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robot roll call posted:the first episode with Herb has one of my favorite jokes on the entire show Lol it’s so good. Forgot how in Brush with Greatness, Homer clogs a water pipe at 260lbs & is compared to an elephant Burns saw on safari when he’s down to 239lbs. Different times
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Halisnacks posted:I never realised that she was quite so old even when Marge and Homer were canonically in their mid-20s. Is she especially old there though? I mean, if Marge has been grey as a mule since she was 17 (I forget whether or not that's canon), maybe it's a family trait
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Data Graham posted:It was funny how whenever her mom showed up in early seasons they literally made her say "I have laryngitis, it hurts to talk" She peaked early on with "At the risk of losing my voice, let me just say one more thing: I’m sorry I came." Any other gag with her afterward was downhill.
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So what are the odds that the Simpsons producers specifically had Homer state he no longer strangles Bart in a recent episode just so they could turn around and say "no way, we're not gonna start SENSORING the show!" to "stick it to the woke crowd"?
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Nov 14, 2023 23:22
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Newest episode has Bart and Lisa get Margery a childhood parrot she apparently had but it was a menace and she hated it. I think Carl and Lenny might have new voice actors so why didn't they do that for Apu? Bart was sounding off in the episode as well. I think they forgot about Maggie that episode bc I don't think she shows up once but I guess I also forget Maggie because maybe she usually doesn't show up and I don't notice.
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Khanstant posted:Bart was sounding off in the episode as well. In the most recent episode I saw, he didn't sound like a 10 year old boy -- he sounded (understandably) like an adult woman. I don't know if that's the "off" you're talking about, but it was certainly the "off" that I observed.
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Nov 15, 2023 00:36
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apu is a dated caricature even if you give him a new voice actor that sounds nothing like the original such as dr. hibbert and carl
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Yeardley is the only actor that sounds the same even Castellaneta is slipping. Helps that thats just her voice I guess
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hatty posted:Yeardley is the only actor that sounds the same even Castellaneta is slipping. Helps that thats just her voice I guess Plus she’s the youngest of the main cast.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:apu is a dated caricature even if you give him a new voice actor that sounds nothing like the original such as dr. hibbert and carl The original joke they tried with Apu was that he was an extremely intelligent computer programmer who came to America for school and got trapped in a dead end job, and that explained the general contempt he had for most of the people in Springfield. Then they introduced his wife and it became all Indian jokes all the time. Apu's characterization actually regressed from something kind of clever to the laziest caricature they could come up with.
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Nov 15, 2023 01:06
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Just scrubbing Apu from all the merchandise and promos and never putting him in a new episode ever again would have been better than the crap episode they did which hardly addressed it at all.
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emSparkly posted:Just scrubbing Apu from all the merchandise and promos and never putting him in a new episode ever again would have been better than the crap episode they did which hardly addressed it at all. lol that they did this and still caved in and removed him 
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Nov 15, 2023 01:10
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sweet geek swag posted:The original joke they tried with Apu was that he was an extremely intelligent computer programmer who came to America for school and got trapped in a dead end job, and that explained the general contempt he had for most of the people in Springfield. That backstory was a season 5 episode, far from the original joke which was, in its entirety, "Indian guy works at convenience store"
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It really should not be hard to give him decent back story and characterization. Really embarrassing failure on their part on all around. YeahTubaMike posted:In the most recent episode I saw, he didn't sound like a 10 year old boy -- he sounded (understandably) like an adult woman. I don't know if that's the "off" you're talking about, but it was certainly the "off" that I observed. Yeah that's about it, lost the kind of high pitched back of squeeze throat boyishness.
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Khanstant posted:Newest episode has Bart and Lisa get Margery a childhood parrot she apparently had but it was a menace and she hated it. Heh, that's at least a plausible one, cockatoos can outlive you. And be menaces the entire time.
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I laughed at some of the bird gags, more than at Homer's whole fear mongering app arc.
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Plant MONSTER. posted:No one should outlive their bird Thats not true the cruelest thing a person can do is die and make one of their poor family members inherit a parrot.
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sweet geek swag posted:The original joke they tried with Apu was that he was an extremely intelligent computer programmer who came to America for school and got trapped in a dead end job, and that explained the general contempt he had for most of the people in Springfield. Then they introduced his wife and it became all Indian jokes all the time. Apu's characterization actually regressed from something kind of clever to the laziest caricature they could come up with. I was about to post something like this a while back because I also liked Apu's original backstory but then I remembered that the episode that set that up also had 7000000 people in his graduating class and he got his diploma from a cobra, so I couldn't give the writers full marks for avoiding the lol Indians jokes. I know his mom came from the stereotype episode but I still love the delivery and attitude behind the line, "all right... Ganesh has been subdued."
