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You Are A Werewolf posted:Post great Treehouse of Horror quotes using smilies ITT and forget about the lowest point for a bit. “Dad! You killed the zombie Flanders!”  “He was a zombie?” 
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"tonight I'm going to suck!"   "your blood!"
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Not a THoH episode, but I've always loved this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6XIYNqmkU because it's exactly what carnival haunted house rides are like
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Oct 26, 2023 22:19
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Oh boy, a spook house!
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"Behold, the ravages of age' has always stuck with me for being such a weird line for a lovely haunted house
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Oct 26, 2023 23:25
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Not a THoH episode, but I've always loved this: That little dejected "sorry" at the end gets me every time
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Rewatching Dancin’ Homer, never caught before that the announcer’s excited “the Isotopes win a game!” repeated is a gag on the famous Shot Heard Round the World, “The Giants win the pennant!” Also, Mr. Burns is charged only $2.50 for two big tubs of beer? No wonder Homer loves going to those games.
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Yeah I’m not sure how the meme used to be that food/drinks were ridiculously cheap and vast at ballgames. It’s the exact opposite now
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Oct 27, 2023 00:27
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I think Costco and IKEA are the only places left to get cheap hotdogs
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Data Graham posted:Yeah I’m not sure how the meme used to be that food/drinks were ridiculously cheap and vast at ballgames. It’s the exact opposite now $2.50 was a day's salary in 1989
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Oct 27, 2023 00:33
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2? $50.
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Data Graham posted:Yeah I’m not sure how the meme used to be that food/drinks were ridiculously cheap and vast at ballgames. It’s the exact opposite now Yeah at Mariners Stadium like $20 minimum for bad chicken strips & fries. Although it is close to the international district so arriving early gets you some of the best food in the city for a fair price.
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Rewatching old THoHs and Lisa's voice always stuck out to me in this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5klazFOs4w "Okegh.  "I'd love to know the story behind using that take.
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Oct 27, 2023 01:15
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It sounds mischievous.
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Das Boo posted:Rewatching old THoHs and Lisa's voice always stuck out to me in this clip: It was the Estonian little person impersonating her.
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PostNouveau posted:$2.50 was a day's salary in 1989 
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Reminiscing about the golden era is way less depressing than trying to pinpoint the lowest point. My question: is the golden era (however you wish to define it) the best TV comedy of all time?
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Das Boo posted:Rewatching old THoHs and Lisa's voice always stuck out to me in this clip: This line read from You Only Move Twice has always bothered me because Nancy Cartwright clearly had a cold or something when they were recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wguuKpRJRE&t=30s
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Halisnacks posted:Reminiscing about the golden era is way less depressing than trying to pinpoint the lowest point. I’d argue yes, in terms of consistency & standing the test of time. It was fantastic when it aired & wouldn’t hesitate to introduce it to a new person today. In my mind the only peer is golden age King of the Hill.
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Halisnacks posted:Reminiscing about the golden era is way less depressing than trying to pinpoint the lowest point. For me, yes.
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Halisnacks posted:Reminiscing about the golden era is way less depressing than trying to pinpoint the lowest point. I think so. Best live action would be Always Sunny but even insanely good as that show's golden-era was The Simpsons still feels in a league of its own
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Halisnacks posted:Reminiscing about the golden era is way less depressing than trying to pinpoint the lowest point. It would certainly be in the conversation, yes.
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Best animated comedy for sure but best comedy overall is a bit harder to say
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Depends if the best comedy is the best show that is a comedy or the one that is best at being a comedy, ie making you laugh. Not that classic Simpsons is lacking at all in laughs per minute, but I think it's all the other great stuff that really pushes it over into being the best show. I might be able to think of seasons of TV that made me laugh harder, I also thought of some prime Always Sunny, but I'm not sure they were wholly better shows even at their peak time.
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Best TV animated comedy of all time, definitely.
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That'd be Futurama actually. I haven't seen the reboot. EDIT: I mean the most recent one on Hulu.
