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The simulation is beginning to break down
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Jan 28, 2020 19:16
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Milo and POTUS posted:lol if you dont think ward rackley was one of the best one off characters on koth Another one of the best single use characters ever conceived, Rad Thibodeaux. Every scene with him in that episode is better than gold, it's platinum studded with diamonds.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7b6R4QB3WI&t=22s Voiced by Matthew McConaughey to boot. Absolutely stellar choice.
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Jan 28, 2020 19:32
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They never did a Boomhower//Luanne thing on KOTH did they? I’m super solid on the first 8 seasons but haven’t really watched anything past there
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Jan 28, 2020 19:34
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Bust Rodd posted:They never did a Boomhower//Luanne thing on KOTH did they? I’m super solid on the first 8 seasons but haven’t really watched anything past there The 5th episode ever was actually about this. Hank wants Luanne out of his den and is about to talk to her about it but he can't bring himself to because her boyfriend just dumped her. To help her move on (so he can kick her out when she isn't depressed) he encourages her to find a new boyfriend. In the end that turns out to be Boomhauer, and Hank forbids it. She fucks off to live with Boomhauer and Hank realizes how badly he's loving up, so he chills out and asks her to stay in the den. The episode ends with her accepting the offer and telling Hank she loves him. I think Luanna and Boomhauer decide not to keep dating because of how uncomfortable Boomhauer was when Luanna came to live with him unannounced.
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Jan 28, 2020 19:54
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Boomhauer and Luanne never dated she just decided she was gonna live with him and Boomhauer made her sleep on the couch
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Jan 28, 2020 20:18
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you broke my grill posted:Boomhauer and Luanne never dated she just decided she was gonna live with him and Boomhauer made her sleep on the couch Yeah they weren't in a relationship or anything but they went on a dinner date to Lulys after they argued with Hank about whether or not it was okay for them to date, and that was after Hank caught her giving Boomhauer a kiss. Just got done rewatching the episode and there's nothing suggesting that they wouldn't have full-on dated if Hank hadn't freaked out. Just saying that there was an episode where Luanne and Boomhauer were interested in each other, at least briefly.
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Jan 28, 2020 20:31
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Every so often out of the blue I think of the phrase "YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE" and I think got dammit that whole scene is such a great gag, just distilled golden age Simpsons Just the perfect synthesis of literacy/cleverness, social commentary, and total situational absurdity Data Graham fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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Jan 29, 2020 13:19
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you broke my grill posted:Boomhauer and Luanne never dated she just decided she was gonna live with him and Boomhauer made her sleep on the couch I remember when this episode was new they played an ad of Luanne kissing Boomhauer on the cheek and Hank bwaaahing at it every commercial break for a week. But yeah, there was no romance involved, Hank just freaks out because it's Boomhauer.
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Jan 29, 2020 14:17
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Boomhauer kept trying to tell Hank there was nothing going on between them but Hank was so pissed he wouldn't listen.
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Jan 29, 2020 14:31
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Boomhauer doesn't even attempt to make a move on Luanne. He was just thrust in the middle of that situation and was rightfully offended when Hank called him a no good skirt chaser. I mean, normally maybe Hank is right, but all he did was give her a ride home when the football hero Hank chose for her turned out to be an rear end in a top hat.
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Jan 29, 2020 14:53
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The Moon Monster posted:I remember when this episode was new they played an ad of Luanne kissing Boomhauer on the cheek and Hank bwaaahing at it every commercial break for a week. But yeah, there was no romance involved, Hank just freaks out because it's Boomhauer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xEIm8P0qLo
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Jan 29, 2020 15:22
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Data Graham posted:Every so often out of the blue I think of the phrase "YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE" and I think got dammit that whole scene is such a great gag, just distilled golden age Simpsons If you know the name of the king or queen being murdered, please press 1
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Jan 29, 2020 16:43
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ikanreed posted:This is actually really informative about what's so bad about newsimp. In fact, it's the basis of a few of the less-than-good moments of oldsimps. Parts of Marge in Chains and all of Homer's Night Out come to mind.
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Jan 30, 2020 17:37
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ikanreed posted:This is actually really informative about what's so bad about newsimp. Purple Monkey Dishwasher
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Jan 30, 2020 18:09
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Marge In Chains is front-to-back gold (juice loosener, Osaka flu, smoking monkey, don’t panic think of a lie... my name is Mr. Burns!, I’m gonna miss sheriff lobo!, and the word guilty is misspelled!) that it really doesn’t matter what the premise of the plot is. It’s just a vehicle for those perfect 90s Simpson writing moments they had collected.
