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Applewhite posted:Groening and Dan Harmon should team up and do a show together. Jesus Christ, that would be an incredibly cruel thing to put anyone else who had to work on that show through.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Jesus Christ, that would be an incredibly cruel thing to put anyone else who had to work on that show through. A small price to pay for a show whose legions of rabid fans will also make the Internet a(n even more) miserable place to be
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Apr 11, 2019 08:11
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I long for the show with a fan base so insufferable, the rest of humanity collectively decides to shut off the internet.
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Apr 11, 2019 08:29
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Atlas Hugged posted:I long for the show with a fan base so insufferable, the rest of humanity collectively decides to shut off the internet. Rick & Brony
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Apr 11, 2019 08:43
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Applewhite posted:Rick & Brony Thanks I hate it
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Apr 11, 2019 08:49
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Applewhite posted:Groening and Dan Harmon should team up and do a show together. I don't think Groening has done anything as bad as Harmon.
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Apr 11, 2019 08:55
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:I don't think Groening has done anything as bad as Harmon. Obviously you haven’t watched Disenchanted 
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Apr 11, 2019 09:05
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Applewhite posted:Obviously you haven’t watched Disenchanted I recall that looking like Futurama with all the charm and cleverness sucked out, to be replaced by satire that was probably stale by the 80s. So, Futurama post revival.
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Apr 11, 2019 09:13
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Sure Groening took his name of a Futurama episode too because the staff re-wrote one of his jokes. I forget the details, but he'd written something as an actual scientific joke, which nobody in the writing room got. So they made Leela(or whoever) make a pun about it instead which got big laughs and Groening threw a fit.
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Apr 11, 2019 09:14
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Mind Loving Owl posted:I recall that looking like Futurama with all the charm and cleverness sucked out, to be replaced by satire that was probably stale by the 80s. So, Futurama post revival. Also a terrible, TERRIBLE soundtrack.
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Apr 11, 2019 09:16
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Drunken Baker posted:Sure Groening took his name of a Futurama episode too because the staff re-wrote one of his jokes. I forget the details, but he'd written something as an actual scientific joke, which nobody in the writing room got. So they made Leela(or whoever) make a pun about it instead which got big laughs and Groening threw a fit. Groening has also said he hates the southern space chicken lawyer. What a jerk.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I long for the show with a fan base so insufferable, the rest of humanity collectively decides to shut off the internet. I see it as the thing that’ll bring the entire internet together in collective hatred. It’ll be terrible enough to end the culture wars, because everyone is too busy writing Medium articles about the terrible fanbase. Mind Loving Owl posted:I recall that looking like Futurama with all the charm and cleverness sucked out, to be replaced by satire that was probably stale by the 80s. So, Futurama post revival. I really, really hate the episodes of Futurama where they do Lord of the Rings or D&D or other fantasy stuff so I’ve only made it through a couple of episodes of Disenchantment. It was as bad as I thought it’d be.
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Apr 11, 2019 10:04
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Atomic Robo-Kid posted:Groening has also said he hates the southern space chicken lawyer. What a jerk. What the gently caress
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SEX BURRITO posted:I see it as the thing that’ll bring the entire internet together in collective hatred. It’ll be terrible enough to end the culture wars, because everyone is too busy writing Medium articles about the terrible fanbase. I started to sour on Futurama when literally every other joke was a subversion of its futuristic setting. They’re going down an elevator... but its Scruffy operating a pully! LOL It reached a point by the end where they basically weren’t living in the future at all.
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Apr 11, 2019 10:09
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PostNouveau posted:This one was actually produced by Al Jean and Mike Reiss as some sort of compromise package to use The Critic team to take the load off The Simpsons staff. Under that arrangement, they also produced "Round Springfield" that season, which is the one where Bleeding Gums Murphy dies that is also not a well-loved episode. I think I've brought this up before but both those episodes weren't shown in Australia in the first run of season 6 (along with the clip show ep) and I've no idea why but it is an interesting coincidence. When they were shown a few years later it did make their flaws stand out more. While A Star is Burns has lots of classic moments it does feel a bit off in some ways and the other two are among the weakest of that era. I think I've only seen that clip show once tbh.
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Apr 11, 2019 10:12
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SEX BURRITO posted:I really, really hate the episodes of Futurama where they do Lord of the Rings or D&D or other fantasy stuff so I’ve only made it through a couple of episodes of Disenchantment. It was as bad as I thought it’d be. Definitely the shittiest of the movies.
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Apr 11, 2019 10:24
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Cubone posted:
I'm pretty sure they just reversed time again and teen angel accepted that it was his fate to eat a burger and die.
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Apr 11, 2019 10:58
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The Futurama movie about David Cross being this weird mind-control alien was the nail in the coffin for me, I was frankly astonished that I was watching a single “episode” of Futurama for over an hour and just didn’t find any jokes to laugh at. The fact the first episode back after that was a Leela//Zap fan fiction was painful, it was the first show I ever abandoned before it was cancelled. S4 true Finale, everything after that is just Farnsworth Dementia Bob Newhart style. Some of David Cross’s work, like Todd Margaret, just eludes me, I don’t laugh, I don’t like it. This felt like that. I have a thought experiment: self-torture goons, what is the FUNNIEST episode from the last decade? Can you think of an episode exclusively from 2010-present that made you laugh or had some serious laughs, or even just a good couple gags? I don’t mean one good scene, I’m asking for a funny episode.
