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Keromaru5 posted:Last week I was catching up on the new season of It's Always Sunny, and thinking it was doing topical episodes right. Just introduce a subject, and see how these characters respond to it. So when the Gang is introduced to the concept of inflation, we get Mac and Dennis trying to start an inflatable sofa business, and Charlie investing in 35-year-old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pies. It works much better than when the characters are just mouthpieces for whatever the writers support or oppose. Sunny is unfortunately not immune from that, though it's mostly been very good about it. One particular episode that stands out to me is Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool from two seasons ago. It's, IMO, one of the worst episodes of the show because the characters are not acting like themselves at all and are clearly just playing strawmen for things the writers wanted to complain about.
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Futurama? Satirising historical events? Well I never!
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Sunny is unfortunately not immune from that, though it's mostly been very good about it. One particular episode that stands out to me is Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool from two seasons ago. It's, IMO, one of the worst episodes of the show because the characters are not acting like themselves at all and are clearly just playing strawmen for things the writers wanted to complain about. Alan_Shore posted:Futurama? Satirising historical events? Well I never!
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Sunny is unfortunately not immune from that, though it's mostly been very good about it. One particular episode that stands out to me is Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool from two seasons ago. It's, IMO, one of the worst episodes of the show because the characters are not acting like themselves at all and are clearly just playing strawmen for things the writers wanted to complain about. I don't think I've ever seen a show bounce back harder from going downhill as Always Sunny. The last two seasons have felt like classics compared to the few seasons pre-pandemic when it was obvious the whole cast was preoccupied with their other shows.
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pooch516 posted:I don't think I've ever seen a show bounce back harder from going downhill as Always Sunny. The last two seasons have felt like classics compared to the few seasons pre-pandemic when it was obvious the whole cast was preoccupied with their other shows. Of course personal preference comes into this but Sunny, like any long running show has always had high and low points. I think it bounced back several years before the pandemic, and A Woman's Right to Chop from 2019 is a great example of the show doing a topical episode well while the characters stay, well, in character. Anyways my first sentence is already past a fallacy and just a downright lie because the Simpsons is long running and has no more highs, only newer and more dreadful lows.
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Hey in you know twenty, thirty years or so, who knows, there may be a another Simpsons golden age! I mean giving up hope of that is obviously senseable, but technically it is possible for that to happen.
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AI Generated Simpsons Fractal.
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You Are A Elf posted:Maybe it’s Homer Goes To College when the nerd unplugs the TV for his rock tumbler? i like how the joke wouldnt work now because theres always some data packrat recording everything.
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I didn't even know what a rock tumbler was for the longest time, and it's not a common nerd stereotype I've come across. Still funny though.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I didn't even know what a rock tumbler was for the longest time, and it's not a common nerd stereotype I've come across. Still funny though. Still baffling Homer enjoyed playing D&D for hours when in the same ep he is distracted from signing his name because of a dog walking by outside.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:25
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Morbidly curious if this could be worse than new Simpsons.
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Halisnacks posted:Morbidly curious if this could be worse than new Simpsons. At least it will end
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Jun 28, 2023 21:12
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Futuramas problem is that it never stays dead
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The Simpsons can’t die. Futurama can never stay dead. Disenchantment…?
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hatty posted:Futuramas problem is that it never stays dead When the dead come back, nature abhors. They come back... different. Hopefully in this case better! 
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Halisnacks posted:The Simpsons can’t die. I never did get burma shave jokes
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Halisnacks posted:Morbidly curious if this could be worse than new Simpsons. Oh dang that would be close. Bummer how Futurama stagnated when they have the whole universe as a potential setting, felt like the last seasons were running on empty.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Still baffling Homer enjoyed playing D&D for hours when in the same ep he is distracted from signing his name because of a dog walking by outside. This tracks with most D&D players I know.
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emgeejay posted:https://twitter.com/aljean/status/1672299155610562563?s=46&t=m6fGiglUP1-mz5m0sRqpiw loving hell lmao
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what there was seriously a DND episode?
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Alan Smithee posted:what there was seriously a DND episode? Nah, Homer just mentions he played DND for hours before being slain by an elf in the one where he goes to college.
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5 year old sight gag and still relevant!
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I'll admit it, I might be into a Marvel Letter Column movie. A movie about the 70s or 80s Marvel Bullpen could probably work in general.
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Halisnacks posted:Morbidly curious if this could be worse than new Simpsons. We'll see in about 3.5weeks? I think the first episode is late july.
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They stopped making Lego Movies, Pixar stopped making sequels, Johnny Depp and Disney have cut ties, I wish there were people out there trying to bring back Reboot, the last use of the IP was horrible. I guess since Disney is taking another whack at Haunted Mansion, they're still doing theme park ride movies, and I don't really remember anything following in the vein of the Emoji Movie, but it sure seems like a safe bet that somebody will try using that model again. Outpost22 posted:They spelled google wrong, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder Unfortunately, they were specifically hired to spell it that way because the writers are insufferable nerds. Keromaru5 posted:I'll admit it, I might be into a Marvel Letter Column movie. It sure is a look into another world if you find scans of old letter pages. This is the one I will always remember. 
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SlothfulCobra posted:Unfortunately, they were specifically hired to spell it that way because the writers are insufferable nerds. I mean, the Googolplex Theatre predates Google, doesn't it? It's like how people think the word is "segway" now instead of "segue", thanks to a cutesy brand name
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Data Graham posted:I mean, the Googolplex Theatre predates Google, doesn't it? I thought it was a play off "multiplex" theaters just "bigger" i could be wrong
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Well yeah it was. It's a joke on multiplex theatres + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex which is also what Google is named after
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Keromaru5 posted:I'll admit it, I might be into a Marvel Letter Column movie. you'll never believe who wins a no-prize in the stinger
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SlothfulCobra posted:They stopped making Lego Movies, Pixar stopped making sequels, Johnny Depp and Disney have cut ties, I wish there were people out there trying to bring back Reboot, the last use of the IP was horrible. They haven't quite stopped making movies with talking Lego figures, was literally just announced Pixar is making more sequels since their last original IP went over poorly, wouldn't surprise me with Johnny Depp but it's possibly more a joke about all the money he's lost, and I do wonder if they actually knew about Reboot or were just making a joke about all the reboots and prequels. Or maybe both.
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Occam’s razor is that the current writers grew up after Reboot and have never heard of it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmtcYvhj68 Welp.
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