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I only realised like a couple of years ago that Krusty's version of 'Send in the Clowns' wasn't the actual lyrics to that song.
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I watched "Radioactive Man" last night and that's a classic episode, good to introduce people to The Simpsons with. I already knew it had my all-time favourite line, "My eyes, the goggles do nothing!" but I completely forgot about Skinner's "Strange, I shouldn't have been able to hear that" that made me laugh for like 5 minutes.
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Jun 10, 2020 13:16
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Disco Pope posted:It's from later Simpsons, but I have to say "Gil's eating FOOD tonight!" is one of my favourite lines and deliveries in the history of the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1_H25G3F-U
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Jun 10, 2020 15:18
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Season 3 and 7 are probably the ones where you get the best idea of what the Simpsons “world” is like (though the latter has many more funny episodes)- and if they enjoy those, you can work your way to the really awesome stuff in the middle. I wouldn’t want them to watch one be like “I don’t get it” and my only recourse to be “well that was the best one!!”
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Jun 10, 2020 16:58
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Make them watch the Tony Hawk episode. If they can't handle The Simpsons at its worst they don't deserve it at its best! (not really tho)
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Jun 10, 2020 17:31
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The Moon Monster posted:Make them watch the Tony Hawk episode. If they can't handle The Simpsons at its worst they don't deserve it at its best! (not really tho)
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Jun 10, 2020 17:48
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PostNouveau posted:Although "You Only Move Twice" is the best episode, it relies a lot on taking The Simpsons out of their natural habitat in a way that might not land if you don't know what their natural habitat is. This was the episode that convinced my mom Simpsons wasn’t an awful show that was going to warp our young minds and made my dad a fan.
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Jun 10, 2020 18:05
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Nutsngum posted:So what's the general consensus for best episode to show someone who has never seen the Simpsons before? Duffless might be a good choice. It’s a fairly down to earth story that gives all the main cast something to do, and it’s hard to beat season 4 in the humor department.
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Jun 10, 2020 18:29
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Nutsngum posted:So what's the general consensus for best episode to show someone who has never seen the Simpsons before?
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Voting Floater posted:I only realised like a couple of years ago that Krusty's version of 'Send in the Clowns' wasn't the actual lyrics to that song. Doing better than me - I only learned that when I read this post.
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Jun 10, 2020 20:14
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Jun 10, 2020 21:39
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I'm so tired of the "SIMPSONS PREDICTED ______" meme
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Jun 10, 2020 22:10
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South Park had the right take in that the Simpsons has been on so long it's done pretty much anything you can imagine, doesn't make it particularly special in that respect.
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Jun 11, 2020 08:02
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I forgot Gil was introduced that far into the series, for whatever reason he's really stuck with my friend and I. He's the go-to for us whenever someone at work comes up with some new initiative or service that's doomed to failure. "It's gonna work out for Ol' Gil this time for sure!"
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Jun 11, 2020 08:35
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Doing a bad Jack Lemmon impression is a lot of fun, I can see why they kept bringing him back. "Oh, this is bad. This is really bad! You work, and you slave, and you steal just enough for a sweet lick of that shiny brass ring... don't I get a lick? Doesn't Gil get a lick?"
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Jun 11, 2020 14:11
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Ghost Leviathan posted:South Park had the right take in that the Simpsons has been on so long it's done pretty much anything you can imagine, doesn't make it particularly special in that respect. South Park itself has been on longer than the Simpsons had been when they did the "Simpsons did it" episode.
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Jun 11, 2020 14:20
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Honestly if you'd told me in 1999 that South Park would last longer than like 4 seasons I would have LOL'd.
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Data Graham posted:Honestly if you'd told me in 1999 that South Park would last longer than like 4 seasons I would have LOL'd. On one hand, if it ended with season 4, we never would have gotten the masterpiece that is Scott Tennorman Must Die. On the other hand, the world would probably be a better place.
