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 That is wonderfully advanced
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Jan 17, 2020 01:10
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https://twitter.com/ellebrigitte/status/1217528699467288577
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Jan 17, 2020 01:11
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Yes
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Jan 17, 2020 01:27
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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The little sun room near the kitchen that’s not there most of the time and is only seen in a handful of episodes always fucks me up.
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Jan 17, 2020 01:29
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it's in literally every episode though??? (it's the room homer runs into from the garage in the intro)
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Jan 17, 2020 01:40
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You’re correct but I’m still angry.
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Jan 17, 2020 02:01
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There ain't no sun room and there never was!
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Jan 17, 2020 02:13
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 Oh wait, there it is.
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Jan 17, 2020 02:16
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Why do they have two living rooms....? I feel like that space could be better utilized.
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Jan 17, 2020 02:26
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Literally Kermit posted:
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Jan 17, 2020 02:27
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Why do they have two living rooms....? I feel like that space could be better utilized. One for family and one for entertaining.
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Jan 17, 2020 02:33
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Literally Kermit posted:
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Jan 17, 2020 02:37
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Why do they have two living rooms....? I feel like that space could be better utilized. One is the "family room" or "den" and the other is the living room.
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Jan 17, 2020 02:44
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It's a Boomer thing you got to do when you actually had square footage to spare
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Jan 17, 2020 03:02
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A living room, a family room, and absolutely no clue what the difference is.
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Jan 17, 2020 03:06
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Supposedly, there was actually a difference before they all became "the television room".
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Jan 17, 2020 03:16
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When had that first floor bathroom ever shown up? Also the basement stairs always move around. Sometimes they're in the foyer, other times they're next to the kitchen.
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Jan 17, 2020 03:23
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I always thought of it as the Living Room is where your family lives in and the Family Room is where you entertain visiting families.
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Jan 17, 2020 03:23
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Android Apocalypse posted:I always thought of it as the Living Room is where your family lives in and the Family Room is where you entertain visiting families. That is like the opposite. As least when I was growing up in a split-level: the family room on the 1st floor was for the TV, living room was next to the dining room and kitchen on the 2nd floor so you could transition into coffee and talking before dessert on the big saturday dinner.
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Jan 17, 2020 03:30
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You enter the living room when you want to live and the family room when... something something. I don't remember the joke I was going to make. Anyway I did a Simpsons watch a year or two ago and got through season 1 to 7. I dropped out halfway season 7 because it just lost a lot of the magic and it was starting to feel very tired, I have no idea why. I think it was the point when they stopped having plots and started to have a series of scenes that were adjacent set ups for jokes, all loosely thread together.
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Jan 17, 2020 03:32
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GoutPatrol posted:so you could transition into coffee and talking before dessert Ah, the ol' eat 'n coff
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Jan 17, 2020 03:33
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alexandriao posted:Anyway I did a Simpsons watch a year or two ago and got through season 1 to 7. I dropped out halfway season 7 because it just lost a lot of the magic and it was starting to feel very tired, I have no idea why. I think it was the point when they stopped having plots and started to have a series of scenes that were adjacent set ups for jokes, all loosely thread together. 4 -- Everything is firing on all cylinders and in as perfect a balance as you'll ever get 5 -- Things go bigger and wackier; Homer goes to space, Bart gets an Elephant, etc. 6 -- Still out there but they make a dedicated effort to scale back and keep character dynamics the focus, even if the plots are still pretty escalated and wild 7 -- Throwing whatever at the wall-- Grandpa Abe's WWII adventure, Troy McClure episode, Homer's Mother, George W. Bush, gently caress it we can make it work 8 -- Finally out of steam, train is coming to a halt, the first half is still great and there are classics sprinkled til Homer's Enemy, which is basically where the show dies 9+ -- Welcome to the afterlife
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Jan 17, 2020 03:41
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the difference is the living room is at the front of the house for entertaining guests and showing off how you live and the family room is at the back of the house for hiding how you really live.
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Jan 17, 2020 03:53
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Ghostlight posted:the difference is the living room is at the front of the house for entertaining guests and showing off how you live and the family room is at the back of the house for hiding how you really live. So Lenny was doing it wrong? 
