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A ‘Simpsons’ Episode Lampooned Chinese Censorship. In Hong Kong, It Vanished.quote:HONG KONG — An episode of “The Simpsons” that ridicules Chinese government censorship appears to have been censored on Disney’s newly launched streaming service in Hong Kong, adding to fears about the shrinking space for free expression and criticism in this city. Not much of a surprise no way Disney would risk the China market. Would be fun if for no reason China demanded Duffless be removed from global streaming or they'll block the next Marvel film from release to watch how fast Disney complies. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/world/asia/simpsons-hk.html
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President Xi, I have a list of episodes you must make Disney destroy, for the good of the people. It's a rather lengthy list...
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Nov 29, 2021 19:18
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Turns out every episode from Season 12 on was counter-revolutionary
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Nov 29, 2021 19:23
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How could Homer have possibly forgotten learning about his mom, Mona, being alive, at age 13, and going on a cross country trip with his dad to find her?
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Nov 30, 2021 00:53
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FunkyAl posted:How could Homer have possibly forgotten learning about his mom, Mona, being alive, at age 13, and going on a cross country trip with his dad to find her? loving seriously? Godfuckingdammit Mother Simpson is bar none one of the best episodes in this pigshit cartoon and Mona was a wonderful character whose interactions with Homer led to one of the most touching moments in any cartoon but these loving hacks just can't leave it alone
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Nov 30, 2021 01:38
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The Chad Jihad posted:45 year old comic book guy was given a 20-something asian cosplaying wife, I am comfortable saying this is the lowest point that was like 10 years ago now btw
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Nov 30, 2021 17:31
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FunkyAl posted:How could Homer have possibly forgotten learning about his mom, Mona, being alive, at age 13, and going on a cross country trip with his dad to find her? What episode is this? I tried looking it up but haven't found it so far. However, during that research I did find a description of a season 23 episode that mentions a fishing trip that Abe and Homer went on right before Mona left.....amongst many other things. From Wikipedia: Wikipedia posted:
The episode is titled How I wet Your Mother in case anyone is interested. And it's almost ten years old. Jesus Christ, there are so many seasons that I couldn't possibly give a single flying poo poo about. IBroughttheFunk fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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Nov 30, 2021 17:45
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The stuff about Homer's mom is from the newest episode.quote:Bart is browsing scenes on TV, when he stumbles upon Muttflix, peaking Santa's Little Helper's interest. This causes Santa's Little Helper to invite She Biscuit over since it's Mother's Day.
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Nov 30, 2021 17:59
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Calaveron posted:loving seriously? Godfuckingdammit Mother Simpson is bar none one of the best episodes in this pigshit cartoon and Mona was a wonderful character whose interactions with Homer led to one of the most touching moments in any cartoon but these loving hacks just can't leave it alone It’s like when Futurama retconned Fry’s dog Seymour’s story in one of the Futurama movies (the first one, I think?) where Fry becomes some guy named Lars for some loving reason (why do I remember that and none of the rest?). Anyway, the point I’m making is Futurama should have stayed cancelled because the direct-to-video movies and Comedy Central episodes blew rear end 
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Nov 30, 2021 18:02
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The Chad Jihad posted:45 year old comic book guy was given a 20-something asian cosplaying wife, I am comfortable saying this is the lowest point *It was immediately followed up by an episode where an African princess falls in love with Moe and I was thinking to myself, "is this just what they do now? give long-running side characters love interests that are completely out of their league??"
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Nov 30, 2021 18:25
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With Comic Book Guy it's clear that they use him as the 'new' Apu. They should make him a cuckold like Sideshow Mel. Just slowly cuckify the side characters over the course of a few years and see if anyone notices.
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Nov 30, 2021 18:37
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Happy Landfill posted:*It was immediately followed up by an episode where an African princess falls in love with Moe and I was thinking to myself, "is this just what they do now? give long-running side characters love interests that are completely out of their league??" I feel like this is the kind of thing that every run-too-long sitcom ends up doing. Mantis42 posted:With Comic Book Guy it's clear that they use him as the 'new' Apu. Everyone in Springfield cucks each other.