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Jan 31, 2020 08:23
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Frasier is all about ridiculous miscommunications and dramatic irony but they actually made it work with characters generally having a reason to draw ridiculous conclusions. (said reasons usually being that Frasier and Niles are pompous idiots and drama queens)
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Feb 2, 2020 08:21
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Frasier is all about ridiculous miscommunications and dramatic irony but they actually made it work with characters generally having a reason to draw ridiculous conclusions. (said reasons usually being that Frasier and Niles are pompous idiots and drama queens) Alright maybe, but it wasn't good because of that lazy writing
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Feb 2, 2020 14:49
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ikanreed posted:Alright maybe, but it wasn't good because of that lazy writing Well yeah, just came to mind as an exception because A: It was explicitly a running theme of the show, 2: they worked hard at actually making it funny, and A: there'd frequently be more or less realistic consequences for it in the end that add to the comedy rather than laughing it off, usually in the form of everything coming crashing down on them. Then again, those Frasier plots are typically explicit farces, in which sustained misunderstandings and escalating lies are key parts of the plot and humour. I don't think you typically have farces as Simpsons plots, I'm not sure if any come to mind, besides maybe the one where Marge gets a fancy outfit and is pretending to be well-off.
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Feb 2, 2020 15:28
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ikanreed posted:Alright maybe, but it wasn't good because of that lazy writing I would never generalize the writing in Frasier to be "lazy". Frasier has a reputation for being a smart show not just because the main characters are "intellectuals" but because it's incredibly tightly written. It's like a stage play- the way it's set up is smart. The Simpsons was a 'smart' show in this way too- most characters in the show are not intellectual but it's how the jokes are set up and how much humour they were actually able to fit into an ever-decreasing amount of airtime (unsurprisingly, many writers worked on both Frasier and the Simpsons). The reduced runtime of the show has something to do with the decline in quality as well, because the funniest/most memorable jokes from the earliest seasons aren't the ones that are essential to the plot- they're the Family Guy-style cutaway gags (that are also the funniest thing about Family Guy) and they're also the first thing to be cut from syndication runs.
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Feb 2, 2020 15:51
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What was the first time itchy and scratchy was bad? I honestly can't remember.
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Feb 3, 2020 18:46
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ikanreed posted:What was the first time itchy and scratchy was bad? I honestly can't remember. 
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Feb 3, 2020 20:40
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Out of universe tho
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Feb 3, 2020 21:09
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Marge's scripts ruled
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Feb 3, 2020 21:12
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Toxic Mental posted:Marge In Chains is front-to-back gold (juice loosener, Osaka flu, smoking monkey, don’t panic think of a lie... my name is Mr. Burns!, I’m gonna miss sheriff lobo!, and the word guilty is misspelled!) that it really doesn’t matter what the premise of the plot is. It’s just a vehicle for those perfect 90s Simpson writing moments they had collected. You forgot about history's greatest monster.
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Feb 3, 2020 21:39
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Someone a few pages back said Halloween of Horror was good, so I watched it tonight. It was relatively tolerable for a new simpsons, but holy gently caress does Dan Castellaneta sound bored out of his goddamn mind.
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Feb 5, 2020 05:28
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finalellipsis posted:Someone a few pages back said Halloween of Horror was good, so I watched it tonight. It was relatively tolerable for a new simpsons, but holy gently caress does Dan Castellaneta sound bored out of his goddamn mind. Why would you believe someone who says a Simpsons episode made in the 21st century was good?
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Feb 6, 2020 14:53
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marktheando posted:Why would you believe someone who says a Simpsons episode made in the 21st century was good? Behind the Laughter was good. Coulda been the series finale. Like ... 20 years ago.
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Feb 6, 2020 15:16
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I watched a modern thoh last night. The intro had everyone replaced with movie monsters and I cracked a smile at Mr Largo as the Phantom of the Paradise. It wasn't offensively terrible, but it was lazy. Just take an existing horror movie like Freaks or the Cat in the Hat and replace with simpsons characters, but without jokes or any of the cleverness that made the likes of King Homer good. 
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Feb 6, 2020 15:36
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PostNouveau posted:Behind the Laughter was good. 21st century started 1st Jan 2001 
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Feb 7, 2020 01:54
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spaceblancmange posted:21st century started 1st Jan 2001 
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Feb 7, 2020 05:33
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Have they done an episode where they MST2K an old episode yet to latch on to the hot new trend of rifftrax and let's plays
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Feb 7, 2020 13:03
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spaceblancmange posted:21st century started 1st Jan 2001 This is the excuse of every nerd when nobody showed up to their millennium party
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Feb 7, 2020 13:24
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Been doing a re-watch, and there is a huuuuuge quality decline in Season 9. Never noticed until this time.
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Feb 14, 2020 23:32
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This is what I've been saying
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Feb 14, 2020 23:56
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PostNouveau posted:Been doing a re-watch, and there is a huuuuuge quality decline in Season 9. Never noticed until this time.
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Feb 15, 2020 00:08
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I'm halfway through 8 right now and I like it more than 7. I guess if you consider its best episode is production 7 maybe its a tie.
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Feb 15, 2020 01:13
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Yeah, I'll keep saying it that although there are way less classic, time-tested episodes in 9 and 10, they were still at least able to write good jokes into what they had. Around season 10, you start seeing the majority of jokes in episodes start to fall flat.
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Feb 15, 2020 18:03
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Been reading the recaps for the older seasons at work during downtime lately and the number of times I've thought/blurted out "THAT was in Season (single digit)??" kind of surprises me. Like, I was legit surprised the
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Not until this watch through have I put 2 and 2 together and realised the episodes that felt off in seasons 6-8 were almost always Jean/Reiss ones.
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