PostNouveau posted:

Matt Groening drew that himself.

Also Marge is based on his mother.

Bust Rodd posted:

Imagine drawing a woman every day for 35 years deciding on day one what her nipples look like.

Bust Rodd posted:

Imagine drawing a woman every day for 35 years before having to decide one day what her nipples look like.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

They need to start taking Emmys away. I wonder at what point, with all episodes taken into account, King of the Hill will objectively be better.

Phlegmish posted:

It's harsh but I would support the idea of taking away awards from the Simpsons, if that doesn't work we need to start looking into vigilante justice to get them to stop

Cubone posted:

I don't know why I keep assuming that you guys are making these up, the show is clearly just much, much dumber than I thought

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The episode received positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+ rating and praised Kelsey Grammer's voice-acting and the episode's "strong, straightforward narrative."

PostNouveau posted:

Matt Groening drew that himself.

Calaveron posted:

That episode was the worst thing to ever happen to Kelsey Grammer

J-Spot posted:

Even the worst Simpsons episode is still better than An American Carol.

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Nobody better talk poo poo about A Christmas Story

a kitten posted:

Milo and POTUS posted:

At this point it probably is. Even bad KotH is considerably better than bad Simpsons at this point and there were proportionately far fewer bad episodes of koth.

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Homer discovers Maggie can whistle. Meanwhile, Marge designs Fat Tony's brothel.

Guest stars: Nick Fascitelli as Professor Whistler

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

I read this as An American Dad at first and readied the first salvo but I don't know what that other thing is so carry on

J-Spot posted:

It’s a version of A Christmas Carol where Scrooge is a straw man liberal who is visited by right-wing spirits to show him the error of his ways.

PostNouveau posted:

In the new one, Mr. Burns cancels the insurance for the workers' kids. Marge puts Bart on a generic ADHD med, but it gives him a long variety of symptoms described on YouTube by either Werner Herzog or someone doing a Werner Herzog impression.

Marge takes him to a crystal healer. And it works.

So she goes back to the crystal healer and the lady is joining a cult so she gives Marge her whole inventory. Marge starts selling it out of the garage. There's a dream sequence about how happy Homer and Marge are with the money they're making set to "Crystal Blue Persuasion."

Lisa catches Bart cheating. Marge sets up a mall kiosk to compete with some other crystal huckster. Bart's cheating causes Marge to quit the crystal business.

There's a gag where Marge sends her mother to sabotage her competitor by saying "there's a Yoni egg in my somewhere. I think it's going to hatch." And then they cut back later and the competitor has pulled an egg out of her and Marge's mom is telling her "that's not the one I was thinking of."

Apparently, Ned is back to teaching Bart, even though they went to a rotation of teachers after trying Ned out like 2 seasons ago. They go to Dr. Nick at one point and he sounds nothing like Dr. Nick anymore.

PostNouveau posted:

In the new one, Mr. Burns cancels the insurance for the workers' kids. Marge puts Bart on a generic ADHD med, but it gives him a long variety of symptoms described on YouTube by either Werner Herzog or someone doing a Werner Herzog impression.

Marge takes him to a crystal healer. And it works.

So she goes back to the crystal healer and the lady is joining a cult so she gives Marge her whole inventory. Marge starts selling it out of the garage. There's a dream sequence about how happy Homer and Marge are with the money they're making set to "Crystal Blue Persuasion."

Lisa catches Bart cheating. Marge sets up a mall kiosk to compete with some other crystal huckster. Bart's cheating causes Marge to quit the crystal business.

There's a gag where Marge sends her mother to sabotage her competitor by saying "there's a Yoni egg in my somewhere. I think it's going to hatch." And then they cut back later and the competitor has pulled an egg out of her and Marge's mom is telling her "that's not the one I was thinking of."

Apparently, Ned is back to teaching Bart, even though they went to a rotation of teachers after trying Ned out like 2 seasons ago. They go to Dr. Nick at one point and he sounds nothing like Dr. Nick anymore.

PostNouveau posted:

I looked it up, and it was Werner Herzog. Also, the competing crystal saleswoman was a guest appearance by Jenny Slate.

Also, the episode was titled "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion", so they went to that well twice.

NiceGuy posted:

Didn't they do a Breaking Bad opening parody with Crystal Blue Persuasion a few years back already?? So that's three times

Keep fuckin that chicken, guys

PostNouveau posted:

Yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKePrVPGK3g

PostNouveau posted:

In the new one, Mr. Burns cancels the insurance for the workers' kids. Marge puts Bart on a generic ADHD med, but it gives him a long variety of symptoms described on YouTube by either Werner Herzog or someone doing a Werner Herzog impression.

Marge takes him to a crystal healer. And it works.

So she goes back to the crystal healer and the lady is joining a cult so she gives Marge her whole inventory. Marge starts selling it out of the garage. There's a dream sequence about how happy Homer and Marge are with the money they're making set to "Crystal Blue Persuasion."

