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So, what ARE some good post season-15 episodes? Off the top of my head, I remember thinking the episode where they do My Fair Lady with Groundskeeper Willie was pretty funny. And I remember liking The Father, The Son, & The Holy Guest Star, though I haven't seen it in a while. Treehouse of Horror XIX has one of my all time favorite Treehouse segments (the great Pumpkin), and I have a soft-spot for any future-set episodes. I think there's been like at least 4 of them since the one where Lisa is the president. And I remember liking the Futurama crossover episode too.
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you broke my grill posted:I like how Al Jean has to explain all the jokes on the DVD commentary with such insight like "Mt. Splashmore is a parody of water parks" Al Jean was a showrunner on the Simpsons at the absolute height of the show's powers (seasons 3 & 4). I guess his partner Mike Reiss did all the funny decisions?
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Apr 13, 2020 07:24
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Well Reiss was involved with the Critic along with Jean too. At the very least, TC is better than bad simpsons. Maybe it was Reiss who was the talent all along?
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Apr 13, 2020 07:45
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OldSenileGuy posted:So, what ARE some good post season-15 episodes? I've watched Simpsons semi regularly until S20, and the only two episodes I remember being enjoyable are The Seemingly Never-Ending Story S17 and 24 Minutes S18.
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Apr 13, 2020 08:05
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Milo and POTUS posted:Well Reiss was involved with the Critic along with Jean too. At the very least, TC is better than bad simpsons. Maybe it was Reiss who was the talent all along? Maybe Al Jean used to be funny but has just turned into as much a soulless zombie as the show he runs.
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Apr 13, 2020 11:45
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OldSenileGuy posted:So, what ARE some good post season-15 episodes? Just browsing through the Simpsons Archive these are the ones I remember being decent, but I haven't seen most of them since they first aired so I don't know if they'd actually hold up. The Heartbroke Kid Girls Just Want to Have Sums The Debarted Dial 'N' for Nerder How the Test Was Won Treehouse of Horror XX The Food Wife The Book Job Holidays of Future Past A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again The Day the Earth Stood Cool 'Cue Detective Halloween of Horror There Will Be Buds
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Apr 13, 2020 14:35
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Am I being unreasonable when I say that I hate the pun naming convention that started later in the show's life?
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Apr 14, 2020 03:27
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Only if you like puns generally because it starts earlier than you're probably thinking.
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Apr 14, 2020 03:31
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I saw an episode the other day where Marge meets an Irish man and works in his erotic bakery and Homer and Ned Flanders are bounty hunters together and it was very bad television viewing imo
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Apr 14, 2020 03:37
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Plan Z posted:Am I being unreasonable when I say that I hate the pun naming convention that started later in the show's life? crispix posted:I saw an episode the other day where Marge meets an Irish man and works in his erotic bakery and Homer and Ned Flanders are bounty hunters together and it was very bad television viewing imo
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Apr 14, 2020 03:38
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Don't start a precedent for pun titles because You Will Run Out Of Them
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Apr 14, 2020 04:00
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Data Graham posted:Don't start a precedent for pun titles because You Will Run Out Of Them Ewe will pun out of them
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Apr 14, 2020 04:14
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What is it with the Simpsons and erotic cakes
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Apr 14, 2020 04:52
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That episode also contains a sequel of sorts to Steamed Hams
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Apr 14, 2020 05:32
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Maybe Al Jean used to be funny but has just turned into as much a soulless zombie as the show he runs. The truth is in the
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crispix posted:I saw an episode the other day where Marge meets an Irish man and works in his erotic bakery and Homer and Ned Flanders are bounty hunters together and it was very bad television viewing imo This sounds like a Bob's Burgers episode except it would be called like "Mutiny on the Bob-ty" or "Lindarotica" or something miserable like that.
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Apr 14, 2020 11:42
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Those sound like great episodes of Bobs burgers, sorry
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Apr 14, 2020 12:44
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Whenever they all got mobile phones, I was watching an episode possibly from season 15 that aired on TV last week where the whole premise of the show was that Bart's friends all had cellphones and he didn't, then he found one on a golf course which belonged to someone else.. some TV movie guy of the mid-naughties can't even remember his name. It's just as bad in recent episodes where their all on smart phones and pads, with the episodes revolving around them instead of the characters.. Also I'm poor and don't own a phone.
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Apr 14, 2020 13:05
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Milo and POTUS posted:Only if you like puns generally because it starts earlier than you're probably thinking. Yeah there are golden age episodes with pun titles it just doesn't seem obnoxious because the episodes are actually good.
