White Light posted:

I like how the original joke for the simpsons doesn't even make sense anymore. They're yellow cause Matt wanted to make it seem like people needed to adjust the color knob on their television set, now it's that way Just Because.

You Are A Elf posted:

Having a hard time processing what’s in the bowl.

Pentaro posted:

Happy Landfill posted:

straight up looks just like my parent's old tv

Pentaro posted:

Annabel Pee posted:

On the flip side, the movie is a lot worse than I remember. It’s way worse than the seasons from the same time. The humour just doesn’t work in this format, every joke feels overly workshopped and over complicated and then isn’t even really a joke. It’s like a Simpsons movie for people who are only half aware of the Simpsons, like it was made in mind of the parents taking kids to go see it rather than the fans.

You Are A Elf posted:

Having a hard time processing what’s in the bowl.

Luv 2 eat uncooked ravioli during TV time.

White Light posted:

I like how the original joke for the simpsons doesn't even make sense anymore. They're yellow cause Matt wanted to make it seem like people needed to adjust the color knob on their television set, now it's that way Just Because.

https://www.slashfilm.com/1093851/theres-a-simple-answer-to-the-question-why-are-the-simpsons-yellow/ posted:

To design the color palette for "The Simpsons," they enlisted Hungarian immigrant Gyorgi Kovacs-Peluce. The perhaps obvious choice of making the Simpsons look, you know, human, was out of the question from the start, she told Vice. "I did not want to do flesh color, because the characters were such as ... they didn't fit in anywhere."

"Yellow is, it's kind of universal. I wanted to unite the characters," Kovacs-Peluce added. She would go on to work on the color design for the hit kids series "The Rugrats" and the cult comedy "Duckman."

"She had a weird, wonderful sense of color design," co-director David Silverman told MSNBC in 2008. "A really interesting sense of color. I think she did that because Bart, Lisa and Maggie had no hairlines, and if you made them flesh-colored it would look very strange. It wouldn't work. To Matt [Groening]'s credit, he looked at it and said, 'Marge is yellow with blue hair? That's hilarious — let's do it!"

"She has never gotten proper credit," said "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening, in an interview that Georgie Kovacs-Peluce reads aloud from a 2007 issue of "Playboy Magazine."

edogawa rando posted:

Teeth

Hedgehog Pie posted:

I can definitely recall spider pig and Bart's knob.

White Light posted:

I like how the original joke for the simpsons doesn't even make sense anymore. They're yellow cause Matt wanted to make it seem like people needed to adjust the color knob on their television set, now it's that way Just Because.

Annabel Pee posted:

On the flip side, the movie is a lot worse than I remember. It’s way worse than the seasons from the same time. The humour just doesn’t work in this format, every joke feels overly workshopped and over complicated and then isn’t even really a joke. It’s like a Simpsons movie for people who are only half aware of the Simpsons, like it was made in mind of the parents taking kids to go see it rather than the fans.

White Light posted:

No dude, zombie simsons are starting to eclipse the Golden Years as the more relatable simpsons for the current audience. It's not the first time I've seen this sentiment either, whoever is watching it seems to prefer the current iteration over the classics.

It's an Omen for other shows to end on top before you lose your entire identity to be replaced by the echoes of your echoes afterwards.

Cosmik Debris posted:

Americans need to be pandered to unlike smarty-pants UK people.

No British comedies ever went super mainstream in the US, especially if it's in any way topical. And no, running on PBS doesn't count as mainstream. I'm talking something an electrician would watch. Nobody gets off work, grabs a bud light, and puts on keeping up appearances.

Olewithmilk posted:

I think the above is wrong, the Simpsons is extremely popular in the UK and no one knew most of those celebrities even when those episodes first aired.

Cosmik Debris posted:

Americans know Monty python because of their many movies and not because of the flying circus, or any of the shows that they spawned.

And anyway only nerds knew Monty python (even referenced in the Simpsons).

I think you'd be hard pressed to find an average American who was more than just passingly familiar with British humor in the 90s, let alone today.

redshirt posted:

I watched Monty Python with my dad in the early 80's. No idea how he found it.

Cosmik Debris posted:

Look apparently I had the worst take ever but "my dad liked Monty python in the 80s" is kinda my point - holy Grail was like 1974 or something and the flying circus was from the 60s. Americans weren't aware of Monty python until long after their heydey. The Mr bean show only had one season, for crying out loud, and it was popular because there were like no topical references at all. He was silent. Mr bean was super popular the world over precisely because it was pure physical comedy and kinda fits my point exactly - Americans no like British references the way British people apparently don't mind American references, and are in general far more aware of American pop culture than we are of British pop culture.

All I'm saying is classic Simpsons just doesn't resonate with modern audiences quite as much anymore because it looks and sounds very dated compared to modern animated comedies, and American TV in general.

Classic Simpsons was very much a "smart" show that could be enjoyed by average people because it made references average people could get at the time.

I mean that's what we're saying - zombie Simpsons makes references to stuff just because, but then, unlike classic Simpsons, they forget to include any actual jokes that classic Simpsons had.

Like classic Simpsons definitely had random references appropos of nothing, but in the context of the jokes they tended to either enhance the jokes or were just funny or silly on their own.

Nowadays it's all random references and there aren't that many actual, like, setup-punchline jokes.

Idk maybe I'm crazy. I guess I'm horribly out of touch at the ripe old age of 35.

Mantis42 posted:

Family Guy was right about Monty Python

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzi0I3hEC7I

Sentient Data posted:

There's a reason everyone keeps saying reference right now - that's all new simpsons has, whereas old simpsons took the time and creativity to turn the references into actual jokes

You Are A Elf posted:

Go back and revisit ANY comedy sketch show from any time period and you’ll find that each and every one is 10% memorable comedy gold and 90% stupid time filler and badly dated references. They all suck when you revisit them.

Except for The Kids in the Hall. The Kids in the Hall will always be eternally good

NuSimpsons is nothing more than a Friedberg & Seltzer parody movie from the 2000s. Remember those? And most of them made big bank

hatty posted:

Someone analyze why the Cape Fear parody episode is good and the Oceans 13 children’s book heist parody episode is garbage. It’d probably be something like joke construction and delivery are more important than whether or not you get the reference

The Moon Monster posted:

My favorite obscure reference is in the stonecutters episode where Moe says "He's gone mad with power, like that Albert Schweitzer guy!"

Maybe I'm out of touch and Albert Schweitzer is/was less obscure than I think, but I have to wonder what percentage of the audience had any clue who Albert Schweitzer was or what the joke was supposed to be. I was totally clueless until I looked him up, which wasn't nearly as easy back when the episode aired.