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I watched the new one, something to do with caterpillars? Eh.
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In the one from a few weeks ago, Homer shits on a pop star with a rabid following because her fans ruined an Isotopes game with one of those coordinated crowd stunts where everyone holds up placards to spell something in the stands. The fandom terrorizes him (Lisa is secretly in this group) but he's eventually kidnapped and brought to meet a different pop star who has a feud with the first one (she tells Homer "the frienemy of my frienemy is my enefriend"). Bart joins Lisa's group (Billy Eichner is one of the other kids and gives a truly horrible voice performance without even sounding like his usual grating self) by offering her all his best prank ideas in exchange for the manpower to finally pull them off, but they're foiled by the rival fan army. This kicks off a town-wide fan war that makes a big mess that Marge condemns on the news. Lisa's pop star sees Marge's segment and invites her for dinner, where she gets Marge drunk and pumps for her embarrassing information about Homer, which she then uses for a music video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MhVdaC9g_E Homer's pop star helps him make a music video about how much his family hurt him. It's absolutely dreadful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHhuTzZBnkE The family makes up.
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May 13, 2023 05:59
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You think the actors ever get their scripts and go, "goddamnit, more singing"
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May 13, 2023 06:21
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has mr beast been on the simpsons yet?
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May 13, 2023 06:43
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Capital Letdown posted:How does this show even generate enough revenue to pay all the voice actors so much per episode still I actually can’t understand the business rationale behind it. I definitely believe it is somehow profitable on a per season basis, other Disney/Fox wouldn’t commission more, but I don’t get how. Does primetime advertising revenue on linear TV offset the production costs? To the point on branding/licensing revenue: there is no way any meaningful amount of revenue is generated from characters/plots that are exclusive to the new stuff. I also can’t imagine NEW SIMPSONS can be attributed with any incremental Disney+ subscription revenue. (We’ll never see it, but I’d love to see the Disney+ data on % of streams by season.)
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May 13, 2023 09:22
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PostNouveau posted:(she tells Homer "the frienemy of my frienemy is my enefriend") this made me snort
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spaceblancmange posted:has mr beast been on the simpsons yet? I think he’s too much of a decent person to do that
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May 13, 2023 10:31
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Probably the same people still watching zombie Simpsons as Ted Lasso, Yellowstone, The Good Doctor, those shows you never hear about on the internet til a meme goes around. Boomers and basic bitches, probably. How much they actually pay attention to what's in front of them is a good question.
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Simpsons hasn't been a show for decades, it's been Brand®. Asking how the episodes are profitable is like asking how Mickey mouse shorts make money in 2023 - they don't, but that's not what they're meant to do
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May 13, 2023 14:22
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They are brands owned by a profit-seeking enterprise. What are they meant to do if not make more money than they cost, either directly or indirectly?
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May 13, 2023 14:58
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I am on vacation in Spain and a recent Simpsons was on TV in Spanish. Spanish Homer sounds nothing like American Homer, but Carl was pretty spot on and Marge sounded more like Marge than Julie Kavner does now
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Halisnacks posted:They are brands owned by a profit-seeking enterprise. What are they meant to do if not make more money than they cost, either directly or indirectly? Indirectly, new episodes are advertising for all things Simpsons, regardless of whether the episodes themselves are any good. Hell, even us here talking about how much the show sucks gets a few people watching the old episodes from the good years, and that suits Disney just fine. New lovely episodes keep that conversation going.
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Dacap posted:I am on vacation in Spain and a recent Simpsons was on TV in Spanish. Spanish Homer sounds nothing like American Homer, but Carl was pretty spot on and Marge sounded more like Marge than Julie Kavner does now That reminds me of a very dark period in the 90s during the golden years of The Simpsons, when the Swedish TV channel who had the rights decided to dub new episodes with Swedish actors. It was riiidiculous. You recognized the freakin voice actors from stuff like Duck Tales. Homer didn’t say “D’oh!,” he said something like “Oh!” It only lasted for a few weeks, then they went back to airing the original voices.
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May 13, 2023 17:02
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Has modern Simpsons ever done a callback to Bart speaking French?
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Data Graham posted:Has modern Simpsons ever done a callback to Bart speaking French? The Brazil episode had a gag where Bart learned Spanish on the flight over only to be told they speak Portuguese.
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May 13, 2023 19:27
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The Brazil episode had a gag where Bart learned Spanish on the flight over only to be told they speak Portuguese. To be fair, knowing both Spanish and French would probably allow you to muddle through Portuguese pretty well.
