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Razorwired posted:Somewhere I read that celebrities and wannabe celebrities both like the Simpsons because getting a guest spot is a pretty big status symbol. Al Gore turned down a guest spot and went on to lose the 2000 election. Ever since then there’s been a Hollywood Curse on turning down a guest appearance on The Simpsons.
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Razorwired posted:Somewhere I read that celebrities and wannabe celebrities both like the Simpsons because getting a guest spot is a pretty big status symbol. Al Jean and the production staff just seem like starfuckers, too. With how low ratings are, he probably sees celebrity guest appearances as something to keep the show alive.
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Apr 22, 2019 03:40
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I remember back in the early days when it was considered shameful to be a guest on The Simpsons.
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Iron Crowned posted:I remember back in the early days when it was considered shameful to be a guest on The Simpsons. I think back in those days it was considered shameful to be a guest on TV in general outside of late night talk shows or SNL.
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Iron Crowned posted:I remember back in the early days when it was considered shameful to be a guest on The Simpsons.  And when he breaks through and Bart immediately recognizes him like they're old buddies cracks me up even though I don't think it's supposed to be funny.
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Apr 22, 2019 15:05
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Flannelette posted:
It's absolutely supposed to be funny. That's the joke.
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The_Rob posted:It's absolutely supposed to be funny. That's the joke.
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Jesus tucking Christ Trudeau is going to be on the Simpson’s
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Apr 22, 2019 19:31
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The joke will be an Turdeau in the bottom left corner.
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Alright gently caress it since Youtube recommends me this stuff, I'll just pull the pin and throw them at the thread from time to time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArRzap67PtU Something I've always noticed about new Simpsons. seems to be this dialogue thing that's "Simpsons for the seeing-impaired" where they are literally saying what's happening on screen like "The floorboard broke my night stand!" or "I'm arranging the clip art in my mind!"
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Plan Z posted:Alright gently caress it since Youtube recommends me this stuff, I'll just pull the pin and throw them at the thread from time to time: Because without it, how will you know what to laugh at?! Also gently caress you for making me watch that clip
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Apr 25, 2019 19:52
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It’s funnier at a table read!!
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"gosh, i thought i heard the sound of a woman measuring" was pretty funny, i have to admit nothing else was though
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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!!!!" Reminds me of when I saw The Simpsons Movie. The theater was packed and by far the biggest laughs came from the spiderpig song and Homer being bounced back and fourth between a rock and a hard place.
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Plan Z posted:Something I've always noticed about new Simpsons. seems to be this dialogue thing that's "Simpsons for the seeing-impaired" where they are literally saying what's happening on screen like "The floorboard broke my night stand!" or "I'm arranging the clip art in my mind!" It wouldn’t be that bad of a clip if it wasn’t for that constantly happening.
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Apr 25, 2019 21:10
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They know that everybody is just browsing their phones during the episodes so they have to announce all the funny parts out loud.
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Fish of hemp posted:They know that everybody is just browsing their phones during the episodes so they have to announce all the funny parts out loud. That was before the ubiquity of smartphones. They've been pulling this poo poo for at least 12 years now!
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Plan Z posted:Alright gently caress it since Youtube recommends me this stuff, I'll just pull the pin and throw them at the thread from time to time: Not to defend this awful, awful show or anything. But the reason Marge said the floorboard line out loud was to set up the joke for the magazine. I mean, it's still a clumsy way to lead into a joke, but there was a point to it. But the worst thing about that clip is noticing that it's from season 18 and thinking to myself 'wow, the Simpsons was so young back then". 
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The show has a lot of issues with joke set ups. I think I might have mentioned it in this thread earlier, but the floorboard thing sort of reminds me of the episode with Frank Grimes son. By the end, Lisa shows up to proclaim that she's figured out who was trying to kill homer, that being Bumblebee Man, written on a piece of paper. The idea of Lisa not only being so wildly wrong, but also pointing to a character that probably hadn't even been on the show in years, is a pretty good gag. The problem though, is why would she write it on a piece of paper? Would she have forgotten if she didn't write it down? Has she never been aware of BBM before?
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Apr 26, 2019 09:32
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I think showing the audience while Lisa tries to play it off is funnier than having her say it out loud would be. That's an example of good joke delivery.
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Mr Interweb posted:The show has a lot of issues with joke set ups. I think I might have mentioned it in this thread earlier, but the floorboard thing sort of reminds me of the episode with Frank Grimes son. By the end, Lisa shows up to proclaim that she's figured out who was trying to kill homer, that being Bumblebee Man, written on a piece of paper. The idea of Lisa not only being so wildly wrong, but also pointing to a character that probably hadn't even been on the show in years, is a pretty good gag. The problem though, is why would she write it on a piece of paper? Would she have forgotten if she didn't write it down? Has she never been aware of BBM before? Are you serious
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loving hell. Why did I click that?
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Mr Interweb posted:But the worst thing about that clip is noticing that it's from season 18 and thinking to myself 'wow, the Simpsons was so young back then". No it wasn't, it had been going for 18 seasons
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Plan Z posted:Something I've always noticed about new Simpsons. seems to be this dialogue thing that's "Simpsons for the seeing-impaired" where they are literally saying what's happening on screen like "The floorboard broke my night stand!" or "I'm arranging the clip art in my mind!" Nothing can top the time Lisa had a tiger in the attic that bites Bart on the arm and he exclaims “My arm! It hurts where the tiger is biting it!”
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Apr 26, 2019 14:43
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Those kind of jokes are trying to ape the is this about my cube bit from Homer the Smithers
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Plan Z posted:Alright gently caress it since Youtube recommends me this stuff, I'll just pull the pin and throw them at the thread from time to time: Huge missed opportunity to not call the Time-Life books uh... Prime-Wife or some poo poo like that
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Mime-mife
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emgeejay posted:Huge missed opportunity to not call the Time-Life books uh... Prime-Wife or some poo poo like that Doesn't read well at the table
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Irony Be My Shield posted:I think showing the audience while Lisa tries to play it off is funnier than having her say it out loud would be. That's an example of good joke delivery. No, I got it, and I agree it's funny. At least conceptually. I'm just saying the way it was done makes no sense within the context of the show. COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Are you serious What?
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I think a huge problem is that the showrunners no longer take the time to turn conceptually funny ideas into actual funny jokes.
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That’s actually the perfect way to frame it. Classic Simpsons had jokes. Nu-Simp just has ideas stitched together.
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I watched some of the commentary tracks on the season 4 DVD and it seemed like they always spent some time playing around with the timing and delivery of each joke to see what worked best in the actual cartoon. Like when Maggie's dangling down from the airvent to retrieve the keys to the locker, should she rotate twice or three times? Losing that attention to detail later on is really noticeable.
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Iron Crowned posted:Doesn't read well at the table I really do think this one of the reasons. A lot of jokes I see on shows as they get older, I think to myself "It's probably really funny to hear H. Jon Benjamin blurt that out in person, but it's really not as funny here as they seem to think."
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lol I like the part where he says the current writers are "smart, funny, and talented"
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I like the part when he almost forms a complete sentence
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Holy poo poo, this explains so so much
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Stalizard posted:I would rather watch a new Simpsons than keep hearing nerd opinions detailing the intricacies of the animaniacs, christ Rember that that time when homer stopped the slide
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finalellipsis posted:lol I like the part where he says the current writers are "smart, funny, and talented" I wonder if this is the same Joel Cohen that Bill Murray signed on to do Garfield with, believing he was actually going to be working with Joel Coen of the Coen brothers
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