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Apr 11, 2019 13:18
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I had some Mandela poo poo going on last night because I was sure the gnome episode was a Family Guy thing for a good five minutes. I could remember Peter doing a little dance with the jockeys and everything.
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Apr 11, 2019 13:29
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The episode that broke me for Futurama was the Close Encounters parody. Any time they try to do mythology stuff after the first cancellation it's dire. I should have stopped with the Susan Boyle joke though because that's as bad as they come. The vegas stuff in the fourth movie was pretty good.
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Apr 11, 2019 13:39
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Bust Rodd posted:I have a thought experiment: self-torture goons, what is the FUNNIEST episode from the last decade? Can you think of an episode exclusively from 2010-present that made you laugh or had some serious laughs, or even just a good couple gags? If we're talking about Simpson's I liked the 2 parter involving Mr Burns, rappers, and like a Great Gatsby thing. Futurama gets bad during the DVD movie/ Comedy Central seasons. Some good but mostly bad. The nature and anime episodes are TRASH.
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Apr 11, 2019 13:46
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Atomic Robo-Kid posted:If we're talking about Simpson's I liked the 2 parter involving Mr Burns, rappers, and like a Great Gatsby thing. I thought the first Futrama movie was decent, second one was terrible, the third and fourth were passable, and I never even bothered with the CC seasons.
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Apr 11, 2019 14:01
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I like the nature episode but we also watch plenty of David Attenborough docs, the "nature is horrific and teaches us nothing" line is pretty funny
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Apr 11, 2019 14:49
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Futurama had some gems in the later seasons. "The Late Philip J Fry" was an obvious standout, but even in the last season, the series finale was good, as was the parody of The Thing and the one where they become firemen.
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I gave up on Disenchantment after the first couple episodes, but then came back and finished it about a month or two later. It does improve, but I'm not sure that it was worth it. A couple of the episodes had me laughing a lot, but I can't remember why now.
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Apr 11, 2019 15:54
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Does it ever drop the “Elfo is horny for Princess” poo poo? It drags the entire show down.
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Bust Rodd posted:Does it ever drop the “Elfo is horny for Princess” poo poo? It drags the entire show down. Nope. But the response was so bad that I expect they will in Season 2
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Apr 11, 2019 16:09
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Bust Rodd posted:Does it ever drop the “Elfo is horny for Princess” poo poo? It drags the entire show down. No, and it sucks the whole time. Bust Rodd posted:I have a thought experiment: self-torture goons, what is the FUNNIEST episode from the last decade? Can you think of an episode exclusively from 2010-present that made you laugh or had some serious laughs, or even just a good couple gags? "The Saga of Carl" (your millage may vary on this one depending on how much you like Iceland jokes), "Seemingly never ending story" (your millage may vary on this one depending on how much you like meta humor), and I guess for a third one "The Fool Monty" because it has like two good scenes and I just enjoy watching Mr. Burns do stuff. Also, "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" is kind of interesting.
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Apr 11, 2019 16:25
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"Trilogy of error", "Seemingly never ending story" and "24 minutes" are the three late season episodes I remember being ok.
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Apr 11, 2019 17:09
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Thanks I’m happy to waste an hour or two to see the best it has to offer but I’m never gonna watch 15 seasons of bad Simpsons to laugh like 7 times total.
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Apr 11, 2019 17:16
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fish and chips and dip posted:"Trilogy of error", "Seemingly never ending story" and "24 minutes" are the three late season episodes I remember being ok. These are good, as are The Book Job and Brick Like Me (the Lego episode). e: Eternal Moonshine is good, too.
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Apr 11, 2019 17:25
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fish and chips and dip posted:"Trilogy of error", "Seemingly never ending story" and "24 minutes" are the three late season episodes I remember being ok. Trillogy of Error is probably the only post golden era episode I'd miss if somehow the Simpsons after season 11 vanished
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Apr 11, 2019 17:34
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I remember laughing at the teen angel but i was and am a moron
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Apr 11, 2019 17:43
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Iron Crowned posted:Trillogy of Error is probably the only post golden era episode I'd miss if somehow the Simpsons after season 11 vanished I didn't realize Trillogy of Error was post classic, I thought season 12 was still in the grace period. If you haven't seen season 12 check out: New Kids on the Blecch, Skinner's Sense of Snow, and A Tale of Two Springfields in addition to Trillogy of Error.
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Apr 11, 2019 17:45
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Riptor posted:I remember laughing at the teen angel but i was and am a moron It was sandwiched between good shows like Boy Meets World and Family Matters, don’t blame yourself, that’s what Block TV scheduling is designed to do, make you think every show in this two hour block is of the same quality, when it’s almost always 2 good shows, one medium show, and a stinker.
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Apr 11, 2019 17:47
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Teen Angel isn't even the worst post-Sabrina magical sitcom. The genie show, You Wish, was all about the genie trying to trick the family into using up their 3 wishes so he could leave. It had an episode where an old genie was sundowning and wanted the genie + family to euthanize him by firing his body into the atmosphere so he would burn up and become a shooting star.
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Apr 11, 2019 18:02
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Bust Rodd posted:Does it ever drop the Elfo is horny for Princess poo poo? It drags the entire show down. elfo dies and a character specifically does not bring him back to life when they could
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Apr 11, 2019 18:03
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If the show was called Disjointed it would have been a more accurate title. The World its in has potential but they don't half botch the landing.
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The Croc posted:If the show was called Disjointed it would have been a more accurate title. The World its in has potential but they don't half botch the landing. It shouldn't have had a seasonlong plot. The show does better with stuff that's disconnected from the serialized parts.
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