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So did they just hire a bunch of people from The Asylum to write for the simpsons now?
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Cripes. And someone just posted this in another thread And I watched it going "holy god drat I cannot believe anything was ever this relentlessly funny" Like just about the only joke (visual or otherwise) that wasn't amazing is the "must drink my own weight in nectar" which is just kind of "eehhh" at worst
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Data Graham posted:Cripes. And someone just posted this in another thread what are you talking about
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Riptor posted:what are you talking about get it? the joke is that al sharpton is bad and that they send him into the sun
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Empty Sandwich posted:I just learned that Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, who's a writer/exec producer on Family Guy, has a psych bachelor's from Yale and a JD from NYU Law. That's funny because family guy as an entity is extremely jealous about BB
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bobjr posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs Any sitcom with laughter would look awkward if you edited it like this because the actors always pause for laughter
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Jan 4, 2021 22:15
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you broke my grill posted:Any sitcom with laughter would look awkward if you edited it like this because the actors always pause for laughter
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Jan 4, 2021 23:47
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Big Bang Theory is boomer humor, not nerd humor in any way, shape, or form. The 70 year old watches the swirling colors on the screen, Sheldon says something smarmy about Star Wars or Star Trek while acting smarmy, laugh track kicks in, and the boomer laughs along. They don’t know why they just laughed, but the swirling colors on the screen makes them happy.
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Jan 5, 2021 04:21
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A lot of jokes or gags from Futurama stick out in my mind but here's a few. They don't necessarily have the same energy as The Simpsons but they made me laugh. Human Bender being so heavy the air escaping from the folds in his fat makes a "whooooo" sound and his corspe is rolled out of the room going "whooooooo" The professor creates a device that only translates a dead language and its French. Henry Kissinger saying "we've seen too many body bags and ballsacks" Snoo Snoo The educational film about space garbage also being pornography. A sewer mutant saying "The Tide comes" at the sound of turds plopping into water. The island of misfit robots, I always laugh at the water powered robot and the one who can only communicate through tapes.
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Jan 5, 2021 04:41
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The French as a dead language thing is a subtle running gag. In the pilot, during the countdown to the new year 2000, each number is being counted down throughout the world. France is 9 and they say it in French. At the end of the episode, when they countdown to the year 3000, France counts the number 7 in English.
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Jan 5, 2021 04:52
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See, it used to be milk and, well, time makes fools of us all.
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Jan 5, 2021 05:34
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DON'T. DATE. ROBOTS.
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Jan 5, 2021 07:35
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why didn't the rockets malfunction like everything else?
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Now we may need to metaphorically make a deal with the devil. And by devil, I mean robot devil, and by metaphorically I mean get your coat.Mr Interweb posted:why didn't the rockets malfunction like everything else? They must be purely manual! The Apollo astronauts had it right after all
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Greg12 posted:get it? the joke is that al sharpton is bad and that they send him into the sun About half those people were kind of wtf, but Tom Arnold being the guy who really gets Homer to understand that something is wrong is a good joke.
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Tenebrais posted:Now we may need to metaphorically make a deal with the devil. And by devil, I mean robot devil, and by metaphorically I mean get your coat. possibly my favorite line delivery in the series
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Jan 5, 2021 15:13
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Haha, my ridiculously circuitous plan is one-quarter complete! (said right at the moment the audience cottons on to the direction the plot is going, I love how self-aware it was)
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Have heard it said that Futurama might be the best visual adaptation spiritually of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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"Roswell That Ends Well" has a poo poo ton of great bits. "What smells like blue?" "Why did you come to Earth?" "Not a day goes by that I don't ask myself the same question." Fry: "If she's my grandmother, then who's my grandfather?" Professor: "Isn't it obvious? You are!"* *which leads to another great bit in another episode: "I did do the nasty in the past-y." "Yes, and that past-nastification..."
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Also, the bit where zoidberg is being dissected and he eats an egg immediately after the doctors pull it out of his stomach.
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Imagined posted:"Roswell That Ends Well" has a poo poo ton of great bits. They won an Emmy for that one! Up there with the Devils Hands one for their all-time best.
