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iamsosmrt posted:I don't remember the exact details of this episode, but wasn't it at least be an earnest case of "kids being kids?" Unlike the more forced references in later seasons where they make the kids do things that were like memes from 2-3 years prior. it's also yet another classic simpsons example of kids in the 90s acting like kids in the 50s
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Riptor posted:it's also yet another classic simpsons example of kids in the 90s acting like kids in the 50s That's also a joke in the scene!
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I have very vague memories of playing "Cowboys and Indians" as a kid and I'm only 32. It's weird to look back on and it's absolutely not something I'd want to see going forward, but I feel like it was still kind of normal in the 90s? It depends where you are I guess. What is and isn't acceptable regarding Native Americans doesn't really become common knowledge here in the UK because, well, it's just not on the cultural radar. Same for language/etc regarding Hispanics. Although the UK is effectively stuck forever in the 50s with occasional sojourns to 1966 and The Beatles so I guess that makes sense.
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Riptor posted:it's also yet another classic simpsons example of kids in the 90s acting like kids in the 50s I definitely remember it being pretty mainstream to do "Cowboys and Indian" themed stuff as a kid being n the 90s, even school related. I feel like people forget how heavily pre-internet culture, especially kid stuff was heavily influenced by the prior generations compared to the fast paced smartphone social media age we're in. I think was normal when you mostly had old re-runs and VHS tapes to rely on when new shows weren't airing. Old WB and Disney cartoons were full of culture and blatant racism. Hedgehog Pie posted:I have very vague memories of playing "Cowboys and Indians" as a kid and I'm only 32. It's weird to look back on and it's absolutely not something I'd want to see going forward, but I feel like it was still kind of normal in the 90s? It depends where you are I guess. What is and isn't acceptable regarding Native Americans doesn't really become common knowledge here in the UK because, well, it's just not on the cultural radar. Same for language/etc regarding Hispanics. Yeah like this.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I have very vague memories of playing "Cowboys and Indians" as a kid and I'm only 32. It's weird to look back on and it's absolutely not something I'd want to see going forward, but I feel like it was still kind of normal in the 90s? It depends where you are I guess. What is and isn't acceptable regarding Native Americans doesn't really become common knowledge here in the UK because, well, it's just not on the cultural radar. Same for language/etc regarding Hispanics. I have some vague memories of Cowboys and Indians from school in the 80's, but that got replaced by things like Ninja Turtles, Star Wars, or Aliens. If anything it really only made it to the playground via cultural osmosis from the media our parents were still watching that came out of the 60's and 70's
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We played aliens vs marines I liked being the Alien because I could make up any bullshit power I wanted
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old westerns occupied massive blocks of 80s TV in the US
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absolutely indulged in cowboys and Indians in the early 90s. also just "good guys and bad guys."
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i wonder what decade kids realized dressing up for another game of diffrentname watergun was an unnecessary step and just skipped it.
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children today playing antifas and boogaloos
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I have very vague memories of playing "Cowboys and Indians" as a kid and I'm only 32. It's weird to look back on and it's absolutely not something I'd want to see going forward, but I feel like it was still kind of normal in the 90s? It depends where you are I guess. What is and isn't acceptable regarding Native Americans doesn't really become common knowledge here in the UK because, well, it's just not on the cultural radar. Same for language/etc regarding Hispanics. Same, I even had a birthday party where I had a teepee in my front yard. None of the kids wanted to be cowboys 
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PhazonLink posted:i wonder what decade kids realized dressing up for another game of diffrentname watergun was an unnecessary step and just skipped it. we never dressed up, it was just a way to split up "teams"
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The Moon Monster posted:Same, I even had a birthday party where I had a teepee in my front yard. None of the kids wanted to be cowboys That was a scene in Parasite.
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Riptor posted:it's also yet another classic simpsons example of kids in the 90s acting like kids in the 50s And that just reminds me of the Stickball joke.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:That was a scene in Parasite. Never seen parasite, should I sue john Parasite for plagiarizing my life?
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No, just be sure to check your basement
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My friend had a pirate themed birthday party one year, and we split up into teams based upon the color of our eye patches.
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Friends and I always pretended to be animals because animal subsets are immediately cooler than any human subset. Fightin' over who's the better big cat.
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Das Boo posted:Friends and I always pretended to be animals because animal subsets are immediately cooler than any human subset. Garfield, duh
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do we have any good thanksgiving episodes? it probably might not count, but for me i've always liked watching the episode with mr. burns' son around this time. it wasn't specifically thanksgiving related but it did start off celebrating autumn so i feel it's close enoughiamsosmrt posted:I don't remember the exact details of this episode, but wasn't it at least be an earnest case of "kids being kids?" Unlike the more forced references in later seasons where they make the kids do things that were like memes from 2-3 years prior. i believe it was the episode where bart meets and falls in love with reverent lovejoy's daughter. the kids are playing right before church stars. and yeah, there wasn't anything particularly offensive or mean spirted about that. as for the broader discussion, i'm 38 and i've never played that particular game as a kid. but to be honest, i don't remember much about non-video game related activities we did aside from freeze tag and hide and seek. Empty Sandwich posted:children today playing antifas and boogaloos cops and blm
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Mr Interweb posted:do we have any good thanksgiving episodes? it probably might not count, but for me i've always liked watching the episode with mr. burns' son around this time. it wasn't specifically thanksgiving related but it did start off celebrating autumn so i feel it's close enough
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Let's be honest they all play imagination Fortnite.
