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Is this another Simpson's Poe Law?
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Sep 7, 2021 08:58
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The Barney thing would be entirely passable as a joke if they just never drew attention to the gag and had Barney talk about being a drunk who doesn't understand why he does anything.
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Sep 7, 2021 09:01
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Yeah, the Moe throwing Barney out meme is probably the best example of a Simpsons bit from the bad years going viral. Internet tells me it’s from a S17 episode. Although, interestingly enough, it’s the kind of visual gag that’s funny without any knowledge of the episode or the circumstances. So while it’s a funny meme, it’s not funny because it’s a shared thing that everyone knows/remembers, it’s just funny on its own.
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Sep 7, 2021 09:17
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lowest point of the simpsons was when Bart dated Adult Girl Milhouse in an attempt to make the viewer feel bad 
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Sep 7, 2021 13:45
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Pardon?
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Sep 7, 2021 16:05
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OldSenileGuy posted:Yeah, the Moe throwing Barney out meme is probably the best example of a Simpsons bit from the bad years going viral. Internet tells me it’s from a S17 episode. we are as far from that season as this season was from the series premier
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Sep 7, 2021 16:19
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lowest point of the simpsons was when milhouse dated ralph in an attempt to make lisa feel bad I like how there is no such thing as an excessively deep cut from season 4 for the meme thread, but when someone posts an episode recap from season 29 it's met with confusion about if it's real or not. I mean, c'mon: quote:While unsuccessfully trying to make Lisa happy, Homer goes on an "eating binge" throughout the city's numerous restaurants, eventually barfing at New Orleans' "vomitoriums". While visiting the city's landmarks, he and Lisa find a statue of Louis Armstrong that comes to life upon Lisa's wish.
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Sep 7, 2021 16:25
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I like how there is no such thing as an excessively deep cut from season 4 for the meme thread, but when someone posts an episode recap from season 29 it's met with confusion about if it's real or not. I mean, c'mon: It's incredibly real and halfway through the episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Gets_the_Blues
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Sep 7, 2021 16:29
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overmind2000 posted:It's incredibly real and halfway through the episode There's a lot of criticisms to be made of South Park, but the "But... Therefore" formula is a very good baseline. Once you start connecting your story beats with "and then," you end up with a pile of random poo poo that happens. "But... Therefore" completely ends in this episode once the Rube Goldberg machine gets them to New Orleans.
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Sep 7, 2021 18:48
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multijoe posted:Pardon? There's an episode where Bart meets Milhouse's cousin who is from Finland or something. She's just adult girl Milhouse. I think Bart falls for her because she smokes. Or she teaches him to smoke and he gets in trouble. I only saw parts of it. I assume the B-plot was Homer having a real time with his day.
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Sep 7, 2021 20:38
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What the flying gently caress has this show become? I'm still not sure if my curiosity is still morbid or if it's just dead.
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Sep 7, 2021 21:03
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YeahTubaMike posted:What the flying gently caress has this show become? I'm still not sure if my curiosity is still morbid or if it's just dead. Just been on too long with writers with too little creativity Richy richs with harvard comedian kids send their kid to make a name for themselves with a credit on the simpsons. Doesn't matter if they're actually good scripts or jokes
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Sep 7, 2021 21:15
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To be fair, many of the classic episodes' synopsis would sound dumb or crazy out of context too. It's just that they were competently made and actually funny instead of churned out by computer algorithms and unfunny newbies who just want a Hollywood writing credit. edit: ^ beaten, sorta
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Sep 7, 2021 21:38
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Any show that runs for 30+ years is going to run out of ideas and crawl up it's own rear end sooner or later as OG writers drop out and new writers, who are probably fans of the show, take their place. It's just that Simpsons used to be the one of the best shows on television so that drop in quality is more noticeable then if it would've happened to say Cheers or Perfect Strangers.
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Sep 8, 2021 01:20
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I do wonder what Japanese audiences think of modern day Crayon Shin Chan compared to the early seasons.