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Jun 11, 2020 15:00
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Iron Crowned posted:On one hand, if it ended with season 4, we never would have gotten the masterpiece that is Scott Tennorman Must Die. On the other hand, the world would probably be a better place. Guys, guys, get this: maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle 
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While we're on the subject, the South Park movie was like a million times better than the Simpsons movie, btw.
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Jun 11, 2020 20:33
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YeahTubaMike posted:While we're on the subject, the South Park movie was like a million times better than the Simpsons movie, btw.  Uncle Fucker is a jam
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Jun 11, 2020 20:39
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Iron Crowned posted:
"Blame Canada" is not even close to the best song in that movie, but it was the best song that they could play at the Oscars.
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Jun 11, 2020 20:42
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My English 101 professor was this old guy and he told me he checked out the South Park movie from the library, didn't even know what South Park was, and it was the funniest movie he had ever seen.
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Jun 11, 2020 21:24
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It's really good and probably the show's high point. South park been limping along like simpsons for a while now too but I don't think it's as bad as BS (bad simpsons) even if it sometimes has worse opinions
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Jun 11, 2020 21:40
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's really good and probably the show's high point. South park been limping along like simpsons for a while now too but I don't think it's as bad as BS (bad simpsons) even if it sometimes has worse opinions Last season spent a lot of time on a storyline where Randy moved the family out to a pot farm he started. It kinda made me sick of Randy.
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Jun 11, 2020 21:47
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PostNouveau posted:Last season spent a lot of time on a storyline where Randy moved the family out to a pot farm he started. It kinda made me sick of Randy. I feel like after Cartmans popularity waned (or they got sick of writing the same 3 or so jokes for him) they switched the focus over to Randy and those are absolutely some of the best episodes of the show, at least the only redeemable parts of the later years. I can watch the Creme Fraiche episode a thousand times and not get sick of it. With that said I totally agree, the last few seasons with arching plots kind of suck, but only kind of, and they managed to make me like Randy less.
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YeahTubaMike posted:While we're on the subject, the South Park movie was like a million times better than the Simpsons movie, btw. Well yeah, since The Simpsons movie was made about a decade after the show was still in a decently watchable state. Garbage rear end on a butt thrown into theaters had a stronger viability than absurdly bad late 2000s Simpsons, though it helps that the South Park movie is brilliant and the absolute best thing from the franchise. Too bad South Park hasn't been watchable in years either ever since they've shifted far into tedious storylines filled with libertarian politics thicker than a Northern California forest. Good thing we still have awesome cartoons out there like Bob's Burgers. Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jun 12, 2020 |
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Jun 11, 2020 22:07
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:Too bad South Park hasn't been watchable in years either ever since they've shifted far into tedious storylines filled with libertarian politics thicker than a Northern California forest. In the last ~3 seasons, they've drifted more toward like a mainstream Democratic position. Including in 2016 when Mr. Garrison ran for president basically as Donald Trump and they had like a 30 seconds of him screaming at the camera that he didn't actually want to be president and you should vote for Hillary. Also they did an episode pretty much apologizing to Al Gore and admitting he was right about climate change.
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Detective No. 27 posted:My English 101 professor was this old guy and he told me he checked out the South Park movie from the library, didn't even know what South Park was, and it was the funniest movie he had ever seen. I don't know if I'll ever again experience the sheer unalloyed joy of seeing that movie in the theater, with the impact of every line of the script amped up by a thousand fans all laughing so hard I missed the next three lines. They don't seem to make movies that ridiculously funny anymore. And it was legitimately the best musical of the year The Beavis & Butt-head movie was about like that too. Way better movie than it had any reason to be.
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Jun 12, 2020 00:38
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Data Graham posted:The Beavis & Butt-head movie was about like that too. Way better movie than it had any reason to be. Man I've only seen that movie a couple of times and I still remember nearly every scene because it was so surprisingly good. I cannot remember more than two or three jokes, let alone scenes, from the Simpsons movie.
