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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted: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 Nope, that one is an Academy Award nominee for his credit on Toy Story. Amazingly, there’s also an Etan Cohen who wrote the miserable Will Ferrell movies Get Hard and Holmes & Watson.
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Two things: 1) Lisa calls Homer....Homer? 2) You're telling me that the final resulting episode, is what they wind up with after going through hundreds, even thousands of jokes, and then picking the best of the best? THOSE are the jokes that make the final cut?
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Cubone posted:but it made me notice something about late-Groening that, once I started noticing, I couldn't stop noticing, but I don't quite know how to articulate it Plan Z posted:I know exactly what you're talking about, and I completely agree and did a similar thing a while back: I, too, know exactly what you're talking about, completely agree, AND did a similar thing in the other 'Simpsons' thread. Re: a scene from season 9's The Cartridge Family (i.e. Soccer riot->Homer buys a gun->NRA meeting at his house->Moe brings "a big bag of irregular Oreos"): AbsurdHeroine posted:[T]o vivisect the joke: It's not even that the humor or quality of the show has declined (tho they have); it's like the creators are bitter & spiteful over how good the show was and how much people loved it. Now they write all the gags with defiant mediocrity and explicit disdain for the audience. The only comparison I can think of is George Lucas and the Prequels.
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emgeejay posted:Nope, that one is an Academy Award nominee for his credit on Toy Story. As an aside, I’m a huge Ferrel/Riley fan, I love Talledega Nights and Step Brothers. Holmes & Watson wasn’t worth the 1.50 I spent at Redbox, and to be honest it feels exactly like the “Zombie Simpsons” version of Will Ferrell & JCR movies. It has the component pieces but they are all wrong. I couldn’t believe we were watching 90 minutes of two of my favorite comedians and nothing funny was happening.
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"We really are not employable anywhere else" 
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AbsurdHeroine posted:I, too, know exactly what you're talking about, completely agree, AND did a similar thing in the other 'Simpsons' thread. Re: a scene from season 9's The Cartridge Family (i.e. Soccer riot->Homer buys a gun->NRA meeting at his house->Moe brings "a big bag of irregular Oreos"): It reminds me of lovely webcomic wall of text writing. It's just missing B^U mouth and a character pointing off-screen. Want to start a "re-write a classic simpsons bit as a modern SImpsons bit" thread.
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Condensing the jokes would probably lop 8 minutes off of every episode, minimum. I keep getting these and I always try to go "Don't exaggerate, they don't rely on joke blobs that much," but man it really is like most of the show, now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35KG3fFyhqs&t=26s Also bonus comment: 
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My favorite bit is how the guy looks completely self conscious and deflated after building up that non joke to be so funny
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Plan Z posted:Want to start a "re-write a classic simpsons bit as a modern SImpsons bit" thread. That would be like the first thread in 10 years I'd actually be able to contribute to proper on these D.G. forums. I have... very few talents.
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I have none so you're still ahead of me
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lol that the Simpsons writers consider “ivy league educated “ as something noteworthy or making you funnier .
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Pulcinella di Bund posted:lol that the Simpsons writers consider “ivy league educated “ as something noteworthy or making you funnier . "We wrote Animal House!" doesn't play as well in 2019 as they think it does Conan O'Brien's entire existence is based on this fragile premise
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EugeneJ posted:"We wrote Animal House!" doesn't play as well in 2019 as they think it does lol when mr burns visited that Ivy League campus and they complained about SJWs ruining everythingggggggg Yet whens the last time the Simpsons told an edgy joke ? Seth McFarlanes entire head might be up his rear end but atleast family guy attempts jokes .
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Remember how much of Bart’s dialogue was puns and rhymes and clever wordplay? Good times
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EugeneJ posted:"We wrote Animal House!" doesn't play as well in 2019 as they think it does It’s also possible that the people coming out of Harvard’s literature program weren’t completely broken by the internet and were actually smart and clever. I genuinely don’t respect the intellect of anyone within 5 years of my age, because phones and the internet have made us substantially dumber, and I’m rarely surprised. Animal House also holds up way better than Revenge of the Nerds.
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I know I certainly don't respect your intelligence.
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The lowest point of the Simpsons was when the people who mindlessly quote the Simpsons somehow became less unfunny than the show
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Data Graham posted:Remember how much of Bart’s dialogue was puns and rhymes and clever wordplay? juh?
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Data Graham posted:Remember how much of Bart’s dialogue was puns and rhymes and clever wordplay? Don;t have a cow man!!
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Bart's right, let's none of us have a cow....