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May 13, 2023 19:29
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Von Pluring posted:That reminds me of a very dark period in the 90s during the golden years of The Simpsons, when the Swedish TV channel who had the rights decided to dub new episodes with Swedish actors. It was riiidiculous. You recognized the freakin voice actors from stuff like Duck Tales. Homer didn’t say “D’oh!,” he said something like “Oh!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvaMKyEd26k&t=14s
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May 13, 2023 19:45
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There is actually a fairly consistent running gag that Homer and Bart have an inexplicable knack for languages.
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May 13, 2023 20:17
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PostNouveau posted:
Woof. The view count on these videos are thankfully low enough that at least it's not some massive cultural phenomenon level stain on our culture, but the supportive comments sure are something.
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Edit: nevermind. Forgot to post the link and then lost the link 
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May 13, 2023 22:07
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Von Pluring posted:That reminds me of a very dark period in the 90s during the golden years of The Simpsons, when the Swedish TV channel who had the rights decided to dub new episodes with Swedish actors. It was riiidiculous. You recognized the freakin voice actors from stuff like Duck Tales. Homer didn’t say “D’oh!,” he said something like “Oh!” They did that in Iceland for one (1) episode. Wasn't even that bad of a dub but just felt wrong. Only but I remember is that they localized a dig at Fox to be about the company that owned the station that aired the Simpsons. Ok it was a lot worse than I remembered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhsb8F9b0wI
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May 13, 2023 22:39
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That doesn’t seem bad at all tbh, in fact it sounds really close to the American voices
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Tenebrais posted:Indirectly, new episodes are advertising for all things Simpsons, regardless of whether the episodes themselves are any good. Hell, even us here talking about how much the show sucks gets a few people watching the old episodes from the good years, and that suits Disney just fine. New lovely episodes keep that conversation going. So, I figure this must be true otherwise why would Disney keep the series alive. But creating a full 20+ episode season still seems like an expensive advertising method to me. Surely they can whip together some short videos or highly abridged mini-seasons to “keep that conversation going”.
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We've probably discussed this before, but another aspect is that a lot of people just put it on as familiar background noise and if they catch a chuckle or two out of it, that's good enough for them.
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May 14, 2023 04:24
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So 50 years from now there will be just an ASMR Simpsons channel of the characters reciting AI-generated random text, for people to put on like muzak Not unlike that one couch gag by Don Hertzfeldt
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May 14, 2023 04:31
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you forgot the part where they also say YOURNAME so youre invested in the story/skinnerbox.
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Homer Simpson Soft Spoken | Eating Noises | Ear-to-Ear | Binaural ASMR
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There is actually a fairly consistent running gag that Homer and Bart have an inexplicable knack for languages. It didn’t come up much but Hank on King of the Hill would sometimes demonstrate a knack for picking up Laotian or Spanish, hinting at an untapped talent he had no interest in as it isn’t propane or football.
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The ai generated steamed hams twitch channel was ahead of its time
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Hyrax Attack! posted:It didn’t come up much but Hank on King of the Hill would sometimes demonstrate a knack for picking up Laotian or Spanish, hinting at an untapped talent he had no interest in as it isn’t propane or football. They do regularly watch at least one Spanish language show iirc, between that and general proximity it's not surprising to pick up a bit of it. Early on Peggy would actually admit her Spanish is amateur, at least in the episode where she gets a job at Alamo Beer.
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Lol, yeah that's pretty much it. Plus having an American family speak Swedish is just absurd. The network must have thought that animation equals kid's show, since that's the only thing that ever gets dubbed in Sweden.
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That voice artist really taught me a lot about their native Estonia.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:It didn’t come up much but Hank on King of the Hill would sometimes demonstrate a knack for picking up Laotian or Spanish, hinting at an untapped talent he had no interest in as it isn’t propane or football.
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https://twitter.com/blujayzstuff/status/1657493280030859264?s=61&t=0u0iPLgsrw9rb7UXErdBQA
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No squash, nor stretch for all that movement. Homer's fat is absolutely rigid.
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May 14, 2023 17:08
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Also the angel is so dull. Just flat straight on.
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May 14, 2023 17:15
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That marge voice genuinely unnerved me
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May 14, 2023 17:16
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But it has shadows! And it has frames! The drawings are always on model and line thicknesses stay the same for everything so that means it's extra correct!
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Homer's voice perfectly level and unmoving like a prop supported above his head. Incredible animation superior to the old days for sure!
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These are people for whom original-run Family Guy is classic hand animation
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