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Sep 8, 2021 01:26
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Das Boo posted:Is this another Simpson's Poe Law? check my post history in this thread lol
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Sep 8, 2021 02:44
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runnypoops posted:THe truth is that those kids molested micheal jackson
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Sep 8, 2021 04:31
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Detective No. 27 posted:I do wonder what Japanese audiences think of modern day Crayon Shin Chan compared to the early seasons. poo poo, is that still on? I don't know how comparable it is, but I remember being really put off by the changes that happened to Doraemon, where the animation was way too smooth, and the voice cast had changed wholesale due to the original actors all retiring together as a group after about two or three decades in the roles.
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Sep 8, 2021 05:59
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Michael Jackson accusations are odd. On paper he seems like a textbook pedophile. Yet despite law enforcement moving heaven and hell they can't get a shred of evidence on him.You Are A Elf posted:I’ve seen this in meme form, so I had to look it up and yes, sometimes zombie Simpsons has a decent joke or visual gag. This is actually legitimately funny and made me laugh out loud. Never thought I'd see a "new quality Simpsons" gag.
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Sep 8, 2021 06:04
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I just checked Wikipedia to double check, Shin Chan is still on. I loved the Adult Swim run but I guess we didn't get much of it since it's kinda difficult to localize. Simpsons isn't even the longest running animated series. Sazae-San's been running since 1969.
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Sep 8, 2021 06:09
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I’ve long held a theory that If you go through all the seasons from S15 onward, and just pull out the good episodes, you could get one, maybe two quality seasons of the Simpsons. Not like golden years quality, but like S11-14 level quality. I actually tried doing this at the height of the pandemic when I couldn’t leave my house, but there’s SO MANY episodes and most of them are SO BAD. After 2 or 3 episodes, I either get discouraged and just stop, or I start to feel bad for the show and start saying stuff like “well that one wasn’t THAT BAD” and grading on a curve, which kind of defeats the purpose of the whole thing.
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Sep 8, 2021 06:44
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That's about right, there are usually one or two per season that, while not particularly good, could at least justify the show still being on if they were all that quality. But the average episode is truly horrendous.
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Sep 8, 2021 07:19
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Detective No. 27 posted:I just checked Wikipedia to double check, Shin Chan is still on. I loved the Adult Swim run but I guess we didn't get much of it since it's kinda difficult to localize. I still think about the joke from the Shin-Chan dub where his mom buys dozens of cartons of milk and Shin excitedly proclaims, "Cool! I'm gonna make all the missing kids fight each other!" I love it. It's so drat crass.
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Sep 8, 2021 07:36
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FreudianSlippers posted:Any show that runs for 30+ years is going to run out of ideas and crawl up it's own rear end sooner or later as OG writers drop out and new writers, who are probably fans of the show, take their place. Hold up a second here! I'm not going to let this go unnoticed. You just put Cheers in the same group as Perfect Strangers. Have you've seen Cheers? It is one of the best shows on television. I've been watching through it again, and it still holds up, and each episode has a least one good quality laugh. It's an intelligently written show with fantastic characters, and it's not afraid to have genuine moments that aren't funny, but can be quite sad. Sure, there was a bit of a decrease in quality as time went on, but even in its last season, it was still producing high quality work. Give Cheers a chance. If you watch it from the beginning, you'll see a fantastic 3-camera sitcom that really highlights the strength of the format. Edit - and just so you are aware, Sam Simon worked on both Cheers and the Simpsons. In fact, Ken Levine, who wrote for Cheers and also wrote Dancing Homer and Saturdays of Thunder with his writing partner, said that Sam was responsible for a lot of the tone and sense of humor on the Simpsons. Cemetry Gator fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Sep 8, 2021 |
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Sep 8, 2021 13:14
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punk rebel ecks posted:Michael Jackson accusations are odd. On paper he seems like a textbook pedophile. Yet despite law enforcement moving heaven and hell they can't get a shred of evidence on him. A rich and famous person using their money and fame to commit sex crimes without being arrested? That never happens
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Sep 8, 2021 13:19
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Cemetry Gator posted:Hold up a second here! I'm not going to let this go unnoticed. Yes, that’s all fine and good, but Perfect Strangers had the dance of joy and Balki calling his cousin “Larry App-leh-tone.” Heh. Got ‘em  Detective No. 27 posted:Simpsons isn't even the longest running animated series. Sazae-San's been running since 1969. Don’t give the writers any ideas to prolong this dumb dead show 
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Sep 8, 2021 13:29
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Sazae-san was the one where the creator didn't want any merch including DVDs so you can't see old episodes right?