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The only Bart line I can think of that I still drop occasionally is "look, he thinks he's people!" but I'm a pet-lover so maybe I'm just weird
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Somehow I suspect that "SMRT" wouldn't make it into a modern episode
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Iron Crowned posted:Somehow I suspect that "SMRT" wouldn't make it into a modern episode That's because that's when Dan Castellanta still gave a poo poo and would adlib brilliant poo poo like that. Now he's just banging his fist on the counter at Fox asking "where's my money? where's my money? where's my money?" in-between recording sessions.
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Mr Burns looking at comic book guy and saying "look at that man, calmly eating candy like a Spaniard" is stuck in my brain, I don't even know what it means
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No, I'm serious. And now it's driving me crazy that I can't think of or find any examples scrolling randomly through transcripts. But months ago when I was watching the Simpsons Randomizer while on the treadmill every day I kept noticing that Bart was getting all these wordplay lines that now I can't think of a single example of. I know it's not just that I have a raging cold and am recovering after a 10 hour flight, but I promise if I didn't I'd go run on the treadmill for however many hours it'll take in order to find some to quote through pure random walk E: The only one I can think of is "When the Big Easy calls, you gotta accept the charges", but there are lots more where that comes from, and better, I promise you Data Graham fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Apr 28, 2019 |
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Bust Rodd posted:It’s also possible that the people coming out of Harvard’s literature program weren’t completely broken by the internet and were actually smart and clever. I genuinely don’t respect the intellect of anyone within 5 years of my age, because phones and the internet have made us substantially dumber, and I’m rarely surprised. But didn't most of the Harvard dudes study poo poo like biology and computer science? I recall there were very few who actually had any formal training in writing, which was pretty mind blowing. dracky posted:Mr Burns looking at comic book guy and saying "look at that man, calmly eating candy like a Spaniard" is stuck in my brain, I don't even know what it means Yeah, that's a good one. I think the joke is that Spaniards discovered chocolate when they invaded Central America. Another one of my favorite Burnisms is "drunk as a lemur".
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Mr Interweb posted:But didn't most of the Harvard dudes study poo poo like biology and computer science? I recall there were very few who actually had any formal training in writing, which was pretty mind blowing. Chocolate was well and truly discovered by the time the Spaniards reached Central America though
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Calaveron posted:Chocolate was well and truly discovered by the time the Spaniards reached Central America though I meant "discovered" in the same way Columbus "discovered" America.
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Data Graham posted:Remember how much of Bart’s dialogue was puns and rhymes and clever wordplay? Woozle wuzzle?
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Data Graham posted:No, I'm serious. And now it's driving me crazy that I can't think of or find any examples scrolling randomly through transcripts. But months ago when I was watching the Simpsons Randomizer while on the treadmill every day I kept noticing that Bart was getting all these wordplay lines that now I can't think of a single example of. I know it's not just that I have a raging cold and am recovering after a 10 hour flight, but I promise if I didn't I'd go run on the treadmill for however many hours it'll take in order to find some to quote through pure random walk Are you sure it was a Simpsons randomizer? Are you sure it wasn't, you know, NOTHING?
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In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrasts
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I still love the recurring character detail in seasons 2-4 where every time someone warns Bart that this behavior will have negative consequences for his adult life, he imagines himself as some sort of alcoholic hobo drifter dying on the side of the road and says, "Cooooooooool," in all sincerity.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I still love the recurring character detail in seasons 2-4 where every time someone warns Bart that this behavior will have negative consequences for his adult life, he imagines himself as some sort of alcoholic hobo drifter dying on the side of the road and says, "Cooooooooool," in all sincerity. I think specifically he sees himself as john Rambo from first blood.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I still love the recurring character detail in seasons 2-4 where every time someone warns Bart that this behavior will have negative consequences for his adult life, he imagines himself as some sort of alcoholic hobo drifter dying on the side of the road and says, "Cooooooooool," in all sincerity. My favorite recurring character detail was how Barney always thought that Maggie was Bart, presumably because he can't remember the last ten years. Too subtle for current Simpsons. Like this scene:  Would be like: Barney: "Whoa, Marge, you gotta look out! Your little boy Bart could have been eaten by that pony!" Marge: "Barney, that's not Bart. This is Maggie!" Barney: "Whaaa? Maggie?" *holds at arm's length and burps in her face* "Oh yeah, I forgot!" Marge: "Barney, I really think you should stop drinking. You can't even remember the last ten years!" *Lisa pops up out of nowhere* "You know Mr. Gumble, your brain starts creating new neural pathways after just 48 hours of sobriety!" Or some dumb poo poo
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Decided to watch for the first time in a long time tonight. It was a Lisa episode called Doh Canada. Good lord this show needs euthanized. Its like seeing an aged loved one who is suffering dementia so bad they don't even resemble the person they once were.
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