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Daikloktos: Jan 1, 2020; by Cyrano4747

muscles like this! posted:

It was also the name of the demon in the Exorcist movies.

I don't think they dropped the name in the original, did they?

# ? Mar 18, 2020 02:43

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# ? May 28, 2024 17:40

Detective No. 27: Jun 7, 2006

I think it might have been mentioned in an extended cut.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 03:12

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

A Fish Called Selma is... interesting in retrospect, since it's one of the only times we see Troy as an actual character. You can see why he's so prolific; he's got that star quality of being ridiculous charismatic and charming despite not being the sharpest tool in the shed, which just means he'll do whatever gets him a paycheck, but his relationship with Selma is ambiguous- he is nothing but nice to her even before he realises he has something to gain from it, complete with lighting up a cigar to take the ire off her for smoking in the restaurant.

And while obviously the fish thing is played to be as bizarre as possible so there's no real equivalent, the way he acts around the idea of Selma's sexual expectations... looks a lot different with some modern awareness of asexuality and similar topics; he's basically being pressured into something he has no desire for and no idea how to to do, and his discomfort is pretty obvious.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 06:29

Code Jockey: Jan 24, 2006; 69420 basic bytes free

He also had a role in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

# ? Mar 18, 2020 06:35

Punkinhead: Apr 2, 2015

The Moon Monster posted:

I got a laugh at the sign on the dump in the new episode so that's something. "50,000 seagulls can't be wrong!"

That actually feels like an Old Simpsons joke

Code Jockey posted:

He also had a role in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

Old Final Fantasy loooved putting Gods and Demons from ancient civilizations in their games. They still might, I just haven't played the new ones.

Hell I think Gilgamesh is a boss in either FF1 or 2.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 06:38

spaceblancmange: Apr 19, 2018; #essereFerrari

The Moon Monster posted:

I got a laugh at the sign on the dump in the new episode so that's something. "50,000 seagulls can't be wrong!"

Did they linger on it for 5 seconds so you absolutely wouldn't miss it, though?

# ? Mar 18, 2020 07:14

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY: Feb 3, 2006

# ? Mar 18, 2020 07:24

Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

Troy McClure�s implied ichthyophelia was truly ahead of its time, and would still be considered too risqu� for many prime time comedies even today in 2020. It�s probably one of the funniest bits from the golden era, and oddly prescient

# ? Mar 18, 2020 13:18

Walton Simons: May 16, 2010; ELECTRONIC OLD MEN RUNNING THE WORLD

Watched The Crepes of Wrath for the first time in a very very long time, my memory of it is so vague that I think that as a kid, I may have actively skipped it on the VHS my grandad taped a bunch of early Simpsons on. I still don't like it that much, there is good stuff in there; the golden years' absurdity and dark humour is definitely there in Adil being a spy and the jokes that stem from that. There's just nothing that funny about Bart's time in France, it's just too bleak without enough jokes to break up the seriousness of it.

The best joke in it is probably when Bart speaks French to the policeman, explains all the poo poo she's been through and the guy is like 'Antifreeze in the wine? That's very serious!'. Albania's main export being 'furious political thought' is also great.

An Albanian being a spy ages this episode tremendously.

Finally, while reading about this episode, I learned that in season 21 it's revealed that Agnes hates Principal Skinner because his kicking when he was in her womb cost her the chance to be an Olympic high-jumper. The ridiculous overuse of the same pool of characters and proliferation of backstory is very, very zombie Simpsons.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 13:23

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

"You mean all white with pink eyes?"

# ? Mar 18, 2020 13:25

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Walton Simons posted:

Watched The Crepes of Wrath for the first time in a very very long time, my memory of it is so vague that I think that as a kid, I may have actively skipped it on the VHS my grandad taped a bunch of early Simpsons on. I still don't like it that much, there is good stuff in there; the golden years' absurdity and dark humour is definitely there in Adil being a spy and the jokes that stem from that. There's just nothing that funny about Bart's time in France, it's just too bleak without enough jokes to break up the seriousness of it.

The best joke in it is probably when Bart speaks French to the policeman, explains all the poo poo she's been through and the guy is like 'Antifreeze in the wine? That's very serious!'. Albania's main export being 'furious political thought' is also great.

An Albanian being a spy ages this episode tremendously.

