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He lost that election badly. It was a Duketastrophe!
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Feb 14, 2023 16:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFknvFgHc4o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZTDP8Ff9w The Critic has aged like fine wine because both of these crack me up every time
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Feb 14, 2023 17:07
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JsZbSzMi08 Thread is now "post your favorite Critic clips".
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Feb 14, 2023 17:16
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Mega Comrade posted:In the UK it's actually going the other way. The BBC adopted received pronunciation in the 1920s as a standard, so regardless where you were from, that's how you had to talk while on air, so it's the accent we got famous for. How many people speak RP in real life? Less than 3%. How many English (or maybe just London) accents have the soft or removed "r" in them? Just curious since The Pirates of Penzance and it has the dialogue joke of "orphan" and "often" sounding exactly the same, and it first premiered in the early 1890s and every theatre company I know just has their casts use the RP accent
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Feb 14, 2023 18:17
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Aces High posted:How many English (or maybe just London) accents have the soft or removed "r" in them? Just curious since The Pirates of Penzance and it has the dialogue joke of "orphan" and "often" sounding exactly the same, and it first premiered in the early 1890s and every theatre company I know just has their casts use the RP accent That's a complicated question because there are so many accents. London and the surrounding areas mostly are non-rhotic. Anywhere you go there might be a more 'country' accent that has voiced Rs. Only a very posh RP accent would rhyme orphan and often these days I think.
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Feb 14, 2023 20:26
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I figure it's Mox's accent I don't want your lahf I don't want your prahd
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Feb 14, 2023 20:44
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Push El Burrito posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JsZbSzMi08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxb1kEL4vPY&t=78s
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Feb 14, 2023 21:20
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Welp, off we go  https://youtu.be/Jp-DEpCZ-2c
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Feb 14, 2023 21:28
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Push El Burrito posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JsZbSzMi08 Can't find a clip, but my favorite gag will always be the rock concert opening with the singer screaming "ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?", and one lone voice from the audience yells back "Hang on, Steve's tying his shoe... okay, we're ready."
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Feb 14, 2023 22:36
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Push El Burrito posted:Thread is now "post your favorite Critic clips". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqDHVD8kT4Q
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Feb 14, 2023 23:41
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Push El Burrito posted:Thread is now "post your favorite Critic clips". My personal favorite is "The Slide Whistle", the parody of the "The Piano" (at 1:42 if the time stamp doesn't work). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA8KHh23Qug&t=102s
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Feb 15, 2023 00:21
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The Critic was ridiculously dense with good writing and clever bits, but I'll give a shout-out to how the show colored my early perception of Orson Welles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i7ycxiog40
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Feb 15, 2023 03:10
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I know the Simpsons writers hated the crossover episode with the Critic, but I still think it's one of their best episodes. Still laugh at Homer voting for the film where Hans Moleman getting hit in the nuts with the football
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Feb 15, 2023 04:30
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"Isn't that a tad disingenuous?" *suited man appears* "Tad Disingenuous, Attorney At Law!"
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Feb 15, 2023 04:51
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While the simpsons writers did write seasons 3-11, they also wrote seasons 1, 2 and 12 onward. It's a nuanced legacy.
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Feb 15, 2023 07:34
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season 2 of the simpsons is good
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Feb 15, 2023 07:55
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Alaois posted:season 2 of the simpsons is good Season 1 had legs, it was an easy renewal order.
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Feb 15, 2023 08:56
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Okay season 2 can stay even if it's got some scuff.
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Feb 15, 2023 09:24
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Season 1 and to an extent 2 of the Simpsons are good, but not quite the Simpsons. Plus 3-8 is just such an insanely good stretch of television that almost anything else is going to compare unfavorably to it.
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i think blood feud might be my favorite episode of the simpsons ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkyTiT2rYgI
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I'm rewatching classic Simpsons. In the Season 4 flashback episode Lisa's First Word Homer asks his dad for a loan to buy a house. The episode aired in 93, and bart is 3 ish years old, so I'm gonna say it is set in 1990. He requests Fifteen Thousand Dollars which according to USInflationCalculator.com would be $34,334.74 today for a 5 bedroom house in the suburbs.     
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Feb 16, 2023 00:57
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This 1 minute clip from "Bart's Comet" has such an insane amount of gags packed into it, but also perfectly paced edit: also just realized it's the exact opposite of this thread, haha https://twitter.com/Simpsons_tweets/status/1592235552421875713?t=FrPaEzZMNa3xi8yx_JBhMQ&s=19
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oldpainless posted:He lost that election badly. It was a Duketastrophe! More like olddukeless
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Feb 16, 2023 05:07
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Sir Lemming posted:This 1 minute clip from "Bart's Comet" has such an insane amount of gags packed into it, but also perfectly paced I love the fact that a sidewinder is an anti air missile so *of course* it took out the other jet.