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Simpsons seasons 2-8 is unquestionably the best animated comedy of all time IMO and possibly the best comedy television show of all time. When people say Bob's Burgers (it's fine, but hardly ever great) or even classic Futurama is better, I do have to question how long it's been since they actually sat down and watched the good Simpsons seasons. The show has tarnished its own perception SO significantly that to me it seems most people I talk to just assume that The Simpsons has always been a low effort milquetoast comedy, and that perhaps in the 90's it was just new and exciting to watch an edgy adult cartoon. Or perhaps what they're recalling is actually like seasons 9-12 when the show was already taking a steep nosedive. Or maybe when watching the classic episodes, it feels "same-y" and not that special. But that is because every animated show is borrowing from the comedic writing The Simpsons did first, and rarely are they doing it better. I started re-watching from the beginning of season 2, and I don't think people should skip it in their binge watches like often suggested. It's not only interesting to see the show increasingly find its true footing as the season progresses, it's fascinating to know that a lot of these early instances of "Simpsons-style humor" in season 2 are the first time something like that was ever on TV. So maybe that perspective is important. There's also just little touches about The Simpsons that you don't really see today, like how the overall tone shifts through the early seasons, or how it wasn't afraid to go for the heartstrings, or how it would bounce from more down to earth "real" episodes to more wacky ones. Futurama was pretty good about the latter two, admittedly. I also think even classic Futurama doesn't hold up perfectly, whereas classic Simpsons, for the most part holds up extremely well while simultaneously being a time capsule of the 90's. Sorry, lots of words, had lots of coffeeeee
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:it's fascinating to know that a lot of these early instances of "Simpsons-style humor" in season 2 are the first time something like that was ever on TV. So maybe that perspective is important. Another part is that so many of the jokes from early Simpsons have become a part of culture in general, and get quoted and reappropriated in everyday life in a context outside of "this is a joke from The Simpsons." If you've heard your friend make some joke stolen from the Simpsons again and again, and then you finally watch the old Simpsons it was lifted from, The Simpsons won't get the full credit. It's like if you like a modern band that totally ripped off an older band, but you've only heard of the newer band. You can be shown the original, but to you, the copy is still kinda the original because it's the first you learned of and the one that won you over as a fan. You can understand that someone else was the originator, but you don't automatically have that some connection and appreciation.
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Khanstant posted:I think Costco and IKEA are the only places left to get cheap hotdogs Luv me my 2 for $2 Sheetz dogs
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Simpsons seasons 2-8 is unquestionably the best animated comedy of all time IMO and possibly the best comedy television show of all time. When people say Bob's Burgers (it's fine, but hardly ever great) or even classic Futurama is better, I do have to question how long it's been since they actually sat down and watched the good Simpsons seasons. The show has tarnished its own perception SO significantly that to me it seems most people I talk to just assume that The Simpsons has always been a low effort milquetoast comedy, and that perhaps in the 90's it was just new and exciting to watch an edgy adult cartoon. Or perhaps what they're recalling is actually like seasons 9-12 when the show was already taking a steep nosedive. This is a good post. I’ve never understood a need to explain including season 2 in the golden age, it belongs because it’s the same incredible quality as the others & shouldn’t be reflexively lumped in with S1 (which itself is probably stronger than most give it credit.)
