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ikanreed posted:The lowest point of south park was always I'm not going to lie, I really liked Bigger Longer & Uncut. I also like the DVDA version of "What Would Brian Boitano Do?". PostNouveau posted:If Futurama had also ended before the "movies", yes The Susan Boyle episode crushed my soul even harder than Italian Bob. The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings was a lovely finale, and it wrapped the show up with a nice little bow even though I wasn't much of a fan of the coupling of Fry & Leela. Mantis42 posted:My controversial cartoon opinion is that the early seasons of Family Guy are actually pretty bad and it's way better now. My controversial opinion is that I agree with you, although I really wish that present-day Meg were treated like early season Meg. Back then, she was unattractive but not completely disgusting, Lois & Peter openly displayed love for her even if they had a hard time overlooking her flaws, etc.
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Family Guy has this weird vibe where it seems like its lovely quality is intentional and their mocking you for watching it
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YeahTubaMike posted:I'm not going to lie, I really liked Bigger Longer & Uncut. I also like the DVDA version of "What Would Brian Boitano Do?". It’s a goddamn amazing movie and a better musical than anything Disney was doing at the time. SP at the height of its powers and without dipping into problematic poo poo was a transcendent motherfucker
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Remember when South Park did an entire episode about it should be okay to call people the f-slur because "well we aren't using it hatefully against gay people!!"
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Nov 29, 2020 22:23
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It just means “people who annoy you”
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Data Graham posted:It’s a goddamn amazing movie and a better musical than anything Disney was doing at the time.  quote:SP at the height of its powers and without dipping into problematic poo poo was a transcendent motherfucker I never actually watched the show and then when I finally tried to give it a chance, it was an episode centered around Mr/s. Garrison's gender so I noped out.
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I like the Spooky Fish episode.
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runnypoops posted:Family Guy has this weird vibe where it seems like its lovely quality is intentional and their mocking you for watching it It is and it does. It holds its subject matter and its audience in utter contempt. I don't consider it good but I have no problem watching it because lets be honest I deserve it. We all do
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CodfishCartographer posted:Remember when South Park did an entire episode about it should be okay to call people the f-slur because "well we aren't using it hatefully against gay people!!" Yup. So many people really just based their entire worldview on whatever South Park said. That one being a major offender.
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global warming isn't real because we gave al gore a lisp
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Riptor posted:global warming isn't real because we gave al gore a lisp To give them an infinitesimal amount of credit, they made an episode walking this one back, which indicates at least a slight degree of self-awareness. That's more than you can say for Al Jean.
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"People who are good but smug about it are exactly as bad as people who are actively evil." - South Park Since they are rich white straight men, the worst thing you can do in their book is to effect their lifestyle in any way. They aren't oppressed, so oppressors don't really bother them. If they dislike them, it's in an academic way, on principle. They don't really feel it. On the other hand, do-gooders who (try to) make them feel guilt, shame, or like they should change anything about their lives actually do inconvenience them more than the actual bad guys of the world, so they hate them with genuine passion. Imagined fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:To give them an infinitesimal amount of credit, they made an episode walking this one back, which indicates at least a slight degree of self-awareness. That's more than you can say for Al Jean. all that indicates is they're incredibly slow
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Riptor posted:all that indicates is they're incredibly slow *gasp* Something said! Not good!
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Say what you want about South Park, all of the "kids being kids" or "kids go on a crazy adventure" episodes are awesome. They have also more or less ditched the "truth is in the middle" shtick since 2016 when they became aware of the monster they helped create. That was also the last season they experimented with one season-long plot/joke.
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If you missed out on south Park at its best, awesome-o, casa bonita etc then you really missed out
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People are apparently surprised that Casa Bonita is a real place.
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Plant MONSTER. posted:i think disney made it so they can understand stewie now and not just sometimes
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Muk Dumpster posted:If you missed out on south Park at its best, awesome-o, casa bonita etc then you really missed out I'm not the biggest south park fan but a friend put a couple newer ones on recently and I had some laughs. I literally can't conceive of that happening in a modern Simpsons ep.
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Riptor posted:all that indicates is they're incredibly slow Not disagreeing.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:To give them an infinitesimal amount of credit, they made an episode walking this one back, which indicates at least a slight degree of self-awareness. That's more than you can say for Al Jean. Yeah al jean, the guy who says the end of every episode has to have an unfunny morally redeeming message, thereby rendering the whole episode unfunny. 
