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Mr Interweb posted:Personally, I think it would have been funnier it wasn't referencing that. I agree. The joke is wondering what the circumstances of Homer seeing it the first time is. Another joke along those lines which is fantastic is "El Barto" because that was something that could have been a B-plot Nu Simpsons would have made it a B-plot but instead the entire storyline was reduced to a single line while giving you enough information to work it out backwards.
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But it also works in that Homer might be dumb enough to reference what he just saw. There’s a few more of these in the classic era but I can’t think of them at the moment.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:But it also works in that Homer might be dumb enough to reference what he just saw. A ton of jokes in the classic era are funny on multiple levels. Like you could enjoy many of them on the surface, but there was usually something beyond that which made it funnier.
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Iron Crowned posted:A ton of jokes in the classic era are funny on multiple levels. Like you could enjoy many of them on the surface, but there was usually something beyond that which made it funnier. I meant jokes that can trigger a debate as to what the actual joke is, but yeah, absolutely. Lots of lazy jokes in the new episodes can be improved by adding layers with just a few seconds of extra thought, too.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I meant jokes that can trigger a debate as to what the actual joke is, but yeah, absolutely. I heard someone insightful say that the reason The Simpsons were great for so long was they went one line past the obvious joke. The obvious joke is just the setup. Nowadays it's just the obvious joke.
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PostNouveau posted:I heard someone insightful say that the reason The Simpsons were great for so long was they went one line past the obvious joke. The obvious joke is just the setup. Four Krusties!
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:There’s a few more of these in the classic era but I can’t think of them at the moment. painful flashbacks to long arguments about Ralph’s “oh boy, sleep! that’s where I’m a Viking!” and whether he meant a literal Viking or just that he’s very good at sleeping
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Or whether this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlwFuQ_7kVc was meant to be a cum joke or not.
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There's that episode where Ned is at an AA meeting because he said some "mean" words to some old lady when he was "drunk", and he said this line: "I was more animal than man" For the longest time, I legitimately couldn't tell if he was trying to say he was more of an animal than he was a man, or if he was saying that man itself was already animal, and he was even worse than that. I'm doubtful anyone else read the joke that way, but I always did and I'm sticking by it 
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dsriggs posted:Or whether this: thats how ive always taken it
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dsriggs posted:Or whether this: no it's not it's just the absurdity of keeping cream in your pocket
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I still don't get this
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snack eater posted:I still don't get this i believe in you, keep trying
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The titular baby is an attempted murderer
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snack eater posted:I still don't get this it used to be called chuck's gently caress and suck honestly, everyone seems to love that joke, but i thought it was pretty low brow for something like the simpsons
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Mr Interweb posted:There's that episode where Ned is at an AA meeting because he said some "mean" words to some old lady when he was "drunk", and he said this line: Ann Landers is a boring old biddy.
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Mr Interweb posted:it used to be called chuck's gently caress and suck No it didn't, why the heck would it be called that? But for a moment it makes you THINK it would be called that. and THAT'S the joke.
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Mr Interweb posted:There's that episode where Ned is at an AA meeting because he said some "mean" words to some old lady when he was "drunk", and he said this line: That doesn't even make sense
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snack eater posted:I still don't get this It used to be called Chuck's Feed and Seed. The joke is that they changed it so that it sounds better.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Ann Landers is a boring old biddy. No more blackberry schnapps for you!!!
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Mr Interweb posted:it used to be called chuck's gently caress and suck Same. I think my original interpretation of it is funnier (and makes more sense- why would the store be called Fucks and Sucks or whatever) where the new owner just happened to have a name that ryhmes.
