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I was mixing up multiple episodes too, because it turns out I was completely wrong with my opinion and recollection: "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" was maybe the last I saw and it turns out that I DID enjoy that episode. Maybe it was sandwiched between a lot of bad ones ones.
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Das Boo posted:Turns out I've been confusing "Behind the Laughter" for "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" all this time. I've never seen the former. It's good compared to rest of the season but not very good overall. It would be fine as a series finale. And it should have been.
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Jun 11, 2022 20:58
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The former is the real Series Finale. Anything after that is at best serviceable.
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The Simpsons in the 2000s were basically just trying to keep up with trendier and edgier shows like South Park and Family Guy. That this was good enough for their audience really just means it was a low point for our standards as a society, at least in hindsight.
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Riptor posted:It is my firmly held belief that the novelty of Behind the Laughter bamboozled people into thinking it was far funnier than it actually is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnttBhGVytc This part is perfection
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Jun 12, 2022 22:51
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It's weird that they repeat that joke. They show it once as a "coming up after the break" soundbite and then actually show it after the break with no additions or anything.
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In the new one from a few weeks ago, Grandpa gets put on the board of directors of a multinational corporation run by a Succession-style family. I guess they couldn't get the Succession people to do cameos though because it's all people like John Lithgow and Paul F. Tomkins, except for cousin Greg who has like one line. Grandpa is put on the board because he used to be the business partner of a guy who ran a family burger joint that Krusty stole the idea for to make Krusty burger. The business partner went on to found a huge company to enact revenge on Krusty by buying his parent company and kicking him out of his businesses. The family has a power struggle where Grandpa is the tie-breaking vote, and he abstains. Bad ep, real bad ep.
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iamsosmrt posted:The Simpsons in the 2000s were basically just trying to keep up with trendier and edgier shows like South Park and Family Guy. That this was good enough for their audience really just means it was a low point for our standards as a society, at least in hindsight. good to know that you think our standards as a society relate to the Simpsons
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PostNouveau posted:In the new one from a few weeks ago, Grandpa gets put on the board of directors of a multinational corporation run by a Succession-style family. I guess they couldn't get the Succession people to do cameos though because it's all people like John Lithgow and Paul F. Tomkins, except for cousin Greg who has like one line. Wasn't this already at least three episodes?
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Jun 13, 2022 03:00
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Planning a Jan 6th insurrection but at Al Jean's house
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spaceblancmange posted:Planning a Jan 6th insurrection but at Al Jean's house It happens in the car hole
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haven't seen the florida episode but i did like saddlesore galactica. homer's "was that all a wonderful dream" and "we'll give you gold!" line still makes me chuckleBoba Pearl posted:Season 1 is weird as hell, Nuclear inspectors must get paid so much money to be a single income household drat. according to marge in 1994, homer made $40/day, which adjusted for inflation would mean he was making ~$20k/yr. Data Graham posted:I’m the tycoon who owns a nuclear power plant and works in a wood paneled office on the fuckin premises lmao it's surrounded by metal, tho Mantis42 posted:It's weird that they repeat that joke. They show it once as a "coming up after the break" soundbite and then actually show it after the break with no additions or anything. huh? are you sure about that? i've seen that one quite a few times and i honestly don't recall them doing that.
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maybe i hallucinated it, i'm not going to look it up to find out
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Behind the Laughter at least gave us Homer polishing old soundboards, which has been a running gag for twenty years with a friend who worked in radio. "Say whatever happened to Alan Hoover?" "Polishing soundboards up in Burlington last I heard"
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PostNouveau posted:In the new one from a few weeks ago, Grandpa gets put on the board of directors of a multinational corporation run by a Succession-style family. I guess they couldn't get the Succession people to do cameos though because it's all people like John Lithgow and Paul F. Tomkins, except for cousin Greg who has like one line. Bad Simpsons continues to be bourgie as hell.
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The Moon Monster posted:Bad Simpsons continues to be bourgie as hell. Which underlines the contrast in the season finale ("Bart learns that there are basically no good middle class jobs like Homer's left in today's US").