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Nov 30, 2021 18:47
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It’s not like Simpsons has a wide cast of young single characters to use. Maybe they’ll give Lenny and Carl love interests
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Nov 30, 2021 18:58
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Calaveron posted:loving seriously? Godfuckingdammit Mother Simpson is bar none one of the best episodes in this pigshit cartoon and Mona was a wonderful character whose interactions with Homer led to one of the most touching moments in any cartoon but these loving hacks just can't leave it alone I hate that they can't leave it alone. It's like a microcosm of what's wrong with the simpsons: do something new instead of recycling old content and characters forever
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Nov 30, 2021 18:59
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bobjr posted:It’s not like Simpsons has a wide cast of young single characters to use. I heard that they're just explicitly gay for each other now but gently caress if i'd watch an episode to find out
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Nov 30, 2021 19:03
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Mantis42 posted:(Description of a total bullshit episode) I know they have been playing fast and loose with continuity for a while now, but this honestly feels like the most egregious case, even more so than episodes where Homer and Marge grew up in the 90s (which I think was retconned again to make them older millenials?)
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Nov 30, 2021 19:36
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Improbable Lobster posted:I hate that they can't leave it alone. It's like a microcosm of what's wrong with the simpsons: do something new instead of recycling old content and characters forever Somehow I feel like if they did new stuff it would suck and we'd be like "they should stick to the familiar stuff that they know works"
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You Are A Elf posted:It’s like when Futurama retconned Fry’s dog Seymour’s story in one of the Futurama movies (the first one, I think?) where Fry becomes some guy named Lars for some loving reason (why do I remember that and none of the rest?). Honestly, a lot of older Futurama hasn't aged well either and it bums me out.
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Nov 30, 2021 19:39
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I think Bender's Big Score was good, but they should have made it like a real movie.
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Nov 30, 2021 20:16
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Another Bill posted:Honestly, a lot of older Futurama hasn't aged well either and it bums me out. Yeah I liked it when it was on and think the quality is still good but feel no need to go back for a rewatch of favorite seasons, like I do for Simpsons or King of the Hill.
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Nov 30, 2021 21:08
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You Are A Elf posted:It’s like when Futurama retconned Fry’s dog Seymour’s story in one of the Futurama movies (the first one, I think?) where Fry becomes some guy named Lars for some loving reason (why do I remember that and none of the rest?). this is one of the few retcons I enjoy, but i can easily see why people don't. separately: when the movie started, I thought "man, Billy West is losing it. Lars sounds like Fry after 20 years of smoking." so in conclusion, Billy West is a genius.
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Nov 30, 2021 21:31
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Hyrax Attack! posted:A ‘Simpsons’ Episode Lampooned Chinese Censorship. In Hong Kong, It Vanished. If I was China I would ask them to memory hole Winnie the Pooh,either they dont do it and China has a line / future goal to succeed at, or they do it and its a big alpha chad win for them.
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Nov 30, 2021 21:33
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Yeah I liked it when it was on and think the quality is still good but feel no need to go back for a rewatch of favorite seasons, like I do for Simpsons or King of the Hill. I actually really like Benders Big Score as well, but I've been watching old eps with my kids and I find them kind of boring. It sucks because I was a huge fan. I even have a copy if the ultra rare ps2 game somewhere in my basement, which was surprisingly fun!
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Improbable Lobster posted:I hate that they can't leave it alone. It's like a microcosm of what's wrong with the simpsons: do something new instead of recycling old content and characters forever I looked it up and apparently Mona formally appears in 9 episodes. Nine loving episodes, for a character that should've appeared in only one, ending with the heartrending sequence of Homer finally getting closure on his mother's disappearance but also wondering if she will ever see her again. Goddamn just remembering that credit sequence slays me.
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You Are A Elf posted:It’s like when Futurama retconned Fry’s dog Seymour’s story in one of the Futurama movies (the first one, I think?) where Fry becomes some guy named Lars for some loving reason (why do I remember that and none of the rest?). I'd honestly and without exaggeration say Futurama is tied with Trek TNG for me for 'greatest series finale of all time.' Like it's not necessarily the greatest series of all time, either of them, but both are kind of fantastic episodes that provide a sense of closure while still paradoxically giving you the idea that things will continue - even if we aren't seeing them - but not to worry because our fave characters will be just fine. Both are really solid episodes in and of themselves, as well, that encapsulate as microcosms a lot of what made people fall in love with their series in the first place. And in both cases, years later, the shows were brought back in horrible forms that ruin everything.
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bobjr posted:It’s not like Simpsons has a wide cast of young single characters to use. Speaking of Futurama, this is pretty much one of the biggest real differences between that and the Simpsons, I always thought.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I'd honestly and without exaggeration say Futurama is tied with Trek TNG for me for 'greatest series finale of all time.' Like it's not necessarily the greatest series of all time, either of them, but both are kind of fantastic episodes that provide a sense of closure while still paradoxically giving you the idea that things will continue - even if we aren't seeing them - but not to worry because our fave characters will be just fine. Both are really solid episodes in and of themselves, as well, that encapsulate as microcosms a lot of what made people fall in love with their series in the first place. Futurama wound up with 4 series finales. The most recent one was alright.
