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You know it's time to quit when you sound like Mike from RLM.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:36
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Applewhite posted:Are you loving serious with these backgrounds?? They're just photos they've run through a filter! It looks like an Archer crossover episode.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:52
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Flannelette posted:You know it's time to quit when you sound like Mike from RLM. Mike voice: “How embarrassing.” *sad slide whistle noise* 
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Apr 20, 2019 07:17
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The Moon Monster posted:The Denmark episode was the first late Simpsons I've watched in quite awhile and good lord was it awful. There were some good Simpsons go to a place episodes back in the day but in the past, like, 2 decades they've reliably been some of the worst episodes. There was one joke I really liked from the Denmark episode. They're being driven somewhere by a local guide and all laugh at speed trap sign reading "FART KONTROL". Marge: Sorry, but in our language that means... Guide: I know what it means in your language. I'm talking to you in your language.
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Apr 20, 2019 10:33
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I spent the summer of 1997 sitting in a mostly empty mansion in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur making videos in Simpsons Cartoon Studio on an NEC running Windows 3.1. I guarantee that what I made was better than what's on the air today.
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Apr 20, 2019 16:33
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What's the story? Or are you just a Malaysian from a rich family? e: getting ready to update my goon spreadsheet
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Apr 20, 2019 16:38
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Phlegmish posted:What's the story? Or are you just a Malaysian from a rich family? My dad was on the expat package for a year but the company wasn't willing to fly us home for a summer on his first contract. He never made it to the second and I haven't been back to Malaysia since. Literally every other kid I went to school with was back in their home country during this period and I had not yet discovered masturbating so I had nothing better to do with my time.
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Apr 20, 2019 16:57
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Applewhite posted:Are you loving serious with these backgrounds?? They're just photos they've run through a filter! It looks like an Archer crossover episode. I know we've all talked about it before, but the fact that everything besides the characters is all super detailed and the same color tone makes the show just look like this coagulated mess after a while. It reminds me of that Goblins webcomic from the old Webcomic Mock Threads.
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Apr 20, 2019 17:06
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Milo and POTUS posted:Also cajun crawfish gets mentioned twice They also pretend that Veggie Red Beans and Rice and Red Beans and Rice with Sausage are completely different, and that 'Po Boys are completely different depending on the filling. The list is heavily padded and could easily have been reduced to 45 seconds instead of being an unfunny and more expensive Rake gag
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Apr 20, 2019 19:20
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They’re not still trying to apologize unnecessarily for the Streetcar Named Desire episode, are they?
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Apr 20, 2019 19:54
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Why would they apologize for super shreddy Neddy?
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Apr 20, 2019 19:56
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:They also pretend that Veggie Red Beans and Rice and Red Beans and Rice with Sausage are completely different, and that 'Po Boys are completely different depending on the filling. The list is heavily padded and could easily have been reduced to 45 seconds instead of being an unfunny and more expensive Rake gag A lot of it is specific menu items from the actual restaurants in the backgrounds. Which makes me realize why they're doing so many kiss-rear end travel episodes. They're taking trips on the show's dime
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Apr 20, 2019 20:00
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Ahh yes, the Adam Sandler’s Netflix Special” approach
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Apr 20, 2019 20:06
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Plan Z posted:I know we've all talked about it before, but the fact that everything besides the characters is all super detailed and the same color tone makes the show just look like this coagulated mess after a while. It reminds me of that Goblins webcomic from the old Webcomic Mock Threads. Ha, that's a real good comparison. Personally watching clips from the new episodes gives me the ol' "hidden picture" vibes, in that my eyes just sort of give up trying to decipher what's on screen after a while and become unfocused.
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Apr 21, 2019 01:49
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steinrokkan posted:Ha, that's a real good comparison. Personally watching clips from the new episodes gives me the ol' "hidden picture" vibes, in that my eyes just sort of give up trying to decipher what's on screen after a while and become unfocused. I think the writers and artists heard about "hidden details in TV shows" being a currently popular thing and took it really literally.