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Fobby posted:I was about to post something like this a while back because I also liked Apu's original backstory but then I remembered that the episode that set that up also had 7000000 people in his graduating class and he got his diploma from a cobra, so I couldn't give the writers full marks for avoiding the lol Indians jokes. There were always pieces of it that were a little bit lazy, but I think there would be something worth salvaging if they had kept up a more balanced depiction. As it is, the character just didn't have any redeeming features and hadn't really for years. It wasn't always just a lazy caricature, Apu had actually been a character at one point. The arranged marriage episode is actually a good place to draw the line, because in that episode Apu is actually completely living as his own character and then gets that lotus blossom and it instantly becomes all Indian jokes all the time. And yes, "Ganesh has been subdued," is a very funny line.
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Every so often I see some video on Youtube about people making mods for the Simspons Hit and Run videogame. I guess the Simpsons is the perfect mix of kids watching it, but it's for adults, and it's still around, so people with old nostalgia for the videogame to return to as adults, but it makes me wonder what it would be like if any of those other many, many tie-in videogames that were made at around the same time still had a fanbase with that sort of dedication.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Every so often I see some video on Youtube about people making mods for the Simspons Hit and Run videogame. Closest similar game I could think of in that vein is SpongeBob Battle for Bikini Bottom. I did remember enjoying Hit and Run back in the day but mostly just due to the fan service. It was just a mediocre GTA-like under all that.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Every so often I see some video on Youtube about people making mods for the Simspons Hit and Run videogame. It’s an oddly devoted fanbase, one guy was totally remaking the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PBIFunhha4
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I love how you don't carjack the people of Springfield, you just hop in and they give you a ride as you take control of them. I think the key is that they made a competent entry in a genre that's fun to just mess around in, that being the entire point of GTA and all, and nailed the atmosphere with tons of references and jokes that show it's an effort of love and they made use of everything the show had. The Homer and the Canyonero should show up in a Simpsons driving game! Not just as references but because they clearly fill useful roles in that setup.
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In the 13th season episode "Brawl in the Family" Milhouse says to Bart "How come you get a social worker? I'm the one with stigmata." This joke has stuck in my mind for 20 years because I have no idea what it means. The connection between a social worker and stigmata is very unclear to me. Also the rest of the episode sucked etc. whatever someone explain the joke to me
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gently caress, I wanna know, too.
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The only way there's a connection is if the stigmata's self-inflicted. But if it's happening by itself, then it's a sign of extreme Catholic holiness, so it's beyond a social worker's abilities to intervene. So yeah, I don't really get it either. I guess they were trying to think of the most absurd and intense problem for Milhouse to have, and that's what they landed on. Keromaru5 fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Nov 17, 2023 |
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I interpreted it as Milhouse is doing self harm but thats not very funny
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There was aome movie about stigmata around then, so the concept was probably in the public consciousness at the time. I remembered because I was actually afraid of various holy catholic experiences, like stigmata or bloody tears Mary as a kid
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I was thinking of alternatives and I like, "I'm the one getting bullied by my imaginary friend!"
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Keromaru5 posted:The only way there's a connection is if the stigmata's self-inflicted. But if it's happening by itself, then it's a sign of extreme Catholic holiness, so it's beyond a social worker's abilities to intervene. I'm guessing it's just a cow tools-esque "Millhouse has problems" joke with no deeper meaning. "What's a hosed up thing that could happen to Millhouse? stigmata I guess."
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The Moon Monster posted:I'm guessing it's just a cow tools-esque "Millhouse has problems" joke with no deeper meaning. "What's a hosed up thing that could happen to Millhouse? stigmata I guess." They really started to do a lot of these after the parents divorcing episode.
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Stigmata is inherently funny
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Das Boo posted:I was thinking of alternatives and I like, "I'm the one getting bullied by my imaginary friend!" That actually is better. You know how they sometimes have those animator jams where a bunch of amateurs re-animate an episode of something clip by clip? Someone should organize one with an episode of post-classic Simpsons, except it's writing better jokes.
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I’d settle for re-edits where people cut out the part in modern simpsons where they inevitably overexplain the joke after it happens
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Clever way to fit a season 53 episode into a youtube short!
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The Moon Monster posted:I'm guessing it's just a cow tools-esque "Millhouse has problems" joke with no deeper meaning. "What's a hosed up thing that could happen to Millhouse? stigmata I guess." Kind of along the lines of "you have selected regicide"
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Also cut out every celebrity cameo that's just "That's right [Lisa/Bart], it's me." and we could cram them into a tiktok
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