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PostNouveau posted:Just not an Ivy League school you hear getting poo poo on often. Obviously Harvard and Yale get most of the shots taken at them, and Princeton and Brown get their fair share, but you don't often hear shots at Cornell, Penn, Columbia or Dartmouth No more Vassar bashing either
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Nov 15, 2020 04:59
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some poor loving korean animator got paid like $20 an hour to plan out the body movement that burns would need to make in order to have the nipple tassels spin
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AHH F/UGH posted:some poor loving korean animator got paid like $20 a day to plan out the body movement that burns would need to make in order to have the nipple tassels spin
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AHH F/UGH posted:some poor loving korean animator got paid like $20 an hour to plan out the body movement that burns would need to make in order to have the nipple tassels spin And they did it poorly it looks like poo poo why are the tassels so long?
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PostNouveau posted:And they did it poorly it looks like poo poo why are the tassels so long? If they were small, all the old geezers with poo poo eyesight that were watching would just think they're his saggy nipples and be grossed out
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Nov 15, 2020 06:25
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muscles like this! posted:They've officially run out of ideas as an upcoming episode will have Yeardley Smith guest star as herself. Apparently one of her side projects is a true crime podcast and that's what brings her to Springfield. https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Dan_Castellaneta_(character)
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PostNouveau posted:She comes off pretty bad in all the commentaries she's on. A lot of the time she explains the jokes as if she's only just now getting them for the first time. The voice cast was on In the Actor's Studio, and James asked them why they thought the Simpsons was such a success. Yeardley gave some kind of answer like "Well, we go after everyone, nothing is sacred." Then the room was kind of quiet until Harry talked more about how James L. Brooks didn't allow the network to give the writers notes, and it kind of just steamrolled her.
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Nov 16, 2020 01:31
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The Simpsons came on when football turned off, so I guess I'll watch it live. Lisa is disturbed by true crimes podcasts freaking her out about how awful the world is. Marge listens to them to find out what's going on and becomes as obsessed as Lisa. They go to a live taping of "Intermitable", a "Serial" parody. Kent Brockman wanders in and is disappointed by the huge crowd that doesn't care about him, confirmed by his family at home listening to podcasts rather than him too. Bart and Homer go to visit Abe and find him making out with some lady who turns out to be a famous actress (Morgan Fairchild voices). The actress goes missing on a cruise and Abe is the prime suspect. Kent Brockman announces he's going to investigate by launching a new podcast. It's a big hit. Kent runs into Yeardley Smith at a meeting of podcasters where she recommends he tone it back a bit. The podcast has whipped Springfield into a mob. Abe can't remember what happened but listens to the podcast and becomes convinced of his own guilt and pleads guilty. Anyway it turns out the actress just faked her death and ran off to Mexico. Abe was supposed to follow with insurance money but was too senile to remember. Also, Stellan Skarsgård and Bill Simmons were in this for some reason. Actually some good jokes in this one and the plot hung together, so ... not the lowest point of the Simpsons.
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PostNouveau posted:“Intermitable", a "Serial" parody
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I had a bunch of Dimetap to get to sleep and rolled out of bed looking at this thread thinking the title was "What was the point of the Simpsons" and went on this whole thing about "Well we all know The Flintstones was just The Honeymooners set to some dumb caveman tropes that represented the push towards modernity from the 50s on, with things like dishwashers, vacuums and laundry machines revolutionizing the home life and portraying blue-collar America as hard-working but well off... And The Jetsons is really apologia for the upper middle class/white collar worker, as well as anxiety about the effect of domestics and mass-technology innovations on the health of the atomic family and overall culture... poo poo, there's like a 7 year age difference between Jane and George and she had Judy when she was fuckin 18 so maybe there's a lot of underlying cultural weird poo poo that new technology is just pampering over you know... So I think The Simpsons is this mix of both, where you realize a total idiot can luck their way into a stable job, but be completely outclassed in being able to deal with the rigors of family life, is jealous of the neighbors with less-prestigious/technical jobs but more material and spiritual wealth yet does little to improve either, achieves the cultural markers of prosperity but really isn't much, but on occasion can rise to the needs of his loved ones and be a flawed but present father. Basically a whole thing on Reagan's America selling us a bill of goods based on Small Town Americana that is busted rear end broken and leading to more estranged interpersonal and familial relationships as everything continues to atomize. Though Married with Children probably did it a little better. Yeah toss in a Jumbo Krustyburger and a Sideshow Shake while you're at it.
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PostNouveau posted:The Simpsons came on when football turned off, so I guess I'll watch it live. A Kent Brockman episode, jesus christ.
