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Mr Interweb posted:Though in that poster's slight defense, I do feel the gag would have been fine if they cut right after the wide shot stepping on the rakes. When they came back to the close up shot, I felt they kind of overplayed it. That’s what makes it good. It’s really the only time that kind of joke has worked though. See: Family Guy, etc.
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The Simpsons holidays of futures passed is the lowest point. -the thanksgiving scene with everybody being stuffed leading into the Christmas card scene implying Bart is a huge loser and Lisa is in a polyamorous relationship with 2 women and then married to Milhouse ? -Bart having two children who don’t like him and he lives in the abandoned Springfield elementary -Ned remarried Maude’s ghost who says there is no god , just an empty void ... What the gently caress .
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May 3, 2019 02:33
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i have a really specific memory of nearly crying with laughter with my dad wathcing the rake scene around when it first aired. it's a good memory
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May 3, 2019 02:39
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They act like it's great that bart becomes chief justice and lisa becomes president but that would be sorta hosed up for the country if you think about it
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May 3, 2019 02:52
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SeANMcBAY posted:That’s what makes it good. It’s really the only time that kind of joke has worked though. On a technicality I would submit that scene in Home Movies where they're brainstorming jokes and Jason is trying doggedly to get that kind of gag to work, the same unfunny joke over and over and over because it "comes around"; and the others are like eehhh no, it doesn't.
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May 3, 2019 02:53
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Mr Interweb posted:Though in that poster's slight defense, I do feel the gag would have been fine if they cut right after the wide shot stepping on the rakes. When they came back to the close up shot, I felt they kind of overplayed it. The rake joke was good. The fact that every joke in every animated sitcom forever after was a ripoff of the rake joke ruins it retroactively.
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May 3, 2019 03:29
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Cosmik Slop posted:I'm rewatching "Cape Feare" and jesus christ, the writers were on loving fire for this one. They're managing a perfect line every two goddamn seconds. It's almost too much to take in. It's like freebasing pure comedy. The John Elway fantasy is so good. Homer wanting to get a touchdown but lose the super bowl by a huge margin and having an old fashioned helmet... love it.
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May 3, 2019 03:34
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Applewhite posted:The rake joke was good. The fact that every joke in every animated sitcom forever after was a ripoff of the rake joke ruins it retroactively. Nah, you can make the rake joke work in other situations, but the key thing is, the gag had to be funny to begin with. Vaudeville slapstick like stepping on rakes is always funny. Extending it put to the point of absurdity only adds to it. Peter sucking in his breath however, is not funny. Stretching it out doesnt make it a gag, it just makes it annoying.
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May 3, 2019 04:00
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bob-rake was funny because the sap's got dignity peter-leg was funny the first time partly because it wasn't immediately clear where the gag was going (followed a willy wonka golden ticket parody iirc) and when the pin dropped it was the kaufmanesque anti-humor of wasting 30 straight seconds of network airtime back when that was still kind of a ballsy and weird thing to do, but also partly because it's actually a really natural reaction to a charley horse, and it comes when you're not expecting anything other than over-the-top cartoon violence the second time they did that bit they actually cut it off really quickly because part of the gag was the fakeout, like "ahhh, we wouldn't do that to you  "then they did it four more times
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May 3, 2019 04:58
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SeANMcBAY posted:That’s what makes it good. It’s really the only time that kind of joke has worked though. It works so well because it has a surprising number of jokes in it, all hidden behind the veil of slapstick comedy. At first it's funny because lol he got hit with a rake. You then don't expect the second one, which makes it funnier. It then cuts to the wide shot, which is both absurd and surprising enough to be funny. You then expect that to be the end of the joke and it to cut away, but then it cuts back in for more close-up raking, which surprises you more. By the second wide shot it's a matter of THIS CAN'T POSSIBLY KEEP GOING which makes it even funnier. It constantly is surprising you and pulling the rug out from under you, without any lines of dialogue and only a handful of repeated animations.
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May 3, 2019 05:41
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Jay Rust posted:Whenever I rewatch that episode, I fast-forward past the rake part
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May 3, 2019 07:00
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I watched Homer At The Bat again tonight and it is objectively the funniest loving episode of The Simpsons, period Almost every single line cracks me up, and it's a great example of using celebrity guests in a funny way "Good lord, gigantism!" also lol if you don't have "Talkin' Softball" memorized
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May 3, 2019 07:41
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Code Jockey posted:I watched Homer At The Bat again tonight and it is objectively the funniest loving episode of The Simpsons, period I think it may be my favorite too and I never cared about baseball. Darryl. 
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May 3, 2019 08:18
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The spontaneous parade celebrating Hannibal crossing the Alps slew me when I rewatched it recently.
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May 3, 2019 08:29
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Code Jockey posted:I watched Homer At The Bat again tonight and it is objectively the funniest loving episode of The Simpsons, period Talkin' Softball might've been the high water mark for American television tbh.
