best scripts would be dragged down.
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Oct 5, 2018 00:39
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Bust Rodd posted:Simpson’s were pre-meme and as a result became proto-memetic. This means now that new Simpsons memes can’t really hang with classic ones because classic ones have the syndication zeitgeist and the only people who watch new Simpsons aren’t the same people who think memes are dank 
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Oct 5, 2018 00:52
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I know American Dad chat was a few pages back but this is my favorite joke of the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcwZCk3eEzc
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Oct 5, 2018 01:46
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haljordan posted:I know American Dad chat was a few pages back but this is my favorite joke of the series: I still love patrick Stewart dramatically saying "butt stuff"
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Oct 5, 2018 03:21
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Director Bullock is Stewarts finest work.
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Oct 5, 2018 15:44
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Just found this one, might be new https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxSJ9ataRc Whoever writes this poo poo has no idea about timing or beats My favorite part was when homer says “we’re going to krusty burger!!” which was obviously left in as a way for them to kill a few extra seconds here and there to make it to 22 minutes Gotta love another dated reference like The Deadliest Catch Simpsons use to be good because their references were intentionally obscure in-jokes for smart people or older generations (I buried them all! hobos! sea captains! Joey Bishop!”) but the people making the show now don’t get that this poo poo will look terrible in 5-10 years fatal oopsie-daisy fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Oct 6, 2018 |
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Oct 6, 2018 22:38
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Pro use of Apu for 2018-tuned “lol Indians sure are weird” points
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Oct 7, 2018 00:14
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Data Graham posted:Pro use of Apu for 2018-tuned “lol Indians sure are weird” points The only thing that was slightly funny was the farmer who didn't know he was being broadcast. And it wasn't so funny that it made me laugh out loud either, more like a slight smile. And then I realized that it was a joke the Simpsons had done before.
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Oct 7, 2018 00:56
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That clip is like 10 years old, FYI
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Oct 7, 2018 02:34
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:Just found this one, might be new 
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Oct 7, 2018 03:29
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:Just found this one, might be new *Sideshow Bob disgust noise* This has way too many likes and views.
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Oct 7, 2018 03:35
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I Love Loosies posted:Director Bullock is Stewarts finest work. i was wrong to not include it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTTZ9E_e2Y
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Oct 7, 2018 03:39
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Does it feel like there's a "hold for applause" after most of the "jokes" in those scenes for anyone else?
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Oct 7, 2018 20:20
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Warning marge calls someone a noob in the latest episode and her VA really needs to retire, her poor vocal chords sound like they're in tatters E: Aunt Patty and Selma sound spot on still. Maybe have one of them swap places with Marge in future episodes? Plant MONSTER. fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Oct 8, 2018 |
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Oct 8, 2018 02:33
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:Simpsons use to be good because their references were intentionally obscure in-jokes for smart people or older generations (I buried them all! hobos! sea captains! Joey Bishop!”) but the people making the show now don’t get that this poo poo will look terrible in 5-10 years Those jokes were usually funny on multiple levels though, you don't have to know who Joey Bishop was to laugh at that line.
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Oct 8, 2018 12:57
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I think the problem is more that the writing just sucks. Even in the peak golden era, the Simpsons would do references or even whole plots that were callbacks to movies from 5-10 years ago. Marge on the Lam was a Selma and Louise parody several years after the movie came out, but it was still good. The one about Marge being afraid of flying was a lot of Prince of Tides four years after that came out. Homer Loves Ned has tons of references to T2, which had been out for years by that point. But they were still good episodes with lots of jokes because the writing wasn't lazy "hey remember this movie/show/thing??" references.
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Oct 8, 2018 14:00
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Yeah, the references were much more organically written into the script in those days. Though I do think that some of it is the fact that that style of comedy - referencing and satirizing pop culture by working it into the script just for the sake of it - was still pretty fresh and new at that point and it's kind of tired these days, so even if they did a good reference, it wouldn't come off the same.
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Oct 8, 2018 19:24
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Yeah, the references were much more organically written into the script in those days. Though I do think that some of it is the fact that that style of comedy - referencing and satirizing pop culture by working it into the script just for the sake of it - was still pretty fresh and new at that point and it's kind of tired these days, so even if they did a good reference, it wouldn't come off the same. Some of my favorite jokes from when I was younger were references to things I didn't even know about at the time. I figured it was just a weird thing in the Simpsons world and years later realized the joke. Now it's way too obvious when it's just a fan of some show or movie making a joke for fellow fans.
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Oct 8, 2018 19:37
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brugroffil posted:I think the problem is more that the writing just sucks. Marge gets rejected from a reality TV show 46 times, Homer fucks up her chance when she finally gets on the show, they spend a weird noir second act upset at each other, then Marge wins the show without him but fucks up a detail and she loses. Just a ton of making GBS threads on Marge for having aspirations, then critiquing her for dropping Homer to try and get a shot at success. What a waste.
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brugroffil posted:I think the problem is more that the writing just sucks. Or even older, Lisa waking up with the horse next to her in bed (The Godfather reference) still cracks me up every time.
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