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I mean, I’ve also done mediocre work at my job that it was in my interest to frame as good (at least better) work (my equivalent of “the joke is in the corner!”). That doesn’t mean I don’t acknowledge internally, or with close people in my life, that I’m not particularly good at my job. But it’s a pay cheque, and I shouldn’t feel bad about the capital losing out on potentially overpaying for my labour.
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I didn't care to type out the whole gazebo thing, but since we're going down the road on how awful this one was: The great gazebo that Mayor Van Houton built in the 1920s was designed to be a space for "pitching woo", so all the men of Springfield would bring their women there and play ukeleles and sing love songs to them. When they do this, there's a 1920s version of Frink who says something like "Oh no, we didn't account for the harmonic frequencies" and the combined ukeleles cause the gazebo to vibrate and collapse.
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Halisnacks posted:Do the current Simpsons writers think they are comedic geniuses, or do they (internally) acknowledge they’ve got a good job for which they are underqualified, don’t mind delivering the bare minimum, and content themselves with that? From what I’ve heard when they’re on podcasts, they think they’re the reason the show still draws viewers and gets Emmys in categories with few entrants. It would be amusing if they had to pitch their own non-legacy show to watch it get ignored by networks. Even Oakley & Weinstein couldn’t figure it out with Mission Hill.
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Tree Goat posted:mods, add “critical brace theory” to the poll
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iamsosmrt posted:The best thing I can say is Marge's voice actually sounded almost normal somehow; I didn't catch if it's still Kavner but she didn't sound like talking was potentially killing her like she has in recent seasons. What. I watched it since I was curious and it’s uncomfortable how bad poor Julie Kavner sounds. It wasn’t as bad as I expected overall but meh.
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PostNouveau posted:The kids all get homeschooled. The Van Houtons learn that the town history is has a Van Houton mayor who built a huge lovely gazebo that collapsed. Kirk feels this makes his family look like losers and demands the school stop teaching "critical brace theory". 
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How long did it take the writers room to come up with a way to cram critical brace theory into that script Whose edict was it
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so i saw the panda rape episode and i'm not saying that scene was ever not awful, but somehow it was worse than i remember 
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Data Graham posted:How long did it take the writers room to come up with a way to cram critical brace theory into that script Probably Selman’s.
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did he actually go on Tucker Carlson/Fox News? or did they do a bad barely disguised rip off like Nox Bews and Cucker Tarlson? like I dont think even Fox talkin heads or Donnie himself would debase themselves and voice themselves.
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Mar 21, 2023 23:23
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PostNouveau posted:"critical brace theory". you could have stopped there why didn't you stop there
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Mr Interweb posted:so i saw the panda rape episode and i'm not saying that scene was ever not awful, but somehow it was worse than i remember 
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Halisnacks posted:Do the current Simpsons writers think they are comedic geniuses, or do they (internally) acknowledge they’ve got a good job for which they are underqualified, don’t mind delivering the bare minimum, and content themselves with that? https://twitter.com/BusinessInsider/status/1121577129508884480
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It's unsatisfying answers all day. I can't think of a joke that I've written. Me and these other people are literally unemployable in any reasonable capacity. loving spot on, bud.
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With the quality of the jokes that do get in, I would really hate to hear the jokes that aren't getting in. Like how bad a joke do you need to be to not get into modern simpsions.
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Imagine being in that room full of Ivy League educated writers yelling “jokes” at each other and the TV screen.
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The Awesomesaurus posted:Imagine being in that room full of Ivy League educated writers yelling “jokes” at each other and the TV screen. Every day, for 52 weeks a year
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Tree Goat posted:mods, add “critical brace theory” to the poll
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i mean it was kind of inevitable that the simpsons would reach a new lowest point since this thread was started
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Watched this video the other night about Dragonball Z and so-called Forever Media and I could only think of the Simpsons (which gets a passing mention) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwRGw9QRMj4
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dr_rat posted:With the quality of the jokes that do get in, I would really hate to hear the jokes that aren't getting in. well that guy went for slamdance instead of moondance so there's that. also 1000s of joke pitches sounds like a classic quantity over quality type deal, but i dont know what other shows say about their backroom joke sausage making and their # of pitches.
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PhazonLink posted:well that guy went for slamdance instead of moondance so there's that. That sounds like other comedy writing rooms I've heard of but, critically, you have to give enough of a poo poo or have the wherewithal to identify the good jokes
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PostNouveau posted:That sounds like other comedy writing rooms I've heard of but, critically, you have to give enough of a poo poo or have the wherewithal to identify the good jokes Like everything I've heard about the golden age writers is that they spent ages working on scripts and actually getting the jokes right. Zombie Simpsons is pretty much the exact opposite. Of course all the best writers of a generation are last I heard all being paid by Valve to sit around doing nothing.
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PhazonLink posted:well that guy went for slamdance instead of moondance so there's that.
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https://twitter.com/sadhilldevan/status/1638402411579727872?s=46&t=m6fGiglUP1-mz5m0sRqpiw
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gpt-4 wouldn't even know what corner a joke was in
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If only 50 jokes out of 1,000 pitched make it into an episode, that means “critical brace theory” was in the top 5% of jokes uttered in the writers’ room for that episode.
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Maybe it's a bizarro room where they're actually making amazing jokes but chucking them all out the moment someone utters "critical brace theory"
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Halisnacks posted:If only 50 jokes out of 1,000 pitched make it into an episode, that means “critical brace theory” was in the top 5% of jokes uttered in the writers’ room for that episode. 0 jokes were pitched for the episode
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The Awesomesaurus posted:Imagine being in that room full of Ivy League educated writers yelling “jokes” at each other and the TV screen. It's the "Sing Fair Harvard!" scene over and over again all day.
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PinheadSlim posted:Betting odds in Las Vegas for The Simpsons “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” episode from 1995 Time to update SimpsonsLore.xlsx https://twitter.com/thatbilloakley/status/1638998909220696064 I've seen that photo before but never knew it was staged for TV. Also he confirms that no one picked Maggie in Fox's contest so they had to draw a rando for the winner.
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PhazonLink posted:is that a show person? Bill & Josh wrote Who Shot Mr. Burns
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womb with a view posted:Maybe it's a bizarro room where they're actually making amazing jokes but chucking them all out the moment someone utters "critical brace theory"
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They should only hire people that have never seen an episode of the Simpsons in their entire lives
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Simpsons should just fire everyone involved with the show and then only hire 25-35 year olds who can answer an intense trivia questionnaire about the golden seasons, that's honestly the only way to breathe some life info this dead monstrosity that shambles forward
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hatty posted:They should only hire people that have never seen an episode of the Simpsons in their entire lives
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Simpsons should just fire everyone involved with the show and then only hire 25-35 year olds who can answer an intense trivia questionnaire about the golden seasons, that's honestly the only way to breathe some life info this dead monstrosity that shambles forward I think this incorrectly assumes that a “good” Simpsons could even exist with the right variables tweaked today. The show has too much baggage to be good again, really. Like, if Steamed Hams came out today, but with the current state of the voice actors, the current animation style, and most importantly, the general impression that people have that the Simpsons is not good now, could it deliver laughs?
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