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Homer Is Where The Art Isn't (S29) is a properly good episode. It's a 70s/80s detective show parody in which Homer is accused of stealing a painting. There's none of the worst sins of modern Simpsons - not overly self referential, guest voice is playing a character, Homer acts like a human. I really liked it.
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The joke is that Homer steals the painting.
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Sep 13, 2019 13:55
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Plan Z posted:I keep saying it, but I will not watch any recent Simpsons until Julie Kavner puts out a press release assuring us that she's not in horrible pain doing that voice. She wouldn't lie to the fans like that
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Sep 13, 2019 14:11
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Horace posted:Homer Is Where The Art Isn't (S29) is a properly good episode. It's a 70s/80s detective show parody in which Homer is accused of stealing a painting. There's none of the worst sins of modern Simpsons - not overly self referential, guest voice is playing a character, Homer acts like a human. I really liked it. Don't praise the machine
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Sep 13, 2019 14:12
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Horace posted:Homer Is Where The Art Isn't (S29) is a properly good episode. It's a 70s/80s detective show parody in which Homer is accused of stealing a painting. There's none of the worst sins of modern Simpsons - not overly self referential, guest voice is playing a character, Homer acts like a human. I really liked it. nice try, i've been burned by the "check this new episode of hte simpsons, it's not bad" horseshit before. your not getting me this time
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Sep 13, 2019 16:59
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I've got four more new episodes on my DVR and nothing to do tonight so buckle in for recommendations.
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Sep 13, 2019 17:31
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What, Sears catalog hasn’t come yet?
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Sep 13, 2019 17:37
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Points off for going the easy route and adding in two clip show episodes, but they did put Lisa Goes Gaga as the #1 worst episode so well done.
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Sep 13, 2019 18:48
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Horace posted:I've got four more new episodes on my DVR and nothing to do tonight so buckle in for recommendations. I recommend not watching any simpsons episode made this century
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Sep 13, 2019 18:50
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DizzyBum posted:Points off for going the easy route and adding in two clip show episodes, but they did put Lisa Goes Gaga as the #1 worst episode so well done. The clip show episodes are good because the clips are from classic Simpsons. Now if there was a nu Simpsons clip show, it'd be bad.
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Sep 13, 2019 18:53
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Horace posted:I've got four more new episodes on my DVR and nothing to do tonight so buckle in for recommendations. uh, do not recommend
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Sep 13, 2019 18:54
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Mantis42 posted:The clip show episodes are good because the clips are from classic Simpsons. Now if there was a nu Simpsons clip show, it'd be bad. True, they are good just based on that. I just don't like them being included in best/worst lineups because of them being mostly recycled material anyway. Horace posted:I've got four more new episodes on my DVR and nothing to do tonight so buckle in for recommendations. "Don't watch these."
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Sep 13, 2019 18:55
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DizzyBum posted:"Don't watch these."
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Sep 13, 2019 19:03
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DizzyBum posted:"Don't watch these." Well, the first episode was this one:  so gently caress it, don't watch these
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Sep 13, 2019 19:17
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Horace posted:Well, the first episode was this one:  
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Sep 13, 2019 19:23
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Horace posted:Well, the first episode was this one: That screenshot makes me inexplicably angry. gently caress you, modern Simpsons writers.
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Sep 13, 2019 19:57
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SeANMcBAY posted:That screenshot makes me inexplicably angry. gently caress you, modern Simpsons writers. Don't worry they hate you too.
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Sep 13, 2019 20:04
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SeANMcBAY posted:That screenshot makes me inexplicably angry. gently caress you, modern Simpsons writers. I’m assuming you haven’t seen the actual clip; otherwise you surely must have meant explicably angry.
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Sep 14, 2019 01:16
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I’m assuming you haven’t seen the actual clip; otherwise you surely must have meant explicably angry. *Nods with only one frame of animation*
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Sep 14, 2019 02:07
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What's cool is that the Simpsons writers back in like 1997 made a whole plot about Krusty becoming an out of touch hack who just relied on decades old racial stereotypes for a laugh that modern audiences weren't going to give anymore.
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Sep 14, 2019 02:10
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I’m assuming you haven’t seen the actual clip; otherwise you surely must have meant explicably angry. Tell me what it is and why it sucks!