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Jan 17, 2020 04:02
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mind the walrus posted:You can really see the progression of the Seasons like this: What's the last truly good episode, then? I admit that I really like Homer versus New York City and that is in season nine.
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Jan 17, 2020 04:08
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Pick posted:What's the last truly good episode, then? I admit that I really like Homer versus New York City and that is in season nine. Would it surprise you to learn that the Homer Vs NYC episode was a holdover from the S8 production cycle? Cause it was, and I'd personally consider it the last great episode. That's not to say S9+ are totally bereft of moments or value, but like if we were somehow hard rationing hard drive space for a nuclear vault and could only save so many episodes, then S9E2-- Principal and the Pauper-- is where I would draw the line and let stuff like Real Estate Lionel Hutz and Powersauce just vanish into the ether.
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Jan 17, 2020 04:18
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Pick posted:What's the last truly good episode, then? I admit that I really like Homer versus New York City and that is in season nine. Trilogy of Error. But everything around it is crap and it's a gimmick episode so it's really just an accident. I don't know what the last great episode before that one was; City of New York is a good choice. I have a different opinion on the specific episode that marks the moment the show went to poo poo, though. Lots of people think it's The Principal and the Pauper but that one's still pretty solidly written and has some great jokes ("okay, then why is grandpa here?"). Season 9 as a whole is definitely worse than 8, but it's still not utter crap yet. The turning point for me is in Season 10, with When You Dish Upon A Star: quote:Guest stars: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Ron Howard, and Brian Grazer[57] ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Jan 17, 2020 04:29
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Sagebrush posted:Season 10, with When You Dish Upon A Star complete and utter trash
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Jan 17, 2020 04:49
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mind the walrus posted:You can really see the progression of the Seasons like this: Yup. Homer goes to space was the last one I remember. The "How is the launch going" "All these machines are for TV ratings" gag had me falling out of my chair.
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Jan 17, 2020 04:50
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I've got a real soft spot for "E-I-E-I-D'oh" in season 11. I think the B-52 "Glove Slap" song is atrocious, but I can't help loving Tomacco and The Poke of Zorro.
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Jan 17, 2020 07:00
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Why do they have two living rooms....? I feel like that space could be better utilized. Like a downstairs bathroom
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Jan 17, 2020 07:10
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my first edit... almost 3 years old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyd-uL7gONU
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Jan 17, 2020 07:15
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The Glumslinger posted:Like a downstairs bathroom If you look carefully...
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Jan 17, 2020 07:32
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The layout of the Simpsons house, and Springfield in general, is deliberately inconsistent. They've occasionally pointed it out within episodes. I think they're supposed to be the precarious middle class, becoming ever more of an anachronism; Homer's job pays well presumably but they're bad with money on top of being unlucky, and the house is big but not as good as it looks, with thin walls and poor wiring and plumbing. (And in one of the future episodes, while every other house in the neighbourhood has fancy renovations, the Simpsons house... doesn't) Springfield is pretty consistently shown to be a crappy place to live and the Simpsons are not in one of the good neighbourhoods, with little public transport and a local government with a history of blowing money on boondoggles rather than basic amenities, and the public school is brutally underfunded with burnt-out staff.
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Jan 17, 2020 08:09
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I actually wonder if some point they'll update the Simpsons to renting their house. The same way Homer went from being an uncool dad who didn't understand gen-x teens, to having had a grunge band when he was younger.
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Jan 17, 2020 08:59
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They also have Homer himself subtly mock it in the Frank Grimes episode: Frank Grimes: "Good heavens! This...this is a palace! How in the world can you afford to live in a house like this, Simpson?" Homer (chuckling): "I dunno, don't ask me how the economy works."
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Jan 17, 2020 09:02
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The Simps were supposed to be working class, having to carefully save and rely on a christmas bonus to afford presents. It's just that the economy has been destroyed since the 80s. Plus to get setups for episodes you need the family to go do things, implying disposable income.
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Jan 17, 2020 09:08
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Didn't grandpa pay the deposit by selling the house he
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Jan 17, 2020 09:15
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When they built the Simpsons house for real, it was 200m². In my city, that's easily a million bucks, even in lovely areas (though the property market in my country is all hosed up)
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