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Apr 21, 2019 02:06
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I know that it's the most obvious thing about this clip, but drat, I still can't get over the fact that it's a minute and a half long! That's like, what, 7-8% of an episode which probably already has a full opening and credits? Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes bit was only 30 seconds!
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Apr 21, 2019 12:25
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Went from merely unfunny to weird and unnecessary
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Apr 21, 2019 13:10
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Plan Z posted:You can hear their throats giving out, but it also sounds like actors record their lines in different booths at different times. Applewhite posted:Are you loving serious with these backgrounds?? They're just photos they've run through a filter! It looks like an Archer crossover episode.
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Apr 21, 2019 13:50
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The Kins posted:Isn't this pretty common practice for voice acting nowadays? Schedules rarely seem to allow actors to record together. That's why good voice directors are important! Some are those and some are photoshop filtered photos.
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Apr 21, 2019 14:11
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Applewhite posted:Some are those and some are photoshop filtered photos.
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Apr 21, 2019 14:17
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Applewhite posted:Are you loving serious with these backgrounds?? They're just photos they've run through a filter! It looks like an Archer crossover episode. This is funny too because Archer's backgrounds are honestly pretty stylish and good looking. They came up with a pretty novel way to handle CG in a way that looks hand-painted.
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Apr 21, 2019 14:49
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The Kins posted:Isn't this pretty common practice for voice acting nowadays? Schedules rarely seem to allow actors to record together. That's why good voice directors are important! Some showrunners insist on it. Bob's Burgers' has the East Coast people (Jon Benjamin and Kevin Kline) skype in with the LA people (everyone else) because Loren Bouchard is such a believer in it. There's little touches in Bob's Burgers acting sometimes that you can only get from actors feeding off each others energy so I think it pays off.
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Apr 21, 2019 16:54
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Recording in separate studios at different times is exactly the same as Lucas having his actors play opposite a tennis ball on a stick
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Apr 21, 2019 17:15
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Vookatos posted:I know that it's the most obvious thing about this clip, but drat, I still can't get over the fact that it's a minute and a half long! That's like, what, 7-8% of an episode which probably already has a full opening and credits? Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes bit was only 30 seconds! Seems common for bad cartoons like Family Guy and some of the worse Adult Swim shows. The AS shows kind of try to obfuscate it by pretending to be haute awkward humor but it feels like it goes as high as "This entire show is time-filler" sometimes. Family Guy is the most egregious with repeat time-killer gags like its Peter vs. Chicken bits or Peter scrapes his shin bits to name a few, on top of its awkward no-joke exchanges. The Kins posted:Isn't this pretty common practice for voice acting nowadays? Schedules rarely seem to allow actors to record together. That's why good voice directors are important! I didn't really know too much about this, but it makes sense. I know it's often that dialogue can sound bad because people will be in the booth in different times, but the Simpsons has to be the worst about it as characters sound like they're on different recording setups, not just absent from playing off each other.
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Apr 21, 2019 17:31
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Going back and reading the youtube comments makes me think the same people loving this trash would probably watching something like the Stonecutter's episode or 'Do it for her' episode and think its completely shitfuck.
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Apr 21, 2019 17:39
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Wirth1000 posted:Going back and reading the youtube comments makes me think the same people loving this trash would probably watching something like the Stonecutter's episode or 'Do it for her' episode and think its completely shitfuck. I watch the old episodes on Youtube, and it's more like these people find most throwaway jokes hilarious or enjoy a joke without really knowing what it's going for. Like you'll see people who think Krusty's "Me so solly" bit is just funny on its own, or "'If I ever stop loving cartoon violence, kill me,' AHAHA lol the best line in the whole show!!!!"