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Sep 14, 2019 02:27
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Thesaurus posted:Tell me what it is and why it sucks! if at all  edit: gently caress it https://twitter.com/levinejonathan/status/983350019892891648 emgeejay fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Sep 14, 2019 |
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Sep 14, 2019 03:48
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Please stop, Julie. I can tell it hurts, just stop.
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Sep 14, 2019 11:03
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The problem with Apu wouldn't have been a problem if Simpsons had been cancelled a decade ago like was the correct choice.
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Sep 14, 2019 15:21
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brugroffil posted:What's cool is that the Simpsons writers back in like 1997 made a whole plot about Krusty becoming an out of touch hack who just relied on decades old racial stereotypes for a laugh that modern audiences weren't going to give anymore. yo.. and didnt that episode have moe saying "and now, without further apu" ?
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Sep 14, 2019 15:26
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ikanreed posted:The problem with Apu wouldn't have been a problem if Simpsons had been cancelled a decade ago like was the correct choice. That's been my opinion. Attempting to fix him would basically be putting a bandage on a gaping infected gunshot wound. He's racist, yeah, but he's also really anachronistic in a way most of the other characters are that made more sense in a 90s context than today's.
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Sep 14, 2019 15:57
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Detective No. 27 posted:That's been my opinion. Attempting to fix him would basically be putting a bandage on a gaping infected gunshot wound. He's racist, yeah, but he's also really anachronistic in a way most of the other characters are that made more sense in a 90s context than today's. It suddenly struck me one time that the Simpsons was weirdly anachronistic from the very start - the situation of "Dad works a well-paid unionised blue-collar industrial job, Mum's a housewife and drives a station wagon, kids idolise a clown hosting a variety hour on TV" (and loads of other stuff) seems odd even for the early 90s. Someone - perhaps in this thread? - said that, in the early seasons at least, much of it is really a show made in the 90s by Gen-Xers reflecting their childhoods in the 70s.
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Sep 14, 2019 16:08
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Yeah. Even a character like Krusty is a TV clown but also represents golden age media moguls. My point wasn't so much that it's bad that they're anachronistic, but it's anachronisticly created for a different generation like you said. The episode where John Waters guest stared (back when guest stars played characters) showed this really well when he was super fascinated by how campy the Simpson family and house was.
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Sep 14, 2019 16:17
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the simpsons' purposeful anachronistic style was very much an attempt to make things 'timeless'. It was weirdly outdated in a lot of ways but also modern and it all kinda came together to make a funny cartoon world. Then they decided we need episodes devoted to 'Mapple' and poo poo and welp.
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Sep 14, 2019 16:39
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I liked how they used phone numbers that started with letter prefixes. Klondike 5-6793, let it ring!
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Sep 14, 2019 17:08
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ikanreed posted:The problem with Apu wouldn't have been a problem if Simpsons had been cancelled a decade ago like was the correct choice. I think you mean two decades ago
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Sep 14, 2019 17:24
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marktheando posted:I think you mean two decades ago I mean there's an ideal point to kill it, but 10 years ago would've been when everyone already knew it was bad
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Sep 14, 2019 18:12
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 While probably not as bad as the new episodes my breaking point that made me stop watching was the episode with the "screamapillar". Homer has to take care of a rare caterpillar that screams all the time.
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Sep 14, 2019 18:24
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Llyr posted:
I wouldn't call that a 'new' episode, it's 17 years old.
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Sep 14, 2019 18:40
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sweet geek swag posted:I wouldn't call that a 'new' episode, it's 17 years old. 
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Sep 14, 2019 19:14
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The first episode aired right before I was born, and it's still going I'm going to die before they pull the plug on the Simpsons
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Sep 14, 2019 19:18
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Phlegmish posted:The first episode aired right before I was born, and it's still going
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Sep 14, 2019 19:31
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Horace posted:Well, the first episode was this one: It’s not even the terrible politics that makes this so bad. There is no loving joke. Where are the jokes? Isn’t this a comedy? Why do they sound like that?
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WeaponX posted:It’s not even the terrible politics that makes this so bad. There is no loving joke. Where are the jokes? Isn’t this a comedy? Why do they sound like that? Yeah, exactly. I'd seen that clip but not the episode, and I was enjoying the bit about Marge's favourite childhood book being racist until I realised what it was segueing into. There's no joke, they could as well have done it with a caption in the credits reading "Yeah, Apu's racist now. Simpsons writers hear ye, Simpsons writers don't care"
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