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brugroffil posted:He started becoming a real jerk in the Merkin years (s5 and 6), got less jerk under Oakley and Weinstein for the most part, then it was a steep decline after that https://youtu.be/AnIu8CI4Syw
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Homer ran into that same issue where the show ran for long enough, that every subsequent episode where he is a jerk it becomes much less tolerable than before. Shows with the jerk dad like the Flinstones run into that a lot. There can only be so many episodes where he learns his lesson but keeps being an rear end in a top hat to Wilma before you can't stand to watch it anymore.
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Plan Z posted:Homer ran into that same issue where the show ran for long enough, that every subsequent episode where he is a jerk it becomes much less tolerable than before. Shows with the jerk dad like the Flinstones run into that a lot. There can only be so many episodes where he learns his lesson but keeps being an rear end in a top hat to Wilma before you can't stand to watch it anymore. Maybe for me it's just looping back around then. I stopped watching... 2 decades ago maybe and I haven't lived in a country with syndicated Simpsons in a decade so I've only on rare occasions had a chance to watch any episodes aside from random YouTube clips. So even if he's less of a jerk, doesn't go too far, and learns a lesson at the end, the fact that he's a jerk at all is something I didn't really notice much as a kid.
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He used to strangle Bart. He's always been a jerk. It's just that he used to have reasons for it, and he never went so far that we couldn't identify with him.
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It specifically gets annoying having Marge have to forgive Homer at the end again and again, or sometimes even have Homer forgive Marge even though he was the rear end in a top hat. Or the episodes where they don't even bother to wrap things up.
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:Or the episodes where they don't even bother to wrap things up. This was a good gag in season 2's "Blood Feud". Season 2. 1991. 27 years go.
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season 9 really kind of sucked but there were still good episodes in 10 . homer the Edison was pretty funny and had a lot of memorable lines . The entire opening sequence was great . “Dad , women won’t like being shot in the face” “Women will like what I tell them to like”
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Peter Daou Bundy posted:season 9 really kind of sucked but there were still good episodes in 10 . homer the Edison was pretty funny and had a lot of memorable lines . The entire opening sequence was great . I think that was the last great episode,at least in my opinion. No surprise, it was a John Schwartzwelder episode.
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Season 10 was pretty bad but still had some memorable bits like Homer's grease business, Max Power, or "One thousand and 99 springs to flush down."
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That one episode with Mark Hamill was good, I think that was season 10. Maybe it was just good because of Mark Hamill though. Edit: Oh yeah and the part where Fat Tony's goon and Homer are struggling with the knife. "Give me the knife!" "No, it's mine!" womb with a view fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Nov 8, 2018 |
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This year I'm going to complete my collection, I just need season 1, 9, 10, and 11. That makes it a good run, Season 1 is rough, but not terrible, 2 - 8 are pure gold, 9 and 10 are in decline, and 11 is the blatant end of a good run. EDIT: The second episode of season 9, The Principal and the Pauper, while an episode that I enjoy, and actually is good IMHO, is the point where the shark gets jumped Iron Crowned fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Nov 8, 2018 |
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PostNouveau posted:Any of y'all seen "The Problem with Apu"? peter was a saint and the party waw a good movie
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Just for ha-ha's sake (and because I am really bored at work) I just leafed through the episodes-by-season pages on IMDB. The Simpsons is almost as old as I am so I did not see the good seasons in order, and I've never given the show an in-order watch. Sometimes I feel like I want to, but then I figure it'll end up being a chore and don't bother. Just some Fun (or not) Facts (or not) about the first 1/3 of the series: Episodes I do not remember at all, even after reading the synopses: S2E7 - Bart vs Thanksgiving S3E2 - Mr Lisa Goes to Washington S11E1 - Beyond Blunderdome (Guest Stars Mel Gibson) First two would have been really old when I started watching (probably 1997, 1998) and my guess is weren't syndicated much up here in Canada? Or maybe I just missed them when they were. And would 1999 be just before Mel Gibson became a pariah? Today is the 20-year anniversary of the first episode I can recall hating: S10E5: "When You Dish Upon a Star". Nov 8, 1998. Thus, for myself at least, I declare today the 20th anniversary of when the Simpsons started sucking. S10E12, the Super Bowl one, I also remember thinking sucked, then I found 4 in Season 11 I remember hating when new: E11 "Faith Off", E13 the Jockey one, E18 when Barney quits drinking and flies a helicopter, and E19... Florida. Keep in mind I was 10 in 1998, I guess. I find it hard to believe I was watching The Simpsons regularly that young but whatever, I know I was pretty disappointed when Seinfeld went off the air, which was also 1998.
