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Well yeah, he's been a millenial for about four years now Ten more years until he's gen Z
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Finally. A Millennial Simpsons that my generation can relate to.
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Sep 22, 2023 00:51
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He isn’t if I don’t watch it
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People ask me why I, as someone born in 1990, have no sense of nostalgia or place in present-day society. Am I so out of touch? No, it's the boomers who are wrong.
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Homer was in high school in the 1970s. Then he was a grunge singer in 1990-something. I think he was in college in the mid-2000s somewhere. And then he was a hip-hop head in the early 1990s. Oh yeah! He was also a contestant on The Gong Show in 1977. And he became a father in 1980, 1983, and the mid-90s. lol
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No Dignity posted:Marge's voice has just become Mrs Bouvier's emgeejay posted:I have laryngitis and it hurts to talk. So I'll say one thing. Cancel The Simpsons emgeejay fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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Sep 22, 2023 05:32
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homer is a fat bald guy with a beard, of course he's a millennial. just give him some glasses and he would look like 90% of this websight
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Atlas Hugged posted:And you have the one showrunner who has been at it forever and has absolutely no sense of humor. https://twitter.com/aljean/status/1704863142352752903?s=61&t=0u0iPLgsrw9rb7UXErdBQA
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emgeejay posted:Al Jean genuinely made me laugh today. It will pass It is kind of funny. This feels weird
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Sep 22, 2023 15:19
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I'm told he wrote some really good episodes, like WAY back in the day. Season 14 or something.
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I'm up to S28:E11 now. There was such a gross out of character "joke" in this episode as Lisa sells her old Malibu Stacey dolls and says : "Goodbye businesswoman Malibu Stacy, plus-size Malibu Stacy, and non-gender normative Malibu Stacy, Your attempts to enter the 21st century brought joy to no one." Its just the polar opposite of Lisa's character and her whole storyline in Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy just so they could make a "LOL wokes these days want fat ugly dolls no-one wants" joke.
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Sep 23, 2023 10:11
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Even the Barbie movie itself had better jokes about the more ill-thought-out Barbies and Kens.
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Sep 23, 2023 10:29
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Annabel Pee posted:I'm up to S28:E11 now. There was such a gross out of character "joke" in this episode as Lisa sells her old Malibu Stacey dolls and says : "Goodbye businesswoman Malibu Stacy, plus-size Malibu Stacy, and non-gender normative Malibu Stacy, Your attempts to enter the 21st century brought joy to no one." Its just the polar opposite of Lisa's character and her whole storyline in Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy just so they could make a "LOL wokes these days want fat ugly dolls no-one wants" joke. There are so few “jokes” per episode that they can’t be constrained by trivial things like “would this character say this”.
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Sep 24, 2023 22:04
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Halisnacks posted:There are so few “jokes” per episode that they can’t be constrained by trivial things like “would this character say this”. They seem to have changed Lisa specifically from a liberal to just the voice of reason for whatever the writers are complaining about. A few episodes later they have her complaining about participation trophies.
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Annabel Pee posted:They seem to have changed Lisa specifically from a liberal to just the voice of reason for whatever the writers are complaining about. A few episodes later they have her complaining about participation trophies. Homer: Stupid medical insurance fees, why can't the government just provide us free health care like stupid Canada Lisa: *Rolls eyes* For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt?.... [insert rest of Atlas Shrugged speech here]
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Sep 25, 2023 10:11
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Ayn Rand?? What are you doing here in Springfield? Hi Lisa!
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Sep 25, 2023 10:50
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Ayn Rand is well established in Springfield, she owns the day care/pre school.
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emgeejay posted:https://twitter.com/amberleahhx/status/1705962683365835119?s=61&t=0u0iPLgsrw9rb7UXErdBQA All I need is short clips like this every now and then to remind me why I haven't watched probably at least decade's worth of newer seasons at this point. The only thing that amused me was that it was just so off-putting everything managed to be in just these few seconds. The oddly detailed and shadow-heavy animation, Julie Kavner's absolutely lifeless yell, and just....I don't like this. I don't like any of this.