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Behind the Laughter at least gave us Homer polishing old soundboards, which has been a running gag for twenty years with a friend who worked in radio. "Say whatever happened to Alan Hoover?" "Polishing soundboards up in Burlington last I heard" I withdraw my previous comment; this is the funniest joke I've ever heard
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Riptor posted:I withdraw my previous comment; this is the funniest joke I've ever heard if you don't get your arbitron ratings up you'll be joining him
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Everything I remember about Saddlesore Galactica is really stupid, but maybe it kinda works because it remains at a consistent level of stupid. Also, Chief Wiggum is literally just a normal American cop.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Everything I remember about Saddlesore Galactica is really stupid, but maybe it kinda works because it remains at a consistent level of stupid. He's probably less racist than the average
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florida one has a bunch of funny bits once they're hiding out from the cop i don't know why everyone thinks it's so bad
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People think the Florida one is bad?! I like that.
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I don’t remember jack poo poo about “Kill the Alligator and Run” except that an alligator got killed, and the family went on the run; thus, the title. Except the alligator was just stunned and wasn’t really dead. Also, Kid Rock was there.
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"but Marge! Florida is America's wang!"
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I have a 18 month old, so I say “looks like we got a tiny Houdini” all the time.
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helsabot posted:florida one has a bunch of funny bits once they're hiding out from the cop i don't know why everyone thinks it's so bad
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I haven't seen it in what must be approaching 20 years but Kid Rock probably does not help its reputation.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I haven't seen it in what must be approaching 20 years but Kid Rock probably does not help its reputation. Kid Rock does not detract from my love of Joe Dirt
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Went into a comic shop and was so serene. I dug it and gave nugats.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I haven't seen it in what must be approaching 20 years but Kid Rock probably does not help its reputation. Who are their worst aged cameos who aren’t Michael Jackson? Kid rock, mel Gibson, Alec Baldwin… James Woods was an especially bad loss as it’s such a good ep but he’s become, uh, concerning (glances at his Twitter feed) oh man.
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helsabot posted:florida one has a bunch of funny bits once they're hiding out from the cop i don't know why everyone thinks it's so bad literally the only funny thing in it is Joe C saying "nosir, please don't tell mama"
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I haven't seen it in what must be approaching 20 years but Kid Rock probably does not help its reputation. is that the same episode?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Who are their worst aged cameos who aren’t Michael Jackson? Kid rock, mel Gibson, Alec Baldwin… James Woods was an especially bad loss as it’s such a good ep but he’s become, uh, concerning (glances at his Twitter feed) oh man. James Wood's Twitter aside, the cameo is timeless. "Don't jerk me around".
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interesting bit on isolated Simpsons frames on Instagram: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-aesthetic-splendor-of-the-simpsons
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"you're insincere. I like that." made me laugh, but the alligator episode as a whole is a real shitheap
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Who are their worst aged cameos who aren’t Michael Jackson? Kid rock, mel Gibson, Alec Baldwin… James Woods was an especially bad loss as it’s such a good ep but he’s become, uh, concerning (glances at his Twitter feed) oh man. I feel like Blair, Assange, Murdoch, Ted Nugent and Musk are all up there in the bad guest star stakes, but I don't know if any of them have aged particularly poorly since their assholery was well known to begin with.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Who are their worst aged cameos who aren’t Michael Jackson? Kid rock, mel Gibson, Alec Baldwin… James Woods was an especially bad loss as it’s such a good ep but he’s become, uh, concerning (glances at his Twitter feed) oh man. Rudy Giuliani.
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Hrist posted:People think the Florida one is bad?! the first half is good but the second half is really bad imo
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I feel like Blair, Assange, Murdoch, Ted Nugent and Musk are all up there in the bad guest star stakes, but I don't know if any of them have aged particularly poorly since their assholery was well known to begin with. murdoch is the only one that appeared in a season that was remotely tolerable. plus, they made him out to be the evil tyrant that he is, not the "greatest inventor of the modern age" like they made lisa say to musk 
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have they had the bike Armstrong guy? Armstrong cameos are pretty funny now.
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