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beepo posted:Another part is that so many of the jokes from early Simpsons have become a part of culture in general, and get quoted and reappropriated in everyday life in a context outside of "this is a joke from The Simpsons." If you've heard your friend make some joke stolen from the Simpsons again and again, and then you finally watch the old Simpsons it was lifted from, The Simpsons won't get the full credit. Definitely. In fact I was just thinking about this in regards to the Homer falling down Springfield gorge, twice gag. It's possibly the most famous scene in the entire show and everyone's seen it, so it's hard to even react much from it now. But that aired in 1990, it was mindblowingly subversive. It begins with a touching moment between Homer and Bart. First time viewers of the scene think that'll be the end, they leave and go have frosty chocolate milkshakes. And that's where any other sitcom of the era or through TV's history would have ended. But then you see Homer slowly drifting out of frame. Then you think he's actually going to make it. Then he doesn't. Then unlike a Looney Tune short, you actually see Homer brutally hitting the rocks on the way down all injured and bloody. Then instead of being safety lifted out, he's still getting injured on the way up. Then the ambulance he's placed in crashes in less than one second. Then he falls down again. At the time, nobody had ever watched a comedy skit anything like that. So much subversion of established writing tropes. So many layers packed into one minute. Hyrax Attack! posted:This is a good post. I’ve never understood a need to explain including season 2 in the golden age, it belongs because it’s the same incredible quality as the others & shouldn’t be reflexively lumped in with S1 (which itself is probably stronger than most give it credit.) Thank you! I agree, season 1 should be watched, but if you're trying to introduce someone to GoodSimpsons for the first time, it shouldn't be watched first or at least with a disclaimer that it doesn't really represent the show. Season 2 on the other hand is simultaneously the most "real" the show ever got, and by the 5th episode (Dancin' Homer) it already feels like what we think of as "Classic Simpsons".
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I don't think I ever watched the Simpsons "when it was good". I was just a bit slow at browsing television. It's definitely inarguable that Simpsons is the most influential animated TV sitcom, but I feel like I lack the cultural context to fully appreciate it like the people who like it most. Definitely watching TV that's on right now, I'd rather watch American Dad or something more elaborate like Lower Decks. When watching old stuff, I feel like I've seen enough of the Simpsons and would rather watch something else that I could learn more from. Maybe I've also been spoiled by how many Simpsons clips I see on the internet, so I don't really feel like sitting through a whole episode. Old theatrical shorts are pretty good for that, because if you wanna watch any, you might as well watch a whole short, it's only like 7 minutes. In my life personally, I had a time when I watched Family Guy because people at school kept on talking about it, and then looking up the references on Wikipedia. I don't really remember enjoying it much, and now I definitely hate Family Guy and think the world is lesser for it continuing to exist.
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My younger cousins love watching family guy and South Park clips while playing subways surfers on their phones I don’t think they’ve heard of the Simpsons at all
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emSparkly posted:Luv me my 2 for $2 Sheetz dogs QuikTrip only recently raised the price on their griller items from 2 for $2 to 2 for $2.29 to 2 for $2.69. I still partake because they have bratwurst and chorizo dogs sometimes and they’re worth it. I still miss paying two bucks, though.
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https://twitter.com/babylamb5/status/1719897326482030792?s=61&t=0u0iPLgsrw9rb7UXErdBQA
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Bart would have a very long-running gag if he’d been strangled for thirty whole years
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Sometime around the movie, maybe a few years before or after, they had a set of figures that I think were based on scenes from the show. And one was of Homer holding Bart in the air, while they strangled each other. The point of the story is I wish I still had that figure, because it's a good gag. And now I'm sad they took away what might have been the last good go-to joke in the show.
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lol, they could have done the Apu thing the exact same way and had to do their dumb hand-wringing bullshit I'm pretty hardline about there never being a reason to hit kids but the strangling thing never seemed too problematic to me. It was always distinctly animated as over-the-top cartooniness even when the rest of the animation toned down and if I recall it's never used as anything like punishment that could be justified, it's always some sort of rage outburst that Homer is having. The messaging never seemed confused.
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Plus didn't they phase it out like, decades ago? I thought there was a whole bit about "that horrific act of child abuse" in Behind the Laughter or thereabouts.
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It's inconsistent. I remember ones way after that where Homer gets put in an anger management therapy where an NBA star gets brought in and does it to him, which makes him too timid about it to do it to Bart. But then there's also the one where he strangles Bart, and Bart hits him with a phone while the chord is around Homer's neck. Which I think is from an episode about Marge's birthday, where Homer stuffs Bart in a rabbit's cage. So they've done much worse while bringing the joke up.
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