Yeah, I watched Season 1 for the first time in like 20 years, a little while back, and that was the worst episode of season 1 by a long shot.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 13:36

Walton Simons: May 16, 2010; ELECTRONIC OLD MEN RUNNING THE WORLD

I'd say Homer's Night Out and Homer's Odyssey are worse but they're all varying shades of not great.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 13:46

Plant MONSTER.: Mar 16, 2018; I was watching simpsons at 0.75 without knowing until a scene where homer and bart were getting back massages at a hotel and the noises they were making were super drawn out like a youtube poop

Walton Simons posted:

The best joke in it is probably when Bart speaks French to the policeman

"...et ils ont donn� mon chapeau rouge � l'�ne!"

# ? Mar 18, 2020 15:41

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Bart and Homer specifically having the ability to pick up on a broad variety of languages is an underrated running gag.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 15:51

Detective No. 27: Jun 7, 2006

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Bart and Homer specifically having the ability to pick up on a broad variety of languages is an underrated running gag.

Also telepathy.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 15:54

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Detective No. 27 posted:

Also telepathy.

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# ? Mar 18, 2020 16:24

Plan Z: May 6, 2012

Walton Simons posted:

Watched The Crepes of Wrath for the first time in a very very long time, my memory of it is so vague that I think that as a kid, I may have actively skipped it on the VHS my grandad taped a bunch of early Simpsons on. I still don't like it that much, there is good stuff in there; the golden years' absurdity and dark humour is definitely there in Adil being a spy and the jokes that stem from that. There's just nothing that funny about Bart's time in France, it's just too bleak without enough jokes to break up the seriousness of it.

The best joke in it is probably when Bart speaks French to the policeman, explains all the poo poo she's been through and the guy is like 'Antifreeze in the wine? That's very serious!'. Albania's main export being 'furious political thought' is also great.

An Albanian being a spy ages this episode tremendously.

Finally, while reading about this episode, I learned that in season 21 it's revealed that Agnes hates Principal Skinner because his kicking when he was in her womb cost her the chance to be an Olympic high-jumper. The ridiculous overuse of the same pool of characters and proliferation of backstory is very, very zombie Simpsons.

The episodes of any show where one character is subjected to a ton of cruelty that they don't deserve are usually some of the weakest ones. I could watch cartoon marathons as a kid, but the second I'd get one of those episodes of every kid show where one character is another character's "servant," I'd usually turn off the TV and do something else.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 17:36

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Plan Z posted:

The episodes of any show where one character is subjected to a ton of cruelty that they don't deserve are usually some of the weakest ones. I could watch cartoon marathons as a kid, but the second I'd get one of those episodes of every kid show where one character is another character's "servant," I'd usually turn off the TV and do something else.

This really only works when the 'master' quickly comes to thoroughly regret it.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 17:45

Harold Stassen: Jan 24, 2016

Walton Simons posted:

Finally, while reading about this episode, I learned that in season 21 it's revealed that Agnes hates Principal Skinner because his kicking when he was in her womb cost her the chance to be an Olympic high-jumper. The ridiculous overuse of the same pool of characters and proliferation of backstory is very, very zombie Simpsons.

So I guess principal and the pauper is now non canonical? Idgi

# ? Mar 18, 2020 18:00

Daikloktos: Jan 1, 2020; by Cyrano4747

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

So I guess principal and the pauper is now non canonical? Idgi

They've also done one where Agnes hid Skinner's college acceptance letter, so yeah, they don't feel obligated to stick to Principal and the Pauper. They've actually directly declared it non-canon due to the backlash

# ? Mar 18, 2020 18:31

Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

Daikloktos posted:

They've also done one where Agnes hid Skinner's college acceptance letter, so yeah, they don't feel obligated to stick to Principal and the Pauper. They've actually directly declared it non-canon due to the backlash

The Simpsons cannon read-as-written is entirely nonsense that demands you accept characters backstories are constantly shifting and morphing while leaving them arrested emotionally and chronologically forever. Of any cartoon, The Simpsons is the one most antagonistically opposed to the idea of �cannon�. I refuse to believe that anyone cares about the real timeline of the Simpsons.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 18:40

SweetMercifulCrap!: Jan 28, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

There's another episode where someone calls him Arman Tanzarian in an accusing tone. Even in the first few seasons they'd do things like have the power plant's parking lot back up to the Simpsons' backyard even though it was never like that before, just for one quick joke.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 21:06

Plant MONSTER.: Mar 16, 2018; I was watching simpsons at 0.75 without knowing until a scene where homer and bart were getting back massages at a hotel and the noises they were making were super drawn out like a youtube poop

Plan Z posted:

The episodes of any show where one character is subjected to a ton of cruelty that they don't deserve are usually some of the weakest ones. I could watch cartoon marathons as a kid, but the second I'd get one of those episodes of every kid show where one character is another character's "servant," I'd usually turn off the TV and do something else.

