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Imagine if you will a Simpsons fan who has been hanging inside a cave with a muted TV at their back, experiencing The Simpsons only as the shadows produced by the flickering lights of the TV. They break free one day to find The Simpsons are not the shadows they know, but unrecognizeable yellow monstrosities somehow emitting hack jokes in human voices, often with appearances by people they're told are famous but have never heard of. We are shackled by our senses, unable to know the true form of The Simpsons.
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PostNouveau posted:Imagine if you will a Simpsons fan who has been hanging inside a cave with a muted TV at their back, experiencing The Simpsons only as the shadows produced by the flickering lights of the TV. They break free one day to find The Simpsons are not the shadows they know, but unrecognizeable yellow monstrosities somehow emitting hack jokes in human voices, often with appearances by people they're told are famous but have never heard of. We are shackled by our senses, unable to know the true form of The Simpsons. He then goes back to the cave to share what he's learned. The people chained down in the good Simpsons thread rebel
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Jan 21, 2020 03:15
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One must imagine The Simpsons is good
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Jan 21, 2020 17:22
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I'm not super into podcasts at all but apparently the voice of Lisa Simpson started a podcast with a (very, very low level) actress friend of hers. The podcast became a moderate success and Yeardley Smith orchestrated like a hostile takeover of the podcast and all rights/merchandising/etc., completely forcing her best friend out and starting a legal feud. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-simpsons-yeardley-smith-aka-lisa-simpson-accused-of-screwing-her-bff-out-of-small-town-dicks-podcast Yeardley is worth over $85 million dollars, so I'm not sure exactly why she's so cutthroat over Moderately Small Podcast money or any of this poo poo, but the whole thing is kind of wild considering the crazy disparity in the two women's wealth and success. Also she's basically a cop lover so double gently caress her, that's what the podcast is.
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Jan 24, 2020 22:38
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Wealth turns trashy people into dumpster fires hth
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Jan 24, 2020 22:58
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drat finding out Lisa Simpson is an increasingly isolated CHUD IRL is probably a top 5 consideration for the thread title
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Jan 24, 2020 23:12
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wealth turns trashy people into dumpster fires hth That sweet, sweet Casper mattress money makes animals of us all.
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Jan 24, 2020 23:13
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Isn't she a Scientologist as well?
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Jan 25, 2020 01:33
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Laterite posted:Isn't she a Scientologist as well?
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Jan 25, 2020 01:34
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Daikloktos posted:That's Bart Tip to toe
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Jan 25, 2020 02:24
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WeaponX posted:You know none of this Apu stuff would matter if this show ended ten seasons ago like it should have this but unironically, also at least fifteen Cursed idea: The Simpsons will be in the next Kingdom Hearts game
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Jan 25, 2020 15:35
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Ghost Leviathan posted:this but unironically, also at least fifteen If it has a Simpsons Road Rage game built into it, I might actually care. (The last KH game was garbage though.)
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Jan 25, 2020 16:08
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One thing that modern Simpsons never gags on anymore is the pull-back shot that defies conventions. Things like the “Yeah, that’s a fine looking grill! *pull back* why the hell doesn’t mine look like that!” These days the closest it gets is to have weird shop names next to each other and easy, lame gags like that Let me write one for them: At Springfield mall - Mapple Store, *pull back and out* Broken Screen Mapple Repair Shop with very long line out the door
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Jan 25, 2020 20:20
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I try to explain to people that we’ll never see anything as clever as “Oh... it’s a donkey!” ever again and half my diehard Simpsons friends don’t even get that reference 
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Jan 25, 2020 20:28
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Hahaha yes, i still use the donkey line whenever someone points out something obvious. loving rip simpsons
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Jan 25, 2020 22:00
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Killswitch posted:Hahaha yes, i still use the donkey line whenever someone points out something obvious. Kuber Mark?
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Jan 25, 2020 22:03
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Ghost Leviathan posted:this but unironically, also at least fifteen King of the Hill would be a unironically good choice.
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Jan 25, 2020 23:50
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It was supposed to be Poochie, but now Poochie is a meme!?!
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Jan 26, 2020 00:00
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bobjr posted:King of the Hill would be a unironically good choice. Summon Hank to fight Thanos with a lightsaber keyblade
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Jan 26, 2020 11:31
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In the Chapo interview with one of the writers he said that the show hasn't had talking Apu for years, so the controversy didn't really make sense. Is it true?
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Jan 26, 2020 15:11
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steinrokkan posted:In the Chapo interview with one of the writers he said that the show hasn't had talking Apu for years, so the controversy didn't really make sense. Is it true? LMAO, the controversy wasn’t that Azaria had done so recently, it’s that American media was so completely devoid of Indian people in the 90’s that Apu’s stereotypes became absorbed in the US media zeitgeist and informed racist notions of Indians for decades to come.