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Renewed for 2 more seasons. Gonna be weird when marges VA dies mid season 32
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Uncle Wemus posted:Renewed for 2 more seasons. Gonna be weird when marges VA dies mid season 32 Why? The ratings can't possibly justify it over literally anything else
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The first time I went “Boy this isn’t fun at all, huh” watching the Simpsons was the Lisa babysitting Bart episode. The latter is such a dick to her. I’m sure it has decent jokes in it, after all it’s a pretty early episode all things considered, I just kinda stopped watching contemporaneously around then. I’m surprised it doesn’t come up more often, it wasn’t the fun kind of cringey comedy
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Go to bread, Give me the drugs Lisa, Smithers unable to sit down at the hospital are all great
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Jay Rust posted:The first time I went “Boy this isn’t fun at all, huh” watching the Simpsons was the Lisa babysitting Bart episode. The latter is such a dick to her. I’m sure it has decent jokes in it, after all it’s a pretty early episode all things considered, I just kinda stopped watching contemporaneously around then. I’m surprised it doesn’t come up more often, it wasn’t the fun kind of cringey comedy Yeah I remember disliking this episode way back when. It's kind of a forced plot (Marge and Homer put Lisa in charge of Bart? Okay?) and the conflict requires Lisa and Bart to be unusually dickish to each other (an idea that was handled way more elegantly in the hockey episode). I also remember being shocked at how clumsy it was to have Lisa's big fear--being blamed by Dr. Hibbert for loving Bart up--actually come true. It's a very misanthropic, poorly developed episode.
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porfiria posted:It's a very misanthropic, poorly developed episode. CAUSED BY BAD BABYSITTING!
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I watched Simpsons when I was a dumb teen so I got veeeeery far in. I'm not from US, so the humor even in classic episodes sometimes seemed weak because I couldn't understand the references. I guess because of that and shittier tastes the drop of quality wasn't that obvious. However I do remember a joke so bad that even as a teen I was like "what the gently caress is that". It's from an episode where Gil lives with the family for some reason. Maybe season 18 or something like that. Gil's a loving parasite but Marge has trouble saying no to him. She's super frustrated and just wants to say no to anybody. Now get this extremely not-obvious punchline: Homer comes into the room and says "Marge, want $100?", she screams "NO!" so Homer burns the money. Hilarious.
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snack eater posted:I still don't get this I feel like the joke is meant to be a phonetic wordplay - Sneed's Feed and Seed becomes Chuck's gently caress and Suck. What makes it a good joke is people are still unsure about it decades later, while some people are adamant that the joke is very obvious. For example, maybe there are two businesses on the same property. One is called Sneed's Feed and Seed, and the other is called 'Formerly Chuck's' like a country bumpkin version of Forever Yours. It's Chuck's gently caress and Suck, thats the joke, that's why the linger on the title for a moment before the scene starts e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc3vAdsiPV4 ee: dsriggs posted:Or whether this: Eughh I never thought about it that way, but it's probably just the weirdness of having unpackaged cream in your pockets. I always confuse this episode with the one where Homer works at the Casino because they both involve him loving up a James Bond plot. Also, to the guy doing the sugar sugar videos, the above clip is perfect for you. TheMostFrench fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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"Formerly Chuck's" could be the name of a Nevada brothel
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Why couldn't it formerly have been just "Chuck's?" It's funny that a place called "Chuck's" would become "Sneed's Feed and Seed"
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dsriggs posted:Or whether this: Why isn't there a sugar dance meme of this already? It has sugar in the dialog already for christ's sake!
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Mr Interweb posted:it used to be called chuck's gently caress and suck Yeah, it swung so low that I assumed that wasn't the joke. I thought the joke was that the original didn't rhyme until someone named Sneed came along to buy it.
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It's just wordplay dumbasses.
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This all implies the existence of a Chuck and a Sneed in the Simpsoniverse, who may or may not have ever been on camera. I will update the Simpwiki
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tote up a bags posted:This all implies the existence of a Chuck and a Sneed in the Simpsoniverse, who may or may not have ever been on camera. I will update the Simpwiki Next week, Chuck and Sneed have to move in with the Simpsons after Homer burns down their store.
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