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Maybe celebrities ought to take a stand for their own integrity and stop allowing themselves to have their asses kissed by cartoon show production crews.
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IBroughttheFunk posted:I actually think this episode was a turning point for me too, and this song is a big reason why. I barely remember that song but yeah, I get where you're coming from. quote:It was almost jarring for kid-me to hear such dogshit when this was the same show that gave us tunes like Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?, We Put the Spring in Springfield, I'm Checkin' In, and the Planet of the Apes musical. Don't forget the Streetcar Named Marge musical.  Also, holy poo poo, re: I'm Checkin' In, I almost completely forgot about '90s Robert Downey, Jr. Good for him for turning things around."The Kwik-E-Mart is real-- d'oh!" and "he can talk he can talk he can talk he can talk I CAN SIIIIIIIIIIING" are among my favorite lyrics in Simpsons music. God, classic Simpsons is so loving great.
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Jul 3, 2020 16:18
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Pretend I posted the “Play it Cool” song which is such a neat and weird little moment in the series
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Jul 3, 2020 16:38
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YeahTubaMike posted:"The Kwik-E-Mart is real-- d'oh!" and "he can talk he can talk he can talk he can talk I CAN SIIIIIIIIIIING" are among my favorite lyrics in Simpsons music. God, classic Simpsons is so loving great. Apu on the roof, staring at the Kwik-E-Mart in the distance while sadly singing "Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart? I dooooooooooooooooo." is legit heartbreaking. Then you get Homer's "Heeey, he's not happy at all. He lied to us through song! I HATE when people do that  " before the commercial break to seal the deal with how loving incredible The Simpsons used to be.
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Jul 3, 2020 17:50
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“Well, that was a bust. Is he really the head of the Kwik E Mart?”
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Jul 3, 2020 18:20
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I was listening to the season 4 commentaries recently and Streetcar! is especially great because they were told by the Tennessee Williams estate that they could only use, like, a line or two from the play, so making it into a cheesy musical (that completely negates the original meaning of the play) was a very creative way of getting around that.
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Jul 3, 2020 18:52
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"you can always depend on the kindness of strangers" is an incredible ending to the play's story
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Jul 3, 2020 19:00
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YeahTubaMike posted:I barely remember that song but yeah, I get where you're coming from. I don't know how I managed to brain fart it so hard but I thought I'm Checkin' In was about Charlie Sheen. Like, the dude Checkin' In is clearly wearing the same outfit from Less Than Zero.
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Jul 4, 2020 01:46
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achtungnight posted:The sad thing is this is typical of many celebrity guest these days. Witness Rush Limbaugh on Family Guy for another example. The show really could have righteously shamed the guy, and instead the political posturing panders to him. Rush and Seth MacFarlane are friends I think, because he appears a few times to voice himself.
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Jul 5, 2020 02:59
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You Are A Elf posted:Then you get Homer's "Heeey, he's not happy at all. He lied to us through song! I HATE when people do that they cut that part out in the syndicated runs 
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Jul 5, 2020 11:53
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I don't know if undercutting the tone for the sake of that joke is worth it. I get that's the joke in and of itself but ehhhh, I'm fine with that cut, it's a better scene without it imo.
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Jul 5, 2020 11:59
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Nah, it’s a great joke that I’m sure none of us saw since its original airing. I know when I bought the DVDs and saw the episodes uncut for the first time in years that I laughed quite a bit at it. If not for Homer’s face, too, which in itself Is also funny as hell. The animation back then was also key to the jokes. In current Simpsons form, Homer would probably say “D’oh!” with a  face and maybe shake his fist with two frames of sanitized animation.
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Jul 5, 2020 13:23
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Nah, it's a dumb joke that sounds like it's from season 26 or some poo poo.
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Jul 5, 2020 13:29
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It was funny at the time because of how incongruous it was. Now that kind of joke treatment is par for the course. A lot of Simpsons stuff is like that, something was funny the first time or three or four times but eventually it's just tiresome, like Disco Stu or Comic Book Guy, or <this week's celebrity cameo>. Anyway my bigger issue is that it affects the plot to have Homer overhear Apu and realize he isn't happy at all. Or in this case if they omit the scene in syndication it means now Homer doesn't know something he was originally supposed to. Not that big a deal in the scheme of things, since honestly I can't remember whether it actually matters whether Homer knows Apu is dissatisfied in the subsequent scenes, but it makes me think of dumb tropes where the story hinges on a fundamental misunderstanding that is all undermined by a seemingly innocuous decision to have one of the characters eavesdrop on another and realize the truth, but then they forget to rework the story to deal with that properly. Example: Victor/Victoria, where there's this whole scene where King sneaks into Victoria's suite to spy on her in the bath and realizes she's really a woman. This completely undermines the impact of him later confessing to Victor(ia) that he loves him even if he is a man, and kisses him; and then she says she's not a man, and he's like "I still don't care". Like, ok what? Did that eavesdropping scene get tacked on at the last minute when the studio got cold feet about the movie actually doing something brave or something? That final reveal scene would have been a bombshell in 1982, but with the eavesdropping bit in there it turns into cynical nonsense. Argh
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Jul 5, 2020 13:45
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Syndication has always been a strange concept to me because it's not really a thing here in the UK. Even now that I basically know what it is, there are bits of it that I don't really understand. With The Simpsons, the only cuts I can remember were more for content reasons. Like when Marge goes to see Mrs Krabappel on parent's evening and she reveals that Bart had a knife concealed inside a Krusty doll, or during the St Patrick's Day parade where part of the festivities involve blowing up "John Bull's Fish and Chips". It was really jarring to see those two bits on DVD, and perhaps as a result they make me a little uncomfortable. That, and I never like it when Bart is implied to be violently malicious, and the IRA gag literally hit a little too close to home for me.