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May 3, 2019 08:57
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Code Jockey posted:I watched Homer At The Bat again tonight and it is objectively the funniest loving episode of The Simpsons, period https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXmoYOc9ZZw
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May 3, 2019 09:06
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Arbite posted:The twitching corpse managed to poke something. Just change it to Trudeau Lover.
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May 3, 2019 09:55
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What makes the rake joke work is that it starts out funny, then halfway through, stops being funny, and then by sheer repetition becomes funny again.
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May 3, 2019 14:03
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Detective No. 27 posted:What makes the rake joke work is that it starts out funny, then halfway through, stops being funny, and then by sheer repetition becomes funny again. If I remember the commentary track, the only reason it was so long was because the episode was running short and they had to figure out a way to stretch it out.
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May 3, 2019 14:27
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Wirth1000 posted:If I remember the commentary track, the only reason it was so long was because the episode was running short and they had to figure out a way to stretch it out. Al Jean & Mike Reiss-era episodes, probably some of the best years of the show, did have a decent amount of filler material in them.
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May 3, 2019 14:39
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emgeejay posted:yehhhuurrrughh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH8tLx3vIWs
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May 3, 2019 15:13
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Code Jockey posted:a great example of using celebrity guests in a funny way We had a lot of fun tonight. But there's nothing funny about vapor lock.
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May 3, 2019 16:35
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Question real quick, i tried to look this up yesterday and thought i was going crazy. Somehwere in the season 5-8 range i think they have a joke where someone is crossing off things to see in LA and its all poo poo like "lax long term parking lot c" snd "cerritos auto square" Now the only thing i can find is like from a season 20 episode that aired in 2011 and i know there is no way in hell i watched a season 20 ep. What episode is this from before i go insane
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May 3, 2019 16:42
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Wirth1000 posted:If I remember the commentary track, the only reason it was so long was because the episode was running short and they had to figure out a way to stretch it out. That's the real world reason behind it, yeah, but comedically it works for the reason why I said.
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May 3, 2019 19:05
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May 3, 2019 19:10
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Yes thats what i found but that was attributed to an episode in season 20 which aired in 2011 which there is no way i watched. They took the joke from an earlier episode
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May 3, 2019 21:44
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Stanky Bean posted:Yes thats what i found but that was attributed to an episode in season 20 which aired in 2011 which there is no way i watched. They took the joke from an earlier episode I'm not going to rewatch it to figure it out for you, but the only episode I can remember where they went to LA was that Mel Gibson one where he does the Mr. Smith Goes to Washington remake. Maybe there was a similar gag in it.
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May 3, 2019 22:00
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That is season 11 so closer to what i know, but i swear it was in there at some point earlier. I rewatch random episodes from seasons 1-7ish quite often, maybe ill come across it again
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May 3, 2019 22:07
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:"Oh, let's say... Moe." Das Bus is far from the worst Simpsons episode, but it was absolutely the first bad episode.
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May 3, 2019 22:30
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TheAwfulWaffle posted:Das Bus is far from the worst Simpsons episode, but it was absolutely the first bad episode. It's a perfectly cromulent episode
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May 3, 2019 22:56
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Das Bus is bad because it’s a pretty dumb premise but good because it still has actual jokes in it.
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May 3, 2019 23:01
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TheAwfulWaffle posted:Das Bus is far from the worst Simpsons episode, but it was absolutely the first bad episode. no way, there were a bunch of clipshows before Das Bus
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May 3, 2019 23:31
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Irradiation posted:Das Bus is bad because it’s a pretty dumb premise but good because it still has actual jokes in it. It was a pretty straight Lord of the Flies parody.
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May 4, 2019 00:02
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Let me rephrase that. The premise is fine, but the series of events that gets them onto the island is ridiculous. Like at least have them going out on a boat and not falling off a 50 foot long bridge over a creek and ended up stranded in the middle of the ocean.
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May 4, 2019 00:06
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Who cares the episode is funny
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May 4, 2019 00:24
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Das Bus could've worked as a Treehouse of Horror I think
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May 4, 2019 00:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2El5ttjM9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI3OiYarJ98
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May 4, 2019 00:29
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The Bible posted:It was a pretty straight Lord of the Flies parody. It's too straight. Das Bus is less of a parody and more just "Lord of the Flies except Martin is Piggy." It's lazy, and the ending revels in how lazy it is. Christ Jesus, it's been 21 years, and it still pisses me off.
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May 4, 2019 00:59
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TheAwfulWaffle posted:It's too straight. Das Bus is less of a parody and more just "Lord of the Flies except Martin is Piggy." It's lazy, and the ending revels in how lazy it is. Christ Jesus, it's been 21 years, and it still pisses me off. it wasn't a parody, It was just the simpson kids in Lord of the Flies
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Apparently so traumatized as to confuse Martin with Milhouse
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