The episode where Brainy Smurf declares himself Papa Smurf's "Dirty Nip Pig Slave" was rather unsettling.

# ? Mar 18, 2020 21:24

Calaveron: Aug 7, 2006

Losing Vietnam Vet Skinner is the show's biggest crime

# ? Mar 18, 2020 23:23

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Coming soon... Afghanistan era skinner

# ? Mar 18, 2020 23:25

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Milo and POTUS posted:

Coming soon... Afghanistan era skinner

Just going to skip Desert Storm are we?

# ? Mar 18, 2020 23:41

Fingerless Gloves: May 21, 2011; ... aaand also go away and don't come back

When I was a dumb baby I used to think that the sweet that the french policeman gave bart was some kind of magic lozenge which granted him french speaking like some videogame upgrade

# ? Mar 18, 2020 23:44

Daikloktos: Jan 1, 2020; by Cyrano4747

SweetMercifulCrap! posted:

There's another episode where someone calls him Arman Tanzarian in an accusing tone.

Lisa kept losing Snowballs until she was up to like VII and Skinner tried calling her out on a cheap out when she decides to just call them Snowball II so they don't have to get a new food dish

# ? Mar 19, 2020 00:07

Plan Z: May 6, 2012

Plant MONSTER. posted:

The episode where Brainy Smurf declares himself Papa Smurf's "Dirty Nip Pig Slave" was rather unsettling.

It was probably the name of his Grindcore band, too.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 01:52

Detective No. 27: Jun 7, 2006

Fingerless Gloves posted:

When I was a dumb baby I used to think that the sweet that the french policeman gave bart was some kind of magic lozenge which granted him french speaking like some videogame upgrade

Remember the episode where they were gonna give away Santa's Little Helper until he learned some obedience? When Bart spoke to SLH, it showed him interpreting it as gibberish. I used to think Bart figured out dog language which is how he understood English enough to be obedient.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 02:50

ishikabibble: Jan 21, 2012

Walton Simons posted:

Finally, while reading about this episode, I learned that in season 21 it's revealed that Agnes hates Principal Skinner because his kicking when he was in her womb cost her the chance to be an Olympic high-jumper. The ridiculous overuse of the same pool of characters and proliferation of backstory is very, very zombie Simpsons.

quote:

Some of Agnes' resentment to Seymour may have derived from even before Seymour was born�during the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Agnes competed in the pole vaulting event while 9-months pregnant.[4] When Seymour makes his first kick, he hits the bar, thus, making Agnes lose and subsequently crushing her dreams; this is probably why she is so harsh on Seymour.

It's somehow even worse than you described it.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 03:00

PostNouveau: Sep 3, 2011; VY till I die; Grimey Drawer

that one sucked

# ? Mar 19, 2020 03:04

Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

�What we should really do is give Agnes, one of our all-time worst and most tiresome characters, an extravagant and unlikely backstory!�

# ? Mar 19, 2020 03:26

Code Jockey: Jan 24, 2006; 69420 basic bytes free

ishikabibble posted:

It's somehow even worse than you described it.

what on earth

# ? Mar 19, 2020 09:01

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Bust Rodd posted:

�What we should really do is give Agnes, one of our all-time worst and most tiresome characters, an extravagant and unlikely backstory!�

Agnes can be funny when she's being especially absurd, like the book with pictures of cakes.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 09:05

Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

https://twitter.com/malteseanna/status/1240493781423538176?s=21

LMAO

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:27

InsensitiveSeaBass: Apr 1, 2008; You're entering a realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic, or contains some kind of monster... The second one. Prepare to enter The Scary Door.; Nap Ghost

Milo and POTUS posted:

Coming soon... Afghanistan era skinner

Sophia Vergara was an Air Force vet implied to be on Afghanistan and was a substitute for Mrs. K, she shoots down Skinner at one point when he tries to bring up the armed forces.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:06