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It was an absurd idea in 1996 but now that's what half of all musicals are actually like
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A musical about socialist uprisings and pitched street battles in 19th-century France? What are you crazy?
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My dream disaster project is a Dune musical myself.SweetMercifulCrap! posted:It was an absurd idea in 1996 but now that's what half of all musicals are actually like And if not, see the Hamilton jokes about the Mediocre Presidents song. Also, on thought I'm pretty sure you could absolutely make a Lionel Hutz: Ace Attorney game entirely in-character for everyone involved.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:My dream disaster project is a Dune musical myself.
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Keromaru5 posted:What gets me is how in Japan, seemingly any successful anime gets a stage musical--Saint Seiya, Prince of Tennis, Sailor Moon, friggin' Death Note. yu yu hakusho..
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Apr 22, 2022 19:01
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OBJECTION! You claim that Santa's Little Helper couldn't have eaten Milhouse's fish because the fish never existed. [Present Fish Bowl] Yet this was found inside his room. Why would he own a fish bowl if he didn't own a fish?
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Mantis42 posted:OBJECTION! Sustained Data Graham posted:A musical about socialist uprisings and pitched street battles in 19th-century France? What are you crazy? A musical about a spider-themed superhero taking on some sort of director self-insert spider goddess, scored by Bono and The Edge from U2? That'll never work!
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Apr 22, 2022 22:43
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 What the hell is wrong with Homer's face/head? Why does the rest of the body look like it's a different art style?
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Apr 23, 2022 04:41
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Mr Interweb posted:i was watching the episode where marge becomes a real estate agent (phil hartman''s last episode Hartman’s last episode was Bart the Mother
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) and i keep forgetting that gil was in that episode too. i honestly thought they created him as a replacement for hutz
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edogawa rando posted:Sustained Indeed it didn't! Though frankly, Starlight Express.
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Detective No. 27 posted:
Yeah it looks like someone photoshopped his head onto another cartoon's body. Aside from being lame parody, it's rather insulting by today's standards. A sub in his pocket?
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I would bet my first born child that it was originally a drawing of Trump. That white square on his lapel was probably a US flag pin.
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Apr 23, 2022 16:26
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Detective No. 27 posted:I would bet my first born child that it was originally a drawing of Trump. That white square on his lapel was probably a US flag pin. I bet you're right. That would be why the outline on the hand is so thick; they blew it up.
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Apr 23, 2022 16:55
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Detective No. 27 posted:
I'm glad to see the guys who draw simpsons porn can find legit work.
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Apr 24, 2022 10:11
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:I'm glad to see the guys who draw simpsons porn can find legit work. Post/Avatar combo checks out.
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https://twitter.com/AlJean/status/1518683193653678080
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Don't read the comments don't read the comments don't read the comments don't read the comments ah gently caress
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's unfortunately more of a case of square peg, round hole. Gil works as a one-note character, preferably at the expense of whatever the Simpsons are trying to do, because he's pathetic enough to not be sympathetic- which very quickly becomes grating when he outstays the gag And he always does the last 20 years. That being said, as terrible as "Maximum Homerdrive" is, Gil saying "and today's my evaluation with Senor Ding-Dong!" is quality
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Apr 25, 2022 23:15
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At least a couple people get it https://twitter.com/ViciousSkid/status/1518709585577938944 https://twitter.com/JamesRKirk/status/1518703534853791746
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Detective No. 27 posted:
At least make it the rancid sub and have it be sick Homer. Although didn’t think I could have a lower opinion of Al Jean but there you go.
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Well, it took about two weeks, but I just read this whole thread cover to cover. Absolutely insane to think that if I had watched an episode of the Simpsons every time I finished a page of this thread, I would still have over 200 episodes left to watch (and would already have been watching dreck for about 300 episodes). Thanks for the laughs, it's been a great read. One of the themes that seems to come up again and again is "when did you notice that the Simpsons was no longer good?". A lot of people seem to have had a single moment where it happened (Princ. and the Paup., Jockey Elves etc.), but I think it slowly crept up on me. I remember that I didn't know who Kim Basinger or Alec Baldwin were, and that that episode definitely felt 'different', but I thought the ending with Ron Howard and the 'best friend is a talking pie' was funny, and it had a few zingers in it. I think I had been drifting away from the show already, in terms of being much less excited about seeing a 'new episode' than if the Scorpio one came on, but I remember Sky One in the UK heavily hyping the "300th Episode! With Tony Hawk!!!!!" for weeks on end, then watching it with my cousin and siblings at my grandma's house, and thinking right then that it wasn't very funny or good. I think I stopped actively seeking Simpsons at that point, and have seen very few (if any) episodes made after that. What was that, season 14/15?
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Theyll never stop the Simpsons thread
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Apr 28, 2022 11:18
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It's funny, I don't really remember the Kim Basinger/Alec Baldwin episode but I remember it getting under my skin not as a "this episode is bad" but "this show is bad" thing. Despite me wanting to say the warning signs were appearing in seasons 7/8, this one really sticks out in my head as a template for modern bad Simpsons. And I don't even remember the goddamn thing.
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Apr 28, 2022 11:43
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Well, when I was 12 I laughed very hard at the end when Ron Howard steals Homer's poo poo movie idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sscJFcCMs9Q Don't remember too much else from the episode, except Homer going full jerkass when he feels rejected by the celebs e: huh. 