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Jan 26, 2020 15:16
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It's not like anybody sane's been paying attention for years.
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Jan 26, 2020 15:17
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's not like anybody sane's been paying attention for years. Tough but fair
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Jan 27, 2020 06:14
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Like it's a shame because despite propagating stereotypes Apu still managed to be maybe one of the most three-dimensional side characters in the series, and almost unique in being an Asian man portrayed as attractive and desirable.Bust Rodd posted:LMAO, the controversy wasn’t that Azaria had done so recently, it’s that American media was so completely devoid of Indian people in the 90’s that Apu’s stereotypes became absorbed in the US media zeitgeist and informed racist notions of Indians for decades to come. The near-total void of Indian characters does stand out in retrospect. Even with token characters they'd almost always be Chinese or Japanese. (Yes, the King of the Hill joke comes to mind) British media actually had a lot more Indian characters, and probably because they've got much stronger cultural connections for obvious reasons. I mean hell, the last Indian characters I can think of are Connie from Steven Universe (who just looks generally brown unless you look up her last name, and her family seems otherwise assimilated) and freaking Raj from The Big Bang Theory. (Who apparently is popular in India anyway, probably because he exactly fits their own nerd stereotype)
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Jan 27, 2020 07:40
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My earliest exposure to Indians came from Short Circuit and later Apu as a child. I was pretty shocked years later when I found out that Short Circuit man was a white dude in brown face.
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Jan 27, 2020 14:15
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Actually there's also Baljeet from Phineas and Ferb, who also fits the nerdy Indian stereotype. (also his superhero persona is Hanumanman)
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Jan 27, 2020 14:22
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I watched last night's current episode of the Simpsons. Marge becomes a Yes, I was drunk at the time.
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Jan 27, 2020 14:35
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Featuring Dan Armisen as a fascist Proud Boy
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Jan 27, 2020 15:34
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Iron Crowned posted:I watched last night's current episode of the Simpsons. Marge becomes a Ha, no really what was yesterday's episode?
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Jan 27, 2020 15:40
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Iron Crowned posted:I watched last night's current episode of the Simpsons. Marge becomes a What was the musical montage set to that of course they did (not including the Portlandia intro)
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Jan 27, 2020 15:41
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ikanreed posted:Ha, no really what was yesterday's episode? That's a rerun of an episode from earlier this season. Homer thought Marge was gonna leave him for her lumberjacking partner.
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Jan 27, 2020 15:47
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goon podcast Talking Simpsons has had an Indian American guest on a few times who's gone over the some Apu stuff, the stereotypes etc. Check out some of the Apu-focused episodes for his commentary!
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Jan 27, 2020 15:48
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PostNouveau posted:That's a rerun of an episode from earlier this season. This is actually really informative about what's so bad about newsimp. Miscommunication subplots are the empty shell of comedy writing that makes so many sitcoms so bad. Dramatic irony isn't actually funny. I don't think there is a single episode of good Simpsons where that's the basis of a conflict that lasts longer than a scene. Not one.
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Jan 27, 2020 16:50
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ikanreed posted:Miscommunication subplots are the empty shell of comedy writing that makes so many sitcoms so bad. Dramatic irony isn't actually funny. I dunno that's like most of the good years of Arrested Development
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Jan 27, 2020 16:56
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PostNouveau posted:I dunno that's like most of the good years of Arrested Development Ron Howard: this wasn't actually true. What made it work was deadpan delivery of new information
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PostNouveau posted:I dunno that's like most of the good years of Arrested Development Ron Howard: There were no good years of Arrested Development
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Jan 27, 2020 17:29
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Any season of Arrested Development is better than the last 10 years of The Simpson’s combined.
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Jan 27, 2020 17:31
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The good seasons of Arrested Development, like good Simpsons, have several layers to the humor so its not -just- the fact that there's a miscommunication. To me the most prominent lazy writing crutch the show has used for 20 years now is constantly introducing new one-off characters where the entire episode revolves around them. King of the Hill got pretty bad with this too in the later seasons, though obviously the quality of KOTH never dropped anywhere close to Simpsons levels.
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Jan 27, 2020 18:30
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:The good seasons of Arrested Development, like good Simpsons, have several layers to the humor so its not -just- the fact that there's a miscommunication. Yeah, there were a few years where every KOTH episode was "Bobby or Peggy meets someone who gets them into a new hobby that then consumes their life."
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah, there were a few years where every KOTH episode was "Bobby or Peggy meets someone who gets them into a new hobby that then consumes their life." lol if you dont think ward rackley was one of the best one off characters on koth
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