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PinheadSlim posted:I cannot remember more than two or three jokes, let alone scenes, from the Simpsons movie. Lake Springfield is on the verge of ecological collapse because of people throwing garbage in it,so the whole town agrees to . Homer gets a pig. Homer does not properly dispose of the pig's waste, keeping it in a makeshift silo. Marge makes him get rid of it. He dumps it in the lake, and it's the triggering event for a complete catastrophe. Evil EPA administrator Albert Brooks convinces President Arnold Schwarzenegger (actually Arnold, not Ranier Wolfcastle) to take drastic action. The EPA contains the disaster by dropping a big dome over Springfield. The town finds out Homer's at fault, and a pitchforks and torches mob arrives to kill the Simpsons. They escape through a sinkhole in their backyard that leads outside the dome. (why doesn't all of Springfield dig their way out? gently caress you that's why) The Simpsons move to Alaska to start over. I don't remember what, but something happens in Alaska that's the last straw for Marge, and she takes the kids and leaves Homer to go back to Springfield without him. Homer goes on a vision quest guided by an Inuit shaman which reveals to him that he needs to save Springfield to win them back. For some reason the EPA guy wants to blow up Springfield. Homer arrives to find a suitcase bomb about to kill everyone. At some point in the movie he saw two motorcyclists at a carnival show do the "2 guys drive around inside a sphere" trick and Lisa explained to him the science of how they go vertical up the walls, starting out going horizontally and increasing their verticality slowly. He commandeers a motorcycle, takes Bart with him for some reason, and they ride the motorcycle up to the air hole at the top and throw the bomb out. It detonates on the dome, shattering it. Dr. Nick is killed by a huge shard of glass. In the B story, Lisa has a crush on an Irish boy. Celebrity cameos: Green Day, Minnie Driver, Erin Brockovich
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PostNouveau posted:Lake Springfield is on the verge of ecological collapse because of people throwing garbage in it,so the whole town agrees to . Homer gets a pig. Homer does not properly dispose of the pig's waste, keeping it in a makeshift silo. Marge makes him get rid of it. He dumps it in the lake, and it's the triggering event for a complete catastrophe. Martin finally gets revenge on the bullies (at a very awkward moment in the movie) which is apparently something the writers thought people were asking for?
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Oh, also Bart turns to Flanders as an alternate father figure, which is something that's actually come up a few more times on the show.
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PinheadSlim posted:Man I've only seen that movie a couple of times and I still remember nearly every scene because it was so surprisingly good. The road signs. "Butte ... Weippe...." "Meeteetse!" Fuckin ... I still lose it just remembering
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hey now the simpsons movie wasnt so bad, after all it had the slam-dunk classic SPIDER PIG 
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Junk posted:hey now the simpsons movie wasnt so bad, after all it had the slam-dunk classic SPIDER PIG I liked the spider pig joke. The problem was that it was in EVERY trailer. So by the time I saw the movie it wasn't funny anymore.
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Jun 12, 2020 03:23
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They could have added a new Simpson too, just to round out the tv-series movie checklist. Perfect time to make roy a main character.
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PostNouveau posted:"Blame Canada" is not even close to the best song in that movie, but it was the best song that they could play at the Oscars. I would have loved to hear lyrics like "they may cut your dick in half & serve it to a pig, and though it hurts you'll laugh & dance a dickless jig" at the Oscars. edit: sweet geek swag posted:I liked the spider pig joke. The problem was that it was in EVERY trailer. So by the time I saw the movie it wasn't funny anymore. I thought it was chuckleworthy the first time I saw it, and that was it. So if I saw the movie without having seen that joke already, I would have been like "heh  " and went about my business.Also they made waaaaaaaayyyyy too big of a deal about Bart's dick. YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Jun 12, 2020 |
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