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New Yorp New Yorp 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. sure, yes, that's the joke, but i also have a memory of moe spiking the lattes (after the central premise that he was merely switching from one addiction to another was established). it's season 11 so just borderline on whether i need to revisit and determine if it's a mandela effect style implanted memory or not
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Barney has iirc never shown up in a future episode.
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Nov 28, 2022 11:46
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I feel like there was a period where they went back and forth on Barney. Like they did the helicopter episode where he sobers up and made a few more references to him being sober in later episodes, but then at some point he was just drinking again with no build-up. Maybe they thought sober Barney was too boring to write for or just flat-out forgot they made him sober in the first place.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Barney has iirc never shown up in a future episode. Huh no Barney  
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I feel like there was a period where they went back and forth on Barney. Like they did the helicopter episode where he sobers up and made a few more references to him being sober in later episodes, but then at some point he was just drinking again with no build-up. Maybe they thought sober Barney was too boring to write for or just flat-out forgot they made him sober in the first place. I remember in the spelling bee episode (whatever season that was) they had a gag about him relapsing. It just became part of his character that he's constantly falling off and on the wagon depending on what the jokes required.
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The classic future episodes are fun since they basically just go full BTTF2 with the future being like the present but moreso, especially when it doesn't make any sense. Half the time they get it more accurate than the stuff actively trying to predict it.
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He's probably just off flying a helicopter somewhere, drinking coffee and having a good life!
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bitterandtwisted posted:Huh no Barney Ive seen that episode more times than I can count and I never picked up on that
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man, i wonder what far-off-into-the-future year that episode is set ah. hmm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAbx2fp_q4A&t=27s
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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. heh, well fear not friend as you're not alone here. for i thought the same thing!  it definitely didn't seem like the kind of thing you could just get willy nilly. either it cost a shitload but moe thought it would be still be worth it to laugh at barney, he has some good connections or he won it in a contest or something by accident and didn't want them (either one of these seem reasonable imo) New Yorp New Yorp 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. hmm, are you sure about that? i rewatched it, and there's no indication that he went on mocha lattes until the very end of the episode. and after he drank all of those, he burped and and had that drunken look to him like he does whenever he's..drunk. Ghost Leviathan posted:Barney has iirc never shown up in a future episode. bitterandtwisted posted:Huh no Barney well that's...quite depressing now 
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Nov 28, 2022 13:25
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He's at Lisa's wedding, he's just not in that bar shot.
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Mr Interweb posted:hmm, are you sure about that? i rewatched it, and there's no indication that he went on mocha lattes until the very end of the episode. and after he drank all of those, he burped and and had that drunken look to him like he does whenever he's..drunk. nah. the idea* is that he's an addict, not just an alcoholic, and that Moe is going to keep him on a hook. plus Homer spikes his coffee when Barney isn't looking. *comedy bitterandtwisted posted:Huh no Barney the joke is at the coronor womb with a view posted:He's at Lisa's wedding, he's just not in that bar shot. oh, nm
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I haven't watched much of the new simpsons because, y'know, it's really awful. But everytime I do, it's amazing how violently whatever plot is happening just comes to a complete stop and the episode just ends. Like, the episode plots go absolutely nowhere.
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Empty Sandwich posted:the joke is at the coronor Thread title
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Empty Sandwich posted:nah. the idea* is that he's an addict, not just an alcoholic, and that Moe is going to keep him on a hook. okay so it was homer, but i definitely remember spiking of some sort
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Zeniel posted:I haven't watched much of the new simpsons because, y'know, it's really awful. But everytime I do, it's amazing how violently whatever plot is happening just comes to a complete stop and the episode just ends. Like, the episode plots go absolutely nowhere. I think you can really tell they just begrudgingly write poo poo until they've hit 22 minutes and then immediately clock out.
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Tree Goat posted:okay so it was homer, but i definitely remember spiking of some sort Yeah homer spikes his personal coffee right before barney chugs like 3 of his own coffees, getting a drunk expression and belching at the end. It cuts to Moe watching through binoculars, who is at a coffee machine right outside his bar. The intention was apparently just a change of addictions but you could easily be forgiven for thinking Moe is also distributing spiked drinks
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womb with a view posted:He's at Lisa's wedding, he's just not in that bar shot. That's clearly Kearney with a hairpiece
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I choose to believe that Barney not being at Moes in the future episodes is a good sign.