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I'm not the biggest south park fan but a friend put a couple newer ones on recently and I had some laughs. For better or worse, South Park at least having the same guys behind it means the writing has the same consistent voice. And they have been willing to mix things up, to introduce new recurring characters and change up the dynamics rather than sticking precisely to an ageing formula.
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Yeah I mean south park is like pizza, sometimes it's cheap and frozen but you can still use it as a frisbee
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South Park is very extreme hit or miss because when it hits it is hilarious but when it misses it is horrible.
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I was always just blown away by the sheer density of new comedic ideas they would just throw into an episode, and then never even feel the need to callback or use again, seemingly because they just had too many jokes in their brains and wanted to get rid of them. Like Cartman calling everything "tits" that one episode. Or in the "Trapper Keeper" one, where the terminator randomly said the trapper keeper needed to be disassembled and sent "to the four corners of Cahnahdah". Like holy poo poo just little throwaway things that made me asphyxiate myself laughing, and they were able to make it seem so effortless it was hardly even worth their time
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The new one was billed as a "sequel" to Steamed Hams and thankfully it was not that at all. Just one plot: Skinner and Chalmers go to Cincinnati together for an education administrators conference. Only Bart shows up in the main story; the rest of the Simpsons get shoved into the credits scene. It's a Road to movie kind of thing. Chalmers picks up hitchhikers along the way to save him from Skinner's prattling, only to be horrified that they're Shakespeare improvisers, which I think is a joke at the expense of a single Chicago improv troupe. The get chased out of a biker bar that turns out to be a cyclist bar. They get in a fist fight in a B&B, but then make up in the end. Hannibal Burress cameos as the cool principal Chalmers wanted to take instead of Skinner. Jason Bateman was apparently in it too. I think maybe he was one of the cyclists. Did somebody say Matt Selman was showrunning the rest of the season? He showed up as the first EP in the credits, and this one seemed a good bit better than the other episodes so far.
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And this reinforces that brevity and not wasting screen time made steamed hams work, and that current simpsons writers have no idea how to self edit
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PostNouveau posted:Did somebody say Matt Selman was showrunning the rest of the season? He showed up as the first EP in the credits, and this one seemed a good bit better than the other episodes so far. He's showrunning 12 of the 22 episodes in the QABF production run. I think he has 10 scheduled for the broadcast season, which includes I, Carumbus and Podcast News from earlier in the season.
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J-Spot posted:He's showrunning 12 of the 22 episodes in the QABF production run. I think he has 10 scheduled for the broadcast season, which includes I, Carumbus and Podcast News from earlier in the season. Ah, well those were also both pretty good by modern Simpsons standards and crap by objective standards, so I guess there ain't gonna be a Simpsons renaissance under the new boss
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PostNouveau posted:Ah, well those were also both pretty good by modern Simpsons standards and crap by objective standards, so I guess there ain't gonna be a Simpsons renaissance under the new boss
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Professor Lawrence Pierce, University of Chicago posted:I think Homer gets stupider every year.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:This is the most upsetting thread on the forums. It's good to have somewhere to talk about this stuff though. I can't call one of my friends and say " bro it's crazy, Homer just had a daydream about eating Bart's rear end". They have kids and poo poo.
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I thought this was interesting. Josh Weinstein posted pages of a first draft from "A Milhouse Divided". Reading through it, it's not great, and seems more like a modern episode (though still better). It just reinforces my assumption that modern episodes are just the first draft mostly unchanged, and they don't analyze and scrutinize them to any degree like they used to. https://twitter.com/Joshstrangehill/status/1333914699662979072?s=20
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I thought this was interesting. Josh Weinstein posted pages of a first draft from "A Milhouse Divided". Reading through it, it's not great, and seems more like a modern episode (though still better). It just reinforces my assumption that modern episodes are just the first draft mostly unchanged, and they don't analyze and scrutinize them to any degree like they used to. I got a chortle out of Trout Thins.
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's good to have somewhere to talk about this stuff though. I can't call one of my friends and say " bro it's crazy, Homer just had a daydream about eating Bart's rear end". They have kids and poo poo. 
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Lmao, this belongs in the Simpsons meme thread my good man. I guess you might need a first panel providing the context of the sexy Bart dream
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I thought this was interesting. Josh Weinstein posted pages of a first draft from "A Milhouse Divided". Reading through it, it's not great, and seems more like a modern episode (though still better). It just reinforces my assumption that modern episodes are just the first draft mostly unchanged, and they don't analyze and scrutinize them to any degree like they used to. Yeah these were all really good cuts
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