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Sep 8, 2021 14:47
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Sazae-san is also the last show to use cel animation, only making the move in 2014 to digital ink and paint.
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Sep 8, 2021 14:59
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Improbable Lobster posted:Sazae-san was the one where the creator didn't want any merch including DVDs so you can't see old episodes right? They're on some Japanese streaming services. Chibi Maruko-Chan is also a show that's been running forever and I've heard some people compare it as the Japanese version of the Simpsons, at least the earlier seasons. Just a show about family life with a lot of sarcasm and pointing out the absurdity of the life we live in.
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Sep 9, 2021 03:28
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Anpanman is up there with the super-long-runners, iirc, though I don't know how much of that is a single continuous show. It's basically as well known in Japan as something like Sesame Street. If that title sounds vaguely familiar, the protagonist of One-Punch Man is a parody of the protagonist.
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Sep 9, 2021 13:03
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Original_Z posted:They're on some Japanese streaming services. Yeah it looks like it started streaming recently after the creator died according to wikipedia, lol
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Sep 9, 2021 16:31
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I was driving to work today and heard a radio ad for car insurance that was using the old announcer gag like "get it on sunday Sunday SUNDAY!" This led me down the rabbit hole trying to find the quote where Smithers works as the announcer at the race track. Was disappointed that almost any search for Smithers regardless of context turns up hits for when he comes out as gay. No google I am not looking for smithers coming out I am looking for MAYHEM MAYHEM MAYHEM. Do we need all these mayhems? We do. Alright fair enough. Eventually zeroed in on the Homer the Smithers episode and felt much better. You have 30 minutes to move your cube.
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Sep 9, 2021 17:19
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Homers BBBq posted:I was driving to work today and heard a radio ad for car insurance that was using the old announcer gag like "get it on sunday Sunday SUNDAY!" This led me down the rabbit hole trying to find the quote where Smithers works as the announcer at the race track. Was disappointed that almost any search for Smithers regardless of context turns up hits for when he comes out as gay. If you know an exact (or close enough) quote then Frinkiac is by far the best tool for looking up episodes imo.
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Sep 9, 2021 17:28
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it's a King of the Hill gag, but I always loved "SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! And also Saturday."
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Sep 9, 2021 17:47
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"Where are you throwing me?!"
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Sep 9, 2021 21:38
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Homers BBBq posted:I was driving to work today and heard a radio ad for car insurance that was using the old announcer gag like "get it on sunday Sunday SUNDAY!" This led me down the rabbit hole trying to find the quote where Smithers works as the announcer at the race track. Was disappointed that almost any search for Smithers regardless of context turns up hits for when he comes out as gay. That ep is pure golden age, crisp with no filler. The goons manhandling Smithers away from the race track mic is my favorite moment especially the quick escalation to "Where are you throwing me?!" Had a mandela moment, could have sworn the Billy Beer "we elected the wrong Carter" Homer line was from The Otto Show after Homer finds the beer in his jacket. Turns out it wasn't until season 9 in Lisa the Skeptic.
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Sep 9, 2021 22:13
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The "is it about my cube?" exchange is one of the greatest bits in Simpsons Burns is just so earnestly curious
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Sep 9, 2021 22:31
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I remember the old simpsons threads where people would argue and argue that new Simpsons isn't bad, we're just looking at it with rose tinted glasses. I'm glad that it being on Disney+ has shown how loving clearly bad the new poo poo is. Re-watching I think the episode where I went "Man this show isn't as good" was Old Man And The Lisa. It's got jokes, it's just got a loving weird resolution and is generally quite a strange story. But the one I stopped watching was Saddlesore Galactica. I think I'd told myself that it was maybe season 16 or something, so it surprises me it's only 11/12 sorta area. When you rewatch the drop off is so unbelievably loving sudden and obvious!
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Sep 12, 2021 00:00
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Taear posted:Re-watching I think the episode where I went "Man this show isn't as good" was Old Man And The Lisa. It's got jokes, it's just got a loving weird resolution and is generally quite a strange story. Yeardley Smith gives a really bad performance in that episode too.
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Sep 12, 2021 02:13
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Harry Shearer carries that episode. When he still gave a poo poo.
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