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Apr 21, 2019 18:17
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Plan Z posted:Seems common for bad cartoons like Family Guy and some of the worse Adult Swim shows. The AS shows kind of try to obfuscate it by pretending to be haute awkward humor but it feels like it goes as high as "This entire show is time-filler" sometimes. Family Guy is the most egregious with repeat time-killer gags like its Peter vs. Chicken bits or Peter scrapes his shin bits to name a few, on top of its awkward no-joke exchanges. Uh-oh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSxECJNYPuA
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Apr 21, 2019 19:21
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Plan Z posted:I watch the old episodes on Youtube, and it's more like these people find most throwaway jokes hilarious or enjoy a joke without really knowing what it's going for. Like you'll see people who think Krusty's "Me so solly" bit is just funny on its own, or "'If I ever stop loving cartoon violence, kill me,' AHAHA lol the best line in the whole show!!!!" Baby boomers are a different species.
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Apr 21, 2019 19:44
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Can someone show me a screencap from that video where they think the background is through a Photoshop filter? I'm not seeing it
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Apr 21, 2019 20:00
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Riptor posted:Can someone show me a screencap from that video where they think the background is through a Photoshop filter? I'm not seeing it I don't have a single screenshot but here's a gallery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLFpTLEnrqU
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Apr 21, 2019 20:14
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imagine being the poor god drat korean animator who worked their entire life to get into the animation game and now has to go over photos of chair backs in some New Orleans restaurant with black lines We didn't deserve 2021, it was too good for this world
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Apr 21, 2019 20:44
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Plan Z posted:Seems common for bad cartoons like Family Guy and some of the worse Adult Swim shows. The AS shows kind of try to obfuscate it by pretending to be haute awkward humor but it feels like it goes as high as "This entire show is time-filler" sometimes. Family Guy is the most egregious with repeat time-killer gags like its Peter vs. Chicken bits or Peter scrapes his shin bits to name a few, on top of its awkward no-joke exchanges. I always hated those segments but I think they've dialed them back over the last few seasons.
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Apr 21, 2019 23:37
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Cyril Sneer posted:I always hated those segments but I think they've dialed them back over the last few seasons. Put it this way, I get what they were trying to do, and it came so close to working, but then at the last minute the audience opinion of "it's funny in the same way the rake scene was funny" got overtaken by "no it's just stupid, this is not a new genre of comedy, knock it off"
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Apr 21, 2019 23:43
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Always just read as lazy to me. "poo poo, we're short 3 minutes. Let's just throw in an entire Conway Twitty song"
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Apr 22, 2019 00:10
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Oh look, three girl characters who are ridiculously over designed and completely atonal to the general art style of the show who are interacting with Bart. I wonder which three comediennes who don't really need the exposure or care for current Simpsons but still agreed to guest star because come on, the show used to be good maybe this episode will be good they roped in
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Apr 22, 2019 00:15
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Which non family member cast death would be the most devastating to the show? I posit Harry Shearer
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Apr 22, 2019 00:27
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Calaveron posted:Which non family member cast death would be the most devastating to the show? I posit Harry Shearer E:I'm an idiot. You are correct.
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Apr 22, 2019 00:29
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Calaveron posted:Oh look, three girl characters who are ridiculously over designed and completely atonal to the general art style of the show who are interacting with Bart. I wonder which three comediennes who don't really need the exposure or care for current Simpsons but still agreed to guest star because come on, the show used to be good maybe this episode will be good they roped in Somewhere I read that celebrities and wannabe celebrities both like the Simpsons because getting a guest spot is a pretty big status symbol.
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Apr 22, 2019 00:39
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Calaveron posted:Which non family member cast death would be the most devastating to the show? I posit Harry Shearer anything that brings the simpsons to an end faster is a good thing, not a bad one
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Apr 22, 2019 01:36
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Harvey Fierstein and Dustin Hoffman will guest star again and this time they'll allow themselves to be credited and it will sink their careers
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Apr 22, 2019 02:06
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