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In the one from 2 weeks ago, Grandpa gets a girlfriend (Carol Kane) who's a "aural therapist" or some other such nonsense that the writers saw an article on in New York Magazine once. He moves in with her. She's got an adopted 11-year-old kid Calvin (Melissa McCarthy) and Grandpa is a million times better with him than he was with Homer, so Homer gets pissy about it. But then Homer turns out to be allergic to Carnuba wax that Marge used absolutely everywhere in the house, so he has to move in to Calvin's room. The kid is a precocious weirdo that Homer doesn't get. Calvin convinces Homer to express his feelings to his dad, so Homer crashes Calvin's taxidermy contest with some pop art he made that shows Abe how he feels. The kids go to the retirement home to pick up Abe's poo poo and find out his room is paid up for 2 more weeks. Lisa, having found out the other kids see her as a killjoy, decides to use it to throw the greatest sleepover ever. The first one goes great but the next weekend they try to top themselves and the party goes completely insane. Lisa calls the cops on her own party and breaks it up, but convinces Wiggum to fake arrest her so she still seems cool. Abe gets dumped in the credits scene. Pretty good episode actually. The newest one is a future episode with no framing device at all, just future episode. It's supposed to be a sendup of When Harry Met Sally. Future Lisa runs into Future Nelson (they're 22 I think). Nelson and his mom moved out after 4th grade so they haven't seen each other since then. Nelson's got a dead-end job as a bell tower rope puller, so Lisa gives us her brief idea about dating him and moves away. 5 years later, she's on a train with her Time's Person of the Year boyfriend who's a tech genius or something and Nelson stops a train hijacking. He's a bounty hunter with his wife arresting snake. Lisa's boyfriend Hubert (Simu Liu) and Nelson start making GBS threads on each other and Nelson gives him a wedgie. 5 years later, Lisa and Nelson run into each other at a phone store. They've both separated and look like they're going to get together, but Hubert shows up and apologizes, having corrected his personality with technology. 4 months later, they get that phone call from When Harry Met Sally where they get invited to mutual friends' wedding (Jimbo and Krusty's daughter played by Natasha Lyonne). Lisa gives Nelson a version of the speech at the end of that movie. This one doesn't hang together super well. I hate Lisa and Nelson together almost as much as Lisa and Milhouse. Also these were the entirety of their adult interactions, so the ending doesn't make a lot of sense because they act like they've known each other forever so it fits the movie, but Harry and Sally are best friends for years in that movie. There are some OK future jokes (Homer is only allowed out of debtors' prison for 30 minutes a week), but this one was pretty meh.
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There’s a Stephen King short story, Ur, where someone has a magic Kindle that can buy books from other dimensions so the main character is able to read masterpieces by Hemingway or Poe written after they had died in our timeline. Scrolling through Disney+ I imagine someone from another dimension where it was cancelled after season 8 thinking they’ve hit the jackpot, then after a few eps wishing they were in the dimension where the Cuban Missile Crisis went hot.
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emgeejay posted:https://twitter.com/thesimpsons/status/1598723792980803584?s=46&t=MPxTxUa1pVVEnXXxcKM1TQ this is it right here the idea itself Lisa explaining it to the audience the incredibly dumb punchline
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SRQ posted:this is it right here Yeah, "all new, Sunday, on Fox." How does that even work as a punchline?
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The Simpsons is so bad that we can't even tell what the lowest point is
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i bet they are glad they whored themselves out to do some balenciaga pr last year
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spaceblancmange posted:i bet they are glad they whored themselves out to do some balenciaga pr last year go on
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BasicLich posted:go on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHESOq-Gkw
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this isn't as bad as it could have been. perhaps bc it's only 10 minutes. here though are a bunch of named characters standing unanimated by a water feature. it's unsettling. 
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Empty Sandwich posted:this isn't as bad as it could have been. perhaps bc it's only 10 minutes. hey its that white trash girl who kissed bart and tried to get her to marry him because she was pregnat
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gently caress you for making me remember that episode exists and gently caress you for making me realize that I watched that back in 2007. It's actually almost a little exhausting every time I realize just how long this show has been going since I last watched any of it, and just how large the ratio of unwatched to watched episodes and seasons there are for me.
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you can also see the wife of Cletus and two of her children who were introduced in that episode where they become child stars as a family band, Maggie's unibrow rival and apparently her mother, I'm having trouble placing her to the left of Mrs. Hibbert you'll also see a recurring character who has played like advertising executives, corporate consultants, that kind of thing she's that lady who gives those cynical presentations in boardrooms, I think she's worked for Mr. Burns, Krusty-lou Studios, Duff Beer corporation etc
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Ruth Powers is frequently used as a background extra, including in "And Maggie Makes Three" even though she's introduced as a new neighbour after Maggie's born Hope someone got fired for that blunder
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based on Rod and Todd Flanders in the right of the image, we must assume Ned Flanders is obscured behind Marge. Those three people to the right of them are also worthy of scrutiny, the woman between the two men I don't recognize at all looks like Cookie Kwan, an employee of Red Blazer Real Estate
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I always thought it was a shame when characters that should have remained part of the casts lives fade into the background after their episode. Ruth comes back once but her daughter doesn't at all, Ashley (Lisa's Rival) never gets another speaking appearance either. I know it's because they're celebrity guest actors but it would have been nice if Lisa made a real friend who crops up now and then!
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bitterandtwisted posted:Ruth Powers is frequently used as a background extra, including in "And Maggie Makes Three" even though she's introduced as a new neighbour after Maggie's born Pretty sure that episode also has Santa's Little Helper, mind.
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