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PostNouveau posted:This sends Lisa off on a fantasy sequence where she sings a song about her burgeoning belief ("I've got Buddha, I've got science, and now Jesus makes three"). This makes me cringe so bad and the worst part is I know I’m going to end up looking it up like a real masochist.
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PostNouveau posted:There were actually some good gags in this one. The Springfield NPR affiliate broadcasts wrestling with a soft-voiced NPR nerd doing play-by-play This sounds like a really good gag but I can't find it on youtube 
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May 4, 2020 22:01
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WeaponX posted:This makes me cringe so bad and the worst part is I know I’m going to end up looking it up like a real masochist. It's pretty loving bad. ilmucche posted:This sounds like a really good gag but I can't find it on youtube It's very near the end of the episode if you want to watch just that on Hulu.
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May 4, 2020 22:11
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I think they're abandoning Lisa's buddhism because they're realizing they don't know anything about Buddhism beyond meditation and the Dalai Lama and doing research or hiring writers who are or were raised Buddhist is obviously unacceptable.
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I'm blanking on the title but the episode where Mr. Burns finds and captures the Loch Ness Monster might be one of the earliest terrible episodes for me.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I think they're abandoning Lisa's buddhism because they're realizing they don't know anything about Buddhism beyond meditation and the Dalai Lama and doing research or hiring writers who are or were raised Buddhist is obviously unacceptable. I don't know if they're abandoning it or not. They didn't address it in the end. Possibly they're arguing for some kind of synthesis of Buddhism and Universalist Christianity, but I don't know enough about either to say if that makes any kind of sense. It certainly doesn't seem like something modern Simpsons is capable of tackling.
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bobjr posted:I'm blanking on the title but the episode where Mr. Burns finds and captures the Loch Ness Monster might be one of the earliest terrible episodes for me. That's a season 11 one, and I remember from years ago that the commentary track even ends with them admitting it wasn't a good episode, or their attention to quality took a nose dive at the end.
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PostNouveau posted:I don't know if they're abandoning it or not. They didn't address it in the end. Possibly they're arguing for some kind of synthesis of Buddhism and Universalist Christianity, but I don't know enough about either to say if that makes any kind of sense. It certainly doesn't seem like something modern Simpsons is capable of tackling. If you squint your eyes and don't think about it too hard maybe. Buddhism is a non-exclusive religion and completely accepts the possibility of a person to achieve enlightenment without the Buddha's guidance. It's just enormously harder and more difficult. Christianity is an exclusive religion though and has as doctrine that a good person will still go to hell if they don't accept Christianity. Christian Universalism tries to get around that by making it so the crucifixtion paid the debt of sin for all mankind whether or not they believed but that doesn't really square with Buddhism's belief that liberation lies completely within the self or that the Buddha could even liberate himself at all since Buddha lived 600 years before Jesus.That said Buddha himself has appeared like 5 times in the Simpsons in one-off gags and it took them until the 5th time for them to stop drawing him as an overweight Chinese man so the Simpsons writers don't know much about Buddhism either. BIG FLUFFY DOG fucked around with this message at 03:45 on May 5, 2020 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I think they're abandoning Lisa's buddhism because they're realizing they don't know anything about Buddhism beyond meditation and the Dalai Lama and doing research or hiring writers who are or were raised Buddhist is obviously unacceptable. The funniest answer is it’s a capitulation to Red China due to the new Disney ownership
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IUG posted:That's a season 11 one, and I remember from years ago that the commentary track even ends with them admitting it wasn't a good episode, or their attention to quality took a nose dive at the end. It's season 10 and it loving sucks
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IUG posted:That's a season 11 one, and I remember from years ago that the commentary track even ends with them admitting it wasn't a good episode, or their attention to quality took a nose dive at the end. The beginning half isn't great but the simple plot of "Mr. Burns wants to get popular and has Homer help him" isn't bad on it's own. It's that they clearly didn't have any idea how to put in the Loch Ness monster or end the episode so it just kind of ends with it working at a casino while suddenly being about 1/10th the size it was previously? I vaguely remembered this happening but would have said it was two different episodes just because there have been okay or not great episodes before this, but this one stood out as the first one that wasn't good at the start and ended terribly.
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I did like how they skipped over the actual capture. "I was a bit worried when he swallowed me, but well, you know the rest."
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My extremely cold take on the Simpsons is that all of the episodes dealing with theology are dumb as Hell, even the funny ones. The big difference with old Simpsons is that the the episodes with bad A-plots are still crammed with good jokes and animation so they're still watchable.
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Modern Simpsons feel like their plots are written around the commercial breaks, and it makes them feel really disjointed. Like the plot switches every time the show comes back from commercial, and then they just end out of nowhere.
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Disco Pope posted:My Religious and Moral Education teacher used to show classic Simpsons (which tbf would only have been 3/4 years old tops) to discuss moral and philosophical issues. Cool dude. Got stabbed once and has dinner with his attacker regularly. My Religious Ed teacher also did all these things and so I expect he is the same person and has inspired multiple people to post in a thread about how Now The Simpsons Are Bad
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No I just like to stab religious ed teachers, gets me free dinner
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My local affiliate growing up had the cable episode pulled from its rotation, though not any of the other religious ones
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May 6, 2020 02:55
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I like the bits where Flanders occasionally calls down miracles casually.
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how does that jibe with the episode where bart literally becomes a wizard with magical powers
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Missed opportunities for a magic duel, obviously.
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Just saw the lego episode today. good god this isn't even the same show anymore. Its a very bad parody of itself
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Smiling Mandrill posted:Just saw the lego episode today. good god this isn't even the same show anymore. Its a very bad parody of itself Lego episode is considered one of the "good" new simpsons
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Frog Act posted:The episode where Lisa gets a restraining order is definitely in the bad seasons and not very good overall but the scene where Bart is living with a pack of dogs set to classical music is fantastic It is? Yikes
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I think the LEGO episode was deliberately made to be more of a kids show in line with other LEGO media. I remember it being cute enough but it’s hardly something that stands with the classic era.
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https://twitter.com/Weezer/status/1258449093606739969
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Whoa, Weezer with an uninteresting cover version of something? Who woulda thunk it
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Is this intentional? In the episode where Marge starts the pretzel wagon and Skinner is held at gunpoint by the mafia, the voice from inside whispers "voting accident", althought I thought it was "boating accident" who then from nervousness says "boaking accident". Listen close at 0:11 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTIVEVYYUCQ Has it always been "voting accident" and I just thought I heard "boating accident"?
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Marcus Elden posted:Is this intentional? Maybe "poking accident" since Marge is asking about his bandaged fingers? I dunno.
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May 8, 2020 01:44
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'Voting accident' doesn't make sense, but I hear the v too. The kidnapper is possibly a native Spanish speaker who doesn't distinguish between v and b.
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It's ... not ... Fat Tony and the Legitimate Businessmen? Every post makes less sense than the previous one what even is this conversation, are all of you crazy or is it me
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Oh yeah, forgot the context. That theory's out of the window, then.
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There was a voting accident involving six hundred dollars in dues
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Marcus Elden posted:There was a voting accident involving six hundred dollars in dues That's some nice combinatory value.
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Marcus Elden posted:Is this intentional? According to the Youtube close captioning algorithm it's "boating accident," which is still what I hear. Although to be fair it is muffled, and the algorithm probably has "boating" together with "accident" as a lot higher than "voting" so it may not be going off sound entirely.
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