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Apr 14, 2020 14:53
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Milo and POTUS posted:Those sound like great episodes of Bobs burgers, sorry Yes, the worst Simpsons episodes sound mysteriously similar to the best Bob's Burgers episodes for some reason.
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Apr 14, 2020 16:58
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Milo and POTUS posted:Maybe it was Reiss who was the talent all along?
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Apr 14, 2020 17:37
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Mike Reiss sounds like an idiot on the commentaries. Part of that is his idiot voice, though. Also revealed to be an idiot on the commentaries - Yeardley Smith.
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Apr 14, 2020 17:48
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Daikloktos posted:Also revealed to be an idiot on the commentaries - Yeardley Smith.  Frequently seems unable to even follow the plot of the episode. Often her contributions are just "It's funny that [repeat joke verbatim]"
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Apr 14, 2020 17:55
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She recently wrote an episode so I wonder how that ended up.
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Apr 14, 2020 18:11
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dads_work_files posted:Yes, the worst Simpsons episodes sound mysteriously similar to the best Bob's Burgers episodes for some reason. Bob's Burgers is probably the closest thing to a Simpsons successor at this point. (Family Guy and American Dad really are more their own thing)
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Apr 14, 2020 18:29
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J-Spot posted:Just browsing through the Simpsons Archive these are the ones I remember being decent, but I haven't seen most of them since they first aired so I don't know if they'd actually hold up. Was "Girls Just Want To Have Sums" the episode where the school gets divided into a Boy Side and a Girl Side? Because that one was atrocious. It managed to be sexist against everyone while looking like it was trying to make a feminist point. I'll agree on The Book Job though, that was good. Managed to do the celebrity cameo pretty well too. I don't recognise the rest of the titles.
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Apr 14, 2020 19:24
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Behold one of Mike Reiss' creations: Queer Duck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wImRXN5Y5-w
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Apr 14, 2020 19:25
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Let’s not and say we didn’t
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Apr 14, 2020 19:37
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Bob's Burgers is probably the closest thing to a Simpsons successor at this point. (Family Guy and American Dad really are more their own thing) Yea Bob's Burgers is fine. It's just fine.
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Apr 14, 2020 20:36
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There's one commentary where a character uses a spork and yeardley smith had apparently never seen one and asked the writers how they came up with that
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Apr 14, 2020 20:44
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My first exposure to Bob's Burgers was binging the first season while having withdrawal from Kratom I bought off a banner ad, and I will always thank it for that.
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Apr 14, 2020 21:46
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Tenebrais posted:Was "Girls Just Want To Have Sums" the episode where the school gets divided into a Boy Side and a Girl Side? Because that one was atrocious. It managed to be sexist against everyone while looking like it was trying to make a feminist point. It is. I'll confess that I barely remember much about it apart from one joke where Lisa is imagining all these talking math equations making goofy puns and then this cartoony number 27 shows up and just says "twenty seven!" in a goofy voice. It was so unexpected and absurd that it made me laugh harder than anything the show has done in the last decade.
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Apr 14, 2020 22:28
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you broke my grill posted:There's one commentary where a character uses a spork and yeardley smith had apparently never seen one and asked the writers how they came up with that Is she also the one that stabbed her podcast partner in the back or something like that
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Apr 14, 2020 23:29
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Daikloktos posted:Also revealed to be an idiot on the commentaries - Yeardley Smith. She's a scientologist so this isn't much of a surprise.
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Apr 14, 2020 23:49
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:She's a scientologist so this isn't much of a surprise. That's Nancy Cartwright.
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Apr 14, 2020 23:52
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Here she is doing a robocall in character https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H96v0zFw-tA
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J-Spot posted:It is. I'll confess that I barely remember much about it apart from one joke where Lisa is imagining all these talking math equations making goofy puns and then this cartoony number 27 shows up and just says "twenty seven!" in a goofy voice. It was so unexpected and absurd that it made me laugh harder than anything the show has done in the last decade. That truly is a great moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-7CqYFi64 As for post-season 15 episodes of merit, I have a soft spot for Any Given Sundance (episode 18, season 19). Chalmers and Skinner teaming up as movie producers is great, and the two celebrity cameos (a remarkable amount of restraint for an episode about a film festival) are quite well done.
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https://twitter.com/mikerecine/status/1250138731576799243?s=21
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Apr 15, 2020 12:43
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King Size Homer has to be on any top 5 list
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Riptor posted:King Size Homer has to be on any top 5 list Wow that’s wild dude, I find this episode to be virtually unwatchable! Even as a child it was one of maybe 3 eps in syndication I’d skip to go play Nintendo in my room.
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