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Annabel Pee posted:They seem to have changed Lisa specifically from a liberal to just the voice of reason for whatever the writers are complaining about. A few episodes later they have her complaining about participation trophies. https://twitter.com/sohamberlamps/status/983200703660351488
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Apu was never particularly politically correct, that's a large part of why he was a joke. It wasn't "here's this indian character" it was "man, all convenience store owners are foreigners, amirite". I think Hari Kondabolu's opinions on Apu were more nuanced than just "Apu is an offensive stereotype", and more "it's hosed up that the most prominent Indian guy in American pop culture is a white guy doing an accent". Annabel Pee posted:They seem to have changed Lisa specifically from a liberal to just the voice of reason for whatever the writers are complaining about. A few episodes later they have her complaining about participation trophies. It's the kind of joke that I think comes from the writers getting too old and bitter at whatever the kids these days are doing, and too lazy to express it in an actually clever way. It's not like it'd be unlike classic Simpsons to make fun of Barbie trying to be more representative, adult comedies often try to do scattershot satirization without really thinking through the details, but they wouldn't do it so lazily, or feel the need to make Lisa do it because she's the "smart" character. SlothfulCobra fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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Sep 25, 2023 15:39
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Annabel Pee posted:They seem to have changed Lisa specifically from a liberal to just the voice of reason for whatever the writers are complaining about. A few episodes later they have her complaining about participation trophies. I don't think it's particularly uncommon for people who were vaguely progressive in their youth to think that society is 'going too far' a few decades later. Of course, it doesn't really make sense with Lisa since they never aged her up Thinking about it, the way she's currently written is probably still preferable to having her be some Zoomer caricature doing social justice on TikTok
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Sep 25, 2023 16:44
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Lisa would be be one of those ultra-moralistic tumblr/twitter/tiktok scolds today though, she was just the 90s version when the cutting edge of being annoying was being a vegetarian too loudly
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she'll be on tiktok in two seasons but instead it will be called ClickClock because jokes are hard
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SlothfulCobra posted:Apu was never particularly politically correct, that's a large part of why he was a joke. It wasn't "here's this indian character" it was "man, all convenience store owners are foreigners, amirite". Oft cited but worth saying again. According to the folks who were there at the beginning (who do all have their own reasons to lie about it), the original script said "Convenience store worker (not Indian)" because it was already a hack joke, and Sam Simon told Hank Azaria to do the most stereotypical Indian accent he had in him to shock everyone at the table read. They often blame poo poo on Sam Simon, since he's dead and all, so who knows whose idea it actually was.
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I never picked up on any of that as a kid, I thought Apu was just A Guy
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TikTok has already appeared in one treehouse and two regular episodes, but with a weirdly off-brand logo:
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emgeejay posted:TikTok has already appeared in one treehouse and two regular episodes, but with a weirdly off-brand logo: They've still got it
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I wish Moe could get that cell phone.
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Annabel Pee posted:I wish Moe could get that cell phone. Who would he call?
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Fish of hemp posted:Who would he call? His fiancee https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Maya
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I can't stop noticing those weird downturned almond eyes they give every single new woman character that's supposed to be attractive. I feel like Lindsay Naegle is the original but I have nothing to back that up.
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SlothfulCobra posted:It's not like it'd be unlike classic Simpsons to make fun of Barbie trying to be more representative, adult comedies often try to do scattershot satirization without really thinking through the details, but they wouldn't do it so lazily, or feel the need to make Lisa do it because she's the "smart" character. They already made that joke into the full-length Lisa Lionheart episode. Lisa was once written as a somewhat balanced character, she was academically precocious but still was fundamentally a child, with childish interests and impulses. It was comical when those two sides of her clashed. A better joke wouldn't have been directed at the concept of a plus-sized Malibu Stacey doll, it would have been directed at Lisa for campaigning for one but then immediately forgetting about it once she got it. Or for doing to compensate for looking down on the plus-sized role models in her own community, or for failing to notice that she's still relying on a corporation to define beauty.
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Ror posted:I can't stop noticing those weird downturned almond eyes they give every single new woman character that's supposed to be attractive. Futurama does this all the time, even to Leela in that episode where she has two eyes. It's weird looking and I don't like it.
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On celebrity appearances in the golden era, is the Rodney Dangerfield episode considered good? I quite enjoy it, and it feels like just enough effort is put into the story, but I can appreciate it is a hair’s breadth away from “Rodney Dangerfield! What are you doing in Springfield?”
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It's a bit weird given his entire gimmick. Maybe that's what makes it work. The point is his character is that of a comical lovable loser.
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Halisnacks posted:On celebrity appearances in the golden era, is the Rodney Dangerfield episode considered good? I quite enjoy it, and it feels like just enough effort is put into the story, but I can appreciate it is a hair’s breadth away from “Rodney Dangerfield! What are you doing in Springfield?” i don't think i've heard anyone comment negatively about it, and personally it's one of my favorite episodes. the line with him, homer and mr burns having dinner lives rent free in my head all the time
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Yeah, I think it works well as Dangerfield was a great comedian and the script knew how to use him. Pairing him with burns and homer was great as it showed off how well and how badly he can get on with people. Great guest star, well used.
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Mr Interweb posted:the line with him, homer and mr burns having dinner lives rent free in my head all the time “If this party got any livelier, a funeral would break out” is great, but so is Homer earnestly answering the question about whether his son has any annoying friends, by asking Burns if he ever met this kid Milhouse. A+ scene
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