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Feb 16, 2023 12:46
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...am I going crazy, or is that the same tune as the Robot Hell song from Futurama?
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Feb 16, 2023 12:47
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Samovar posted:...am I going crazy, or is that the same tune as the Robot Hell song from Futurama? It’s close enough that I wonder if the Robot Hell song wasn’t related somehow, or they’re both just referencing the same song.
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Feb 16, 2023 14:09
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They both sound sort of like Puttin' on the Ritz but not enough
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deoju posted:I'm rewatching classic Simpsons. In the Season 4 flashback episode Lisa's First Word Homer asks his dad for a loan to buy a house. The episode aired in 93, and bart is 3 ish years old, so I'm gonna say it is set in 1990. He requests Fifteen Thousand Dollars which according to USInflationCalculator.com would be $34,334.74 today for a 5 bedroom house in the suburbs. That must be just for the down payment. My parents bought a house (4 br, 2.5 b) in 1973 and the mortgage was 45k. Wasn't in a particularly expensive area, either.
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deoju posted:I'm rewatching classic Simpsons. In the Season 4 flashback episode Lisa's First Word Homer asks his dad for a loan to buy a house. The episode aired in 93, and bart is 3 ish years old, so I'm gonna say it is set in 1990. He requests Fifteen Thousand Dollars which according to USInflationCalculator.com would be $34,334.74 today for a 5 bedroom house in the suburbs. MrUnderbridge posted:That must be just for the down payment. My parents bought a house (4 br, 2.5 b) in 1973 and the mortgage was 45k. Wasn't in a particularly expensive area, either. "The story flashes back to 1983 when Homer, Marge and Bart, aged two, lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Springfield. Marge became pregnant again, and she and Homer realized that they would probably need a bigger place. After viewing several unsuitable properties, they bought a house on Evergreen Terrace with a $15,000 down payment from the sale of Grampa's house. In 1984, the Simpsons move there and meet their neighbors, Ned Flanders and his family." Fwiw, my parents bought the family townhouse (3BR end-unit with 2-car garage, so not quite Simpsons level but not so far off) in the suburbs of Baltimore in 1984 for $41,000, so a $15,000 down payment would have been a large percentage of the property, even then, but not the entirety of it.
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Crescent Wrench posted:The Critic was ridiculously dense with good writing and clever bits, but I'll give a shout-out to how the show colored my early perception of Orson Welles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzmVy7k1pjE I so wanted a revival and I think its timeless a premise but someone pointed out film critics on tv don't really exist anymore. I AM GRANDO posted:“Fahd” is also how a Boston guy says “fad.” It’s like the “bacon/beer can” trick. No. It would be more like "faed." Mooseontheloose has a new favorite as of 22:10 on Feb 19, 2023 |
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Feb 19, 2023 22:07
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Jay Sherman as an internet critic would be fine
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Though I feel like the last thing we need is more hollywood writers trying to make jokes about social media.
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Feb 19, 2023 23:49
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Before 2008 a new house cost like five dollars and a handshake.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Before 2008 a new house cost like five dollars and a handshake. Now it's like, five hundred thousand and a lot of handjobs
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Now it's like, five hundred thousand and a lot of handjobs Wait poo poo I coulda gotten a house from all the hand jobs I have been giving out for free like a chump?
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Improbable Lobster posted:Jay Sherman as an internet critic would be fine Yeah he would just pivot to YouTube and make video essays longer than the movie they're going over
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Feb 20, 2023 01:48
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Jay's dad has ten times the followers and is basically dril.
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credburn posted:It was on these forums that someone pointed this out to me, like twenty years ago: i have no opinion on the lyrics, but i will say song will forever live in my heart for being part of the original SSB commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZed8RLz-nY deoju posted:I'm rewatching classic Simpsons. In the Season 4 flashback episode Lisa's First Word Homer asks his dad for a loan to buy a house. The episode aired in 93, and bart is 3 ish years old, so I'm gonna say it is set in 1990. He requests Fifteen Thousand Dollars which according to USInflationCalculator.com would be $34,334.74 today for a 5 bedroom house in the suburbs. not sure if i mentioned it in this thread or the simpsons one in GBS, but it was said by marge that homer makes $40 a day, which translates to $5 per hour. adjusted for inflation for when the episode came out (1994), gives homer a whopping $20k per year salary. as a nuclear safety inspector.
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In the month of two major infrastructure failures in Ohio, you think that is unlikely?
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