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"But Marge! Florida is America's wang"
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DoctorGonzo posted:peter was a saint Unless you Britt Ecklund
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Diet Poison posted:S3E2 - Mr Lisa Goes to Washington it was a fun episode! it was very very sarcastic about the government though
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That episode wasn’t from 97 though it was 92. I remember because my mom forbid me from watching the Simpsons due to something that isn’t even cursing these days. The one time it’s on and she’s watching it was the episode where Bart has to take his dog to obedience school. The trainer says “you son of a bitch” when handing out the award and that was it for me and the Simpsons.  A few years later I was free to watch TV again but it was season 5 to 6 and reruns. 
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Nov 8, 2018 20:42
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womb with a view posted:That one episode with Mark Hamill was good, I think that was season 10. Maybe it was just good because of Mark Hamill though. Guys and dolls were all a bunch of crazy guys and dolls oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. It's a funny episode. It also has Malk
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The_Rob posted:Guys and dolls were all a bunch of crazy guys and dolls oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. Luke be a Jedi toniiighhhtttt Do it for chewie and the ewoks And all the other puppets
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The_Rob posted:Guys and dolls were all a bunch of crazy guys and dolls oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. Malk was the PTA disbands.
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The PTA has disbanded!?
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I've had more than a few people tell me that they were banned from watching The Simpsons after Bart said (paraphrasing) "Dear God, we paid for this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing" while saying grace before dinner.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I've had more than a few people tell me that they were banned from watching The Simpsons after Bart said (paraphrasing) "Dear God, we paid for this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing" while saying grace before dinner. *raises hand*
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DropsySufferer posted:That episode wasn’t from 97 though it was 92. I remember because my mom forbid me from watching the Simpsons due to something that isn’t even cursing these days. I'm sure I've told this story before, but My brother and I were staying with our religious relatives for a few days before a cross-country road trip. They would have no Simpsons in their house, no sir. We pleaded and wheedled until they relented. "It's not bad," we said. "We watch it all the time. There's no, like, anti-religious or immoral stuff in it." Tonight's episode: "Homer the Heretic"
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Church is boring and staying home on Sundays owns
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Data Graham posted:I'm sure I've told this story before, but Well, I mean, if they had finished that episode they'd get a really wholesome, religious ending.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Well, I mean, if they had finished that episode they'd get a really wholesome, religious ending. It's amazing how much has changed since that episode aired. Homer not going to Church is portrayed as this horrible thing and everyone is justified for holding it against him. Make that episode today and everyone would be talking about the Simpsons's being taken over by whacko Evangelicals.
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That and the episode where Lisa is afraid of going to hell for stealing cable were really uncomfortable and weird to European audiences. I assume that even in America tons of people at the time were going 'what is this Third World theocratic bullshit'
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Lmao yeah it's weird to think of Bart being controversial but I definitely remember my grandparents making comments about what a poor role model he was.
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The_Rob posted:Guys and dolls were all a bunch of crazy guys and dolls oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. No Mayored to the Mob had "Rats? I"m outraged! You promised me dog or higher!"
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Diet Poison posted:S2E7 - Bart vs Thanksgiving I've just rewatched the first two and by name I didn't recognize them and for both it took through the opening act for me to remember them. They're good enough episodes, but yeah I guess compared to the rest of the golden era they're a bit forgettable. I'll never forget the Mel Gibson one though because as an angry teenager, I couldn't get over the fact that the car didn't even look like the Interceptor.
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all those in favor , say die . The Mel Gibson one was great because of what Mel did down the line . you all saw it , he came at me with a knife
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I've had more than a few people tell me that they were banned from watching The Simpsons after Bart said (paraphrasing) "Dear God, we paid for this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing" while saying grace before dinner. My dad was not a fan of the blasphemy early on so it was dicey for a few years
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Elderbean posted:Lmao yeah it's weird to think of Bart being controversial but I definitely remember my grandparents making comments about what a poor role model he was. President George HW Bush complained about it lol
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My aunt wouldn't let my cousins watch the Simpsons and gave my parents strict instructions not to let them watch it when they came over to see me. My dad asked if they could watch Futurama and she didn't know what that was, but felt it should be okay because if it was bad she'd have heard of it.
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goldenninjawarrior posted:My aunt wouldn't let my cousins watch the Simpsons and gave my parents strict instructions not to let them watch it when they came over to see me. My dad asked if they could watch Futurama and she didn't know what that was, but felt it should be okay because if it was bad she'd have heard of it. Wait in the 2000s there were actually people still banning Simpsons in their homes? What the gently caress
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NiceGuy posted:The PTA has disbanded!? No, no! The PTA has not disbanded
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Phlegmish posted:That and the episode where Lisa is afraid of going to hell for stealing cable were really uncomfortable and weird to European audiences. I grew up in a liberal Christian and, by the time I was ten or so, atheist family in North Carolina and it honestly didn't feel particularly out of place or preachy, as my family and everyone I knew had all gone to church every Sunday and Christian nonsense is ubiquitous in the south
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khwarezm posted:Malk was the PTA disbands. That's right I was thinking of the rats milk in the mark hammil ep.
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khwarezm posted:Malk was the PTA disbands.
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