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Apr 28, 2022 11:48
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Season 8 has a couple of duds but still deserves its place in the good Simpsons canon, but it goes downhill fast in season 9 and I'd put Trash of the Titans down as the first time it really became Bad Simpsons and not just a weak episode
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Diorama posted:
I swear to god that in 300 years, idiots will revere this show like Nostradamus.
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No Dignity posted:Season 8 has a couple of duds but still deserves its place in the good Simpsons canon, but it goes downhill fast in season 9 and I'd put Trash of the Titans down as the first time it really became Bad Simpsons and not just a weak episode I think this is fair. I feel like I might have been too harsh on S9 in the past, there are some legit decent episodes in there (New York, Lisa's Sax, Cartridge Family, the first two of which were holdovers from S8) but it's a definite step down with wackier episodes like Das Bus, Simpson Tide and Trash of the Titans. It wasn't just the concepts either, the jokes somehow started to become more desperate and lazy at the same time, even if some of them were still funny. S10 is a significant step in what the show would become later. More guest stars, zanier plots that are kind of just mish-mashed together and poor characterisation of established and beloved characters, especially Homer. There are some episodes I quite like (Bart the Mother, Lisa Gets an A, Wild Barts Can't Be Broken) but far more that are just average at best. I think this is what makes When You Dish Upon a Star stand out to so many - it's not like celebrity puff pieces were new to the show, it's just that now it wasn't very funny either and there were various other problems. The perfect storm to me is Sunday Cruddy Sunday, which, while not a terrible episode in my opinion, is still overblown with lots of guests and crooked plotting... crooked plotting that the show acknowledges and makes jokes about, which in itself became increasingly tiresome over the next few years. The change between Scully leaving and Jean returning was probably more defined than I remember it being, but not necessarily in a good way.
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Diorama posted:I remember Sky One in the UK heavily hyping the "300th Episode! With Tony Hawk!!!!!" for weeks on end, then watching it with my cousin and siblings at my grandma's house, and thinking right then that it wasn't very funny or good. I think I stopped actively seeking Simpsons at that point, and have seen very few (if any) episodes made after that. What was that, season 14/15? What's weird about this one is that, if my memory serves me well, it wasn't even the 300th episode. The 300th episode was actually the one where Marge gets a boob job. Maybe Fox/Sky didn't want to promote that one given the content and seeing that the Tony Hawk one had guest stars who were big at the time (Blink 182 as well I think?), but if that was the case, why didn't they just switch the episodes around? (Maybe it's not that simple, idk) I don't remember which episode was worse.
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I finally thought to look it up on the Wikipedia:quote:FOX insisted that the 300th episode be scheduled specifically on February 16, 2003 so that there was time to plan a huge promotion for the episode.[1] However, the actual 300th episode had already aired two weeks prior. This was referenced in this episode during a joke where Lisa tallies the number of Homer's schemes at 300; Marge comments "I could've sworn it was 302." that explanation doesn't make any sense
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Yeah, a week's difference in recording doesn't mean poo poo in 2D animation today, much less 20 years ago.
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Das Boo posted:It's funny, I don't really remember the Kim Basinger/Alec Baldwin episode but I remember it getting under my skin not as a "this episode is bad" but "this show is bad" thing. Despite me wanting to say the warning signs were appearing in seasons 7/8, this one really sticks out in my head as a template for modern bad Simpsons.  I know I’ve said it before, but I think the Linda and Paul McCartney cameo in “Lisa the Vegetarian” was the first time I thought the show was headed into “Wow, it’s [CELEBRITY]! What are you doing in Springfield?” territory. Plus, the episode itself was very mean-spirited and just not very good, and that was season 7. The cracks were definitely there, then. Like, all previous celebrity cameos had a rhyme and reason and point for being in Springfield at the time. Linda and Paul McCartney just happened to be chilling on the roof of the Kwik-E-Mart because… ?????  The Basinger/Baldwin episode was the first time I thought the show was going to poo poo, though. What a garbage episode.
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and they seem acknowledge it in-ep. it must just be like an observed holiday date vs actual holiday date... it's a much better (or "better") episode to hang the marker on e: ^^^ from memory, Paul met Apu in India. Apu says he was basically the fifth Be-atle, and Paul says "sure you were." not that that really explains it, but it's more setup than they usually do Empty Sandwich fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Apr 28, 2022 |
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No Dignity posted:Season 8 has a couple of duds but still deserves its place in the good Simpsons canon, but it goes downhill fast in season 9 and I'd put Trash of the Titans down as the first time it really became Bad Simpsons and not just a weak episode I thought it was a funny episode, but I´d definitely categorise it as post-golden age, mostly because Homer is fully transformed from a lazy well-meaning dummy to the high-energy sociopath he'd remain until whenever it was I stopped watching the show
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Funny thing is all the animated sitcoms seem to go down the same path of the main character turning into a high-energy sociopath when they've become zombified. Family Guy, Spongebob, pretty much anything that should have been cancelled before much of its target audience was born. American Dad squeaks by because Stan Smith kinda started that way.
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You Are A Elf posted:
this is true and yet even then it gave me "byobb" which i still use/abuse to this day
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mactheknife posted:this is true and yet even then it gave me "byobb" which i still use/abuse to this day 'It's still good! It's still good!' also.
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The tbs seasons of american dad write stan more like peter griffin i found
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You don't win friends with salad
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