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Isn’t cowboys and Indians used in that scene just as a setup for Milhouse to call it a corny old game (and then play jacks instead)? And so Nelson can shoot that space gun because “records from that era are spotty, at best”. I think it’s supposed to be unexpected and anachronistic to add to the humor. The classic simpsons writers seem to like that kind of thing anyway, they have those kids playing stickball arcade by the tenements and Martin pushing the hoop with a stick and stuff like that lol. I think it’s just fun for them to write, like how mr. burns’ old expressions and habits are just funny on their own. e: it’s also weird that at that point in time the writers were recounting the childhoods of their own parents and grandparents who could’ve actually grown up like that, and now those days are mostly just a historical concept instead of someone’s memories. And the same show has existed ceaselessly throughout that transition! Seems like a good indicator that it’s been on for too long but I’m no hotshot tv executive. gamer roomie is 41 fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Nov 22, 2022 |
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gamer roomie is 41 posted:but I’m no hotshot tv executive. Well neither are the Simpsons producers.
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okay, i gots me a question yesterday i saw the episode where barney decides he doesn't wanna be a drunk anymore and gets helicopter lessons. i swore i thought this was one of those episode i described a few times in this thread where i missed repeated airings for whatever reason and only caught some portions. nope! turns out i recall seeing over 90% of the episode. but the issue here is that i was confusing that episode with ANOTHER episode where barney attempts to be sober and pilots a helicopter. yes, i swear to god there's another episode like that. maybe not identical to this one, but with those two specific things also included. anyone know what episode i'm talking about? J-Spot posted:Thanksgiving of Horror from season 31 was decent for modern Simpsons. That's the only Thanksgiving episode they've done since season 2's Bart vs Thanksgiving. wow that's...rather surprising that they haven't done much in the way of thanksgiving specials at all after all this time...
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I think maybe they just had barney sober for a while and during that time the occasionally just had on screen references to him flying helicopters. If it happened it was after the good seasons so wasn't really paying any attention to the Simpsons any more so memories very hazy about it all.
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Mr Interweb posted:okay, i gots me a question You're probably thinking of season 16's She Used to Be My Girl. He sobers up and pilots a helicopter to save his old high school girlfriend from a volcano.
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It’s fun to think about all these terrible multiple-episode-spanning subplots that happened after the simpsons got really bad. Had no idea Barney became a helicopter pilot.. Any others that stand out?
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Last Chance posted:It’s fun to think about all these terrible multiple-episode-spanning subplots that happened after the simpsons got really bad. Had no idea Barney became a helicopter pilot.. Any others that stand out? Ned married Edna They put it up to a fan vote
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Deciding that Barney was too depressing and should get sober was dumb, but I get it. But didn't they later change him back to a drunk? That's even more depressing!
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porfiria posted:Deciding that Barney was too depressing and should get sober was dumb, but I get it. i think in that same episode, at the end moe was selling him spiked lattes or something
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Last Chance posted:It’s fun to think about all these terrible multiple-episode-spanning subplots that happened after the simpsons got really bad. Had no idea Barney became a helicopter pilot.. Any others that stand out? With Barney I think it was due to them thinking the show was going to end soon and so it was kind of a wrap up for his character. The other multi episode subplots from the bad seasons are all relationships. Bart dating one of the yokel kids, Ned marrying Edna, the Milhouses getting back together, Krusty having a daughter, Comic Book Guy getting a Japanese waifu, poo poo like that.
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Junk posted:i think in that same episode, at the end moe was selling him spiked lattes or something Barney switches alcohol addiction for caffeine addiction, and Moe opens an espresso cart.
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J-Spot posted:You're probably thinking of season 16's She Used to Be My Girl. He sobers up and pilots a helicopter to save his old high school girlfriend from a volcano. ah yeah there it is. and it's a season 16 episode?  yeah that also sounds about rightLast Chance posted:It’s fun to think about all these terrible multiple-episode-spanning subplots that happened after the simpsons got really bad. Had no idea Barney became a helicopter pilot.. Any others that stand out? i can't speak for the aforementioned season 16 episode, but in the one i saw he only flew a helicopter cause he got free lessons for his birthday The Modern Leper posted:Barney switches alcohol addiction for caffeine addiction, and Moe opens an espresso cart. wait...at the risk of totally missing the joke, i thought what happened was that moe spiked his lattes with alcohol, so he went back to being an alcoholic, not that he was now addicted to caffeine?
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Mr Interweb posted:i can't speak for the aforementioned season 16 episode, but in the one i saw he only flew a helicopter cause he got free lessons for his birthday I have a bad habbit of thinking too hard about the financial situations of putatively poor cartoon characters. Moe suddenly having "buy someone helicopter lessons as a joke" money really bugged me.
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The Moon Monster posted:I have a bad habbit of thinking too hard about the financial situations of putatively poor cartoon characters. Moe suddenly having "buy someone helicopter lessons as a joke" money really bugged me. He's a successful panda/orca smuggler
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Mr Interweb posted:
I seem to remember tuning in sporadically for a time and seeing a Sober Barney design in use? Like his hair was drawn differently and they animated more of his face. Maybe different clothes, too? poo poo, this was also going on 15 years ago.
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Mr Interweb posted:
You're totally missing the joke. The joke is that Barney is prone to addiction and is replacing alcohol with coffee, and Moe is taking advantage of that knowledge by selling him coffee instead of alcohol.
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Mr Interweb posted:ah yeah there it is. and it's a season 16 episode? It seemed a lot easier to ignore bad simpsons in the 2000s. There was the movie and the DVD box sets, but otherwise you could go years without remembering they were still making it. Now not only is it a lot more visible on Disney+ and Hulu but there are a ton of third parties selling Simpsons nostalgia on Youtube / podcasts / social media.
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