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Bender...dead?  Empty Sandwich posted:You're banned from this historical society! You, and your children, and your children's children! 
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Jun 28, 2020 02:30
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah pretty much the only episodes of Bob's Burgers I can recall quickly are the ones with Mr. Fishodor and his brother. Other than that, individual songs stand out. It's a musical which is... not my thing. I was kinda excited to watch it before I found that out
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Jun 28, 2020 02:43
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turned on a stream and the episode is one where Lisa and a bunch of "goth coders" who are all slim, attractive 20-something women with short dyed hair and makeup and 80s trenchcoats invent an AI that can tell you the consequences of your internet posts. then the AI starts to become neurotic and upset and Lisa has to coach it while trying to build a replacement or something, and now she's presenting it at some kind of thing hosted by professor frink this is the second episode that involves Lisa becoming a coding genius and making a world-changing app, after the horrible lovely one where they parodied that social network movie
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Jun 28, 2020 15:55
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Frog Act posted:turned on a stream and the episode is one where Lisa and a bunch of "goth coders" who are all slim, attractive 20-something women with short dyed hair and makeup and 80s trenchcoats [...] this is the second episode that involves Lisa becoming a coding genius and making a world-changing app, after the horrible lovely one where they parodied that social network movie One of those episodes I only know about from listening to the Worst Episode Ever podcast. Kaitlin Olson guest-starred, and their general opinion was that she did a good job despite the rest of the episode being poo poo.
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Jun 28, 2020 16:07
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it wasn't the most grating guest star, not even in the top 15, so i suppose that's something. the next episode up on the stream is "teenage mutant milk-caused hurdles", 27x11, and it seems to be a rehash of the various "pretty young teacher arrives at springfield elementary and the boys like/girls dislike her" but also something is wrong with the milk
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Jun 28, 2020 16:12
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Frog Act posted:it wasn't the most grating guest star, not even in the top 15, so i suppose that's something.  e: this one, too 
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Jun 28, 2020 16:24
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YeahTubaMike posted:One of those episodes I only know about from listening to the Worst Episode Ever podcast. Kaitlin Olson guest-starred, and their general opinion was that she did a good job despite the rest of the episode being poo poo. I was going to ask if there was a third sister, but that's Olsen isn't it
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Jun 28, 2020 16:50
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There is a third sister and she's banging the robot avengers
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Jun 28, 2020 17:02
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Phlegmish posted:I was going to ask if there was a third sister, but that's Olsen isn't it The third Olsen is the only one still acting, I believe
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Jun 28, 2020 17:18
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Probably hot take: Krusty works so well because he is a clown. In the meta sense. A clown is a perverse figure- in that they do everything wrong. They stumble with basic tasks, and turn complex ones into clusterfucks. They do normal things in ridiculous ways, and the only things they do reliably are silly things. They invite all manner of retribution and consequences, and yet walk away from it all with no apparent damage. Pretty much every instance of The Krusty The Clown Show is something going wrong, or something fundamentally poorly thought out and/or completely at odds with what a TV show about a clown should be. (see Classic Krusty. Clearly he took a while to find his feet) Krusty does a great job of portraying a jaded, burnt-out, semi-literate celebrity with too much money chasing ruinous and scandalous personal habits, and relying on stolen Steve Martin bits and poorly-timed slapstick that becomes funny because it never goes right.
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Jun 29, 2020 06:04
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I have no powerful feelings on the Bart as a Naval Recruiter Boyband episode but the joke of "superliminal" messaging where he just yells out a window at a random person to join the navy makes me laugh to this day
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Jun 29, 2020 06:10
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CodfishCartographer posted:A CEO who's a dumbass who stumbled into success off of other peoples' smarts? How unbelievable! That actually doesn't line up at all, the stereotype is idiot relative ruins successful business due to nepotism.
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Jun 29, 2020 06:56
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the Lt. LT Smash joke and the two instances with the MAD magazine writers were funny
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Jun 29, 2020 07:39
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A clown is a perverse figure- in that they do everything wrong. They stumble with basic tasks, and turn complex ones into clusterfucks. They do normal things in ridiculous ways, and the only things they do reliably are silly things. They invite all manner of retribution and consequences, and yet walk away from it all with no apparent damage ... a jaded, burnt-out, semi-literate celebrity with too much money chasing ruinous and scandalous personal habits. but enough about lowtax
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Jun 29, 2020 08:28
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Barudak posted:I have no powerful feelings on the Bart as a Naval Recruiter Boyband episode but the joke of "superliminal" messaging where he just yells out a window at a random person to join the navy makes me laugh to this day  HEY YOU, JOIN THE NAVY is a good gag
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Jun 29, 2020 08:34
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The Yvan Eht Nioj episode, the Mel Gibson one, Kill the Alligator and Run, and the Jockey one really stand out as episodes from post-season 10 episodes as being significant writing quality drops and incredibly ominous in retrospect.
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Jun 29, 2020 08:46
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Although I agree this was good Let's hope The Simpsons predicted real life one more time
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Jun 29, 2020 08:49
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AHH F/UGH posted:Although I agree this was good Dude, posts like this are gonna the get the Feds visiting Lowtax again. Good work. Carry on.
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Jun 29, 2020 09:08
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Whenever I think back on when The Simpsons changed for me, for some reason I usually think of the screamapillar episode first. There have almost certainly been lower points, possibly even in various classic episodes, but man that one stands out as especially terrible to me. Nonsensical plot, awful jokes, a pointless celebrity guest star, all to build up to an extremely lazy comment on reality TV that even at the time seemed hackneyed.