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Calaveron posted:I looked it up and apparently Mona formally appears in 9 episodes. Nine loving episodes, for a character that should've appeared in only one, ending with the heartrending sequence of Homer finally getting closure on his mother's disappearance but also wondering if she will ever see her again. After you mentioned it, I couldn't help but go and watch a clip of that episode's ending. And you're so right that it almost hurts. That should have been the very last that we saw of Mona. We see her actually pass away in a future episode, and I don't remember any of that packing so much as a fraction of the heart and sadness that we get in that one single scene of Homer alone, quietly gazing up at the stars.
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FunkyAl posted:I think Bender's Big Score was good, but they should have made it like a real movie. Yeah, the big problem with the "movies" was the mandate that they be split up into chunks so that Comedy Central could just air them as separate episodes. Which ended up making them feel like they were just semi related episodes and not really movies.
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I have never seen the Comic Book Guys wife in an episode (I think I learned of her existence in this thread) , but going by the timing, I'd wager it was them riding the coattails of BBT which would be pretty drat low.
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muscles like this! posted:Yeah, the big problem with the "movies" was the mandate that they be split up into chunks so that Comedy Central could just air them as separate episodes. Which ended up making them feel like they were just semi related episodes and not really movies. Is that true? They don't seem to cut up into chunks well in the slightest if that's what they were going for. I remember the DVD version hung together just fine. They weren't very good, but they seemed like whole intact movies. Except maybe the third one that was just a huge mess.
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Another Bill posted:I actually really like Benders Big Score as well, but I've been watching old eps with my kids and I find them kind of boring. It sucks because I was a huge fan. I even have a copy if the ultra rare ps2 game somewhere in my basement, which was surprisingly fun! the cutscenes are available... uh, cut together on the YouTube. it's an amusing watch. PostNouveau posted:Is that true? They don't seem to cut up into chunks well in the slightest if that's what they were going for. I remember the DVD version hung together just fine. They weren't very good, but they seemed like whole intact movies. Except maybe the third one that was just a huge mess. it has to do with the story beats. every one would really be better as a real movie, i think. on the plus/minus side, the movies contain some footage the episodes don't, and vice versa. but it's like 45 seconds tops, either way
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Speaking of Futurama, this is pretty much one of the biggest real differences between that and the Simpsons, I always thought. Oh yeah I heard someone (maybe a Simpsons writer, might have been Groening) observe that they didn’t have enough young people on Simpsons and that limited their storytelling. So when making Futurama made sure to have plenty of 20 somethings for the stories they wanted to tell. Another Bill posted:I actually really like Benders Big Score as well, but I've been watching old eps with my kids and I find them kind of boring. It sucks because I was a huge fan. Yeah I liked it a lot when it was on, but trying to go back and seeing that for every fun sci fi time travel ep or space adventure we get way too much New York content or references that didn’t age well.
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When Bender's Big Score came out, I was working at GameCrazy where we had a PS3 hooked up to a tv so I popped in whatever I wanted to watch. BBS had a full length episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad. One day I played it over and over again for shits and giggles. Kids would always come up and quietly stare at it for minutes at a time.
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PostNouveau posted:Futurama wound up with 4 series finales. The most recent one was alright. Yeah. I meant the original one; The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings.
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You Are A Elf posted:It’s like when Futurama retconned Fry’s dog Seymour’s story in one of the Futurama movies (the first one, I think?) where Fry becomes some guy named Lars for some loving reason (why do I remember that and none of the rest?). wait, wasn't that actually a GOOD retcon? surely you didn't want fry's dog to waste the rest of his life waiting for an owner than never came, do you? 
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It's the coward's way out Like if you're writing Victor/Victoria, maybe leave out the scene where he sneaks into her bathroom and learns that she's actually a woman so his being in love with her isn't brave after all
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Data Graham posted:It's the coward's way out I'll make sure to tell Blake Edwards this tomorrow. Oh, wait, he died in 2010.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'll make sure to tell Blake Edwards this tomorrow. well get digging, we have more notes
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Mr Interweb posted:wait, wasn't that actually a GOOD retcon? It undermines the very sad and affecting ending for some cheap fanservice, so I'd have to say no
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