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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Finally! Not so fast, I have it on good authority that the writers are quietly confident they'll be able to beat this record!
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It's almost impressive how quickly they can they make a joke (not that it's a particularly clever or original one) and then immediately run it into the ground with Marge's line.
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Mr Interweb posted:
I still say it's amazing compared to what we could have gotten if Hollywood had been given the slightest bit more slack to gently caress it up, and Chris Pratt was shockingly decent compared to how the trailers made him sound, but yeah, it's drat near more of a montage than a proper story. And some of the dialogue really coulda used another pass. Maybe they'll be able to breathe a bit more in a sequel.
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Mantis42 posted:Well it's the name of Maggie's Happy Tree Elf doll Huh, well I'll be damned. I didn't realize it even had a name. Aaaaaaahhh the voices  This feels like watching a baseball game started by a pitcher who is like 50 years old, who has had a brilliant career but has also had three Tommy John surgeries and is old as gently caress in baseball years, who refuses to admit he's not what he used to be & retire even though he gets trounced and/or injured every time he plays.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think 4 of the characters are Homer. I really haven’t watched much new Simpsons at all (maybe a couple of dozen episodes from the last 20 years?), but when they try to expand the character universe more durably now it seems like it doesn’t work in the same way as it did during the golden era seasons. I saw an episode with an apparently semi-recurring love interest of Moe’s, but since it wasn’t her first appearance, it actually felt like I was missing context. By contrast, you don’t need to see the first appearance of characters like Lionel Hutz, Dr. Nick, etc., to get them when they show up later. This is how it should be in episodic shows.
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The Moon Monster posted:If you want to split hairs (and we are goons disusing a cartoon here) that's a photo of Apu, not Apu. Ceci n'est pas Apu
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Well, Troy McClure always tells us why we should know him.
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Halisnacks posted:I really haven’t watched much new Simpsons at all (maybe a couple of dozen episodes from the last 20 years?), but when they try to expand the character universe more durably now it seems like it doesn’t work in the same way as it did during the golden era seasons. I saw an episode with an apparently semi-recurring love interest of Moe’s, but since it wasn’t her first appearance, it actually felt like I was missing context. I think that's more from the fact that both episodes with her, she's part of the main plot, instead of the trajectory of most of the characters showing up a few times in gags or as supporting characters before getting put in the focus.
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The Moon Monster posted:If you want to split hairs (and we are goons disusing a cartoon here) that's a photo of Apu, not Apu.
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Fulu, from the people who brought you Mapple e: Can't wait for the inevitable "What was the lowest point of Futurama?" thread
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Fish of hemp posted:Well, Troy McClure always tells us why we should know him. I know this is a joke response but it sort of illustrates the point. Old Simpsons was good at creating characters - washed up movie star, incompetent lawyer, quack doctor - that you could get with very little exposition. Not sure that’s the case with new Simpsons. SlothfulCobra posted:I think that's more from the fact that both episodes with her, she's part of the main plot, instead of the trajectory of most of the characters showing up a few times in gags or as supporting characters before getting put in the focus. Maybe, I didn’t rewatch the one I saw with her nor have I seen the first. But I’d argue that Dr. Nick was part of the main plot of his first episode (Homer’s bypass), Lionel Hutz was part of the main plot (if not a main character) of several episodes, Troy McClure was the main character of an episode, etc.
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Mantis42 posted:Fulu, from the people who brought you Mapple The Susan Boil thing.
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IUG posted:The Susan Boil thing. Gender Bender or the one where Bender and Amy gently caress.
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IUG posted:The Susan Boil thing.  Cocaine Bear posted:the one where Bender and Amy gently caress. Ummmmmmmm 
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Is Gender Bender the one with the Robot Fighting League or did they use that pun twice? I've tried to keep a very wide berth from the movies and revival episodes.
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There was a second one where he transforms himself into a woman so he can win Olympic medals or something
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hatty posted:There was a second one where he transforms himself into a woman so he can win Olympic medals or something Oh yeah, I do remember that one. Yeah, I can't imagine that's aged particularly well.
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hatty posted:It wasn’t good at the time either Indeed, but what I meant was that I doubt many people were conscious of the implications of that sort of comedy at the time, even though it wasn't that long ago. I know I wasn't, though in my feeble defence, I was a pre-teen when Futurama first aired. It's been ages since I saw that episode though.
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Mantis42 posted:Fulu, from the people who brought you Mapple It’s interesting to contrast this with guarded optimism for the King of the Hill reboot as it was sputtering but still functional when it ended, and Judge hit it out of the park with the Beavis & Butthead reboot so has a good chance of delivering. Compare to skimming the Futurama episode list & legit not remembering if I watched the last season.
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bobjr posted:King of the Hill reboot I think largely depends on if they make Bobby an adult failson or not. My headcanon has always been that the show has been all about hinting that Bobby grows up to be a serial killer.
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Nah, Bobby cares about people and despite Hank's protests, that boy is right in the end.
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I don’t think I watched the Futurama movies or later seasons, but was the decline different from the Simpsons’, in that it was just down to the writing quality, and not the acting and animation as well?
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As bad as Futurama got I don't think anyone would blame the actors. Billy West, John DiMaggio, and Tress McNeill have always been the glue that holds the show together with all the characters they do. The performances have never slipped, but Fry might start to sound kinda old in these new eps.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Nah, Bobby cares about people and despite Hank's protests, that boy is right in the end. It'd be funnier for Bobby to be happily married and successful in whatever he's doing, while Hank still protests that the "boy ain't right" because it doesn't fit his narrow world view.
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Yeah voice acting remained very solid and with it's creative background/alien art design I don't ever remember really lessening. Writing did seem to be the only thing that really noticeably got worse. Possibly they had less more costly animated stuff, but if they did can't say I noticed it.
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I think if you're aging up Bobby, you stop at teen and don't go all the way to like Bobby being an adult but still living in Arlen. Not that it's like inherently sad to stay in your small hometown, but that character's not meant for that.
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Make that comic about him becoming a therapist canon https://panic-volkushka.tumblr.com/post/142590132565/clients-names-and-personal-information-have-been
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https://twitter.com/ooccouchgags/status/1662269194149273600?s=46&t=m6fGiglUP1-mz5m0sRqpiw
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that's actually dumber than most political cartoons, congrats. like what's the purpose in-universe of the banner? why would they hang that up? it's so reversed engineered. also it's a time lapse where they don't get older and the passage of time isn't marked in any way other than the banner falling apart. the banner doesn't even say anything clever even after they modify it, was this idea so funny and insightful that it had to be told this way? they could have just had homer look into the camera and say "america bad now". gently caress you simpsons e: they don't even have their own history right, as someone in the replies mentions, maude is shown as a ghost a year before that episode aired. Mantis42 fucked around with this message at 10:50 on May 27, 2023 |
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Poochie appears at 1995 but that was a 1997 episode!!
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Poochie appears at 1995 but that was a 1997 episode!! I hope someone was fired for this blunder.
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Just remembered that Tracey Ullman declined a voice role on the Simpsons shorts and the bit players on her sketch show became 1,000x richer and more famous than her lol
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I hope Tracey Ullman was fired for that blunder
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On the other hand: Tracey Ullman is free.
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Keromaru5 posted:On the other hand: Tracey Ullman is free. This is true. Also it's hard to blame her when you watch the shorts. Imagine getting the scripts for those things and being asked to voice a character.
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