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Goodguy3 posted: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 I feel like the hate that Principal and the Pauper gets should go towards Sherry Bobbins. It's a crummy episode. It really feels like something from maybe season 12.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I feel like the hate that Principal and the Pauper gets should go towards Sherry Bobbins. It's a crummy episode. It really feels like something from maybe season 12. All the musical episodes are trash except for the Evita one
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Shary Bobbins was great, but in a one-off, let’s never speak of this again kind of way. Then it seems like the show thought that was the formula they were supposed to follow forever more
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The only good reoccurring character in the Simpsons is Sideshow Bob.
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Bust Rodd posted:The only good reoccurring character in the Simpsons is Sideshow Bob. I said it earlier in the thread, but there was a Sideshow Bob episode about genetically modified organisms and how Bob modified himself to have gills to breathe underwater and grasshopper legs to jump high and poo poo. People didn’t believe it was a real episode description, but it was. Pretty sure that episode is also bare minimum five years old by now, if not ten years old. Also, let’s not forget VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA VENDETTA!!!!!! Sideshow Bob has sucked fat pimply rear end for years now.
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You Are A Elf posted:I said it earlier in the thread, but there was a Sideshow Bob episode about genetically modified organisms and how Bob modified himself to have gills to breathe underwater and grasshopper legs to jump high and poo poo. People didn’t believe it was a real episode description, but it was. Pretty sure that episode is also bare minimum five years old by now, if not ten years old.
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The Simpsons comics seem to have been a drat sight better than the show for years. Definitely more creative.
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The VENDETTA episode has a joke I like a lot: Sideshow Bob tries to correct an old Italian woman’s Italian pronunciation
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Data Graham posted:Shary Bobbins was great, but in a one-off, let’s never speak of this again kind of way. "Buy me a Beer," is legit one of my favorite Simpsons songs. The episode has a lot of good jokes, but they're all sort of parodying the same thing which is very different for a Simpsons episode of that time.
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As a kid I didn't realize Cape Feare was also a direct movie parody
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My wife wanted to see tonight's episode because she likes John Legend and Chrissy Teigen. Their appearance was sandwiched between breaking the Sea Captain and  STEM SCHOOLS Zach Woods was there, too, being Zach Woods.
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A lot of the good Simpsons parodies theme to have a theme in that they have exactly one major influence, which they may not expect the audience to have heard of, and stick to it. Reminds me of the episode with the Count of Monte Cristo riff, and they simplify the plot with, among other things, having Homer accused of British sympathies (since explaining 19th century French politics would be way too much effort) that gets him sent off to prison. Maybe coincidentally, this actually more resembles the real-life case that the novel was inspired by.
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Just rewatched The Telltale Head, it was fine, the only laugh out loud moment for me was Moe bursting into tears when Barney asked for beer with a head on it but there were plenty of decent gags. Funnily enough, the town next to mine had a statue of a famous comedian synonymous with the place (Eric Morecambe) chopped off at the ankle and a look back at Facebook reveals people stood around the scene of the crime looking sad and calls for the perpetrator to have his foot sawn off just like Grampa and Jasper.
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Bust Rodd posted:The only good reoccurring character in the Simpsons is Sideshow Bob. Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure would have words with you over this unfortunately short list
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Communist Walrus posted:Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure would have words with you over this unfortunately short list They were both in deep consideration I promise
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In the new one, it turns out the sea captain has been secretly working for 40 years to find treasure off a map he and his wife stole from the nazis. He's completely wasted both their lives doing it, but he finally finds it, only to have the mayor and police show up to confiscate it, claiming the town incorporated those waters the night before based on a tip from his wife. They have a town meeting to figure out how to spend the money. Marge convinces them to spend it on STEM education with a song by John Legend. Also Chrissy Tiegan is here.  Bart sounds a little off nowThe new fancy school gamifies education in a way Bart likes but Lisa discovers the games are teaching the dumb kids how to do lovely gig jobs (buying groceries for other people, charging scooters, driving uber). Lisa objects that the algorithm is teaching those kids the task rabbit jobs of today, and it doesn't know what the jobs of the future are. The principal looks into it, and finds out the school's algorithm thinks the only job of the future is elder care. The kids find out and reduce the school's rating down to the point that it self destructs. At a career day, the principal tells Homer his job will be obsolete soon, leading Homer to revolt against automation. He goes on a John Henry challenge to pour more soda than the new Buzz mix machine they installed at work.
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I know this isn't the place to start objecting unless I just keep going but uh 40 years ago was 1980
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The Sea Captain would have to be at minimum in his 90s for that plot to work. Nice fan fiction. Don't quit your day job.
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The sea captain opening was actually pretty good. I recommend it as like a little short.
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Detective No. 27 posted:The Sea Captain would have to be at minimum in his 90s for that plot to work. Nice fan fiction. Don't quit your day job. Anyone trying to do age math in order to “gotcha” the Simpsons is basically an empty husk of a person
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So is the Sea Captain also a Flying Hellfish now?
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Bust Rodd posted:Anyone trying to do age math in order to “gotcha” the Simpsons is basically an empty husk of a person Hey.
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They probably smell bad too
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Say, did they ever retcon Flanders being in his 60s? That was another one I was surprised to find out was so early(season 10).
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They've probably done episodes where they went back on that, but he was set as an adult when Homer was a kid in the Season 30 religious triptych that reveals the origin of his moustache
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His parents showed up in a recent episode and they weren't in their 90s so I'm guessing it got retconned.
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Daikloktos posted:that reveals the origin of his moustache
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Do you think they've retconned Flanders having a massive dong?
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I found an updated version of the Simpsons episode IMDB ratings chart posted upthread. I rewatched Life on the Fast Lane yesterday (S1E8) and it's decent. I'd rate it higher than The Call of the Simpsons, Moaning Lisa or Bart the Genius so definitely better than the chart rates it. It has a pretty gag-filled first half and Jacques is a good character, it also has a plot that deals with adult fear (marriage breakdown) while managing to not be as melodramatic as Homer's Odyssey, where (and this bears repeating) Homer tries to kill himself. I didn't realise until I read the wiki entry that Barney Gumble was meant to own Barney's Bowlarama until the writers realised that there's no way Barney could own anything.
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I always wondered about that.
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Barney having an easygoing job and employed by his father would explain a lot. Was the Bowlarama the same setting of every bowling episode? Though I forget that And Maggie Makes Three is a flashback episode. (If a relatively recent one, given Maggie is around one year old generally) Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Feb 24, 2020 |
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So that's Barney's dad who asks him if he polished his head in the Shine-O-Ball-O? (I forget if that's mentioned explicitly, but I'll never forget that fuckin gag)
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On quick research, it's actually his uncle, my mistake.
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...And apparently the first name "Barney" is enough to imply a family relationship, that makes no sense 
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https://twitter.com/mattselman/status/1232477484366487552
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Dizzying new lows
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what the gently caress
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Laterite posted:what the gently caress
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If they're going to be riffing comic book movies they could at least be using Radioactive Man. (Though the Fossil Fuel Four might be the peak there) The comics had some Radioactive Man 'issues' spoofing various eras of comic books.
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Bart some how manages to watch the latest comic book movie (letsee, 2020 simpsons.. so.. Miderman, or Mavengers?) a month early and finds that he can intimidate everyone with the threat of spoilers.. so he becomes Spoiler boy and.. urgh..
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