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Elderbean posted:Human Bender being so heavy the air escaping from the folds in his fat makes a "whooooo" sound and his corspe is rolled out of the room going "whooooooo" This was so great.  quote:The island of misfit robots, I always laugh at the water powered robot and the one who can only communicate through tapes. 
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Elderbean posted:Also, the bit where zoidberg is being dissected and he eats an egg immediately after the doctors pull it out of his stomach. *Doctor cutting* "Stop! I need that to talk!" *Doctor cuts faster*
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You Are A Elf posted:Big Bang Theory is boomer humor, not nerd humor in any way, shape, or form. "Its funny because my idiot son likes all that weird nerd poo poo too haha"
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https://twitter.com/mattselman/status/1345914642292383744?s=21
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I am a BG designer and this upsets me for being so busy, yet bland. Tedious work.
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Jan 5, 2021 22:25
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I also label my mint condition figures with "NEVER OPENED" stickers.
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Jan 5, 2021 22:48
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Wow they even overexplain background jokes I'm the Radioactive Man in a box with a sticker on it that says NEVER OPENED E: DAMNIT
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Jan 5, 2021 23:07
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I'm the repeated figurines and models throughout
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Das Boo posted:I am a BG designer and this upsets me for being so busy, yet bland. Tedious work. There's no life in it
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Iron Crowned posted:There's no life in it Also that room is giant. It’s really flat. WeaponX fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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Jan 5, 2021 23:59
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I like how they came up with parody names for Marvel: Avengers and Wolverine but couldn't be bothered to do the same for Star Wars.
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That's because Star Wars is already established as existing in The Simpsons universe.  
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How quickly we forget the Cosmic Wars episode.
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Doggles posted:That's because Star Wars is already established as existing in The Simpsons universe. Mantis42 posted:How quickly we forget the Cosmic Wars episode. Plus there was that episode where they had Stan Lee as himself and I think they directly referenced a number of Marvel things (like the Hulk).
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In the new one, Comic Book Guy and his wife (Kumiko) meet Homer and Marge at bar trivia and become friends. Kumiko spends time with Maggie and wants a kid of her own. The couples go to movies in the cemetery where Comic Book Guy discovers he can see the world through kids' eyes as he talks to Bart and Lisa about the Back to the Future parody they watch. Also while there Homer and Marge re-discover their love of loving in public and get themselves locked in a crypt. The kids become distressed while looking for them, and Comic Book Guy fails to comfort them. Comic Book Guy is afraid he's not up to the task of being emotionally available as a father, so he retreats to his home. Then the whole episode takes a super Wes Anderson-y turn. Dan Akyroyd voice his dad (Postage Stamp Fellow) and his childhood mansion is filled with aunts and uncles who are all obsessive collectors. The animation style completely changes for the flashback to his childhood, where it's revealed he retreated to comic books after getting completely shelled as a relief pitcher in a Little League game his dad didn't go to. Kumiko makes the Simpsons go get him, and Marge threatens to lick one of Dan Akyroyd's stamps until he opens up to his son that he missed that game because he wasn't emotionally available enough to comfort him if he lost, so instead he was out buying him a signed Sandy Koufax ball. Father and son share a game of catch with the ball still in its collectible case, and Comic Book Guy and Kumiko get busy set to "I Wish I Knew What I Know Now When I Was Younger" or whatever that song is called. There are some Wes Anderson portraits of the Simpsons over the end credits. The first act sucked, but the rest of it was alright. They switched from Tress McNeille to an actual Asian voice actor for Kumiko, and I think it somehow got more racist. It's super racist to hire a minority and tell them to ham up the accent right? Because this lady turned it up to 11.
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Wow that sounds like an absolute laugh riot, not something incredibly tedious and a horrible episode almost 20 years ago, but I'll get right on watching that. See you soon! *takes the stairs down behind the couch*
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I saw the episode and it wasn't even internally consistent. In the bar trivia scene Comic Book Guy quips that sports trivia is a lesser trivia tier, then later is presented as being a baseball fan. Also his Dad not giving him the ball didnt make any sense: wouldn't that be a great gift to give to make up for missing his games?
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