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Nov 16, 2020 07:36
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I don't say evasion, I say avoision.
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Filthy Haiku posted:A Kent Brockman episode, jesus christ. Yeah it was a weird choice. Especially when Dr. Hibbret shows up with evidence of Abe's innocence near the end (out of the blue) and the climax of the episode is Brockman relearning his ethics and exonerating Abe in front of a crowd instead of continuing to use Abe's case to fuel his podcast fame. The better episode is obviously Marge and Lisa use their knowledge of the true crime genre to crack the case. Instead Hibbert just shows up out of the blue to swat down the central mystery. Marge and Lisa's arc ends like 2/3rds of the way through the episode when they realize that they think Abe is guilty because everything they've learned from podcasts steer them in that direction. And then they learn not to trust salcious podcasts. It feels like the whole back half of the episode was written to deliver Yeardley Smith's views on ethics in podcasting. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Nov 16, 2020 |
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That was the first new ep I've watched in more than a decade, wanted to see if Doughboys cameo had a speaking line (it didn't). I know it's been said before, but holy cow Julie Kavner needs to step down. Get a replacement or retire the character. Hibbert sounded off too. I did chuckle at the climate change joke where Homer looks out one window at a blizzard and then out another window where a firestorm is taking place. Of course we have a Springfield angry mob, Sideshow Mel yelling, and the Yeardley Smith cameo stops the ep dead. Like when Stephen King showed up in Sons of Anarchy to signal it was time to stop watching.
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The simpsons still has new episodes actually airing? loving weird.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:
Did they get a new voice actor for him? I saw some clips of the new voice this Carl, but haven't heard what they were doing with other black characters.
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pooch516 posted:Did they get a new voice actor for him? I saw some clips of the new voice this Carl, but haven't heard what they were doing with other black characters. Looks like Alex Désert, Carl's new voice actor, also does Hibbert. quote:Alex Désert (pronounced Dez-air) is the new and current voice actor of Carl Carlson, Roy Snyder, & Julius Hibbert. He made his debut in the Season 32 premiere episode, "Undercover Burns" replacing Hank Azaria. I'm mostly surprised at seeing a Bodega Boys reference in that clip from the latest episode.
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PostNouveau posted:It feels like the whole back half of the episode was written to deliver Yeardley Smith's views on ethics in podcasting. oof
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this is... not bad, as someone who watches way too much true crime whenever i'm at my mom's
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bus hustler posted:this is... not bad, as someone who watches way too much true crime whenever i'm at my mom's It’s an ok bit but it def goes on way too long.
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Nov 17, 2020 05:07
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It bugs me they spelled out the same joke 3 times in that clip.
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I hate that in that clip and most modern clips you can feel how much they think they're being ultra hip and witty. If you actually watch an episode it flip flops between that unearned smugness and seeming like they put absolutely no effort or thought into it at all and an algorithm wrote it. I think the no effort-ness wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't also mixed with them all but looking into the camera saying "We are very funny and clever writers. This is very funny and clever."
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Das Boo posted:It bugs me they spelled out the same joke 3 times in that clip. There's jokes?
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:There's jokes? Sorry, you're right: processed joke product.
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Also jokes about female vocal fry in podcasts are about 4, 5 years old by now?
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Lemon posted:Also jokes about female vocal fry in podcasts are about 4, 5 years old by now? Yeah, even Serial feels like a stale reference point. I'll admit, the name of the podcast got a mildly amused exhalation through my nose, but that's not much.
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Nov 18, 2020 13:04
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I've been thinking about how the lowest point of good Simpsons was the extremely violent child abuse played as a joke
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Nov 18, 2020 14:33
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That’s because it was a joke
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Nov 18, 2020 14:53
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Haha, now I get it. An adult man is strangling a 9 year old, but it's funny because he deserves it! It was a bad running ... Gag... And it aged even worse
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Nov 18, 2020 15:05
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I watched a clip from the casino episode where Lisa is crying over her lovely costume, and Homer tears up in empathy then wipes it away as he resolves to get Marge back. Just such a little detail that you'd take for granted, he's upset because his daughter is sad and he cares about her. It felt like they were a family even if Homer was sometimes crappy at it.
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ikanreed posted:Haha, now I get it. An adult man is strangling a 9 year old, but it's funny because he deserves it! Maybe comedy isn’t for you OP
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I think in some levels the gag has to be seen as the evolution of the "why I aughta" and "one of these days, pow!" family TV sitcom gag (which is also a bad gag) and not seen from modern sensibilities as someone deciding "ha ha child abuse is funny." It was very much "this isn't your parents family sitcom!" as much as anything else
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