Lisa catches Bart cheating. Marge sets up a mall kiosk to compete with some other crystal huckster. Bart's cheating causes Marge to quit the crystal business.

There's a gag where Marge sends her mother to sabotage her competitor by saying "there's a Yoni egg in my somewhere. I think it's going to hatch." And then they cut back later and the competitor has pulled an egg out of her and Marge's mom is telling her "that's not the one I was thinking of."

Apparently, Ned is back to teaching Bart, even though they went to a rotation of teachers after trying Ned out like 2 seasons ago. They go to Dr. Nick at one point and he sounds nothing like Dr. Nick anymore.

Plan Z posted:

Season 11, Episode 8, "Brother's Little Helper":

Principal Skinner holds a Fire Prevention site at the Springfield Elementary Schoolyard. Then a skit featuring Ned and Maude Flanders goes awry. Suddenly, a tidal wave bursts out, which Bart rides a basketball hoop on having flooded the gym, drenching the school yard and saving Ned. Furious at the mess Bart made, Skinner has Homer and Marge come to the school, where they learn Bart has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Principal Skinner tells Marge and Homer that Bart must take a radical, untested new behavioral medicine called Focusyn or he will have to expel him.

After several failed attempts by Homer, Marge convinces Bart to take the medication and his behavior immediately improves, paying attention in school, being respectful to his parents, and tutoring a Navajo boy in his spare time. One night, however, Marge and Homer come home from a date to find Bart in his room wrapped in aluminum foil and coat hangers on the ceiling. Suffering from drug psychosis and paranoia, he claims Major League Baseball is spying on the town using a satellite. The doctors recommend that Bart go off Focusyn, but he refuses, swallows several handfuls of Focusyn and runs away.

Bart wanders onto a U.S. Army base and manages to hijack a tank. He cuts a swath of destruction through the town and eventually stops at the school. There, he points the tank's cannon into the sky and shoots down a Major League Baseball satellite; inside are detailed documents on everybody's behaviors. Mark McGwire appears, distracts the citizens with a long home run, and hides the evidence under his cap. Marge takes Bart off Focusyn for good and puts him back on Ritalin. Major League Baseball, however, still spies on the Simpson family due to an autographed bat McGwire gave Bart that has a hidden camera.

Plan Z posted:

Season 11, Episode 8, "Brother's Little Helper":

Principal Skinner holds a Fire Prevention site at the Springfield Elementary Schoolyard. Then a skit featuring Ned and Maude Flanders goes awry. Suddenly, a tidal wave bursts out, which Bart rides a basketball hoop on having flooded the gym, drenching the school yard and saving Ned. Furious at the mess Bart made, Skinner has Homer and Marge come to the school, where they learn Bart has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Principal Skinner tells Marge and Homer that Bart must take a radical, untested new behavioral medicine called Focusyn or he will have to expel him.

After several failed attempts by Homer, Marge convinces Bart to take the medication and his behavior immediately improves, paying attention in school, being respectful to his parents, and tutoring a Navajo boy in his spare time. One night, however, Marge and Homer come home from a date to find Bart in his room wrapped in aluminum foil and coat hangers on the ceiling. Suffering from drug psychosis and paranoia, he claims Major League Baseball is spying on the town using a satellite. The doctors recommend that Bart go off Focusyn, but he refuses, swallows several handfuls of Focusyn and runs away.

Bart wanders onto a U.S. Army base and manages to hijack a tank. He cuts a swath of destruction through the town and eventually stops at the school. There, he points the tank's cannon into the sky and shoots down a Major League Baseball satellite; inside are detailed documents on everybody's behaviors. Mark McGwire appears, distracts the citizens with a long home run, and hides the evidence under his cap. Marge takes Bart off Focusyn for good and puts him back on Ritalin. Major League Baseball, however, still spies on the Simpson family due to an autographed bat McGwire gave Bart that has a hidden camera.

Bust Rodd posted:

Imagine drawing a woman every day for 35 years before having to decide one day what her nipples look like.

Milo and POTUS posted:

That's a shame BB slipped because it was a pretty drat good episode in an otherwise middling season.

SeANMcBAY posted:

I never could get into BB since the voices are all obnoxious as hell to me.

DizzyBum posted:

I can't recall a recent Bob's Burgers episode I've outright hated.

I think the first season is one of the weakest since they were still working on characterization; Bob was more of a selfish no-fun guy whose primary focus was the restaurant and not the family. My least-favorite episode is probably the one where Tina joins the capoeira school, and Bob just wants her to quit the class and keep working instead, and also Bob poops his pants.

I think this season's been okay overall.


Here's a bit from Family Guy that's actually pretty great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBDJF4EryN0

PostNouveau posted:

Also, the new one may get the disorder wrong, because I swear they say ADHD, not ADD.