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Brother Entropy posted:gil just had the bad luck Classic Gil!
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Uncle Wemus posted:I stopped watching ages ago did they start making Gil a bigger character? lmao
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I blame Gil for the eventual emergence of "cucked"
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Gil was another one of those characters that was funny and made sense in the context of one episode, but they kept bringing him back for some reason. the guy in the pretzel video is the best gil bit even though he's called frank ormand in that episode. "check for...euughhhh...millipedes....ughhhhh...."
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Gil was another one of those characters that was funny and made sense in the context of one episode, but they kept bringing him back for some reason. 
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Excelzior posted:I blame Gil for the eventual emergence of "cucked" I blame Keokuk and Cucamonga. Maybe Seattle.
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This is probably less amusing than I think it is  
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Rarity posted:This is probably less amusing than I think it is 
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gil was clearly trying to fill the role of troy mclure after phil hartman died and he sucks
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Sagebrush posted:the guy in the pretzel video is the best gil bit even though he's called frank ormand in that episode. His laugh in that scene is an massively underappreciated bit. "Uh, hyuh huh hah-a hyuh huh hah." https://youtu.be/yQTlEQVtUFQ
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Sagebrush posted:the guy in the pretzel video is the best gil bit even though he's called frank ormand in that episode. I'm really sorry if I'm not giving you enough credit and you've done this on purpose: that's actually, literally Jack Lemon
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bump_fn posted:gil was clearly trying to fill the role of troy mclure after phil hartman died and he sucks  Gil was 100% just another riff on Jack Lemmon's character from Glengarry Glenn Ross. Then after Hartman died and took Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure with him, the Simpsons didn't have a go-to attorney character for a while. The writers knew drat well they could never replace Lionel Hutz, so I respect their instinct to go after Gil-- another incompetent white guy who is pathetic in a different way than Lionel Hutz was-- but because most of Simpsons at that time was absolute dogshit they could never give Gil material that made him more than "eh, I guess he'll do" as a replacement. Yeah Gil sucks. Propaganda Hour posted:His laugh in that scene is an massively underappreciated bit. As-is the Pretzel Fever line. I would kill to get a legend like Lemmon's impressions of the script and what informed his decision to play out that delivery, because he loving kills.
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I get why they did it, but Lionel Hutz was a schmoozer and crafty compared to Gil's completely luckless dumping ground. Hutz was incompetent like a lot of the Springfield regulars. The police are a mix between incompetent and corrupt, Krusty isn't funny and doesn't like kids, most of the teachers are various levels of apathetic, and Homer is King Incompetent of them all. But Gil is just an out and out spineless looser. Even Millhouse and Kirk reach a point where they stand up for themselves. But there's nothing to Gil other than being a punching bag. I think another sad thing is we probably would have gotten a Hutz focused episode back in the good days.
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Propaganda Hour posted:His laugh in that scene is an massively underappreciated bit. drat, I legitimately thought it was Gil that ran that franchise.
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Found on Reddit titled: The first day of working remotely vs. the 40th. https://i.imgur.com/dkjFLwo.mp4
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Gil is funny he's just overused
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Nah men when you've got an actual episode with Jack Lemmon doing the Gil routine there's no way to make a diet echo of the same concept worth a drat.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wl4ZX4-ui8 "No don't put him on... Hello Fred!" Gil is good
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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OldSenileGuy posted:Gil is funny he's just overused Just like the television show "The Simpsons"
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OldSenileGuy posted:Gil is funny he's just overused It's really easy to overuse him, too. Same with Moleman, really. Hans should only exist to be trepanated and hit in the groin by a football. Gil should fill a similar part.
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Propaganda Hour posted:It's really easy to overuse him, too. Same with Moleman, really. Hans should only exist to be trepanated and hit in the groin by a football. Gil should fill a similar part. oh no, my brains!
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finalellipsis posted:combinatory value and relevance, together at last! 
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Kuros posted:Found on Reddit titled: The first day of working remotely vs. the 40th. This is distressingly accurate.
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Lionel Hutz was funny because of his unwarranted bravado despite total incompetence. He's basically a legal version of Dr Nick. Gil is too openly pathetic to be funny outside a short scene because it's obvious to everyone in-universe and out how incompetent he is.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Lionel Hutz was funny because of his unwarranted bravado despite total incompetence. He's basically a legal version of Dr Nick. Gil is too openly pathetic to be funny outside a short scene because it's obvious to everyone in-universe and out how incompetent he is. Yeah a lot of the times Hutz manages to make things work but he's dodgy as hell. quote:No, money down!
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and, the truth! 
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I recently watched the one where Homer sues the all you can eat seafood place, and Hutz actually did a good job in that case. Sure, a lot of it was jury selection, but that's part of being a good lawyer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqT-AvswCZo
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What also makes Hutz work is his complete lack of shame, ethics or scruples.
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I work for my parents and we do frequently use "Gil's a-dancin'!" as a catchphrase to describe trying to make sales.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:What also makes Hutz work is his complete lack of shame, ethics or scruples. Right. Hutz and Nick are both (somewhat) successful despite their drawbacks. I mean, successful enough to keep up appearances despite not wearing shoes or knowing how blood works. They're similar to Homer in that way, so they work to underpin the same universe (buffoons never really failing) from different angles. Gil is pitiful and a failure, so he feels inconsistent with the rest of the cast in a supporting role instead of a bit part.
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Propaganda Hour posted:Right. Hutz and Nick are both (somewhat) successful despite their drawbacks. I mean, successful enough to keep up appearances despite not wearing shoes or knowing how blood works. They're similar to Homer in that way, so they work to underpin the same universe (buffoons never really failing) from different angles. Gil is pitiful and a failure, so he feels inconsistent with the rest of the cast in a supporting role instead of a bit part. Hmm, does that make Gil a bit Grimesey? Too realistic in his patheticness (cf Grimes' competence and attitude to Homer), in a world where consequences are usually "hilarious" not "serious"?
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Gil fails because he is self-aware. He is burdened with cognizance of his ineptitude.
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This is more thought than the Simpsons writers room has ever put into Gil
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Bobstar posted:Hmm, does that make Gil a bit Grimesey? Too realistic in his patheticness (cf Grimes' competence and attitude to Homer), in a world where consequences are usually "hilarious" not "serious"? Grimes is brilliant and tortured by his inconsistency with the universe. He always fails despite his perfection. Homers Enemy is also an episode that is sometimes referred to as Jumping the Shark because Grimes critiques the universe. So the universe kills him. Of course, this is just one of many, many (unfunny) readings of the Simpsons.
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Propaganda Hour posted:Grimes is brilliant and tortured by his inconsistency with the universe. He always fails despite his perfection. Homers Enemy is also an episode that is sometimes referred to as Jumping the Shark because Grimes critiques the universe. Grimes was an rear end in a top hat and a capitalist stooge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40sJOkxnac Anyway, Frank Grimes' wasn't killed because he critiqued the universe, he died because of his own obsession and inability to accept that the world might not work the way he thought it did.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Grimes was an rear end in a top hat and a capitalist stooge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40sJOkxnac yesss, love this video
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