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Jul 5, 2020 14:18
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Syndication has always been a strange concept to me because it's not really a thing here in the UK. Even now that I basically know what it is, there are bits of it that I don't really understand. It's like if BBC8 made so many episodes of Miss Marple's Great British Cumberland Sausage Mysteries: The Panel Show Quiz that they started selling them to Sky 7 to air in between adverts for treacle
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Jul 5, 2020 14:54
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Point of order: how can something from Season 5 be "like it's from Season 26". Wouldn't that mean the thing from Season 26 that sucked is in fact like it's from Season 5? 
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Jul 5, 2020 15:22
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 in reruns, they changed this line to "blast a leakie," and it kind of hosed with my head. (it's season 11, so not a major classic, but that line made me laugh)
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Jul 5, 2020 15:26
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Riptor posted:It's like if BBC8 made so many episodes of Miss Marple's Great British Cumberland Sausage Mysteries: The Panel Show Quiz that they started selling them to Sky 7 to air in between adverts for treacle lol
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Jul 5, 2020 15:40
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Empty Sandwich posted:
Does Otto say "leak on" instead of "dook on"? 
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Jul 5, 2020 18:14
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Data Graham posted:Does Otto say "leak on" instead of "dook on"? I vaguely remember that they also cut his response, but maybe so 
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Jul 5, 2020 18:20
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I'd have sworn in the original airing of Martin's teenseason "Alone we are like these sticks, easily broken. But together, we form a mighty...", they didn't pop up the dictionary entry.
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Jul 5, 2020 18:58
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Daikloktos posted:I'd have sworn in the original airing of Martin's teenseason "Alone we are like these sticks, easily broken. But together, we form a mighty...", they didn't pop up the dictionary entry. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it with a dictionary entry popping up.
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Jul 6, 2020 00:33
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I vividly recall the dictionary entry being there when I saw that episode new. The joke basically doesn't work without it.
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Jul 6, 2020 01:33
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I vividly recall the dictionary entry being there when I saw that episode new. The joke basically doesn't work without it. The joke is definitely 100% something you could get in 90s era haha casual homophobia
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Jul 6, 2020 04:14
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Disney+ has the dictionary definition under it, which is surprising because I assumed the joke being even slightly sexual in nature would have been edited out completely.
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Jul 6, 2020 04:25
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I vividly recall the dictionary entry being there when I saw that episode new. The joke basically doesn't work without it.  the dictionary definition is present in this YouTube clip from 6 years ago: https://youtu.be/5AWI_ECKrBc the '90s are unfortunately no excuse because this aired in December 2006. there have been 298 episodes since this episode
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Jul 6, 2020 04:52
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One of the newer Simpson's future episodes do a short gag where Martin is a woman now.
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Jul 6, 2020 05:28
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You Are A Elf posted:Tito Puente’s slanderous mambo slaps hard. The writers didn't realise that Tito doesn't do the singing when they wrote it.
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Jul 6, 2020 05:53
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Daikloktos posted:I'd have sworn in the original airing of Martin's teenseason "Alone we are like these sticks, easily broken. But together, we form a mighty...", they didn't pop up the dictionary entry. my memory is that it was there on the first airing. I don't think they could play it without that as a sort of lovely disclaimer/explanation
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Jul 6, 2020 17:27
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emgeejay posted:the punchline is Bart chiming in with "well said," because there were clearly better ways to say it I never seen this before, but it does remind me of maybe 5th or 6th grade when a teacher taught my class the meaning as a way to discourage the use of the word. It didn't help.
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Jul 6, 2020 17:44
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It's probably been said many times before, but when "Ned Flanders" lost his wife...
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Jul 6, 2020 18:18
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XA Shere posted:It's probably been said many times before, but when "Ned Flanders" lost his wife... Which one?
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Jul 6, 2020 18:36
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PostNouveau posted:Which one? All my bones, they are gone, gone, gone... #89
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Jul 6, 2020 19:33
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emgeejay posted:the punchline is Bart chiming in with "well said," because there were clearly better ways to say it What episode was this from? If it aired in 2006 it must have been among the last few episodes that I ever saw.
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Jul 9, 2020 15:24
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YeahTubaMike posted:What episode was this from? If it aired in 2006 it must have been among the last few episodes that I ever saw. The Haw-Hawed Couple, December 2006.
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Jul 9, 2020 23:50
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the first episode i remember all of my friends coming in and being super "meh" about was the Tomacco episode in Season 11. Looking at it there's only IMO like 3-4 good episodes in 11. The baseball one & behind the laughter probably being the only ones i consider essential.
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Jul 10, 2020 19:44
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charity rereg posted:the first episode i remember all of my friends coming in and being super "meh" about was the Tomacco episode in Season 11. Behind the Laughter should have been the series finale
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Jul 10, 2020 19:46
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PostNouveau posted:Behind the Laughter should have been the series finale It is, in my heart.
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Jul 10, 2020 19:48
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It would be kinda a weird end because Behind the Music is a bit of a forgotten cultural relic that came and went fast, but it's good enough that it transcends the need for knowledge of the source.
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