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Jun 29, 2020 10:11
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Dude, posts like this are gonna the get the Feds visiting Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Jun 29, 2020 13:24
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Laterite posted:but enough about lowtax  Obvious in hindsight but loving lol
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Jun 29, 2020 13:44
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Whenever I think back on when The Simpsons changed for me, for some reason I usually think of the screamapillar episode first. There have almost certainly been lower points, possibly even in various classic episodes, but man that one stands out as especially terrible to me. Nonsensical plot, awful jokes, a pointless celebrity guest star, all to build up to an extremely lazy comment on reality TV that even at the time seemed hackneyed. I (mercifully) forgot that episode existed and I even now only remember the barest outline, but I feel as though this is a deep Simpsons Truth
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Jun 30, 2020 02:05
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Whenever I think back on when The Simpsons changed for me, for some reason I usually think of the screamapillar episode first. There have almost certainly been lower points, possibly even in various classic episodes, but man that one stands out as especially terrible to me. Nonsensical plot, awful jokes, a pointless celebrity guest star, all to build up to an extremely lazy comment on reality TV that even at the time seemed hackneyed. The only thing I remember about the Screamapillar episode was the Screamapillar in a wheelchair wearing a neck brace, which I found hilarious. I can't vouch for any other part of the episode.
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Jun 30, 2020 02:35
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YeahTubaMike posted:the Worst Episode Ever podcast.
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Jun 30, 2020 02:39
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Daikloktos posted:I hope Jack's doing okay these days, I think about him sometimes What's the story?
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Jun 30, 2020 02:44
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yvan eht nioj really bugged me not because of all the reasons listed so far, although that all factors in, but primarily because Lisa is supposed to be really smart, yet even with subtitles, she had to listen to the song several times, then actually play it in reverse to figure out what the message was. It was obvious to the viewer from the very beginning, but it somehow just flew over her head. It never once occurred to her to just read the subtitled gibberish backward? I guess the real answer is that most of the viewer base wasn't going to figure it out any other way.
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Jun 30, 2020 16:10
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Jun 30, 2020 16:39
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Jun 30, 2020 16:49
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I don't remember much about the boy band episode, but even when I first watched it (I was probably around 12-13?) I remember cringing at the bit where N Sync would make their big entrance by dancing to some random tune before one of them just says "Word!". I know that there had been jokes based around "this is what the celebrity does/is famous for" in much earlier episodes ("What do you mean your work is done, you didn't do anything!" "Heh, didn't I?") but it just seemed super dumb and forced. And if I remember correctly they actually did it more than once.
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Jun 30, 2020 17:16
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The Bible posted:yvan eht nioj really bugged me not because of all the reasons listed so far, although that all factors in, but primarily because Lisa is supposed to be really smart, yet even with subtitles, she had to listen to the song several times, then actually play it in reverse to figure out what the message was. As a child I didn't catch the hidden message until it was spelled out to me, so it seems believable to me!
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Jun 30, 2020 17:22
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I don't remember much about the boy band episode, but even when I first watched it (I was probably around 12-13?) I remember cringing at the bit where N Sync would make their big entrance by dancing to some random tune before one of them just says "Word!". I know that there had been jokes based around "this is what the celebrity does/is famous for" in much earlier episodes ("What do you mean your work is done, you didn't do anything!" "Heh, didn't I?") but it just seemed super dumb and forced. And if I remember correctly they actually did it more than once. "Those wack invertebrates will sting you -- OLD SCHOOL!" still makes me laugh. That, Lieutenant L.T. Smash, and superliminal messaging are all decent gags.
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Jun 30, 2020 17:24
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New Yorp New Yorp posted:"Those wack invertebrates will sting you -- OLD SCHOOL!" still makes me laugh. That, Lieutenant L.T. Smash, and superliminal messaging are all decent gags. Is the bit with the MAD Magazine guys sitting around a table - "I know, why don't we just call it Everybody Hates Raymond?" (everyone laughs) "It took us all night but it was worth it." - in the boy band episode or the New York episode? Because I liked that bit.
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Jun 30, 2020 17:35
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Mr Interweb posted:the Lt. LT Smash joke and the two instances with the MAD magazine writers were funny I've always liked superliminal advertising "Hey, you! Join the Navy!"
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Jun 30, 2020 17:45
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The Bible posted:yvan eht nioj really bugged me not because of all the reasons listed so far, although that all factors in, but primarily because Lisa is supposed to be really smart, yet even with subtitles, she had to listen to the song several times, then actually play it in reverse to figure out what the message was. but we know from the dumb male simpsons gene episode that Lisa sucks at word puzzles
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Jun 30, 2020 17:46
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brugroffil posted:but we know from the dumb male simpsons gene episode that Lisa sucks at word puzzles But also that episode where she's a crossword world champion
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Jun 30, 2020 17:55
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brugroffil posted:I've always liked superliminal advertising Uh.. yeah, all right. I also like the malevolent grin on L.T. Smash's face as he removes his bleached blonde crew cut wig to reveal his sandy blonde crew cut hair.
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Jun 30, 2020 18:02
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The boy band episode had a lot of good gags that came together poorly. I think the season 9-13 sort of period still had a lot of good jokes and fun scenarios, it just got increasingly detached from reality or any emotional heart. There's stuff to like in those episodes, unlike later seasons where there's just no entertainment to be found at all.
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Jun 30, 2020 19:01
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Laughs went from multiple per segment, to multiple per episode, to single per segment, to single per episode and stayed there for a long time before hitting one single laugh every other episode
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brugroffil posted:but we know from the dumb male simpsons gene episode that Lisa sucks at word puzzles She can't even think up a decent anagram for Jeremy Irons.
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